Daily Archives: June 13, 2005

How does my TiVo love me?

On the very day that I confess that The Night Stalker scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid, I discover that my TiVo has gone and recorded three episodes off of the SciFi channel for me. I’m pretty … Continue reading Continue reading

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Traffic light camera mystery solved

I’ve found a story in the Chron archives which definitively answers the question about the existing cameras at certain intersections inside the Loop. Basically, Kevin was right – they’re there to facilitate traffic flow along certain roads, though they’re not … Continue reading Continue reading

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Wanna see something really scary?

Ray in Austin has an amusing tale of watching scary movies with his kids, something which began as a Halloween tradition a few years back. They called a temporary hiatus after both children were terrified by the 1936 Bela Lugosi … Continue reading Continue reading

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Far out development followup

Last week I linked to a Chron article about development farther and farther away from Houston’s core. This article is a followup of sorts to that, and it’s a nice discussion of some of the issues that way-out development causes, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Get ready to avoid Kirby Drive

This is going to suck like a shop vac on steroids. On an average day, about 50,000 vehicles traverse West University Place along the four lanes that are Kirby Drive. Sometime before the year-end holidays, though — and for at … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ready or not, here come the cameras

Like it or not, now that the Lege declined to ban cities from installing red-light cameras, Houston is set to roll them out soon. “They are going up, you bet,” said Mayor Bill White, during a recent news conference. “Every … Continue reading Continue reading

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There’s speeding, and then there’s speeding

We all already knew this, right? Authorities patrolling U.S. highways tend to give motorists a cushion of up to 10 miles per hour above the speed limit before pulling them over, says a survey by a group of state traffic … Continue reading Continue reading

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