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Not really fair to compare the two geographic regions. Nobody wants to live on the streets in Dallas or Houston. It’s way too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. That said, living in Dallas I have seen the odd tent city pop up under some freeway overpasses but they don’t stick around very long so I guess the city does do something about it.



When growing up watching Americas Funniest Home Videos my brother and I would run to the kitchen phone to press 1, 2, or 3 to ‘vote’ for our favorite finalist.


I have slight nerve issues that make precise double tap gestures difficult. One of the reasons I switched to an iPhone is the accessibility features are quite good and let me work around the issues I have more easily. Given how many older people I see who have the same issue I have but worse, I can imagine this is a very common problem for a lot of people.


All the PHP jobs I saw while job searching required Laravel experience. Despite having 19 years experience with PHP and other frameworks, I was out of the running for those jobs.


There was a POV ray render of a McIntosh tube amp that I used to show people and nobody knew it was computer generated.



If I don't know the number, I answer with "Hola. Buenos días."


1) Wolfenstein but reskinned so you kill Barney the purple dinosaur instead of Nazis 2) Descent on 3 floppy disks 3) Some primitive CAD/3D modeling thingy, can't remember the name

No doubt I had a ton more, including a lot from magazines that came with CDs, but those top three were some of the earliest and most memorable.


I like long videos, too, but I could see this being useful to let it summarize a video beforehand so I can see if it's worth spending the time to watch it myself. Could also be good if you have a long video and you want the text transcription to use for reference later.


I've been paying $7.99 a month.


Might want to check your emails from dec 7...


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