Happy birthday, Eileen! HBO doesn’t want to take your money unless you also give some of it to a cable or satellite company. Here’s a LEGO Star Wars MC Escher diorama. Do I really need to say more than that? The really rich truly are very different than the rest of us, if only because [...]
Posts on ‘June 17th, 2012’
Mailing letters about the homeless ordinance
Not really sure what to make of this. Activists against Houston’s new restrictions on feeding the homeless plan to mail around 30,000 letters Friday to urge voters to sign a petition to trigger a charter amendment election in November. Paul Kubosh, a defense lawyer who was also behind the referendum effort against the red-light camera [...]
Downtown shuttle back in operation
For those of you who missed the old downtown trolley, here’s its successor. [T]he Greenlink bus service was launched Monday as a free offering for tourists and locals alike. The 18-stop route makes the rounds of eight hotels, the George R. Brown Convention Center, the Central Library, Discovery Green, City Hall, Main Street Square, Houston [...]
Calling a ball a ball and a strike a strike
Bobby Valentine says that’s the way he wants it. A day after being ejected, Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine was still steamed about umpiring, and said technology should be used to eliminate human error in calling balls and strikes. “I want a ball called a ball and a strike called a strike. Figure out [...]