Jul 192006
 

I tried to post this yesterday when I saw it, but Dreamhost has been having some serious issues over the last couple of days. Let’s hope they’ve got it sorted out.

This story reminded me of a trip to NYC for my uncle’s wedding when I was 9. We were staying in a hotel somewhere in midtown Manhattan. Probably bored, at one point I decided to survey the contents of all of the drawers in the room. One of the drawers in a nightstand by the bed yielded two small individually wrapped items of dubious origin. I had a pretty good idea of what they were and opened one up out of curiosity. Not knowing anything about lubrication, I did not expect the contents to be wet and slimy. I was completely grossed out. I immediately threw it into the trash and washed my hands, deciding not to mention my discovery to anyone else. It never occurred to me to put it in my mouth. The article doesn’t say, but I guess the girl thought it was a balloon? Ew.

[tags]condom, kids, hotel[/tags]

 Posted by on July 19, 2006 at 3:52 pm

New Downtown Street Signs

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Jul 192006
 
3rd StreetCongress Avenue

I noticed these a couple of weeks ago, but only now got the chance to snap a few photos. It looks like they’ve replaced the streets signs on Congress with new “Historic District” black signs with white writing. The east-west streets also now show their old tree names in addition to the numbered streets.

Most people are probably aware that 6th Street was once Pecan Street since there’s a festival of the same name and there’s also the Old Pecan Street Cafe. Apparenlty, 3rd Street was Cypress. Another little tidbit that many don’t notice is that the majority of the north-south streets between Lamar and I-35 are not only named after Texas rivers, but they’re named in geographic order as well with Sabine being the farthest east and Rio Grande the farthest west. This Austin360 feature has more on the history and crazy pronunciation of Austin street names.

 Posted by on July 19, 2006 at 10:26 am