Recent content by Ouroboros

The soul of a place will be as elusive as one's own when trying to find it, especially if the search is brief, but you can start at Zilker Park, which has Barton Springs, among other things. There is a row of restaurants on Barton Springs Road that should be checked out. Other's will tell you...

definitely alot of changes over the past 20-30 years. Back before the '90's, it was cheap to live there and had a real funky vibe that was unique and very natural. Then it became Silicon Valley #2 and alot of money came flowing in. The whole area started growing @ 30-50% a year for like a...

born and raised there - lived there more than 30 years. South of Houston now. South Austin is still great.

congrats. better late than never.

+1 on everything lucky12 said. Add to that NEVER drink & ride. Even one will have a greater effect than you would think. You are smart to learn on a smaller bike. Until you REALLY learn to ride, extra power is the devil. Enjoy - as long as you are on two wheels, it is a thrill.

mid-20's crisis is very common. I had it. Wound up in the marine corps - not recommended now. Total wild hair. If I had been told two days before I signed up, I would have said you were crazy. The thought had never entered my mind. In retrospect it made alot of sense, but I could not have...

43 here. I was in your shoes exactly. My 30th b-day was a bad one, and I was in what seemed to be a pretty bad place. I had no direction, had just dropped out of engineering school (2nd degree) and was very alone. It actually turned around that year. My 31st year was among my best. Keep...

I don't think that there is an inherent problem with the system of US government. If those in positions of government maintained the spirit that was set forth with the constitution & BOR, all would work for the best. Once that spirit is lost and nothing is sacred, we wind up with the rats nest...

I think that the article is dead-on accurate. Too many of our people have ceased to do anything that enables them to contribute to the good of society, and therefore themselves (i.e. farming, creating/manufacturing, to name only a couple of hundreds or thousands of possibilities) and now occupy...

what I'm talking about is not theft

so....dumpster dive behind restaurants. I'd say JK, 'cause I don't do it, but others certainly do. (I'm no stranger to certain grocery store bins, however (don't knock it 'till you've tried it)). Seriously though - there are so many ways to live well on the cheap that even if you don't do...

Agreed with it taking time for an intp to find their place in the world. I thought I had, but am not so sure now (laid off and looking with a bit of disdain at the engineering profession I was in). A key is to be able to live cheaply. -don't buy anything on credit - interest payments suck...

I'll not be the first to speculate that DG is actually the Dali Lama incognito :gott0:

Thank you all very much. Glad to be here. I just noticed the OS & browser icons by our sigs. I'm feeling kinda - tracked.

I don't know anything about the Canadian Navy, but it may be a relatively safe branch regarding getting your head blown off, which is the main concern with going into the military. I will spare the long story and all of the stresses (internal) that led me to join the USMC in my mid-20's after...