|
|
| Author |
Message |
| 25 new of 411 responses total. |
janc
|
|
response 75 of 411:
| 
Apr 5 12:37 UTC 2002 |
I worked for Texas A&M for seven years. College Station is definately
not Europe. It's a town with rather little to offer, a couple hundred
miles from any place more interesting. It has some good restaraunts.
It's not a bad place to live if you are already married and ready to
start a family, and aren't looking outside your house for much social
life. It helps to be a devote Christian. But on the whole, with so
many cool and interesting places in the world that you could live,
College Station is a questionable choice. However, Austin is a whole
different story.
|
bgd
|
|
response 76 of 411:
|
Apr 5 13:36 UTC 2002 |
Thanks for the insight infos, Jan. That's what the guy who took the interview
told me as well (he was european, spanish -- I think). And he also mentioned
College station is about 1:30hrs drive from Houston and about 2hrs from
Austin. Hehe, on German highways that'll mean something like 30 to 45 mins
of excitement... ;)
|
jmsaul
|
|
response 77 of 411:
|
Apr 5 14:51 UTC 2002 |
Austin's a great city. If you get an offer there, consider it.
|
janc
|
|
response 78 of 411:
|
Apr 5 15:34 UTC 2002 |
The long travel times to Houston and Austin aren't because the US has
speed limits on highways. There aren't any highways going to College
Station. There are some fairly close by, but they are pretty much
useless to College Station residents, because they go perpendicular to
any route to or from College Station. When I did road trips from
College Station, the first 300 to 600 miles (depending on which
direction I was going) was always on two-lane secondary roads. Texas
has lots of highways, but they really only work for people living the
major cities. Texas is large.
As a small compensation, two-lane road driving in Texas works better
than anywhere else I've been. All the roads have wide paved shoulders,
and if you come up behind a slower moving car, they will *always*
promptly pull over on to the shoulder and let you by. Passing in the
oncoming traffic lane is almost an unknown skill in Texas. Texas
drivers are the most courteous I've seen. (Not the best though - they
get confused in dense traffic. Urban driving in Texas is pretty scary
(but not nearly as scary as Florida, where 1/3 of the cars are driven
by senile people, 1/3 by lost tourists, and 1/3 by young locals trying
to prove how vigorous and unconfused they are by driving like NASCAR
racers)).
|
micklpkl
|
|
response 79 of 411:
|
Apr 5 16:47 UTC 2002 |
Very interesting observations on driving in Texas, jan.
|
eskarina
|
|
response 80 of 411:
|
Apr 5 20:23 UTC 2002 |
I liked the ones on driving in Florida myself.
Favorite road sign from Florida, in front of a railroad crossing: "Big Train,
Little Car".
What are your impressions on driving in Texas, mick?
|
rcurl
|
|
response 81 of 411:
|
Apr 5 20:25 UTC 2002 |
What I recall of driving in Texas was the rest stops that had no outhouse,
but there was a stile over the fence and endless miles of sagebrush to
hunker down behind.
|
russ
|
|
response 82 of 411:
|
Apr 6 03:07 UTC 2002 |
I believe the term for pulling onto the shoulder to let traffic
pass is "Texas friendly", or so my aunt told me.
|
sunickle
|
|
response 83 of 411:
|
Apr 6 09:43 UTC 2002 |
Good,I am sure .
read
|
bugija
|
|
response 84 of 411:
|
Apr 8 07:57 UTC 2002 |
BitchX
|
other
|
|
response 85 of 411:
|
Apr 8 11:53 UTC 2002 |
Not here.
|
hera
|
|
response 86 of 411:
|
Apr 9 14:28 UTC 2002 |
Hi. I like m-net but the site is down at the moment so I came here to look
around. Some of you should come visit m-net, okay? See ya! :)
|
flem
|
|
response 87 of 411:
|
Apr 9 15:08 UTC 2002 |
Hi, hera. :)
|
oval
|
|
response 88 of 411:
|
Apr 10 05:12 UTC 2002 |
joono?
|
banana
|
|
response 89 of 411:
|
Apr 10 06:37 UTC 2002 |
Hi everybody
|
banana
|
|
response 90 of 411:
|
Apr 10 07:07 UTC 2002 |
hi bhagee, i am nitin from india
|
brighn
|
|
response 91 of 411:
|
Apr 11 16:56 UTC 2002 |
Ok, I don't know where else to put this, so I'll put it here:
Someone in an office within earshot has musak playing Enya.
No, it's not Enya, it's a MUZAK VERSION of Enya.
WHY?!?!?!?
|
jazz
|
|
response 92 of 411:
|
Apr 11 17:04 UTC 2002 |
To torture you.
|
eskarina
|
|
response 93 of 411:
|
Apr 11 17:20 UTC 2002 |
rotfl at 91!!!
|
jared
|
|
response 94 of 411:
|
Apr 11 18:03 UTC 2002 |
The weather is so nice today.
|
brighn
|
|
response 95 of 411:
|
Apr 11 20:27 UTC 2002 |
#92> I found out what the music was for, and you're even closer to the truth
than you probably thought. I was overhearing the breaks in the morning version
of the four hour training session. I just got out of the afterrnoon version
of the same session. I'm proud of myself that I only fell asleep once, and
didn't snore.
I'm ready to talk now. They've softened me up.
|
jaklumen
|
|
response 96 of 411:
|
Apr 11 21:55 UTC 2002 |
Muzak covers of popular music blow chunks. I've heard Muzak covers of
the Thompson Twins, the Beatles, and others.
|
brighn
|
|
response 97 of 411:
|
Apr 12 03:27 UTC 2002 |
Well, yeah, but Muzak of Enya? Some guy over at Muzak Ltd said, "You know,
I wish we could put Enya on the muzak system, but 'Orinoco Flow' is just too
*peppy*!"
|
jaklumen
|
|
response 98 of 411:
|
Apr 12 03:55 UTC 2002 |
"Orinoco Flow" peppy? Please.
|
michaela
|
|
response 99 of 411:
|
Apr 12 04:40 UTC 2002 |
Hence the sarcasm...
|