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I'm going to Austin
Can I walk on the streets there during the day ?
i.e., are there adequate sidewalks and traffic signals for pedestrians ?
Or, will I need to drive everywhere ?
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I'm going to Austin
Can I walk on the streets there during the day ?
i.e., are there adequate sidewalks and traffic signals for pedestrians ?
Austin is a very pedestrian-friendly city. Downtown there are a lot of restaurants, bars, hotels and it has a regional draw for all kinds of music. Crime is quite low there so you can do your thing at most times of day and in various states of soberness.
Did I just invent a word here?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: Did I just invent a word here?
Nope, I checked
derivations: soberingly (adv.), soberly (adv.), soberness (n.)
Just checked for the word soberness[^] on my favorite internet dictionary
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It depends on the area you are going to visit and when. Most of downtown is pretty walkable, but starting now until the middle of September, expect to sweat like crazy walking anywhere during the day.
For anywhere outside the core of downtown you will want to drive. The public transportation is crap so I wouldn't count on it unless you planned your destinations on bus routes ahead of time.
There are a lot of events going on in town, most of which have a pretty big impact on getting around downtown, so I'd keep that in mind. For example, the ROT rally[^] is going on this weekend.
modified 11-Jun-15 22:24pm.
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Andy Brummer wrote: expect to sweat like crazy
Yes, it would make so much more sense to schedule stuff in The South during The Winter and The North during the Summer
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You may want this to fix your link.
-rally/
There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker
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4th Street at night is very happening place in the downtown. Also if you have time the view from the Mount Bonnell is very pleasant at sunset, I don't remember the name but we visited a nice cafe near the river there. The office hours traffic is crazy in Austin, so try to avoid that.
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I have been to Austin, and you shouldn't have any problems.
Just brush up on your small arms training and get a concealed-carry permit. A pair of .375's in shoulder holsters should do the job. I would go for the Coonan Compensated myself. 
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I'd take full body armour, you'll be close to JSOP...
veni bibi saltavi
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Austin is too liberal for my taste. I was goonna go up there on Sunday for the monthly cars and coffee event at Lake Travis, but they're calling for a 60% chance of rain...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Depends on the part of town. And if it's during the summer, you may want to drive since Austin can be very hot and humid. (I've lived and visited all over the world, including near the Amazon, and Austin in August takes the prize as the most miserable place I've ever been heat & humid-wise. My best friend, who got his Masters degree at UT Austin agrees.)
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My walking distance, according to maps.yahoo.com, is 0.82 miles.
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Quote: Aside from the Lucasfilm stamps, the titles also bear a curious look at how Star Wars evolved as it was written and distributed.
"The protagonist's name is listed Luke Starkiller instead of Luke Skywalker."
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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The internet is full of those scripts, which more or less resemble Star Wars as we know it. How authentic they are? Who knows...
Have fun reading...[^]
Edit: Wow! Four Star destroyers in the opening scene and the Rebel Boy Scouts even fragg one.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I thought I knew, but then I didn't 
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The US just beat Germany in men's soccer... I repeat, the US men's senior national team just beat Germany, in Germany, in a full 90-minute game of soccer. 
Disclaimer: Yes, I know it was only a friendly, but both teams had a roughly equal amount of normal first team players in the game.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Sooo...it doesn't happen all that often?
Colin Mullikin wrote: US men's senior national team
Pretty good for AARP members I'd say. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: Pretty good for AARP members I'd say
It is soccer after all. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Darn right it is!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Colin Mullikin wrote: The US just beat Germany
And the Netherlands.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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It turns out that when you remove the corruption, the USA are the only country that still play football to win...
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Bobby Wood scored the game winning goal in both games. They're the only goals of his international career. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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