Shooting in North Austin (Houston, San Antonio: appointed, city hall, to rent)

[Mr. Solis]

yea, austin is becoming much more city like.....like the other big cities in Tejas....but its not so bad....still pretty random...especially on the outskirts

[austinnerd]

Originally Posted by sinking

I've noticed this in several of your posts... What does it mean when you use underscores instead of spaces?

It's the "old school" way of underlining.

[Mr. Solis]

Originally Posted by austinnerd

It's the "old school" way of underlining.

back when you had to make the pencil last all year long....and walk up hill both ways to buy the pencils and all that?

[sinking]

Originally Posted by austinnerd

It's the "old school" way of underlining.

I see.

[Mr. Solis]

but its a cool way of writing__when you can have__your__own__style and everyone wonders??? whats the deal__with__that??!?

unique people are so great!!!

[jobert]

Originally Posted by austinnerd

It's the "old school" way of underlining.

like in a green screen/COBOL kind of way?

[austinnerd]

Originally Posted by jobert

like in a green screen/COBOL kind of way?

Well back in my day, your fingers had to type in 2 inches of snow, uphill on our kerosine powered computers. Of course my family was so poor we couldn't afford the full character set on our candle backlit terminals, so we had to forgo the underlined characters and make do with what we had.

Mr Solis, it's important that your underlining occurs before and after the first/last characters respectively, _as_so_. Only underlining between characters makes them identifiers vs underlined text. One also need not introduce additional spaces (as well it is generally ill advised to do so).

[Jennibc]

I love the turn this thread has taken.

[orbius]

Mexican organized crime and their white associates are dug into Austin like a tick. When if ever they get seriously cracked down on and start fighting with each other over the scraps to quote the film, "There will be blood". That is no laughing matter.

[sajae90]

Originally Posted by Jennibc

You seem strangely obsessed with this theme of the nefarious powers that be, working at the City of Austin, spending millions a year luring hapless victims, such as yourself, to relocate here. I am going out on a limb here, but I think there are probably more productive ways to spend your mental energy.

Speaking as someone who just moved from out of state, the poster does have a point. There has been a massive media blast to outsiders to move to Austin. IMO, there is a reason for everything. There are lies that are being spreaded about Austin, such as it's a heaven and EVERYONE has a job and it is easy to get a job (They claim to have not been effected by the recession). This is one of the reasons Austin has experienced such a fast population growth in the last 5-10 years. IMO, austin is a beautiful city, but it is far from perfect. A lot of crime DOES get swept under the rug to keep the Austin image up.