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Houston: The Drive

The whole set (so far): Houston: The Drive

Guadalajara Tacos (and Bakery)

Read my review of Guadalajara on Yelp. The short summary: it's excellent. A couple pictures to accompany the review:

The mess, post-tacos:

Guadalajara:

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food, houston, tacos

Saturn V Is REALLY BIG

We went to NASA (Johnson Space Center) recently (first time for me and the kids), and the last stop is Rocket Park where they take you into the building the Saturn V rocket is laying down in. Cool thing is it's not a mockup, it was the rocket that would have been Apollo 18 had that mission happened.

Anyway... IT'S FREAKIN HUGE!!! It's taller than the Statue of Liberty!! UN-believable. They shot that thing into space?!

Very much worth the trip to see it. Here are some pics which will utterly fail to really convey the size of this thing...

This is a shot of the first two stages (there's another almost half of the rocket to the left, not in the shot):

Stage 1 and the main engines:

Just one of the main engines:

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photography, saturn v, rocket

The 1940 Air Terminal Museum

A quick plug for the 1940 Air Terminal Museum in Houston... really cool building and very cool people. I did an engagement shoot there on Sunday and they were super friendly and helpful, well worth the $2 (!!) admission. Go check it out.

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houston

POWER!

So we got power Friday night, just after setting up a generator to run a couple lights and a few fans. :) Very grateful!

No Power... Whither Info?

We're still without power... I can understand a storm doing immense damage to power infrastructure, what I can't really understand is the total lack of information coming from Centerpoint Energy. I don't really care if you take a week to get my power on, as long as I know to expect that. I could arrange a work trip, or something, if I knew when power would be on.

Ostensibly Centerpoint knows what the problems are in each area now, and could communicate that along with completion estimates. So far, they haven't, they've only communicated where outages are, which helps absolutely no-one. I KNOW my power is out, thanks.

I realize this is a massive undertaking, but they have all the data in databases... if you call their automated reporting system, it knows my power is out, when it was initially reported, and what outage its a part of. Based on other people's experiences, that info comes from internal tickets that have all of the necessary data. It's just a matter of exposing it. Detailed web-based outage reporting should be a matter of course for regulated utilities. Sad that it isn't.

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yIKEs!

Looks like we're going to get a pretty direct hit from Ike. See you on the flip side! Well, if there's power, anyway...

Hipsters... In The Wild! ...and Music...

Very funny Chron.com piece on looking for "hipsters" at the Astros game.

But, I gotta take this opportunity to rant at people who stop liking a band because they "sold out" (i.e. got mildly successful and maybe aren't dirt poor anymore). This is pretty simple, folks...

If band good, band get fans... band make new record, band still good, band get more fans... pretty soon, band get big record deal... band still good! If band good, want band have good things, no? Why want band have only bad things? Why want band poor all life? Band work hard for long time get record deal, why hate band now? Band still good! Fickle hipster bad.

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music, hipster

Houston Weather

Ugh.

HMNS Meetup!

The Assignment Houston meetup at the Houston Museum of Natural Science was a big success! Thanks to Erin from the Museum and Laurie from Assignment Houston for organizing a very cool event.

A TON of photographers showed up... I was enlisted to take the group photo, I did a merged/stitched panoramic (visit the photo on Flickr to see the full size version, if you dare):