mattgrundy

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• Commented on Travis House: Historic Landmark or Intel-like Eyesore?
  It is one of Austin's few pre-war apartment buildings, it must be preserved at any reasonable cost. It isn't a landmark-quality building in most major cities, but Austin has a paucity of nice older buildings, so it deserves to be...
• Commented on Number of Times Seattle Has Been Mentioned in Harper's Index: 4
  Nashville and Milwaukee are significantly smaller than Seattle, and are more Portland sized than anything. Sure, city proper they're the same size or larger but metro area is what really counts. I mean, consider that Austin, Texas is over 200,000...
• Commented on Orting Evacuated Due To Imminent Flooding
  there are only 6,000 people in Orting......
• Commented on Hot Mama's Pizza: What the Fuss?
  I've never heard anyone say it's the best place on the hill for pizza, for something in the haute cuisine department it's not going to be in the running. But it is consistent, affordable, tastes fairly good, and there are...
• Commented on A Snowy Song for a Snowy Day
  not to be a twat, but iceland is not particularly snowy (or at least, not in reykjavik, where the vast majority of icelanders life) it has roughly the same winter high and low temperatures that philadelphia does. our average high...