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[South Carolina Redfish]

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- An Austin area lawmaker wants to honor World War II veteran Richard Overton by designating part of Airport Boulevard as the Richard Overton Memorial Highway.

Sounds like a fine thing for them to do.

The city needs to rename that entire road something other than "Airport Blvd", so yeah, do it.  The airport hasn't been on that road for 20 years.

And it's confusing for visiting commies.

Indeed.  And lord knows they're confused enough already.

And what used to be the airport on airport rd is now the commie of commies living green development.  The city controls the thermostat in your house there.

A New Urban Village
The ambitious effort to redevelop Robert Mueller Municipal Airport into a mixed-use urban village in the heart of the city has helped Austin chart new directions. Mueller is envisioned as a sustainable community that is meeting extensive goals in housing and economic development.

“1984” is no coincidence either!

As early as 1984, the CARE plan called for a new town in-town, promoting compact and higher density development, compatible with the surrounding single-family neighborhoods. In 1996, a 16-member task force representing a complete spectrum of Austin interests reiterated this vision, calling for the creation of a compact and pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use community.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Good morning amateur boiler checkers.  54 deg now, but partly cloudy with a high of 88 deg. Mid-Feb, holy crap!

47 already here, going up to about 60, so there!

A comfortable 58° here and partly cloudy for now, got the balcony doors open.

[FloridaDean]

morning Dave and Mark.

[Travellin Dave]

Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2019. There are 319 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 15, 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
On this date:
In 1564, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
In 1798, a feud between two members of the U.S. House of Representatives (meeting in Philadelphia) boiled over as Roger Griswold of Connecticut used a cane to attack Vermont's Matthew Lyon, who defended himself with a set of tongs. (Griswold was enraged over the House's refusal to expel Lyon for spitting tobacco juice in his face two weeks earlier; after the two men were separated, a motion to expel them both was defeated.)
In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.
In 1953, Tenley Albright, 17, became the first American woman to win the world figure skating championship, which was held in Davos, Switzerland.
In 1965, Canada's new maple-leaf flag, which replaced the "Red Ensign" design, was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa. Singer Nat King Cole, 45, died in Santa Monica, California.
In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.
In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer, who had already pleaded guilty to the murders, would receive a mandatory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.)
In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.
In 2004, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 on the same track where his father was killed three years earlier.
In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney accepted blame for accidentally shooting a hunting companion, calling it "one of the worst days of my life," but was defiantly unapologetic in a Fox News Channel interview about not publicly disclosing the incident until the next day.

[Travellin Dave]

Ten years ago: President Hugo Chavez (OO'-goh CHAH'-vez) of Venezuela won a referendum to eliminate term limits, paving the way for him to run again in 2012. The Western Conference beat the East 146-119 in the NBA All-Star game. Matt Kenseth won the rain-shortened Daytona 500.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama signed measures lifting the federal debt limit and restoring benefits that had been cut for younger military retirees. Michael Dunn was convicted in Jacksonville, Florida, of attempted murder for shooting into a carful of teenagers after an argument over loud music, but jurors deadlocked on the charge of first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. (Dunn was found guilty of first-degree murder in a second trial and sentenced to life in prison without parole.) Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was caught on security video punching his then-fiancee (now wife) Janay Palmer inside a casino elevator in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Rice was charged with assault; he entered an intervention program to have the charges dropped. He has not played again in the NFL.) At the Sochi Olympics, the U.S. hockey team won a shootout to defeat Russia 3-2 in the marquee game of the preliminary round.

One year ago: The last of the bodies of the 17 victims of a school shooting in Florida were removed from the building after authorities analyzed the crime scene; 13 wounded survivors were still hospitalized. In response to the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump, in an address to the nation, promised to "tackle the difficult issue of mental health," but avoided any mention of guns. Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was ordered held without bond at a brief court hearing. Chicago Cubs star Anthony Rizzo left spring training in Arizona for his home in Parkland, Florida, to offer support in the wake of the deadly shooting at his former high school. American Mikaela Shiffrin used a hard-charging final run to win the women's giant slalom at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

[Travellin Dave]

Today's Birthdays:

Actress Claire Bloom is 88.
Author Susan Brownmiller is 84.
Songwriter Brian Holland is 78.
Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 75.
Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 75.
Actress-model Marisa Berenson is 72.
Actress Jane Seymour is 68.
Singer Melissa Manchester is 68.
Actress Lynn Whitfield is 66.
"Simpsons" creator Matt Groening (GREE'-ning) is 65.
Model Janice Dickinson is 64.
Actor Christopher McDonald is 64.
Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 60.
Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 60.
Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 59.
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green is 59.
Actor-comedian Steven Michael Quezada is 56.
Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 55.
Actor Michael Easton is 52.
Latin singer Gloria Trevi is 51.
Rock musician Stevie Benton (Drowning Pool) is 48.
Actress Alex Borstein is 48.
Actress Renee O'Connor is 48.
Actress Sarah Wynter is 46.
Olympic gold medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 46.
Actress-director Miranda July is 45.
Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 43.
Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 43.
Rock singer/guitarist Adam Granduciel (The War on Drugs) is 40.
Singer-songwriter-musician Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) is 39.
Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 36.
Blues-rock musician Gary Clark Jr. is 35.
Actress Natalie Morales is 34.
Actress Amber Riley is 33.
Actor Zach Gordon is 21.

[Travellin Dave]

Thought for Today: "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination." — Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (born this date in 1861, died 1947).

[Travellin Dave]

Thought for Today: "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination." — Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (born this date in 1861, died 1947).

pedant noun
ped·​ant | \ ˈpe-dᵊnt

   
\
Definition of pedant
1
obsolete : a male schoolteacher
2
a
: one who makes a show of knowledge
b
: one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
c
: a formalist or precisionist in teaching

[Threebean]

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- An Austin area lawmaker wants to honor World War II veteran Richard Overton by designating part of Airport Boulevard as the Richard Overton Memorial Highway.

Sounds like a fine thing for them to do.

The city needs to rename that entire road something other than "Airport Blvd", so yeah, do it.  The airport hasn't been on that road for 20 years.

The remaining section will be saved for “Steve Adler Highway”😂

[South Carolina Redfish]

@SCDave....what brand tupperdores do you use?

They are Container Store products, you can get them in the stores or online.  Outstanding quality and not too expensive, also come in about 5 sizes. 

https://www.containerstore.com/s/clear-weathertight-totes/d?productId=10026213&q=clear%20weathertight

[South Carolina Redfish]

@SCDave....what brand tupperdores do you use?

They are Container Store products, you can get them in the stores or online.  Outstanding quality and not too expensive, also come in about 5 sizes. 

Edit:  Anything bigger than the 63 qt gets pretty heavy and big to handle when filled up.

https://www.containerstore.com/s/clear-weathertight-totes/d?productId=10026213&q=clear%20weathertight

[Threebean]

Thought for Today: "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination." — Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (born this date in 1861, died 1947).

pedant noun
ped·​ant | \ ˈpe-dᵊnt

   
\
Definition of pedant
1
obsolete : a male schoolteacher
2
a
: one who makes a show of knowledge
b
: one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
c
: a formalist or precisionist in teaching

Thank you, but I still don't get it. Color me unimaginatively ignorant.

[Travellin Dave]

Some additional birthdays...

1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer who has been called the father of science, born in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy (d. 1642)

1809 Cyrus McCormick, American inventor and businessman (mechanical reaper), born in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (d. 1884)

1820 Susan B. Anthony, American social reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, born in Adams, Massachusetts (d. 1906)

1874 Ernest Shackleton, British-Irish polar explorer (Endurance, Antarctica), born in Kilkea, Ireland (d. 1922)

1882 John Barrymore, American actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1942)

1884 Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (invented the Erector Set), born in Salem, Oregon (d. 1961)

1899 Lillian Disney, wife of animator Walt Disney, born in Spalding, Idaho (d. 1997)

1907 Cesar Romero, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)

1916 Mary Jane Croft, American actress (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks), born in Muncie, Indiana (d. 1999)

1927 Harvey Korman, American actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)

[A Friend of Charlie]

I like the added touch of additional birthdays. Susan Brownmiller sounds like it could be one of Dean's girlfriends.

[Travellin Dave]

@SCDave....what brand tupperdores do you use?

They are Container Store products, you can get them in the stores or online.  Outstanding quality and not too expensive, also come in about 5 sizes. 

https://www.containerstore.com/s/clear-weathertight-totes/d?productId=10026213&q=clear%20weathertight

Much appreciated.