News from Mark Steger http://msteger.com 2010-09-08T18:03:31+01:00 text/html http://msteger.com Mark Steger http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=363&Itemid=53 Latitude: 58.311400° N Longitude: 22.205400° E A child on a road trip with his family asks, "Where are we?" and the father answers, "I don't rightly know. We're off the blue roads [the Interstate Highways marked in blue on the road atlas]. We're off the red roads [the US and state highways]. We're off the black roads [the county highways]. I think we're off the map altogether." It was always my dream to be off the map altogether. After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads". text/html http://msteger.com Mark Steger http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=362&Itemid=55 Developers of Brick Row want to convert (http://richardsonblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/brick-row-developer-seeks-zoni.html) 300 unsold condos into apartments. You can imagine how that's going over with the crowd that never even wanted condos there, to say nothing of apartments (or any place else in Richardson, for that matter). Me? I'm inclined to support the request. After the jump, why. text/html http://msteger.com Mark Steger http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=361&Itemid=48 ... in pictures. 2010 09 Dallas Zoo (http://picasaweb.google.com/steger/201009DallasZoo?feat=embedwebsite) To see all photos, click here (http://picasaweb.google.com/steger/201009DallasZoo#slideshow/5513927745869021666). text/html http://msteger.com Mark Steger http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=360&Itemid=53 Twitter tracks (http://twitter.com/MarkSteger) from August, 2010: 2010 08 01 - Texans discussing weather: Him: "It sure is hot today." Her: "It's only 99." 2010 08 02 - Headline: "Lindsay Lohan released from jail, goes to rehab." What, is that the name of some new trendy LA nightclub? 2010 08 03 - News coincidence: Brett Favre says he's quitting football for the 3rd time. Same day, Bristol Palin says she's quitting Levi for 2nd time. 2010 08 03 - You Can't Take It With You: Quirky 1938 Oscar-winning Frank Capra comedy. Tired of "It's a Wonderful Life?" Try this for the swellest time. 2010 08 04 - Headline: "Google Bails on Wave" http://goo.gl/q3o3. (http://goo.gl/q3o3.) Sometimes, my procrastination in picking up a new tool saves me time in the end. 2010 08 04 - Cheering for today's Prop 8 ruling will be short. This SCOTUS won't uphold any ruling based on due process and equal protection clauses. 2010 08 05 - Mark's Stylebook: When a column isn't worth the paper to print it, feature it online as a "Web Exclusive" 2010 08 06 - Earmarks are "a symbol of a broken Washington." -- Pete Sessions. His own contribution to breaking DC? $50,965,500. http://goo.gl/KrEZ (http://goo.gl/KrEZ) 2010 08 06 - I correctly answered 11... text/html http://msteger.com Mark Steger http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=41 To read more articles, select one of the categories in the menu in the upper left of this page. Family & Friends (http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content task=blogcategory id=21 Itemid=41) (News from the Steger family and friends) Local Interest (http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content task=blogcategory id=24 Itemid=48) (All things Richardson, Dallas/Ft Worth and Texas) Politics & Gov't (http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=26&Itemid=55) (News from city hall, school board, state house & Congress) De Nada (http://msteger.com/index.php?option=com_content task=blogcategory id=25 Itemid=53) (Random people, places and events in the news, apropos of nothing) Photo albums (http://picasaweb.google.com/steger/)