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  2. Hey, that construction between Huntsville and Corsicana will be finished in, um, 2095?
  3. I do both. But I was in Montana all summer, away from my home gym. I could have joined a gym -- my wife and kids did -- but I decided to let hiking and push ups/squats be my workouts. There is one trail I did almost every morning very early -- 8 miles up and back -- to summit the ski mountain. And I hiked some long and very hard hikes in Glacier a 1 to 2 times a week with serious elevation. I averaged about 25,000 steps per day and equivalent of 250 floors of elevation (2500 feet) just hiking and walking. I was just hoping not to lose strength while gone. But I came back stronger and fitter than when I left despite not lifting weights. Was kind of nice just being in nature and not in the gym for almost three months. One thing I don't know now that I am doing pushups and weights, is whether I should take some days off. I do not know the science on that. I started taking off from pushups Wednesdays and Sundays. Then Monday morning I check my max number of pushups I can do. It goes up 2 to 3 per week. Each week I add 1 pushup to my set. It is slow and steady but seems to be working.
  4. Alternative facts, my dude. There was a time not that long ago that a "conservative" would have an aneurysm because they were told to only trust what the government says, and not their own eyes and ears.
  5. This is more like its reality…
  6. How bad does he want that Nobel Peace Price? Because Putin is shitting all over that for him. Not that he ever had a practical chance mind you, but he believes he does, and he knows Putin is shitting on any chance he believes he has at it. It is embarrassing that he's scared of Putin. It's a good thing he doesn't follow Julia Davis and others covering Russian state media, because he'd absolutely believe that any given week, NYC or D.C. were about to be nuked.
  7. Do you think absolutely exploding the national debt, without open warfare, was normal? It is normal to fuck over US embassy personnel?
  8. I'm more for the states seceding that are net positive contributors if it came to that. Let those that rely on the feds the most have them. We'd have to move but that's ok. To be clear, in my heart I'm not for any breakup of this country but it does seem plausible.
  9. I thought Glory Hole Harmon said nobody watches Texas games: Highest-rated games of Week 2: Michigan-Oklahoma (ABC): 9.700M Ole Miss-Kentucky (ABC): 4.800M Iowa-Iowa State (FOX): 4.278M San Jose State-Texas (ABC): 3.700M Delaware-Colorado (FOX): 2.685M Oklahoma State-Oregon (CBS): 2.320M Illinois-Duke (ESPN): 2.007M Grambling-Ohio State (BTN): 1.831M Kansas-Missouri (ESPN2): 1.812M Boston College-Michigan State (NBC): 1.643M
  10. Except now we have a federal government that will support the South, probably even take up arms in its defense.
  11. Has anyone asked if this would also apply to collegiate football, or sports in general? I don't care to venture forth, but as I suspect, logical thought has no place there.
  12. But I don't have 10k posts on any other school's message board....
  13. So played a bit in the spring, then played with my son in July, and then a little bit over the past few months, on the official UO shards. Impressions. The event they held over the summer was pretty fucking cool, and it was a demonstration of a new quest/event/dungeon system that was just implemented. The "New Legacy" speciality/seasonal shard is cool (the rewards are worth it). It's also the test-bed for new code that's being written to replace the old "spaghetti" code. Atlantic completely, utterly sucks ass. A decent-sized house in a decent location (not even max-storage mind you) runs into the hundreds of millions. With that said, you can place 9x14s and 10x15s here and there when houses fall (Ye Olde IDOC) but there's always a dozen people also trying unless you stay up really late. But Atlantic is over-run with middle-aged 12 year-olds talking shit to each other in general chat, and the best housing plots that are available were placed by scripters who had automated bots place the micro-second an IDOC spot was available for placing. Apparently 1-2 people have placed about 90% of the best spots that have opened up over the past few years. Developers say they are going to deal with them harshly, soon (2 weeks?). Prices also suck on a lot of things, and it seems to be populated by shit-talkers, item collectors, and people trying to sell stuff for real-life money. Lake Superior, Catskills, Chesapeake, Baja, Pacific, and the Japanese shards are the best shards - not as much activity as Atlantic, but not overrun with shit-talking and scripters, and you can place 18x18s (And even towers and keeps). They ran the events this summer just fine (the events required cooperation from several players to even have a shot at making it through all 5 steps). Luna no longer matters as far as housing because we have a shard-wide vendor search system you can access from your home or in a city. People still hang in Luna a bit, because the bank has all of the NPC shops around it, but it's not like it was. According to a friend who has gotten me re-engaged with UO, UO is slowly being rewritten to address various issues (it has 5-6 person team doing coding/design/graphics). This summer, the back-end of the Classic Client was migrated to "modern tools" (guessing the same as the Enhanced Client). Right now they are working on making the Classic Client run at 60fps or more, and with a resizable window. If you are wanting to play production shard, I'd go with Lake Superior. I'm on there and can help anybody who is interested. It seems to run on a central time zone, and the reason why I originally picked it back in the 90s was because of how many Austin-area players were on it (it had a really good ping, I think it was located in Origin's offices here in town). Yeah, there's Lake Austin, but that came later.
  14. It actually increases the rate of cuts and abrasions. Many scientists believe it contributes to autism. If you use it on a corpse, the corpse becomes even more dead! I got through three posts. Fuck the South. Let the South rise again and encourage its secession. Then nuke it from space. I hate hating my country and state. Hate it.
  15. That would sound insane if that's what anyone was saying. The Big 12 didn't call holding in 2008 on anyone against anyone (hyperbole of course but the called holding rate was absurdly low compared to other conferences). It was not an anti-Texas conspiracy but more likely a strategy to increase scoring for now excitement. It did affect Texas more because we had the best pass rushers in the conference that year by far. Reading is important, but reading comprehension is critical.
  16. The only dangerous thing about the trail is the heat in the summer LMAO.
  17. I get it that not being on committees greatly reduces the grift opportunities and generally lowers the status of a Rep, but what percentage of the voting public knows what committees their rep sits on? I don't think taking away committees means jack shit in the big picture of bringing in new blood.
  18. Some season 4 teasing from a panel for the season 3 finale: Akiva Goldsman also mentions season 3 struggles with the strike, so they fully acknowledge they had issues outside of their control One Una-focused season 4 episode Growth of the Kirk/Spock relationship in season 4, including them evolving a bit more into their TOS character personalities (through seasons 4 and 5) Some Kirk Bros. character development in season 4 as well
  19. LOL. Ok. Keep those eyes blinded.
  20. I believe this, but there are so many different dynamics going on, I’m not even sure Trump knows what he wants to do next. He is being mocked, and Putin is pissing him off. He said he could solve the problem and doesn’t like being proved wrong. He doesn’t want to be involved in a conflict that he can’t win. He has some of the same escalation concerns that the Biden administration had that lead to early inaction in the conflict. He doesn’t want to spend money on war and wants to be an isolationist. So, there are more data points that would lead Trump towards inaction, but at some point, Russia totally ignoring him and doing what it wants with impunity, is going to push him to his limit.
  21. The aggy bootlicking is nauseating
  22. Ok.. as a father of senior twins (no pics) fighting this.. this made my day..
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