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  2. KUT is literally the only ota radio I listen to. Your assessment is absolutely laughable.
  3. What’s dumbass about that?
  4. There is light at the end of the tunnel for golfers who desire to improve but haven’t been able to do it. Here’s how. I’ve been playing golf for 50 years. My first lesson was with Harvey Penick and Ben Crenshaw at Mo Willie. However, over the years I only played a few times a year, went to the range a few times a year, and took a few lessons here and there sporadically. As a result I always struggled. In my 40’s I finally got down to a single digit handicap. However I had grooved a flawed swing. So I could never improve from that. Then, in 2015, I experienced a number of injuries that kept me out of the game until 2021. Once back, I still didn’t improve and had lost my single digit handicap. It was bad. Breaking 100 became a challenge. Finally, in 2024, about a year ago, I finally said “enough”. I was either going to fix my game once and for all, or quit. So I tore my swing down to the beginning, and began taking a few lessons from various folks in Austin. None of the instructors helped much at all. That was really frustrating. But in parallel I did two things. I joined an online golf service to finally really learn about the golf swing. And I joined an indoor golf simulator service to get feedback from a Trackman device on my swing. I also started playing more regularly, once or twice a week. Last week I finally broke 80 for the first time in a long time, and followed that up with a 39 on 9. My handicap has dropped from 20 to 12 and I’m on my way to an 8 or better. I’m confident I’ll get there. So what have been the keys so far? 1. Learn everything you can yourself about the golf swing. Amazingly over 50 years I never really understood what causes hooks, slices, etc. I didn’t understand how the wrists should move in the swing. I didn’t understand swing planes. I was an idiot. I relied on instructors, but most instructors aren’t very good. 2. Practice, obviously, but get feedback from a simulator. It will tell you things an instructor alone can’t. 3. Work on all four parts of the game, or one part will kill your rounds: putting, chipping, irons, woods. 4. Be patient. I still have WTF moments and completely lose my swing every few days. I’ll go to the range and hit like a beginner. While I understand the golf swing much better, I still can’t diagnose which of the 40 different swing factors has gone wrong to ruin my swing on any given day. I hope to have that figured out in the next few months, though. That’s the last key piece. Because when I’m on, I am on! I just can’t figure out how to get back on when I’m off. It’s 1.2 steps forward and one step back. Good Luck!
  5. View from morning coffee with the wife. Salsbury cove, in front of our cottage. Lobstermen checking their pots on a falling tide.
  6. At least include a candidate's age on the ballot.
  7. Wordle 1,505 X/6* 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #783 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 WTF? Hey baby…wanna CONGRESS? Seriously…WTF?
  8. Pondering it a bit, PBS, being non-profit, is missing the profit incentives that make other media complete shit. You could argue that private sector could/should produce such a thing on its own. But the empirical "data" suggests otherwise.
  9. BTW, Kreul is pronounced "Krell" as I understand it. Krell is what Ozzy Osbourne and David Lee Roth called cocaine back in the late 70s when VH was touring and opening for Black Sabbath. Ozzy and DLR would have "Krell wars" to figure out who could do the most coke. I'm not saying that Jake Kreul is similarly cocaine-infused, but it would explain a lot about his social media. Still, I'd be happy to have Mr. Cocaine as a longhorn.
  10. That's how I feel every year there is no obituary... For Jerry or me, either one. Well except to @markstanco's point, January of 2024, I officially bailed from Cowboy fandom. When they didn't fire fathead Mike and said Dak was the guy... yes, THOSE were the straws... after decades of bullshit.
  11. Our message walking out if the shoe
  12. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/trump-statistics-bureau-labor/683749/ For decades, Donald Trump has been at war with numbers. Some have capitulated more swiftly than others. His weight, his golf scores, and his net worth have long fallen in line.
  13. Wordle 1,505 4/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1286 8️⃣6️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  14. PBS kids is the kinda one refuge of “if you need to pull the screen lever, at least it’s safe”. We really don’t iPad except on planes or long car trips, but we uninstalled YouTube - you get them set up with whatever innocuous thing and then 2 seconds later who knows. On PBS Kids you can at least buy 20 minutes without someone trying to sell your 2 year old corn syrup.
  15. Much of these arguments seem to be focused on how you can still see the classics like Mr Rogers, Sesame Street, etc online or on cable services. While true, you aren’t going to get as much new quality content going forward. Most if not all npr and pbs shows that become nationwide hits start with a tiny budget on a local station and are able to grow into what they become. That is where CPB money was focused. I can’t imagine how many of these shows try and fail for every one that becomes a nationwide program (and many of those succeed and are cherished at the local level). All that is gone now. Just like with the brain drain that is coming due to the harassment of university faculty and the bullshit going on with visas; these true damage of these cuts won’t be felt for a decade. Also, it is not true that “zero” kids (and adults) have access to these shows without OTA public media. It’s like last mile mail and package delivery. It is extremely difficult and the government is the most efficient of all the inefficient ways to accomplish it. Hell I get shit all the time from Amazon that starts out as an Amazon or UPS / FedEx on the app and winds up coming by USPS and I live smack in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the country
  16. The vast majority of "kids media" on YouTube is dreck compared to what PBS offers.
  17. Her attorney must have read The Art of the Deal.
  18. Victor Ike. 12:12 mark. His KR for TD was the first for Texas in forever...
  19. Oregon State plays at Texas Tech and then at Oregon in mid-September. It would be great if Murphy could guide them to a win in one of those games.
  20. For the other readers, “SG” means strokes gained and it describes where a player is gaining or losing strokes against a given benchmark. There are apps where you can compare your performance to various standards, tour pro/scratch/5 cap/10 cap etc. I have generally used 15 cap as that was my target but now that I’m passed that, may move to 10. The basic idea is that, say as a 15 cap standing on the tee of a 370 yard hole that my expected score is 5.1. I hit a drive 230 down the middle. Now that I’m in the fairway 140 out, my expected score is 4.6. I “gained” 0.5 strokes with that drive. The book “Every Shot Counts” by Mark Broadie describes it in full detail. But you don’t need to specifically grasp the science, the apps will show you the data. The two I use are Arccos and Shot Pattern. No need for two but I’m a data nerd and each does something I like that the other doesn’t so [emoji2373]. Here are some screenshots of the type of thing you can get, some pics from Arccos of my last 20 rounds, and a summary pic from Shot Pattern of a recent round and a sample pic on SP where it lists the SG for each shot (Arccos doesn’t do single shot). )
  21. The other thing that could keep the economy from crashing and rates somewhat escalated is the irresponsible spending bill. It will just keep the party going for a few more years until the next election.
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