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  2. If Greenberg and Passan are still getting air time they haven't cut deep enough, the Mouse really needs to dig down.
  3. So, I noodled around on ebay for used Wengers and also looked at the Victorinox "Delemont" series. Delemont is where Wenger was located when Victorinox bought them in 2014 and is the name given to the Wengerish models that Vic still makes. They also still make the large Ranger models that I think Wenger beat them to market with. The used Wengers don't represent enough of a discount relative to a new Vic, even though the Delemonts are more expensive than regular equivalent Vic models. I was also worried that Vic couldn't/wouldn't fix an old Wenger as they apparently are not stocking parts any longer, except for the Delemonts. Victorinox is apparently very generous with repair/replacement of even abused knives under their lifetime warranty. I wound up with a Vic Delemont Evo 16. My SAK collection now consists of a 40 year old Vic Huntsman that is still near mint, a Cadet, the One Hand Trekker, and this. The three-layer (main, nail file, scissors, cap lifter, can opener, Phillips and awl) adds a bit of functionality over the Cadet without making it a pocket tumor like the Huntsman and Trekker. One notable thing, the Delemont main blade is considerably thinner than Vic's usual main blades, which aren't exactly pry-bars themselves. This apparently was normal with Wengers. I like slipjoints and SAKs as a general proposition, which means I'm good with a thin blade, but this is the thinnest main blades on a quality knife I've ever seen. It doesn't flex during normal usage though, and the little bit of belly it has is nice and it is easily made scalpelish. It has the Wenger backspring-biased scissors and the contoured scales that Wenger pioneered. I kind of like them, but they're thicker than regular cellidor and certainly alox. So the knife is a bit bulky for a three-layer. Vic uses their own toothpick and tweezers (Wengers were different and didn't "notch" the scales), its can-opener with small screwdriver, and the nail file is of a slightly different configuration than that on the Cadet. Fit, finish and quality were typically high, however it was gritty as hell. I washed it out with soap and water and in that unlubricated state it was pretty horrific. The washing and a few drops of oil fixed everything right up. Seems to be a worthy candidate if you're considering a SAK. Especially if you want something off the beaten path a little.
  4. You're fucking weird.
  5. 350MM shares traded, up 45% all within 45 mins of the opening bell. it’s got to be some type of record. I mean if retail can just hold, it’ll be interesting to see how high this can go.
  6. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities. The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees. Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them. “We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.
  7. Gold parity is the obvious next big target. Getting there in 3 years is a big move. I’d lean more toward it being 7ish years. It really depends on if you think the 4 year cycles are done. I go back and forth on that.
  8. It was a damn good looking movie, but the tonal shift to vampires in the 3rd Act (and I like vampire movies, of all varieties) was jarring. As a metaphor for race relations, it was a pretty mixed grab bag, partially undone by the script (Like, what happen to the Choctaw Vampire Hunters?). The movie was trying to say something about rece relations and music, as well, but again, it was confusing at best. I though Michael B. Jordan did a very entertaining job playing Stack and Smoke, and good lord does Hailee Steinfeld have a mouth on her. And like almost every movie made these days, it would have benefited from a stronger editorial hand to shave 15-20 minutes off the run time. Still, I'd watch it again just because of how good it looked. Movies these days just rarely entertain the eyes the way Sinners did.
  9. As others have pointed out, the commitment in college band is much lower than in high school marching band, especially high school band in the state of Texas (or Indiana). It's far more social and far less of a grind. There are of course commitments to Saturday football games at the home stadium, and maybe some travel for nearby away games and/or bowl games, but there's none of those all-day or multi-day UIL or BOA competitions. And the in-week rehearsal schedule is far less rigorous as well.
  10. Aggy is lapping us the same way a handful of our gap vag fans said Tech and Baylor were doing better recruiting-wise than we were due to a couple H2H wins via some outrageous bags.
  11. Before you go nonlinear on us, yes, Trump won the vote (theoretically). That said, his "support" is not growing. Now, I am aware that he's going to try (and likely succeed) in suspending the next election. But he has really shitty approval ratings.
  12. Cooper breaks more tackles in part because he’s playing in 1A Florida football. Same on his defensive film. That said, he looks like a stud athlete and plenty of people who do this for a living in coaching and scouting love the guy. EJ Crowell is 4A Alabama football, as a comparison.
  13. Not their best work, but good for pre-season work.
  14. The only "evidence" is some unreliable eyewitness accounts of sightings happening months to years after her disappearance and some questionable analysis of online photos. I found none of it credible or interesting at all. At 5:30 am she was seen on the balcony of her family's room. Nothing happened to wake up a room full of sleeping people between 5:30 - 6 am, at which point she was noticed missing. So the kidnap theory is that she left the room of her own accord barefoot in a t-shirt and jeans sometime between 5:30- 6 am, and her kidnappers saw that she had left her room, were able to snag her from a public area of the ship without notice, and then smuggle her unnoticed off of the ship in Curacao. Oh, and the ringleader of this kidnapping effort was the bass player of the ship's band... and the entire ship's crew was in on identifying and assisting with the abduction of young women for Caribbean sex-trafficking.
  15. A lawyer friend in town told me that his wife has helped Lake Travis high school students with the college admissions process over the years, and said that in her experience band kids had some of the highest college acceptance rates. I think a lot of admissions staff know that band kids work their asses off, and that level of discipline looks good on a resume. My son is a freshman in the McCallum High band, and last year was lucky enough to get "called up" to be a part of the McCallum band as an eighth-grader for the football season. That included early morning band practices at McCallum starting at 6:50 a.m. before husting to Lamar, Friday night football games, and a lot of Saturday UIL competitions that lasted most of the day. He absolutely loved it, and as his father I was damn impressed to see him work so hard. He thinks he might want to join a college marching band at a big school, maybe Texas, maybe somewhere out of state like Oregon where his sister is. But I do wonder if by the time he goes to college, after five years of intensive marching band, he'll get burned out by it. It's a grind.
  16. Sounds like it’s not a replacement beverage either. You can probably get a fountain Coca Cola for $1.50 or a bottle of sugar Coke with half the volume for twice the price. I wonder what people will choose? also, and I’m dead serious with this ridiculous question, as it pertains to sugar cane, did Trump slap a tariff on Puerto Rico?
  17. Word. It's been a beating. I strongly encouraged her to knock some of that shit out before summer band started, and of course summer band has now started, and zero essay activity has occurred.
  18. I was years away from being born.
  19. Ticket prices cut in half without Caitlin Clark https://www.si.com/onsi/womens-fastbreak/news/caitlin-clark-injury-absence-causes-wnba-all-star-ticket-price-plummet-01k0fqjvs3cx
  20. Health schmealth....french fries fried in beef tallow are delicious. I support that change, universally. But yeah, just more distractions and theater here.
  21. I would start with Houses of the Holy or Presence. Both are over 50yrs old and they damn sure don't make music like that anymore.
  22. Love Ready Player One, also Project Hail Mary is a great audio experience. Nothing holds a candle to DCC on audio, I just finished my second relisten and just started at the beginning again. @immamac is flying through the books at an unheard of speed lol
  23. tbone_

    Getting old sucks

    Is it not an option to work out from under the broken brain pills? It’s been said in these esteemed pages that GoodRx might be what you are looking for.
  24. The strongest opener of the season and in quite some time. Agreed, great episode and might be proof less is more.
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