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Jiggy-Z

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  1. The more things change... There was a lot of home construction going on when I lived there and we would dig tunnels through the dirt piles that were out in the front yards. We had lanterns and everything. The party came to an end when one of the tunnels collapsed on my friend and we had to dig him out before he suffocated. No harm done, but his mom got wise during nightly clean up and he squealed, so we got a safety lecture about construction sites and all got grounded for being stupid. Clearly some kid statute of limitations expired by the time you got around to your tunneling.
  2. Thus my family dog when he was just a puppy. He's not much bigger now, but he's got more range
  3. Does the side of the bed slide open? That is truck upgrade I could get behind rather than the 9 piece trifold tailgate with pimp cane and jump step...or the cyber truck.
  4. We lived on Melshire and bugged out to even farther north Austin in 1975. There was a big field behind our house that had killer bluebonnets and hundreds of horny toads. It had a track like trail around it and found quite a few meteorite fragments in it. Thin Treeline to the south where I found lots of skin mag "remnants". I was only 7 so not too impressed. Hung out a little bit with older dirt bikers who were probably all of 12 or 13 who smoked and I thought were sooooo cool. Good times.
  5. Speaking of skating rinks...I was disappointed when one day I was riding my bike over the vacant lot where the trucks would illegally dump construction fill which was honed into ramps and curves and other cool 1970's bike stunt shit, and the next day, was stripped clean in preparation for Playland Skating Rink which I think opened in 1974. We called the vacant lot the "Humpities" . Humpities you had a good run RIP 1974-1974.
  6. How did I miss this? Hope he is up there with Belushi in that big steam bath in the sky, getting "a piece of the gig". RIP Maury Sline.
  7. 2nd this. A lot of of good and overlooked info in there. It reminded of a book titled something like: Things Your History Teacher didn't Tell You. Which pointed out how much whitewashing American history textbooks have done over the decades. More actual facts than some of Stone's conjecture.
  8. I'm better off for having missed the whole SOTU address and rebuttal and getting the cliffs notes here on Surly today.
  9. I feel your pain being a 50 something white dude who owns a construction company, drives a truck, dips some Skoal, and enjoys hunting and fishing. I had to stop wearing red of any kind. Also, despite the above demographic, I am labeled as that "commie hippy liberal from Austin who went to that commie hippy school" when I go fishing with my Houston buddies. I always tell them, "yeah that bastion of free thinking that is the Red McCombs College of Business". Also a CPA, so I also get the tax side of things as well. Ah Ziggy, will you ever win?
  10. Can barely see the top of Frost Tower, once the tallest building in the city. Second picture doesn't even have Rainey St. buildings.
  11. All true. I was addressing it's quality as table fair had it not been polluted.
  12. Yes. The wild freshwater catfish in general has been unfairly maligned, no doubt due to its association with farm raised and saltwater (hard head) varieties. It has also gotten a reputation as a bottom trash feeder, due to its opportunistic and versatile ability to not be too picky in a pinch and feed on dead bait, but make no mistake, the humble catfish is one of the most aggressive live bait predators in the river or lake.
  13. Not gonna be the best thing for other living things.
  14. Great movie. Cross between Dead Poet Society, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, and The Shining. Excellent filming like it was actually shot in 1970 except for the 3 point line thing and I believe the Dr. Pepper on the night stand was a little too current and the eye switch thing too. Acting was great and the setting was like another world in a time gone by like The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, or an Old Jamea Bond film. It will join my Xmas rotation. 4.5 Die Hards out of 5.
  15. I haven't been keeping track that closely, but I think this is the first time you have ever been right. I feel lost now somehow.
  16. I was responding to the quote only did not see anything about changing the skyline, which Trump org definitely did not do. The only reason I know anything about the remodels, is that most of them involved Trumpco cheating on the billing/tax abatements etc.
  17. He did some pretty extensive remodels back in the day, some of which were harder than starting from scratch.
  18. Yeah, I had a gxp bb in with my old 11 speed set up, but changed it out to update. The good news is, if I ever decide to go electronic, all I will need is the shifters and rear derailleur for the xplr set up. Thanks anyway.
  19. Interested in the power meter. Tell me more. I am running dub bb with the whole 1x12 speed flat chain deal. Force.
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