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El Diablo

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  1. Haha, yep. Hairy Melon taught US History. I think she was from Massachusetts herself. I lived about 6 blocks or so from the school and did work at the school and the convent during the summers for the nuns. Didn't pay shit but bought me a little leeway in the classroom.
  2. I remember being jealous that Waco High had a smoking area (Reicher grad here...).
  3. Conversation on drones. @Patricio Swayze , thought you might like this one as a potential job opportunity.
  4. Those were some tasty little fuckers. Did not much care for the store itself though, shady af neighborhood. I grew up not far from there and man did it ever go downhill over the years. Probably had something to do with me getting out of the 'hood.
  5. That the convenience store on 26th street? That's where I've always gotten them.
  6. Seems like I recall NCAA declaring BU's Perry Jones III ineligible about an hour before tournament play started one year. Drew had been ignoring them all year and they didn't like that so hammer time for the tourney. Not saying he didn't have it coming, by the rules there was a violation. Just pointing out that NCAA is a little bitch.
  7. As a fan of Drew and continuing your analogy I like to think he built his LeMans ready Ferrari with his bare hands, in his garage, out of spare parts and from reading books on building race cars. It's not like he ordered it fully loaded off the Adidas showroom floor. (Not talking about OSU here, hope anyone can see that.) What he's done in Waco is in my opinion the essence of good corching. That said, as I mentioned previously the award has been won by coaches with a .500 conference record so giving it to someone else was certainly an option.
  8. Tubby Smith and Billy Gillispie both won it with .500 conference records. There's no explaining some of these awards.
  9. " If Baylor runs the table, it would reach its first Big 12 Championship Game since 2014 and take home its state's first-ever league tournament crown." Didn't realize that none of the Texas schools had ever won the tournament. Prolly something on a wall in B/CS.
  10. I thought late in the 1st half that it might turn into a ballgame. I was wrong. Held McClung to 7.
  11. I think he was hired in part to shepherd KU thru the bball mess, I'm pretty sure they knew it was potentially coming when he was chosen as AD. He, imho, also had to have overlooked rumors among those in the know of Les at LSU. I could see a whole housecleaning happening.
  12. I don't believe Jeff is there for long. With what KU has going on already with the bball program and now this?
  13. That sucks about Cunningham's ankle. I'm just hoping it's not a high ankle sprain or something that lingers. Folks outside the conference need to get to see that guy play.
  14. Who does the tournament stand to help the most for NCAA tourney seeding?
  15. Even your test shots are gorgeous. That's a big honkin' camera.
  16. What year is it set in?
  17. With Likeli out and Avery in foul trouble the scoring became a problem. Pokes run a good offense but turnovers is what killed 'em.
  18. I'm sorry you took it that way.
  19. WVU plays their last 4 at home. Get yer whistles ready! Anyone tuning in to watch KU vs UTEP tonight?
  20. That's the one I'm thinking would best suit me. Got out of the house early and took a trip to the river. This is a test shot for something I want to try, a long-ish early morning exposure. This was hand held at 1/80, ISO 100 and f11 and if my maths are right I could do 16 seconds with a 10 stop ND filter and kill all the ripples. My ride didn't have time to wait for me so I didn't mess with different framing/focal length. I think this was around 12-14mm on a crop sensor. Basically I just wanted to see what the scene looked like and I got that. Next time I'll go early and start snapping shots every little bit until the light gets ugly.
  21. Lightroom users, which plan do you have? I'm strictly a desktop guy but frankly it's all a bit confusing. https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html
  22. In football the MNC plays a huge role in how conferences operate.
  23. Pop's owl photos immediately made me think of the Rush album cover for "Fly By Night", the first pic especially. Went back to the drawing board with the "people in hats". Like this effort better. Pretty good control over the spill and still had space to move around! I broke out a C stand and baby boom arm to get the light in a better position. Last try I just used an extension arm and didn't want to push my luck with the weight. Looking at these pics it's crazy how just raising or tilting the brim changes the final image. I like the 2nd one better and think if I'd just had the face turned slightly more to their left then that right nostril wouldn't look so wonky and would open up the right eye. Also think that with a light colored hat like that a bit of diffusion over the top half of the light would tone that down some. It, for me at least, draws my eye to it rather than to the face.
  24. Well in all honesty for many years they didn't. I think only TCU was worse athletically speaking (going back to SWC). Shit, I think Elon just fired up one of his rockets again. Short burn but it was a rumbler.
  25. No shit. And WVU 49% shooter hit I think 8 of his 10 attempts.
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