Posts posted by gsoda3
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5 hours ago, Stringer said:
We did, went in August. We had a great time. After 2 days, our 5 year old told my wife, "I thought they were talking weird, but now I know that's just the way they talk here." To see his world open in that moment was very cool and about 99% of the reason to bring the kids. If you're going with family, let me know and I can throw a couple of things your way.
As far as the language, pretty much everyone you interact with speaks good English. Whenever we went anywhere, out of respect, we would always great them in French and try to ask what we needed in French as well ("quatre pains au chocolat, s'il vous plaît", etc), but as soon as there was a mispronunciation or wrong inflection, they would switch to English. It's just a generational thing for younger French people. They don't care.
Sounds like you had a good time. What did the kids enjoy? We asked ours to research and pick one thing each. They all ended up with the Eiffel tower as their first choice 😂 but we made them come up with other things so the other three said Olympics, Notre Dame, and I forgot what the last kid chose.
Yes you're right about the younger generation not caring as much. The older generation are quite impressed with Americans speaking French (even poorly) though I find. Especially Texans.
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On 7/17/2025 at 10:09 PM, Stringer said:
Well, we're taking the plunge and taking our 8 and 5 year old to Europe for their first time. This trip will be Paris and Strasbourg.
I've been to Paris enough to be able to navigate and prioritize things, but does anyone have great things for kids in Paris? We are doing a kids tour at the Louvre, but don't have much else planned yet.
Have you gone yet?
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29 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:
I'll say it again for the 1,000,000th time - is this real? AI has gotten pretty good. This has to be AI generated, right?
I had to check. It's word for word what WaPo's real time blog was reporting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/30/trump-hegseth-generals-meeting-live/
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30 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:
When you say the way we started off are you specifically referring to the 1st set? Because for the Creighton match as a whole Creighton outblocked us. Which is sort of a meme so far this season.
But no one is getting extra credit for winning the blocking battle. Which is good, because we're invariably losing them against most of our opponents.
The whole match - what I liked is we were getting hands on the ball even if we weren't closing out completely or were late to a spot or we were going straight up instead of pressing the block. It showed we have the physical ability to be a presence at the net. Ames last year was often late but has been noticeably better this season and as our chemistry with her/nya/harvey and our two freshman and transfer on the outsides develops we could have something special. Also I really love Devin on defense (and on offense). She has an outsized impact on the match for how much she plays.
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21 minutes ago, Hornbeliever said:
So to make sure I understand, Ames is still above Burton, right? I hope so.
and since you are the coach, why no dub sub and no Devin? I don’t know why but I enjoy her in game.
11 minutes ago, Hornbeliever said:I knew you were our coach posting here.
i do not know what my problem is with Buxton but I have one.
😂 I think I've identified one problem...
4 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:I'll also say I don't think this is going to be one of Texas' better blocking teams. I don't think we're going to be bad, per se, but the bar is pretty high at Texas. I remember the national championship season in 2022 when it felt like it took forever for the block to get going. But by the time the tournament rolled around Texas was blocking as well as anyone in the country. 2023 the season didn't start off great, but I felt like the block was in pretty good shape and stayed that way. Last year I don't like to talk about a whole lot.
The way we started off against Creighton playing defense up front surprised me. We've backed off that performance a little since then but if that was closer to baseline than ceiling and we can manage to improve this will be a very good blocking group.
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2 hours ago, scramblyn said:
tceh for texas tech...
meedioker - I think I got the spelling wrong. appauled too. I think an aggy made those work. most of the gross misspellings are aggy with the exception of... idoit.
idoit is the best, all time though. yes it was austin360... mega dittos and NOJA days, wow.
uphauled
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Oh, I'm sure she has. But in her first go-round, she was doing so excessively, and relatively poorly, until a foot injury curtailed it. And the NC followed.
I remember. And I don't know what about her jump set was so different than her regular set but it made a difference. This year i feel she's been jump setting at the same rate as in 23. I don't think she's jumping as high but that's the only difference Ive noticed.
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9 minutes ago, Elvis said:
Any color laser that doesn’t cost $500/yr in toner? I miss color printing.
we bought this one last year and are happy with it but most of our printing gets done at the office. we print maybe 50 pages / month off this thing at home. toner is $250 for all three colors if you buy as a combo and $120 for black.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
in Daily Texan
I don't think they're closing the schools but it sounds like they're moving the programs to other campuses that have those demographics in the neighborhood.