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  1. 23 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Huh so this case happens to also be in front of Judge Gamble in TX459, who also presided over the Jones defamation case. That's definitely a "home field" advantage for Bankston who probably has a pretty good working relationship with that court by now

    If it's in Travis, it's not assigned to a particular judge in most cases. There are procedures for getting it assigned to a specific judge (either by request or by the Court's own motion), but the default is the next judge up hears the next setting. 

  2. On 4/5/2024 at 9:52 PM, hornian said:

    I donated enough this season to get 6 OU tickets, but the site is saying I can only request 4 OU tickets. Guess I'll call next week to have them unplug it and plug it back in again. 

    This finally fixed itself, so I was able to place the full order.

    My law partner got a random call from the LHF to thank her for being a donor, and she asked when the seat selection times would be emailed. She was told that the email is supposed to go out tomorrow with seat selection time slots. Not sure if that will be true, but thought I'd pass it along. 

     

  3. 4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

    An hour?

    Furk, I'm in. Let's get a shaggy group together. 

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  4. 5 hours ago, Muny_Tex said:

    Blake,

    I've been an observer of the Longhorn internets since approx 2001; and was very a active reader of Shaggy from Day 1.  You are one of my favorite contributors during that entire time frame.  Even back when you were a "different person", I still always looked forward to seeing your hoops takes and thought it was really bizarre how many people (such as the "Hi" crowd) felt compelled to have real-life personal beef with you.

    Fast forward to now and very little seems to have changed; so my advice is this:  Please permanently leave this website and find a different/healthier outlet for expressing your interest in sports and engaging with other fans.  Many of the largest influencers here do not have your best interests at heart (and that's putting it gently), and they never will.

    I fully believe that anyone who devotes any substantial amount of attention/energy to an internet message board (and by the same token, mainstream social media) is fundamentally a loser.  Time and resources are finite, and youth/vigor/opportunity costs are tremendously precious.  The fact that there are many people here with tens of thousands of posts (translate those into conscious hours!) dropped into little more than an abyss of uselessness (95% of the time) or a vortex of hatred, division, and personal attacks (at worst) speaks immense volumes about their character as adults, parents, spouses, etc etc. 

    There is a reason so many posters fit similar archetypes of ultra-high incomes and professional classes...they are the same people (especially the lawyers) who everyone else on the globe typically despises for the way they live their lives and treat others.  It is only natural that they translate their self-loathing into attempts to cope/compensate through sanctimony, condescension, frequently outright abuse towards others while safely protected behind their screens.

    I aim to browse the board approx ~30 mins a week now to aggregate Astros news and pertinent insights relating to markets/finances.  Fortunately that's because I (finally) have other important, meaningful, real-world human priority shit to do which was never that case when I spent hours and hours a day here (and not coincidentally, was objectively a loser during those same life stages).

    I don't know your whole story, but I perceive an enormous amount of victimhood from you during this most recent episode without appropriate regard for the greater context: This place will never be uplifting for you, it will never be a source of joy/pride/confidence/health whatever.  It is a fundamentally ugly place populated overwhelmingly by fundamentally ugly people. 

    There are certainly useful things you can "learn" here (like the 'Help' board) just as you would browsing google/reddit for specific topics of interest; but actually engaging anyone here and expecting anything different than the exact-same toxic pattern over the past 10+ years for you is horribly misguided.  In the parlance of Tommy Boy, you are the woman in white gloves horribly upset by the mess made by ketchup popsicles that you insist on ordering over and over again.

    Put this hellscape away.  Take control of your own life and your own recovery.  Bob, imaamac, motown, etc etc should not and cannot be the gatekeepers to your health, happiness, and well-being.  May God bless you, and I hope to see you reach your full potential somewhere that is worthwhile.

    +rep, even from this lawyer. 

  5. I donated enough this season to get 6 OU tickets, but the site is saying I can only request 4 OU tickets. Guess I'll call next week to have them unplug it and plug it back in again. 

  6. 1 minute ago, gsoda3 said:

    Having the moderators be on the same page when it comes to a permaban is pretty important don't you think?

    Moderator does not equal site owner. 

    Here's the way I see it: I can give a client advice about what I think a judge will do based on certain facts, but ultimately, when I go to court, it's up to what a judge thinks about those facts that matters. 

    So a moderator can give a poster advice about not getting banned, but ultimately, when it comes to permabans, it's up to what the site owner thinks about a poster's behavior that matters. 

    Ultimately, the buck stops with immamac. I can live with that. If I didn't want to, I would leave. 

     

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  7. On 3/27/2024 at 8:20 PM, Texzilla588 said:


    Uhh folks have been making pilafs and other rice dishes in Europe and Middle East for Millenia. Frying rice in oil isn’t a Mexican invention.

    I said gringos, not grecos. . 

  8. 9 hours ago, irishtexan said:


    1.5 cups long grain white rice. Toast rice in like 1/4 cup of vegetable oil until deep golden brown. Watch it and let it toast longer than you think you should, but make sure it doesn’t burnt. Add 1/4 of a finely diced yellow or white onion and sautee for a few mins on lower heat. Then add about 1.5 tablespoons of minced garlic and sautee like 30 seconds till fragrant.

    While you’re doing all that shit, in a separate saucepan bring 2 cups of chicken broth to almost a boil. Add that to the rice and onions and garlic right after you add the garlic. Also add 8oz of tomato sauce, a teaspoon or so of salt, about half a teaspoon of cumin, a few sprigs of cilantro, and a whole halved jalapeño. Cook on low for like 20 mins till done. Remove from heat but do not take off lid. Let sit for like 15 mins before fluffing. Remove japs and cilantro.

    That’s how I did it. Difference tonight was that I toasted the rice a little longer, heated the liquid/broth before adding to the rice, and I let it sit a lot longer than normal after removing from heat.

    This is good, but here's my recipe:

    3/4 cup Texmati rice

    Toast rice in vegetable oil or butter - but probably only like a tablespoon. I eyeball it. I don't know if toast it as long as you, but enough to get that good toast smell.

    Add in 2 cups chicken broth or water (I use broth, the wife who is from the valley usually uses water) + 1 package of Goya Season. I prefer this one: 

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    Cover and turn the heat to low. Simmer for 15 minutes. Let it sit for about 5 minutes before serving.

     

    It's the same idea as yours, just less work. No mincing, and the Goya seasoning gives it all the flavor/color it needs. I think the key is toasting the rice before you boil it.

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  9. 55 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    We have a traffic circle at the end of our street.  It's a "T" intersection.  Previously, there was a stop sign on the leg that was perpendicular to the other two.  Now, it's a traffic circle with 3 yield signs.

    To say that Austin drivers have no fucking idea how to navigate a 3-legged traffic circle with 3 yield signs would be understating things.  Most drivers on the two legs that are parallel to each other (and perpendicular to the third) seem to think they have the right of way.  It's maddening.

    Long story short:  Austinites don't tend to be very astute when it comes to traffic control measures, especially traffic circles.

    I just go for it, and let the chips fall where they may. 

    "I'm older than you and I have better insurance" is the way I live my life. Towanda!

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  10. 48 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Not in the theme of the thread, but I got upgraded to FSD 12.3 on Saturday.  I have used it for six trips so far involving rural roads, highway driving, construction zones, city driving, and stop and go traffic.  It performed extremely well and feels much smoother and more natural like a human driver.  This version isn’t just an incremental  improvement.   It is a significant jump in performance, and IMHO lives up to the hype.  

     

     

    I genuinely hope that Tesla gets FSD done right, and it becomes standard on most vehicles. I really think that within our lifetimes that we could see a dramatic reduction in traffic fatalities. 

    With that said, I would not put myself or my family in a FSD vehicle from Tesla yet. I'm glad you're beta testing it, but it has a ways to go before people like me feel comfortable with it. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, locodos said:

    3?  Can't play man, gotta play zone

    I'm getting the snip so I'm done at three, but to be honest, once you have 3, you could have 5 with no big life changes (other than vehicles). When the older ones have friends over, it's honestly much easier. 

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  12. 6 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

    Anyone else with 2 boys about 2 years apart? I've got to imagine that the time from the little one becoming mobile to the older one starting school is going to an absolute whirlwind. I wouldn't describe the big boy as a chill dude, so I think we'll be holding on for dear life for a while.

    I've got 3 girls, 3 years apart each. My oldest is now 8 (2nd grade), middle 5 (pre-K), youngest 2.

    Luckily we are out of diapers completely (except pull ups at night for the 2 year old), but right now with music, sports, school, kids birthdays on the weekends, etc. it's non stop.

     

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