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  1. Sorry to derail this thread so this will be my last post here and any further ones will be on the Surly kids who didn’t go to UT one…

    Yea, never had been to Fayettenam until last year but the old town by campus is great and reminded me of Austin the the 80’s when I attended UT and will probably buy a house there for the kid to live in next year.  

    @irishtexan - yea, kid does manual labor as a job now and benches 300# at18 (no ‘roids)  But won’t need to swing a shovel as he can use his trust fund to hire someone to dig a ditch for him if needed…

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  2. 53 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Didn’t want to give CAP a go? 

    Graduating top 10% but wants to do supply chain and the Walton School ranked pretty good and they are giving him money. Didn’t want to go CAP route and then risk not get into McC business school… Can get a Masters there in 5 years (actually closer to 4 with all the AP credits he has going in…) A third of the undergrads there are from Texas…

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  3. 5 hours ago, msucolt45 said:


    Those games are full of HATE by the opposing fans. We faced Arky in Sarks’ first year and they (UT players) were like deer in the headlights for the first three quarters! Hate is hate and you have to be prepared for it!

    Hell, I don’t even like driving to Hot Springs with TX tags on my vehicle.

    Hook’em!!!

    Ha - My kid is going to pig in the fall and I told him I'm putting a hog sticker on his car because of Texas tags...

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  4. 2 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    Started in 1985 and the "shanty" got wrecked all the time, if you can call it that, since it looked pretty bad to begin with.  The frat guys always got blamed, so I just went with that.

    Growing up in Austin, I went to the drag and west mall all the time, especially in high school and I don't even remember seeing the shanty then.

    I remember a couple of protests I had to shuffle through, but no big deal.

    The most annoying thing were the pamphletiers that were on campus. The Jews for Jesus guys were especially pushy. Not sure why I got the treatment. I guess it was the blond hair and blue eyes with a pagan smirk on my face that drew them in.  I also remember my Antisemitism in History and Literature professor, who was Jewish, hated that group in particular based on the stupidity of the idea alone.

    That was a different time and I'm pretty sure the administration thought all of the South Africa stuff was cute compared to all the Vietnam protests just a few years earlier.

    Also, the Texas economy was in the shitter back then, so we were all just fighting to stay employed.

    The only thing I recall or paid attention to of those the protests/tables on the West mall at that time was Sister Sally preaching about how sorority girls evolved into sluts and whores... (I stopped to listen for pointers...)

  5. On 3/22/2024 at 9:26 AM, Zone Read said:

    Just got back from a 6 day trip to Miami and Phoenix, going to Spain for 10 days next month.  I'm at the point that it's tough to get excited about traveling when I know I won't have my BB 2000 bidet to use during that time.

    Look on Amazon for a portable one - it's just a water bottle with an extended neck that you fill-up and squeeze. I take it every time I travel... (and my own roll of Charmin super soft for the final wipe as most hotels have cardboard especially when you are used to a bidet at home...)

  6. They changed to a new system and you couldn’t upload your data until January. There was a glitch in the system that rejected a large portion of those submitted between January and early March - most regarding issues with signatures the system couldn’t recognize and the system was locked until mid-April so you couldn’t make corrections. Many schools still haven’t received the FAFSA from the site so can’t send out their letters to students and the May 1 date most schools want the students to accept is fast approaching….   The form itself wasn’t the issue but we have friends who actually need those financial aid forms to chose where their kid will go because of cost and need for the financial aid. Mine aren’t getting crap beyond their merit scholarships so it really doesn’t matter to me other than having a nice summary before I start writing checks…

  7. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Thanks for deleting the posts and protecting the bootlickers from accountability, as you ever do. 

    Where the fuck does it belong then?

     

    Is the deployment of the state troopers onto OUR FUCKING CAMPUS to arrest peacefully protesting students a forever verboten topic?

     

    You are just making it such that the fascists and bootlickers get to dictate the terms of """polite""" conversation, you fucking useful idiot 

    Uh, create a new thread?  (oops, blacklab beat me to it...)

  8. I assume this is for all schools but ours has an option for graduation where you say you aren't submitting a FAFSA form as an alternative.  I don't expect a dime for either of mine but one thing I plan on doing is having both of mine take that $5K government loan (in their names) so they know they have skin in the game (and I'll pay it off when they graduate...).  We also need the FAFSA for a private scholarship that they apply for in August...

  9. Anyone else having "fun" with this FAFSA mess?  We had ours in in January but apparently any of the early ones were flagged as missing signatures and you couldn't actually make the corrections until April 16th.  All corrected now but several of our target schools still haven't got the FAFSA info and May 1 is decision date for most schools...  Argh...

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  10. 6 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    Reminds me of a great doc on Netflix called "Muster Dogs".  It's a challenge-doc for five ranchers to turn Aussie Kelpie pups into champion muster dogs over a year (I think).  Those ranches are so isolated and technology and resources are so scarce, the muster dogs are absolutely critical to many ranchers to help move and control their herds.  

    I really like the sessions where they are making bush fixes on equipment with Uncle Ant. Kinda reminds me of me and my dad fixing stuff - we kinda knew what we wanted to do and they eventually get the task done but it usually takes 3x more time than expected…

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  11. On 4/12/2024 at 10:40 PM, Biff Tannen said:

    The beauty and horror of Top Chef is exactly what yall are talking about. It takes great chefs (for the most part) and puts them in a completely different situation than they have ever had to be in with their talents. Some succeed, some fail. The clock especially, but also the call to creativity is the real challenge. Many chefs, understandably, fail under these circumstances. It doesn’t make them bad chefs. It makes them ill suited for this type of competition. 
     

    I started watching top chef with season 3 when I stared dating my now wife, who grew up watching emerald, Yan Can Cook, and the beginnings of the food network. Before Top Chef, I could have given a fuck about food. I ate frozen pizza and ham and cheese tortillas every night of the week (god damn that still sounds good).

    BUT, she taught me so much and I’m lucky she loves to cook. I can make a mean breakfast sammich and a sous vide steak, but that’s about it. She has shown me how to appreciate good food and Top Chef was a huge vehicle for me. 

    Yea - the Frugal Gourmet show on PBS got me cooking (along with Justin Wilson) and I still have some of his cookbooks.  (But he's been scrubbed from the internet after being accused of being a child molester...)

  12. I came across an interesting Youtube channel of an outback ranch manager in central Western Australia who manages 3500 head on 1 million acres.  Interesting technology where he's setup Wi-Fi across the property at all their watering holes and repeater stations, self-mustering yards, daily repairs and lots of feral animal elimination... 

     

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