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Grimas

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  1. Going through this with my kids - you need to see what credits in geo engineering would be able to be transferred if he decided to switch to a ME major... I looked at getting out of geology my 2nd year when oil as at $10/bbl and realistically, most of my credits would only count in the School of Natural Sciences... I actually took one day of Home economics - which is in the Nat. Sciences department - and went back to geology on day 2... I would suspect that several of the classes he takes for geology won't count towards a ME degree if he decides to make the switch. So more base courses for him and more $$ for you... (In my day, I think I (my dad) paid 500/ for 15 hours so it was no big deal...) Chem and Biology 101 may transfer but probably not "rocks for jocks"...
  2. How many actual openings are there in those roller coaster companies... I mean how many new ones are actually built every year? 😀 I've always joked that my perfect job - after expat wife - would be a women's bike seat designer at a lesbian nudist colony but I've never seen that job posted... Or maybe that I hoped to become a bicycle seat there in my next life...
  3. Yup, I’m riding that train…. Of the 45 of us in my graduating class in the early 90’s, only 3 of us went on to get MA Geology degrees and only 2 of us still employed in E&P… (for now…)
  4. @tx 3 putt You write like my aggy brother-in-law… it’s “UT”, not ut…. 😂
  5. Congrats to your kid! That being said, O&G jobs are where the real money is made in the field but he’ll need to get a Masters if he wants to get hired by the big operators. If he wants to go the geo engineering route, he’ll probably be required to become a professional geologist and pass the test once out of school. (It’s a bitch and I’m glad I was grandfathered and don’t need to take the test) im a second generation geologist and I told my kid to get a different degree when he asked if he should go into geology especially with the whole green energy/ESG movement as well as the roller coaster career ride you should expect in O&G… (better to be a Petroleum engineer these days- no Masters required and slightly more stable as the wells always need to be worked on…) on the flip side, I chatted with one of my old UT geo professors who just retired and he said that only a small percentage of geology grads actually get O&G jobs but do have successful careers in other industries as what you learn in the program gives you a very good skill set in critical thinking that make you successful and those aren’t things you learn in other programs (in general). PM me if you want to discuss offline…
  6. Fyi you can get tenderloins at Asian markets for $20-25 bucks... Who cares if its choice when you are stir-frying it... Its still tender as F... I pick up several whenever I go into town and load the freezer...
  7. Beef tenderloin marinated in soy and oyster sauce. Put Hot meat on bed of mixed green and tomatoes and then covered by pickled red onions and rice wine vinegar and side of white pepper and lime dipping sauce. Do this every few weeks and everyone destroys it…
  8. VIETNAMESE SHAKING BEEF (BÒ LÚC LẮC) just made this…
  9. I knew he got that offer but didn't see he accepted it...
  10. Did that unknown kid we found come in this weekend from Mississippi?
  11. Cross-posting here but if you want to see an intense movie of urban warfare between the Russians (Wagner is White) and the Ukrainians (Bucha is yellow), check out my post in the Movies & TV thread called "Best in Hell". The link to the YouTube video there. Just finished it and it's intense as hell and puts some perspective on some of the news we hear out of Ukraine... Probably the best/most intense 2 hours of combat movie scenes I've seen... (Its movie and not real combat footage and is in Russian (and Ukranian?) with English subtitles...)
  12. Someone sent me a link to a movie on YouTube called "Best in Hell". (No CR here but still fuck the Russians...) But politics aside, in terms of an intense battle flick and you want to see 2 solid hours of urban combat - room-to-room, grenades, point blank machine duals, artillery and mortar fire/counter fire and drones, this was pretty damn intense... The movie is like a Wagner "our best battle ever" History channel propaganda film but the battle and scenes are pretty much 50-50 between the Wagner Russians (white) and Ukrainian s (yellow) any you don't really see a political bias- just that war sucks... Think 2 hours of the best combat scenes in Blackhawk Down, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers but set in the current conflict... (Oh, its in Russian and Ukrainian but has English subtitles..)
  13. Wok glowing red last night for stir fry - sichuan salt and pepper shrimp.
  14. https://omnivorescookbook.com/mala-chicken/ Found a Sichuan place in the Woodlands that makes the chicken similar to Mala Sichuan but the link above is what I used to use when I made it myself...
  15. I picked up a similar burner in Asia from a shop that built street food cart stands. It gets up to 100k BTU and makes my wok glow red. Same wok on an gas cook top sucks...Wok burner
  16. Its Entergy,not ERCOT so fuck Louisiana... I'm just south of that area and have been getting power "hickups" all morning but not enough to trip on the generator...
  17. Binged The English last night and really liked it. My only hang up was the accent of Chaske but that probably a bias of all old westerns where Indians spoke broken English and not with a Ok accent.
  18. I'm starting E4 tonight and am enjoying it but I also loved Rat Patrol as a kid and this brings back memories... Agreed, the music is great in this...
  19. How the hell do you use Avios miles for domestic flights? I've got a few 100K on BA and need to plan a trip to DC from Houston in a few weeks and wanted to use miles. I tried to search for flights from the BA site using Avios miles and no flights are available with either miles or by paying cash... Tried to then book on AA but the miles it shows aren't Avios miles but rather AA miles... Went to the Avios site and it kicks you back to the partner airlines... Getting frustrated...
  20. Game experience there- I haven’t been since going to a UT game there in the 80’s. Damn that campus us huge especially compared to the 40 acres - I thought we had parking close to the stadium but had to hoof it almost a mile. The little brother complex is strong - besides the whole stadium singing the “saw off the horns” song - I sat during it- every screenshot of fans on the screens had people doing the “horns down”. I don’t really care but these fuckers were playing Florida- not UT…. Tailgate right next to the stadium was nice but not as nice as the loss by them and then getting home in time to watch the Horns and Astros win. And damn, that upper deck is way the fuck up in the clouds and is steep as hell- never have had vertigo or a fear of heights before but maybe I was thinking about aggy engineering and how fast I was going to die when the structure collapsed… Hearing the comments about Jimbo from the diehard, hunch over and grab your nuts on third down crowd was better than most of the posts here…. Salty tears seen live…
  21. Whatever the term - enlisted/commissioned - he's been "signed up" to the Army for the past 2 years and reports for his 6 year commitment this summer. He's a commander/leader(?) of one of the troops/corps(?) and is leading the "march" for this game hence the cult requirement we need to go see him... (I have no clue on this shit other than the kid is a good kid and I'm happy he has found something he wants to do...)
  22. Proud of my nephew as he's actually enlisted and isn't fake army like most of his peers... (and his brothers are Horn grads). And I'll be home in time for the Horns and Astro's games as well as the kids needing hours driving to get their licenses. Plus is aggy BIL having a tailgate so I get to drink/eat on his dime and not worrying about driving home...
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