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RamjetFDO

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  1. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    Good showing tonight. Some poor final third play, but still... 3 points!
  2. Albon's Williams ride essentially delaminated ... left debris everywhere, but they'll be starting Q1 up again soon.
  3. Quoting myself, but just saw they have a few old episodes on streaming: AppleTV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/soccer-made-in-germany/umc.cmc.248fri5qwpvhc3eslg30mhjxs Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/soccer-made-in-germany-12e6afa5-22b6-42e2-80a4-38c904c3c318 ESPN: https://www.espn.com/watch/series/8293b38d-4a43-48e6-aae3-142e93484653/soccer-made-in-germany and YouTube has a bunch of random ones, too. I'm sure there's lots of overlap, but I'm going to be wasting some time watching and remembering the golden voice of Toby Charles!
  4. Wow - that's a nostalgia memory! That program was my first introduction to international soccer, and it hooked me.
  5. That was just all around entertaining. Start to finish
  6. That was a weird fan sign.
  7. 40 years old and still poaching goals. Nicely done... This is entertaining.
  8. Okay, at long last, we're about one month out from this event. We ended up going with Fred. Olsen cruises, a British-based line that sails from several ports in England. We're leaving from Liverpool. It's a 9 night sailing with a couple of sea days up front, 4 Norwegian ports (Andalsnes, Olden, Skjolden, and Bergen) then one stop in the Shetland Islands on the way back, before another sea day and back to L'pool. The ports look fantastic - lots of choices. The first two both have gondolas to the top of the mountains there, so there will be some fantastic overlook photo, if the Wx cooperates. There will be photos. Apologies in advance. Ha.
  9. Brighter start to the second half. Tyler Adams being a big part of that.
  10. Probably my only response in this forum (filled with blind tribalism on all sides - the title of this post is sufficient proof). I don't have the patience for it, but thank you for the page. Your assessment is pretty spot-on, with the "I lost patience with the test-fail-test-fail-test-fail mentality quickly" being my attitude, too. Failure *is* an option... once. Don't keep failing and telling me it's a success. However, you can't argue with the ultimate success of the Falcon 9 series, including both cargo and crewed variants. They were primarily responsible for the success of the US commercial space efforts not sliding into the abyss of failure. Relying on the Russians was never going to be a winning hand - I told my leadership that back during the Shuttle program, pre-ISS. I actually caused a (minor) program incident when I inadvertently insulted my Russian counterpart by "daring to question" his computations (which were wrong - and I saw it/proved it early). When I was "counseled" for not just accepting his wrong data and fixing it later, I reminded them "that's how Challenger happened." They were not particularly pleased with that reminder, but I was right. WRT SpaceX, there are two types of people there now - the fanbois who think everything they do is great (and are evidenced by the crappy PAO-types they shove on broadcasts and the screaming idiots behind the glass at SpaceX mission control), and the ones who actually see the issues, but are somewhat afraid of the consequences of bringing up problems. I know several former colleagues who got there and left because they wanted to be the third type - the ones who see, identify, and voice not only the issue but the solutions... and that wasn't encouraged. Don't get me wrong - the SpaceX engineering team is doing some brilliant things, but the attitude getting to a successful and sustainable program is different than mine. They have a more disposable/test/fail/test/fail mentality that has never appealed to me.
  11. https://www.planetf1.com/news/fia-max-verstappen-three-penalty-points-george-russell-spain-gp-crash 3 penalty points on Max takes him to 11 over the last 12 months. 1 more and he gets a one race ban.
  12. And points, finally, for Fernando!
  13. That better be a grid spot penalty for the next race.
  14. Great double stack by McLaren... May have just guaranteed a 1-2 for them
  15. Couldn't tell if Fernando and Carlos liked their anthem by Senora Sanchez's intermediate guitar class or not.
  16. RamjetFDO

    SpaceX

    ...and after coming back from the break, Starship is spinning again. SpaceX commentator claiming an internal fuel leak. Live views are going to be sporty, but this is another failure.
  17. RamjetFDO

    SpaceX

    Counting again.
  18. RamjetFDO

    SpaceX

    T-40s hold. Additional Raptor checks.
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