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  1. Social media is what it is. This type of stuff has happened for a while. The only person I feel bad for is the wife who didn't ask for her world to be blown up by her cheating husband.
  2. First day on the internet?
  3. Well anyway. Back to our regularly scheduled sample programming. This whole album is chalk full of samples. It's a great concept album which MF DOOM was so good at.
  4. Are you a thread cop? If you're a thread cop and we ask you, you have to tell us.
  5. I'm not sure on the CAP program details, I just know about it from someone else that was offered it. She's not sure if she wants to spend her freshman year at one school and then transfer to UT only to be behind yet again in making friends and missing out on the freshman experience in Austin. I get it. It mirrors her freshman year of high school that was disjointed for the personal reasons I discussed above. She missed out on making some friends but bounced back in that department. I was honest with her about my UT experience that also started out elsewhere and then made me a bit behind on making friends. Her mother had the opposite experience with all 4 years on campus. So I get it. I think if it is where she really wants to be then it's a good option but honestly, she's such a smart kid and very determined so she'll do fine wherever she goes.
  6. And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Englishmen from Coldplay!
  7. I guess I can finally join this thread. My kid is outside the top 5 by a wide margin. Her class size is small at her magnet and she had a crappy freshman year due to some personal issues that she's completely bounced back from. She did well on the SAT and wants to take it again to see if she can improve her math score. I'd love her to go to Texas but it's really not in the cards and that's fine. I want her to go where she wants to go because it speaks to her and not because Mom and Dad went there. She wants to be a therapist so she would like to get a degree in Psychology. We're working with a college counselor who recommended smaller schools. We toured Colorado College and University of Denver. We also checked out CU-Boulder and CSU. She loved Colorado College and CU. It's hard not to as both had great presentations and you cannot beat the views just outside the campus. She liked CSU but that was a bit more remote. I feel that would be a good one if they offered some scholarship money. She did not like Univ of Denver but made a friend who lives here in the process so that was cool. We also looked at UTSA since we went down on Saturday for the Trinity University open house. UTSA was more if she was somehow offered the 1 year at a UT-affiliate option before getting acceptance to Texas her sophomore year. Trinity was really great. That's one that I could see her doing really well at. I just don't know how much they could give us to make it competitive but it's worth an application as they don't charge a fee to apply. We don't plan on doing any early decision applications as we don't want to be tied to an option that might be too expensive. None of them really so far have been one where she said she would want to be there over anywhere else...except CU. We'd like her to get out of Texas if it makes sense but obviously don't want to break the bank in the process. She's not really a kid who I think would do well at some of our Texas options. I really don't want her to stay in DFW if possible. Our guy also recommended looking at San Diego State, UC San Diego, University of San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly. I think the last option is a reach for her based on their requirements. My niece goes there so we know it's good so we may just apply because why not? We're looking at a trip to San Diego in September to tour the 3 there. We're going to Disneyland in August and will take a few hours one day while there to head to tour UC Irvine since it's 25 minutes away by Uber. UC Santa Barbara is a bit too remote. He also said Oregon could be a decent option for her if she's comfortable with its size. We're going to a small college fair in August to also check out those options. I think Southwestern will be there. Any other places we should look either in California or Texas? I don't think she'd do well in the SEC schools.
  8. It wouldn't shock me if 60 Minutes gets less episodes next year. They can't outright cancel it because it generates too much in ad revenue.
  9. They toured without Christine back in the early 2000s. The 2003 Say You Will album and tour didn't have Christine at all. It's not the same without her but it is possible.
  10. On that note
  11. You know how I know you're not gay? You cheated on your wife and got caught while watching Coldplay.
  12. mdmost

    Tron Ares

  13. If you like that and haven't checked it out before, you should check out Take Me to Your Leader where he's doing his King Ghidorah persona. He's just peppering in Godzilla clips.
  14. Mountain stages are always my favorites of the TdF
  15. The latest pod episode says they don't plan on retiring for a while, especially George. The pod is so good. If gobs of vacation and 1 less hour is the price we pay then I'm fine with it.
  16. A good site to figure out where your song's samples come from. https://www.whosampled.com/ For instance: https://www.whosampled.com/Beastie-Boys/Hey-Ladies/samples/ But probably the masters of sampling were Daft Punk
  17. Theo is probably too dumb to realize changing positions constantly to keep your head above water is what JD Vance does best.
  18. If he could force Dr Pepper to allow Dublin to resume making Dublin Dr Pepper then that would be a real win for America.
  19. The entire Paul's Boutique album. Pretty much most of MF DOOM's early discography.
  20. Man, this really will make everyone switch over. Who doesn't want to hear this Masshole bloviate on Big 10 matchups? I'm sure ztejas will love it since he's a big Portnoy fanboi.
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