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  1. It's just so curious that dudes who have been all-Texas and on-campus multiple times go to College Station once and shut things down. It must be the allure of College Station, Texas and that small-town college life that these kids are drawn to. RIght? That's gotta be it.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:

     


    He is being compensated fairly for his worth. There is no market for semi-pro football.

     

    He'll be fairly compensated after he signs his contract. He has not been fairly compensated yet.

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    The article is from LA. LA doesn’t give a fuck about its public transportation. I took the train every day for 10 years in Chicago and only rarely encountered a train car that had been pissed in. Never encountered a train car with shit in it. If it smelled of piss, you just got out and went to the next car up or down.

    I really miss reliable public transportation. It would be awesome to have a subway in Austin.
  4. 16 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    No kids here but pay plenty in school taxes. I see more than a few HISD schools being remodeled left and right if not outright being rebuilt next door to the old school.  I assume the teachers must be doin fine if they can choose to spend my Tax dollars on fancy schools.  If the teachers want a raise, that should have been addressed before the school spending spree started. 

    The "school spending spree". Fucking LOL.

    "Look at those fucking schools. Spending my goddamn tax dollars on building like chimps in a beatoff contest. They should be book-learnin' those fucking ingrate kids storage containers!"

    Dumbass

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  5. I think traffic is worse-than-average here from 7:30 - 9:30am and from 4pm - 7pm. But other than that I have relatively no problems getting around. I live close to my work for a reason. I travel east/west and get through my 8 mile commute in roughly 15 minutes. I live south at William Cannon and West Gate and get to my 8:30pm bowling league at dart bowl in Less than 20 minutes. Rarely have to slow down on MoPac. It’s basically not that bad outside of rush hour

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  6. On 4/26/2018 at 10:00 AM, Anastasis said:

    Temp and time are too long. I am too lazy to keep a temp log, but I did chicken last week @145. Texture at that temp is nothing close to rubbery, and may actually be a little off putting because it is totally novel texture for chicken compared to traditional temps. It has a soft mouth feel that some may or may not like. At minimum step down to 150 and see if you like that. Use the guidance at: https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/07/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-sous-vide-chicken-breast.html  

    So after you pull it do you finish it in an oven or on a grill to crisp the skin and get up to 160?

     

  7. 17 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Teachers are not underpaid in my opinion, depending on where they work I suppose . A $50k a year salary works out to mid $70k if they were to work all year like normal people, which is pretty decent for a person with just a bachelor's many being liberal arts.  

    Y'all do realize teachers don't get a full three months off, right? I think my wife gets 9 weeks this summer. And you can't say it's a $70k/year job when there aren't opportunities to take a job for two months at your current pay. My wife will be doing summer school and will likely pick up an odd job here and there, but it won't bring her up to $70k. 

    49 minutes ago, riloh05 said:

    if the avg in Texas is $48.5k, what do you think the avg should be? in the private sector- that number hosts a wide variety of roles. in business, $60k+ starts the be laser focused on results/performance. Not everyone is a $100k earner and if the teacher thinks lesson plans and grading are a time suck, try being a $100k+ sales person and the grind that is year in and year out.

    yelling at clouds with end number makes zero fucking sense. 5k more a year doesnt move any needles.

    also, if i had kids i wouldnt be relying on state funded institutions to be teaching my kids. they would go private where the dollars and cents make sense- but that is a different conversation.

    My wife is in year 5 as a teacher and makes less than $48.5 in Austin. That being said, I don't think she's underpaid considering where she is in her career. The problem as Larry previously pointed out, is that she will do this for 15 years and still be under $60k. I think the thing that most teachers find most frustrating is how laughably under-funded the schools themselves are. They have to buy a ton of their own supplies. They're impossibly overworked. For instance, my wife is a special ed teacher and she had a caseload of students whose state-mandated individualized time with the special ed teacher exceeded the number of hours in the school day.  It was physically impossible for her to do her job as was mandated by the State. It's little shit like that which causes teachers to quit the profession. She also spends typically one to two hours per night grading papers, putting together IEP reports, etc. There's a bunch of bullshit red tape that comes with the job, and packing classrooms full of 30 kids means that the additional bullshit administrative work increases exponentially. 

    I think the solution is fairly simple. Pay the teachers a little better. Don't make them buy their own supplies. Hire more teachers and cut down on class sizes. We, the taxpayers, are their employers. We should provide them with the resources they need to do their job. But that would mean our politicians would have to raise taxes and we know how that goes over in the state of Texas. 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, riloh05 said:

    for the most part voters vote on bond offerings, some pass and some dont. i would personally argue that teachers are slotted correctly with their pay for the most part. Until performance/accountability are brought into their world then I cant justify more money being thrown at them. I also have zero kids.

    Regarding performance/accountability- that is almost impossible to measure, unfortunately.

    Take 100 teachers from a high school I would bet 30% would fail in the private sector (be fired or riff'd), while those same 30% would carry a long tenured career in education and even become principals, etc...

    Where does this stop...It could be argued that social workers deserve the same if not more than teachers, but are yet very underpaid. Also, social workers know, just like teachers what they are getting into regarding the pay. Dont like the way the business pays, move to a different business.

    Lastly, there are ways for teachers to improve their income- stipend for bus duty, lunch duty, d-hall, test administration, etc...I dont know how many of my ex-colleagues would bitch about their pay but never showed up to make additional coin.

    Clearly you don't have any kids. 

    Yes, tere are bad teachers. But the solution to this problem can't be "because some teachers suck, and because performance evaluation is so difficult considering the various demographic/environmental variables that must be accounted for, you're all fucked and deserve to make shit for money." That's fucking lazy and an insult to the people that work very hard to educate our kids. 

    And your slippery slope argument about social workers has no place in this. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about teacher pay.

    The problem with "don't like the pay, find a new job" is that eventually you're going to be stuck with a bunch of fucking idiots teaching our children. As I said before, teachers don't do this job to get rich. Most teachers i know just want to be able to afford a modest lifestyle. I don't think that's asking too much.

  9. My wife is a teacher. She doesn't complain about making shit pay. She does complain about how fucked up our priorities are that voters will pass bond initiatives investing millions of dollars in stadiums and also vote for politicians that continue to cut education funding. Basically, in Texas, football is more important than education. And as much as I love football, that's pretty fucking stupid.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    you motherfuckers are upset about a TexAgs report that they lead for a player? Those fucking guys know less than EJ AND are the biggest fucking homers on the fucking planet. Of course they lead for Wright via TexAgs. They still lead for Brandon Jones, Keondre Coburn, Moro Ojomo, DeMarvion Overshown, T'Vondre Sweat, Joseph Ossai ....  hell, I think they lead for Malik Jefferson as well. Still. 

     

    you get the fucking picture. 

    Look, it's easy to make fun of those fucking yokels and their blind homerism, but to pretend we're operating under the same situation as we were under Sumlin is some head-in-the-ground naivete. Jimbo is a better recruiter and a better coach than Sumlin. He's got the new car smell, can sell his National Championship, and those fuckers have begun playing by the SEC rules. They're actually a legitimate threat this year with a bunch of kids, and they will end up with a very good class. We'll get ours, and if our offense improves I think we'll get more guys than they do, but kids are seriously considering aggy this year.

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  11. I've read Wright is similarly skeptical of our offense and ability to get the ball to the wide receivers. Apparently he's good friends with Wilson, and whatever poison Urban and Co infected Wilson with has seemed to spread to Wright. While Wilson seems to have made a firm decision, it doesn't seem like Wright has shut us down. 

    It's been said a million times, but we need to improve on offense and show that we can pass the ball. If we do, we'll win games and win recruits. If we don't, we probably fucked.

  12. 31 minutes ago, field said:

    I heard him speak to a group last month.  After his talk, the consensus among the ASU alums who were there was "I wasn't sure the hire was going to work when they announced it.  I'm even less sure now."

    That the alums "weren't sure" after it was announced tells you everything you need to know about the quality of education at that school.

  13. On 4/16/2018 at 7:08 PM, Brothahorn said:

    HEB Honey Wheat bread is better than Sara Lee. And cheaper, too.

     

    On 5/5/2018 at 8:36 AM, kevwun said:

    I stays fresh for like 2 weeks also.

    It also has a faint scent of formaldehyde. 

    After sampling probably a dozen sandwich breads, I've settled on Dave's Killer Bread. I'm normally averse to the high-end everyday products, but this shit is damn good.

    Image result for dave's killer bread good seed

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