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tokamak

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  1. For fucks sake Rodman
  2. We need to get Smith’s lazy ass off the field. I started watching at halftime and I don’t think she’s touched the ball once.
  3. Our midfield is not good. Rodman has to come back for the ball and carry it forward herself.
  4. Listened to the whole album today. It's really all over the place. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. Agree that this track is a standout.
  5. Did the math, approximately 4:18 miles for the winner.
  6. Chris Hollins maybe?
  7. Is that the one that's just called "Main" or whatever? I don't see one that says International
  8. 400 and 800 are fucking murder. Just watching them makes me feel like dying.
  9. This trampoline shit is pretty cool. Wonder why we (as a country) don't get down with this.
  10. Brazil chicks are smoke. One of the Dutch is a little thicc, feel like you don't see that much in beach volleyball. Brazil wins
  11. Great back and forth beach volleyball between Brazil and Netherlands right now.
  12. Giant French guy just won the heavyweight judo. Gotta say, it's pretty cool when a French person wins something and the crowd just goes apeshit.
  13. What’s the spot in or around Wimberley these days?
  14. Cute that you think they'll cut into profits instead of just quietly dropping plans to improve readiness.
  15. Watched the replay tonight and my kids were hyped. Simone is just on a different level from everyone else. Noticed that Chiles placed 4th overall in qualification (behind the 3 eventual medalists) but only two from each country can go on to the finals. That's rough. Hopefully our girls can pile up the medals in the apparatus finals.
  16. Israeli gal surfing in basically a thong right now...if you're into that sort of thing.
  17. Not a thing anymore. Gotta declare now.
  18. I'm of the opinion that saying "never" if you live anywhere in Houston is a mistake. Shit's always changing. TMC flooded like crazy in Allison, so they made big changes to the bayou system to protect it.....which then caused Bellaire/Meyerland to start flooding more often. Any time they make an improvement somewhere, and everyone says hooray - well, that water has to go somewhere.
  19. I'm pretty surprised that Miles and co.'s arms haven't fallen off due to all the back patting they've done regarding those STAAR results. Seriously, the amount and intensity of the propaganda they fill my email inbox with is unsettling and unprofessional. The teaching model they've implemented is basically wiping away anything that's not direct classroom instruction (e.g., libraries, reading nooks, etc), a lot of high-intensity (almost always timed) instruction with constant check-ins from the teacher and administrators, and making it clear to the teachers that they'll be compensated based on test scores. It's designed to improve test scores, and that's what it did. Are kids actually learning more? More prepared for college? For the workforce? Honestly I don't know. The really big question, however, is is the model sustainable? My kids are at a non-NES elementary and anecdotally, morale is pretty low among teachers and staff. The firing of so many (often popular) principals has kinda blown everyone's minds. It really is Miles's way or the highway. There's also the fact that none of Miles's stuff is paid for, and HISD is digging itself a huge financial hole with no apparent plan to fill it. They are going to have to cut to the bone over the next couple years to make the math work out. At the end of this past school year they cut every single janitor in the district and offered to rehire them as contractors. Twenty years in the teacher retirement system? Fuck you, hit the bricks.
  20. On the flip side, apparently Mazi still looks like dogshit.
  21. Swanson needs to do a lot better with that
  22. Coffey was super off but she never touched the ball I don't think. Rodman was definitely on. I'm not real clear on that the rule is there.
  23. At least we're pretty consistently putting it on frame. And there it is like 5 seconds after I post
  24. Kind of a rough draw for us in the knockouts. We're going to get Spain or (more likely) Japan/Brazil.
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