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Jiggy-Z

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  1. Does blue blood status live forever? In 50 years (assuming the game continues that long) will Meatchicken and UT still be considered blue bloods if neither has won or even sniffed another championship? Not if I don't see Bum McClung or Pudge Heffelfinger walking through that door.
  2. What a cast! That show really embodied shitty 1970's New York.
  3. I actually had to go to the Wilson County tax office to protest this year. Dad is hard of hearing and seemed befuddled by the whole process. Which is weird since dad has a PHD in economics and was a small time builder and developer in Austin and is otherwise just as sharp as he ever was. The protest was pretty tame. We just had them reclassify some things and do some grouping of parcels etc. He thinks I am some kind of hard hitting tax slayer now. I am not much of a rancher, but I did build him some new foundations for his garage and house remodel along with a new 1 acre stock tank free of charge.
  4. Well, that was 16 years ago, I'm sure they have grown. Those new cedar elms sure did.
  5. We were the concrete site and hardscape contractor for the Blanton and I remember those tree moves. They were not particularly large trees, but the thinking was that the University would rather have instant trees rather than wait. There were a whole lot of factors that made those moves pretty easy. Soft dirt/clay, trees stayed on site. level surface client with gobs of money client with professional arborists on staff, tree size. I don't think they can move the big trees on the Oak Hill Parkway project.
  6. My folks who have a ranch southeast of San Antonio are getting offers for their 400 acres that are just ridiculous. The only thing saving them from nutty taxes is the fact that all of it is ag exempted, as my 87 year old dad is still ranching.
  7. I am well aware of the history, I was referring to time since they left the SWC and became SEC good, or rather, just played us non conference. I was going for the pent up hate spilling over angle. Probably more just timing and match ups issues, kind of like BYU, ugh.
  8. I live out by Circle Dr. at the end of the project boundary and a month or so ago I saw the news crews filming by all of the shredded trees. About the same time there were some other people there measuring tree trunks etc. Just from reading what was available (so I am not saying this is the whole story), TxDOT/Contractor says they took out trees but all were 8" or less in diameter. Just by looking I can tell that is not the case, from the few trunks that were for some reason not shredded. But even if it is, there were probably not many and certainly no huge oak trees. I am certain there is a tree survey of the cleared area, so it seems like this would be easy enough to clear up. I am not sure of the requirements, but I am pretty sure there is going to be a tree replacement program for trees of a certain size that were removed in this area. On a different front, there are many large and old trees down at the start of the project by William Cannon and those in the current median where the existing freeway ends. Not sure what the plan is for those, but my guess would be they are staying since they already built the road around them anyway. The new South 183 project was able to save several very large oaks around the Thompson Lane area, but those were were pretty conveniently located for construction purposes. I also am interested in the goings on with concrete plant and its opposition. As I understand it, this is a temporary batch plant intended to service the new road construction only and it will be disassembled close to the end of completion. From a friend in the construction business, seems like a done deal and all opposition is just for concessions and show. I feel for those close by though.
  9. A few thoughts/observations on the aftermath: I made it up to Manhattan in late October after 9/11. We drove up from Massachusetts and stayed in midtown. The mood was still very somber and there were not that many people around. Traffic was rerouted all over with large trucks carrying the structural steel structure remains. Closer to the site, there was a heavy smell of what can only be described as burning brake pads and you could tell that it was from something more than the cutting of steel with saws or torches. Many buildings were still closed blocks from the site and I remember seeing the venerable Downtown Athletic Club (home of the Heisman) all boarded up. My cousin, who was a firefighter in Houston, died in 2000 in a blaze a McDonalds. She was only the second female firefighter ever killed in the line of duty in the US at that point. Another firefighter also died in the Houston fire. The memorial in Houston was massive with the official memorial being held in Rice Stadium. It was very moving but brutal. I can only imagine what they had to go through in New York with hundreds of dead firefighters.
  10. I mentioned the 1981 game in another thread and what happened there. I did not bring it up to infer that Texas was going to go undefeated the rest of the way or any other predictive measure. But it, along with a whole slew of other Arkansas games over the years, does show a pattern where all but the most elite Texas teams get hammered by the Hogs. 1999 season/2000 Cotton Bowl. Big 12 South winner Texas play the Hogs and we get a similar result to Saturday's. Say what you want about suspended players and injuries but those guys came to play and Texas did not. 2003 season. Hogs come away from Austin with a 10 point win in a game that was not nearly that close,with once again physical line play being an issue. Texas finishes 10-3 and Arky 9-4 that year. 2004 season. A Texas team that would finish 11-1 with Vince Young at QB squeezes out a 2 point win on the road on an unforced Arky error late in the game. Arky would finish the year 5-6. 2008 season. Texas slaughters Hogs in Austin on way to final #2 ranking. Arky finishes 5-7. 2014 Texas Bowl: See 2000 Cotton Bowl. 2021 Season: See 2014 Texas Bowl. Texas was favored in all but the 2014 game. Six games and Texas covered only once. Pretty amazing under performance against the Hogs over the years. So moral of the story is the Surly collective should not have been so high on this game.
  11. Texas could have won 10 games last year, but they also could have easily gone 3-7.
  12. The project is temporarily held up. Injunction or something due to trees already taken down. Hearing was on 9/2 but I'm finding nothing on the googles since then.
  13. Yes. This whole week had a 1981 vibe to it. Similar result, too. Except that Texas team was actually pretty good and would finish #2 by seasons end.
  14. I don't know, just seems like one of those games that whoever has the ball last will win.
  15. My only game experience in Fayetteville was with LHB back in '85-the game where we field goaled them to death. Inside the stadium was just fine and there were no issues after we had been told horror stories from the '81 game up there where we got blown out. However, we stayed in Ft. Smith on Friday night, and on the drive in on game day, our 8 bus caravan was routinely flicked off by anyone and everyone including old ladies milling around their church parking lots. All in all not too bad. '87 Little rock was when the whiskey bottles started to fly. Good luck to all our Surly travelers. Night game should be lit in more ways than one.
  16. Back when he still had his store on the drag in the mid 70's, when DKR was still coach, my mom would take my brother and I there to get some UT stuff in preparation for going to a game. My folks were never too interested in football, but my dad's younger sister was dating some big whig at KIKK radio down in Houston who was an Arkansas grad. Super nice guy who somehow always had great west side tickets right in the middle of the blue hairs. Mom would always take us there the week of the Arkansas games to get us set up. That set up petered out in the late 70's even though my aunt still dated they guy, but man that was fun, especially after my brother and I started playing in the middle school band. We were so in awe of LHB. The year after Earl's Heisman, mom got us set with two team autographed footballs from Roosters, that was the '78 team. I remember that I secretly,not so secretly added my autograph somewhere in the middle of the signatures and I would pretend I was on the team. Still have the football. Somewhere back in my memory, I think I met Rooster on one of those first trips back in the mid 70's. I don't think my mom had any idea who he was. Later, when I was in school, and after Rooster had moved his campus store north, I went into the store to get some running shorts and was helped by a good looking gal that I was trying to chat up. I had planned on some suave moves at the register, but Rooster butted in and took over the payment. Rooster was so nice and friendly, but I still gave him the Tommy Lee Jones look as much a guy who was 6' tall could, to an old man who was 4'-11". I really had to stoop and get those eyeballs up. He had a shit eating grin on his face like he knew what I was doing the whole time. I made it back to his store only one other time and that was to get me a pair of the first generation Nike AIR MAX running shoes. No Rooster on that final time. I'm not sure when he moved his campus store, but by the looks of it is was in the early 80's. Funny how that move coincided with what would be the end of a dominant era in Texas football. By 1985 the football program was sagging, the Texas economy was in the tank and would be for another decade, much of the University could have used some upgrades, and it was very obvious to me, at the time, that UT was laving on its past glories. Epilogue: Ended up making the LHB, played '85-'88 , and watched a lot of shitty football.
  17. Crow really killed that song, really brought back that Tom Jones feel. Also, The World is Not Enough-underrated. Also, as long as we are ranking: 1. Thunderball , 1a. Casino Royale (You Know My Name) . I like the Bond themes with powerful vocals like above, seems to fit better than instrumentals or love songs. From The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) all the way up to Goldeneye (1995), there were some real clunkers in there.
  18. Here we are on a Tuesday after the season opener and we are talking about match ups, line play, technique, nuance, improvement areas, upside, details, and momentum. Feels pretty damn good because we could be talking about really stupid penalties, a loss that could have been a win, dumb coaching, lack of adjustments, injuries, bare cupboards, unpreparedness, turtles, and next year.
  19. 6 piers for an art installation which is also made of cast in place concrete. 24" diameter. 17' depth w/ 1' rock penetration. Possible casing needed, although not seen on Geotechnical. Job is next to a lake in Central Dallas . Quick pay, easy money.
  20. Concrete scheduling is difficult right now. I'm on a job right now and it looks like I am going to need to move back my pour date due to plumber and GC incompetence. I have not called my Ready Mix co yet but I am expecting at least 3 weeks later, if I'm lucky. PS. It is a large pour ~1,000 cuyds, but still. Prices are not too bad though, typical 5% annual bump. Rebar has gone up. I have a job up in Dallas and I can't even get a pier drilling company to call me back.
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