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  1. On 1/22/2022 at 2:19 PM, South Austin said:

    Proud Surly Dad moment last night.

    My daughter’s basketball team played Anderson. She’s a sophomore and has moved back and forth between Varsity and JV depending on roster needs due to COVID, and last night she was on JV, which was good because there she starts and gets more playing time than on Varsity. More opportunity to improve so she’ll be even better next year when she’s on Varsity, I keep telling her.

    Because of COVID cases, McCallum starters played the entire game with no subs, while Anderson was constantly rotating players. McCallum was down 10 at one point, and I thought Anderson might pull away for a blowout. But McCallum fought back, and my daughter made the game-tying shot in the final minute to send it into overtime.

    Then, she hits the go-ahead shot with eight seconds left in overtime. And then, she blocks Anderson’s last-second shot – from a player that had been lighting it up for them all night – to seal the win. After the game, she walked all the way across the gym to give me a big Dad hug, and I could feel the joy and elation from her.  Even better that it was against their rival. I’m still grinning the next day writing this.

    [And I stayed for the Varsity game, in which Anderson kicked the ever-living shit out of our girls, so even better that my daughter played the JV game.]

    Go Big Mac!

    Class of '90

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  2. 2 hours ago, TurkeyChew said:

    I would never work for a RD. Unrecoverable while ramping-- 75% of OTE at minimum-- for 6 months, is my standard. 

    RD's are only for when internal systems are busted or transitions/processes are being worked through, etc. with the expectation of a true-up within 90 days.

    thats every Q1 here

  3. On 1/26/2022 at 11:33 PM, closetohumping said:

    Buddy just left the company.  In his offer, he had a "recoverable draw."  From y'alls experience, what are the chances the company comes after it?  My speculation is they will take one run at it and then basically give up when he's willing to drag it to court.  I could also be wrong

    an RD is not uncommon, usually if you are a new hire you want un-recoverable or a combo. I'm expecting a draw Q1 this year as we never get our Schedule A's till March or April so they pay us on a draw and then it gets trued up. Its 50/50 they come after him for the draw if he flames out and gets terminated. All about how that comes about and what the fine print is. 

     

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    My current gig started with a recoverable draw with a 1 year payback clause.  Gotta admit it was in the back of my mind that first year but after that I forgot all about it.

    more common on the SI/VAR/Reseller side than a product company

  4. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    I’d just go to St John and rent a villa. No passport needed. It’s awesome. The worst beach we went to, would’ve been the best we’d ever gone to, if we hadn’t gone to the other four.

    We are actually punting on a resort in the Keys to do a Villa type house at the Ritz in St Thomas

  5. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    12 and 9

    it's got an easy beach, there is a kids club, short uber to shops at Bal Harbor, has an Il Mulino in it and a Sushi joint, pool grill. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    So the owner of our rental in Seaside pulled the house from the rental pool, so we are left without a place to go Spring Break.  I am thinking about taking the tribe to Miami instead (kids need new passports and by the time we won't get them in time).  Probably will just do a 4 night trip since I am busy at work and the 30a cancellation was a blessing.

    Want a good hotel on the beach in a good location.  Not all that worried about cost.  Anyone got anything?  I have barely spent any time in Miami outside of connecting in the airport. Wife and me plus kids are ages 12 and 9.

     

    Kids ages? If you don't care about SoBe scene, stay at the Aqualina but get a suite with the extra room. 

  7. 13 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    Hard rubber, or gutta percha. Been around since the 1830's. The first generation Colt SAA's grips were made out of it.

    Maybe. looked out of place and It only caught my eye as I have been restoring a Remington Model 12 takedown .22 and getting a period correct well fitting plate has been a whip. 

  8. Here is something to nitpick about....at about 11:15 in S1E6....when the gypsy lady is thinking to sell her late husbands shotgun....you can see the buttplate and it looks plastic. Doubt there was any plate in 1883 or on a weapon from the "old world". Those are the details that matter to me, production details, not story telling. 

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    In some of areas (of NY iirc), they tranquilize the bucks and physically castrate them. Very expensive and labor intensive, but less blowback from the neighborhood deer lovers, I guess.

    This was occuring on Staten Island in 2016, the city started a $2 million effort to neuter Staten Island's male white-tailed deer population to potentially reduce the population by 10 to 30 percent. the city gave vasectomies to 78 fawns and 642 adults around the borough, a spokesman for the Parks Department said. Aside from the sterilization, the city is also using other non-lethal methods to deal with the animals including public education campaigns aimed at reducing car crashes and tick-borne illnesses. A 2014 aerial survey on parkland found 762 of the animals — up from just 24 in 2008. The most recent survey in 2016 for the entire borough found only 527 of the animals. 

    I don't know if they kept at it as its costly and would probably take a decade to have a significant effect on Deer population. 

  10. 20 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    I'm going to guess that most of them didn't walk there from Texas, though.

    Texas attracted many Germans who entered through Galveston and Indianola. I suspect many also came from Russia to San Francisco and then up. It's a television drama, not a history lesson, y'all  want to poke holes in shit, then talk about Yellowstone. based tv the only job more dangerous than ranching in Montana is investigating crimes for the Navy.

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  11. 1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    I probably need to rewatch episode 1 because none of their motivations make sense.

    The Germans come to America for a better life. They arrive in Galveston, move up to Fort Worth, then embark on a dangerous cross country journey to Oregon to do what when they get there? They don’t know how to shoot a gun or even how to swim. Do they know how to farm? They steal from each other and don’t trust each other. Half of them are already dead. Even if their lives in Germany were shit, they were surely better off remaining in Texas and joining another German community compared to their current plan.

    Captain and Thomas are helping them but is it really worth it? Captain said he just wants to see Oregon again before it’s settled and ruined. I don’t think he needed to escort a bunch of incompetent Germans there to achieve that goal unless he is desperate for money. They are lowering his own chances of arriving alive.

    And since they are doing this together, perhaps Captain should train them along the way so they have some useful survival skills. Maybe teach them to use a gun or something instead of spend all your time yelling at them like misbehaving children.

     

    a simple google search will show that Germans were major immigrants to Oregon in the time period of the show 

  12. 16 hours ago, TurkeyChew said:

    Looks like the median is a $350 (175/175) these days from an informal straw poll of a) talking to peers/friends who are interviewing b) asking linkedin recruiters when they send stuff and c) my own personal experience as I dipped toes in the water.

     

    I took a call w/ a internal recruiter at a Series C shop last night and I think they are around 175K/180K on a 50/50 plan, Options. I'll talk to the Sales VP net week and get more details

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  13. On 1/8/2022 at 7:14 PM, TurkeyChew said:

    Well? Anyone get any new jobs and take advantage of the wage growth/inflation pressure? What’s the new norm like out there? Seems to be a severe buyers market for tenured sales reps.

    ah...no. If you are looking for a new gig, you are "good", and you are tenured...you are in the drivers seat and command the comp plan.

     

    Ex: I have bene in my current role for over 7yrs and I accepted a new job in Dec, my employer countered with more $ and promises to make some changes for me. So I stayed. I know the prospective new employer have not filled the role and is still interested in me, to the extent that the recruiter I was working with called me last night to see if I would reconsider and started that they would pay more to get me. 

    The "great resignation" is a good thing if you are a qualified seller

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  14. I have not been in almost ten years and I doubt I'll ever go again. It really was "cooler" back in the day and there are other places to go if you want rustic, that being said, when i want Lux, I'll always go back to the Rosewood Mayakoba.

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