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  1. And just like Jordan, Mbatchou won’t have to beat Olajuwon to win a title. FIFY.
  2. Akeem Olajuwon was a soccer goalie and didn't start playing basketball til he was 15. He was the definition of raw when he came to Houston. Athletic skills translate. The rest can be taught.
  3. This. 6 months after my Quinn-tuple bypass, he told me I was lucky to be alive, couldn't believe I could even walk. My heart grew more arteries. If you're 50ish?, make an appointment. For me: Dr. Francisco Javier Otero, MD, Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, Saint Davids Medical Center, Austin.
  4. Chase Daniel does a really good job breaking down film on Arch.
  5. Yes, it's still there. And no, nothings better. Ninfa's is the first place I ate green sauce for chip's, Taco's Al Carbon, Shrimp Mariscos, or Queso Flameado, and I'm an old MF. The Ninfarita ushered in a new era of Margarita's, back in the day when everyone had a drank for lunch. I moved to Houston in 1980 and my mother and Aunt came to visit from Austin. Ninfa's blew them away. Nuff said, for me. I'm one of the guys that goes to Ninfa's and gets the same thing every time, especially now that I'm back in Austin. I drove to the Sugar Bowl for the express purpose of eating at Ninfa's on Navigation, and some cajun food in Lafayette. After eating this at 11 in the morning, I couldn't think about food til I got to New Orleans.
  6. If you are here, there is not a better feeling in the world then going through life with Texas ranked #1 in College Football. Imagine going through your life, day after day, some good, some bad. Around dusk, when the skies darken and the air cools, you look towards that place of happier days gone by, and what do you see; If that doesn't make you feel better, sorry, can't do anything for you, get the fuck outta here! TLDR... FIFY. (See below you PWBC's) Oh, how I wish that was true. So many panty waist, beta 'cucks on here it is embarrassing. That includes all you "Seven win Steve!" Motherfuckers!!! A bit of my personal history, give me some rope here. Born in Austin, at Bergstrom AFB, 8th generation Texan (parents from Pflugerville & Bastrop), 1st generation college graduate, UT-Austin. My older siblings were born in Illinois. First FB game I saw on TV was the '65 Orange Bowl, #5 Texas v. #1 Alabama. We lived at Eglin AFB in the Florida Panhandle, surrounded by Alabama fans. I remember my mother telling me I was special, "... because you were born in Texas". Don't remember if it was just once, or all the time; it didn't matter, I ALWAYS remember that. We moved back to Texas in 1966, saw the Batman World Premier at the Paramount, saw Charles Whitman forever change the world. ,. The Austin Aqua Festival, with the Thunderbirds (The planes, not the band), drag boat racing on Town Lake (6 second 1.4 mile), motor cycle racing on the city streets, was the premier entertainment festival in the world. Austin was a magical place to live in, and I went though my early teens without ever see Texas lose a football game, in the midst of their 30 game winning streak, all while ranked #1 ("Who's Ohio State?"). Fast forward to 1974, Earl and I are freshmen, OU has a their own 28 game winning streak, winning 2 National Championships in '74 & '75, and beating Texas 5 times in a row, tying 6-6 in 1976 (We had the seats next to 36, 000 Okies, tight on the 5O yard line). DKR retires, Fred scraps the wishbone and puts Earl in the "i". Boom!!! Texas climbs in the polls to #5, beats #2 Oklahoma 13-6 on Earls TD scamper right before halftime*, beats #8 Arkansas (Earl becomes the Heisman favorite), and when Michigan loses, Texas vaults to the #1 ranking. Austin is electric, and over a few weeks, UT blacks out the Tower windows to form the #1, which graces the skyline each Saturday win. They also lit the Tower for Earl winning the Heisman Trophy, for Texas Professor Ilya Prigogine winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, when UT acquired the Gutenberg Bible, and when UT acquired their 4,000,000th book. IIRC, the Tower was bathed in Orange, with the iconic #1, continuously from Thanksgiving til the Cotton Bowl. Having Texas ranked #1 for over 2 months gives one a special feeling. Reading and hearing #1 Texas every time they mention college football can't help but make you good, and proud. I think today, with social media, with the internet, with the elevated importance of recruiting, Texas having the #1 ranking is nothing but a good thing. It's not like we aren't a big target already. The full might of the Texas media machine will be unleashed. Every football media show will start with talk about Texas. Every football recruit will thank about Texas. Being the best, and wearing that label of being the best, proudly, every day, because you earned it, feels pretty damn special. Try it on and see how it fits.
  7. I also have not read a lot about this, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn a few times… I would question what maintenance Russia has done in the last 20-40 years, and what exactly they are maintaining. What maintenance has been done? Ballistic missiles have either solid fuel boosters or liquid fuel boosters; the space shuttle used both. Short range missiles (300-1,000 km?) need less fuel, which favors a solid fuel booster. Once ignited, they burn full throttle until they burn out. I imagine the solid fuel is relatively stable, but I also would think it has a finite shelf life. Have Russian nukes had their solid fuels replaced in the last 20-40 years? Do they still make the fuels and rockets? I’d take the under, not the over. One advantage of the solid fuel missiles is they are ready to launch on short notice. Long range missiles (1,000+ km) require multiple stages, with disposal of the stages as they burn out. Much more complicated with exponentially more things that can go wrong and not work properly. The liquid fuel rockets have separate fuel and oxidizer tanks, that are mixed during flight, with control over the combustion rates. I recall that fueling the rockets is extremely hazardous (No Smoking!), extremely flammable fuel, as any leaks are immediately exposed to oxygen, and ... big badda boom. Same questions exist on the shelf life of the fuel? Is this what was in the tanks at Proletarsk? IMO, the longer range liquid fuel missiles would be less reliable than the shorter range solid fuel missiles, but they have more control, I think. No idea of the fuel compositions, characteristics, manufacturing processed, storage temperatures and pressures, etc., but It's one of the most volatile compounds known and I would not want to be anywhere near it. Is this what was in the tanks at Proletarsk, where so many firefighters were injured? As loading the fuel is something that happens right before launch, it requires that skilled engineers and /or technicians (rocket scientists) are at the ready to do their deeds when called upon. Are these skilled people still in Russia, or did they leave for something else? Jared Cohen : So, you're a rocket scientist. Peter Sullivan : I was, yeah. Jared Cohen : Interesting. How did you end up here? Peter Sullivan : Well, it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up. And, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive. If they stayed in Russia, they were probably KIA in Kharkiv or Kherson a year ago, like a lot of the other skilled professionals. Is Putin or his lackeys going to send some fat, drunk & stupid conscript with 2 weeks of training to do it? Good luck with that. What are they maintaining? Some of these system predate widespread GPS systems. Did Russia go back and upgrade the guidance systems, electronics, etc.? Even then, in 2024, Russia has demonstrated on a continuous basis that they cannot hit the broad side of a barn door a barn, or a specific target. Morton Thiokol knew the limitations of their solid fuel rockets and still couldn't convince NASA to wait. Any chance the Russia equivalent of Thiokol even exists, or knows those limitations, and what chance would they have in telling Putin to wait? With that said, regardless of condition of so many weapons, statistically, a few would find their targets, or something worse. The boss is always the boss, and a guy with nukes is always a guy with nukes.
  8. Thanks for the summary. I was wondering why we saw an actual injury report. It’s hard to fathom that in 2024 they still believe that if they can hide information and blur the truth and intentionally mislead their minions and believe all is well, knowing they have an actual football game with a live audience and camera’s, and the ugly truth will be revealed, and that is okay. “We're better off just telling the truth.“ Well, until last year, every-fucking-body told us to stay away from red meat, cheese, shellfish and other foods with cholesterol, because eating them would raise our cholesterol. My doctor told me a few months ago I’m better off eating a steak and salad every day and to quit eating bread and flour tortilla’s later in the day, when my activity levels drop. Yeah, aggy gonna aggy. Let’s fatten ‘em and we can practice getting faster.
  9. Thanks!!! That ship sailed, but I know where the dock is. This was a fun trip. Great game. Perfect weather, 40’s in September. I Everywhere I went, people walked up and engaged in conversation. Kinda. Some flashed a Horns down, I suggested they weren’t doing it correctly, and we started talking. Detroit was fun, rightfully proud of its past, with a rich sports history, gambling, and legal weed. Henry Ford was a great man, and a great benefactor. Brought housing and education to the masses. Gave the schools tickets to the symphony, and the arts. Education + Church choir + the musical arts = Motown, the Motor City Madman (I saw Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes at the Armadillo), We Want Grand Funk! ( Sam Houston Coliseum, I think).
  10. This one looks more recent. Go get this kid!!!
  11. The Big House - Best Venue to Experience a College Football Game. No arguments. i've been waiting to see a game in Ann Arbor for 45 years. Rarely in life does the reality exceed the expectation. Cherish it when it happens. (Kicking their ass right out of the gate certainly helped.) My hosts gave me their UM parking pass on campus, and I walked down frat/sorority row to the tailgate. The boys in groups, behind the fences, were rowdy, but tame. Lots of good natured trash talking, and lots of girls in boots and skirts. Guess that is a more universal thing now. Other than "Michigan" sprinkled in a few places, the scoreboard was the only "advertising" in the stadium. Nothing resembling a 360 degree facade with as many words and numbers as it takes to fill the space. Simplicity of design --> compact, but not crowded -- > Not a bad seat in the house (How would I know? I only had 1 seat). There were a lot of Texas fans there, all over the place. I saw Texas people everywhere I went for 5 days. The amount of Burnt Orange was masked by the home crowd in Maize. Blue and Orange would have made a great contrast, but Michigan has some smart people. You could clearly see their student section. The tunnels are at ground level, with the field ~ 50 rows below. Left my seat, walked up 10 rows, through the tunnel, concessions to the right, bathrooms on the left (long lines for mens, no lines for women, WTF?), This is the first game they started selling beer. Beer line in my area mid 3rd quarter, before they ran out. Every body in line was from Texas. The little caboose in the white boots ... was a stark contrast to the 7,000 HP Steam Locomotive at The Henry Ford Museum. 1, x. You're just gonna have to take my word. I took her picture with her camera, and she took my picture with mine. Dumb ass!!! @immamac , you Fucking Rock!!! Tailgate was off the charts. Good time!!! I went to the adjacent Michigan tailgate when I saw the open liquor table in the middle. Hannah was a Michigan 10, (Surly 9, she was with her Michigan boyfriend), tan legs for miles. I tried to pace myself, still had 3 beers and 3 whiskeys, before the game. Tailgate pig.MP4 Ann Arbor reminded of the Austin I grew up in; everybody was in town for the football game. Texas fans and friendly people everywhere. Met a lot of cuties 😋... and later, their boyfriends and husbands 🙁. Michigan Stadium in the background, behind the scoreboard. You know how to get a smile like that after 3 hours of getting your spirit crushed? Motown Musuem. Already knew the story, just had to see the Icon. (HBO's "Hitsville: The Making of Motown" is a must watch for anybody who likes music.) More Henry Ford Museum. 1956 Thunderbird, my birth year. To summarize, visited Michigan*(45 down, 5 to go). got to sing The Eyes of Texas, in The Big House, after crushing the Defending National Champions ; legally acquired 1/2 oz. of "All Gas" Cannabis Flower from The Flower Bowl Dispensary ($21); toured The Henry Ford Museum (kinda like Mecca for Mechanical Engineers), the Motown Museum, not just timeless, great music, but a pivotable piece in the changing cultural fabric of the USA. * Interesting fact I learned in a bar at 1 am. There is no South Detroit (sorry Steve Perry). South of Detroit is the Detroit River, and Windsor, Canada.
  12. According to Google maps, it's either a "Bicycle repair shop" with a 5* rating, or a "Packaging supply store." Must be some high-end bicycles, surrounded by a concrete wall topped with concertina razor wire. The tanks are behind the building, look to be fuel for the facility. No facilities for truck loading/unloading and no rail directly to the facility. Definitely flammable. Been offline for a while, more pressing things to deal with ...
  13. Welcome to Detroit 1/2 oz “All Gas” flower - $21 1 oz “Poddy Mouth” Shake - $14 1 “Kush Cake” preroll - $0.01 1 Bic lighter - $1.75 Total - $42.60
  14. Looks like that 4.21 forty time transfers to the field ok.
  15. Always like Rick. I lived in Boulder when he was there. His was perfect for Colorado, building a dynasty with Texas & California kids. Colorado ended Lectric-Leland's Heisman campaign and Top 5 A&M's dreams. Tragic when he left. He was funny when he talked about Troy Aikman transferring to UCLA. Rick was QB when Troy showed up; said he looked like Tarzan. Turf field should drain well. If there is any slippage, our WR's will toast the DB's. Agree 100%. I started drinking at 10 am in New Orleans, and was beyond fucked up walking to the game. Way to old to be doing that shit. Much shorter walk on Saturday. I think those days are over. The two pics against CSU showed awareness, athleticism, and closing speed. I agree. It's moving in that direction. Yeah, I think we're getting ready to see the mean streaks these guys have. I like see the IOL guys pulling against CSU. Thank you. Michigan have some studs, but not 11 of them, with a brand new DC and all the position coaches. No way their scout team has any correlation to Texas. FIFY. Quinn biggest problem is starting slow out of the gate. If he starts on rhythm with the scripted plays, game over. His call sign in Behind Enemy Lines was Longhorn. It was painted on the F-18.
  16. Perhaps there was a glitch in the Matrix? Second to last play of the game, alternate reality Aggie down 10, wiggy scrambles and throws a lawn dart 5 yards behind their running back safety valve CW scrambles, gets out in the open, and throws the ball away to the open spot for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately, it was 5 yards behind the receiver. Elko has seen enough, and screams at CW, the QB, not Klein, the OC. Elko screams "run the fucking ball!" He is yelling at CW, the QB. Meaning, when you have an open field in front of you and the DB's are running away, you CW, the QB, needs to take what they're giving you and run the fucking ball. The disillusioned Klein, fearful of Elko charging at him like a rabid buffalo, mistakes Elko's "coaching" of CW for a "suggestion" to him that he call a running play on a last gasp 4th and long, which he does. They run it and game ends.
  17. Was CW ever "cleared" to take snap's with the 1's in practice? When? I wonder if his rare foot injury is still causing him to protect it, and that is why he threw the ball so poorly. Timing, footwork, arm, it all looked bad. Stewart, Scourton, and Turner all graded out at a 68.8 or better overall... How much better? Sweat & Murphy graded ~ 90 all year long. That's a pretty big gap. If A&M's best position group got neutralized to the point they needed safeties in the box to stop the run, that's a big red flag that puts a lot of pressure on the DB's that are nowhere near as talented. They got what everyone wished for and couldn't come through. Jimbo said it every week, just have to execute better.
  18. Thank you, thank you thank you. You Rock!
  19. As always, follow the money. What US entities, industries or companies are behind the US position of slow playing support of Ukraine? Using NATO weapons without giving NATO a heads up on Ukraine's plans for deployment? Or is it just keeping the nukes under Russia control rather than risk losing them in a post-Putin free for all. US policy has always had a measure of an oil & gas slant, as worldwide oil production has a direct correlation to worldwide economies. Ukraine has not targeted Russia production, pipelines, or export capacity; just storage and refining, most of which is for internal demand, not export. Granted, there is big difference between a drone and a 1,000 lb warhead hitting a target. I get that raising US gasoline prices before the election would not be good (for the US), but a pullback in US support for Ukraine would be worse (for Ukraine). And, as I write these words, I answer my question. Our focus (posters on this thread) is Ukraine surviving as a sovereign nation. 95% of the people I know are oblivious to this war and could not have an intelligent back and forth conversation that lasted more than a couple of minutes. Sometimes, my Google News update starts with Ukraine info that is 3 days old. Is it News if you have to go look for it? Maybe growing up on nuclear targets proximate to 12,000 runways and retiring in the Hill Country gives a false sense of reality. Damn. Another Bingo! I guess I could blame my dad (RIP) for raising me on John Wayne movies and watching westerns growing up. (Did everybody grow up that way? I am one generation removed from the farm.) Nope. "...I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free" - UT Tower, that I looked up to damn near every day for 5 years. Thanks for listening. I guess my therapy session is over.
  20. We were walking along the RR tracks by South Lamar, and found some rail road spikes. We heard a train coming, and laid one on the tracks to see what would happen. "Hey, you little sons of bitc... (garbled, unintelligible, large bangs)" Wasn't like a penny, we damn near derailed the train. Yeah, I was running.
  21. Speaking of Black Powder ... (Thanks for bring it up.) As an Assistant Scoutmaster at Camp Pioneer (BSA - Arkansas), I participated in the Mountain Man program; cooking, eating, throwing a hatchet, making fires, candles and 50 Cal musket balls, and shooting the musket balls at a target. Due to SM role, I was late to the shooting competition, fired 2 practice shots, and three shots that counted. Aim small, miss small. The commentary was something like, "Nice Shot!, You got to me kidding me!, I'll be god damned!!!" Don't Mess With Texas!
  22. Mousing around on a slow night, a few juicy targets NW of Moscow: Tver, ~ 100 miles NW; Migalovo(?) Air Base, large 4 engine transport planes (jets & props) Torzhok, ~ 150 miiles NW of Moscow Large Gaz Prom Pump Station, oil or refined products? Lubricants Production Complex, formerly Shell Oil Also a helicopter airbase, oil depots, and another oil pump station. Can't wait to see the after pictures.
  23. Rod earned playing time along side multiple AA's and Thorpe winners. He knows what good DB play and players look like. He's also watched Texas, as an analyst, for the past few years. What Texas has now is light years better than 2 or 3 years ago. Having a DB room that grades from B+ to- C- is a big reason to be "Mr. Negativity." What Texas has now is light years better than 2 or 3 years ago. Too early to call it a strength, but definitely improved from years past. very good team ... with a depleted roster? Does not compute. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and HELL YES! Turf field and cool weather will showcase the Texas team speed Saturday. Salk always praises the team as fast and violent. Texas wins.
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