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  1. "Shitting on people who try to do better is one of my biggest pet peeves. The conservative attack on electric car drivers with shitty Facebook memes is exactly that. So maybe being trigger happy is appropriate." Kudo's for doing what you can when you can. Our lifestyle comes with a certain amount of hypocrisy, and there is nothing you or I or anyone else can do about that. I used to have my '87 944-S and an '03 F250. Everyone gets painted with the same brush. The "Don't blame me, I drive an electric car" bumper sticker people bring a lot of wrath to you and everyone else. If you drive anything, you are part of the problem. Yes, EV are more environmental friendly than ICE. But the gazillion miles of asphalt and concrete roadways and parking lots probably contribute more to global warming than the vehicles themselves, regardless of the type. The radiant heat sink in metro areas changes weather patterns to the extent that rain clouds disappear or simply go around the concrete jungle. When I was a kid and went to visit my dad in Manvel, he told me it rained every day in Houston, somewhere. That hasn't been the case in a long time. It is amazing how different 100 degrees feels in town v. out in the country. Red Meat? I have a high metabolism and eat and graze all day. After my 5 bypass surgery, I tried to eat healthier. (I hardly eat any vegetables, I yacked at the table the first time my dad made me eat spinach.) After cutting back on red meat and eating lots of avocado's and dark chocolate and various nuts daily because they were good for me; all I did was started eating a lot of good fat, where I wasn't eating any of that bad fat before. I gained weight to point I was the heaviest I had ever been in my life. Both my doc and cardiologist told me the same thing; Quit doing that shit, I was better off eating a steak and salad every day and getting my daily exercise and being active. Eat healthy when you can. Compost: Multiple benefits, better than putting organic waste in a landfill. Any food attracts things that eat. We live in an area that doesn't have mosquitos, roaches, gekkos, or mice. Not going to do anything that challenges that. We eat organic compounds, carbo-hydrates, yet scorn the use of oil and gas, hydro-carbons. Different slice of the same pie.
  2. Good Thread. Full disclosure, Austinite, born & raised, Jeffersonian idealist, Engineer by training (Energy & Fluid Systems), Natural Gas Liquid specialist (Retired), Ranch owner, Texas Ecologist, manage ranch for wildlife habitat so deer can grow up big and strong, then we shoot them. Sustainability. Start with yourself. I think OP mentioned he runs. My BIL was a career military pilot, ran all the time, until all the cartilage in his knees was gone. I practiced yoga daily for 20+ years, no cartilage in my thumbs. Thanks Apple. I went to the Cardiologist because I was getting ready to turn.65. Had a quintuple bypass 2 weeks later. Classic case of healthy individual, no symptoms. After the fact, he told me he was surprised I could even walk. The human body is a marvel of engineering, take care of it; it only has so many cycles in it, use them wisely. Doc said keep doing what makes you happy. My random comments. The primary advantage of plastic was weight v. steel, glass, wood, etc., and the cost of shipping same. Every pound of reduced packing meant another pound of revenue producing product sold. That hasn't changed, meaning plastics are still cheaper than the alternative. Reductions in the numbers of ocean going freighters, 18 wheelers and diesel driven trains have proportionally reduced the burning of the dirtiest of liquid hydrocarbons. But at a cost of increased "disposable" packaging that is not easily recycled. I am not familiar with the sausage making equivalent of recycling plastics down to a usable form, but world class petrochemical plants that "crack" hydrocarbons into ethylene, to make polyethylene, and high density polyethylene and made-in-china-toys need the purest of feedstocks to insure the highest quality of plastics desired. Those requirements do not support large scale commercial plastics recycling that include 100's if not 1,000's of different types of plastic products. One plant manager told me they could "crack" car tires if we could get them to the plant. They only need ~ 12,000,000 pounds/day. I enjoy the dialog on the merits of individual recycling, getting it from Amazon and Walmart to the blue recycling bin on trash day, but the lack of demand for the recycled plastics, whatever that may be, is the root cause. Where is Kamala Harris? If the economics work, people will do it. If not, they won't. Global Warming: 8 billion people at 98.6 °F, approximately 30 ° warmer than the ambient temperature, generate a lot of heat, which warms the atmosphere. If everybody would simply hold their breath for 4 minutes, the problem would go away. People have burned coal for centuries, we started burning processed natural gas in the last 100 years. We as in not China, India, Africa, or ~ 80% of the world population. Now, "we" want to get rid of it before 80% of the world gets to try it. CO2 is "bad", Oxygen is good, plants are good, plants die without CO2, and people die without plants. Renewable Energy makes sense, but the economics, unsubsidized, have to work. My new water well is 100% solar. Water: Forget Lake Travis water levels. The Trinity Aquifer water level dropped over fifty feet in less than 2 years. Ground water use in Texas is not sustainable, and it is getting exponentially worse every day. EV's make a lot of sense in urban settings, especially for vehicles that travel the same routes all the time, like rental car shuttles, Amazon trucks, city buses, etc. 50 miles west of I-35, large pickups will always greatly outnumber EV's. Not because people are bad, just the day to day realities of life in rural areas. Amazon: I don't like the volume of cardboard boxes and plastic shipping bags we get. But the convenience of home shopping, and paying ~ 2/3 the costs of everyday goods v. any retail store cannot be beat. Economics wins again. Society in General: Entropy is a scientific concept that matter and energy in the universe will degrade to an ultimate state of inert disorder. I believe that is where we are heading. Oil & Gas: Saved the whales! Before that, people used whale oil for light and lubricants. Battery powered hand tools are the greatest thing since sliced bread! Beats the hell out of gas engines or manual labor. Much more valuable in the country v. the city. Everybody I know has gotten old... but me. Thanks to all of you for sharing your insight.
  3. You get what you pay for...
  4. We go to a village (~1500 people) in the far western part of Germany every 3 or 4 years. Eat fresh bread every day with cheese & salami or homemade jellies for breakfast and beef or pork and potatoes for dinner, and drink a shit ton of Bitburger Pilsner. Can't compare it to 40's but thinking of spending the summers over there. Back to football ... Ewers' last 78 minutes of football, before he got hurt (from 2nd Qtr v. OU until 3rd Qtr v. Houston): Oklahoma 26/28 92.9% 341 yds 12.2 yds/att Houston 19/20 95.0% 182 yds 9.1 yds/att Totals 45/48 93.8% 523 yds 10.9 yds/att Too bad against OU he left his fastball in the locker room after banging Millie ... (he started 5/9 for 13 yds and 2 picks). TCU, with everybody healthy, including Brooks & Baxter, I expect we'll see a run heavy, ball control passing offense, with occasional deep shots against 1 on 1 coverage. We are past due for a complete football game.
  5. Are you sure is was this weekend? Just kidding… I have realized that everyone I know has gotten old…
  6. PTINS

    PFF Thread

    Can you post the Top 25 DL? Thanks!
  7. "China wants to sow dissension in the western alliances ... get its economic expansion going again ... see if the time looks good to make a go at Taiwan." These would seem to be somewhat mutually exclusive. China getting their economy going again is dependent on increased western demand, even if there is dissension among the demanding members. Any Chinese overt action towards Taiwan would seem to incur Russia 2.0 levels of western sanctions leveled against China, which puts a black boot on China's neck and economic growth. Their position towards Taiwan has been clear, but Taiwan v. economic growth seems to be an either or choice.
  8. And yet, that is EXACTLY what Sark did too MM when he came into the UH game. Sark has made me realize the huge difference in designing plays and calling plays. Yea on the former, BOO! on the latter! Seems like a lot of 3rd & 4th down calls come down to only having a single option. I like S.Red in the wildcat, but handing it off at least once seems like it might help spread things out. If we really tried to pulled a guard on a goal line rushing attempt, that is some ... um ... suspect play calling. "A trap play is when all the linemen go one way and, hopefully, the defense goes the same way and if they do, see, it's a big hole and if they don't, well, it's bad news. Anyway, Concannon calls this trap play, and it's beautiful - 43 yards, wasn't it 43? Ah. So, Halas sees he's tired, and sends me in, so I go in and he comes out. Concannon then figures he's gonna get really foxy - you know, Concannon is - Then, he says, "Same play. Very - same - play." A trap play is also called, a sucker play; because, it makes the defense look *real* bad when it works. Now, defenses *do not* like to look real bad, see, it makes 'em kinda surly. So, anyway, all the linemen go this way, and it's like I am lookin' at a team portrait of the Los Angeles Rams. "Hey, Deacon! Merlin! How's the family, Rosey?" I was afraid to get up - I figured not everything was gonna come with me." - Brian Piccolo So, we are calling that play once every other game now? Yippee!!! Maybe one of these days, we'll call a wheel route for a RB. You know that feeling you get when you know you made the right decision? Yes, I made a careful decision to stay away from this board yesterday. Good for me, see how smart I am? Then I came back this morning and read this. Dumb ass!!! It was MM's first start and we won going away. Bad decision on the pick. OK. 2 first quarter turnovers. Not what I wanted to see. We went into the 2nd Qtr leading 14-0. I think MM will learned more from yesterday than any day in the last 3 years. We are 7 and 1 and OU lost. I'm good with that.
  9. "Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the shooting down of two ATACMS. The source of VChK-OGPU described the reality ironically as follows: 'It is exactly like this. Two ATACMS missiles were destroyed as a result of a direct hit on the position of the Russian Armed Forces air defense group in Luhansk region and at the cost of 3 S-400 systems deployed there”.
  10. Vince was given bad advice and left after his Junior year. Andrew Luck was given good advice and played his Senior year. Oliver Luck, his father (NFL QB & UT, JD '87), asked his son if he was ready to commit himself 100% to being an NFL quarterback, spending every waking moment to getting better at his craft, living right, eating right, lifting, watching film, and learning from his coaches. If he wasn't 100% ready, stay in school until you get all that other shit out of your system. There is a long list college QB's with phenomenal talent and great skill sets that were immature as NFL rookies and made poor decisions right out of the gate. Sorry Zeet... you must have been yacking in the can when this happened. This is one of the most iconic throws and catches in the history of football. Period. I met you Zeet. Funny, almost no resemblance to Yogi Berra, and yet ... "He isn't good enough to beat them, so let's play 3 deep safeties and drop 8 in coverage so he can't throw downfield and has to check the ball down." QE finished 19 for 19 against OU and started 14 for 15 against UH, the one incompletion being a batted ball at the line of scrimmage. F*CKING RIDICULOUS!!! Pre-snap read, catch ball, read defense, anticipate reaction, throw ball to wide open receiver, hit receiver in the hands, repeat as necessary. Certainly had worse? Ya think? 33 for 34 not good enough for you? That's setting an expectation that's near impossible to achieve. I have James Streets autograph and saw Vince play for 3 years, in High School. I will never forget what QE has already done in his short 1 and 1/2 years on campus. Thank you for being Thatguy, someone who understands what they are watching. The one time he had Worthy one on one, he threw another PERFECT pass that hit him in stride and he ran untouched for a TD. I'm pretty sure all 80 yard TD passes involve some YAC. Why is that an issue? Do you have a Greg Davis fetish about throwing to flat footed statues? Thank you again, Sir. QE is not the issue. Getting 2 yards in 2 rushes against a 3-8 defense (wth?) is an OL issue, and calling a slow developing, low percentage 6 yard pass play requiring YAC is a coaching issue. Murphy's first pass should have been a butterfly ending, confidence building, 1st down dump off to Brooks in the flat, not a 3rd and long that he Elway'd 3 yards behind the receiver. That is a bad coaching issue.
  11. Boom, Mo -Fo's!!!
  12. Near Driftwood, we got ~ 2 1/2" in about an hour. Lots of water. !!!
  13. After all this time ... OU Sucks!!!
  14. I saw the PFF grades for DL posted here somewhere. Anybody got it? Thanks!
  15. Their show after the Texas-Alabama Game. "Number 11 Texas, went to #3 Alabama, and they whooped that ass! And we are Stupid, Stupid Idiots!" - Ikard "Um Hum! Um Hum! Um Hum!" - Lehman Ikard & Lehman on Texas-Alabama
  16. Answering a ??? from another thread, Brook's has a tattoo for his father on his forearm, and he is honoring his father after every touchdown. Some questioned JB's numbers at 3A Hallettsville (70 TD), but his twitchiness clearly translates to D-1. FYI, Jordan Whittington played at 4A Quero, ~ 30 miles down the road. Not bad for a couple of rural country boys. JB does so many things well, but one of my favorite plays is the botched QB sneak-first down v. Alabama. We always hear a RB runs too high, but what is the alternative? JB, picking up the ball, and running, with his knees a few inches above the ground and a center of gravity ~ 2 feet above the ground.
  17. Texas has a very good team. We only have 5 games with a complete tool box; lot of meat still on that bone. Equally important, they have a great COACHING staff who is getting the best from the players. Like Patrick Mahomes has given Andy Reid the QB he always wanted to make his offense go, Sark has the skill guys he needs to get his engine purring at 6,800 RPM. The last 2 games were getting the large humans in sync. Time to put it all together and really stretch our legs Saturday. My favorite Fred OU quote, "... something, ... something..., I'll tell you one thing, they better have their headgear strapped on tight."
  18. I think this team is special. They manhandled Alabama and Saban at home. Shutting up the SEC BS, the haters and honks from across the country stating on camera, on their shows and broadcasts, they were "stupid" or "idiots" for underestimating this Texas team. Some here drank the Kool-Aid early and believed, most are coming around. They have the potential to run the table. By design, not by accident. We are only 4 games in, by game 12, this could be one of the most explosive offenses in ... well, a really long time. Sark has realized going jumbo in short yardage situations makes a lot of sense with the large humans we have. I liked Rod Babers' take, that Sark is opening up the play book to get more things on tape, so every week, other teams prep work will have sensory overload. Come game time, they will hesitate trying to figure out what they see, and then it's too late to do anything about it. Btw, Sark offense in 2023 >>>>>>> Greg Davis offense in 2005. Sark is year almost one third into year 3 while Mac was finishing year 8.
  19. As a proud graduate of a University that very recently was "a backwater of the CFB landscape for years", I won't hold that against them. Lived there in the early 90's, when Colorado Football was good, and it was fun. Slick Rick had is going, until he screwed it up. Saw Ricky in '96. Watched Colorado unplug "'Lectric Leland" and aggy in '95, and lived through Rashaan Salaam's '94 Heisman run. Colorado is full of "Trust Fund" babies, Colorado State is for serious kids that have to work. Not absolutes, both kinds of kids at both places. I could give a shit about Nebraska, Missouri and aggy leaving the B12, but I always liked Colorado. Perfect setting for college football. If I had been to Boulder before my teens or early 20's, I never would have left. Moved there in '93, w/ a 6 handicap and skiing double black diamonds. Boulder & Austin were probably very similar in the 60's & 70's. Boulder is still the same. Austin is in the midst of a 50 year gang rape by developers.
  20. Deion was the GOAT CB, as mentioned by others. With the ball in his hands, probably the most exciting player of all time. The first time I saw Deion was a story before one of his FSU games, Neon Deion sitting in a convertible in his shades with all his bling. My first reaction, "Who is this pompous ass?" After watching the game, Holy F*ck, that guy is amazing, speed to burn. I saw Lam Jones, Curtis Dickey & Carl Lewis run in Memorial Stadium (before DKR); there's straight line speed and football speed, and Deion's speed on the field was the standard by which you calibrate the scale. He is the definition of "talking the talk and walking the walk." Sorry, Duke. Speed. Talent. Charisma. Style. Damn, he sure did that Star proud!!! Look at the faces behind him ... The ultimate compliment; I never really got into playing football video games, but I remember playing Sega? (maybe?) when Deion went to the Falcons. Who ever picked the Falcons, won. Deion's video player was so much faster than everyone else, it wasn't fair, but it was funny as hell. Deion blazed many a trail, his way, from college to the NFL to the present day, and he has the scars to show for it. He energized a football program that was left for dead. He inspires his players. I'm good with that.
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