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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Let's take wagers. I say he's the next Bachelor on that TV show that proves the decline of western civilization. Either that or he's going to fight Jake Paul. One of the two.
  2. Names have always been kind of a sensitive subject for me. Names are important and should be treated as such. Instead of projecting some positive trait, so many people pick names that only signal how dumb they are. Drives me nuts. Anyway, when we started talking about having kids I made my wife aware that this was a danger zone for us. So we agreed to a system. We did not find out the sex of the baby before the birth, so we had to have girl and boy names. The system was that at the appointed time, each of us would send the other a list of ten girl names and ten boy names. The highest name in common from both sets of lists would be the winner. It actually worked perfectly for our first. We started deviating from the rules after that. Fortunately, naming our kids didn't lead to violence or divorce like it could have.
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  4. Phuc Me? My grandfather, who I loved very much, was named Rufus. I fought hard for it. Womb-holder couldn't do it.
  5. I'm pretty sure it is spelled Ruprecht.
  6. The main purpose of the playoff is to make money, though they do it with one hand tied behind their backs because university presidents still wield a considerable amount of power, in partnership with their conferences, and they are, at least ostensibly, trying to feed the main mission of the universities - education - and look out for the interests of the student athletes. That said, every method of crowning a champion is going to reward certain aspects over others. 64 team tournament (NCAAM), 7 game series (MLB), playoff brackets (NFL&NBA) all require slightly different characteristics to win it all. The goal of any playoff should be to reward the best team, but it turns out that's a more complicated question than it appears. No playoff system is perfect, it can't be, but what we have now in NCAAFB is better than anything we've ever had. It's still ridiculously inadequate. I'm ready for an 8 or 16 team playoff yesterday.
  7. I'm not calling him a failed comedian because I disagree with his politics. One's got nothing to do with the other. I called him a failed comedian because I thought it was true. I didn't know he started as a comedian. I knew him as the Fear Factor and UFC guy, but I'm not a big follower of either of those. I learned that he was getting a lot of attention for his podcast/YouTube shows and that's why I took a look, to see what all the fuss was about. I thought he was a failed comedian because: A) he wasn't still doing comedy (as far as I knew), so if he was so great at that why?, 2) he did other things that had nothing to do with comedy (Fear Factor, UFC, podcast), 3) I watched some of his standup routines on YouTube and I did not find him funny or good. I also have admitted that I have not done a lot of research on the man or his past comedy career. Maybe he won a bunch of fucking awards for his comedy and is well-respected among comics and people who would know. I don't really think Joe Rogan is worth that much thought. He's accomplished some things; he's a celebrity. He tries to portray this deep thinker persona on his YouTube show. I guess a lot of people buy it.
  8. Oh, yeah, that. The fact that so many people get their information from him and his show is what makes him relevant. Totally backassward. I do that - I tend to discount and ignore the stupid and ridiculous. Hope it doesn't come back to bite me.
  9. I kind of don't know what Rogan is. Probably because I don't care to research his background. I know he's a failed stand-up comedian; that's where he got his start as a famous person. He did the Fear Factor show. Then he served as emcee or host or whatever for the UFC. He has a podcast/YouTube show and he gets into all kinds of political and intellectual topics. Is that it? Is there more to him that I don't know about? I've watched a fair number of his interviews with other celebrities and I've thought some of those were pretty good. I have not found it difficult to skip the political or overly dense topics because...Joe Rogan has no business discussing those topics. He's unqualified and fairly ignorant. He's got no education, background or experience in those areas. Why would I care one whit what he has to say? He's just a guy with an opinion.
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  12. Y'all are making this way too complicated. AB is dumb. The end.
  13. Had our EOY meeting to go over finances for the last year, projections and initiatives for the new year, admin stuff. I was going through the P&L and I said we had a net loss of X. My office manager pipes up and says, "Well, technically, we didn't have a net loss because we spent X on Y." So I calmly said, "Actually, this is the P&L for the year and it shows a net loss. That means we spent X more than we brought in last year. So it is technically a loss." She proceeded to argue with me for several minutes about it.
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  15. I have to admit. I predicted, privately, that Bama was going to win. I didn't think Georgia's schedule this year really proved the hype that they were the best team in the country with an all-time defense. I also didn't think Stetson Bennett could lead a team to a championship. I thought Georgia was exposed for who they really were in the SEC championship game. I still think, position-by-position, on paper, Bama is a better team than Georgia. If they play at full strength, I think Bama wins the game 8/10 times. Losing both of their top receivers really hurt them. Young threw like 57 times; Bennett had 26 attempts, I think. Tells you a lot about their respective game plans. Bill O'Brien was a liability for Bama. All in all, an entertaining season and an entertaining championship game. I'm happy for Georgia. Long time coming for them. We know the feeling.
  16. Yeah, I wasted one.
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  18. I don't know who the candidates will be, but I don't think Trump will win the nomination. I think he'll run, because his ego won't let him not run. He's had the longest 15 minutes in history (it's seemed even longer) but I think they are finally up.
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  21. Cool. Got it in five tries.
  22. Say what you will about Ted Cruz, but he's a very skilled politician, which is sort of like being good at insider trading or date rape. He doesn't part with Trumpers unless he thinks it's politically advantageous to do so. On the one hand, that's good (if he's right) because it means that Trump and the Trumpers' moment has past. On the other hand, it's bad because Trump was a purely self-interested clown and an idiot. He did not have the capacity to truly lead the U.S. into an authoritarian regime. Cruz, or someone like him, is not an idiot. Worst case is that someone who actually knows what they are doing and has the tools takes control of the Republican Party. That could possibly turn the USA into an actual fascist state. This is my concern, dude.
  23. How right you are. I talk to other lawyers a lot, obviously, and we always marvel at the stupid shit that people do. People who are somewhat sophisticated and should know better too. We always joke, "Well, if it wasn't for people doing stupid shit like this all the time, we wouldn't have jobs."
  24. I didn't have a dream job when I was a kid. Maybe astronaut because I liked Star Wars so much and I knew NASA was a thing. Probably the first job I actually wanted was to be a doctor because my grandfather was a doctor and he was probably the biggest influence on me when I was old enough to start thinking seriously about such things. I had an uncle who was a doctor and I knew some doctors' kids and they all seemed to have more and nicer shit than we did and they got to do more fun stuff than we did. My grandfather once told me, about money, "Money can't buy you happiness, but it's harder to be happy if you're poor." I took that to heart. One of my best friends had decided early on that he was going to medical school, largely for the same reasons I wanted to go. So that was my initial direction. Little did I know that college was going to be a lot harder than high school and it was nearly impossible to work 30-35 hours per week to make enough money for tuition and living expenses and make straight A's, which is pretty much what it took to get into med school. My grades after my first semester at UT pretty much cast the die. I wasn't going to medical school. After that, I had no direction whatsoever. I was pretty devastated that, for the first time in my life, I wasn't going to get to do what I wanted to do. That, and losing the girl who I thought was the girl of my dreams during that same first semester, was a double blow that took me out. Maybe I'm an overly sensitive pussy, but it took me a while to recover from those things. I picked a major at UT that I thought would at least allow me to get a degree. Something that I was interested in and that didn't involve physics or organic chemistry. So I got a degree in anthropology. It took me a while to finish it, for a lot of reasons. I thought it would be a non-event. The funny thing is that when I finally got that fucking piece of paper I felt pretty good about it. Right around that same time something happened at work that caused me to have to use the court system. My boss told me to go to small claims court to sue a customer who hadn't paid their bill. I walked it through, awkwardly, but I eventually got the constable to seize this guy's property and the very next day he showed up and paid his bill in full. That was my first taste of the law and how it worked. I was absolutely hooked. I immediately looked into whether my GPA was good enough to get into any law school. It was, barely, if I did well enough on the LSAT. I studied my ass off and got into a decent law school. I treated law school like my second chance. I worked really fucking hard. I wasn't top 10%, but my grades were good and I even excelled in the advocacy program (mock trial). Turns out, I was a natural. Looking back, I should have known, given my skill set and what makes me tick. There are days when I absolutely love being a lawyer. There are days when I absolutely hate it. I've never seriously thought about walking away from it though. I know for certain that this is the best use of my natural talents I could have possibly found. There might be other jobs where I would be happier, but I don't think there's anything out there that would give me the combination of things the law has given me. So, I don't have any regrets about where I ended up career-wise, for sure. I just wish I had found it sooner and that the journey had been less painful.
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