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  1. This seems to be an actual phenomenon, a lot of which seems to be the result of pushing a lot of basic scientific research from corporations to academia. Academia, of course, emphasizes publication over the actual value of the research. There are no more Bell Labs inventing the transistor. That company turned into a shareholder driven clusterfuck called Lucent. Can you imagine all those dipshit telcos like Lucent, Nortel, etc. doing anything that worthwhile? Just another example of corporations socializing their short-term unprofitable activities.
  2. SMU and Trinity are not faith-based in the same way as DBU. Not even close. It seems some people are predisposed to just see UT as a huge, impenetrable monolith due to the size of the student body and campus and buildings on campus. I suppose you can look at being identified mostly by your SSN as another feature of that. But, by the same token, it's got some of everything, so you can find what you want. I always figured you can't know more than a couple hundred people, even as acquaintances, so, 2500, 25,000, 50,000 don't make a shit.
  3. According to the STL Fed, the steel industry currently employs about 86k in the US. Steel hasn't been at 150k since 1997. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUEN3311W200000000 And, US steel industry currently operates at about 75% capacity.
  4. I'm less concerned about their security than who it is exactly that enforces contempt orders and bench warrants.
  5. Kinda like . . . most of the shit we already make. The truth probably is that with a little tweaking, our trade balances are about right. Most of the shit we import we don't want to make (textiles, cheap shit) or can't make (champagne, bordeaux, minerals and ores we don't have). It would have been nice if offshoring of manufacturing had happened a bit more slowly and with a bit more thought. But that cat's out of the bag and we ain't getting it back in, except for some selected industries with national security implications.
  6. The UT Pimp hats crack me up, still.
  7. I say gotdamn, Mia.
  8. Whew. Moar runs pls.
  9. Lil Karma for the face clap.
  10. Yeah, the social conservatism that is so "aTexan" sort of crept into a more traditional conservatism aided and accelerated by fuckstick carpetbaggers until it's all social/culture lunacy all the time. However, those Texans, native or otherwise, that haven't come to their goddam senses yet are now fully complicit and blameworthy.
  11. I was fishing a stock tank in Wichita County, down a few feet from the road on the levee-thing that impounded it. Looked down at one point and there was what I think was a copperhead, s-coiled (chill, not striking), about a foot away from me. I think I jumped about four feet vertically back up onto the road in a single bound. Snek themselves tend not to be that frightening, but with the camouflage and their mode of locomotion, they can sneak up (or you walk up) and surprise your ass in a very startling way.
  12. Finally getting back to a bit of regular riding. Nothing remarkable, no new trails. Although old familiar trails have changed a bit here and there just by lapse of time and bursts of creativity from the trail stewards. Had kind of an amusing thing happen at Katie Jackson yesterday. I ride solo most of the time and am a "trail grumbler," kind of talking to myself, the critters etc. At least when no one is watching or in hearing range. So, some stick or branch caught on my left hand/bar end, got "wound up," and then smacked me on the left thigh. Not an unusual occurrence, but for whatever reason, this stick was strong and it really smacked the hell out of my leg. Really hurt. Like seriously among the most painful things that's happened to me on the bike, including breaking a collarbone and mallet-fracturing a finger. I guess a big part of it was the surprise at a routine-seeming face/body slapper really squaring up and teeing off on me. I yelled, loudly, "FUCK, that hurt." And then had a giggling fit while inspecting my leg. Left a nice whelp and a knot.
  13. I have heard nothing good about them.
  14. Kavan pretty much dealing. Maybe a few innings rest perked her up. If there is a tomorrow, hope she keeps it up.
  15. Dangerously close to a dinger, but gunned by Stewie.
  16. Kinda got that feeling doesn't it?
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