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Texas Jeff

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  1. Rear Window starring Grace Kelly. Jimmy Stewart is also in this movie, but I didn't notice him much.

    Grace Kelly is stunning and Jimmy can't stop looking at neighbors out his rear window, even though Grace Kelly is traipsing about his apartment.

  2. Back to the original idea - Waymo on highways.  I think they've started on slower speed roads because the consequences of a failure are lower.  Fender benders vs 80 mph collisions.  And they know that they are being held to a higher safety standard than human drivers.  And they also don't want to hurt people.

    They are getting more confident that they can handle higher speeds and greater risk and they are expanding to highway driving.  But it's not their main use case right now.

    Right now, they are expanding to more cities  ... mostly as an inner city taxi service.  More cities gives them more visibility to more people, and establishes them as *the* leading driverless car solution.  They have a limited number cars and they are trying different business models in different cities, while experimenting with higher speeds on highways.

  3. 23 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Correct. Another reason why Gilligan is a great partner. He’d rather light himself on fire than video boobies.

    Let’s play the game with a commonly shared experiences. What Austin restaurants would you rebuild to flip Carol

    Martin Brothers' Cafe on Guad north of campus ... closed in 1997 so it might be an unknown for many of you.

    Magnolia Cafe on Lake Austin Blvd ... thought it would always be there.

  4. How much do billionaires have?

    Trump just talked about $1776 payments to about 1.4 million military members.  That's about $2.5 billion dollars.

    Trump's own net worth went up by about $4 billion when he was given stock in Truth Social, although the stock has gone down since then.  He didn't work for that money, it was a stock grant.  Stack cryptocurrencies and a free airplane on top of that and the pile just gets bigger.

    Which is pennies compared to Elon, who is worth about $648 billion.  Elon could give $1776 to each military person, each month, for a year, and it would cost him less than 5% of his net worth.

     

  5. 7 hours ago, WBT said:

    Did he find something?  I thought they were all empty static which is why he gave up and went looking for the obvious non-hive mind who called him and cursed his mother.

    He finished the full scan but had at least one frequency of interest, and went back to check it.

    He found a signal at 8.613 MHz ... then received the video tape from Carol ... turned off the radio and headed out.

  6. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah...see below.  I work downtown, I see (not kidding) 20-40 Waymos a day, in not much time on the road downtown.

    I work downtown, I see (not kidding) 20-40 Waymos a day, in not much time on the road downtown.  I would estimate that maybe 10% of the time, there's a passenger in the car.  So, no, the case for "this is more cost-effective than bus service" is nowhere even close to being made.

    If it DOES end up being made, someday, that's great.  I'm a fan of us getting to the best possible outcome in terms of actually providing transportation, and doing so in the most cost-effective way.  But I don't think that single driverless cars seem like a fix that should totally replace mass transit.

    AND, understand that the public almost always subsidizes mass transit to make it affordable to lower income folks (who heavily depend on it).  So, there's that as well.  If it costs Poor Peter $25 to get to work and home each day, instead of $6, dude is gonna be fucked.  Public transportation is a public service, in part.  It is almost never intended or designed to be profitable or even break-even.  Fares help defray costs, even in most of the best-designed systems; they don't cover all the costs.

    I get that.  I too am curious about how much they are dead-heading vs carrying passengers.

    But ... it is scaling fast and at some point it's going to impact bus ridership.

    I think folks will eventually get an income-based Waymo subsidy to make rides cheaper, and that subsidy could come out of what we are paying today for Cap Metro.

    Knowing Austin, Waymo will hit ubiquitous scale a week before we open light rail.

  7. Waymo says they drove 6.3 million driver-free vehicle miles in Austin between March and September, 2025.  Some of those miles had more than one passenger in the car, but they don't provide a passenger miles.  But for arguments sake let's assume only one passenger per Waymo.

    For comparison, Cap Metro drives about 25 million vehicle miles per year.  When you multiply by the number of passengers, they transport people about 130 million passenger-miles per year.  Depending on how you read their budget, Cap Metro spends $3-6 per passenger mile.

    Waymo, in year one, with service for about half the year, in a limited service area, is approching 5% of Cap Metro's yearly ridership.  They are charging you 0% sales tax and $0 property tax to do this.  The future is pretty clear...

  8. 1 hour ago, BrazilHorn said:

    What sucks is Austin High turned in a lower number that would have had them in 5A but the superintendent upped number to put them over. Guess he is slamming some more transfers in to school already over capacity. 
    Great to be one of the smallest schools in district. 

    That is weird because the administration's proposal to redistrict schools had Austin High's capacity lowered, which was the reason given for proposing a move of some neighborhoods to Crockett.  The admin wanted the capacity of Austin High to be 2069, with a projected enrollment around 1900.

  9. I count 22 schools over the 6A limit in the Austin area, although maybe I missed one or two.  I played around with ChatGPT to create three groups of schools for three Centex 6A districts, with minimum distance between the schools in each group

    District 1 — North / I-35 Corridor

    Round Rock
    Cedar Ridge
    Stony Point
    Hutto
    Georgetown East View
    McNeil
    Westwood

    District 2 — Northwest / West Austin / Leander ISD

    Cedar Park
    Leander
    Vista Ridge
    Rouse
    Vandegrift
    Lake Travis
    Westlake

    District 3 — South & Southeast

    Austin High
    Bowie
    Akins
    Del Valle
    Buda Johnson
    Buda Hays
    San Marcos
    Dripping Springs

  10. 10 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

    The Moore disaster and "Michigan Man" posturing got me thinking about who has the best scandal resume of the Blue Bloods.  I ranked the top 5 winning programs,  based on lazy and quick research, with #1 being most scandalous....Feel free to add incidents or profiles of others...

    #5:  Texas

    • Eyes of Texas Debate
    • Meat on the Hoof (DKR player treatment)
    • 80's NCAA minor infractions

    Texas:

    * Ron McKelvey, a 23 year old defensive back who was actually 30 at the time and was not named Ron McKelvey.
    * Edwin Simmons, lost his car, his girlfriend, his clothes, and his consciousness over about a six hour period and ended up naked in some alumni's backyard in Northwest Hills.

    But nothing is better than:

    Texas A&M:

    * Gave Eric Dickerson a gold Trans Am.  Eric went to SMU but kept the car.

     

  11. 1 minute ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Why dont we just have them play at the Moody center. Seemed wildly successful for the Stanford game.

    UT probably does not get enough time in the Moody Center.  Someone else paid for it and UT is only guaranteed a certain number of dates.  I think Texas gets about 60 days a year.

    Plus it gives UT and Austin a second smaller site for shows.

  12. A question that may become relevant in the next three years, if things keep progressing this way: Is Surly considered social media? 

    It’s sort of social. Demented and sad, but social.
  13. 13 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Serious question, which I'm sure doesn't have a serious answer: How is Calibri a "diversity move"? Is that font DEI?

    In theory, Calibri is easier to read for those that have difficulty reading, because it is sans-serif.  They also increased the default font size.

    https://www.section508.gov/develop/fonts-typography/

    So, the switch was intended to help those with low vision or reading disabilities, which probably is part of the "inclusion" part of DEI.

    The switch back may make it more difficult for some people to read government docs, so Rubio is saying let's do that.

  14. 1977 Texas v Baylor, featuring Earl Campbell, Ham and Lam Jones, some unknown Texas QBs, and a Baylor freshman linebacker named Singletary.  Campbell goes through a closet of tear-away jerseys.  Artificial turf as cushy as a parking lot.  Color man Frank Broyles has to say good things about Texas for three hours.

    ABC shows both bands at halftime and Teri Garr makes an appearance in a beer commercial.  Lots of seats available in the horseshoe and tons of parking around the stadium.  Aerial shots of the brand new Erwin Center and the almost new Disch-Falk.
     

     

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