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  1. In case you hadn’t seen, He’s been playing shows on Facebook live every Wednesday and Sunday. Not quite the Gallery Room but I’ve enjoyed tuning in here and there. Has been sampling a lot of the new album.
  2. For once, Surly was right. Appreciate all the good feedback. Felt like a little bitch doing it but walked into a motorcycle custom fab shop to bounce it off of them (hey uhhh could you build a sidecar for my bitchass scooter for my dog?) and they were also adamant I didn’t want to do it with a 50cc. I’m looking through other options now. I’ll keep you guys posted.
  3. Thought about starting a new thread but figured my audience was probably already here. Have been wanting to learn more about Austin history, specifically through a real estate and urban development lens. Been thinking about who (individuals or organizations) have been the most impactful in driving change and who has rode the wave of that change most skillfully. I'm especially interested in recent history (last ~30 years) but recognize that history shapes the present and a real analysis would stretch way beyond that. Any good books / articles / opinions you can offer?
  4. Happy to hear you are doing well, man. I actually want to apologize to you. To be honest, I saw your previous posts and shared them as a joke because I did suspect it was purely coincidence. After some time went by without hearing from you and a few others reached out in a more earnest fashion (kudos to those guys), I began to regret not doing the same. We are a bunch of assholes around here but it's really not something that's acceptable to joke about or take lightly. So for that- I truly am sorry. To you, but also to anybody else whose life has been impacted by suicide to any degree. As for your story above- I'm glad you could share with us here. Everybody processes these things differently, but I encourage you (and your fiancé) to continue to reach out here or elsewhere if you need to. That is a traumatic thing to experience and there's no shame in seeking help and taking care of yourself.
  5. @Hook1997's link works for me. http://buffstream.io/boxingstreams
  6. Sounds like Petrino was on a 50. I’d seen where the max weight on the 50cc ruckus was 300 lbs. Obviously the weight load is entirely different when half of that is from sidecar but I assumed it would work in that case. If it weren’t able to top 25mph with the sidecar setup, I’d be fine with that. But maybe I should trade up if the performance is going to be that much better.
  7. I don’t know how credible the info is but I have seen online where guidance was for the sidecar weight load should be ~1/3 of total weight so I think your math is close. This would be central/west Austin so some hills but mostly flat. I have zero desire to take this on to a street with a speed limit over 30. If the 50cc doesn’t have the horsepower, I’d be open to trading up. And the Zumas actually are the other scooter I do actually like the look of. I’m completely new to scooters here so this is the kind of feedback that’s helpful. Thanks
  8. I expect to get shit for this but will roll with the punches if I can get a good rec out of it. I'm buying a 50cc scooter as a fun way to get around town and want to add a sidecar so my dog can join. I'm leaning towards a Honda Ruckus for which I've really only found one shop that manufactures custom sidecars. I hope this isn't as bad as the guy who got his jerseys tailored, but I honestly just hate the style and am wondering if I can find someone to build something custom that's a little more simple and is presumably more affordable. Yes custom is expensive, and I preferably want someone who works with motorcycles/scooters who will be able to put something together that rides reasonably well. So might be looking for something that doesn't exist but giving it a shot. Know anyone?
  9. I actually would be in for treefiddy. I'm not sure what I really bring to the table so I will be submitting proxy votes in line with whatever @alphahorn says to do, should he join. @Randolph Duke has given me Dr. Michael Burry vibes from the Tell Me About A&M thread. Just instead of plowing through hundreds of thousands of underlying mortgages to make a fortune, he's sorting through mountains of paper to expose aggie since we the people of the great state of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  10. Guys we might have a much darker NowThis situation...
  11. If this is a troll, bravo for irritating the living shit out of me. Go on the surly podcast and tell us why your half-ass pity fund is deserving of our charity. I’m doubtful your reasoning (uhhhh it will help me out?) will change my mind, but I’ll at least toss you some bucks for actually putting in that minimal amount of effort.
  12. PDF-to-Excel'ed a few of these and put them together for anyone who wants it. @Randolph Duke if you already have a big excel file with all the data (historicals too), I'd love to get my hands on that. Things that stuck out to me (and I only looked at 2020 so wouldn't be shocked if some of these are going to just be pandemic anomalies): UT's recruiting budget is only at $1.7M which feels low. A&M at $2.6M, LSU at $2.8M, Bama at $3.4M. We are closer to Tech who is at $1.6M. UT blows same schools out of water in our "fund raising, marketing and promotion" expense line item at $6.5M. Next closest is Alabama at $3.7M, aggie at $230k (maybe a categorization issue). Bama's "Medical Expense and Insurance" line item at $3.0M which is significantly higher than anyone else. UT at $1.6M, aggie at $1.0M, LSU at $1.25M, Tech at $1.7M. Random noise or are they doing something different (HGH)? Something seems off to me that LSU is only showing $4.3M in royalties, licensing and advertisement revenue. UT and aggie dwarf that figure at $39M and $17.9M. Surprisingly, somehow Tech comes in higher than Bama here at $14.5M and $13.0M respectively. Some kind of categorization issue? NCAA Financials - University Comparison.xlsx
  13. Still gave you a 'fuck you' but will acknowledge I almost laughed.
  14. I have no personal connection to Jake. My desire to know would be purely to satiate the (natural) curiosity. But Jake is not some anonymous figure and the facts were going to come out. I think this board (by its standards) showed a lot of restraint and respect in the wake of the news. If things that aren't true are being circulated here, than fuck us. But I do not think that is the case and I don't understand the desire to just not talk about it and act like the COD is irrelevant. Does the COD alter Jake's legacy or make what happened any less tragic? Absolutely fucking not and I haven't seen a single post that suggests that. I do not have kids but you really don't sound like you do either. Do you know that athletes are the most influential people to a lot of kids? How is it a stretch to think that a parent from this board being able to talk to their kid (also presumably a longhorn fan) about what happened to Jake would have far more impact than the typical/canned, don't-do-drugs sit down. Like it or not, what happened to Jake as an example carries far more weight than some statistic around anonymous casualties from some random news article.
  15. Agreed on Relatively Easy. I'd put Live Oak up there in the underrated category. It's a little different than most of his other writing in that (I've read) it's an allegory about his recovery from addiction that drops the listener into the life of an outlaw in a different time. He's talked in interviews of how he was afraid of getting sober because how much drinking was engrained in who he had become / his lifestyle. I read this song as his fear that with sobriety, he'd lose a (the) piece of him that made him liked / attractive to the people around him before he got clean. Well you couldn't stay a loner On the plains before the war My neighbors had been slightin' me I had to ask what for Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter Killed a couple men or more And I told her her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword All the things that she'd suspected I'd expected her to fear Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here
  16. It got dusty the first time I heard this Isbell line after Roy Halladay's passing. Still can't hear it without thinking of him. Christmas time when folks go off the deep end His woman took the kids and he took Klonopin Enough to kill a man of twice his size Not for me to understand Remember him when he was still a proud man? A vandal's smile, a baseball in his right hand Nothing but the blue sky in his eye
  17. I this this is pretty accurate. McMurtry is my favorite song writer. In large part because he can so easily lull you in with the sharp, chuckle inducing lines just to fuck you up with some truth in the same song. Isbell is more likely to leave me speechless but fuck, can McMurtry tell a story. Some of my favorites: Ruby and Carlos: From: "Down below the mason dumb ass line the food gets worse I can't go back to Tennessee That Nascar country's not for me" To: "And holding back the flood Just don't do no good. You can't unclench your teeth, To howl the way you should. So you curl your lips around The taste of tears and the hollow sound That no one owns but you. No one owns but you" Copper Canteen: From: "Honey, don't you be yelling at me when I'm cleaning my gun I'll wash the blood off the tailgate when deer season's done We got one more weekend to go And I'd like to kill one more doe" To: "We grew up hard and our children don't know what that means We turned into our parents before we were out of our teens" Some other favorites: All of State of the Union and of course, Choctaw Bingo. You Got to Me: "The paper boy wants a smoke Leans his bike against a tree And he's tired and cold and broke And he don't know what to make of me Standing here in my three piece suit Standing here just like I am With my vest unbuttoned and my necktie loose Impervious to all abuse" Carlisle's Haul: "Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too 'Cause nowadays crabbin' and fishin' Hangin' on to a pot to piss in Is just about the best a man can do It's hard not to cry and cuss When this old world is just bigger than us And all we got is pride and trust in our kind"
  18. Fuck. Just a kid. Most of us probably only really knew him as Sam's little brother. Looking forward to more tributes like Overshown's to shed light on who he was as his own person. I too have spent a good chunk of the evening fighting back tears. Wish we could take away some of the pain from this poor family. What more can you say. Fuck this.
  19. Onus is on him to prove with pics whether his wife does or does not have a penis.
  20. @Serak The Preparer@Dahobbs Thanks guys- both of these get the job job and I'm going to roll with it. It's annoying to me because it seems like it should be easier than it is. I think about the way you can use an index(match,match) function to find a value across both an array with both row and column conditions... seems like you should easily be able to use that same functionality to include a sumif / maxif/ averageif/ whatever function over an array selected by said condition but.... I'm stumped and cannot find an example of doing that anywhere. Anyways, thanks again for taking a look and helping me get what I needed.
  21. When you nut and she keeps sucking
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