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  1. 10 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    I could talk shit about boomers, or half commiserate/half laugh at the Gen X being the Jan Brady generation.  But I think more specifically the "Oregon Trail" band of the millennial generation (basically millennials born in the 80s) was an interesting one to grow up in.  Elementary school computer labs with monotone screens and MECC games.  Growing up on early 90s MTV - Nirvana, that Blind Melon video (and then 1979), staying up late to watch Beavis and Butt-head and Aeon Flux.  Growing up alongside the internet - from dialing in to AOL (shit, in my case Prodigy to start) to Napster and Counterstrike, MySpace and then Facebook hitting right when I was a college freshman, and then the surge to dominance of social media that may have fucked with slightly younger millennials more than people right around my age.  The quickness with which all that happened - loading my Donald Duck video game on a 5.25" floppy (and applying newfound reading/writing skills to boot up games in Dos), Windows 3.1 - 95 - 2000 - XP and the rise of OS X.  Dot com boom and bust. I fucking still had a zip drive when I was a freshman at UT.  The evolution of design on the internet.  Virtualization, and the change that that has brought.

    I didn't intend to just write a whole thing about computers and the internet, but I think the specific time frame of my existence has been a really interesting one to... advance in parallel with the latest great technological revolution.

    This describes me to a tee.  Friends still played outside and built forts in the woods, but then went inside to play Goldeneye.  

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  2. Why are we even debating this?  Sam is light years better than Shane.  With shane we went 5-7 in 2016 and he sucked bad as a starter in 2018.  Sam has gotten us to 5-1 before he got injured.   How can anyone watch yesterdays game against a dog shit Baylor defense and think Shane even played remotely well?  The D coordinators have proven that they know how to completely shut Shane down.  Drop 8 and rush 3.  He panics in the pocket and has no confidence throwing in coverage.  If sam is even 70% healthy, start him.  We need every win we can get.  WVU, ISU, and Tech are not gimme wins.  We need to win against osu and kansas to at least get us to 8 wins.  Play him against osu if he can go and worry about it later if he re-aggravates it.  



    Yeah, that’s truly the difference maker in this discussion, how easy it is to scheme against Shane. Sam is able to force to defenses into situations that are disadvantageous, and he is able to make teams pay for cheating one way or the other run vs pass. Shane can’t force anything on a team. He can’t throw it over a team, so they don’t need to leave their safeties high, he can’t make tons of quick tight throws necessitating teams not blitz, and of course he can’t be used in the run game to keep them honest. He’s just so easily schemable.

  3. I know he was thrown into a game he wasn’t expecting to be in but has Shane gotten worse over his career? He used to have decent touch and an ok deep ball, today he had one good throw that I can remember (TD to CJ). Even his screen throws were behind the receiver and he overthrew duvernay by 5 feet on a 10 yard throw.

    He just isn’t good at a single facet imo. Doesn’t read coverage well, won’t or can’t throw over the middle, self sacks, seems to be a poor leader. I can’t really fathom why people ever really preferred him over Sam at any point. Just my two cebts

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  4. Compared to Allen-Edmonds and Alden, JM have been horrible, both as to quality and as to fit.  That may have changed, but the prices indicate otherwise.
    That meermins site looks really interesting.  I don't know shit about UK "fits" though.


    I have a pair of meermin oxfords, and they are beautifully made shoes. For the quality they are a good deal, likely in the same quality range as AE but cost a good bit less
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  5. I would suggest something a bit more neutral than the ones you posted. I think those are a bit too overstated.

    I recommend anything from meermin, and derbies (bluchers) are good as nice but not as formal as oxfords

    https://meermin.com/in_en/shop/men/classic-collection/bluchers.html

    These chukka boots are something I’ve wanted for a long time, and I think they walk the line of nice but casual due to the pebbles grain of the leather

    https://www.herringshoes.co.uk/herring/gosforth-ii-rubber_rubber-soled-chukka-boots/tan-grain

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  6. 40 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Did Maryland not happen this year? It fucking happened this month. Some people on this idiotic thread seem to believe that I Am Sam is all better now because because because. He’s fucking below average. 

    My opinion hasn’t changed since the beginning, you Lolinger apologist honk. Ehlinger is overrated mediocrity with a penchant for the fundamentally stupid. 

     

     

    Is it your opinion he hasn't gotten any better in this winning stretch?  I agree its dumb to say he's all better, but it seems obstinate to say he hasn't shown improvement.

  7. Growing up 90s/00s in Austin, it was definitely known as N knocking and that fight chant was used as well.

    I think kids are going to parrot things they hear older kids say, and that as they get older and gain more perspective, they stop saying those things most of the time.  I do believe it is relatively innocuous up until a certain age, when you learn the history of the word and the damage it can cause.  

    Of course, if my parents ever heard me or any of my friends call it N knocking, I would've got reamed.  

  8. 1 minute ago, Artie Fatso said:

    Oh yes, introduce more booze, some misters and tents, close down the streets to squeeze in more drunks. Spend 175 million on stadium "improvements" to advance the interests of wealthy alums really helps serve the wider audience of fans. There's a reason Texas attendance dropped last year and it wasn't just the marginal play of the football team. I've been watching this since the sixties. The high water mark was spending four million on a field drainage system that was used for one year before being gutted so more lower level seats could be created and the track eliminated...brilliant. In my book that kind of largesse, disregard for all constituencies needed to support the program and creating an atmosphere of partying that runs off older people and those who don't consider it cool to sit around getting drunk in the shade is prima facie evidence of true "assholishness"...but, hey, knock yourself out.

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  9. 1 hour ago, tokamak said:

    "Reward checking account" is the general name for the product you're talking about. I used to fuck with those things a few years back before interest rates went to shit. Usually they're at tiny (literally one branch sometimes) banks and credit unions. They come with stipulations like $10k-$25k limits, and you have to use the debit card 15-20 times a month to get the high interest rate.  It's not a bad deal for someone with the patience to fuck with it (especially now that interest rates are creeping back up), but IMO it's not a great product for someone like the OP who appears to be looking to park a relatively large amount of money that they're not going to be using regularly to generate transactions.

    link: https://www.depositaccounts.com/checking/reward-checking-accounts.html

    Yeah, most of these accounts are offered from my company.  We market to small banks and credit unions.  The APY is usually around 2-3% up to 10-15k, then like .25% from there.  Usually you have to just have 12 POS transactions and login to your account online to qualify, so pretty easy.  

  10. 1 hour ago, Orange^White said:

    I am not a huge fan of the Domain, but I do go there every so often just out of convenience. We live in NW Austin. The Nordstroms is nicer than the one at Barton Creek, The Dillards and Macys are better than Lakeline and Barton Creek. The lady loves her some Free People. We like several restaurants that are there.

    I will say that I am typically not there at night. With that said, we went, sort of on a spur of the moment trip, on Saturday night, to Dick's to look at some paddleboards, and decided that since we were close, we'd go eat at Thai Kuhn.

    At 9:00 PM on Saturday night, the Domain clientele is definitely NOT reflected by the flyer in the OP.  I'll just leave it at that.

     

    I can attest to this.  I used to work in an office building in the Domain until recently, and we shared our garage with the main garage for Rock Rose.  Definitely a lot more blacks and hispanics than this flyer wants to admit.

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