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CoTex

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  1. Just learned I'm having breakfast tomorrow at Waffle House. It occurred to me that they make a lot of different things and will customize and so I wonder... How do I order migas? I'm going with "Hash scattered and smothered and covered, hold the hash add scramble, add doritos, scratch the raisin toast and slide me a tortilla on the side." unless someone has a better plan.
  2. If you're ever trying to learn to play the guitar, this is an easy song to start on. Maybe that means its garbage. Maybe it means it will not fade from use anytime soon.
  3. CoTex

    Toby Keith RIP

    Was it that obscure? I kinda thought this was required reading somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are and A Modest Proposal.
  4. CoTex

    Toby Keith RIP

    No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if a promontory were: As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne
  5. CoTex

    Toby Keith RIP

    I struggle with the concept of "garbage people." The optimist in me wants to think each individual has some redeemable quality and this kind of generalization is lazy. But then I remember that there is a thing called the Juggalos. If ever there was a justification for chemical weapons.
  6. CoTex

    Toby Keith RIP

    Mixed emotions. He wrote some catchy songs. Politics. He said some stupid things. I'm sure he gave money to charity. I can almost talk myself into forgiving the ousux thing. He grew up in Moore (which is what, 30 minutes from Norman) watching Darrell Royal beat sooner ass. Who was he supposed to cheer for? I land on "any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
  7. Child - top 2% in herclass. Auto admit - not sure of what she wants to be when she grows up. how do the liberal arts, plan b, honors, etc programs work?
  8. Looks like there is an allegation that someone pooed in someone's hair. Maybe one of our surly lawyers can explain how a jury is going to react to that one.
  9. I don't understand why more of these ladies don't end up with wealthy husbands to buy the Mercedes and pay the pool boy to "clean the pool." It would seem to me like there have to be at least as many 60-80 year old fat lonely dudes with jobs and cash as there are porn starlets that refuse to pursue any course of self-sustenance. Instead, they never get there, and end up in some trailer in Moore snorting fentanyl with some guy that probably is more like Lester Diamond from Casino than anything else. Tragic.
  10. Does a balloon have a terminal velocity? I would think horizontal wind speed would always be zero. Wind blows you blow with it - feels like no wind. But vertical - thermal rising… if you go up too quickly the think inverts or collapses or something sporty like that? what is terminal V?
  11. “We’re going to put this thing in a steep dive and as soon as the skydivers jump, we’ll go up like a ballistic missile. Then we’ll dump a bunch of air until we level off. It’s gonna be great - hold onto your champagne flutes everybody.”
  12. Aha! Informative. Is there an upper limit in ballon ascent velocity? As I understand it - dropping all the skydiver weight causes so much positive ascent that may exceed balloon’s limits. So they start off in rapid descent to ameliorate that, and then start dumping lift as soon as it gets light? More dangerous than I initially thought.
  13. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna133898 Ballon, skydivers skydive, and the rest perished. comment. What’s the failure mode for these things? Power lines? Fire? Storm?
  14. Can we get on flight radar and figure out what we have loitering in the neighborhood? Oh, and highly irrelevant but cool nonetheless. The CO of the George Bush is a W.B. Ray high school grad from Corpus Christi. I’m sure he wanted to go to Texas but Navy offered him a ride.
  15. Somebody splain to me what is a Houthi. Yemeni person not with the government? yemeni soldier? Are all Yemeni’s Houthi’s? are they like the Kurds? There but sorta anti establishment? Long established or new visitors to that area?
  16. Mr. Elko’s agent needs to parlay this into a raise. You know the play - run it.
  17. Maybe I can find solace in the fact that some of those Washington fans we saw in NO spent a lot of $$ to get there, and then turned around and did it again, just to taste defeat. I'm guessing a W fan that went to both games spent minimum $6,000 for the experience. Now, you Huskies go back to your desks and get to work like the rest of us.
  18. The play that was called was three receivers left side to clear out, running back goes out into the flat, and ADM alone on the right. That play is designed (I think) to get a 1 on 1 for Mitchell. It looks like he is the first read. Ewers go/no go is probably "if Mitchell is 1 on 1 throw it - if there are two purple shirts there, look left and crank it to the open guy." Seems like it was very effective because he was... 1 on 1. Seems like Ewers did his job because the ball was in Mitchell's catch radius. Maybe not perfect - 2 feet lower would have been nice - but not a wild miss. After all the batted balls, I could see the qb throwing everything a little high. What is success rate of that play for 13 yards? 50%? Maybe some football expert can help with this - why is that play to the right/short side of the field and not left/wide side of the field? Shorter pass?
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    Onside Kicks

    Somewhere there is a spreadsheet that includes number of scores and possessions per game, average yard line of recovered onside kicks, and quantifies the risk and benefit. You give up 40-50 yards of field position if you don't recover, but you gain a possession near midfield if you do recover. How do you value that in a football game? Does it matter if you're a high scoring team or grind it out team? Seems like a team with a finomenal defense would risk less than a porous defense.
  20. The 4th down play/last play of the game - wide open playbook, right? Run/pass/option/reverse whatever, right? Clock doesn't matter, getting tackled in bounds doesn't matter. Run 1 play to get 13 yards? What play do you call? Something with QE rolling out looking for receivers and a chance to make it happen? I know we had some misdirection plays where we roll right and throw back left to running back. Do you run that? It is clear to me that Sark thought J Whitt and AD were the best options in that situation. They were the first reads for those 4, right? In 2005 the play on 4th down was to give VY a zone read, right? That was about 8 yards but I bet that same play would have gone for 15? Oh, and rewatching it, Selvin was open. Somebody named Young was going to score on that play.
  21. I stand by what I said. Cruise terminals screw up destinations. Galveston may be an exception.
  22. Having a cruise terminal in your city pretty much screws up the culture. New Orleans is special, but waiting in long line at cafe du monde, and having long line stare at you while you eat, just makes it feel a little cafeteria-ish. Get in the herd, stand in line, get your little taste of _________, and then get on/off the ship. Oh, and don't forget your Marriott points - you can use those to buy a Big Captain platter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. next time you travel with us.
  23. I for one would like another shot at that game. I feel like our A game against what I saw in the superdome, we would whip their asses. I understand that's not how it works.
  24. The wife and daughter sitting next to us were as cool as could be. If it's your crew, your wife gave us "Quinning" buttons and your daughter has a pretty cool pair of boots. They were the best neighbors we could have asked for - good people. I'm the guy with the 11 year old from east Texas. Cocaine Washington guy got lippy with my kid. I missed it but your wife didn't, she was pissed off and got the burnt orange suite/section behind us on the bandwagon. Then your daughter started calling the guy names including "bald guy." I thought it was pretty funny that husband/dad bought tickets in a Washington section and then made wife/daughter go sit there. I like your style.
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