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Tex Long

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  1. 21 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    My posting history should tell most people that I'm not some jingoistic guy who thinks America is infallible.  I believe in diversity but holy hell, can customer service reps speak English?

    u spel Engrish rong

  2. 1 hour ago, Redneck Mutha said:

    A "mid-size" donor was called to arrange a 7-figure NIL deal?

    Ill Allow It GIF

    No. Not 7 figures: "well north" of 7 figures. Assuming usual directionality, this would almost have to be at least 10 figures.

    To mindflay: congratulatons to your brother on his FIL luck.

     

     

     

     

     

    EDIT: Am I correct in assuming mindflay's sister-in-law is married to his brother, not his sister?

  3. 14 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Nah, Pate is worse. His “takes” are a joke. Im honestly shocked people take him seriously. 

    Nobody I know takes him seriously - your circle may have varying mileage. It's entertainment. That, and the Ramen Noodle Express "best bets" during the season have been pretty decent, and interesting to follow - I think he pimps the shit outta that Fan Duel.

     

     

    EDIT: Oh, and Memaw is right up there with South Austin's Mom, surly-wise.

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  4. On 5/6/2024 at 1:25 PM, nnm said:

    Anything by Joni Mitchell is pure trash. 

    Beg to differ.

    Watch the Shadows and Light concert, with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius. Watch, don't just listen. 

    Might change your outlook, unless there's just someting you don't like about girls with an overbite and bright blue eyes.

  5. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    Totally understand why she wants all those things.  Question is what does she have to offer in return?

    Fertile loins.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Mind you, Fertile Loins is a damned good name for a band of single moms. 

  6. 7 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Quit posting Pates dumbass shit. He’s worse than Acho

    1) Pate's entertaining as hell, even the aggy bullshit;

    2) Nobody's close to as bad as Acho, much less worse than.

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    ... in-game analytics or data may not be accessed. 

    Easy - print it. 

     

    That aside - who gets the helmet speaker on D? D prolly gonna see more subs than O sees at QB, how do we put two green stickers on the field at the same time? Prolly guys on the sidelines will have a green sticker too - Arch, for sure. Do they have to not listen to the calls? How long will it be before Harbaugh DeBoer has Connor Stalions listening to other teams' radio?

  8. 28 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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    Fucking hell, it won't let me put Hitler in the crowd.

     

     

    +rep for  "rootball", which is almost as good as "APATTIBALL" a few posts back.

    Instead of Hitler, ask for Charlie Chaplin - no one will know, and I won't tell.

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  9. 14 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Katerina Hartlova

     

     

    remember the popcorn shrimp, fried shrimp, shrimp gumbo, cooked, baked, broiled, sauteed shrimp scene from forrest gump? Yeah, thats me with porn star names

    Everyone's got a purpose in Life. Yours is on display. Thank you.

  10. 6 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    So I can beat the bike with my 1982 Fuji Berkeley.

    But I feel like musical instruments are a cheat code to this game. Oh, there's the 1995 Ibanez bass. The 1989 Ensoniq synth I still use. The 1984 Peavey Combo amp for the bass. Mom's ca 1969 Sorrento classical guitar.

    But beating all that is the 1700s-era cello, and if you don't think that's tech, I'll point out that this uses a design that predates Stradivarius, which every cello/viola/violin since has mimicked. But that's why this particular cello sounds so cool.

    Post some cool sounds from it. Or links to such.

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  11. Got a $13,000 microcomputer in a corner of my studio. Haven't touched it this century, but it worked the last time I turned it on. I think it's probably from around a 1978 or so.

    I had a project with Shell, designing, building and installing power station real-time control system for a new facility. Brown & Root was construction. B&R had a cost-plus contract on it, and had frequent meetings with Shell and we were part of those. BR always brought ten or fifteen engineers to the meetings, getting' that 10% on the plus.

    One meeting, at B&R, the lead guy for Shell had a traffic problem, so we all got to sit around in a big space, waiting. Off in one corner was an absolutely drop-dead gorgeous blonde at a desk with a computer terminal on it. She would type for about thirty seconds, hit an ENTER key, pick up a book and read for about five minutes. The terminal would beep, she'd put down her book, look at a printout on her desk, turn to the terminal, type for about thirty seconds... rinse, repeat...

    I went over to see what she was doing. Fair game, because the whole office was dedicated to that project, so... The printout was the data defining the analog control instrumentation – this thing had like 16,000 analog instruments, some just data, some just controls, and some both. It took six tab cards for each one of those – 480 characters. There were also another 8,000 switches, which were simple on/off things that could be turned on, turned off, or interrogated to see whether they were on or off. They only took three tab cards. So, yeah, lots of pages in the printout.

    She said they were using the “big computer” in time-share mode, and they got a slice about every five minutes. She was correcting individual tab cards that had changes noted on the printout. Needless to say, a lot of those corrections were from my group... and now I knew why it was taking so goddamned long for B&R to get those corrections into the system.

    When the Shell guy arrived and we got the meeting started, I got to bring up what we just saw. B&R said they weren't happy either, but they had orders to use their “big computer” and no outside services. Could they rent equipment? Yes, yes they could. We settled on $5,000 a month for the balance of the project (about nine more months).

    I bought the latest and greatest CP/M microcomputer from CroMemCo, a snappy little z-100 based thing, with not one, but two, TWO 8-inch floppy drives (a full megabyte each). Got a copy of dBase II – total hardware and software, around $14,000. Took about three hours to write a little data entry, maintenance, and backup program in dBase II, a day to break up the data into groups small enough to fit on a disk. Took it to the B&R office, and the blonde took about all of thirty seconds to figure out how to use it. Showed the B&R Systems Programmers how to copy to and from the mainframe, they worked close to a week to create a Procedure to update from floppies to their big computer and back (this was in the days when the computers were still the bailiwick of the Accounting Department and everything had to be specified completely and approved by Managers before they could write a line of code).

    Since it was only “rented”, I took it back when they were done with it.

    I could probably let it go, cheap...

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  12. Yeah, I wanna see Eli & Peyton doing some Uncular Boosting for their nephew. I'd even like to see Cooper in on it. Supposedly he was the most athletic of the SOA's, would be interesting to see the three of them together.

  13. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Has there ever been a game, since the invention of the line of scrimmage, that ended in a 0-0 tie?

    Because I feel pretty good making the statement, "If you can hold your opponent to zero points, you will win the game." The number of times that statement ends up not being true is insignificant. 

     

     

    I'd think lots of 0-0, particularly in Olden  Daze. I know the '36 Sugar Bowl was a 3-2 game, TCU over LSU, and the '42 one was 2-0 Fightin' Lombardis over Mizzou. I think Lombardi was at Fordham in 30's, but I always associated him with Fordham.

    NFL overtime still allows for ties, but I don't know what NC2A has done with college rules - wouldn't surprise me either way.

     

    EDIT: Treaty Oak beat me to it, at least NFL-wise, and with actual data instead of speculation.

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  14. 7 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Assuming all that happens at some point, when Quinn is healthy and starts again, we will once more face the avalanche of internet BS saying Arch should start / is going to transfer / the Mannings are pissed, etc., etc.

    That, too. 

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