Everything posted by Richard Kimball
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Friends..
I don't really have friends. I have pleasant acquaintances I work with. I have some buds that I'll road trip to games with when we're all working the same game, but other than a get together with some other photographers for the odd lunch, I can't recall the last time I got together with someone that didn't involve business. The only social situations I'm ever involved with are either work related or because my wife wants to invite the neighbors over. I teach full time, then teach some classes on the side, and do photography as a side business. By the end of the day, I've had all the social interaction I want. I don't look back. I don't interact with anyone I knew in high school or college. Had a great time at both, but feel no need to go back and find people from then. I worked 20 years at Austin Fire. Had a great time. Retired and left eighteen years ago. That part of my life is over, and I have no need to go back and relive old times. Just finished twenty years at the college where I teach. Don't know how much longer I'll be there, but when I leave, I'll move on to the next thing. I've had a couple of times in my life where I tried to go back to something I'd left, and as far as I'm concerned, Thomas Wolfe was right. You can't go home again. Every time I went back to something I'd left, all I found were shadows of the past.
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SNF: Colts at Titans
Yeah, I've never forgiven Bud Adams for firing Bum, trading Earl, moving the team and refusing to leave the name even though he wasn't going to use it, so the Titans can lose all the time.
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Cowboys @ Giants: Season Finale
Well, all right, then.
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Cowboys @ Giants: Season Finale
Quick trivia fact: There's a third Manning brother named Cooper. He has to sit at the kid's table at family reunions.
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Good Movies You Have No Interest In Seeing
Don't know quite how you figure out it's a good movie if you haven't seen it. Movies with good reputations that I don't want to see: My Left Foot The King's Speech Saw it. I know it puts me in the minority, but if they had taken out the whole Jack and Rose love story, it would have been a really good dramatization of the sinking.
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2018 Cotton Bowl - Clemson vs. Notre Dame
By worse, do you mean better?
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Applewhite Out
Army scored again?
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2018 Peach Bowl - Florida vs. Michigan
Harbaugh seems like one of those guys who doesn't get along with anyone who has an opinion.
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2018 Peach Bowl - Florida vs. Michigan
OK, so seriously, is Michigan just incapable of throwing deep? They're doing all this slip pass and go to the side stuff down by three scores.
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2018 Peach Bowl - Florida vs. Michigan
That was the most Fuckalong Jones offense I've seen recently from a team that was down by three scores in the 4th.
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Two LSU football players questioned about fatal shooting
Yeah, we need to whip out the old "news" translator: Professional gambler=Money launderer Aspiring rapper=Drug dealer Selling a playstation on Craigslist=Drug deal gone bad
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Alamo Bowl - Washington State vs Iowa State
Oh. I thought y'all were talking about Purdy's mom.
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Favorite Eastwood Movies
Yeah, she was really effective as a woman that was hot enough to lure you in and crazy enough to scare the hell out of you. Always thought Fatal Attraction was a rip off of Play Misty for Me.
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Favorite Eastwood Movies
Eastwood was never afraid to try stuff that was totally different. Sometimes it was jarring to see his character play totally against type. BTW, Play Misty for Me was his directorial debut. Yeah, he banged Archer's mom. Another weird movie was The Beguiled. Also, Tightrope. I tend to ignore all the Sondra Locke movies.
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Favorite Eastwood Movies
Unforgiven Heartbreak Ridge Dirty Harry High Plains Drifter Man with no name trilogy
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Breckyn Hager thread of insanity and hair dominance
Agreed. If people want to diss Hager for being a goofball, yeah, he's guilty. As far as his play on the field, he did about as much as he could with the skills God gave him.
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Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl (Indoors) - Baylor vs Vanderbilt
I'll take the over.
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Breckyn Hager thread of insanity and hair dominance
Hager is an interesting case study. How many philosophy majors play college ball? I've known a few philosophy majors, and they were all odd. The recognition came mostly from his name and odd behavior. Not sure Texas would have offered him if he wasn't a legacy. He's also a case study in how being recruited by a big name school affects the star rating recruiting sites use. If a player is recruited by Alabama, he'll go up. I think Hager bumped from two to three stars because he went to Texas. A few years ago, some site (too lazy to look up) did a study of recruiting ratings vs on field performance. Baylor and TCU were the only ones who outperformed their ratings in the B12. Gary Patterson flat out stated that he got amused watching a player rating drop if they signed with TCU. He said if a player recruited by TCU and (I think Oklahoma, maybe Texas) signed with the big name, they became a four star. If they signed with TCU, they dropped a star.
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Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl (Indoors) - Baylor vs Vanderbilt
Marques Jones and Jamycal Hasty are both juniors, but good point. The team is driven by underclassmen. Jones is a walk on.
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Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl (Indoors) - Baylor vs Vanderbilt
After you set him on fire, you shoot him in the face with a fire hose.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
What is it with Austin drivers and wanting to sit in your blind spot? Made a trip down to Austin today. Driving down MoPac, not too crowded, need to change lanes. Look back, guy in my blind spot. Speed up to create some space so I don't cut him off. He speeds up. Okay, asshole, you don't want me in front of you. Slow down to slide in behind him. He slows down and stays on my quarter panel. What the hell, dude? I've varied speed by 20 mph to get you off my quarter panel and you're still hanging on there like I'm your lead blocker on a sweep. Finally, floorboard and get enough space before he can react, and change lanes. Yes, I used the turn signal. MoPac has to have the goofiest drivers anywhere. So many people texting, eating something, and drinking coffee while they drive down the road.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Asked this exact same question yesterday. I have no clue. Saw a news crawl that said it broke the Spotify request for play with 10.8 million requests. Apparently, somebody not named me likes it.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Unless he'd been quietly recruiting those guys and keeping it under the table to snooker the competition, this strategy was going to fail, long term. I haven't seen any indication Strong was capable of quiet deception, and every kid with a twitter account loves to brag about his offers. Strong ignored recruiting, and counted on the Texas brand to turn some kids. That's a bold strategy, Cotton, until you're going into recruiting with three straight losing years, trying to convince kids that UT is a better deal than the Oklahoma Sooners, who have been winning conference championships and have had their coaching staff contact the kids ever since they were in the tenth grade. You might turn kids that were committed to Tulsa or UTEP, but against successful, power five schools, you get your ass handed to you.
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Jeff Fisher Still Sucks
Think of it like a guy who's been going out getting drunk, beating his wife, and losing his paycheck every week at a poker game for 20 years. One day, his wife kicks him out, changes the locks, and gets a restraining order. He's all like, "What? We've been together for 20 years. You gonna throw that all away?" Fisher had been doing that bullshit in the league for 22 years. He hadn't had a winning season in eight years, and had been getting his contracts renewed. Hell, when the Titans finally wised up, he landed with the Rams by the next season. He thought they'd let him continue at 7-9 until he was the purple wizard of pro football.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Yes, there wasn't a ton of talent on defense when Strong walked in. How many first year head coaches walk into a perfect situation? The reason there's an opening is because things have to be fixed.