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Richard Kimball

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  1. Too late to edit above post, but I responded before checking to see if Morgan's picture had already been posted. Another random thought: Morgan's what fast food looks like in the commercials. His real daughter is what fast food looks like at the restaurant.
  2. Yeah, there's a reason Morgan Smith-Goodman was the redhead in the ads.
  3. I'm not interested in getting high, but have arthritis in my hip, which is keeping me from running. According to the doctor, running won't cause further damage, but it's going to hurt. How is this for arthritis, and which product would be best?
  4. Part of it is being delusional, and part of it is selling the product you've got. Coca Cola may be the most popular soft drink, but if you're selling Squirt, Squirt's the best damned soft drink in the world.
  5. He's not losing his shit. He's looking at what are the released design renderings and pointing out that even if they're completed, it will be an underwhelming facility. I'm not crazy about the college football arms race, but it's here, my opinion be damned. Not even getting into fancy crap, there's not enough space to practice, unless part of the team is somewhere else. I've covered 2A high schools that have more practice space, although admittedly, they don't have an inside field.
  6. Space is a problem. By comparison, Baylor has two full length outside fields and are rebuilding their current inside field from 80 yards to 100 yards. Just listing Baylor cause I cover them and am familiar with their facilities. Baylor has money, but not that much money, and should not be able to dunk on Texas from a facilities standpoint. If this is all their practice space, they're going to have to stagger drills. There's 135 players and having wide receiver, running, coverage, and offensive and defensive line drills at the same time is going to have people running one set of drills into another. Kicking practice will have to be staggered, cause placekicking and punting takes up a lot of real estate. The indoor facility looks like a storage shed for farm equipment. It's an upgrade from the bubble, but damn.
  7. SEC was a bad example of how conferences used to be. I was thinking in the SWC and Big 8 mindset. However, it got you on the board and started some convos, so, like with the youtube guys that predict conference realignment, you don't have to be right, you just have to be interesting. What I'm also wondering about is that you're going to have some teams that have a permanent rival of something like Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Mizzery. Then someone else will have Bama, LSU and Georgia. Those examples may not play out exactly, but there's going to be some serious bitching about the schedules, and somebody's going to be convinced they're getting screwed. Those scheduling meetings better be held in offices without breakable furniture.
  8. Thanks for getting that. I checked Bama and several others, and they had each played each other each year. Must have picked all permanent rivals. Anyway, good to see you on the board.
  9. Conferences moving forward will not be conferences as we think of them, but more corporate conglomerates negotiating as a group. For example, up until 1991, when Arkansas and South Carolina joined the SEC, each SEC team played every other SEC team every year. In a four year college career, a player would visit every other school in the conference twice, and would play them at home twice. IIRC, the last two times Alabama played South Carolina was in 2010 and 2019. They may be in the same conference, but that's not even being friends with benefits. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I suspect Alabama has played several teams out of conference more often in the time span from 2010 to 2022. In the old Southwest Conference, most games were a reasonably quick road trip from Texas to TCU, Rice, Baylor, aggy, SMU, Oklahoma (OOC but annual and neutral site.) Even the longer away games were doable by vehicle (Tech, Arkansas.) Everyone had an opinion on all the other schools. Where it was Rice (those poor bastards,) Baylor (I hate those bastards and don't ever want to see them again) aggy (I REALLY hate those bastards and don't care if we ever play them again,) Oklahoma (I REALLY, REALLY hate those bastards and want to play them every year just to kick their asses,) and on. From this perspective, Texas came out great in the move to the SEC. They'll make more money, and keep the rival games (probably) that mean the most to them. But as far as being a traditional conference? Unless we get stuck having to play Mizzery every year, we won't even know they exist. It will be that way with about half of our "conference mates." Another thing that's changed is the fans in the stands. The newest stadiums are built more like television studios than stadiums. The fans are the studio audience. Road trips, except for the Surly elites that fly in on their private jets while drinking latte while Scarlett Johansson gives them a foot rub, will be a lot less common. I'm not saying it will be better or worse, but it will be different.
  10. HA! 47%! On some awards show, Homelander won as the best villain. I said, "Wait a minute! Homelander's a villain?"
  11. Lowest possible score is 300. If that mofo was a victim of identity theft, his rating would go up.
  12. And you were kind enough not to mention the $50 million in overpayments from Comcast that the PAC discovered but failed to disclose. People probably should have gone to jail over that.
  13. Figures it was a Leach quote. Damn, I miss that guy.
  14. Does anyone else find it weird that a conference that prides itself on being the smartest conference around screws up contract negotiations this badly? On Zaninovich leaving the PAC to go to Trail Mix or whatever, you know the old joke about the difference between the bacon and the eggs at breakfast? The chicken is involved. The pig is committed. Zaninovich went from being the pig to being the chicken. He can walk away from PAC12 negotiations any time he wants now, and take on other projects.
  15. Oh hell's yeah. Give it a shot. Shit, just get a couple of extras printed, and if you screw one up, who cares, as long as the originals are safe. Check if the printer will take photo paper. The bypass usually feeds it straighter.
  16. Damn, dude, you got my OCD going again. It sounds like you're getting into genealogy, which means this is something you want to pass down to your kids. Start thinking archival. Avoid putting new information directly upon the photograph. @Patricio Swayze suggested printing on adhesive labels, but the glue on those labels will eventually permeate the photos. Here's my suggestion: Take a scan of the original photo. You can have it done professionally, but I use a HP printer/scanner, set to 300 dpi color (even on black and white prints.) All photos will eventually fade and deteriorate. Black and white chemicals are more stable than the color dyes used for color prints (these are the old wet chemical prints, not the newer inkjet prints,) but all will eventually fade. Store these scans with a backup (I use dropbox. If you have an Apple, you can use icloud, etc., but the important thing is to have a copy somewhere off site if you have a fire/computer crash, etc. Get archival quality photo sleeves. An example is here. This is from Amazon, and note it is archival quality, acid free, and non-cling. Normal office supply stuff, including the envelopes, will damage the photos. manilla folders will leach dye into the photo. White envelopes are normally recycled, so they use bleach to get the paper back to an original white color. This bleach will also leach into the photo. Having a sleeve that's acid free and non-cling will prevent chemicals from leaching in, and will prevent the photo from sticking to the front of the sleeve and pulling the image off. Having the photo in a sleeve in a binder will protect it from physical damage, and prevent sunlight or indoor lights from damaging it. Put the genealogy information on a separate piece of paper, and slide it into a different sleeve on the same page. Put the photos into a non-plastic binder. Here's an example, it's got a fabric cover. I wouldn't worry too much about if the notebook is archival, cause the sleeves will protect it, but if you want to go whole hog, you can get an archival notebook that comes with a box for it to be kept in when not viewing. When I was a young bastard, I worked at the Harry Ransom Center. They spend a lot more than I'm suggesting here, but we're talking about stuff like a Gutenberg Bible, not family photos. What I suggested should provide good protection without breaking the wallet.
  17. On most of the new ones, just hit 1 and it will start automatically. All the numbers convert to minutes. Hit 2 to go for two minutes. You can hit the "Add time" button to add thirty seconds. If you want to get precise and cook like "1:15" hit the Time Cook button and it will take it in seconds, but everything left of the ":" will be in minutes. On older ones, 1:00 or :60 doesn't make any difference. Digit on the left of the ":" converts to minutes, so it will go from "1:00" to "0:59" or "0:60" to ""0:59." I'm an OCD guy who's serious about how long I microwave my popcorn.
  18. Dopamine. Alcohol gives you an immediate feedback that is initially positive. Every drunk has one memory of when they reached a point of feeling absolutely perfect, not out of control, but ecstatically happy, mellow, and that everything was right in the world. They spend the rest of their drinking career trying to get that back.
  19. I do sales, so my cell number is out there, and I have to take all calls, so get a lot of calls from spammers. I'm going to admit grudging respect for one of them. He called me, said he was with "Medicare providers...had I received my package...confirm my address and they'll send it out..." I said, "Hey, I'm masturbating right now. Can you call back in a half hour?" Son of a bitch called back.
  20. Off topic, but as bad a movie as Mannequin was, I've probably watched it twenty times just cause Kim Cattrall.
  21. True, and Texas-Oklahoma, Oklahoma-Nebraska, Texas-aggy, Kansas-Mizzery, and several other regional matchups could have been leveraged to build the brand. Unfortunately, the conference thought the future was kissing ass to fat guys in ugly blazers to get a bowl invite. Bad enough management can kill anything. Sears pioneered the mail order business and should have been Amazon. Kodak invented the digital camera. What Yormark is showing is that there are other ways to leverage your brand.
  22. Troof. There's a paradox in sports viewership of habit and "new shiny thing." A new shiny thing program has to have sustained success over a period of time in order to become a habit. In private schools, the only big brands I can think of are Southern Cal, Notre Dame and way further down the line, ...............Miami? SoCal and Notre Dame both had on the field success, but more important was that SoCal became the "go to" team for movie studios back in the old days due to their proximity to most of the studios, and were featured in a lot of movies. The Catholic Church used to have an envoy to the movie industry. Knute Rockne, All American, was an advertisement for Notre Dame. If you look at all the old sports movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, if they featured football, the teams portrayed were either going to be SoCal or Notre Dame. Boise State shows the problem of a new shiny thing becoming a brand. To become a brand, you have to beat a brand. During their good runs, none of the brands wanted to play them, cause there was nothing in it for them. Beating Boise State didn't help their brand, and how much shit did Oklahoma catch for losing to them? There are also some teams that will NEVER become brands, regardless of success on the field. TCU, Vanderbilt, Baylor, etc. There's only room for so many brands. Even in the NFL, regardless of on field success, I don't think you ever see the Jacksonville Jaguars or Tennessee Titans become a brand. In three more years will be the 60th Super Bowl. Dallas was last in Super Bowl 30. Unless they do something unexpected, it will be over half of Super Bowl history where the Cowboys haven't made an appearance, and they're still the most popular NFL team. Hell, the Cleveland Browns haven't been relevant since Art Modell fired Paul Brown in 1963 and ran off Jim Brown by fining him for missing part of spring camp while making The Dirty Dozen. They're still the tenth most popular franchise. When UT is good, it unites the entire state, except for College Station.
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