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Mach 1

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  1. Just to put a cherry on the shit sundae that is private school tuiton, an anecdote:

    Wife's uncle taught at Loyola Baltimore.  Had a conversation a few years back about tuition before he retired.  I asked about the increasing cost of college tuition and he said, "It's real, we just increased tuition X percent."  I said something naive along the lines of "Wow, costs must really be affecting the university."  His response shocked me:  "Not really.  Our peer schools increased their tuition so we had to match so as not to seem less presitigous."

    He wasn't an adminstrator, so could be bullshit, but I suspect there's a level of truth there.

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Brew said:

    Looks like you are in the same area with the exact same thoughts that we had. Wash U, NW, Univ of Chi, NYU, Illinois, UNC, William and Mary, UGA, Belmont as her safety school, and then going to Boston fall break to look at a few around there.

    Yep.

    U Chicago really nice.  She wasn't feeling it for the "whole college experience" social aspect, but they don't fuck around when it comes to job placement.

    UNC - didn't visit since only 20%? out of state allowed

    William Mary - I thought it was great, she thought everyone she met was weird. And they noted one of the social things to do was take a shuttle to an outlet mall. Nope.

    We all liked Wake alot BTW.  And UVA.

  3. On 8/26/2023 at 4:44 PM, AnTiM said:

    Interesting that all religions tell us to love one another while they kill members of a different religion without mercy.  Then there is Islam, in which Sunnis and Shiites massacre each other in the name of Allah.

    Timely. I'm listening to a Conflicted podcast about just this.  Mohammed really was a peaceful and pious guy ... other than those times he raided caravans for money.  But putting that aside Islam really was a religion of peas until he died, then the shit hit the fan between is son-in-law (Shia) and his favorite wife (Sunni).   All his pious and peaceful teachings were thrown out the window for pure base human desire for power and revenge, mostly from his wife.  Hypocrites to the extreme.

    Oh shit, did I just start a fatwa? 

  4. Same boat as alot of you guys, daughter has the grades/scores/extras and wants to shoot for the stars with top private schools.

    Wife and I were kind of smug starting the college tours this year, patting each other on the back for starting a 529 when they were babies and saving enough for all 4 years

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT.  OUR $200K PLUS ONLY PAYS FOR 2.5 YEARS?

    Thankfully her counselor has her applying to some state schools as back ups, but the leaders in the pack so far are Emory, Northwestern and Wash U - all absolutely gorgeous and all reaches.  Trip to Boston area schools coming up next month. Needless to say we're scrambling to figure out the final 1.5 years.  Fuck me.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    A reminder of what Worthy can do when he's not helplessly trying to track long bombs

    And today's pick from the long-running Texas-Rice poster war

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    IIRC Worthy said it wasn’t that big of a deal, ran that route all the time in practice, knew he would score.

  6. 34 minutes ago, Slacks said:

    That's my point. The thing that he was excellent at in other spots is not the thing he's been excellent at here. Maybe not excellent play caller will suffice in combination with running the program excellently. 

    No. He needs to do both or bring in help to take pressure off one or other. 

    I’m optimistic. I think his play calling improves with his confidence in the team’s talent, experience.

  7. Devastating.  Been going to Kaanapali with my family every year for 20 years. Absolutely horrific for local homeowners and business, heartbreaking.   

    I pulled this off a timeshare website, on the ground footage that is truly apocalyptic.  Banyan Tree trunks appear okay.

    https://m.facebook.com/groups/stolenstuffhawaii/permalink/3538316846430969/?mibextid=Nif5oz

    Not sure why it won't embed, link seems to work.

     

  8. Probably in the minority but I’m looking forward to future Big 12 games. It’s so random based on history of each school.  I’d prefer it stay within geographic conferences, but the interesting games to watch, for me, were teams that had no history of conference play.
     

    Big 12 will deliver a lot of that. That’s said, fuck em.

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  9. I shit you not I’m at the Westin Michigan Avenue bar. Three young guys in suits drinking next to me and I hear “between Austin and San Antonio.”

    Ears prick up. “Fuck it, I buy it and park RVs on it until time to sell.” Some more discussion, obviously one dude from Texas. Wondering if I should ask about his San Marcos interest.

    Check comes, they leave, I read this thread.

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  10. I’m 13 pages in and already laughing:

    1) if your husband decides to take a trip to Thailand to “think through some stuff”

    2) If resentment is drinking poison  .. then the rest of the B12 is in a perpetual hemlock happy hour.

    Well done.

    Streaking meteor in the back mirror from the Uhaul. JFC.

    I’ve purchased all of these just to keep on top of where we stand with position groups and  future schedule team. But the turn of phrase is worth the price of admission.

     

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    What do you think about my prior argument regarding the correlation between tweet embeds and disinformation content? Segment out the sports and recruiting tweets and I’d make a run at any reasonable line. Just go take a browse of the top CR threads for example after example if you want. 
     

    I am not sure why the notion that Twitter embeds should be removed from the board functionality is so offensive to many here. 

    Fair enough. My posts were meant to be bigger picture but must not have landed.

    Carry on.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    This is of course true. But there is clear body of emerging evidence related to the psychopathology associated with algo driven social media consumption. Perhaps we could nip that in the bud in this community by turning that shit off. 

    You may be right. But this a community of Longhorn football fans looking for informational water in a sea of a 15 year desert.  If they get some side show bullshit from Elmo or whatever disinformation political bot that infects that information, I’ll trust the intellect of MOST people here to suss that out and eject. I think you’re tilting against windmills; grab back your humor my man.

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  13. Hey can we stop the dog piling on Anastasis. I don’t agree - or sometimes even know what the fuck point he is trying to make - but let him make it without the barrage.

    He adds to other parts of the site. Maybe he deserves the vitriol for some views, but JFC when someone loses their sense of humor in response to a Chooky post, I think it’s time to for everyone to back off.  @Anastasis chill out, not everyone that disagrees is brain damaged.

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  14. The best show currently on television or streaming or what’s the difference any more.

    First season was about a restaurant with the involvement of broken people. Season two about broken people opening a restaurant.

    Both were great. Merge them moving forward. 

    I did a double take seeing Donnie Madea in show. Dude is the ultimate host. When I lived in Chicago in the late 90s we were at Blackbird every weekend and he was always gracious. Good for him. 

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