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  1. I tried the Googles; sorry to ask here. Can I select the games I want in multiview or am I stuck with whatever 4 they bundle? Can I select just 2?
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    First 2 hours of MTV

    “The Real World” killed MTV only because MTV had to move in that direction to survive—as a crappy version of itself. See, the station needed to up its advertising prices. You do that by selling ad spots for different amount of money depending on projected eyes on screen. Super Bowl ad slots sell for more than Price is Right slots because you can predict more eyes on screen (also value of those eyes depending on demographics but I digress). When we all just tuned in and out to watch videos (the best days of MTV), it was near impossible for the network to sell Monday at 6 p.m. for any different rate than Thursday at 8 p.m. There was no “scheduled programming” to draw viewers like corn at a deer feeder. So MTV launches a program that has a set time. It becomes very popular and ad space sold during its block is worth many times more than the slot between REO Speedwagon Take it On the Run and McCartney/Jackson Say Say Say. The execs like the money, want more scheduled programming to sell at a premium, and a once-great network is ruined—at least for those of us that lived a life where MTV just played in the background nonstop. Now you get to a Yogi Berra conundrum when you think about now and how do you sell any spots when no one watches at all. I guess this is where subscription money and cheap ads barely keep it afloat.
  3. Strike happening next week or nah?
  4. Great. Heading there for a conference on Monday.
  5. I'll go in a bit different direction than divorce or kid stuff. Grew up in south Texas where it was an hour to the grocery store. My family was super tight as we spent all our time together. Not many friends for any of us including parents as it was just too remote. From as far back as I can remember I spent tons and tons of time with my dad. He worked in the oil field checking on wells, and I could ride to work with him everyday in the summer. We ate big dill pickles, drank semi-cool Dr Peppers and just talked. ALOT. Many, many nights he would come in my room to say good night before I went to bed, and he would sit on the corner of the bed and tell me that all we had in this world was each other and our family. Seemed correct to me. Go off to college but come back and forth regularly to hunt and fish and often times work with him. So never a hard separation. Flash forward to 1995 and I have been working in Austin after college. Still seeing my folks every month or two. But I decided I hated my job and I got recruited to go to graduate school several states away. Call dad, telling him I am coming home to spend Christmas but will load up a few things I had there and I would be leaving to go off far away. He is excited for me and glad I am coming home for the holidays for a few days. We hunt and fish. The day comes that I need to leave so we get up and drink a few cups of coffee. I have a 15-hour drive ahead of me so I say I need to go. We walk out to front of house and he wants to show me a new tool, then a place for a future flower bed, and then some dent on a trailer, etc, etc. We walk around and talk and everytime I head toward my truck, he says "Hey, look at this...." Anyway, after an hour, I say "Dad, I have to get on the road." I get in the truck, roll the window down. He comes over and starts telling a story. I say, I have to go and I put the truck in drive. Say I love you, and start out of the driveway. He starts walking toward the house...and falls to his knees crying. I am watching all this in the rearview mirrow. I start bawling. I just about throw it in park, but I know if I step out of that truck, I will never leave. I grip the wheel, point the truck east and drive off with him in the yard..lost, broken, alone. Didn't see him and mom for almost a year. A long, hard year.
  6. This is a suckerpunch out of nowhere. I had decided to travel where I must to see him this year. Wish I would have tried harder. Some great songs that provide the soundtrack to some of my best and worst memories.
  7. Yep. Beer available in stadium. I think it was $12 for tall boys.
  8. You will be in Tuscaloosa in 45 minutes if you leave at 10 a.m. Traffic will be light but steady. I would figure on traffic not being a problem until around 2 p.m. You will see people drinking a beer and walking around, but I am not sure about legality. I would use a Koozie or maybe dump it in a Yeti cup just to be safe. I drank my tallboys out of a papersack last weekend with no trouble. On the strip, vendors will be selling beer in street kiosks ($6 is what I saw as the going price). Many people were openly drinking and walking. In terms of shuttle from Lot A, I parked near there last weekend. I just walked--it was about a 10-minuted trek to the quad. I didn't see a shuttle, but I wasn't really looking either.
  9. FYI, the donut/breakfast place downtown on University near Greensboro Ave (south side of University) was legit. One option was a maple donut with bacon on top--I got the breakfast biscuit with eggs and bacon. Anyway, cool local spot near a ton of stuff. Line got long after a while.
  10. Brutal. https://twitter.com/IQfor3/status/1699993724783096259?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1699993724783096259|twgr^e6182ef9920196988ef2c25b27a8440d2e7775ca|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2023%2F09%2Fkadarius-toney-chiefs-lions-drops-mixtape-video Also....
  11. Thanks. Wife moved one of the Firesticks from a kid's TV to our living room TV, and sure enough, was able to access Youtube TV. Thanks for the advice. Now if I go ahead and subscribe to Youtube TV, can I purchase other Firesticks for additional TVs in the house and watch on all using the same subscription? Watch online at the same time?
  12. I know nothing about this stuff. I just know I am tired of Suddenlink/Optimum cable and I am thinking about going to Youtube TV. I assume that means I need a smart TV. Thoughts on this one: https://www.costco.com/.product.4000187013.html Or recommendation please.
  13. Try that in a small town. Then go get some McDonald's.
  14. Yep, Innisfree is sorta the beginning of no-man's land. I was in there on Sunday, and I was surprised to see how much it had changed. Lots shadier than it was 15 years ago. Food sucked. Don't eat there. Booze was fine.
  15. Start at Black Warrior Brewing on University downtown. Low key place. Then walk down to Loosa. Then walk across the street to Innisfree. You will be getting closer and closer to campus on this trek. If you want to drink at the bars on the strip, Innisfree is just a quarter mile away or so. Head down to Houndstooth or Phil’s—end up at Gillettes and get a YellowHammer. Or just stay downtown. There are places on University and the street/area immediately to the north basically behind DePalmas Restaurant—which has pretty good Italian food/pizza.
  16. sitting in Black Warrior Brewing waiting for a rain cloud to pass before I walk to campus. Margaritaville came on the radio and the whole bar sang along. Then back to silence. No one said a word otherwise.
  17. Moved here from Austin in 1995, lived here 5 years and loved it. Just never stayed in a hotel. And the town and university were much smaller back then. I’m sure I’m about to find out that I like it less now than I did then. I suppose that is a common theme when 50-year-olds go back to the places where they burned up their 20s.
  18. Was going to post this video a few days ago. Just a thrown together bit of footage but it paints a nice picture. The girl, who I believe became his wife, is smokin’. There’s not a person over 30 who doesn’t have some great memories that are tethered to a Buffett song or two. Seemed like the soundtrack to certain years of my life. And not many guitar players haven’t learned a few Jimmy songs. I’m in Tuscaloosa for the game today and know that the people of this state hold him dearly. I suspect the pre-game music today will have him in heavy rotation. If I had’em with me, I’d have my hush puppies on.
  19. Well, I’m sitting on the throne in the Tuscaloosa Ramada Inn right now. The toilet my might be the cleanest thing about this place—and that is before I flush. What a dump (the hotel). Sorry if you booked here. For $300 a night, I expected the bathroom door to not be rusted off the hinges.
  20. Good to know. I added Valencia only because of paella—not kidding. Easy to add time to Seville for sure. Someone had told me that Seville was the Lubbock of Spain. As a current Lubbock resident, I was not excited about that description.
  21. Thanks. Need to work out the details in the next 30 days. Travel will be in July. Will it be miserably hot (I know it will be hot--but miserable?) Was in Greece for most of July this year and it was...warm...miserably warm at times.
  22. I need to plan a Spain trip for next summer. 12 to 14 days with a small group. Want to move about the country. Also thinking about a day or two in Morocco. Has anyone taken the ferry across the Straight to Tangier? Thinking: Fly into Barcelona—stay three nights Train to Valencia—stay two nights Train to city further south (Alicante, Murica or Cartagena)—stay two nights Train to Malaga or Seville—stay two nights Get to Tangier—stay two nights Fly home Any advice is appreciated. Have travelled all over but never to Spain/North Africa
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