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  1. On 3/27/2018 at 10:46 PM, markstanco said:

    There was a thread in beds or CYHMWT or nastys but I can't find it. 

     

    Anyhow looking for an inexpensive wireless 'stat for a remote media room in my house. Don't want to pay for nest for all their time and learning features. All I want is to turn it on and off and to a certain temp. 

     

    Any recs on a Amazon or big box to look at for This? 

    Every once in a while the Honeywell or the Ecobee will be on Amazon for $60ish.  Camelcamelcamel it.

    I had the Honeywell ones and replaced them with the white Nest.  It just works better - easier and connections are more solid.  Plus it works with my alarm app.

    I never use the fancy Nest shit with one exception -  Nest allows you to buy a little $50 wireless mini thermostat (about the size of a golf ball) to put in a certain room and then have that mini control things for all or part of the day.  Our thermostat upstairs is in the hall, and at night the master gets warmer than the hall by a lot.  So I put the mini in our bedroom and from 7:30 to 7:30 it controls the AC.

    I bought my Nests for $110 each, BTW.  

  2. Came to this thread hoping to see a story about how aggy was losing money on regular season victory shirts, or a story about aggy being defrauded by a t-shirt company, or that someone posted a video of an aggy being fucked with a t-shirt (hoping against that but in a can't look away "train wreck" way).

    Turns out it was none of those things.  

  3. 10 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Well, if you can come up with a system that can unequivocally ID the two best teams in the country each and every year and match them up in a winner-take-all championship game then I'd be OK scrapping anything beyond that. But that's not reality. That's why you get OU ahead of Texas in 2008.

    There are 118(?) teams playing D-1 football and none of them playing anything remotely close to a common schedule (not even conference or divisional mates). On top of that, the leagues have different fucking rules -- some play 9 conference games, others play 8; some have extraneous CCG (looking at you Big 12). The SEC hardly plays outside the conference footprint and they don't travel to play anybody. Conference strength can change on a year-by-year basis. It's a goddamn beauty pageant at that point. You want to rely on the computers again? Silly me, I'd like to see something settled on the field like they do at EVERY SINGLE OTHER LEVEL OF FOOTBALL!

    I don't want to water it down and do what college basketball has done. I'm not ready to go to 16 for that matter. But the current system -- better than it was, BTW -- still falls short when you have no real way other than the dreaded "eye test" to determine which four teams will play three games to pick the national champ. This can be better.

    I don't argue that we can do better, but it seems to me that the really stupid results usually come from a refusal to use the "dreaded 'eye test'" more than from using it.  Politics, silly computer formulas, desire to stick to hard-and-fast rules, etc. cause more problems than just asking "who are the best 2 teams?"  That how Florida got a rematch with Florida State in 1996, how OU passed Texas in 2008, and how LSU got to play an overmatched OU in 2003.

    I also just see the "we need 8" as a slippery slope - just like it went from 16 to 32 to 48 to 64 to 68 in basketball.  If someone guaranteed me it would never go past 8 I'd be all for it.

  4. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    I've seen this argument used a lot by those who oppose a playoff at all or an expanded playoff beyond what we have now. It's a red herring. The #5 team getting left out of a 4-team field is far more egregious than #69 getting left out of a 68-team field. #5 is exponentially more likely to win a championship than #69. 

    It’s not a red herring or you don’t understand what I am saying.  What I am saying is that just because a team is top 4 or 8 or 16 doesn’t mean they have a legit shot at winning.  In some years, theoretically speaking, #5 might have realistic shot.  But not usually.  And so “making sure they get in” isn’t what matters. It accomplishes nothing unless they really can win. 

    Another way to put it is that it is far more useful and relevant to have the right choices make up a smaller group than to just “fix the problem” by making the group larger.  In most years, having the consensus best 2 teams would accomplish the same thing as having those 2 sprinkled in among 4, 8 or however many.  The pre-playoff problem to me always was that we didn’t always make that happen.  But in years like 2005, for example, no one was really thinking that we didn’t end up with the two best teams playing for the NC or that we needed a playoff with 2-6 additional teams to figure that out. 

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  5. Every year there's a whole fucking bitchfest show about who didn't get into the basketball tournament and it's fucking 68 teams.  

    Expansion to 8 or 88 won't fix anything - someone will still have a legitimate gripe that they should have gotten in. 

    But the key is that no one should give a shit about someone whining "We should have gotten in."  The only legit argument worth considering is "We could have won the whole fucking thing if we'd been given the shot"  In 2016 Michigan State (and to some extent OU) got in and clearly had no shot.  Same with Washington the next year.  Shouldn't have been there.

    In fact, the fewest legitimate gripes come when there were only 2 teams guaranteed to play each other. It's rare that three teams are really in play.

    Anyone who wants more teams who have no shot is either a degenerate gambler hoping for a fluke upset or someone who likes chaos for its own sake.

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    12 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    TT has one of the best, sneaky good old school unis and it needs to go back to that.  the all white is nice.  The black with with grey pants is fantastic.  

    don't get cute.  These are work clothes.

    Tech actually can do lots of good uniforms. Either red or black jersey with white pants.  White jersey with black pants.    and either red helmets like the Spike Dykes era or white helmets.  Black double T on black helmet just doesn’t make sense.  

    But the silly art school shit and the Oakland Raiders-starter-kit crap need to go.  

     

    You can say pretty much the same thing about Okie Lite.

     

  7. 9 hours ago, thepop said:

     

    Murray would have actually had to play games since high school to lose them.  

    Oh and it was funny when they wouldn’t let him ride the bumper cars at the fair without a parent.  

    Sorry, had to. Carry on with t-shirt talk. 

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    A player almost quit the team at halftime? They were a top ten, undefeated team, down by what, one score at halftime?  How on Earth is your locker room imploding with that little adversity? 

    Who was it?  The guy who tried to fist-fuck on the fumble?  Was he upset his courtship was rebuffed?

  9. 1 hour ago, Newy25 said:

    The last thing I would call the move to get rid of Stoops is “proactive”. This was long overdue. 

    I don't disagree, but it's hard for a first-year coach to fire the legend's brother as DC coming off a year where they went to the CFP.  I think he did it as soon as he could.

    1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

    The Mike Stoops hire was widely panned as a terrible move.

    Hereabouts, yes, but in OK that's all hindsight.  The Okies wanted Venables gone and for Mike to take over as DC the second he was fired at AZ.  It was a popular move for BoD to hire his brother back.  Here's just the first article from a google search:

    https://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/dave-sittler-don-t-underestimate-bob-stoops-loyalty-to-brent/article_f68c2d12-ad44-525d-b4d1-2fc9ec0bb774.html

     

  10. 7 hours ago, Rockwell Torrey said:

    This right here. We scored nearly 50 points on them once.  Bob Stoops treated Mack Brown like a Thai hooker locked in the hold of a Russian fishing trawler that had been at sea for three months.  FUPM never demonstrated this level of awareness and decisiveness.  

    Agreed.  They are more proactive.  They see trends and adjust before they become facts.  Heupel a few years ago, this move, Stoops’ resignation all speak to a very nimble and aggressive decision-making process. We tend to wait and see to the point that the decision makes itself.

    Only dumb move they made was dropping Venables because Mike Stoops got fired from Arizona and needed a job.  And even that move didn’t look as bad at the time as it turned out to be. 

  11. Jesus those Okies are amazing.  Beat Texas and they cancel class. Lose and they fire a million-dollar DC legacy whose brother has a statue.  

    It’s even funnier that just two days ago those idiots were all saying over and over that “our fight song doesn’t mention Texas -shows how much more Texas cares”.  Never mind that their fight song only has two words and that we kept explaining that the words to our song were “make ‘em eat shit” for every other game.  

  12. 11 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

    so we were throwing the ball or went conservative? It's like people were watching different games.

    I think we wanted to go conservative and give them heavy dose of Ingram.  But the zebras’ sudden decision to call holding on every run resulted in a weird wanna-be ball control pass-only plan that didn’t really work. 

  13. 8 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

    I saw a dipshit sooner can wearing a Maryland flag as a cape yesterday. Turns out Maryland’s points didn’t carry over to yesterday’s game. 

    I saw that pansy-ass loser at the fair after the game.  Fucker ordered a veggie corn dog at Fletcher’s. Seriously. 

  14. 1 hour ago, XYZ said:

    Probably a combination of fatigue and losing focus with the 3 TD lead.

    Several of the lapses late (including the TD pass) were zone defense where our guys got just the plain mixed up assignment-wise. I believe that was mental fatigue from dealing with some frankly creative playcalling from Riley.  It was like he had a different playbook for the first 5 minutes and the last 10 minutes of the game.  

  15. 2 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    I’m sitting at 30-26-3 or .534. I need to be >.500 when I die.

    Armybrat, you’re at 62-46-5 or .571.

    How about the rest of you?

    This was the 30th one I have been to in a row.  15-14-1.  

    So this win was important.  

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  16. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It's best to get them while they are young, and preferably in the country illegally so that they have less incentive to contact the authorities.

    Put them in something like that shed, where they have a little bit of room to move around and what not, something to occupy their time (TV) and keep them extremely isolated for at least 3-4 months.  Very isolated - with you being their only contact.  And not just minimizing their contact with anybody else, but minimizing it with you, perhaps even going so far as to wear a mask of some sort when you have direct contact with them.  But do minimize the contact - have some sort of mechanism for giving them food and whatever else they may require, that keeps them from directly interacting with you.  Don't beat them (unless they are actively trying to escape).

    After 3-4 months, bring in some close friends.  Have some reason to enter their shed, basement living quarters whatever, and then conveniently "forget" to lock the door as you leave.  Have your friends stationed near by.  When your captive comes out, have your friends claim to be neighbors and start asking he or she if they are okay, can they help them, and just when they think they are about to reach freedom, have your friends start beating the ever living shit out of them, with no warning.  After your friends leave, go to the captive, help them up, treat their wounds, be nice/gently to them, bring them food, etc.

    Go 2-3 months (enough for your captive to heal), and bring in a different set of friends.  Again, conveniently "forget" to lock the door.  Have your friends open the door and say they are neighbors and became concerned when they caught a glimpse of your captive.  Start asking he or she if they are okay, when they come out, expecting help, again, have your friends just start tearing into them with no warning - perhaps using pieces of garden hose (you don't want any broken bones).  Beat the shit out of them.  Again, just like before, after your friends leave, go to the captive, help them up, treat their wounds, be nice/gently to them, bring them food, etc.

    Let things go another 3-4 months, and  after they are healed up, again, bring in a couple of friends.  This time have them dressed as police officers.  Have them bang on the door, and act like they are breaking the lock/door, have them enter, bring the captive out, say they are police and they were here to rescue he or she, and have them ask what is going on, why is he or she locked in the shed/whatever, and so on.  And just when the captive gets their hopes up, have your friends say something like "you know, we really don't like your kind around here" followed by another horrific beating (but not horrific enough for the hospital).  Again, just like before, after your friends leave, go to the captive, help them up, treat their wounds, be nice/gently to them, bring them food, etc.

    Depending on the captive, at this point, they should be scared absolutely shitless of coming into contact with anybody but you.  They are going to be terrified (hopefully) of the neighbors and law enforcement.  If not, maybe repeat the process a time or two.  

    The end result is a docile captive that is terrified of everybody but you.

    I feel like you have really thought this through. 

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