Everything posted by smwhorn
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two people hit by truck in Tarrytown, one dead, the other in serious condition
Terrible, tragic accident. I read a few of the articles, and it does not appear there were any witnesses. I'm curious if there were criminal charges filed in Travis County against the driver. With that said, Texas law says that pedestrians must walk on the sidewalk and not in the street if there is one. Sec. 552.006. USE OF SIDEWALK. (a) A pedestrian may not walk along and on a roadway if an adjacent sidewalk is provided and is accessible to the pedestrian. (b) If a sidewalk is not provided, a pedestrian walking along and on a highway shall walk on the left side of the roadway or the shoulder of the highway facing oncoming traffic, unless the left side of the roadway or the shoulder of the highway facing oncoming traffic is obstructed or unsafe. (c) The operator of a vehicle emerging from or entering an alley, building, or private road or driveway shall stop and yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian approaching on a sidewalk extending across the alley, building entrance or exit, road, or driveway. I did not know this until a client of mine was sued for hitting a pedestrian while he was driving and on the way to take his daughter to school. My client says (and no, I wasn't there so hell I don't know) the pedestrian was not on the sidewalk, was walking near the curb with his back to my client, then sort of stepped out in front of my client's car. He hit the pedestrian with his side view mirror. Pedestrian had a fractured wrist. I am NOT commenting or in any way suggesting this couple did anything wrong. I obviously have no idea what they saw, were doing, if the sidewalk was blocked, or what the truck driver guy was watching or doing. Merely commenting that I was surprised to learn that Texas law says a pedestrian may not walk on the roadway if a sidewalk is provided and accessible. I also did not know that if a sidewalk is not available, that Texas law says a pedestrian shall walk on the left side of the roadway facing the oncoming traffic. Regardless, I cannot imagine the pain of the family in dealing with a situation like this incident.
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2024 Rain Thread: All Your El Nino Are Belong to Us
I am going to respectfully disagree with this take. And I was without power in Houston for 8 days and at the office for 6 days.
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2024 Rain Thread: All Your El Nino Are Belong to Us
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/hill-country-rain-lake-levels-19594229.php "Levels at Lake Travis could rise by as much as five feet." We'll see.......
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¡Snek!
I was there about a month ago and saw a diamondback making its way along the trail.
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2024 PGA Tour
Omar Uresti T10 after two round in the US Senior Open. Yeah, I know. It's early. But that's some pretty good golfin' right there.
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The Girl w/ The Dragon Tattoo--Swedish trilogy
Books are good. Worth the read. Seem to recall somewhere on the internets (so it has to be true) that the Swedish version of the movies stuck to the books but the version with Mara did not.
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Texas Men's Golf
It's early, but let's just say we had a good first day. Hit it where they mow boys.
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Greece Thread
Bumping this thread. We're doing an Athens - Athens cruise for our 35th wedding anniversary. We are not stopping in Santorini or Milos. Once back in Athens, we'll have four days and three nights before our flight back from Athens. Try to hit both Santorini and Milos? This will be end of October so we will not have the summer crowds. We'll be in Athens for three days and two nights before we get on the boat.
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Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread
Pretty hard to blame that on our pitching (which as admittedly sucked ass).
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Michigan Game Time
Nope. Wasn't smart enough to figure that out truthfully.
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Michigan Game Time
Anybody ever made the drive from DTW to Ann Arbor the morning of an 11:00 am kickoff?
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Wonka (Chalamet, Hugh Grant in Orangeface)
Watched this again on cable telly-vision this evening. This is a really good movie. Don’t see how anyone could trash or dump on it.
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Help me wager one hunnert dollars please
Headed to Vegas this weekend. In addition to my normal gambling routine, I'm looking for some random $100 wager on something in the 25-1 odds range. Anyone? Anyone?
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Erwin Center Concerts (you saw & ones you wished you could have seen)
I was there. Great show. I think the 1984 Thanksgiving show was better though. Best I ever saw there.
- Texas (-5.5) vs OU- 1pm on ESPN
- RIP Mort
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True Detective Season 1
Bumping this thread. Mrs. Smwhorn and I binged it over the past few days. It was our first time through. Really fucking good but there's just some shit I didn't understand or am not smart enough to have caught the first time through. Unfortunately, it took me 10 years to watch it the first time. I am going to look for one thing though without binging a second time. Trying not to "spoil" anything and being as bland and generic as possible, I want to know why they didn't notice the "bad guy" the first time they came across him.
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Texas (+4.5) @ Texas Tech- Tuesday, 8pm on ESPN
I think we cover and win. ZERO legitimate or arguable reasons to think so considering how shitty we have played recently, but from time to time, we just win some games we shouldn't win. Gut feeling. Nothing else. No, I'm not betting any of you sumbitches any money on my gut feeling.
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Greatest movie scenes ever
True Romance scene between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper.
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Brian Wilson is near the end
Aren't The Beach Boys supposed to play Jazzfest in New Orleans this year?
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Brett Goldstein live
Don't really know where to put this one. He was in Austin last night. Anyone go see the show? He's also got a show today at 6:00.
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bradley cooper is leonard bernstein in "maestro" (he also wrote/directed)
Watched it last night. Bradley Cooper was great. I just didn't really like the movie. Can't explain why. Just didn't get into it. And I'm a theatre/musical theatre/big band kinda nerd. Don't judge me.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
I'm surprised actually at how hard this is beating me up. No fever but coughing, sore throat, hacking up crap, headache and very fucking tired.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Tested positive for RSV yesterday. I'm 61. It is hitting me pretty hard. It put me flat on my back for a couple of days with some very painful coughing/hacking, congestion, etc. Feel a little bit better today and am hopefully over the hump. Doc said no medication would help. Just over the counter stuff and let it run its course. The internets seem to say the same thing. If anyone has any tricks that worked, I'm listening.
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Britney Griner
Rapelor to retire Griner's jersey number. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39417608/baylor-honor-brittney-griner-retiring-no-42-jersey