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  1. This excursion seems rather vague on location details other than the hiking mention. Is it a visit to @CleverNickname's place?

    On 5/8/2022 at 2:28 PM, CleverNickname said:

    I got to thinking. Lots of people think about digging a hole (maybe?). I have property where a guy could build a hole. And sure about 16 inches down it becomes partially cemented caliche. But only partially. I own a San Angelo bar. And I don't think I will hit a big layer of solid limestone. I saw them dig a septic ta k, and it never had a big problem. So not only could I dig a hole, but that hole could be dug.

    Picked a spot. 

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    Started digging. Off with the grass.. Old scrap cedar 2x of the approximate size for frame of reference. Once I'm down a ways the goal is to be 2.5x4 ft clear with sets made from 4x6s. Or maybe steel panels. It sure yet. I figure I've got plenty of back breaking labor before I have to decide.

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    My helper. I told him I was going to dig a hole. He's in. One day he will inherit my hole. Our hole.

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    Only got about 2 hours of labor in the hole. Hoping to go back out soon and get it all squared up and dug to the harder layer. Then it will be time for my cheap electric jackhammer. 

     

  2. 17 hours ago, Tuco said:

    Speaking of which, I wonder how much of the cursive nostalgia is from folks who struggled at every other subject.

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    Not here, but I do have empathy for those who found it a source of anxiety and angst. I grew up in a multi-generational home and it was considered by those elders as one of the marks of a good student, ergo, it was done.

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  3. 12 hours ago, Tuco said:


    And typing is much faster. And more legible. And nobody hand writes business letters and rarely personal ones. Shit gets outdated and fuck any schooling system that doesn’t adjust, freeing up time to teach new skills that didn’t exist when I was a kid.

    It's not my area of study, but there was research that suggested that handwriting did assist children with sensorimotor skils and memory. Arts integrated curricula were included with this as well. Perhaps one can find other newer methods that would perform likewise, but handing children a piece of paper and a pencil is a lot cheaper so I have no objections to it.

    Plus, when the power grid fails and our infrastructure collapses, we'll all be educating the children in tents and encampments anyway.

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  4. 9 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    One thing unites all men.  Deep down we are all certain that if we are on an airliner and the pilots are passed out or dead, we are the best choice to stay calm and collected and land that sucker with a little help from the tower.

     

    8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Looks like somebody didn't play enough Microsoft Flight Simulator as a kid.

    This is Surly and I'm pretty sure based on the dietary habits of most members, y'all don't have to worry about landing the plane--you're going to die of dysentery. The pilot in California crashed because he was in a hurry to get the cinchoa to the Inca king.

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  5. On 5/12/2025 at 10:05 PM, Texzilla58 said:

    Nonnas.  A cute little movie about an Italian American guy who opens a restaurant on Staten Island with Italian nonnas as chefs.  It’s got a nice cast like Lorraine Branco and Linda Bartalini, but it’s really a love story to Italian American families and their food.  

    Rep for the rec. We watched it last night, and it was worth it.

  6. On 5/10/2025 at 1:24 PM, LCHorn said:

    I just wrapped coaching a team of second graders.  A few random tips:...

    I have tip #8 to add to your seven listed above:

    Make sure you teach them how to do the team shuffle around the vomit on the field (The Replacements) because too much red Gatorade in a young stomach on a hot day is a thing.

  7. If I ate one of those mass produced extruded cheese balls every time these guys (it's almost always the 'red-pilled *guns-eagle-freedom-Jesus-mansplaining' males that do this) tossed around the word "Marx" or "marxist," I would be as orange as the current leader of our country.

    It's such a tell, and I highly doubt they could truly connect the dots between economic and government (political) systems and the differences, histories, and nuances of each. But damn, they sure do know how to projectile vomit the talking points.

     

    *unashamedly stolen from @Brisketexan

     

     

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  8. 9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    And Susan Sarandon…

    She's so good. One of my favorite films she was in later in her career is Shall We Dance (2004), starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. It was a remake of a Japanese film and while some of the reviews compare it as not as good as the original, there's plenty to enjoy with it if you haven't seen it.

    Spoiler comment about her character:

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    Sarandon's portrayal as Gere's husband is just the right amount of angst: she thinks her husband is cheating on her, and that's not it at all. How the two of them fought and later reconcile was done quite well. That part of the film (IMO) outshines the JLo storyline because they are just better actors. Sarandon and Gere had believable chemistry as a financially successful couple who had reached the 'what now?' part of their marriage and life.

     

  9. 8 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

    Nonnas.  A cute little movie about an Italian American guy who opens a restaurant on Staten Island with Italian nonnas as chefs.  It’s got a nice cast like Lorraine Branco and Linda Bartalini, but it’s really a love story to Italian American families and their food.  

    We've been eyeing the trailer for that flick as it keeps appearing via the algorithm and hadn't made up our minds (I'm one of those who doesn't like to quit a movie once I've started even if it's bad) so we may give it a shot.

    On a completely different track--I don't know if they're still in their rotation, but for a while the Dune movies were on Netflix and we watched them again and once more the cinematography was just so stunning.

  10. I miss Lobo too. I was taking a Surly sabbatical and returned to discover he had passed and it was just heart breaking news as he was such a annoyingly lovable rascal.

     

     

    In our family, the buttermilk may never be substituted with regular milk (the 'sour milk' type pancake). My youngest is a purist and as the mama, if I don't spoil 'em who will? As each child leaves the house, they always take the recipe with them. It's nothing special, that recipe, but for them, it's a reminder of home.

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  11. On 5/11/2025 at 12:37 AM, TTU13 said:

    Hahaha we’re still working on a name before we finalize. Have until we get her to the vet to finalize.

    I want a Tech tie or Chicago tie - it’s hard with a female dog. Payton after Walter is one. My wife likes Rory after his masters win.

    Both those names give the same problem you mentioned lol.

    My older brother lived in Chicago for a while when he was going to school and we went up to see him a couple of times and did the usual tourist things.

    Perhaps call her O'Leary.

    It's not sports related though. I'd suggest Mrs. O'Leary's first name, Catherine, but then you'd likely be surrounded by a buncha Grandmas at the playground.

  12. I'm living vicariously through y'alls food crops this season. We had and will have a number of things going on that made growing anything other than flowers problematic. I sowed some herb seeds among the flowers to have basil, dill, etc but bypassed the usual favorites of tomatoes, cukes, etc.

    Given that the temps are rising pretty high this week, good luck with your plots and throw some shade cloth on them if the plants are tiny.

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  13. 15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    He's a savant at the above.

    Generally speaking, he's a moron.

    I agree. I mean when you think about it, even serial killers tend to be good at one thing.

    If DJT actually does have a narcissistic personality disorder, then his self-centeredness,  lack of empathy,  and boundaries leads to a facade wherein people who view him from their own lens ascribe traits to him that may or may not be in his possession. @ChiTownDoc referring to the way he communicates as a 'skill' is also apt.

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  14. 13 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    @MAGATXANG: They don’t assimilate. They don’t want on the right side of the sidewalk and leave all their shoes on the porch. Those are just a couple things. They are extremely rude.

     

    8 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    We have a lot of Indians in our neighborhood and the shoes on the front porch drives my wife crazy. 

    A cultural norm that harms no one doesn't phase me, but now aren't you all wondering if early Americans went around at the barn raising meal grabbing cutlery from their neighbors hands if they held the fork in their left hand Continental Style?

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  15. We saw Past Lives right after it won the Oscar and really liked it. The two leads are quite good and after we saw it, I started keeping an eye out for future projects they'd landed. It was mentioned on an earlier page that Teo Yoo had a role in the second season of The Recruit, (and he's been in some other works, too) but he's filming this summer in Vancouver for the upcoming Lionsgate big budget film, Karoshi ,  which includes Cynthia Erivo of Wicked fame and Isabel May.

    Greta Lee, who plays Nora, has been in quite a few tv & film projects since Past Lives debuted and secured the role of Eve Kim in Tron: Ares; scheduled for an October release.

    I think you captured the emotional impact of the film quite succinctly and the film deserved its Academy Award.

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  16. The Mark Twain Prize award show honoring Conan O'Brien was surprisingly funny for the most part. We thought there might be some good stretches and there were. I won't spoil the punchlines, but some of the speakers were: Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Kumail Nanjiani, Nikki Glaser, Will Ferrell, Andy Richter, John Mulaney, Reggie Watts, and David Letterman.

    We didn't see the original, so it was nice to catch it on Netflix.

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  17. 2 hours ago, Derka said:

    realistically, what does this mean?

     

    For the most part, I'm going to take this for the usual half performative-half market manipulation for which  this regime is known, but I would like to register my grievance with the White House that I'm going to have a little 't' tomorrow and not a Tomorrow because it's Monday and nothing good comes of a Monday when you start adding random capital letters to words.

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  18. On 5/9/2025 at 3:30 PM, fuggled said:

     

    It's pretty much open season now and it's escalating right as we head into summer....bookmark these comments below and return in September to see where we are.

     

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  19. Perhaps this could go in the tariff thread but unemployment works fits here too.

    I'm with the wtf does *this even mean other than it's piss?

    *I understand that the "truthed" refers to his social media platform's name, but hearing that Bessant is in Geneva talking with China is supposed to make the unemployed feel optimistic?

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  20. 1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

    ...and doctors and psychologists in other countries that fund scientific research will be studying this for decades.

    FIFY.

    Heard that NSF laid off another round of employees. Academia is facing some very real very bleak problems given that most states have reduced their portions of higher ed support. An MD-Phd scholar cannot rely on NIH funding for mental health as that was one of the areas with cuts. In the state of Texas, it is the teaching portion of the trifecta (teaching, academic research, and service) that brings in dollars and one of the reasons why tuition grew so high when the state cut out its support. However, what the *research grants fund are not insignificant and not meant to imply that there is no economic benefit to the universities, the local communities, the states, and the nation (not to mention the world at large).

    *Salaries (for post-doctoral positions, lab managers, PhD candidates, etc), supplies, equipment (this is often a pooled shared resource to save start-up funds), and doesn't include the cut off the top that the institution takes for utilities, maintenance, staff support, and so on.

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  21. When an extremely destructive F5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013, the city received about $13 million from FEMA and another $52 million from HUD for a total of $65 million. The charity, Americares, was able to donate about $3 million. Since it's likely that HUD will be joining FEMA in the 'new phone who dis' category, and the state would have to pick up the tab were something so catastrophic were to recur, Oklahoma and every other state (pretty much all of them) had better start manufacturing bootstraps because they're going to need them.

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