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boilerhorn

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  1. He’s such a man-child. Drives me crazy that he calls Newsom Newscum. Among other things.
  2. Need to bring over a couple of her recent greatest hits from the Clark thread.
  3. You'd think someone, somewhere within the organization would say, "Hey, this is kinda weird. Let's rethink it." Like, maybe Trev Alberts. There are a lot of top Ag/Vet schools around the country that also participate in D1 athletics: OkState, Purdue, Florida, VaTech, NCState, etc. Each has its idiosyncrasies, but nothing like this. I'll even give a pass for the photos with Reveille, as it's the school mascot. Any other random animal is just weird. Nothing new here, just felt like typing it out.
  4. Flying AA from AUS to LAX this week. high likelihood of success. Direct.
  5. As noted around 4 pages earlier, the email from Texas with a link to shirts showed up fast. Best part about the shirts: 2025 NCAA Softball National Champions Second best part about the shirts: No sign of the garish SEC icon anywhere to be seen.
  6. Doesn't privilege extend beyond death? Unless the client specifically allows something different? /NotALawyer
  7. Sucks really bad - devastating. So horrible for the family. Hit the "like" emoji, but I definitely do not like the news.
  8. Searched and did not seem to find a good thread for this. So I will start one anew. Old-ish garage door opener tries to go down when already in the down position. Not feeling like DIY-ing it right now. My most recent garage door contractor sold out, but it is not clear who he sold out to. I've seen good reviews on Cedar Park Overhead Door. What say the masses? Let's crowd-source this...
  9. It is 100% thankless. And I felt the same way after some seasons. Most of the time, the $25 post-season coach gift card to academy and the team photo was an adequate salve
  10. Did our advice work? J/K. Hope you did not lose all hope. My youngest is 20. Never thought we'd all survive to today.
  11. Not sure if this is the right thread, but ESPN has an article titled, "Potential Trade Offers for top 2025 Pick Cooper Flagg." https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45425353/potential-trades-top-2025-nba-draft-pick-cooper-flagg-dallas-mavericks Spoilered below. IMO, there is no way you trade that pick. You draft Flagg and roll with the punches. Kind of a silly article, but someone needs to fill the bits and bytes of ESPN.com.
  12. Finished this one today. Appreciate the way Larson handles non-fiction.
  13. Visited Hudson Valley for work and stayed for an extended weekend. Looking NW over the Hudson River from the pedestrian bridge in Poughkeepsie.
  14. Just finished these two in the past couple of weeks: Both were fascinating, esp. Titan. In the preface, Chernow highlights that he was initially resistant to a book on Rockefeller, but discovered a 1700 page transcript of interviews that JDR had during the last 3 years of his life. They showed a far more interesting and down to earth person than he had expected. I highly recommend Titan.
  15. I was really into sports card collecting during from late-70s to late-80s, then again in the early 90s. The change between those two eras was stark. Dozens of new sellers, tons of junk wax, and the birth of the special limited edition insert. The last of those actually helped move a lot of junk wax, but it was just high production, so-so product. Some of the inserts included game worn jerseys, autographs, etc. I've paid some attention to the hobby over the past decades and it has evolved even further. Numbered inserts, meticulous focus on grading, etc. With a little spare time and a little spare money, sports card collecting is becoming interesting again. I am curious what everyone's approach is. I see a bunch of things happening: People spending tons of money hoping to pull a super-rare, high demand modern card so they can flip it for something they really want (money or another card). People focusing on specific players, specific eras, etc. and building a moderately sized, specialized collection. Cards of players that have some sort of nostalgic value Cards of HOF players For fun, I bought around 20 of the Topps Now Pope cards when they were released. Told a friend (who's a really passionate collector) and he asked what I ended up with. 19 regulars and 1 "white smoke" X/267 card. He bought 100 and pulled a X/50 Gold card. One has recently sold for around $1000. He's kind of doing all of the approaches above: using modern purchases to flip into things he wants; building a collection with interesting/nostalgic value. From a "store of value" perspective, it seems like pre-1980s HOF players is the best option. But I should never really view this as a store of value. I realize it's a hobby, and hobbies are where you pour money, never to be seen again. Another of my hobbies is enjoying local microbreweries wherever I travel, visit, etc. I literally piss the money away . Perhaps that's how I should view this... How are others around here viewing it? I am sure there are additional approaches that what I stated above.
  16. boilerhorn

    Comedy

    I found this entertaining.
  17. The past few pages have been quite engaging and we have all learned a lot. Foo Fighters suck; Foo Fighters are great Everyone hates Creed and Nickelback Taylor Hawkins was hitting on CTJ's wife CTJ may or may not be eskimo brothers with Blake Shelton Taylor Swift is a very entertaining and plays long concerts Robert DeNiro is short - and a nice guy Treaty was seduced by Kathleen Turner's voice - don't google for pics of her today. I've had few brushes with fame. Sat next to Art Shell and Joe Bugel on a plane when they were leaving Austin after visiting to assess Blake Brockermeyer. Shell said about 5 words to me. Bugel talked the entire time. Saw an extremely attractive woman walking through Austin airport at 6:15a one morning. Looked a little to the left and see Colt McCoy. McCoy's wife is more attractive in person. Dear Johntay (or associated agent), Please publish at least one update per week, so Surly can be entertained. Love, Surly-ites
  18. My bad. Tried to use cut-paste in phone and failed. https://www.slashfilm.com/1866347/fountain-of-youth-apple-tv-plus-first-netflix-movie/
  19. With Fountain Of Youth, Apple TV+ Has Finally Made Its First Netflix Movie (And That's Not A Good Thing)
  20. Fountain of Youth seems like a movie that all of the distributors passed on. It's not entirely clear whether Apple was involved with Fountain of Youth from the beginning, though there were signs, as early director choice Dexter Fletcher and production company Skydance were involved in Apple TV+ "Ghosted." IMO, they were smart to go direct to streaming, even with the $180mm budget. Distribution, etc. costs can top $200mm-$300mm for a summer action film. And they'd been pitted against: Minecraft, Mision Impossible, The New Avengers, another Jurassic Park, yet another Karate Kid, How to Train Your Dragon, F1, etc. I honestly cannot see too many people paying $12+ to sit through that outside of their house. The trailers were mediocre, the movie was bland. Agree with the takes here on the movie. Around 20 minutes in, I had a similar thought to those above: this seems bad, but it has to get better, right? Nope. I watched the entire thing. It is definitely worse than MineCraft, Mission Impossible, and The New Avengers (I have seen all of those). I suspect it will also be worse than F1 and Jurassic Park. That all said, Apple needs to be careful about propagating too many stinkers. It has gained credibility with Slow Horsses, F & N, Severace, etc. I guess it has struggled with feature films...
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