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boilerhorn

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  1. I also strongly recommend getting a mechanic's assessment of the car before you buy. 99% of the time, they find nothing, but it's that 1% that matters. It's Amazing that a 10 year old RAV is going for around $15k-$17k. I would have guessed around $10k.
  2. Clampson pitcher is the prototype. yes, I’m a jerk.
  3. Siakam kept the Pacers in this game until the rest of the team woke up. It was pretty awesome to watch. also, Carlisle is one of the best coaches in the last 20 years. He might be kind of a jerk, but he’s definitely not as heralded as the others.
  4. And by far the most entertaining for people who enjoy basketball. Really shitty for ratings though.
  5. Bill Clinton's selection process has come up just about every time some sort of age delta or power dynamic relationship becomes public. I suspect it was fairly low effort on his part. The lower the effort on his part, the less likely he is to get caught - he's not pursuing, etc. Outright pursuit would be fairly obvious. Plus, he probably did not think (or realize) there was anything wrong with what he did. Jordon's behavior is just strange and I am surprised Belichick is tolerating it. Even if she's his vision of a perfect beauty, her behavior has to be grating at this point. Even if he paid her in advance for 24 months of GFE, he should cut his losses and not kill his legacy.
  6. Austin City Council to vote on an additional $244mm to fund the caps. Make that "vote to burden the taxpayer by another quarter billion dollars."
  7. This is great to hear @jimmyjazz ! Congrats! My youngest is 20. He's not really shown much interest in going back (yet), despite my willingness to subsidize his housing and tuition from the 529 we've built up. That's OK, as he'll figure it out at some point. Just a different path than my other kiddos took. You may not know yet, but how is the local economy receiving the Bachelors from ACC?
  8. Yes. Bachelor of Applied Technology. Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Bachelor of Applied Science in [Software Development, CyberSecurity] Youngest child struggled in year 1 of college (not aptitude or capability - freedom, etc.) and I've encouraged him to consider ACC to get a restart.
  9. ACC has a 100% acceptance rate, if I recall correctly. If aTm is accepting people who do not apply, then "yes" This is true. It benefits from the high educational level of Austin. Moreover, they explicitly plan to educate the community for the local businesses, etc.
  10. I was curious, so I looked. In-district is defined as resides, owning property, or paying taxes in Washington County for 6 months. Per semester in-district tuition for full-time Blinn attendance: $960. Out of district: $1845. Out of state: $4185. The Texas A&M engineering academy at Blinn-Brenham has an additional cost. By comparison, Austin Community college is $1275, $4290, and $5295, respectively. ACC district spans 7 counties - and also has an aTm engineering academy path.
  11. Good enough that I'll go ahead and cut-paste the content. Many dislike both Irsay and McAfee, but this was a nice tribute.
  12. Not sure if this will share, but this seems to be an encapsulation of Amy... https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FXDUtEisQ/ Will not embed, but...
  13. Reese's response is typical bully behavior. Only she is allowed to bully. Clark pushed back and the moron class is trying to make her the offender.
  14. Stanford and Cal were playing chess. And it was too late when they realized the rest of the PAC did not know how to play chess?
  15. I have used Proven for other things and got another bid - from Radiant. I thought I had sticker shock from Proven, but Radiant was even crazier. Their bids were between 2x and 2.5x of what Proven wanted. And Radiant wanted to upsell beyond that. A realtor we know confirmed - after we asked - that Radiant was super expensive and notorious for the upsell. I went ahead with a tankless install from Proven. Happy so far.
  16. Apparently, it is a "Mexican Navy training ship" that is touring the world. One report states that its masts are 30 feet taller than the clearance under the Brooklyn Bridge. Poor planning, or they planned to sail the other direction and lost power (no way that thing is 100% sail powered). 2 are dead, 2 in critical condition, and another 20 or so were injured. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brooklyn-bridge-mexican-navy-ship-05-18-25-hnk "Plans for the voyage included calling on 22 ports in 15 countries in 254 days"
  17. I have Roku on some TVs; other devices/integrations on other TVs. Roku was founded by Texas A&M graduate Anthony Wood. Fwiw.
  18. Perhaps there's an opportunity for some sort of arbitrage.
  19. Not worth its own thread. Purdy for 5/$265mm https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45181713/sources-niners-brock-purdy-finalizing-5-year-265m-deal
  20. For young and/or lower skill level folks, I think “man only” is a great rule. I coached my son’s 7th/8th grade rec team, which was composed of a bunch of kids who were not good enough to make their MS teams. At the preseason coaches meeting, one coach proposed that we allow zone. I countered, “these are kids who did not make their MS teams. We need to focus on fundamentals. Learn to dribble, pass, make layups, play base defense, hit free throws, etc.”. The guy was adamant and I lost the vote. Our team went undefeated in the regular season and that guy’s team won one game. His team won the league tourney, as every team’s shooting went cold and the zone finally gelled. His team’s fundamentals were flat from tryouts, but they got a trophy - and learned to play half-court zone.
  21. Quoted around $6k for either tankless or 2x40 in NW Austin. seems high but it’s 2025 and Austin. going to get another opinion I think
  22. Definitely replacing both. While my initial bias is against tankless, I think I am worrying about the 0.01% problems with them - and that most of the failure problems now have failsafes.
  23. It was not a typo. Good, reasonably priced. Unreliable
  24. It could also be that you are not able to keep enough free chlorine to adequately sanitize and, hence, eliminate the algae. If you have been using chlorine pucks for an extended amount of time, you might have a high enough level of cyanuric acid (stabilizer) that you cannot get enough free chlorine to sanitize. Leslie's can be good for testing for that. They'll try to sell you all sorts of algaecide, etc. If your CYA is too high, you have a couple of options: (1) drain and refill to get CYA to a proper level (2) put tons of liquid chlorine in (no CYA). https://www.troublefreepool.com/blog/2019/01/18/free-chlorine-and-cyanuric-acid-relationship-explained/
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