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  1. 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.
  2. Good enough that I'll go ahead and cut-paste the content. Many dislike both Irsay and McAfee, but this was a nice tribute.
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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"
  8. I have Roku on some TVs; other devices/integrations on other TVs. Roku was founded by Texas A&M graduate Anthony Wood. Fwiw.
  9. Perhaps there's an opportunity for some sort of arbitrage.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. It was not a typo. Good, reasonably priced. Unreliable
  15. 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/
  16. Rep for citing https://www.troublefreepool.com/ - great resource for pool owners. Highly recommended.
  17. Two unrelated issues, but I'll start a single thread... In a multi-stage remodel we did a couple of years back, we changed the flooring in the bathrooms, leaving a small gap between the floor and the moldings on doors in areas where we removed tile. The guy we had was good, unreliable, and well-priced. He no longer lives in the USA, so we are looking for a decent carpenter to fix this. Recommendations? Wife noticed water dripping out of one of the PVC pipes exiting the 2nd floor attic. 1 of our 2 tank gas water heaters (40 gals each in series) failed and the drip pan was doing its job (woo hoo)! Now I need to replace. With the annual freezes we are now having, would those of you with tankless still go with tankless? I assume I want the tankless outside of the house, so failure does not flood my house. Other thoughts or recommendations? I've used Proven Plumbing on a few things recently, and they've been competent. Any other recommendations, esp. if I decide to go tankless?
  18. For the gamblers among us, that is Greg McElroy's lifetime stat line.
  19. Typically each kid has to touch the ball once, but you might actually double check what the actual rules are. That said, there might be a pre-season coach/commissioner/org meeting where some rules are negotiable. You might be able to get more touches/playing time for each of the kids. These kinds of things are great because it helps you to figure out which other coaches take it too seriously. They're easy to pick out if you propose certain things. Also - with 6 year olds, I think your experience might be night-and-day compared to what @LCHorn had with 2nd graders. If you successfully get 1 misdirection play out of 6 year olds, you would be coach of the year
  20. As you probably know, I was kidding. However, I agree with you. Some folks can survive on innate talent until a certain point. Then, they develop new skills. etc.
  21. There are more attractive out there and there are less attractive out there. A 24 year old whose primary job is to look good will likely look average or above average. Like @PittsburghTiger I find her a little scary, or at least unsettling. I also find it odd that both would be willing to make such a public spectacle of everything. There was almost no way to keep it under wraps given BB's high profile job at UNC, but sharing all sorts of shit on social media - and her being so intimately involved in his day-to-day is odd. Yeah, yeah - undefeated and all, but this is just odd. (fwiw, I am not sure I have ever written a sentence with the word "there" 4x before).
  22. The juxtaposition of her appearance and some of the locals (she, too, is a local) in that video is strking. Genetics and socioeconomic status has some to do with it, but the the dental care diversity stood out. Guess which one is Hannah
  23. Interesting requirements to become an air traffic controller... edited to add - I think we're kinda fucked unless they incentivize this role a bit more. In my life, I've heard of exactly 1 person who was an ATC. Friend's brother is a retired air traffic controller after spending some time in the air force. He's long retired. It's super high stress and thankless. Right now, there are around 15k air traffic controllers. At $150k/year, that's around $2.25B per year to guarantee the safety of roughly 2.9 million passenger trips per day. 2.9 million passenger trips per day works out to around 1 billion trips per year in/out of US airports. A additional $3 FAA surcharge per trip could easily fix this problem. Basic Air Traffic Controller qualifications All applicants to the air traffic controller program must meet these minimum requirements: Be a United States citizen Be under the age of 31 Pass a medical examination Pass a security investigation Pass the FAA air traffic pre-employment tests, including the Air Traffic Controller Specialists Skills Assessment Battery (ATSA) Speak English clearly enough to be understood over communications equipment Have one year of progressively responsible work experience, or a Bachelor's degree, or a combination of post-secondary education and work experience that totals one year
  24. They both look like wasted draft picks. Shedeur holds the ball too low and always does that clutch/pump before he throws. I'm here for the entertainment...
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