Everything posted by boilerhorn
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1st Record, Cassette, CD, download
8-track - Rush - Hemispheres - bought at Gibsons in NW Austin. A Dollar General and Goodwill occupy that space now. 2nd was Pink Floyd The Wall Cassette - REO Speedwagon - High Infidelity CD - Rush - Moving Pictures I cannot recall my first LP or first download. Firsts being 2/3 Rush is coincidental. Buddy across the street from me had 2112 and Farewell. I bought Hemispheres blind to be cool. Was not disappointed. I figured Moving Pictures would be a great album to hear on CD. It was. When mp3 became popular, I ripped much of my decent sized CD collection for use on the cheapo 128M mp3 player I had. I did not download much on the original Itunes, as it was not portable. The early Amazon downloads were - and could be purchased for less. Looking at my Amazon history, I see LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver as my first download there.
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Concerts you are attending
Going to see Echo and the Bunnymen in May. It will be my ~6th time to see them. Most recently, in 2022, I saw them at ACL LIve (missed them in 2024 - traveling). As always, the music was spot on. Ian McCulloch's voice struggled at times. At one point, he surprisingly left the stage. Guitarist Will Sargent looks bemused and proceeds to lead a 10-15 minute jam session. McCulloch comes back on stage, mentions his back hurt and went off stage to get a quick massage. I am glad I got to see a show early in their tour, as I feared he'd wear out. Cautiously optimistic, but I cannot resist the nostalgia.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
He always looks that way
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Anecdote from a former colleague whose kid went to UT. The kid said that, if he had to do it again, he'd have considered going to a slightly less prestigious university for undergrad, crushed the GPA, and spent more time preparing for the MCAT. That said, he graduated w/ high honors from UT and went to UT Southwestern before specializing. EDITED to add: IIRC the med schools are now taking the rigor of the undergrad university into account. Something like Lamar (~400 nationally) or McNeese (unranked) might lack rigor for serious consideration to a top med school, regardless of GPA.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
The 2025 timeline of the story is a little confusing. Moore was seeing Shivers from 2022-2024. Shivers received a salary increase from $55k to $90k in 2025. That raises a couple of questions: Was raise to buy silence or to incentivize remaining in the relationship? Was the stalking to insure silence? Some of the stories indicate it was an open secret around the department. As such, when she broke it off, it was only a matter of time before she or someone else would report it. Shivers will likely sue the university, as she is largely unemployable for the foreseeable future. As you note, they both violated policy, but the power imbalance is key.
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Bijan Robinson is special
Enticement to pick up the ball? Be the toughest MFer - if only for a moment - in the game. It helped with kid toughness pecking order and, to a lesser extent, kid smarts pecking order. I was horrible at it and got crushed all the time, but it was fun as hell.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
The entertainment value would be much higher if he had screwed Ellison’s wife. And the entertainment value is really high right now.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
- Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
One article that includes the above photo of Moore: https://soonersports.com/news/2007/9/26/208400845 Some quotes from that 2007 article... Reading them with today's reality changes the interpretation "I take pride in putting family first," Moore said. "My parents have always let me go my own way and I love them for that." "My dad told me when it's your time to always step up and take action," Moore said. "Take action and do what you have to do." "You've just got to realize that you have to live life like you can and live your life the right way," Moore said.- Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
What a fool. Freeze was fired and did not coach for 2 years. Bobby Petrino was out of work for 1 year. Pitino was out of coaching for 1 year and had to climb back through Panithinaikos and Iona. Price was unemployed for 1 year and his consolation prize was UTEP. The big differences? 1 - 1 year has not yet passed. Let's see what happens. 2 - none of the above broke into another person's home and threatened murder-suicide (allegedly) among other things- Tell Me About Notre Dame
I can imagine teams - esp UND - telling the NCAA to f-off. “We will practice when we want to.” Edited to add - someone else also had this idea….- Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Not sure we'd have been allowed to play them twice. But not a bad idea going forward...- 2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
Big12 played the following SEC games. MSU over ASU 24-20 Auburn over Baylor 38-24 Missouri over Kansas 42-31- 2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
This is exactly the type of game I would try to orchestrate if I were the Big12 commissioner wanting to get 2 teams into the playoff. Score kept close, "defensive struggle" (for those who do not watch), and large doses of Kevin Mar to help keep my thumb on the scale. And a dumbass coach going for 4th-and-2 where a field goal makes it a 2 score game.- Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
11 plays 14; 12 plays 13 - these are play-ins for the real 11 and 12, but yes it is flawed.- Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Given this is really just entertainment... Expand the playoffs to 14 teams. 12 selected as they are today. 2 more based on ratings and must have a winning record. Teams ranked 11-12 play the at-large "ratings teams" the same week as CCG - as play-ins. If the 2 at-large teams get crushed, who cares, we get another week of entertainment. If one or both win, we all win, dispatching a pretender before the get fed to the #5 team a week later. This year, Texas and LSU would be the at-large "ratings" teams (based on the above graphic).- Matt Campbell is a little bitch-made pussy
negged for using "natty"- Matt Campbell is a little bitch-made pussy
The wild thing about the Big10 - there are now 6 destinations worse than West Lafayette. Username.- Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
This is the Pickens many Steeler fans were accustomed to.- Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
- Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
Functional morons - who are good (real or perceived) at something of high demand and low supply - always make their way into academic schools. Stanford, Texas, Vandy, Cal, Purdue, UCLA, USC, Michigan, etc. There is always a way.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
In addition to its own computer ranking system, Massey also collects data from many other computer ranking systems to create a composite ranking. I find it useful for 2 reasons: (1) it points me to other ranking systems an (2) it shows the overall range across the ranking systems. For the CFB top-6, I see the following range (composite ranking in parens) 1 - tOSU (1) : 1-3 2 - Indiana (2) : 1-9 3 - UGA (5): 2-12 4 - TTU (4) : 1 - 11 5 - Oregon (3) : 3-14 6 - Ole Miss (9): 4-18 UND (6): 2-14 BYU (7): 2-25 Texas (16): 10-27 Fwiw. Also - I had forgotten about the Billingsley system. I like it, but largely because it rewards Texas- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Fwiw... (csb?) To my knowledge, BYU also wants there to be several/many donors involved in any one specific endeavor. I know this from friends/colleagues involved w/ BYU and a handful of anecdotes shared with me. When my son played lacrosse at Texas, they played both Utah and BYU in the same year. Utah was in its final year before becoming a D1 team, and proceeded to demolish Texas. BYU did, too. When talking to some of the BYU parents at the game, I reflected on Utah becoming a D1 team. One BYU dad said, "Yes. One guy is donating enough to endow the program into perpetuity. He came to us first and the AD declined. Did not want a single donor with that much influence over the program. So he went to Utah and they said yes." Now, that could be more of BYU hating on Utah, but I had heard similar stories at other times. /csb?- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
We can only see how the coaches voted in the final poll of the year, it appears. However, there is some silliness in it. Glad no one takes it seriously. Oh, wait. https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll The high/low rankings of some teams stands out a bit. Indiana: 2/21 OU: 6/NR Miami: 2/18 Texas: 1/19 GT: 7/NR Indiana at 21? OU unranked? Miami at 2? Texas at 1? GT at 7?- Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Given the schedule order of Florida, OU, Vandy, aTm, that would be reasonable. After that "prize" I suspect most of us would be cautious about making any wager going forward. Texas wins: Natalie Portman; Florida wins: Rosie Texas wins: Sweeney; OU wins: Barr Texas wins: Crawford; Vandy wins: Kathy Bates Texas wins: Anderson; aTm wins: Kathy Griffin After the Florida loss, many here were convinced Texas would lose 6 games. - Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
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