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Hawndoh

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  1. A toasted unfrosted strawberry pop tart with a little butter spread on top while it's still hot is fantastic
  2. Monday of this week a freshman shot himself with a gun in the hall of a Texas high school. Wednesday he finally died. In the 90s that kind of thing made Pearl Jam write a song about you. Today it barely made the local news a few towns away, and hardly anyone farther than 50 miles away heard about it.
  3. We do. Financial literacy was added to math curriculum years ago. In every middle school grade and most of the high school courses. Interest, how loans work, budgeting, it's all required and is tested on STAAR. I teach 7th grade math. It's been part of required curriculum my entire career. There are also required health courses as part of diploma requirements for your other items listed.
  4. That was an ok race, but dull. O'Ward made a bit of a mess of things, and then IndyCar made a bit of a mess restarting a safety car putting the leaders right into some back markers. That was weird.
  5. BotW was also made to be played on WiiU as well. This game should look and run better made 100% for Switch and 6 years of optimizing.
  6. I never bothered with high school reunions. My senior class had 1400 students. You never knew or met most of them while you were there, you certainly aren't going to remember anybody 20 years later.
  7. Rehashing the same story from the books is a horrible idea. From movie 3 and beyond the films did that story already and did it very well. Maybe a HP show will improve upon the first two movies and then get canceled. That's the best case scenario.
  8. Once again, you folks are arguing with religious zealots. The gun is their god. You don't have rational policy debates with zealots.
  9. Jane Bexley sure has a theme. Write what you know I suppose
  10. Unfortunately it won't matter. Everyone can say in a poll they hate him. But he will get reelected because his name will have the R next to it. Someone named Gay Satan would win as long as they have the R.
  11. Eh, not really. Even on highest difficulty the AI doesn't really coordinate to stop you. The best they do is stop trading with you and stop renewing alliances when you get close to a victory. Mostly the difficulty slider changed the AI's head start and bonus multipliers on yields. It doesn't improve their logic at all
  12. It's like a child, when told to share their toy, stomps home and stops playing altogether. It must be their way or no way. They are children.
  13. Hawndoh

    Kayaking

    So I recently purchased a couple of kayaks that I'll be taking around when we go camping at various state parks. Anyone recommend a good online resource or message board that makes it easier to find information about places to kayak? Specifically with reviews about the best boat ramps to go to on various lakes that are kayak friendly. Or paddling trails on rivers that have info about where to launch, etc? I'm in Plano, so looking at lakes Lavon, Ray Hubbard, Lewisville of course but also smaller city park ponds or lakes that allow kayaks would be cool too. Googling brings up all sorts of boat ramps but I don't want to be in anyone's way and don't want to fight the big boats for space when I'm trying to carry two kayaks and a bag of snacks or drinks with my daughter.
  14. Watching Hot Shots! on HBO max for the first time in decades and it still holds up. Everything Lloyd Bridges says is hilarious.
  15. Replace all of the waiting room chairs with treadmills
  16. Man, as much as my previous post was bemoaning the lows of IndyCars, today was the highs. Fantastic race overall, lots of great action. Texas back to a legit two raceable lane track produced a ton of action. Feel bad for Grosjean as he looked really solid all day, but one mistake on a super speedway will get you. Also a bit crazy how O'Ward was so dominant in the mid-race lapping all but one car to then come back to reality in the final 10 and just not able to get around Newgarden. Overall a really fun race. This is when Indy is at its best.
  17. I only now realized the Astons ended up 3rd and 4th. I was fast forwarding through the red flags and didn't even bother to see the final lap under SC. I assumed both Astons were way back after the chaos.
  18. That red flag call was some NASCAR BS. The restart was some IndyCar BS. Aston and Alpine must be furious.
  19. Don't most executives in charge of organizations with tens of thousands of the employees and budgets in the hundreds of millions earn at least that much?
  20. The next step in the plan is the rating system. I believe they are pushing through a major change in how they calculate the school letter rating. A bunch of schools that have always been rated as A will suddenly drop to B or C, even though nothing about what they were doing or how they are performing will be different. But all the public is going to see is the letter grade, they aren't going to understand that it was calculated differently, and they will just assume everything went to crap even though it's identical to the previous year which was an A.
  21. There is no gun debate. You can't debate a religious zealot with reason. That's what the gun lobby and the politically charged gun enthusiasts are. They're religious zealots. The AR-15 is their golden calf, and their altar demands a blood sacrifice, which they will gladly supply.
  22. The internet will make anything a conspiracy And of course, video of a training exercise just so happens to show the same pants with the same cuffs folded up, because that is such a common and in-style thing to do.
  23. I teach 7th grade. Years ago, any time there was a shooting, regardless of where in the country it is, the students would hear about it and kind of go through the rest of the day somewhat reserved, or maybe a quiet nervousness, thinking about what it would look like on our campus. But these days it no longer even registers. Its just "another one, that sucks" and on with the routine. Sooner than later it will just be another meme.
  24. Back during Covid lockdown most of the younger drivers had big sim rigs built and they streamed virtual races on Twitch, many times while talking in discord with the other drivers. That's one of the reasons some of the drummed up drama in Drive to Survive was kind of stupid, lots of those guys are friends and gamed together throughout lockdown
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