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Brisketexan

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  1. How'd the lakes do? Any projections on lake level rises?
  2. Okay, I couldn't edit to get the ISS shot posted before - the eclipse shadow as it passed over the earth, seen from the ISS:
  3. Okay, just got the chance to hop on here about our experience. We went out to a ranch in Llano, had a group of 17 folks camping out there. My wife's cousin is a hot-shot astronomer, and they have a group that travels to see as many total eclipses as possible, so we were talking about plans and best ways to make this local eclipse happen starting four years ago. We go great weather, and the best wildflower display in 20+ years -- was really cool to show Texas off to them, coming from AZ, CA, PA Germany, and Spain. Several beloved family members, but also their friends. And....we knew these were "hotshot astronomers," but we really didn't realize HOW hotshot. Sunday evening, we're gazing up at the night sky and getting some explanations from the woman who fucking LEADS the SSDS (the project that is literally mapping.....everything in the universe. All of it. The whole known universe. You can watch her damned TED talk about it). That evening, I got to sit by the fire and sip a beer as she quizzed my wife, with genuine curiosity, about some big theological questions. I just sat there, drank my beer, looked at the stars, and listened to two incredibly smart women engage each other. And we got to hang out with the head of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, who is fucking cool as hell. Oh, and he gets to be in charge of building and stoking the campfire -- it's his thing, don't take that away from him. Or Bernhard, who is an eclipse junkie, and also in the Nobel Prize talk for his work in mathematics and AI (he's a pioneer of "causality," using math to determine whether different astronomical phenomena are coincidental or caused, in short form. His work helped find exoplanets, including the first one found in the habitable zone). Also, he fucking loved my brisket, and ate it three meals in a row. We were like everyone else, tracking the clouds carefully, gambling on whether we should stay where we were or try to chase it. Bernhard chose to chase it, and he got a good view. We chose to stay, and we got a perfect view -- the clouds broke a few minutes before, and stayed clear the entire time. I don't know what I was expecting....but what we saw was MUCH more awesome than I expected. We were all grinning and laughing and patting each other on the back at how amazing the experience was. We hung out after and had a nice lunch, then broke camp a bit earlier than planned because of the forecast for stormy weather. Several of them didn't have a place to stay Monday night because they'd planned on camping. We have lots of room in our house, so we told them to bunk with us, and they did. That evening, we sat around the table bullshitting, eating leftovers (Bernhard heated up brisket, again), and just having a damned pleasant visit. Again, with people who have their own freaking Wikipedia pages. We have an invitation to come and stay in Heidelberg now. AND....Bernhard's wife is Spanish, and has family in the zone of totality for the August 2026 eclipse that will pass over Spain, so we started talking plans for that. It was an amazing experience on its own, objectively. It was made even better by being in a place so near and dear to us, that we could show off with some pride. And then made even better by experiencing it with family and new friends. TLDR: if you haven't experienced a total eclipse, and think it's no big deal, think again. It's a top-5 lifetime experience, highly recommend. And experience it with great people, that makes it even better. Oh, I still need to get a good emailed version of this, but this is a shot of the photo up on my TV - Bernhard shared it with us all Monday evening. He has a friend on the ISS, and when he realized when she would be there, he told her the timing and angle to get a good shot of the eclipse. So she took this one, and sent it to him via WhatsApp (yep, they have WhatsApp access on the ISS):
  4. “Originalism” - and I’m referring to the judicial philosophy of that name - is a fucking lie. It is likely the most “decide the result you want, then cherry pick the support for it” approach out there. A good judge is willing to teach results he doesn’t like/doesnt agree with. “Originalists” somehow magically always reach the result they want because gosh darn it, that’s what the founders wanted!
  5. A certain belumped lady would disagree with you.
  6. Is he really? He’s been a hole in the order when it matters quite a few times.
  7. Well then, she’s definitely in your wheelhouse. She’s turrible.
  8. Yes. As in “both.” Some attorneys, often NY types, think that “I’ll be a demanding bully, which means I win” is a great strategy in Texas. It is not. Gamble will not be amused.
  9. Just hit the Whataburger in Burnet. Holy crap, they’re a well-oiled machine. I walk in and order a JCB combo. I was still filling my coffee cup when they handed me my bag. Perfect JCB sammich, in and out in 2 minutes.
  10. So…it seems like we suck. That sucks. I hate it when we suck. We’ve been good. I like it when we’re good. It’s fun. I like winning. It’s like, better than losing. Losing sucks.
  11. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Well….that was unexpected. I’ll damn well take it. Obrian is finding a groove. Cascante and Stuver were having words, would like to know more about that. Zardes brought some energy and played with real hustle and some IQ late, was refreshing to see. And yeah…Rigoni can just stick with what he’s doing - not playing at all - and we’ll be better for it.
  12. Counterpoint: we sure as fuck did stop “playing by the rules” the last rebellion these fuckers tried. There weren’t any cops telling suspects to stand down at Gettysburg. We weren’t there to make arrests. We didn’t put them on trial. We shot them dead. Thousands of them. We didn’t stop shooting until they either surrendered or fled the battlefield. Because see, while these fuckers opted out of ONE set of rules (law, evidence-based litigation, etc), they opted INTO another set of rules: you engage in violent rebellion against the country, then you fucking die. There are only two sets of rules: rule of law or rule of the gun. They chose the second. We should have engaged in their chosen game. Until our rifle barrels melted down.
  13. What Trump and his army, acting at his behest and functionally under his command did is only partly criminal. The individuals who actually trespassed assaulted cops, etc, committed some crimes. But what was done as a whole was not a criminal endeavor…it was a rebellion. And Lincoln DEFINITELY showed us how to deal with a rebellion: you kill the fuck out of the rebels. You shoot them and keep shooting them until their bodies fill the field. He didn’t try to arrest them. He didn’t bring them up on charges. He sent the forces of the United States to kill rebels. It was the right thing to do then, we should have done it again on January 6, and we should do it if they ever try it again. Mow them down. Shoot them as they panic and run. Just like we did at Gettysburg. You don’t arrest traitors actively committing rebellion.. You kill them. Don’t treat it like a criminal justice problem, because that’s not what it is.
  14. I’m not sure if you know this, but Pati has a seriously awkward crush on me. Wait…I may have that backwards…
  15. The boy noted that the Mexican grocery and halal market are right next to each other in Glasgow…. Meal of champions.
  16. Israeli counterpoint: fuck those guys. And fuck all Palestinians. Ethnic cleansing rules!* * Unless you’re cleansing Jews, in which case, ummmm….”never again!” That’s the only circumstance in which that statement applies.
  17. For a while, you could get Ivar’s chowder at Costco. It’s damned good stuff.
  18. My wife changes out her purse every. Fucking. Day. She has a bag in 573 different colors, and then 3 different size variations of each color. Today, she’s feeling medium periwinkle blue, tomorrow, her big emerald green tote! Meanwhile, I carry the same black leather wallet till it falls apart and she demands that I get a new one because it makes me look like a hobo.
  19. Many days, my phone starts ringing, call after call, before 8:00. As in, I’m not even at the office yet, and my phone is already blowing up. I’m on with one call, trying to get out the door, and two more are coming in. WTF? Again, let me get fucking started before you inundate me with “Brisket, this happened, what should we do?”
  20. I said “hot coed ass,” not “Reveille is in my seat.”
  21. In another world, where he hadn’t turned to actually kill out people, he’d be a heavily repped Surly poster.
  22. I, literally today, registered my truck. For the first time since 2013. The gal said it’s the longest gap she’s ever seen. I lied and said it had been on my ranch for the past 10 years.
  23. Pretty much 100% true. Which still does not justify Israel committing war crimes. “My opponent is really, really bad…so I should get a free pass to war crime as much as I want” isn’t a thing. Fight Hamas. It’s hard. But fight them…without pursuing a campaign of genocide/ethnic cleansing.
  24. I remember listening to J6 on the radio as it unfolded. As the reporters were relaying that they were trying to breach the doors of the chambers, I visibly remember yelling in the car “they have to shoot them! They have to shoot them NOW!” I was fucking right. When J6 was over, they should have needed semis to remove the stacked corpses of the traitors. That’s how you solve this fucking problem. You kill them. On the spot.
  25. 1) I am not aware of such thing. 2) Had such a course been on offer back in my college days, and had I assessed that for some reason, it was full of hot coed ass....I'd have signed up. I'd at least have stuck with it till the add/drop deadline. Because college Brisket was a pretty linear thinker.
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