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  1. I sometimes have apocalyptic dreams, perhaps from growing up in Amarillo and being told the commies were gonna nuke us from an early age since we had Pantex. I remember one when I was in college at UT probably sometime around 1997. I was walking around West Campus going to get a 40 oz from Grande Mart or something like that as I was wont to do, smoking a camel light, (damn I miss smoking) when all of a sudden I heard the Voice of God resounding over the Earth. It said “MAKE WAY FOR THE AK” in the loudest noise I had ever heard, then the shit hit the fan. It was quite intense. 

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  2. 21 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    Watch the highlights. You’re dead wrong about that. It was a very clear foul. 

    I rewatched them before I replied to you the first time.  Looks to me like Dunns foot comes down on the ground next to the Canadian without making contact.

    1:40- 1:41 looks like the best shot to me.

    Smart play by the Canuck to draw the foul though at that point in the game. and you are correct in that Dunn seems to have lost a step.

  3. 11 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    No it wasn’t. Dunn stepped in and clipped the Canadian’s foot. The announcers claiming it was “soft” are idiots. It wasn’t a vicious tackle or worthy of a card, but it was certainly a foul. 

    Dunn is a massive liability at left back. The other goal was her fault, too. She lost her man tracking back, then didn’t even try to recover. 

    No, The canadian player dove, Dunn never touched her foot. Pretty obvious.  The first goal was mostly a mistake by Naeher who didn't need to go out that far when there were other defenders in position to shut down the attack which is also probably why Dunn was not in a hurry to get back.

  4. 6 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    Feh.

    The moon wanders out a little in its orbit sometimes, and sometimes wanders a little closer in its orbit. I doubt it'll wander out that far without outside forces causing it. 

    It seems more likely in that amount of time that some other cataclysmic event (another bombardment period, comet/asteroid strike, one of the other planets gets damaged from the same things and sends out debris to cause bombardment here, etc.) happens first before that theory gets a chance to happen.

    Besides, if the Earth gets a gamma-ray burst from any black holes aimed at us, we'll be gone so quick that no one will be left to care what happens in 600 million years.  So don't worry about it.  Lulz.

    I reckon the Earth will get destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet before then

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  5. So, I guess the court had the wrong measurement for the three point line on one end? Did they talk about it on TV?  I was at the game and trying to figure out what they were doing measuring and talking to the coaches. It did look like one side was closer to the key. Here's from my seat.

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  6. 3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

     

    When I went to the Tower of London when I was in college, I had my friend take a picture of me with my head down on this stump in the middle of the courtyard pretending I was getting my head chopped off. Later on I realized that stump was what these guys stood on to do their speaking.

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  7. On 3/29/2024 at 1:29 PM, YGIFS said:

    Man, I'm a lunatic poster and all.  But this shit is really starting to fuck with my head.  Not a hard task, granted.  But there's a house at the end of my street, and it's probably one of the ten most valuable homes in our HOA.  And this Russian lives in it.  And I'm talking all week to our guys at our Maryland terminal/domicile about logistical changes they gotta make with the bridge outta commission.  And was speaking with Tom yesterday.  Been with the company in some form or fashion for 55 years.  And it's just a shitshow. 

    After Russia invaded Ukraine, this Russian at the end of our street, buys a decked-out Audi Q8 and leaves it parked at the base of his driveway for a week with no movement.  Then after things go sideways, it suddenly disappears and he's back in his Toyota.  Then earlier this month, two separate police vehicles show up to his home as I'm picking my daughter up from the bus stop.  One of the four officers had his hand on his service weapon which gave me great pause.  I learn from a contact in local LEO that the FBI is looking into his 'household situation.'  This week, he's been out of town...I don't keep track.  I only know this because his son shows up on my immediate next-door neighbor's Nest Camera (or whatever you call them).  His son and his friend decided to take a piss in my neighbor's driveway (they've been bothering all the girls on the street lately as some sort of pre-teen act-out phase).  Neighbors are on vacation.  But he  texts and says yeah, they were being weird, took off the shirts and sprayed urine everywhere.  Few hours later, they show up on our driveway to race bikes down it.  Which is fine, lotta kids do it because it's long and has a good pitch.  He scrambles back to his home because there's an Uber pulling up and the kid screams he's gotta get home to say hello to his dad coming back from a business trip.  And to try to make nice, I was making small talk with the kid as I was pulling weeds so he'd understand we're nice people and to leave my girls alone.  And I politely say, "Alright, well have a good evening.   Where is your dad coming back from?"  And of course, the kid says, "Baltimore."  These people are really starting to piss me off.  

    Do they look like this?

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  8. Th Tillman Bridge by the Hoover Dam is fun to walk out on. If you've only driven across it, you don't know what you are missing. It was cool to watch it being built  every time I drove out to Vegas from Texas. I do kinda miss driving over the Hoover Dam though.

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  9. 59 minutes ago, Grande Mart said:

    I live in Portland but will be in Seattle on Friday, so I'll miss that game. I'm hoping we make it to the elite 8 so I can go on Sunday. Definitely a lot of Gonzaga people around here, and I've seen a fair number of Stanford stickers on cars. Texas got screwed on this location, but I'm excited to see them, if I can. 

    Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be awesome weather here, so if anyone's coming up from Texas, should be a good weekend to visit Portland.

  10. 7 hours ago, Hard Times said:

    I didn't like Portland to begin with and I certainly don't like it now. The distance from Spokane to Portland is about the same as Dallas to SA, and students at a small private school I'm sure will travel better than UT students. And I'm sure there's a lot of Gonzaga alum that end up in Seattle down to Portland. I just hope there's a significant number of UT alumni in that area also.

    I live in Portland but will be in Seattle on Friday, so I'll miss that game. I'm hoping we make it to the elite 8 so I can go on Sunday. Definitely a lot of Gonzaga people around here, and I've seen a fair number of Stanford stickers on cars. Texas got screwed on this location, but I'm excited to see them, if I can. 

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  11. 1 minute ago, Bevo said:

    Black Gap in Big Bend was terrible when I was last on it. Mesquite was hitting both sides of the truck, tearing up the paint. In at least a few spots, the trailer hitch was riding on rock and I had to get up speed to avoid bottoming out. At one point, a wheel or two were in the air - my son wanted to walk and the wife let him know that I had done this kind of stuff a lot.

    Black Bear Pass, I think I did years ago. It is closed now from what I understand for mitigation work from rock slides.

    I did put a big scratch on the drivers side door from a tree branch on engineer pass. It was still there when I sold it 15 years later at 260,000 miles.

  12. 15 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    I've done that one many times. When I was a kid, some guy lost his pickup. He forgot to put on the parking break and got out of the car, near Engineeer Pass. His dog jumped out while the car was rolling down the hill. We gave him and the dog a ride back to Ouray.

     

    I almost ran out of gas in my rental vehicle the last time I was on it. There was also a minor avalanche that I had to get around as I approached Ouray which was quite perilous as there really wasn't enough room to keep on the road. But because I was so low in gas, I didn't really have a choice. It was getting late too so I wasn't sure how many more vehicles would be passing through.

    I thought Ophir Pass was worse.

    Anybody drive Black Bear pass?

     

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  13. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Several years ago I was stuck on I-5 a few miles south of the I-5 bridge.  I believe several miles of that interstate is elevated and essentially bridge.  I couldn't believe how much that section of road shook from truck traffic headed southbound.

    Yeah, that bottleneck at the I-5 bridge going north to Vancouver along with the I-5 bridge over the Columbia itself is one of the worst spots on I-5. Hard to get Washington and Oregon to agree on how to fix it.

    Here's a disaster simulation showing what would happen to the Burnside Bridge. Plans are moving forward to rebuild it so it will survive a big quake, but that process in itself will be a bitch.  All the other bridges over the willamette with the exception of the new pedestrian mass transit bridge are assumed to likely collapse, I believe, in the event of the Cascadia Subduction Quake, which there is a 40 % chance will happen in the next 50 years. Simulation shows how the Burnside bridge would also collapse onto I-5,  which you are right has some elevated sections itself.

     

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  14. 8 hours ago, Keef said:

    This and the Bay Bridge in SF always freaked me out when I lived in the West Coast.  You know those quakes are coming eventually, and with the Bay Bridge, you can be stuck there for an hour or more during a busy part of the day.

    Yeah, I always think about the 1989 World Series Earthquake and the highway collapse when I'm stuck in traffic on the Marquam (I-5 over the Willamette) or the Fremont (I-405) Bridge in Portland. At least there is a nice view of downtown and Hood, St Helens, etc... If there is a big Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake during rush hour, that will suck. I guess it's lucky that the 1989 Earthquake happened during the World series between the Giants and the A's so there were a lot more people off the roads watching the game.  

  15. On 3/20/2024 at 12:37 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

    Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

    One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

    "Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

    There was a Sirloin Stockade or something like that in my home town that once had "Try our smothered tips" on their sign in front of the resturant. I decided to get a t from somewhere and rearrange a few letters and change it to "Try our mother's tits" . Giggled for years when I would pass that spot.

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