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phdhorn

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  1. Man, a little more of this and I'm gonna get the idea that horse racing is often a greaseball sport, run by cons. Unimaginable, I know.
  2. Six months from now, somewhere in the Indian Ocean:
  3. Why is it so high? Well, duh!
  4. I worked up this little arrangement for this past Easter, but I'd like to offer it here as a small tribute to Jake. As the father of a UT senior who's Sam's age, who's now just beginning his own epic adult journey through life, I mourn for the tragic loss of potential, and a life cut short. I can only hope those around him can find solace in the memories of his short but impactful life. Be Thou My Vision (Irish hymn tune): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vI892vQKSzdiLLKgyXUMLzy9uahm7lMy/view?usp=drivesdk
  5. Shoulda figured this would happen... fucking women drivers...
  6. Yup. The development the first reliable, commercially-released vaccine took over 20 years and in all that time there were a few millions of human trials, never mind what other countries (who, imagine this, were secretive about their experimentation) did. Salk's (commercially released 1955) vaccine "only" had about 3 years of organized testing on humans, but it also followed 20+ years of other research. And in his vaccine, there were large number of people who died, I think in the six figures (largely due to a lab screwing up the serum). Sabin's (1961) ended up being the baseline which has lasted in an only-slightly modified form up to the present day. Of course it's ludicrous to in almost any way compare modern vaccine development to these early achievements - medicine was comparatively primitive back then, and all that time and millions of inoculations were needed to get to a reasonable solution. And, it's important to understand that the entire science of vaccines now has advanced such that what seems safe "only" after 10-15 years of development is becoming obsolete - clinical trials etc. are beginning to rapidly speed up the time to a fraction of the original polio window. Nevertheless the polio vaccine was a remarkable achievement - yeah, it killed a lot more people on the way, but given the knowledge at the time, it was about the best one could hope for. Today however it would be almost criminally reckless to use those methods. All that said and done, there's still risk and this vaccine was developed more quickly than would be the ideal - and there are risks. I wouldn't want to do most vaccines at this speed, but at least it's nice to know they can at times pull it off if they have to, so it seems.
  7. Sorry, that was me. The guy parked over the line and took up two spaces. I simply won't stand for that, not Academy or anywhere.
  8. I understand he gave up the chance to pretty much play football at smaller schools for Texas, where he knew he'd probably not play as a preferred walk on, just to be with his brother and to be a Longhorn. Unimaginable tragedy.
  9. Oh, and at age 29, she's had... wait for it... 2 kids. Very un-Duggar like...
  10. More shit on Ma and Pa Duggar... shit does flow downhill. Jill's husband, Derick Dillard, says that the parents were really the only ones that got any money from the show, and after Josh was caught diddling, found a way to rebrand the show (Jill and Jessa: Counting On) and retain the sole monetary rights. And they bullied some of their kids to continue to do the show to make money for the parents. Point is that they like that cool Christian cash coming in and didn't want to give it up: https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna217427 I kind of like Jill, she's very cute and seems to have a well-adjusted head on her shoulders. Hopefully she can get some relief and move on with her life. She's not exactly close to the parents anymore.
  11. Give this guy a call:
  12. Some backbuilding but the front is SE of Austin. Storms wont get any farther N/NW of where they are now.
  13. I was thinking more the bolded. However in today's world the answer is probably "hell yes!"
  14. "white male small dick"
  15. Yeah, kinda died out as expected w/loss of sun/heat. One more possibility later tonight with the front, a line (if any), probably thin with a pocket or two of brief TS's; many won't get squat. Not really a significant rain I think, just some wetness to accompany the front. Then tomorrow nice and cool.
  16. Yup, we got a popup from SAT that's tracking toward W. Hays and W. Travis. Hopefully it'll weaken as the daytime heat dissipates. I would think the hail event will end soon. Hopefully.
  17. Obviously you're dredging up the racist peanut thing again.
  18. Attached, unavailable Melinda: Unattached, no-words-can-describe-it rich Melinda:
  19. Guess the tracking chip in his covid vaccine worked a little too well.
  20. No enhanced for ATX. Very slight chance for a heat-driven storm around dinner time, but the radar is blank and there's a cap in the atmosphere that's probably going to limit anything here - watch more N/NE. We're in a marginal area, which means that the likelihood and extent of any strong storms is very small. There is a second, better chance of a line of rain, maybe a small but strong storm or two coming in overnight with the cool front. These shouldn't be severe, or if so just small, isloated ones, again mostly N an E of us. I'd put rain about 30% today and about 50% overnight, but not guaranteed.
  21. I'm sorry, but I don't think equipping every homeless person with a backhoe is going to work.
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