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nbmishoid

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  1. Speaking from recent experience, a johnsonville brat will fit in a hinged regular bun, with a full or near so Chicago treatment.
  2. Twice Similarities include the Eagle Scout experience, without abuse. We had, in our quartermaster’s room, the largest collection of Playboy’s. So besides the law and the oath and winning camporees, there was plenty of just being boys. Second the experience of being a mediocre or worse athlete. Being well known as a good target to crush on the scout defense was not as much fun as I’d planned. But the real world lessons learned in those years were terrific. I’m not so great. Other people matter. I should go and be and do better. A dozen years of Church of Christ only gave me a decade of useless alienation from too many institutions.
  3. Rereading Prometheus now. Very dense, a great insight into this extraordinary person.
  4. No constitutional changes for another lifetime or two. Other side no want. Perfect as written. Ask Roberts.
  5. 100% probable. I cannot imagine an equivalent event of the left.
  6. Now I’m remembering that after UT, aggie was our number 2 source. So we imported a lot of that crap. My experience in general, outside of O& G, and especially at the post grad level, is like yours. Educated folks sounding educated. Now, we can analyze finance types.
  7. I don’t support that myth, thank you for emphasis on that. My background was as “head” of a 1500 person workforce. I was shocked by the number of young people hooked on watching Fox in a conference room for lunch, every day. That was 12 years go.
  8. Well, I didn’t say or mean any such thing. What started as a mild jest with Twice led me to wonder why most engineers are politically conservative. You and I presumably being engineers, what is your take on engineers and conservatism? Is it just the white male in us? Or, is it your experience most engineers are libs?
  9. Well, thinking back to pre retirement gets harder, but I conjecture that many engineers are taught an exclusively instrumental mind set. Manipulate the physical world for “benefit”. Benefit that equals dollars and the math gets easy. Leave people and the world at large out of your mindset. What do you get? Sure, I wish we could stuff an ethics course in there. But advisory committees get told the undergrads are maxed on required hours (128 or 130, can’t recall). No one can agree on what to take away. Our pedagogy and our commercial culture manufacture the engineers we get. We could do better.
  10. Fuck this attitude. Dark Brandon has had the most impactful initial term, for advancing “the good”, since probably effin LBJ. Against a morally horrific degenerate opposition
  11. Sure. It’s the actions, later, that are the crimes. And the draft speaks to planning, premeditation, etc, important ancillaries to the crimes. Engineer view here, not law dog.
  12. Traveled thru Eureka in a 76 Toyota pickup, maybe 1977. Stopped in a music store and bought a Steely Dan songbook. Lost it, long ago. An acoustic rendition of “Razor Boy” is all that remains. No Rick Derringer on the slide.
  13. Looks like it’s high time to break out the dvd’s of Last Waltz, and that train ride across Canada movie. Great stuff.
  14. Bridge of Sighs: what a complete joy it is to play. Will need to learn some recording to stack the parts at the end. Down the road.
  15. Oppenheimer, and others, were keenly aware of what they had unleashed. They rightfully feared an arms race. The politico’s were in no way able to think like that, so his destruction is one reason why we have had to live under this massive existential threat. Existential.
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