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  1. 11 hours ago, landman said:

    Guess I'm in the minority that just doesn't get this.  Seen plenty of them in my life - partial or full, solar and lunar.  Was a teaching event when I was a kid in school, not a reason to cancel and issue disaster declarations.  4 minutes long and heard today someone planning to drive 30 hours from Washington to see it.  Seems crazy.

    And watch us end up with thunderstorms all day anyway.

    That's fine.  There are 8 pages on this thread that you could read, where a lot of people have explained why they're excited about it.  But you certainly don't have to be.

     

    1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

    No, it's a way to have add'l gov resources on call in the event of some sort of disaster type scenario where it would be difficult for local municipalities to carry out their daily duties due to massively increased volumes of people and traffic.  

    Think about a horrific wreck or something where the police/fire couldn't get to the scene for over an hour because there is wall to wall traffic for miles upon miles in every direction.  

    Well it IS also a way for municipalities to give non-essential employees the day off, so they're not adding to the mayhem in the middle of those towns, if they don't want to be.

    And also, the Dripping Springs announcement mentioned being able to force a shut-down of road construction during the event, which is one way to help out potential traffic issues that might have been caused by road construction companies deciding to work that day, and foul up the roads whilst scores of thousands of extra cars are filtering through the area.  Now they won't have the option.

    50 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  A volume of people and traffic that local infrastructure and emergency services aren't equipped to deal with.  Declaring a disaster simply helps local governments get/stage more resources and have more help available to handle the crush.

    More resources, shut down non-essential worker commuting, etc.  "Disaster" sounds melodramatic, but it's really just part of a reasonable plan to manage the event.

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  2. 22 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Went to Isla Mujeres with some good friends who happen to be aggy.  While there the husband made a comment to me about how Longhorns are always wearing UT stuff.  I didn't bring anything Longhorn related on the trip.  Meanwhile, he wore aggy flair every single day.  

    Yeah their super power is Projection.  It's weird, but that's the way of things.

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  3. 19 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Jerryworld is nice but I absolutely hate getting in and out of there and Arlington sucks shit. I have no interest in their fake Live whatever chain restaurant gimmick. What pisses me off is all the money they keep pumping into the Cotton Bowl for one fucking game. They should have just passed the tax and built Jerryworld there. Not only OU-Texas but Dallas Cowboys at the state fair. I lived in Dallas at the time and voted for it, when it failed the city started to lose its luster for me when deciding whether to stay there for work or move to a smaller market. Fuck Jerry Jones either way.

    Jerryworld is a terrible venue for a college football game.  It's fine for NFL but it sucks the life out of college games.

    City of Dallas estimates the financial impact of TX-OU weekend as around $50M each year.  It makes up the cost of renovations within a few years.  And the State Fair gets a massive amount of its revenue on that weekend, the vendors would mostly fold without that one weekend, which means the fair itself would wither away and die.

     

     

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  4. On 3/20/2024 at 9:25 PM, Dbeasy said:

    On the ASR thing, I live far up in Northwest Austin/Leander and people all over are dealing with this. It sounds badddd. 

    My friend in NW Austin, off Oak Knoll, had his pool built in late 2020/2021.  It's had cracking between the spa spillover and main pool since it was installed. Cody kept on sending crews out to just rebuild that bit.  Now he has cracks all the way across the main pool.  Insurance and attorneys are involved.  This really sucks for all of you.

     

  5. Well, it's my turn down this road.  My daughter is a sophomore, she's taken the PSAT twice now, once in 9th and once in 10th.  We did those with no prep, and she did pretty well, but now I want to start gearing her up for the PSAT that actually matters for NMSQ, the one next Fall in her junior year.

    She's a straight A+ student taking all honors/AP courses, and her weakness is definitely the test structure itself-- the timed aspect, the pressure-- basically, The Game.  So I think she'll benefit quite a bit from a course or tutoring that stresses the mechanics of the test, the test-taking techniques and strategy, while also making sure she's got the the fundamentals of the questions themselves firmly under control.

     

    @HornOnTheBayou I know you've recommended the Khan course and Kaplan book, 6 years ago.  Are you still in the same role?  If so is that still your recommendation?

    Also curious about how things worked out for the offspring of  @jimmyjazz  and @chitwood ?

     

     

  6. On 3/23/2024 at 5:29 PM, Celery Man said:

    Depends on how much of a bar tab you run up

    Make sure your band plays BOTH kinds.

    On 3/23/2024 at 9:29 PM, rage-a-holic said:

    The best part is when the meathead roid-raging leprechaun struts into the bar, screaming, smashing stuff and assaulting people...then grabs a random chick to dance with, yanking her away from her pissed off boyfriend. She gets up and follows him with a smile on a her face, because I assume that's standard bar procedure in Florida.

    Yeah I was laughing.  She was totally into him.  I wonder how that bit of writing/direction was intended to work?

  7. 10 hours ago, wood said:

    Got free tickets from a friend who also got them for free and decided not to go. NASCAR provided free parking in lots F and H. Everyone was waiting in line for lot F and we just cruised right passed 'em and rolled right into lot H all alone. So that was cool. Race was pretty unremarkable. The stages really kill much chance for strategy to have any effect on the order at a road circuit (and maybe anywhere, I guess). We left with 20 to go and were ordering burgers near the house by the time the race ended. And yeah, Pretty small crowd. Maybe 25K ish, despite NASCAR doing a good job running the show (and about 2000 of those people entered with tickets donated to Del Valle school district employees). I'm not sure the NASCAR crowd and Austin are a good fit. I'm one of the people who said NASCAR would be great racing at COTA. I gotta say I swung and missed on that call. It's not great, for some reason.

    I went the first year and it was very crowded.  Not as big as an F1 weekend but still quite busy.  The rain all weekend was a drag but folks hung in pretty well.  I talked to a lot of NASCAR die-hards that seemed to enjoy the weekend.  As you say, it's a well-run event from the NASCAR side, so I guess I'm surprised that the attendance/interest fell off so fast.   

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  8. 2 hours ago, Goofyboy said:


    Hamilton’s car hasn’t been there since the new regs. This weekend, the engine just quit.

    Seems like the team has also basically quit on him.  Not surprising I guess, given the too-early announcement of his departure, but still, show some pride.

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  9. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    It’s not about capability. They didn’t want to stop it. They knew it was coming. They decided to let it happen to give them exactly what they’re using it for: a false flag to blame Ukraine/the CIA/Biden/McDonalds.

    But why?  Nobody outside of the pariah states like North Korean and Iran believe even half a word that comes out of Russia. 

    If it's meant as an internal measure to generate support for further mobilization, does it really even work, and does it really matter because Russia is going to do it anyway?  Who exactly are they trying to "rally to the cause" two years into this 3-day special operation?

  10. Viva La Ferrari!

    Great race from Sainz, would have liked to see how it turned out without the Max retirement but Max and RBR have had an unbelievable run of good luck while all the other manufacturers didn't, so what goes around comes around.

    Not sure about the penalty on Fred, I don't think he did something intentionally dangerous, and I do think he knew if he kept doing the same thing then Russell was going to have an excellent chance to pass.

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  11. 7 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Maybe this is sarcasm, but he was a damn good player for them back in the day  Won some awards IIRC.  That is what is a little shocking to everybody for him leaving.  

    Pretty sure everyone knows this.

    The joke is, the ags are beating their chests and crowing like they pulled off some major coup, but in reality Trev hasn't accomplished... well... anything, since he became the AD at Nebraska.  Their volleyball team was nationally elite long before Trev became AD, and their football team remains the butt of many national jokes.  

  12. One of the craziest races ever, the 1984 Formula 1 Dallas Grand Prix.  The track ran through Fair Park in Dallas, right around the Cotton Bowl for a portion of it.  The race ran on July 8th, and the ambient temperature was something like 103 degreesF.  Seriously, when you have the chance, take the time to watch this all the way through--I can't even begin to describe all the crazy stuff that happened.

    It doesn't want to embed, so here's the URL:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mf3nx

     

     

     

     

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  13. Anyway, the public/private sector discussion is a red herring, it really doesn't have anything to do with the subject at hand.

    The FACTS are, that we know that an increasing percentage of the population is unhappy enough to answer as such in surveys.

    And we know that the negative responses disproportionately skew to those under 30.

    Beyond that, this thread has really been nothing more than speculation as to why.  There's some plausible speculation, and some stupid-as-shit speculation, and some insensitive "don't care got mine" responses as well.

    What I'd be most interested in finding, is WHY those who responded as unhappy, did so. I'd like to find it out directly from the original set of respondents.  And I'd also be interested to view similar past surveys over time, of the same age ranges, to see what the trends look like for those age ranges, over, say, the past 60-80 years.

    As a solid GenXer, I can say that plenty of my peers had some fairly negative views of their surroundings, from ages 18-30.  In some ways it was expected or even fashionable to behave so-- youthful rebellion, young-person's angst, and all that.  But as I, and my peers, have become older, and gained perspective,, and learned how to live a contented life, much of that angst and fear and anger, have faded and been replaced by happier feelings.  This is only anecdotal of course, but that's my own experience.

    That's why I'd be interested to see the trends over time, from generation to generation, of such a survey.

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