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  1. 1 hour ago, Hook1997 said:

    There’s been nothing consistent about their scheduling at all is my point.  It’s like the non division games were decided by rolling dice every year and for the next two years they are like let’s just do the same thing back to back.  Everyone is talking expansion, pods, ect, they have no freaking clue what to do already. I don’t understand how they haven’t figured out anything actually consistent for years.   

    SEC scheduling has always been wonky.  As I recall, back before the expansion to 12 teams in 1991/92, there were years when LSU might only play 6 or 7 of the other 9 teams.

  2. 30 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, I'm not one to judge but this seems weird as fuck to bring up on a thread about kids.  

    to the last several posts though, it's a tight-wire act.  My wife and I were raised as working-class kids in the midwest.  We do most shit ourselves-electric, lawncare, plumbing, trees, etc-even though we can easily afford some undocumented fellow to do it for us.  At some point, yes-it's obviously not cost-effective for our time as professionals to spend hours doing shit around the house/yard.  But you also want to show your kids self-reliance and getting shit done on your own.  You know in the end you can probably use that time better and make money to give them more opportunity later in life.  But sometimes, you want them to know how to get some shit done.  Just a few days ago, we finally had to say goodbye to one of loquat trees that had been basically dead since last year.  And I could have called a tree crew or used my chainsaw.  But I took it down by hand, including the root structure with manual tools.  And the girls watched most of it because I wanted them to see what elbow grease looks like.  And it took this 47 year old fart awhile to get it done and then broken down and put into the compost bin/craft bags.... bit by bit.  You want them to be efficient with their time, and you want to have time to spend with them goofing around or teaching them.  But every now and again, you just need to buckle down and do some choring or electrical work or pruning by hand and have them learn it.  Because this whole thing can come to an end and right quick.  And the people trying to keep girls from having any kind of life aren't taking a day off so I can't either.  

    Dude you're crazy.  There's self-reliance and then there's pure stubbornness.  I lost two loquats to the various freezes, took 'em down with my chainsaw in about 20 seconds each, and taught my kids the valuable lesson of-- don't fuck around and find out with a chainsaw.  That tool means business.

     

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  3. 11 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I’m at the point of my life where my time is more valuable than the extra money it costs for me to have other people fix things. By the time I get supplies, watch the requisite videos, still manage to fuck up several times, something that takes someone else 30 minutes takes me 4 hours. And is probably half assed. Practice makes perfect but how many times will I need to learn now to replace a ceiling fan or a sink fixture in my life at this point? 2, maybe 3 more?
     

    There’s a baseline of knowledge and intuition and understanding handy people have acquired over a lifetime that I don’t have, and at this point it’s a conscious choice for me to not spending the time to acquire it. Maybe when I retire. But I somewhat view it as along to learning a language when you’re young versus old. 
     

    When I was a kid I built my own computers and messed with all that stuff. I understand that all it takes is motivation. 

    Absolutely get it.  There are some things I choose to do on my own, because for me they are easy and quick, and I also enjoy the DIY aspect of a lot of things.

    But there are also things I know how to do, that I still hire out.  For example I no longer change my own oil because the time it takes me to do the work, and then dispose of the waste, isn't worth it.  The shop can do it more efficiently than I can and I'm happy to spend the money and let them do so.

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  4. 17 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    . Of course, if he had, I'd have bitched and moaned the entire time and probably not appreciated anything I learned now that I'm older. Funny how some situations can create regret no matter what. 

    I think you'd have appreciated it.  My dad was incredibly self-sufficient, and he DID force me to help him change the oil, the brakes, repair drywall, repair plumbing, and all of that other stuff. Naturally I was an ungrateful surly little shit of a child, but now, decades later, I really do appreciate it.  Not only for the knowledge, but for the time I shared with my dad, that I didn't even realize was so meaningful.  He was always extremely busy at work, so the times he took to slow down and repair something at home, were some of the rare times we got to spend a lot of time together.

     

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  5. On 3/28/2024 at 8:17 AM, Sam Lin said:

    Not sure I agree with that, but it gets philosophical.

     

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    The movie doesn't/can't explain this, it's way too nuanced for a short film, but the book keeps Paul's internal struggle as a topic nearly all the way through.

     

    What Paul does (actions) certainly be construed as bad, but especially in the book he accepts it only after trying to reject it for most of the book, and then seeing that the alternative, the "stagnation" path, leads to far worse for humanity. If anything, he's a begrudging messiah.

     

    Where it gets philosophical is the "do the ends justify the means?" If your answer is yes, Paul is good. If your answer is no, Paul is bad.

     

    Exactly, all of this.  I was speaking to the nuance. The message is not simple.

  6. 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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  7. For the rice, no need to dice the onion, just cut one in half, put it face down in the skillet as you cook everything, and stir occasionally.  This is how Abuelita in the Valley always did it.  

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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.

     

  11. 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 ?

     

     

  12. 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?

  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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?

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