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  1. 10 minutes ago, 927 E. 41st said:

    Since the NEZ and field turf additions the first couple of games of every season have seemed hotter and less breeze getting down into the stadium. Doubt this would be much worse, since Godzilliatron is a huge wind break/heater. Not going to make it any better though. 

    It's my feeing that the field turf holds the heat better than natural, and at least that could be fixed. Light breeze through the stands is gone forever.

    True enough.

     

    Still, it could be worse. It could look like a giant tackle box.

  2. 7 minutes ago, TheYoungHorn said:

    CDC isn't just going to pack up and move a football team into Gregory Gym. 

    Gregory Gym utilized everyday by thousands of students and faculty, and as big as it is, has no room to house 100 athletes on a dedicated basis, much less the other necessary training and meeting facilities the team needs to operate. 

    Let's be serious for a second and be realistic. Because this is 2018 and CDC seems like a very realistic and intelligent character. They are not going to pack up the entire football team and move into Gregory Gym for a year. 

    They just redid the entire locker room, and I believe the weight room/training room. 

    In addition to the SEZ, expansion and additional remodeling of player/coaches facilities, we will also need a new indoor facility in the near-ish term. 

    They are thinking about solutions that get them to the entire package they want and need to recruit and compete competitively, and also attract more high dollar/corporate premium seats. 

    This isn't wrong, it might suck that it isn't what you or I would want to see, or how we would design it on SketchUp, but I would bet it is a consideration. 

     

    Wow, you wildly missed the point.

     

    One thing you're right about, is that they're working toward solutions that grant them everything they want.  Which is precisely why a temporary dislocation if they decide to blow up Moncrief isn't going to factor into their decision-making at all.  They've already ripped apart Moncrief once for a previous stadium expansion.

  3. 10 minutes ago, TheYoungHorn said:

    Also, for those of you proposing the full SEZ bowling.

    Where does the football team's entire operation move for the year plus after Moncrief is destroyed and the new thing isn't completed? 

     

    The bubble.  Gregory Gym.  All of Jester East.  The Main Building.  The new EE building.  Really, pretty much anywhere they like-- they're the football program for the University of Texas.

     

    Honestly, that's among the least of the issues, whether you're for or against the full bowl.

  4. 30 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    Yeah, but when LHN/ESPN comes back from the halftime commercial break they get a really cool shot zooming back in from the capital.

     

     

    They can always put the camera up higher... :)

     

     

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  5. 18 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    No shit. Our season tickets are on the west side, so I can’t see the skyline anyways. But at no point during a game do I stop and think to myself “I must see the skyline from here. Fuck this shit, I’m out.”  Besides, the Capitol is full of assholes anyways. Fuck em. 

    Yeah, what percentage of stadium seats actually have a Capitol view anyway?  The west side doesn't, does any of the NEZ?  Probably plenty of the northern seats on the eastern side don't either, because of the size of the west side grandstands. 

  6. On 4/11/2018 at 3:37 PM, wood said:

    Actually this incident has me looking at monitors for my house. There are numerous gas leaks in homes every day in Austin & there are a lot of these monitors out there that are surprisingly cheap. I'll probably buy one pretty soon. /csb

    Not sure if it's been mentioned, but in Austin on April 1st a city ordinance went into effect requiring all buildings (residential and commercial) with gas appliances, to have CO detectors installed.  That's obviously not the same as a propane or natural gas leak, but I have found that a lot of people don't know about this new law, so figured I'd throw it into this discussion.  As a landlord, I had to install this equipment in my rental properties in order to comply.

     

    http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-homes-with-gas-appliances-must-have-co-detector/1069759855

     

     

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  7. 15 minutes ago, Goodman said:

    These are the type of money grabs we should support. None of us are currently sitting there and we will not be when the suites are done. If it takes away from the obnoxious, in game advertising and makes it louder along with helping recruiting.....why not?

    Overall I agree with your sentiment, but I don't believe for a second that they'll do anything to reduce or minimize the in-game advertising.  They're looking for incremental revenue,  not looking to trade one revenue stream for another.  

     

    Something's got to pay for all those F150s for the recruits.

  8. 11 minutes ago, Bert Orange said:

    But I have been to both. And I’ve never seen it actually bottled on a shelf for sale, nor have I ever seen it offered in a restaurant pre-mixed as a sauce. I’m sure you have though. To be clear, I never said they invented shit. They just use mayoketchup for everything. 

    Why would they need to pre-mix it?  Ketchup and Mayonnaise are readily available.  Who cares if it's in premixed bottle?  People in the USA are clearly blending them all the time, without pre-mixed bottles.

  9. 7 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    I'm no architect, but all this discussion of "mismatched design" amuses me. Once they put that mammoth west side upper deck on the stadium, nothing was ever going to be cohesive. They did a decent job with the East and North sides, making them look consistent, but to get a truly matched design they'd have to blow the whole thing up and start over.

    Yes, they did.  Which is why I don't blame people for asking for more of the same.

    Sure it'll never be symmetrical due to the large West side upper deck, but the rest of the stadium could at least be bowled in, in a consistent manner.

     

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  10. My mom made tuna on toast as well. I actually liked it then, and still do.

    Another one she'd do was a white cream gravy with diced hard boiled egg whites mixed in, served over toast, and then you push the hard boiled yolks though a strainer and sprinkle that over the top.  She called it "goldenrod toast" and I liked that one, too.

     

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  11. Don't know if it's already been posted, but the USGP concerts are now set.  Bruno Mars was already announced as the Saturday performer, but I've now seen COTA's release that the Sunday show will be Britney Spears.  

  12. ^^^^ 

    Some restaurants add the cheddar cheese condensed soup, in addition to the easy-melting processed cheese.  The soup helps keep the mixture from coagulating, but using the processed cheese also keeps the flavor and texture the same as most expect from restaurant queso.

     

     

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