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Hayduke

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  1. I'm impressed that you can find a beer picture from 2014. That's dedication to good beer. Why "kind of depressing?" Seems like there's more story there worth telling. I don't have enough coffee in me yet to remember an anecdote worth posting, but I'll probably be thinking about beer while out shoveling snow later on today. Still trying to remember why our Sunday beer happy hour was talking about both Pliny the beer and Pliny the Roman not too long ago; it may have been while looking up something else on UnTappd. Not sure any of us had tried the beer but we were talking about Russian River and Lagunitas as potential pilgrimage destinations.
  2. I'm still an IPA guy above all, so I'd line up for it. Not sure I could line up very often with that ABV. Thanks to @mdleast for posting those pics. I was drinking the beer below when I realized Surly most surely would have an ongoing beer thread. Nice maltiness and a little roasty, but still light. Can't beat an inexpensive but tasty new offering from one of our regional stalwarts. Thanks to @HenryJames for kicking off this thread, @sith_horn for leading the charge, @Al_4_ISU and everybody else who's posting all these good-looking beers. I'll be a regular.
  3. To be fair to Johntay, when I get around the Oklahoma border, I am also a little unclear as to which country I am in.
  4. Guys, are we talking about a vile, sickness-inducing abomination here, or are we gonna talk about aggy? Oh, wait.
  5. That list is a four-year graduation rate, so I'm guessing Wheeling has just done something to hyper-focus on achieving that stat for the attention it would garner. That would happen when you compare favorably to the wealthier schools (whose students will, on the whole, be better supported from various sources). That table bottoms out with schools at 2 and 3 percent rates for four years. A bunch of those schools in the single digits and teens probably will be closed within five or six years, because they're fixin' to fall off the enrollment cliff, too.
  6. Sad to see. Had an athlete -- now former athlete -- from my school send me a scathing, profane email yesterday because I didn't do the things he wanted me to do for him regarding the educational part of his career. It seemed clear from the outset that he needed to start doing things on his own that he hadn't at this previous two schools, and I told him as much, although a little more indirectly. I told him how I'd help him after he took care of some basics that he wanted me to do. He didn't like that. Heard from his head coach recently that "things didn't work out" with the team. The young man tried to register but apparently had some other registration blocks and couldn't get into classes. Never contacted me except after the fact. Now he's on his fourth school and is probably out of his sport, too. Guessing he's at a local tech college, which would be good. Maybe he can learn a trade, but I wouldn't be surprised if his tendency to avoid responsibility continues to bite him. Obviously not quite the same boat as Johntay, but it's always a downer to watch people sink themselves like this.
  7. Well, sorta. Recovering from Dec. 4 knee replacement, which I mentioned earlier on this thread. Reading it all got me thinking I needed to push myself a little harder than I did after my previous knee replacement (left in 2023, right last year). Did my first pushups since December this afternoon -- two sets of 12 while I was doing my other stuff. Been down on the floor stretching for about 10 days now and finally got the gumption to do the pushups, which I remember hurting my left knee a lot more when I first started back on them last spring. Felt briefly like my quad might seize up a bit but no real issues. I was surprised not to have lost as much strength in my upper body as I thought I would over the last couple of months.
  8. Playing high school ball? Hell, I only weighed 120 as a senior and our team was state-ranked, so I didn't even bother. Band nerd and 13th chair baritone (out of 14 -- we also had a very large and great band, but I sucked except at marching). So I would have gotten maybe two quarter-note stickers the whole time, and mostly for doing a good job putting coolers on the bus. But I did go to the prom with a cheerleader captain and also got a couple of these:
  9. It is always good to hear a unifying voice in these divisive times, Senator.
  10. Well, over the internet, that would probably have to be in stream-of-consciousness writing rather than spoken, so ... nah. My internet tough guy days are over. Carpal tunnel, trigger finger, arthritis. I mean, I can fill up space every now and then, but those are my excuses. I just talk a lot sometimes, but I'm not claiming to actually be any good at it.
  11. Agree in principle, but at the front of the classroom, I'm that guy -- the antithesis of brevity. I survive by mocking myself for talking too damn much and remind students that I'm a writer because only then am I able to follow brevity guidelines.
  12. Still teaching PR up in Big 10 country (though not a BIG school). First teaching gig was an assistantship in UT's journalism department and have done grad work/taught at a couple of other Big XII schools. Also still do some minor freelance journalism on the side on occasion. I get the impatience with reporters (especially TV folks -- and even more so as an admittedly biased former newspaper reporter 😁).
  13. Agreed on all counts. I've practiced and taught both journalism and PR. A reporter who doesn't ask questions isn't much of a reporter at all. Not trying to go CR here, but our system depends on as much independent journalism as we can get. The PR end needs to be ready for that, and it sounds like Jahdae was.
  14. Why I made my own damn icing for the cinnamon rolls, and was perfectly happy to have my daughter steal the last one.
  15. You were probably a little subtle on that one, and your handle probably didn't help (although "BeerSwiller69" probably wouldn't do it either). If a single beer does the job, you're more resilient than most of us on this one. Bourbon sales are probably strong in Texas today. My initial response was gonna be to invite you over to the "Wives and the stupid shit they say/do" thread in Lulz, where I would hold court regarding homemade cinnamon rolls with no damn icing on 'em.
  16. Maybe we need a new name for the penalty that helps emphasize when it ought to be called, then. Because the term has now moved into polite discourse regarding air travel and other stuff, I nominate "rawdogging." (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/style/rawdog-flights-term.html -- sorry for folks who can't access, but the word now gets plenty of other media attention) I think "giving him the business" has already been taken.
  17. Yep, that one. But, as you said, I'm also not going back any more. Going back to the first-half play is probably obsessive-compulsive enough. Probably a good time to get started on the live-action part of the day, because it's definitely too late to take back that eight-yard loss that got us into the mess in the first place.
  18. I'm sure we got away with some, and it definitely wasn't as one-sided as other crucial games have felt. Haven't even looked at the stats but think OSU got called more often. At the same time, there were multiple plays when I thought, "Oh, FFS."
  19. It was Blue's first score, and Wingo wasn't circled, but regardless of the "Kirk's Clicker" intent, the view did highlight Wingo being wrapped up about 10 yards downfield (ball was snapped around the 18) when the ball is already in the air. The view shows Ewers would have been unwise to go for Wingo and Blue did score anyway, but the point remains that there was a lot of wrestling going on. It worked well for OSU. The one place where I'd really second-guess the play-calling was the two PIs in the end zone at the end of the game (and a third potential one where our receiver was complaining). Should have just run a sneak from the 1 -- again and again -- after the second penalty. The Buckeyes were clearly going to do everything possible to make it tough on our receivers.
  20. Can't remember if it was on Blue's first touchdown, but the field-cam view on the replay first highlighted what looked like Wingo being wrapped up well downfield while heading for the post. Wingo was circled and the replay reversed once to emphasize that, then forwarded again. Then the highlight came off of him as it went to the other Texas receiver heading down the left sideline. Even from a distance and behind Ewers, it looked pretty clearly like Wingo was practically being pulled over backward. And of course we saw a couple of replays where his shirt was clearly being pulled away from his body. It was frustrating, as was the tackle of Simmons (I think) on OSU's last touchdown drive when Howard should have been sacked. I think someone already created a what-if thread for today, but this is separate enough and frustrating enough to be its own thread. Trying to avoid saying it was inequitable officiating, but it sure felt like OSU got away with too much.
  21. Well, I'm in the Midwest right now, and I'm here to report that on the whole, there are probably cheaper ways to report on better talent than going to Atlanta on the 20th -- or even my going downtown to see if any of our Midwestern gals are back in town for the new semester. But if y'all want to crowdsource a reporting grant for me, I'll gladly head downtown. Grant might need to include some divorce-court funds, though.
  22. Point well taken, but I think there's some room for interpretation. To me, it's nowhere near the same as a ball in the face, given the varied usages of the finger-point. We'll just have to accept whatever the officials' interpretation is of whatever is going on between guys the whole game, but that's not easy to do sometimes, and this is one of those times.
  23. Maybe it's not that plain and simple and shouldn't be viewed that way. Among teammates it's a sign of appreciation -- and, likely, sometimes among opponents. Kind of a grudging respect -- "good job" or even "Yeah, got you that time, but let's go again." I've seen it done that way, and a lot of times it's easy to tell that it's respectful. I realize it's got to be difficult for refs to interpret those things, but Helm hasn't been the kind of guy to demonstrate antagonism and disrespect. Cameras and TVs are good enough now to show us guys yapping at opponents and refs getting into the middle of it after multiple plays each drive, and when I see refs do that multiple times with the same guys, I wonder why they don't just throw a flag. I haven't been seeing that kind of crap with Helm.
  24. That was among the cheapest-ass unsportsmanlike conduct penalties I've seen since the sport started consistently allowing more celebration and showboating. Not sure why a finger-pointing is any different than the jawboning and staring-down crap, the bowing up and chest-bumping opponents and whatnot. And ... while I'm not one of the panty-wadders here ... the Horns down. I'm generally in the "live rent-free" crowd on that one, but it might be the closest equivalent to what Helm did if he wasn't intending to be indicating the direction Texas was moving. He should have been given the benefit of the doubt on that one.
  25. Great pictures and great times. When you bump this thread in five years, it'll be a little different. Even better in 10 years. These are memories that will only get better. My kids aren't football fans and we're too far from Texas for them to really get into the culture of UT football without almost forcing it on them. I'm not going to do that, even though I have at times been very closely involved with the program from the journalistic side (or maybe because of that; it has made life as a fan more complicated). But they're lucky enough to be part of a sports program where we live that's quite remarkable at the state level and occasionally on a national level. My son could barely sniff the middle of JV as a senior, but the stuff that he took with him has helped him be an accomplished athlete in college -- at a national but not intercollegiate level, opening doors for him socially and professionally and in impressive ways. My daughter's a junior and been to two state track meets, but has missed out on some other opportunities when both the team and she fell short, but I can see even now how those lessons are shaping her success, day by day. There's been some pain along the way, but lord, does she treasure her sports friendships and she grows visibly with her experiences. Cherish these times. We don't win every one of them, and it's been too long since 2006, but it's not a bad day at all to count our blessings.
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