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  1. 2 hours ago, South Austin said:

    Be prepared for a recycled Asleep at the Wheel joke.  Some things never change.

    You can joke all you like as long as they leave Asleep at the Wheel as the opening bad of the festival. 

    I don't drink much anymore, but opening day of ACL is always penciled in to go hard.  I'm looking forward to getting an overpriced carafe of wine and kicking back in the sunshine listening to Ray Benson and whoever else he has in the band this year. 

    By the end if the set, I'm going to have a slight buzz that i hope to hold well into the evening.  A great way to kick off the day.

     

     

     

  2. I had to think a while on this one.   In general, I don't like old stuff. New monitors, computers, and phones are usually just better.

    My old tech: 

    1992 IBM Model-M keyboard. Yes, a mechanical 'clickity' keyboard.  The greatest, and most indestructible keyboard ever built. I have a work and personal computers on my desk in my home office. This is attached to my personal computer because there would be no way to type while on Team calls unless you were muted. 

    1989 Trek Road Bike.  It was high-end when I bought it new. I've tried new bikes, but the geometry doesn't feel as good to me. I'm going to ride this until it can't be repaired. Yeah, wireless electronic shifters are cool, but FU, I have down-tube shifters.

    I think I have an old VGA monitor in the guest bedroom, but I wouldn't use that thing. 

      

     

     

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  3. For me, Community had higher highs than any other sitcom.  Perhaps it's over all average doesn't place it at the top, but the peaks were amazing. 

    I can't think of any other sitcom where I've searched for and rewatched some episodes. 

    The top of my list is Remedial Chaos Theory where they roll dice to see who goes downstairs to pick up pizza. If you haven't seen it, they run through the same roll of the dice getting different numbers (different timelines). The setup is fun, but the "Darkest Timeline" is the payoff.

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    And then ending with the "Best Timeline" where they're rocking out to Roxanne was perfect.

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  4. 1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I got a 6 week supply of the 50mg per shot for about $300, not covered by insurance. How / why are people paying $1000-1300?

    Where did you find this deal? My wife is going to ask the doc for it in a couple weeks at her next checkup. In case Insurance doesn't approve it, I'm looking at options to pay it directly. I'm seeing prices in the $1k and above range. 

     

  5. On 4/21/2024 at 8:39 AM, Hate said:

    Anyone else have issues with their Achilles? I feel like my left one could snap at any time. I pretty much always have to wear shoes to keep it from hurting. 

    Google   alfredson protocol for achilles tendonitis

    The exercise protocol has had a bunch of controlled science studies that validates it works.   In a nutshell it involves doing an exercise that stretch the calf and achilles tendon under load (eccentric heel drops).

    I trashed my achilles tendon in a Half Ironman and after a surgeon couldn't help and a PT was clueless, I stumbled on this on the web. (It had only been published a few years earlier, so it wasn't all over the web like today).  It worked. 

    https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-alfredson-protocol-for-achilles-tendonitis-2696560
     

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  6. On 4/27/2024 at 7:32 AM, AUinHsv said:

    This is an incredibly poorly designed intersection but I am stuck with going thru it a lot. Just about smacked someone this morning

    The satellite picture is poor but here it is.  The silver car turning right from Oakwood is exactly where the problem is. They have a yield to turn right.

    The red arrow is the problem. People turning left from Oakwood are cruising sideways across three lanes to go into the gas station and they almost come to stop to avoid bottoming out on the entrance.  The entrance should never have been allowed but it is there. Making the right turn you are looking to the left to yield and when you look back to straight ahead there is a vehicle essentially sideways to use the entrance.

    My view is the the vehicle turning left has is protected for a turn to the leftmost lane not any of lanes they want. Plus they are actually entering the yield lane to make that turn.

    Or am I supposed to yield to any vehicle in front of me no matter how they got there.

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    If they wanted to give the folks turning right their own protected lane, they would have done away with the Yield sign and had a solid white stripe from the corner...They also probably would have not allowed the gas station entrance there. 

    But as it is, Yield means yield to all traffic.

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  7. 27 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

    No. None directly anyway. They're so big I indirectly own huge amounts of them just due to ETF fund distributions. So, being already overweight I definitely won't increase holdings in them by owning directly.

    As the quote goes, This is our concern, Dude.   

    I know I'm overexposed, but I don't see an investment option that's even close. 18 months ago I had a diversified portfolio, and it wasn't doing jack. The realization that these stock were responsible for a huge part of the growth in the market led me to where I am. 

    I feel like a gambler who won a good size pot and is now addicted.  Triple digit returns has skewed my perception of what good is.   I think my best option is to Update my lower sell limits orders again and sit tight.

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  8. Any body else own the Magnificent 7 stocks. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and Nvidia).   I own all but Tesla, as well as XLK and SMH sector funds which have huge percentages of those same.

    I've seem multiple articles like this one saying the party is over:

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-magnificent-7s-momentum-is-collapsing-160309358.html

    Yes, they have had a correction and are almost flat the last couple months, but I still think they are all going to hit new highs in the next few months.  

    Most are on fire today, except Meta thanks to Zuck talking too much on their earnings call.

    Curious what others are thinking about them.

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  9. 20-some years ago when I worked for a Fortune 500 Tech company, the VP of Engineering took 3-week visit to our offices in India. Nothing unusual about that, except he chose to ignore all the recommendations for Vaccines boosters.  He got something nasty and was out for almost six months.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896562/

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    Traveling to India possess a threat to travelers with waterborne diseases like bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever; vector borne diseases like dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria; animal contact disease like rabies.

     

     

  10. 8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Would be hilarious, given that they gave journalists access to some systems this week, but the site that Toms Hardware is quoting (it’s not a Tom’s Hardware review) was really pissed off that Qualcomm wouldn’t invite him to their event, and he’s claiming he was told it’s on the level of Celeron, and I’m not buying that.  SemiAccurate is also not what it once was.

    Its possibly they are fucking around, but they are about to have a huge even with open access to the systems, and Microsoft has been working with them, and so any shenanigans would be quickly exposed,

    Qualcomm do something sleezy and unethical?  No one would believe that.

      

  11.  

    Qualcomm faces benchmark cheating allegations — Snapdragon X Elite/Plus benchmarks claimed to be fraudulent

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-faces-benchmark-cheating-allegations-snapdragon-x-eliteplus-benchmarks-claimed-to-be-fraudulent#xenforo-comments-3843099

    The allegations:

    • Qualcomm has not been forthcoming with detailed specs of their chip.
    • OEMs reported poor performance with samples - sometimes 50% slower; other times much more.
    • An insider at Qualcomm claims they cooked the benchmarking,

    Time will tell.

     

     

  12. Kyle, like San Marcos, Leander, and a few other places has decided that their best path to becoming a better place is to get big. Growth and development is impressive.  But like most places, it's just the same stores and strip malls. Nothing new or interesting.

     

    Kyle bills itself as the Pie Capitol of Texas....all because of one store that has a big pie sign and mediocre pie. It's worth trying, but it's not going to blow you away.

     

    There is a big college stadium a few hours east of Austin named after a member of the family that founded Kyle.

     

    Cabela's is enjoyable to kill a couple hours in (if you're a guy).

     

    The Kyle Fire Department is very good.

     

    That is pretty much all I know about Buda/Kyle.

  13. 9 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

    He just needs to appoint the right people to the right jobs, and bingo-bango, he's head and shoulders above Trump.  If he commits no crimes and can keep his hands off prostitutes, he's head and shoulders above Trump.  If he doesn't plead for presidential immunity for life, he's head and shoulders above Trump.  If he doesn't use the words covfefe, hamburders, and person-woman-man-camera-tv as president, he's head and shoulders above Trump.  If he doesn't aspire to hang out with dictators and fascists, he's head and shoulders above Trump.  Damn, this list gets tiring, so I'll just end it here--besides, Trump's got a lot of courtroom napping to do from now until the election, which makes Biden head and shoulders above Trump.  

    Just about everyone is head and shoulder above Trump.  But Biden has to be on the same stage with Trump in one or more National Debates.   You feeling good about those debates?

     

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  14. 2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    It’s still an obvious choice.  I don’t know what Biden needs to be other than 10 years younger.  Especially with an election that is unique in that both candidates have 4 years on the job to compare with each other. 

     

    2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    Seriously. Biden is the archetype moderate…and the idiots have him pegged as a cross between Marx and Mao. Absolute idiocy.

     

    Biden from 4 years ago isn't running in this election.    His cognitive skills appear to have diminished far  more than Trumps.  He was always a gaffe machine, but have you heard or seen him talk (or walk) lately?  He looks old, frail and not all there.

     

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  15. As much as I venture into modern music, I was raised on guitar-based blues-rock and always cycle back to it.   Betts was one of the giants for me.   

    I have an mp3 of a live version of In memory of Liz Reed that I don't even know where it came from, but it's probably one of my top 5 recordings all-time. Master musicians improvising at the highest level possible. 

    RIP 

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  16. On 4/11/2024 at 12:18 AM, 0xdeadbeef said:

    I bought my last tux in 1993. I wore it a year ago and I hate the style. It was fine in the '90s but loose fit legs and a full break just looks like an old man tux.  (I may in fact be an old man, but I work my ass off to be in shape and if I want was dress like a dumb-ass 30-something, then Fuck you, I'm doing it.)

    There's a 50/50 chance it doesn't fit, but for $119 it's worth  the shot. 

     

    The $109 Tux from Macy's came in yesterday. 

    My old expensive tux on the left and the new $109 Macy's slim-fit Tux on the right. Not tux shoes, and the new pants aren't altered yet, but yeah, that's worth a hundred bucks to me.

    I feel like MC Hammer in the old tux; there's probably 50% more fabric in those pants..  I'm sure in 30 years we'll look at the current slim-fit suits with the same dis-like, but live in the moment.  

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    hat tip to OP.

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  17. 29 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    If I am remembering right, he also refused a lot of good medical advice because it was "western"

    Basically Jobs refused to have surgery when they found the cancer by chance very early on and it was still treatable. Alt medicine didn't do diddly and when he did go for the surgery like six or nine months later, it had spread and was no longer really treatable.   Similar to the King or England who is treating his cancer with "herbs and potions". Good luck with that. 

     

     

    As for Dr. Bynon, the transplant doctor in this thread,  I have a gut feeling that it's not going to turn out to be just because he thought someone else had a better chance. I'm guessing that all the people he moved down are going to have something in common:  They're going to be all blacks, or all women, or all liberals, or something like that that is going to make the good doctor look much worse. 

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  18. I bought my last tux in 1993. I wore it a year ago and I hate the style. It was fine in the '90s but loose fit legs and a full break just looks like an old man tux.  (I may in fact be an old man, but I work my ass off to be in shape and if I want was dress like a dumb-ass 30-something, then Fuck you, I'm doing it.)

    There's a 50/50 chance it doesn't fit, but for $119 it's worth  the shot. 

     

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