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  1. Joc seems like he has always been a very streak-based performance guy. When he's hot he's on fire. We just need to see that version more often when he gets back. Proximity to Jerry Jones, maybe.
  2. To be clear, the 1:14am text was not an "evacuation" text though it probably should've been treated as such. It said "life threatening flash flooding was expected" or somesuch. Mystic is gone. Plain and simple. The insurance policies are not going to be big enough to cover the liability claims. Read somewhere on this board (I think) that a group of parents -- mostly fathers -- have already started discussing a situation where they settle for policy limits and then the current Mystic grounds are turned into some kind of memorial and public recreation area. Mrs C-Man heard somewhere the Mystic property is worth anywhere from $50M-$100M but wonder if that much could be gotten considering what just happened there and future less-favorable flood mapping (presumably).
  3. Yeah I've been watching that all morning. Frio's gonna go crazy.
  4. "Core"? This suggests they are going to continue to wear stupid-looking alternates.
  5. You can't ensure that "disasters never happen." You CAN ensure that areas and communities are 1) properly warned, and 2) as well prepared as they can be for when they happen. Katrina: warning was good. Preparation was shit. Levees were shit, in large part due to local corruption, due to entrenched power structures that existed for generations (sound familiar? Leadership getting locked in place, with no changes or challenges, is usually bad news). Helene: better warnings would have been good. Shit, I recall Inka and I looking at the forecast rainfall, and commenting 24-48 hours beforehand "that shit is going to be really bad in the mountains." California wildfires, Maui fires: wildfires are often really tough. Step 1 in many cases is "avoid building a lot of structures in areas that really, really want to burn," but that ship has usually sailed. Having resources available, with a game plan to use them, is key. In both of those cases, weather conditions were such that the resources at hand either couldn't be deployed or were just overwhelmed. Interestingly, just last week, I spent an hour watching California respond to a local wildfire in an area of hills and canyons. It was a spectacle. They fucking know what they are doing, and they pour resources onto a fire early, to make sure it doesn't get bigger. Truly, it was pro squad level work. So, believe it or not, for wildfire fighting, I'd say "learn from California," and even then, we know there's only so much they can do. Texas Winter Storm outage disaster: who should you vote for? Maybe people who didn't purposefully design a grid set up to fail, starting with SB-7 in 1997 and continuing for decades. The Uri outage was a predictable, natural result of policy choices made by our leadership. And not much meaningful has been done to change that state of affairs. Kerrville floods: read the meeting minutes of Kerr County rejecting flood warning systems. We'll learn plenty more, but that's a pretty good start. Disasters are inevitable. The full measure of human and economic costs of same often are not inevitable. Things are better when you act instead of react. Shit, in the current environment, if we didn't already have the Highland Lakes system built (which prevents Austin from being hammered by river floods), there is a 0% chance they would be built today. Because fuck doing something that provides benefit to the public.
  6. Yeah, he's a total piece of shit. It doesn't really matter if people find him entertaining or worth watching. What matters is there are 8 players that put up $10,000 that have to deal with his shit. I'd be calling the clock on him continuously and calling the floor asking them to tell him to shut up when he's talking about the hand I'm playing. I'd also go over and high five the guy who knocked him out.
  7. But but we all learned you can upgrade hamburger helper by getting additional ingredients from Whole Foods, which is totes deep South Side Chicago!! If there'd been some Sox' fit it would have completed the picture.
  8. I think the Rattle and Hum tour was the best they ever did with it live but it was pretty solid at the sphere a couple of years ago. My seats were last minute so not great but still gives a good idea. I wonder how long Edge has to re-rehearse the riff to get back up to speed whenever they go out IMG_5685.mov eta: actually, i just remembered the super bowl halftime show right after 9/11 where they did mlk right into it...that was pretty fucking amazing.
  9. Yeah....I expect that a lot of the bodies are never going to be found. And others, or parts of others, will be found months or years from now at random times and places. Just gruesome, shitty stuff. Nature is a mean bitch, and she gives no fucks.
  10. My senior year was okay. Ten wins, last SWC champions, a win at aggy, the first year of Ricky's record-breaking career, my first trip to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. But it was still Mackovic'd with an unacceptable tie against a shitty OU team after a huge lead at halftime, and a flat performance in the loss to Virginia Tech.
  11. You killjoys can take the feeling of winning the last SWC title and upsetting Nebraska after you take it out of my cold, dead hands.
  12. Jk. Thanks for posting. But I’m still not sure whether you meant it was going south of Louisiana and hooking north into Texas - or heading west through Southern Louisiana. Cruising west just off the Louisiana coast would be terrible for us, with the counter clockwise motion causing storm surge (and the dirty side wind) all along the coast. doing this 30 miles inland would be even worse.
  13. Today has been glorious, im glad and hope everyone stays safe, but fucking A if this isn't great to see. I feel like its a special holiday, cancel work, everyone go home and enjoy the rain.
  14. I'm a bit perturbed how the local water districts and Austin Water won't remove Stage 2 restrictions until the DCP exit conditions are met for 4 months continuously. I.e. the two variable level lakes must have a combined storage over 1.2MM acre-feet for 4 months continuously before they will lift the restrictions from Stage 2 to Stage 1, then to no restrictions. Nevermind we just crossed the 1.7MM a-f storage mark, and would take a few years worth of usage and evaporation to back down to the 1.2MM a-f mark. I guess the water districts need a way to fine the hell out of the customers and make some good side cash.
  15. My go-to gif for extreme frustration.
  16. This true fact is what convinces me that our society is beyond saving. We have glorified and sanctified a culture that doesn't just eschew any belief or action in furtherance of the common good: we have turned such things into hallmarks of pure evil. See, e.g., Kerr County officials and their constituents not just refusing, but RAILING AGAINST, flood warning measures and funding because the funding arose under "treasonous, communist" administrations of Obama and Biden. We do everything we can to AVOID taking measures that would help the public at large, and then....we suffer the consequences. And we have seen what happens in the aftermath. Stonewalling, denial of responsibility by those who directly acted (or failed to act) to prevent tragedy....and then nothing done to meaningfully change things to prevent future tragedy. So, yeah....calling out our total and complete social and political failure is not just okay, it's fucking imperative. If you care about a single one of the lives lost, then you should make it your mission to ensure that not another life, not a single one, is unnecessarily lost due to the same causes: demonization of the common good. Instead, we know -- with 100% certainty -- we'll get more of the same. And what is more of the same? The political leadership that has set policy, and driven the tone of society and our policies, for over a generation....will deny and avoid ALL responsibility, will continue down the same path, and will ensure that we get another Uvalde, Mystic, Uri power failure, etc.....in the coming months/years. So, none of y'all who are upset about that gal's comments need to worry your pretty little heads about it another second. All will be well, there will be no true accountability, no true consequences for those who made choices that cost lives, and no meaningful changes on either the micro or macro level will happen.
  17. That’s the point - most schools and most programs and in most places doesn’t do the other stuff and the educational product is useless. It’s just a sad, low grade imitation of the least valuable parts of attending elite universities, because the most valuable part can’t be imitated. One of the central failures of the progressive movement was to put their efforts not into ensuring that public high schools produced workforce ready graduates, but rather into making it easier for working and middle class people kids with no particular academic interests to go six figures in the hole so someone could tell them to read Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
  18. There are agreed-upon directions, but Tech pretty much wears a different variant/ combo each week. So in other words, the exact opposite of the schools like Texas/PSU/ Bama with the great classics. I hate the gray unis for us. I also hate any red helmet. Some people like em, I do not. IMHO, we should wear Black-red-black for every home game with the all black for a night game or 2. Road games, I like the black helmet with any other combo. I know the players allegedly like the variants. I don't get a vote. The thing I hate is turning on the game and having to figure out which team is Tech. We have a great mascot and outstanding colors. A lot of of the new designs detract from both of those.
  19. Maybe true. But a lot people like me didn't go to a public school they would consider rigorous, and I got a ton out of my college education. I also went to UT, which was dirt cheap in the 1990's, and I doubt that education would've been any better if I went to a private school or an out-of-state school and paid significantly more.
  20. We will need AI to detect and filter out AI. I see an opportunity for AI free content creator platforms but hopefully it’s not for stupid cat videos and instead it’s for the informative good stuff.
  21. The lady is an idiot and deserved to be fired. Say stupid shit, win stupid prizes. I'm sorry about your friend's granddaughter, a lot of us have been deeply affected by this tragedy and I understand your anger/frustration. That said, I'm not sure why this particular incident fires you up so much. Is it because she's a pediatrician, a job of stature and importance? That's understandable. Could it also be because she's a Democrat, and you expect more out of her? The reality is this type of trollish vitriol has been around for a while. I hope you'd feel that same anger (or more?) for the people in actual power who use compassionless words to hurt others who are suffering as well.
  22. LCRA can take plenty of criticism but I’ve thought they’ve done well with flood operations over the years. Folks with first floors under the spillway level on Travis are never really a consideration (we have some friends on graveyard point) but when you think about the goal of minimizing floods along the Colorado they seem to do a good job, it’s mostly the tributaries that flood and down stream if the rain event is below Austin.
  23. Thanks for that info, @Biff Tannen. I'm not deep into that world at all. Big Ed Abbey fan, but I'm more philosophically aligned with the Hayduke character than in lifestyle. Have been mainly a car camper and section hiker; I'm more than halfway into the Ice Age Trail, but have never been in the right juncture of mental space, finance, marriage/family and opportunity to really dedicate myself to consistent, serious backpacking or thru-hiking. As a for-instance, this would be my first trip where I'd need a water filter. Bro-in-law recently retired and he's been wanting to do part of the JMT, so we're planning to do southbound, departing from near Bishop. Ending at the Whitney Portal, probably over eight days. He's former military and recently recruited a church buddy who's also ex-military to come along. For me, it will be a test of my two new knees, so I'll probably do one or two shorter backpacking trips up here between now and next summer. My son is also planning to join us, and he's a reservist/ROTC senior next year who just finished his advanced training at Fort Knox and will run his third Bataan Memorial Death March next spring. Don't know BIL's buddy, but confident that both BIL and son will be mentally and psychologically ready for the challenges of the JMT. We old guys are all fully aware of the challenges of that area and understand the need for training and prep. Glad my son is coming, though. He'll be the guy we put in charge of running down the escape route if we need him to! I'll keep you posted, so if any of your time coincides we could be on the lookout for you. We're shooting for July, and BIL and sis are actually on the road as I write, headed to King's Canyon and Sequoia, where he'll do some scouting. I'm also pretty sure the others would say you're welcome to join us for any of it.
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