Robert C
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I habitually skip the top of the page (sorry Rippa, but it's a fact that engineers can't read directions), so I accidentally saw this yesterday after seeing the mention in OSJ's memorial thread.
I've had very little direct interaction with Dean, but I realized yesterday that at the age of 52 I've been reading his stuff for almost exactly half my life, going back to when I was doing an internship in the summer of 1997. I'd have time waiting for simulations to run, and ended up spending it reading RSPW. There were a few posters that I'd always read their stuff, and Dean quickly moved to the top of that list. Then I found his stuff on Ollie's old site and read all of that. Once this site got started, I migrated over here almost immediately, though I lurked forever. Looking at that list of donors yesterday was like looking back in time over the last 26 years
Somewhere, on an old CD, I have a bunch of random stuff saved. A lot of it is stuff Dean did. Road reports. Dean/JDW threads either from the green board or RSPW. Lessons on how to be a man that I think he wrote when he turned 40.
I've got a lot out of this site over the years, entertainment for sure, but more importantly friendships that extend beyond the online world.
Selfishly, I hope and pray I get the chance to tell Dean thank you.
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OK, so who here wants to give me an explanation why I saw my next door neighbor's kid (I use the term "kid" to mean he's their offspring, not that he's a child. He lives with his parents, but I'd guess he's at least in his mid 50s) dragging a coffin out of their garage this afternoon? I thought living in a house where the previous owner murdered his wife was odd enough already. Not sure I needed the coffin next door to really up the weirdness factor.
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Memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure I walked out of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Less than Zero.
A bunch of us dumbass middle schoolers managed to get kicked out of the original Red Dawn.
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4 hours ago, EVA said:
Pete Golding and Bill O’Brien are both officially gone from Alabama. I’m now two good hires away from being able to post the Vince McMahon Laser Eyes meme.
Saban oughta look further west in the SEC and snap up the dynamic duo of Bobby Petrino and DJ Durkin. If there was ever a pair of former head coaches who could use that Saban rehab clinic magic, it's them. Heck, why not grab Steve Addazio while you're at at. He's got head coaching experience, and A&M's OL play was something to behold last year under his leadership.
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Thing is, Google doesn’t want to make 9 billion. They want to make 12 billion. I’ve worked major tech companies for more than 25 years. I’ve heard a lot about loyalty to employees. And I’ve never believed a word of it.
As soon as my current employer thinks they can make one penny more profit with me gone, I’m gone. That’s always been my expectation. And every major company is the same way.
Is any of that good? Probably not, but If you’re expecting something else going in, you’re fooling yourself.
unrelated side note - typing this on my phone. I originally typed cam instead of can. When I went to correct it, my phone started up the camera, which was pointed in my lap. I found that both awkward and funny. Fortunately I got that fixed, and the board probably wouldn’t have embedded it anyway, so you were spared that image.
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We’ve secretly replaced the Chargers with the Houston Oilers. Let’s see if anyone notices.
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5 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Been sick all week. Woke up from a nap and read this. I’m gonna assume this is just a fever dream and go back to sleep.
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1 hour ago, Tabe said:
Punting is about 1000x as easy as placekicking. Nobody has to make a game winning punt. Missing 3 feet to the right on a punt doesn't matter.
Nobody except the Australians, who come from a sport where missing a punt three feet to the left can be a killer.
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On 12/28/2022 at 9:50 AM, Gonzo said:
Finished the game last night. Never did go back and do the Kastor quest.
Also haven't done the Chaos Chamber. Will probably go see what it's all about here the next time I jump on.
All in all, another really fun installment in the Borderlands series.
Chaos chamber isn’t bad. It does get real repetitive real fast though. There’s also the dlc, though If you haven’t bought it I’d say don’t bother.
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45 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
I once tried to help explain to Chris Simms that the PC he was using was running Windows instead of Apple OS, which is why it looked ‘weird’. It didn’t go well. So I’d say him putting out nonsense on twitter is actually an improvement, at least one n terms of his grasp of technology.
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4 hours ago, RIPPA said:
@Robert Ccan breathe easy
Bobby Petrino is going to be the OC at UNLV
At least till Jimbo hires a newcomer named Bart Riles. Or officially makes himself OC.
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On 12/13/2022 at 10:01 AM, Gonzo said:
So I'm pushing my way through Wonderlands and I've gotten to Level 26 with my Brrr-zerker/Stabbomancer combo. Most of the quests haven't been that difficult. . .except one.
Kastor the Normal-Sized Skeleton
This asshole is the absolute bane of my existence right now. I go in, do a solid job against him and still wind up getting killed, and then when I go back to take another shot at him there are no little mushroom people to do the "Save Your Soul" thing with so there's no point in even going in there again.
I love the game so far but I don't know if I'm ever going to beat this damn mission.
I weirdly got through that one easily. Then I played it again coop, and got the crap kicked out of me. At least you don't have to beat that one to progress, so you can always come back to it later.
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8 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Oh Lord
Whatever I did to offend the football gods, I'm sorry. Really, really sorry.
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Wonder is there's anything in there about not forcing underage girls to remove their clothes in his presence.
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Jimbo Fisher seems to have accepted reality (read bowed under pressure) and decided to hire an actual, honest to God, offensive coordinator. Or at least he's fired the guy that supposedly was OC till now. Will be interesting to see what we wind up with. Hoping at least for an offensive scheme from this millennium.
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Sign you’re an Aggie - your team has a two touchdown lead, and possession at midfield. There’s twelve and a half minutes left and you’re playing at home. You tell yourself “ we’ll, we might have a shot of winning this”
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Did my first GTA missions in at least a year over the weekend. I'd never done the latest Gerald missions, so I figured I'd see what they were about. Can't remember what the first one was, but I do remember it paid me all of $10K.
Second one was drive to a garage, shoot a bunch of guys, and steal a van. Then I had to drive the van somewhere, without damaging it too much. When I got there, I spent forever running around finding action figures in a yellow rectangle. When I finally spotted the last one, I told myself "at least I won't ever have to do that again". Then I picked it up, and the game told me to drive the van that can't be damaged too much to the other side of town and do it again, this time while getting shot at. After I finally did that, I got to drive that stupid van some more without damaging it. Whole thing probably took 45 minutes to complete, and paid me a whopping $15K. Then I went back into freemode and drove a pickup two miles for $50K.
Gonna be a while before I do another mission.
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Two of the three are starters. And this is already the second suspension for both of em. Been a fun season so far.
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I'm really curious what "improper benefits" could even be in recruiting now. I'm pretty sure buying a player a Coke isn't a violation in an era when Texas can safely spend just about what I paid for my house to entertain a recruit for one weekend.
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Is being tied for dead last in red zone possessions bad?
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9 minutes ago, JLowe said:
Welch was where it was rumored to be!
Putting a reactor in Welch would've been an invitation to global nuclear catastrophe. Place was constantly either on fire and/or being evacuated when I was in grad school. I was never really sure if the Austin fire department actually refused to continue responding there, or just threatened to.
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45 minutes ago, JLowe said:
Reminds me of rumors of there being a nuclear reactor in one of the UT science buildings.
Technically there was - the old Tokamak at the Fusion Research Center was underground pretty much right under the front steps of ENS. My father helped design the thing. My parents pulled me out of school, in second grade maybe, to go watch part of the installation one day. Fun stuff for a second grader to watch. Apparently it's in China now.
Anyway, Texas doesn't need a reactor. They've got Welch hall, which is infinitely more dangerous.
A&M has a fission reactor off of the main campus. Some friends of mine were hanging around outside it drinking one night and got the bright idea to break into the airport next door. They got one of the little luggage carrier cars started and were driving it out on the runways in the middle of the night. FBI raided our dorm the next morning. Glad I missed that.
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If you ever thought the team you root for is run by horrible human beings, at least it isn't run by these guys.
The headline itself is bad enough. It somehow gets worse from there:
Hawthorn racism review to allege that former coaches separated First Nations players from families and demanded a pregnancy termination
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My parents still live in the house I grew up in, which means they still have the door they used to mark my height on when I was a kid. We started putting my son on the door pretty much as soon as he could walk, which means we can compare our respective heights at different ages. He's 7 1/2 now. Measured him on there this weekend, since we hadn't done it in a while. He's barely shorter than I was at 11, and I'm about 6'2''.
He's a big, broad shouldered kid, with wild, bushy hair that's basically impossible to brush. He also has no filter and absolutely no volume control at all. Think Brian Blessed as a second grader, that's pretty much what I'm raising.
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2023 NFL OFFSEASON
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Wonder if anybody at Amazon actually seen the Jets play in the last 50 odd years?