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Hairy Biped

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  1. Looks pretty cool. I've been wondering why more EVs aren't built to look and feel more traditional. Most electrics are ugly and stupid looking, and drive like you're flying a spaceship or some stupid futuristic bullshit. These are a lot better looking. I still have my doubts about offroad uses for electrics though. I talked to a Jeep guy who has a one of those Jeep Wrangler electrics and he said that it's the most useless car he has ever owned. Getting it dirty fucks up all of the sensors on it and it's not operable when the wrong sensors aren't working. That said, I haven't off-roaded my mostly analog 2002 Wrangler in at least 5 years. But I definitely like where their going with this.
  2. Brenham beat Waco 55-0 tonight. It was 38-0 at the end of the first quarter and 52-0 at the half. The TD to make it 38-0 was the 4th TD in 5 offensive plays for Brenham. Pretty sure the cheerleaders played the whole 4th quarter. I remember when Waco was a Cen-Tex powerhouse. Things have really changed over there.
  3. I mean, you make total sense, but my source said that the PAC contacted them. Not the other way around. Due diligence I'm sure. Frankly, none of it makes much sense to me. But it's fun to watch play out I suppose.
  4. Also, they just approved a $60 million renovation of the stadium. Most of that is upgrading the press box and luxury suites and adding a "club" level. But the stadium will still be small FBS stadium. FTR it currently holds 14,000 and I played there in a playoff game in 1986.
  5. Agree on both, but they do have some advantages. Proximity to 4th largest city and top 15 busiest airport. Rich recruiting grounds. They could always play games at NRG like they are this weekend. That's how they fulfill their FBS attendance commitment. I think it's a crazy idea, but the PAC is desperate at this point.
  6. I have a well place source tell me that Sam Houston has been contacted by the PAC. Sam has been in 3 different conferences in the last 5 or 6 years. Might as well.
  7. He used to live right down the road from me. Then he went to a hospital in collie station and died.
  8. No. We will be wearing our storm troopers.
  9. https://www.livingheritage.org.nz/Schools-Stories/History-of-the-Manu-Samoa/The-Siva-Tau#:~:text=The Siva Tau is the,Manu Siva Tau was written. "The Siva Tau is the haka or traditional war dance done before battle in ancient times."
  10. The funny thing is that he's (the color guy, not play x play guy) is a longtime friend of mine. The same guy is on the Texans Spanish radio crew, and sadly, also OU's Spanish football crew.
  11. When I was a little kid my dad had a Chevy Luv pickup truck that was actually built by Isuzu. The warning labels under the hood were confusing but hilarious. The radiator cap said something like "Not to open hot cap when hot usually."
  12. I got it on Amazon Fire Stick, but I had to use the search function to find it. It was on the scrolling menu of available apps yet,
  13. Remember when that ass fungus Steve Patterson fired him? Then Texas fired Patterson and rehired Bianco. That seemed to work out better.
  14. I stopped by here this morning to have a look and make sure CDC didn't leave any damning evidence lying around. I drive by this place all of the time, and drove by it Tuesday morning. I probably drove right by CDC and had no idea. The past few days have been fun. All of the Ags I know are pissed and conspiring to get retribution, even though they lack the ability to do anything about it. The newest rumor I heard from them today was that Schloss already moved to Austin the first weekend of the CWS. Nevermind the fact he was in Omaha coaching the whole time.
  15. Also written by someone who doesn't know the area. It's Peary Place, not Perry Place. It's pronounced like "Perry" but not spelled that way. That neighborhood used to be part of CCNAS. My dad's family lived there during WWII because my Grandad worked for the Navy. I've heard about it my whole life.
  16. He didn't want to have to answer that question tonight, instead wanted to focus on his team's effort. He was pissed because a reporter from what is essentially the media arm of the school was the one whos asked that distracting question. He didn't deny anything and he left before anyone could ask for a clear answer. I don't have any idea what's going to happen, but if I was aggy, I would be more concerned than reassured by his response.
  17. When turning, you are required to turn into the lane nearest to your turn, then you can make legal lane changes to get into the lane you want to be in. Yielding traffic still does have to yield to vehicles making legal lane changes though. If while turning, you cross over multiple lanes without making legal lane changes, then you have entered the roadway illegally. Also, rule # 1 of the Texas motor vehicle code or whatever they call it, is that you are required to operate your vehicle in a safe manner. Looking at the picture, I don't see how you can make legal lane changes or operate your vehicle safely in even moderate traffic at that intersection for the traffic turning left there.
  18. From the information I've been privy to, it would be, as mentioned, professionally built without student involvement in any capacity. I've heard that they are looking at options like building a metal substructure that can be reused, and either adding logs as a kind of facade, or also building fake logs and making the burn a gas fire, like propane. Basically a giant gas fireplace that's made to take down and reassemble every year. The folks I've spoken to don't think it will come back for numerous reasons. First, insurance for the event would be very expensive. Secondly, where are they going to put it? There's a huge memorial to those who died when it collapsed, right in the middle of the field that they used before. Plus, there isn't a very strong sentiment among current students to do it. The off campus bonfires have had progressively less and less student participation, and not having students work on building it wouldn't really help that any. I told them that I wasn't so sure it was dead because you can never underestimate the desire of aggy to do stupid shit. We'll see, but I agree with those who think they'll find a way to make that stupidity come back.
  19. I also remember that when I was in high school, what is now Ant Street Inn, was a dirty old Mexican brothel called El Papagayo or something like that. Also, the famous Dixie Motel that's a favorite stay of modern visitors was a house of ill repute as well.
  20. Why do you assume I'm young? I wish I was. I was born in a hospital here that closed long, long ago. If you've been here long enough, you know which one that is. Even the building is long gone. I remember those stories and so many more. The teacher and her son that were kidnapped while leaving church and later murdered. The pair of teen boys that were shot execution style by one of them's stepfather and his hitman at the old propane place that used to be out on 36 North for insurance money. The stepson died, the other played dead and survived and helped get the murderers convicted. The young lady that disappeared in the early 90s and was never seen again. The nanny that murdered a baby and then fled to Mexico, never to be caught. That was featured multiple times on America's Most Wanted. The high school kids from very prominent families (the current mayor's being one of them) that raped a young girl in the shower at the country club and more or less got away with it. That was featured on A Current Affair in the 90s and in Texas Monthly. The nurse who grew up in Brenham who let her boyfriend beat her young daughter to death and did nothing about it. That happened in Conroe, and was a huge story in Houston for a long time. It's still brought up in the media every few years when she comes up for parole. Her sister leads the charge to keep her in prison. I actually dated her briefly way back when we were kids. I feel dirty typing that knowing what she would later do. What about the whorehouse out on 105 that was burned to the ground by the sheriff and local clergy because the madam wouldn't shut it down? Ya, sure, nothing weird ever happens in Brenham.
  21. I was born in Brenham, grew up here and moved back 18 1/2 years ago. I got my driver license at that building (did you know it's not a driver's license in Texas). I'm plenty familiar with the building. Most of the victims were probably customers because the workers there are all stationed towards the back part of it, and the waiting area is up front. But the place where they take your picture is also up front, right about where the truck hit though. Also, that press conference was set up in the parking lot of the Masonic Lodge across the freeway from the DPS office for anybody wondering. I commute out of town for work at my job in the media everyday, and it was really weird to see us covering a national story in my backyard. That exit is the one you take to go to Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, HEB and a bunch of restaurants and other businesses. I don't even wanna know how fucked up traffic was in that area today. And for whoever said nothing weird happens here, you must not have been here long. For a town this size, all sorts of weird stuff happens. Hell, a little more than a year ago, Brenham was the fictional setting for a bit about Raisin' Cane's on Saturday Night Live.
  22. It took me 5 minutes to scroll through that.
  23. I've never understood why they sing "sawwwwww R.C.'s arms awf, saww R.C.'s arrrrummms awwwwfff . . ." It's all weird as shit to anyone normal.
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