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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. For the younger folks: Ekhard Pfeiffer was the CEO of Compaq during the period that doomed the company, who was known for driving like a dickhole on the Houston campus
  2. Speakers race gonna be 🔥🔥 (and the media’s fault) What’s his @
  3. 2 months in the hospital with C Diff? Holy shit indeed. Are you out of the woods?
  4. Somewhere Ekhard Pfeiffer is revving his engine angrily at one of his own employees for crossing the street on foot.
  5. 25 years later it’s still wild to me that Compaq paid $300mm for Zip2. imagine explaining to somebody who was born at any time since the day Zip2 was founded what that company was.
  6. I would bet folding money that nobody on this board has spent more time eating restaurant food in more 3rd and 4th tier towns in the lower 48 than I have (including Weatherford, Granbury, Mineral Wells, Cleburne, etc), but I’m also capable of understanding that struggling local economies aren’t representative of growing ones. There is no such thing as the “$2.31/hr + tip model.” There are a few places with very few opportunities where an employer can get away with paying the minimum wage. In most places that are hiring, they can’t. I’m a big fan of that model- also makes it easier to hold onto line cooks. Tipping is bad for business.
  7. I have no idea about weatherford, but for the 70% of Texans who live in competitive labor markets you can’t hire servers for that. You keep talking about the “$2.31/hr+tips model.” In competitive markets (ie, the ones where the jobs are, and the workers, and the customers, and the success) it’s usually more like $10-12/hr plus tips.
  8. Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for stating what needed to be said.
  9. Local frog starting to question decision to give scorpion a ride
  10. now now boys, you can both be cunts
  11. I heard a funny story about a guy saying that to a hooker during the Money 2020 conference in Vegas a few years ago, and she said “do you work in IT?”
  12. Sigh. Cory Pullig was pretty good, Stephen McGee was a very good college QB who was 4th round pick and a backup in the NFL for 4 years, and Ryan Tannehill was a 1st rounder and a special talent. I put Quinn in the McGee bucket. everyone happy?
  13. I know what I’m talking about and Quinn is a Stephen McGee on a special scale of Corey Pullig to Ryan Tannehill.
  14. Well don’t waste the good stuff on him first.
  15. Another good coffee locally is Talisman - it’s a small operation that grows their beans on the family farm in Nicaragua, ships them here, and the son and his wife roasts them locally and sells coffee at their shop on Manor, and at a number of farmers markets.
  16. The last 48 hours on twitter, a summary:
  17. Killed a bottle of Rock Hill Farms on Wednesday night with cousin and brothers in law.
  18. I also forgot about Curra’s coffee. Will go get a bag in Hyde Park today.
  19. Super easy: 1.5 cups of quick grits 6 cups water 1.5 tsp salt 1 pound grated sharp cheddar a little blue cheese 3-4oz 2 tsp old bay 1 tsp Worcestershire 4 eggs, beat to hell 2 4oz cans of green chiles 2/3 a bag of frozen corn kernels (I prefer the roasted corn kernels if you can find it) Smoked paprika preheat oven to 350, and grease up a 3 qt (9x13) casserole with butter 1) cook your grits in the water on the stove with salt until thick. Turn off the heat. 2) add the butter and cheese stir until melted into the grits. Stir in the Old Bay and Worcestershire sauce. 3) stir in the green chiles 4) stir in the corn 5) fold in the eggs, mixing them in completely but gently Pour into the baking dish, bake uncovered for an hour, sprinkle with smoked paprika.
  20. I’m not conflating it. I’m saying most restaurants just aren’t paying tipped workers a base wage of $2.31. Even, apparently, in Corpus. As @Incredulity points out, the minimum wage is mostly irrelevant.
  21. Vivek Ramaswamy inspired me to watch Whiplash and the JK Simmons character reminds me the best wrestling coach I ever had. I learned a lot and what I learned eventually made me a pretty good coach and boss and a whole lot of other good things, but that man ruined the sport for me.
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