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I still want a movie or a series made for this (maybe updated to replace mafia with other "bad guys"...)

Not my dog in the fight but another wiki says this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_Castle Cinderella Castle was inspired by a variety of real and fictional palaces. These included Château d'Ussé, Fontainebleau, Versailles and the châteaux of Chenonceau, Pierrefonds, Chambord, Chaumont, Alcázar of Segovia, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria and Craigievar Castle in Scotland.[2] Other sources of inspiration include the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Moszna Castle in Poland, built in the 18th century, and the Tyn Church in Prague, Czech Republic, built in the 14th century. The chief designer of the castle, Herbert Ryman, also referenced the original design for the castle in the film franchise Cinderella and his own well-known creation — the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in California[ 2 different castles in Disney: Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella castle

That's an open argument depending on what website you visit... Both Alcazar and Neuschwanstein are claimed to have inspired the Disneyland/Sleeping Beauty/Cinderella castle: https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/architecture-design/walt-disney-castle-alcazar-de-segovia https://mappingspain.com/the-alcazar-of-segovia-one-of-spains-most-beautiful-castles/ I've seen both and I could see where either/both would have been the inspiration... (I sat between a German and Spaniard last week who were arguing this...)

I've done Toledo and it's a neat little town but my Madrid crew said Segovia is a better day-trip. Aquaducts and one of the castles that inspired the Disney Castle.

Reopening this thread - my twins are looking at applying to schools in the EU that offer english-only programs. Does anyone know how the application requirements are different for applying to these schools compared to US schools? They are in Texas pubic schools so aren't doing the IB programs. Do these schools use ACT/SAT scores and class rankings or do they mean jack-squat over there? (My kids also have EU citizenship so they can attend at EU rates rather than "foreign" citizen rates). Anyone know a college planner service that also deals with EU schools in addition to US ones? (Several I have talked to only deal with US schools...)

No mas… (boiled eggs, potatoes, onions, peppers and tuna). Had pulpo, olive plate, jamon plates earlier…

First post-Covid trip back to Madrid for work. Several of my favorite hole in the wall places didn't survive but this one did... Getting 2 plates per beer so may skip actual dinner... (fried eggs, fries, melted cheese and jamon)

And for the record, I got my Masters (Geo) from Tech but hated living there after 5 years in Austin and got it done in 3 semesters just to get out of there...

Going through this with my kids - you need to see what credits in geo engineering would be able to be transferred if he decided to switch to a ME major... I looked at getting out of geology my 2nd year when oil as at $10/bbl and realistically, most of my credits would only count in the School of Natural Sciences... I actually took one day of Home economics - which is in the Nat. Sciences department - and went back to geology on day 2... I would suspect that several of the classes he takes for geology won't count towards a ME degree if he decides to make the switch. So more base courses for him and more $$ for you... (In my day, I think I (my dad) paid 500/ for 15 hours so it was no big deal...) Chem and Biology 101 may transfer but probably not "rocks for jocks"...

How many actual openings are there in those roller coaster companies... I mean how many new ones are actually built every year? 😀 I've always joked that my perfect job - after expat wife - would be a women's bike seat designer at a lesbian nudist colony but I've never seen that job posted... Or maybe that I hoped to become a bicycle seat there in my next life...

Yup, I’m riding that train…. Of the 45 of us in my graduating class in the early 90’s, only 3 of us went on to get MA Geology degrees and only 2 of us still employed in E&P… (for now…)

@tx 3 putt You write like my aggy brother-in-law… it’s “UT”, not ut…. 😂

Congrats to your kid! That being said, O&G jobs are where the real money is made in the field but he’ll need to get a Masters if he wants to get hired by the big operators. If he wants to go the geo engineering route, he’ll probably be required to become a professional geologist and pass the test once out of school. (It’s a bitch and I’m glad I was grandfathered and don’t need to take the test) im a second generation geologist and I told my kid to get a different degree when he asked if he should go into geology especially with the whole green energy/ESG movement as well as the roller coaster career ride you should expect in O&G… (better to be a Petroleum engineer these days- no Masters required and slightly more stable as the wells always need to be worked on…) on the flip side, I chatted with one of my old UT geo professors who just retired and he said that only a small percentage of geology grads actually get O&G jobs but do have successful careers in other industries as what you learn in the program gives you a very good skill set in critical thinking that make you successful and those aren’t things you learn in other programs (in general). PM me if you want to discuss offline…

Fyi you can get tenderloins at Asian markets for $20-25 bucks... Who cares if its choice when you are stir-frying it... Its still tender as F... I pick up several whenever I go into town and load the freezer...

Beef tenderloin marinated in soy and oyster sauce. Put Hot meat on bed of mixed green and tomatoes and then covered by pickled red onions and rice wine vinegar and side of white pepper and lime dipping sauce. Do this every few weeks and everyone destroys it…

VIETNAMESE SHAKING BEEF (BÒ LÚC LẮC) just made this…

I knew he got that offer but didn't see he accepted it...

Did that unknown kid we found come in this weekend from Mississippi?

Cross-posting here but if you want to see an intense movie of urban warfare between the Russians (Wagner is White) and the Ukrainians (Bucha is yellow), check out my post in the Movies & TV thread called "Best in Hell". The link to the YouTube video there. Just finished it and it's intense as hell and puts some perspective on some of the news we hear out of Ukraine... Probably the best/most intense 2 hours of combat movie scenes I've seen... (Its movie and not real combat footage and is in Russian (and Ukranian?) with English subtitles...)

Someone sent me a link to a movie on YouTube called "Best in Hell". (No CR here but still fuck the Russians...) But politics aside, in terms of an intense battle flick and you want to see 2 solid hours of urban combat - room-to-room, grenades, point blank machine duals, artillery and mortar fire/counter fire and drones, this was pretty damn intense... The movie is like a Wagner "our best battle ever" History channel propaganda film but the battle and scenes are pretty much 50-50 between the Wagner Russians (white) and Ukrainian s (yellow) any you don't really see a political bias- just that war sucks... Think 2 hours of the best combat scenes in Blackhawk Down, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers but set in the current conflict... (Oh, its in Russian and Ukrainian but has English subtitles..)

Wok glowing red last night for stir fry - sichuan salt and pepper shrimp.

https://omnivorescookbook.com/mala-chicken/ Found a Sichuan place in the Woodlands that makes the chicken similar to Mala Sichuan but the link above is what I used to use when I made it myself...

So he got paid about $8m since he was hired April 2021?

I picked up a similar burner in Asia from a shop that built street food cart stands. It gets up to 100k BTU and makes my wok glow red. Same wok on an gas cook top sucks...Wok burner

Its Entergy,not ERCOT so fuck Louisiana... I'm just south of that area and have been getting power "hickups" all morning but not enough to trip on the generator...