Homercles

Yeah I lived in Oklahoma for four years and there were actual road treatments, houses with hose bibs you could drain and an electrical grid that wasn’t guided by fucking profits…strange that winter blasts were better tolerated up there

It’s begun

I suddenly, desperately want to procure a ref-adorned dummy that I can donate to the Surly tailgating contingent, that I may observe the drunken antics when a flag is thrown

Nope. As noted up thread, Santa brought my kids tickets to Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Adventure of Cold As Fuck and the C Montgomery Burns…I mean…Ross Perot Science Museum.

Was light snow from Hillsboro through Waco coming back from Dallas tonight…or maybe frozen Cowboys tears. Didn’t show up on radar but was enough to get my kids excited.

Santa brought my kids tickets to the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest experience up in Dallas/Little Elm, so I’m jealous of y’all watching playoffs and carb loading. Pretty sure my balls froze to my legs for a bit.

Just checked to see if the RRISD Facebook page is inundated with parents calling for schools to be closed next week…they’re out there, I know it.

Any forecast updates from Surly weather wizards?

Ok when you set it to 0.1” or greater, probabilities are in the 5-10% range. Default map is for 0.01”. Feel a little better

How do you get this view? Their website (at least on mobile) is like a Rundberg HEB

Long days, short years. I’d certainly be more enthusiastic at the prospect if we hadn’t just completed three weeks of no school during the incredibly hectic Thanksgiving thru New Years marathon. As much as I love my kids (they’re 7/10)…kinda need a few normal weeks here.

I’ve kinda already resigned myself to schools being closed Tuesday…seems like an annual requirement to have my kids at home for several extra days while I try to work.

Always fun to bring this guy out

Gotta admit those MiG 28’s looked better in Soviet colors in that 1986 documentary Top Gun

Or license their door technology to Boeing

Has anyone ask Ja Rule what he thinks of all this?

Next up, hand to hand combat training

Basically expected this

I’ve been ritually burning the dead from last icepocalypse in my Solo Stove as a warning to the others to keep their shit wired tight.

I would just like to reiterate, for the record as a member of the left behinds, that Slorch does not represent us

Man I remember 12+ years ago when I first joined the Shag, I lurked for a good six months and waded into the waters very gently when I finally felt I had something clever to contribute. I knew I wanted to be a part of this community but had seen the sheer mercilessness inherent in a ‘room’ full of drunken longhorn lawyers. I’ll never understand ‘people’ who go through the trouble to sign up, and instantly either join a contentious thread or burst in with regarded hot takes given it usually ends up poorly

Saw my first Cyber Truck yesterday, on brushy creek road of all places. Holy hell is it ugly, looked like what a constipated ED-209 finally crapped out after eating a T-1000.

Just rented it, and can see why this was an excellent pairing with Barbie…watching it after Oppenheimer would be like a sweet, simple dessert after finishing your shag roll at Uchi. In the same vein, Oppenheimer paired well with my on/off fascination with nuclear weapons. I’ve long been enamored with the assembly, operation and controls surrounding them but cared little for the personalities behind one of the greatest wartime engineering undertakings ever. Stuff like Always/Never (Sandia labs video), Swords of Armageddon and Dark Sun fascinate me. Therefore I’m more fluent on exploding bridge wire vs slapper detonators than I am on Oppenheimer’s role in the Manhattan project…or know more about the Teller-Ulam design than what Edward Teller was like as a person. “Oppenheimer” helped fill a void for me. Regarding the movie itself, I really enjoyed it and it left me with one of those ‘existential dread’ feelings that a smart, dialog-driven drama should. It also captured, very well, that transitional period where things went from an urgent wartime science problem into one dominated by the massive government/military personalities over their use. The fact that I missed so many cameos is testament that the story and personalities were the real star. Bravo. Was definitely a Nolan film with non-linear flow, challenging plot points and lack of cgi. I happen to enjoy that kind of film, but I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I agree with others in that this mostly wasn’t a “gotta see it in IMAX” due to fewer “holy shit” visual/score combos than something like Interstellar. Anyways, guess the point of my long cat post here is I’m glad I finally saw it and it’ll fuel my curiosity surrounding the people involved in that whole rodeo…but Interstellar is safely still #1 in my Nolan hierarchy.