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Jiggy-Z

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  1. Jesus!!!
  2. We just Bleu ourselves.
  3. ...and poor execution on that bone headed play.
  4. Hard to see how, it happens in every sport in every game.
  5. Sark getting his white threads in before Labor Day.
  6. From the dust and dry grass of Oak Hill... TEXAS!!!!! ..and I for one, welcome our new asshole overlords.
  7. Who said anything about poaching. One barbed wire fence looks just like the next. We were just rural country folk.
  8. We had access but not permission.
  9. Just hit rock and embed piers the required depth. As I said 80' in that location would be more than enough for any high rise we have now as long as there is no subterranean parking, which would obviously not happen given the overlap with buried freeway.
  10. My mom shot an 11 point buck right where the loop 1 tool plaza sits. Circa 1975. Good times except when my folks brought the deer back to our house and field dressed it over my kiddie pool. Not swimming in that again.
  11. Austin resident since 1967 here. Austin has always been about finding those hidden gems that are unique to this city., but the same could be said of any city. In old Austin, they were not that hard to find and despite their popularity, we're not that well attended. In true Austin form, by the time something got popular, the trend setters had already moved on, leaving the rest of to enjoy there work before business failure or what we would have considered overpopulation and saturation. These types of places and events began to drastically drop off 2 or three years before the pandemic, which is when I would consider the time old Austin died. Not coincidentally, that is when Austin real estate started to become truly unaffordable. All the signs were there even in the early 90's when I noticed that the core of the city no longer catered to the student and governmental emoyee populations from a leisure standpoint, as prices had become more in line with Houston or Dallas. These days, if you want and old Austin feel, I would recommend San Antonio, but their time is limited as well. Austin still has pockets and activities with that old Austin feel, but they are soon discovered and turned into phantasmagoric events soon ruined by lack of intimacy and bad parking options. It's almost not even worth looking anymore.
  12. It does sound cheap, but UT taking the initiative and some of the costs will ensure some build able land. It would not surprise me me if they drill 80' 5' diameter piers at 10' on center for all area that are not highway and build around that.
  13. Those detectorists are some interesting people. I ran into one on PINS after a fishing tournament down there when we were headed off the beach. He was was way down about the 48 mm. We stopped to check out his 15' bamboo surf rods that je deployed. The old man had a Spanish real on a necklace. Said he had found three from the 1550 wrecks at the 58, 59, and 60. According to Texas law, detecting is not even allowed on PINS, but if you do find something, you are supposed to turn it iver to the state antiquities board. Old man did not give a fuck and was terminal with cancer. Stopped for about an hour and gave him some beer. Tons of stories...and apparently Mel Fisher is a wanker.
  14. I will second: Endeavor. Good stories with with 60s and 70s nostalgia thrown in. Spot on. Unforgotten. Complex weave of cold cases and more complex than you average detective shows. Line of Duty. Modern set with corruption thread weaving through all seasons. White Chappell. Cheesieier than the above, but shorter. Easy to watch and good characters and sets. Good material too, would not be surprised at a reboot. All on Prime.
  15. The only "Sufferfest" I am familiar with was a Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour short featuring Cedar Wright and some other climber I didn’t know. They would bike all night to their next destination (50+ miles ish)and climb some nasty 5 to 6 pitch walls all day and then do it again the next day/night. It's some ridiculous amount of time like 60 or 90 days straight. I guess you can't do that indoors though unless the Suadis have some multi pitch indoor gym or something.
  16. The more you know...
  17. Current Austin forecast has us hitting 78 days over 100 happening on the 9th of September. That would be only 2 days behind 2011 pace if forecasts holds. Hang onto your butts. It's going to be a photo finish. Interesting enough, the 2011 summer needed 5 of the last 6 days of September to reach 90 days over 100 after a 10 day ish cool down in the middle of the month.
  18. I've been to Milwaukee. It gets better.
  19. Back in my LHB days, I can remember milling around on the TCU sideline in Fort Worth just before halftime and listening to the TCU defenders being just dumbfounded by his moves.
  20. Back in 2005 MNC season, Texas beat Rice 51-10 and they probably did not cover. That was one of the worst games ever played by a Longhorn team compared to their potential and by far the slopiest and least entertaining game of the season. Once you are a legit top 5 team, these early season tune ups are essentially meaningless.
  21. ...and just like Zoolander, he can't go left. Is that Blue Steel or Magnum.
  22. Obligatory In Russia, flight takes you.
  23. In Russia, flight takes you.
  24. Thus reminds me of the time when we held out hope that RGB would live to inauguration day.
  25. Yesterday Mabry petered out at 3pm, so here is hoping.
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