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  1. On 1/7/2020 at 7:16 AM, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    Yeah, I don't get out enough and there isn't a local gym to practice on, so my best is a 5.10a, Season of the Storm I think at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch. My biggest problem is getting pumped out on more overhanging stuff and not having the grip strength to pull crux moves. Really I just need to get in better shape for climbing. 

    Yeah, I started a couple of years ago and got a finger injury almost right away...so I decided I was going to get in better shape and lose some weight...and then got injured doing that...but by then my finger injury had healed...and for some reason climbing did not bother my other injury...so I was back to square one, only more compromised and older.

    Even if you have the "want to", a gym, a crag, and a support group, there is just only so fast you can take this stuff at my age (53)

    What I did find I could do that really helped (I have been doing 5.10c's in the gym on the 60' walls) is just building up my hang time from the jugs on my kids hang board.  I have built up to 1.5 minutes at 190lbs, several times a day.  Its easy on the fingers and and the shoulders.

    The other thing is working on mobility.  Really helps with the execution of technique and helps get those moves in before you get tired.  Also is good prehab and rehab especially for the wrists, shoulders, elbows, hips and ankles.

    My 13 yo is just about ready to send Elephant Man (5.13a) at Reimers.  He can get out from under the lip and do the rest of the route after a quick shakeout, but he put it together in 2 pieces so he is ready. He is pretty close on House of Pain (5.13a) also.

  2. 33 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Needs more tears in her eyes. 

     

    Sounds like they are getting the band back together.

    Kind of like when Bush II got Rumsfeld and Cheney.  I miss those simpler times.

  3. 3 hours ago, Scooter Monzingo said:

    Yeah, but J.J. Abrams fucked up the camera work in TFA so far as making him menacing. Unless that is what he wanted.

    Until I saw Logan Lucky I had no idea that the guy was as big as he is, Close to 6’-3”, and 210 lbs. He should have towered over Ridley’s 5’-6” frame. Especially in character and costumes.

    Adam Driver Braski

  4. OK .  I'll say it.  Abortion.

    I still find the practice totally counter to the directive that all life on earth has to procreate and that there needs to be some limit on when it is too late to go through with it.

    But I will not let it become a one issue political decision for me for a number of reasons:

    1. Since Roe v. Wade we have had a number of republican presidents appoint conservative judges and had two southern democrats in the white house as well.  If there was going to be a change in the law it would have already been done.  This issue has been nothing more than a dangling carrot and a smoke screen to somehow claim the moral high ground.

    2. No matter how you look at it, there is simply no way from a legal perspective that any governing body can hold superior rights over that of the mother.

    3. If you really hate abortion then there are more effective ways to prevent it...  and I don't just mean education, religion, or shoring up of "moral" values of the Drs. and women. The stigma needs to be removed.  The prospective children need to be welcomed into the human race .  I envision a world where abortion was legal but almost no one would avail themselves of the procedure because there would almost be no reason to do it.

    As to the when, it has been a process.  I knocked up my girlfriend in college and we had the kid.  To this day, I like that it was a choice, and that it changed my life and brought me a son that I was happy to raise.  It also brought financial hardship, a divorce, and bunch of other stuff, but I am proud to have weathered all of that.

    Growing up catholic, I had many of my relatives who would picket clinics, try to change laws, go to rallies etc.  Before we had our son I was all in on that stuff.  However, once he was born it all kind of felt hollow and ineffective to me.  I had my suspicions that a lot of those people were harboring some guilt over their own actions...which was somewhat confirmed when I got into a few men's church retreats and learned that around half of the participants had paid for abortions or been a party to them. So I finally figured the best way to promote life was to be open about my life and not hide things from my past and do the best job I could with my kid with the idea that some guy or girl out there would also realize they could be OK too.

    And if for some reason somebody wanted to go through with it, not to be judgmental and let them know God too would understand.  After all, if I could show kindness and understating and dare I say, forgiveness then how could god be any less forgiving than me.

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  5. 24 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    I said “fancy”, such as it was. Victor’s was more casual. In fact Victor’s was the first restaurant we ate in after returning to town when my dad retired in 1959. We were staying at my brother’s tiny apartment in the converted bungalow at 2826 Rio Grande. That building is still there. Then there was Ellis’s Cafe at Airport & North Lamar. Great pies there.

    Well, I was only six years old.  Even Sirloin Stockade was fancy to me...along with our other regular haunts of Luby's(The fancy one over off of Hancock),  Monterrey House, Top Notch, Catfish Parlor, Mr Gattis, and Airport Haven's, 2Js etc. 

  6. 6 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Heh, in my heyday the fancy restaurant food scene in Austin was the Nighthawk at S. Congress & Riverside and Hill’s. No public bars that sold mixed drinks, just sleazy beer joints like Louie’s between East 5th & 6th. Then there was Scholz’s for $1 pitcher night.

    For digestible BBQ we had to drive to Taylor or Lockhart.

    Victor's Italian Village would like a word with you.

     

    Speaking of Scholz's, back in the mid 80's and probably long before,  there used to be an informal polka band night(Thursday in the summertime).  A bunch of us from Longhorn Band would go and play.  Sometimes we would buy some beer, but we got a lot a pitchers paid for by the locals.  Whenever we got thirsty we would ditch the polka stuff and do some LHB stuff that was always good for some generous orange blood to open their wallet.  I remember the pitchers being about $5 bucks by then but I am not sure since I was usually pretty drunk. I do remember that whatever they charged was at least $1 more then the Posse East.

  7. 2 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    When I enrolled at UT in 1988, my dad told me I should have seen what Austin was like in 1962, when he enrolled, at which time I bet his dad told him he should have seen it in 1925, when he enrolled, at which time I bet his dad told he should have seen in 1895, when he enrolled. There were places we all remembered all our lives, though some had changed. Some forever, and not for better, but in our lives, we loved them all. All those places had their moments with lovers and friends we still could recall. Some are dead and some are living, but in our lives, we loved them all. 

     

    There used to be a pretty good thread on the old board about Austin landmarks 40's-90s or something.  Good photos and stories too.

  8. 3 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

    I was on that Hilton project. It was the tallest building in Austin for a grand total of six months before being overtaken by the Frost building.

    I worked on it as well.  We did over $1 million worth of work on it.  Those were some slow paying SOB's.

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  9. 4 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    I realize this person's been banned, but he's completely wrong about everything he says:

    What's wrong with this country is that in intellectual discourse, we've become too permissive and sympathetic towards other people's opinions for the mere sake of it. This is straight out of the Fox News playbook. To borrow a quote from David Brock when he was interviewed for Glenn Greenwald's Outfoxed when he was actually speaking of Roger Ailes but the same holds true for the right wing in general: [they] want all [discussion] to be a matter of opinion because opinion can't be proven false. I think that is very dangerous because if people don't have a set of facts that they can agree upon, I think it's difficult to reach a consensus on what's correct public policy."

    Again, Limbaugh is Exhibit A of this vulgar behavior. And again, it's not just him. It's his entire genre. They want all discourse to be a matter of straight out fucking make believe and pretend, and Science forbid if you challenge them on that because if you do, you're slandered and projected with lazy, rubber-stamped accusations of being close-minded, intolerant, and ignorant. For example, saying "trickle down economics works and is a societal good" isn't an opinion; it's a straight up lie that has been exposed over and over again without exception or interruption. But challenge that? Oh boy, here comes the S-word, not that they who use it as a pejorative ever even knew what the fuck it means.

    This is postmodernism gone absolutely berserk. According to spineless pieces of shit like this one, there are not supposed to be any facts, there is not supposed to be any truth; all discourse is supposed to come down to your "narrative" vs. my "narrative." It's disgusting, and the person who posted the quoted passage is disgusting for promoting it.

    Also, we are not divided because people insist on establishing basic facts/truths upon which to base public policy, either. We're divided because there's a very small segment of the population that wants to divide us and keep us divided so as to distract us from the fact that we're constantly being fucked over by them. The Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Tom Steyer, the Uihleins, etc? Divide and conquer isn't a hypothesis; it's a historic truism that's as old as nation states themselves. They who promote it don't care about ideology, and they sure as fuck don't give a shit about any of us posting here or anywhere else. They care about fattening their own pocketbooks even if it means pouring tens of millions of dollars to political campaigns. As long as it benefits them to stoke the flames of divisiveness via screaming about "socialism/communism" or "fascism," that's what they're going do regardless of its accuracy.

    Yes and the notion that Rush (conservatives) put forth with regards to climate change, that our influence is not large enough, nor could ever be large enough to cause man made global warming/climate change because of God or convenience is a dangerous opinion, or more of a notion really.

    I was watching a documentary on Teflon last night (The Devil We Know). Aside from yet again showing corporate bad behavior with human interest stories there was an interesting point that was illustrated and backed up with actual science: That the fluorine compounds and their waste  that form the working parts of teflon and other related non stick compounds are so persistent and pervasive and have been discarded and used so universally that 99% of all humans have these compounds in their bodies, where they did not exist before.

    We also know about plastic showing up in the bodies of people living in the isolated portions of the European Alps as well as just about everybody else.

    ..or about Mercury showing up in almost all pelagic species.

    What the fuck is wrong with people?  

  10. 6 hours ago, Okie Lite in Zapata said:

    Agreed on the bankruptcies and lets not forget we will never know because his tax returns are sealed.

    I think the appropriate people will see his most recent returns before the election, but we tend forget  that NYT story on his state returns and summary federal forms which for years on end showed him as the single largest individual tax loser in all of America.  And those loses were not real estate slight of hand either.  He was hemorrhaging cash. 

    In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.

     

  11. 9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That guy is crazy as a shithouse rat.  In a sort of benign way, but crazy nevertheless.

    As religious as he seems to be, at least invoking God and praying all the time, one might think he'd have found some peace.

    He struck me as a pretty smart guy who just tended to stick with things until he got really good at them (pharmacy, fixing old cars, investigative work etc.)  For an apparently staunch catholic (Saw a crucifix and really, what else could he be growing up in St.Bernard's parish) growing up in a conservative blue collar community and a Louisiana education, he seemed to be a pretty free thinker for family vacations and adapting the available technology, despite never getting out of NO, marrying and staying married to his high school sweetheart, and living in the same house all of his adult life.

    I also admired his humility in just doing the hard work of recording his conversations with himself and with God.  From his conversations and prayer, he also seemed to never just "expect a miracle" or something, he just talked himself through difficult times and ultimately found his answers through searching and good legwork.

    I guess I found him appropriately crazy given the fact that he lost a son and is from Louisiana. 

  12. 1 hour ago, B00M said:

    I heard him several times when Obama was president. He was critical and always questioned motives... so that was my baseline. 

    The few times I've heard him under Trump, I shouldn't have been, but I was blown away by the complete lack of criticism of Trump. He bent over backwards unlike anyone else to defend Trump and bash the never-Trump conservatives. It's like he was regurgitating the white house talking points and trying to take them a step further.

    The last time I heard him he said that conservatives who are pro choice are cowards that don't stand for anything... And that the only people that believe in man made global warming or that man can make the earth uninhabitable don't believe in God like he does. If you believe in God and love the Earth he created, you would know it's impossible for man to destroy it. Then he said something about the Green New Deal boiling down to taxing cow farts and I had to turn it off. 

    I hope he fully recovers, but I hope he retires because there are too many boomers that truly believe what he says. 

     

     

    Yeah the shtick is take complex issues (economic, weather, medical) which have decades of peer reviewed science behind them and come up with a homespun, folksy,  or derogatory counter phrase to sum it all up for your position.  You end having to explain things which need no explanation.

  13. The Pharmacist :  New documentary about a ST. Bernard's Parish pharmacist who attempts to find his son's killer in a drug deal gone bad and then takes on a pill mill Dr. in the early 2000s growing opioid crisis.

    Moves slowly at first but picks up steam.  Only 4 or 5 episodes.  Really inspiring all the hard work dad put in to finding the killer and then following up on his convictions.

    Hits close to home because my oldest lives in NO.  We actually stayed at an Air B&B in the lower 9th Ward a couple of years ago mere 4 blocks from where his son was killed(1995)

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  14. 1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    So, explain to the noob here about what we would be looking at were a President elected in 2016 (don't care who pick my mechanic if you like) to have worked on paying down the debt, not introduced the tax cut, not expanded the military expenditures, and curtailed the excessive travel expenses among other things. Would we be rocking along at a pretty good clip? Would the underpinnings noted above still be worrisome? Not trolling, I am learning, I like to do that as it seems to keep my brain active. Still wading through Bernorange's Insane Monetary thread but I have to look things up and it slows me down.

    The GOP seems intent on racking up the debt to crash the entitlements, but I have concerns they've unleashed a beast. Or was that there all along?

     

    Meh.  From the graph, manufacturing share of GDP has been on the decline for decades.  I will direct you to an article by David Kay Johnston for a better evaluation of the Trump Economy: 

    https://www.dcreport.org/2020/02/04/trumps-ho-hum-economy-in-three-graphs/

    I have a real problem with the tax cut, which basically increases the cash flows/earnings of corporations by 21% year in and year out which has fueled an already upward bound stock market which basically takes the money out of federal coffers and puts it in the hands of stockholders, and not just the ultra wealthy.  For average Joe's with a 401K and nearing retirement or already in retirement, this is really the only economic indicator they need to assess presidential success, since most people have no patience or critical thinking skills to evaluate solid economic policy.  Hence the popularity with the olds. Basically vote buying and makes it real hard to seriously consider even the most nonpartisan needs like infrastructure. 

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  15. 17 minutes ago, sachick said:

    Good. Why sit there and listen to what you know will be nothing buy lies.

    ..and endless applause and standing ovations...these things have become unwatchable...just give the speech and let everyone go home/to a bar.

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  16. 16 hours ago, Doze said:

    You train for marathons in a gym?  I'm talking about high stress rates like heavy deadlifts not workouts that REQUIRE you to do them forever because the stress rates are so low.   Knock yourself out if like long distance stuff.  I just have no desire to look like this guy.  Looks sickly to me.

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    That guy is running a sub 2:20 marathon, not a 4:00 marathon.  In fact you are actually both right.  Nobody who is training for a 4 hr marathon or even a 3 hr marathon is doing just long runs.  In fact, back in my heavy running days, I would rarely do even more than 30 miles in one week and no more than 7 miles in one workout.  However, about half of those miles were done on the track or hills doing interval work in an effort to get my one mile time under 5 minutes.  Once I was able to do that, I would occasionally train with my marathon friends and do a 15 or 20 mile run and even did a 25 mile run which I finished well under 3hrs.  All during this time I had a steady diet of push ups, various pull ups and core work and steadied out at about 168 lbs at 5'-11".  I never did an actual marathon for the sole reason that I would probably have taken my training seriously to get a really good time and that would have involved a lot more distance work which would have hurt my mile time or 5K times.

    But I can assure you that all of the 200s and 400s I did to prepare me for long runs were extremely stressful and I never set foot in a gym for years on end.

  17. 8 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Imagine that.  A life of drug use and smoking leads to an early death.

     

    Somebody enlighten me on this.  It has been at least 12 years since I listened to him on purpose.  As far as I know he smoked cigars and got addicted to pain killers when he had some ear work done-not exactly tempting fate, except fro the being an awful human being part.

  18. 7 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Prosecutor: “Your honor I have a witness who can conclusively prove the alleged crime was committed so I am calling witness x.”

    Jury: “your honor we don’t want to hear from this witness and vote to just go home.”
     

    Judge:  “Case dismissed.”

    A FARCE. 
     

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    Dis-missed!!!

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