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  1. On 7/19/2023 at 7:34 PM, miguelito said:

    Casa Rio is the original joint down there, with decent enough Tex-Mex for out of towners.Β  Plus, they have the colorful umbrellas that make for good pictures.Β  Careful that they don't seat you beneath the bridge, though.Β 

    Boudro's has better food and good drinks, but not really Mexican.Β  Avoid Lone Star or whatever it is across the river from Casa Rio.

    Sorry to shit on a 2 month old rec, but Casa Rio absolutely sucks. It was the first Mexican Restaurant that our family ate at when we moved to SA in 1974, and it took me a while to realize that Tex Mex was good. I took my family and in-laws to the Riverwalk in 2017, and we had a vegan in the group. She decided that their menu was doable, so we ate there. All of these out-of-staters were completely unimpressed with their SA Tex Mex experience. I didn’t even realize it was the same restaurant from 1974 until we took the narrow stairs through the back of the restaurant to get to street level. I recognized those stairs and had flashbacks.

    Again, sorry to bash your recommendation. I realize you weren’t saying it was great, or even very good, just decent.Β 

  2. On 9/19/2023 at 8:56 PM, CycleTex87 said:

    Bringing it back around. Mi Tierra Cafe in San Antonio. Β Pretty good effort for cheese enchiladas.Β 

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    csb/. My mother somehow got a table and chairs set from Mi Tierra back in the 80s when they were updating furniture in their outdoor patio. At least that’s how I recall it. She’s deceased, and my daughter has the set now.Β 

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  3. 25 minutes ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    They are garbage, although they tweaked the ranking methodology this year to to be slightly less garbage, which is why you see big public schools all rising in the rankings this year.

    That’s nice to see. Thirty-ish years ago, Texas started falling because they kept changing the methodology to favor private schools back east. Someone wrote an article somewhere that pointed out how the changes caused the alma maters of all the USN&WR editors to rise in the rankings.Β 

  4. 13 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    It's like an ADHD Tasmanian devil. Look here! Listen to this! Bright lights! Now they're flashing! Drone show! Fireworks! It's fun! Why are you cheering on your own? We didn't tell you to do that!Β 

    Go to the Cotton Bowl. Take notes on atmosphere in the stadium. Replicate. That's what I want.

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    9 hours ago, sidis said:

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    just take the most unique and special environments of all of sports that is defined by it not being a home game or an away game for either team that are each other's most hated rivals and very simply replicate that for home games against wyoming.

    look, i am frustrated by the bizarre home game environment that i would describe as trying so god damned hard that it is hurting itself.Β  it's like a dude at a party that is desperately trying to impress everyone as fast as he can.Β  they need to chill.

    but acting like it's as simple as transplanting (imo) the greatest and most unique sporting spectacle in the country every year where the same variables are not at play is just silly.Β  texas-ou is self-fulfilling because of what it is.

    If they ever move this game to Jerry World, the atmosphere will become DKR North.Β 

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  5. I’m a bit of an introvert, but not really because I am quite talkative when I’m around other people. It’s just that I can go days without interacting with people and not suffer one bit.

    I can walk away from Surly (no encouragement, assholes), texts, Twitter, etc., but I have a harder time ignoring my favorite podcasts. Texts are hard only because family members are always texting. Β 

    My daughters, however, get down pretty easily when they don’t have direct, daily interpersonal contact. One daughter can’t go 2 or three hours without seeing or talking to someone. Texting or FaceTime aren’t enough for her. My daughter on the other extreme can be alone for a day or two, but what bothers her the most is knowing that her friends might be doing things without her Β 

    Sometimes it’s hard for me to empathize, but I try.

  6. Is Smoking Man still around under a new username?
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    I’ll always remember him as the guy who went ballistic on me on TOS (Hornfans?) when I made a comment about our band’s flag corps ridiculously trying to reenact the planting of the flag on Iwo Jima while the band played the Marine Corps Hymn. I couldn’t figure out why he was so pissed until I later saw that autocorrect had changed Hymn to Hymen. He must’ve thought I was throwing some inter-service insult at him and his fellow US Marines.Β 

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  7. On 1/23/2020 at 3:31 PM, Foosters said:

    I generally agree that the rule is fucking stupid and they should let this go, but it is worth noting that the policy prohibits all males from having hair beyond a certain length.Β  Now, if they are only enforcing it against this kid, then there's a race-specific complaint, but if all males at the school are similarly treated, then this seems like a weak case to elevate as an example of racial bias.

    Most beyond this is overthinking. My HS had a dress code in the 70s which was dumped by my junior year. No boy’s hair over the ears, skirt length, the usual stuff. We were 98% white and Mexican (about equal parts). Most of the black kids were from military families, so they were pretty straight laced. There was one black guy who had a huge 70s Afro, but he never had to cut it. One white guy got an Afro perm over the summer, and he had to get it cut the first week of school. Everyone thought that was hilarious. No lawyers were involved.Β 

  8. I’d feel a lot more sympathy for him if he didn’t take shots at Texas after he left (and if his daddy didn’t feed dirt about Texas to certain media personalities).

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