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South Austin

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  1. Lots of stories like that. And there’s one of my daughter’s classmates who might have been barely in the top 10 and got accepted into the School of Architecture last year.
  2. I’m going to beat up your kid and the Travis County DA won’t even prosecute.
  3. Hook ‘em to all the future Longhorns!!!
  4. Quite possibly. But making your own with fresh shredded cheese instead of pre-shredded stuff in a bag is where it’s at.
  5. Trying to remember when I gave a shit about a former university president.
  6. I would never think that about a Surly member named LebongJames.
  7. Ned is home from surgery. Long-term prognosis is excellent and short-term recovery is much more manageable. We’re so pumped. He’s wearing the shirt because it keeps him from directly scratching the incision. But my daughter goes to Oregon, so go Ducks!
  8. I mean, the best food vessel? Celery, pita chips, etc.? I plan to just make mine in a cast iron skillet.
  9. I think Liz Lambert is still part of McGuire Mooreman Lambert Hospitality.
  10. What’s the best vessel for it? And don’t say my mom.
  11. Similar device with E.T. Keep the audience in suspense with only a few partial shots of the alien until a decent way into the movie.
  12. Even Mary and Joseph wouldn't stoop so low.
  13. Bijan's mustard wasn't the only Longhorn product you had in your mouth last fall.
  14. I never saw Jurassic Park until my early 40s. It came out when I was in college and for some reason I just wasn't drawn to movie about dinosaurs, even though I was a HUGE Spielberg fan. And I might have been a bit of a hype contrarian. But dialed it up when my kids were young, and we all loved it, watched the rest of the trilogy, and then saw Jurassic World in the theaters.
  15. Really makes no sense that all Civil War generals were on meth (and I'm not even sure meth existed as far back as the Civil War). Yet, I giggled.
  16. You're my Surly doppleganger. My dad brought this bootlegged VCR tape back from his deployment in Okinawa when I was in third or fourth grade, and I watched it all the time. I've always thought it was weird that a kid who's only about 7 years old loved such a mature movie about aging and an estranged father-daughter relationship. In my 20s when I got my first DVD and was subbing out all of my VCR movies, I bought On Golden Pond, which included an interview with the screenwriter. In addition to the four adult actors you reference, Doug McKeon delivered a solid performance as an abandoned child of divorce, who more then held up his own with Henry Fonda. And Dave Grusin's score is fantastic, one of my favorites. And yeah, as a kid I also loved comedies, actions, and stuff like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones flicks, all the movies that a kid of the 1980s loved. But at an early age I seemed to be drawn to more serious films, stuff like On Golden Pond.
  17. "You like that word, don't you? Bullshit." "Yeah." "It's a good word."
  18. I agree it'll be somewhere south of 75%, but still a shitload of people. And I'm by no means an expert in the jobs market, but just this morning NPR reported that the jobs report to end December 2024 showed a pretty low unemployment rate, so I think the private sector is going to be hard pressed to absorb these former-federal workers. And yes, getting those folks new jobs is one thing, keeping essential federal services that the MAGAs take for granted is a whole other. It's going to be like the fucking tariffs, which all the MAGAs cheer on, until a farmer in Iowa or a steel plant manager in Pennsylvania feels the pain.
  19. I hear Surly is hiring.
  20. Completely agree. I see middle-aged to old guys at the gym who just hop on a bike or elliptical machine doing nothing else, and I shout at them in my head, "You're doing it wrong!"
  21. I know, I know. But he's proud of his recruiting forum. You know, that's a damn rare thing these days.
  22. They beat Texas twice last season and still can't stop bitching about us. Jesus.
  23. I've had this one in the queue for a while and will try on Sunday. https://cafedelites.com/buffalo-chicken-dip/
  24. Same. I'm 50 and I'm long past the days of maxing out with 5-6 reps. I'm not trying to get swole. I lift to failure in the 8-12 rep range, focusing on form, and on most exercises I rest just a minute between sets. It works just fine to maintain lean muscle mass, tone, and endurance.
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