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  1. 39 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    The odds of a severe event in Austin are really scant.  It's possible but odds are higher E/SE of us.  
    Timing of the rain is leaning towards 6-7 onward.  Trick/treat on the early side.  Although this is a quick front and rain should only last up to an hour, not an all night thing.  And again, it's not certain everyone will get rain.

    With kiddos, be more aware of the front bringing in winds and a sort of cool down (about 10° within an hour).   That's going to be e'erbody.

    Do you mean 6-7 in Austin?  Asking for the SE Texas folks who have kids waiting to Trick or Treat.

  2. Much of SE Texas could be under the gun tomorrow night right on time for Trick or Treating.  It will suck if it rains and ruins Halloween for the second year in a row.  Hopefully the front comes in earlier/later than the forecasts suggest at the moment.  

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  3. For some really unknown stupid reason, I’m just now watching the “Long Strange Trip” show from a year or two ago. I just watched Episode 5 and HOLY SHIT was that awesome. I love the Hunter stuff. That was fantastic!! Now I’m going to have to drink some more whiskey, smoke some more KB, listen to more Dead, and stare at the moon on the first beautiful fall night in Texas!!

  4. So current options for this are:
    1) Right wing lunatic sending bombs to all the boogeymen and women that Fox News and Trump talk about.  Logic?  None, but nuts don't work on logic.  
    2) Left Wing conspiracy (given the bombs didn't explode) meant to endear sympathy for Democratic leaders and to encourage people to vote because Republicans are dangerous.  Logic? Not a lot and take a pretty big tin foil hat and cynical view to think this is possible.
    3) Russians/Chinese behind these specifically to promote more discord since the above 2 possibilities are what partisans are going to believe.
     
    Ima gonna go with #3.


    Yes, state actors committing acts of war is the most likely possibility here.
  5. Is The Woodlands still like 95% white?  I lived there for a few years when I was younger, and the whiteness of The Woodlands really stood out to me when I lived in other suburbs of Houston with some diversity.  


    Judging by the open house I went to at my son’s school, I would say no. There was a mix of Asians, Hispanics, African Americans, and Indians (dot not Warrens).
  6. I'd write back pointing out that the table being "placed one the drain" doesn't make any sense and therefor you will ignore all future texts about this matter.  I'd also question how he knew that someone had "emptied most of the contents of an entire beer can" into the garbage can?  Did he measure how much beer was in the garbage can?  What if it was one of those really big cans of beer and only a 1/3 or possibly a 1/2 of the can was emptied into the garbage can, thus his argument is completely invalid.  

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  7. There was a great thread at TOS for classical music posts that was a terrific source for classical music.  I'll start by posting my favorite symphony: Symphony No. 94 in G Major by Joseph Hayden.  It is commonly referred to as the "Surprise Symphony".  It was written in 1791 and first performed March 23, 1792 at Hanover Square Rooms in London.  This is what Hayden said about the symphony:

    Haydn's music contains many jokes, and the Surprise Symphony includes probably the most famous of all: a sudden fortissimo chord at the end of the otherwise piano opening theme in the variation-form second movement. The music then returns to its original quiet dynamic as if nothing has happened, and the ensuing variations do not repeat the joke. In German, the work is referred to as the Symphony mit dem Paukenschlag, or, with the kettledrum stroke.

    In Haydn's old age, his biographer George August Griesinger asked him whether he wrote this "surprise" to awaken the audience. Haydn replied:

    No, but I was interested in surprising the public with something new, and in making a brilliant debut, so that my student Pleyel, who was at that time engaged by an orchestra in London (in 1792) and whose concerts had opened a week before mine, should not outdo me. The first Allegro of my symphony had already met with countless Bravos, but the enthusiasm reached its highest peak at the Andante with the Drum Stroke. Encore! Encore! sounded in every throat, and Pleyel himself complimented me on my idea.[1]

     

     

    I can only imagine how wonderful it must have been to be at the "premier" and to hear the "surprise" for the first time. 

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  8. They can still get out of the deal at the end of this year, but that would mean they spent a first round pick to have a guy for 9 games that didn't work out.


    So in other words, expect JJ to double down on his stupidity and sign him to a long term cap busting deal just to show everyone how wrong they are.
  9. Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.


    I remember this very well. I was a freshman in high school and it was the first time I’d heard about radical suicide bombers.
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