Paul Wesley

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If you were going to teach young players what is/is not targeting, you'd show them how to keep their face up (like Overshown) and not to lower your head and launch (like what we just watched). Just completely arbitrary enforcement... no attachment at all to the wording of the rule.

That clip is unbelievable. "They're putting components of robotics into us." Fucking wow.

Just read the last two pages, and all the talk about QB's throwing deep balls. It's also hugely important to this offense that the screen passes are delivered with a quick release and good velocity. When a receiver gets those extra couple tenths of a second (or whatever it is) to turn upfield as the defense is closing in, that split second is often the difference between a 2-yard gain and at 12-yard gain.

Churros

Some of us are a garbage TD from a back door cover. priorities.

I really thought Nebraska might be re-energized by a coaching change and by hosting an old rival... I even thought about betting Nebraska and the points. Glad I didn't. Their players wear the same jerseys as the players from their heyday, but they are just really, really bad. They might be down by 30 before halftime.

You are getting good advice here. It seems like you’ve already addressed the situation, but I had two thoughts reading this page (in case anyone else is dealing with this): 1 In general, soundproofing a room has to be thought of in terms of “weakest link.” If windows are the weakest link (letting sound out), then every dollar you spend to treat something other than windows is a dollar almost completely wasted. 2 Soundproofing a room will make tuning that room more problematic. If you’re trying to build a flat-response mix environment, for example, it’s MUCH easier to do that if the lowest frequencies are allowed to escape. If those super-long frequencies are reflected back into the room with thick and dense walls (which is what it takes to contain them) those low frequencies are nearly impossible to eliminate - at least in any residential-sized room. I often see people wasting a lot of time and money because they mistake soundproofing for acoustically treating (and vice versa).

p.s. Hard "yes" to those P90-equipped TV Yellow double-cuts.

I have two signature guitars (which is a sizable % of what I own). 1. Mike Campbell Duesenberg. I kind of wish it didn't have such a flashy paint job, because my technical prowess doesn't live up to the racing stripe. But it's just sooooo fucking gloriously well engineered. Easily the most well-intonated, stays-in-tune, plays-like-butter guitar that I've ever owned, gets a pretty wide range of sounds (bridge humbucker + neck P90), and it sounds fantastic through almost any amplifier. It turned me into an evangelist for Duesenbergs. I'll never sell it. 2. Malcolm Young Gretsch - I bought it used, after the original owner had it custom painted candy tangerine, swapped out the pickups, put a Bigsby on it, and then put it right back in its case forever. I know, I know... why would you buy a signature model and then heavily modify it? I don't know. After I bought it, I took the Bigsby off and made it back into a hardtail. It's probably the guitar I play the least, but it's just super appealing to me. I think it's cool as shit. I'll try to put a photo up this week. (edit) Used to have a George Harrison signature Gretsch that I impulsively bought during a trip to New York, but just never bonded with it and sold it.

Cross-posting from the Beato thread:

Really enjoyed that

That photo might be even sillier - in a "less authentic" sort of way - than Dukakis riding around in a tank.

My wife wants to send you $9.95.

The high point of my last trip to London was being on a train with our very gracious tour guide - a very sweet 60-something gentleman with an advanced degree in history - and watching his face as my wife very pointedly and animatedly argued that the queen most definitely had Diana killed.

A non-stop stream of insults, bravado, hate, and lies just effortlessly roll off his tongue. A 70-something year-old grandfather who mocks the physically disabled, writes checks to porn stars, worships money, and constantly advocates for violence against brown people. ... but then pauses for a photo shoot while sycophants jockey for position so they can all be photographed sucking up to him as though he is an example of righteousness. The hypocrisy is just mind-blowing. The unwavering support by self-proclaimed evangelical Christians for such a cartoonishly immoral person who is the antithesis of everything they claim to believe -- For me, that will always be the most stunning disappointment of this era. We've been watching it for six or seven years now, and I still just cannot get over it.

Moon landing to 87 Strat - 18 years 87 Strat to today - 35 years

I think you've said this before, and I immediately quoted you to agree with you... so here we are again. The Fender Custom Shop guitars from the same era are also great instruments.

Yeah, I think that's big. If Texas is competitive after the first couple possessions, we're pretty likely to be hanging around in the fourth quarter. The last time we had a preseason top-5 SEC team here (eventual MNC LSU), Texas started with a dropped TD in the end zone on 4th and goal, then a (dumb play call) failed 4th and goal. Could have easily been 10-0 Texas after two possessions, but instead it was 0-0, and Texas ended up playing from behind the whole game.

I haven't heard that clip in 18 years. And it's still pure gold.

Ha ha - I have said the same thing about their guitars. It's like they evolved on an an island that was isolated from all other guitar makers.

My friend went mostly to see Todd Snider, and she was kind of pissed off how much the crowd totally disregarded him.

Reading that "I will find you and end you" reminded me... About 10 years ago, I came very, very close to getting scammed on some musical gear. I was gathering gear for the soon-to-open studio, and one of the things on my wish list was a tape machine. A friend of mine (an audio engineer in LA) who knew what gear I was looking for forwarded me a promotional email from a gear broker in LA, and he happened to have the machine I wanted. I contacted him, we negotiated a bit on price, I wired him the money -- it was over four grand. About four or five weeks later, after a series of broken promises and ever-changing excuses for why he didn't have a tracking number - and NUMEROUS unanswered inquiries, I realized that I was getting ghosted. I emailed my engineer friend "WTF is the deal with your gear broker friend?" And he tells me, "I don't even know that guy, I just got on his email list." Oof. I remember the gut-punch I felt when my buddy told me that. So I start googling this gear broker's name and I find several people online who he had also scammed, and those people had posted "do not deal with this guy" warnings on some audio forums. He was a real gear broker, but apparently one who had a history of totally screwing people over from time to time. I was livid. I found his home address. I wasn't sure how... but I was going to have my vengeance. I came very close to a rage-fueled threatening email, but I didn't send it. Instead, I sent him another friendly email telling him, "Hey, I just refinanced my house" (not true) "... and I'm getting a big cash-out from the bank in a couple weeks" (not true) "... and I really want that pair of soffit-mounted ATC mains on your gear list" (not true). The monitors I told him I wanted were like 25 grand. About a week later, the tape machine arrived. He shipped it a couple days after that email. I was lucky.

Reminded me of this:

Yeah, the Russian surnames give you a lot to work with. Barishny Check Kalishny