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My daughter needed a renewal just before Christmas. We made an appointment for the UT office on Nueces as soon as we could -- which was the next morning. Walked in with paperwork filled out. No wait because we had an appointment. Walked out 15 minutes later with an estimated delivery date of mid-February. The new passport arrived Jan 10th. Thanks Biden! BTW they don't take credit cards ... bring your checkbook or a money order if you have to go in. Most adults can renew online and pay via credit card, but not if you are in person.
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This is a problem with Lady Bird Lake aka Town Lake. Lake Travis is controlled by the LCRA. Longhorn Dam impounds Lady Bird Lake and is maintained by the City of Austin. LCRA is who you want to own your dam, if you care about your dam functioning well. Longhorn Dam (at the east end of downtown) has had problems in the past and has gotten stuck open and closed. It probably needs to be replaced. When the dam is stuck open, the lake drains. When it’s stuck closed, the SRV statue takes a swim.
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2026 CFP National Championship Date Announced
Texas Jeff replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in Football
UT starts their long session in 2027 on Jan 11th. So the championship game will be held two weeks into that spring semester. CFP needs to conclude football season before the spring semester starts at most schools or commit to spending the money to fly everyone involved to playoff games. At Texas, Longhorn Band and cheer and the other student orgs get to go to these games, which is a fantastic opportunity for the students ... but they are being bussed to these games, which takes an extra day or two before and after the games. It was hard for the students to do this for the SEC championship during fall finals week, but they did it. It would be difficult for them to be bussed to Atlanta at the end of the fall semester and then miss chunks of the spring semester if Texas was still playing. -
The open was great and my wife and I loved "Bungee Fitness", which I have now discovered is a real thing. I'd be willing to bet that the bungee fitness people have record sign-up's next week.
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I work with a lot of South Asians in tech, and the women among them are carefully reading this part and worrying about their kids. Are their kids, born in the USA, citizens, they ask? These are women who left their home country with an education, came to this country, got an advanced degree, and are helping to make the tech that allows Trump to speak to us with his thumbs. Some got married and had kids here in the US while they were headed down the H1-B path. Now they are asking me for details about the 14th amendment and what it means and how to check on what it means and what it will mean in the future and if their kids are US citizens are not. And I'm like, well hey, we used to have people that owned other people and then we had a war and after that some folks didn't want people that didn't look like them them to be citizens so we wrote this 14th thing and then some folks still came up with corner cases to prevent people born here from being citizens so we had to work that out in the courts and we all thought we were good until MONDAY! I'm not exactly sounding a reassuring tone.
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How exactly would this work?
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I've been thinking about what a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico and what it would do to the auto industry. The price of new and used cars is going to rise, along with the price of parts. New cars will be plentiful, but pricy. If half of the US automotive stuff is made outside the US and half is made inside, it's reasonable to think we may see a 12-13% rise in prices. Today, the average US car costs around $48,000, so we could see average car prices approaching $54,000 by the end of the year because of tariffs.
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They have moved on to coverage of an indoor parade.
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Ah, it's here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815
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I looked, and didn't see it, although maybe this isn't the correct text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text However I am not a lawyer so perhaps it's in there in some way I don't understand.
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On the TikTok thing ... I am going to try to apply some logic to this situation which I am honestly hesitant to do, but here goes. TikTok is going dark because we have A LAW against it. We also have the first amendment, but set that aside like the Supremes just did. TikTok, as of tomorrow, is not legal in the United States. The law specifically calls out ByteDance and TikTok. The law gives the President the power to both designate new apps as "foreign adversary controlled" and determine that a foreign adversary controlled app is no longer controlled by a foreign adversary. The Supreme Court has just determined that this law is constitutional. Trump is taking an oath on Monday to faithfully execute the office of President. Part of the job description as stated in the Constitution is to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Where does he get the 90 day thing? We are a nation of laws. We have a law banning TikTok that goes in to effect on Sunday, our highest court has said it's constitutional, and we have a new guy on Monday that is responsible for executing the laws. He should not get to take an oath in the morning to do his job and then later in the day pick and choose which laws are OK and which should be suspended for 90 days. I'm not in favor of the TikTok ban but it's the current law of the land and he's the guy responsible for enforcing it, whether he likes it or not.
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The destruction of America's public education system
Texas Jeff replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
Brentwood was below the flight path for the old airport, which kept families with children away. Once the airport closed, Brentwood was close to downtown with no airport noise and lots of old houses. I’m not familiar with the neighborhood, but I would guess that a lot of the old houses got knocked down and replaced with new. The removal of the airport traffic plus a modernized school led to a generation of kids in the neighborhood, which helped to fill the schools. Can it last? The demographic projections show a stable population for at least ten years, so I would say yes, but there is a chance that empty nesters won’t leave and the neighborhood will gradually see fewer new kids. The McCallum vertical is going through a wave caused by the airport closing and being redeveloped. Eventually it will fade but not yet. -
Well this may shock you but Trump has at times been both for and against the ban. For it because we don’t want China have our info and against it because it’s a great platform that many people love to use so who the heck would want to ban it?
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Most kids join band in 6th grade. There are two major times when kids quit .... one at the end of the first year of middle school and one at the end of middle school. Our high school band director said that if he could get them on to the bus to their first football game, they were going to graduate high school still in band. Marching band takes a lot of time and effort but it's super social. Each section has a unique personality and the kids become "clarinets" or "flutes" or "trumpets" and it's amazing how the personalities of the kids start to fit their instrument. If your kid has already tried violin and liked it, I would suspect your kid has a pretty good ear. Clarinet should be a good transition. If your kid tries it but discovers they would really prefer something else or to learn multiple instruments, let them try. We had lots of kids in our program that played different instruments in multiple bands. As others have said, work with your band director to find a private teacher that your kid likes, or seek other clarinet parents and ask who they liked, so your kid can find a person they enjoy working with. Your kid may have a lesson once every one or two weeks. Music is supposed to be fun and enjoyable, not a death march, so if the kid hits a rough spot, let them have the experience and try not to pressure them. Once your kid has an instrument, a band director, is in a band program, maybe has a private teacher and some band friends, everything else should just happen from there. You shouldn't have to provide much guidance. Find out where your local music store is so that you can buy a box of reeds or get something fixed. If your kid sticks with clarinet and gets good, think about buying a reasonably good instrument for them sometime in high school. Kids start on rental instruments through a music store or the school, but if the kid really gets into it then your private teacher or band director can guide you to a better instrument once you are sure the kid wants to stick with it. Some instruments like tuba or percussion don't lend themselves to individually owned instruments. Lots of bands go on trips. Send your kid if you can. If you go along as a chaperone, help out while staying away from your kid. They want you to be involved but magically disappear when they are hanging out with their friends. Get involved with the band boosters. Even if you are not a musical person, you have some talent that the band boosters need, particularly in a marching band. Accounting, designing t-shirts, selling merch, building stuff, painting, driving trucks, unloading trucks, loading trucks, unloading trucks, loading trucks, unloading trucks, loading trucks, unloading trucks, serving pizza, making videos, whatever. They always need volunteers. Show up, do a job you know how to do or ask for one you don't, and keep a reasonable distance from your kid.
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Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
T-9 minutes to go on spacex.com -
The destruction of America's public education system
Texas Jeff replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
Eanes closed an elementary school this week. I can’t believe Westlake is out of money and/or short on students, but there it is… I never realized that Eanes had two elementaries that were next door neighbors, like you can walk from one to another across a parking lot. Valley View Elementary, the school they closed, served mostly the Cuernavaca neighborhood even though it was miles away from the community. -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
SpaceX is scheduled to launch their 7th super heavy test flight today at 4pm Texas time. Hopefully they will be able to catch the lower stage a second time. Coverage is scheduled to start about 45 minutes prior on their website, plus others will be live streaming on YouTube. The upper stage is a new “Block 2” design. This may be the final suborbital flight test with a possible attempt to catch the upper stage on flight 8. -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
You can see the launch here if you hunt around a bit to find it: Excellent water deluge.... -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
That thing slowly crept off the pad like a Saturn V, but instead of Walter Cronkite there was a women yelling "Oh my God!" -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1 -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
New Glenn now at T-2 minutes to go -
During my freshman year in Jester, one guy ended up without a roommate. His room and three other rooms shared a thermostat. The guy pissed off another guy on our floor, so when the solo guy went to sleep, the pissed off guy had the other three rooms block off their vents, plus they put a little heater under the thermostat. The solo guy woke up to a freezing room and had no idea how to warm it up.
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Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
The countdown counter is working great. Something's not right with the rocket. This is like watching a team ice a kicker with 300 timeouts in a row, and the booth is having to review each timeout. -
Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
Texas Jeff replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
Blue Origin's New Glenn is at T-37 minutes from their first launch: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1 Not sure if they are going to go tonight or not, but they might... -
Summer Camp recommendations for Central Texas
Texas Jeff replied to Masshole Horn's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I went to Camp Longhorn (near Burnet) for four years as a camper and four as a counselor. Sent my kids there too, starting around 2010. Camp Champions is probably similar. Camp Longhorn has three camps, Inks Lake is the original, Indian Springs was the second, and they have a C3 camp on Inks with shorter terms. Inks Lake and Indian Springs offer two and three week terms. When you are young, three weeks is a long time to be away from home. But when you are older, you don't want it to end. Terms at the start of the summer are going to be cooler but the water is going to be colder. The terms towards the end of the summer can be really hot but the water is warmer. I also did a Scouting trek at Philmont when I was 15. At Philmont, you are part of a crew that hikes from camp to camp for about 10 days. I think we covered about 65 miles but I can't remember. My troop had a qualifying hike that you had to pass before you could sign up. I wasn't ready at thirteen. Two years later the qualifier was easy, and Philmont was a challenge but doable and I'm glad I waited.
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