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Posts posted by 40acredropout
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Guys we might have a much darker NowThis situation...
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If this is a troll, bravo for irritating the living shit out of me.
Go on the surly podcast and tell us why your half-ass pity fund is deserving of our charity. I’m doubtful your reasoning (uhhhh it will help me out?) will change my mind, but I’ll at least toss you some bucks for actually putting in that minimal amount of effort.
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PDF-to-Excel'ed a few of these and put them together for anyone who wants it. @Randolph Duke if you already have a big excel file with all the data (historicals too), I'd love to get my hands on that.
Things that stuck out to me (and I only looked at 2020 so wouldn't be shocked if some of these are going to just be pandemic anomalies):
- UT's recruiting budget is only at $1.7M which feels low. A&M at $2.6M, LSU at $2.8M, Bama at $3.4M. We are closer to Tech who is at $1.6M.
- UT blows same schools out of water in our "fund raising, marketing and promotion" expense line item at $6.5M. Next closest is Alabama at $3.7M, aggie at $230k (maybe a categorization issue).
- Bama's "Medical Expense and Insurance" line item at $3.0M which is significantly higher than anyone else. UT at $1.6M, aggie at $1.0M, LSU at $1.25M, Tech at $1.7M. Random noise or are they doing something different (HGH)?
- Something seems off to me that LSU is only showing $4.3M in royalties, licensing and advertisement revenue. UT and aggie dwarf that figure at $39M and $17.9M. Surprisingly, somehow Tech comes in higher than Bama here at $14.5M and $13.0M respectively. Some kind of categorization issue?
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11 minutes ago, futureman said:
just trying to get to 48 pages.
Still gave you a 'fuck you' but will acknowledge I almost laughed.
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26 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
So, people will die if we never learn Ehlinger's cause of death.
Instead of a heartfelt discussion between Ward and the Beav, there will only be awkward silence and sad, sad doubt about the true dangers of whatever cut a young life short.
If you think this is opioid or fentanyl related (I still don't much care), maybe you could sit down and recall why you are even aware of these issues. Then, get off your dead ass and do your own research. Arm yourself with easily obtained knowledge and, talk to your child about something unrelated to sports.
Don't rely on the Sports Page or Surly for whatever a "teaching moment" looks like in your corny family world.
Maybe you could use Ehlinger's death as a teaching moment about how a life lost young is so terrible. You can even throw in something about being respectful and not prying into something that is actually none of your business. Or maybe, you can review your posts on this thread and explain how brilliant you are and how everybody else is so dumb.
Sorry, I find this shit idiotic. How did parents teach their children anything before college football?
Blast away.
I have no personal connection to Jake. My desire to know would be purely to satiate the (natural) curiosity. But Jake is not some anonymous figure and the facts were going to come out. I think this board (by its standards) showed a lot of restraint and respect in the wake of the news.
If things that aren't true are being circulated here, than fuck us. But I do not think that is the case and I don't understand the desire to just not talk about it and act like the COD is irrelevant. Does the COD alter Jake's legacy or make what happened any less tragic? Absolutely fucking not and I haven't seen a single post that suggests that.
I do not have kids but you really don't sound like you do either. Do you know that athletes are the most influential people to a lot of kids? How is it a stretch to think that a parent from this board being able to talk to their kid (also presumably a longhorn fan) about what happened to Jake would have far more impact than the typical/canned, don't-do-drugs sit down. Like it or not, what happened to Jake as an example carries far more weight than some statistic around anonymous casualties from some random news article.
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3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
I love "Relatively Easy". One of the more underrated tracks of his.
"Met a brother on a church kick, seems like just another form of dope sick" I think everyone has spent time around this guy before, and I think Isbell nails the reality of it in one sentence. Trade one addiction for another. The new one just won't kill you as fast.
Agreed on Relatively Easy.
I'd put Live Oak up there in the underrated category. It's a little different than most of his other writing in that (I've read) it's an allegory about his recovery from addiction that drops the listener into the life of an outlaw in a different time. He's talked in interviews of how he was afraid of getting sober because how much drinking was engrained in who he had become / his lifestyle. I read this song as his fear that with sobriety, he'd lose a (the) piece of him that made him liked / attractive to the people around him before he got clean.
Well you couldn't stay a loner
On the plains before the war
My neighbors had been slightin' me
I had to ask what for
Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around
We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter
Killed a couple men or more
And I told her her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword
All the things that she'd suspected
I'd expected her to fear
Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here-
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It got dusty the first time I heard this Isbell line after Roy Halladay's passing. Still can't hear it without thinking of him.
Christmas time when folks go off the deep end
His woman took the kids and he took Klonopin
Enough to kill a man of twice his sizeNot for me to understand
Remember him when he was still a proud man?
A vandal's smile, a baseball in his right hand
Nothing but the blue sky in his eye-
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On 4/15/2021 at 8:45 PM, Al_4_ISU said:
Todd Snider would be the modern heir to Prine, in my mind. I’m not sure I have a readily available comparison to Isbell from that era. He hits such savage depression. McMurtry is pretty close on that front, but they seem like contemporaries.
I this this is pretty accurate.
McMurtry is my favorite song writer. In large part because he can so easily lull you in with the sharp, chuckle inducing lines just to fuck you up with some truth in the same song. Isbell is more likely to leave me speechless but fuck, can McMurtry tell a story. Some of my favorites:
Ruby and Carlos:
From:
"Down below the mason dumb ass line the food gets worse
I can't go back to Tennessee
That Nascar country's not for me"To:
"And holding back the flood Just don't do no good. You can't unclench your teeth, To howl the way you should.
So you curl your lips around The taste of tears and the hollow sound
That no one owns but you. No one owns but you"Copper Canteen:
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"Honey, don't you be yelling at me when I'm cleaning my gun
I'll wash the blood off the tailgate when deer season's done
We got one more weekend to go
And I'd like to kill one more doe"To:
"We grew up hard and our children don't know what that means
We turned into our parents before we were out of our teens"Some other favorites:
All of State of the Union and of course, Choctaw Bingo.
You Got to Me:
"The paper boy wants a smoke
Leans his bike against a tree
And he's tired and cold and broke
And he don't know what to make of me
Standing here in my three piece suit
Standing here just like I am
With my vest unbuttoned and my necktie loose
Impervious to all abuse"Carlisle's Haul:
"Hear them crabbers cuss the weather
And they cuss the government too
'Cause nowadays crabbin' and fishin'
Hangin' on to a pot to piss in
Is just about the best a man can doIt's hard not to cry and cuss
When this old world is just bigger than us
And all we got is pride and trust in our kind"-
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Fuck. Just a kid.
Most of us probably only really knew him as Sam's little brother. Looking forward to more tributes like Overshown's to shed light on who he was as his own person.
I too have spent a good chunk of the evening fighting back tears. Wish we could take away some of the pain from this poor family. What more can you say. Fuck this.
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6 minutes ago, Hate said:
I think he inadvertently admitted his wife has a very small penis.
Onus is on him to prove with pics whether his wife does or does not have a penis.
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3 hours ago, Bottlecap said:
you should film this rant in your F-650
What do you drive?
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Thanks guys- both of these get the job job and I'm going to roll with it. It's annoying to me because it seems like it should be easier than it is. I think about the way you can use an index(match,match) function to find a value across both an array with both row and column conditions... seems like you should easily be able to use that same functionality to include a sumif / maxif/ averageif/ whatever function over an array selected by said condition but.... I'm stumped and cannot find an example of doing that anywhere.
Anyways, thanks again for taking a look and helping me get what I needed.
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45 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:
When you say 200 columns, do you mean you have Stat 1, Stat 2, ..., Stat 200 for example? So that in your actual data set you are trying to figure out which Stat is the largest for a given city/year?
Correct that here are ~200 columns of different statistics. But not trying to identify the statistic that is the largest in a given city / year. Trying to find the largest value in the specific statistic column that is defined in a dropdown assumption (cell C5 in the example) for that city in those years. So cell C6 is the answer I would be looking for, I just don't know how to write that formula. Hopefully that makes sense? Thanks for taking a look.
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Calling on the wizards. I'm usually able to find solutions with a google search but am running into a wall.
Below is a simple example of what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a large set of data (200 columns, 25,000 rows) and I am trying to write a formula that will return the max value given the criteria of 1) time period, 2) city, and 3) statistic (column), which will all be selected from a dropdown; goal is for the formula to dynamically calculate based off these inputs and refresh to correct answer when assumptions change. . I was able to figure out how to do this for the sum and average but am stumped here.
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Just finally tried out Tony C's.
Good draft beer selection (to me) and pretty good happy hour deals. Had the Primo and it was alright. It'd be hard for me to put the pizza close to Pinthouse, Home Slice and Buffalina. Cool space though.
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On 2/14/2021 at 8:10 PM, troph said:
Happy to look. Just seeing this. Non-compete/nonsolicitation are the provisions to focus on unless it’s exec level then termination, severance etc. if equity is involved then vesting, termination rights, buy back, and tax matter too. rest of it matters but there is only so much you can do with confidentiality etc. most PE management teams are transactional meaning they’ll come after you if it makes sense, so assume they will enforce.
I'm super late to the game here but going to PM you.
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7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:
North Dakota has a high death rate but did not ruin their economy and the finances of their residents. Other states have a high death rate, high unemployment rate, and fucked over every retail business that isn't a big chain or Amazon. I suspect the latter will have higher excess deaths when you factor in suicides and substance abuse caused by the ineffective mitigation mandates.
And North Dakota's governor did not get an Emmy or write a book about her successful Covid response.
Comparing the response/resulting statistics of a state who's largest city is 100K to Texas or California or any state with highly concentrated metro centers isn't at all apples to apples.
If LA or NYC didn't implement the "ineffective mitigation mandates" you really believe the resulting increase in deaths would be less than what they'll now be left with at the hands of suicides and substance abuse? Yeah right.
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All gas no brakes
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16 minutes ago, FunkSoulBrother said:
Well, looks like the wrestlers just started a GoFundme account
Kids name is even Walker. They fucked with the wrong guy.
Apparently Spencer Jones spent two years at Liberty before transferring to OU. No wonder he obviously had no experience in bar fights.
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Hoping all of your homes warm up like the DKR visitor locker room at halftime.
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7 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:
Power out 78759, Spicewood/183. We were lucky... until now.
Shit. I'm 78757- just on the other side of Mopac. Been good all day...
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29 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
Guessing you are on the same grid as the hospitals
I'm further up Burnet in North Shoal Creek neighborhood and we haven't lost power. Not sure what our link would be.
Would anyone have fun with a surly hedge fund?
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I actually would be in for treefiddy. I'm not sure what I really bring to the table so I will be submitting proxy votes in line with whatever @alphahorn says to do, should he join.
@Randolph Duke has given me Dr. Michael Burry vibes from the Tell Me About A&M thread. Just instead of plowing through hundreds of thousands of underlying mortgages to make a fortune, he's sorting through mountains of paper to expose aggie since we the people of the great state of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.