RiceOwl

Getting crushed on GRUB. Stock has swung 40% downward from its high. Personally down about 15% on it.

Nah, sorry if I didn’t make that clear. It’s not beautiful people that bother me. It’s the faux-hippies (hipsters). Generally speaking, the HP (or River Oaks, or in Boston, where I grew up, the Back Bay) people know they have money and act like it. The closest equivalent in Dallas to what I’m talking about might be Deep Ellum or Bishop Arts.

I live in transplant central now (Collin County) and I am a transplant myself. Honestly, one thing I like about the Dallas area compared to Houston and Austin is that generally speaking, nobody is trying to prove to anybody else how hipster/alternative/liberal/whatever they are... Austin definitely got that party started, but there are so many obnoxious Houston hipsters who think they’re God’s gift because they went to an upscale thrift shop in Montrose, took a photo at the Menil Collection, went to happy hour at Anvil, and then retired to their studio in EaDo. And then documented it all on instagram. Maybe I’m just hanging out with the wrong crowd up here, but I find it much easier to deal with the Uptown douchebag than the Houston/Austin hipster.

I’m either a very young millennial or old Gen Z (born April ‘96). I don’t really remember life without the internet but I definitely remember life with dial-up internet and without smartphones. My younger sister, born ‘01, doesn’t really. My parents possess a similar lack of generational identity. My mom’s parents were born in 1919 and 1921 respectively and had my mom in their early forties (she was youngest of four, 16 years younger than her eldest brother). On the contrary, my dad is actually 5 months older than my mom but his parents were born in 1936 and 1938. While my maternal grandfather went to West Point and served in Italy and was a colonel in Korea, my paternal grandfather was part of a “forgotten generation” who was too young for WWII and Korea, but too old for Vietnam. In a sense, I almost consider my mom a baby boomer and my dad a Gen X’er despite my dad actually being older.

I’m not even talking about Rice. We’ve dug our own grave through lack of investment of 60+ years. I’m referring more to the Boise’s of the world, who no matter what they do, won’t get invited to the P5 because they’re in Idaho. You bring up separating the division. OK, fine. But it’s fundamentally unfair to do that by just looking at who’s in the P5 today and who’s not. What has Oregon State done to deserve being in P5 conference (in both football and MBB) lately compared to say, San Diego State (just thinking of a decent west coast G5 with decent hoops and football)? If the test is that you have to have a football budget of above $X, and if you don’t do that, you won’t get to be in the new D1, that’s fair.

The attitude of some posters on this thread are exactly why CFB needs a promotion/relegation system. It’s impossible for a school to “climb the ranks” unless they’re really good when a TV deal is being negotiated. And even then, they have to be in a big market. It’s a scam.

If you’re in F it’s fun, in J it’s bearable, in Y it sucks. Luckily, SQ’s aircraft on this route doesn’t have a traditional Y. Only premium economy. Longest flight I’ve ever done in Y is BOS-HKG. It SUCKED (and I had an exit row). On the other hand, I flew DEL-ORD in J and it wasn’t bad. Done Europe-East Coast many times in Y and it’s not too bad, especially going east.

Go Buffs. If Texas wins out, it’s CFP (especially after thUGA lost today). No need to root for USC.

Sorry to offend you with my typo/mistake!

I road greyhound Houston-Austin once, about 4 years ago. It was fine. Not great. Not bad. Mix of normal people who aren’t drive for whatever reason and some poors. Nothing scary though.

Just seeing this now, but thanks for the backup on this. Bridges can definitely play as you’d expect, just not the type of guy I’d want in my program.

*35. The Paul Johnson/VanGorder drama goes much deeper. PJ was the coach at Georgia Southern from 97-01 and won two 1-AA national championships and went 62-10. After PJ left for Navy, Mike Sewak, his OL coach took the head job. Sewak was good, not great, and that simply didn’t cut it for GSU at the time. So they fired him. VanGorder is hired as the head coach and trashes the offense and PJ, goes 3-8 in his one season, and then gets fired.

Went to the Coppell-Hebron game as recommended. Terrible special teams play all game long by both teams but Coppell blocks a kick to win 16-15. The Hebron receiver committed to OU is a total thug and had to be bear hugged by the head coach post game so he wouldn’t fight.

What would you say is best in terms of atmosphere?

NOAA weather forecast looks fine on Friday as of now (Mostly Sunny). Looks like Wakeland vs Lone Star at the Star though Friday night.

My dad is coming into town this weekend for Texas-OU and wants to go to a HS game Friday night. Thinking Southlake vs Guyer or Euless Trinity vs San Angelo Central? Thoughts?

Feels like it’s been raining for a week straight in Dallas.

I thought the Mekong Delta was underwhelming. I’d cut that.

Woo hoo Go Owls!!! We’ll get crushed by Cougar High next week (oh well still have a better job and life than them 😜) but time will tell as to whether we improve as the season goes on. Tonight wasn’t a promising start to the Bloomgren era, but Bailiff lost his first game to $.05 State so at least it’s an improvement over that.

That’s what I got back in January when I was there.

Whatever. I grew up in Massachusetts (15 miles inland where we received 66% more snow than Boston), a place where it’s cold and snowy in the winter and went to school in Houston (which is a weather hell hole in its own right), and it didn’t phase me. I now live in Dallas, which IMO is slightly better than Houston weather wise, but hardly great. I guess I’m just less affected by weather than others.

My only comment (that hasn’t been said yet) is the following: don’t let weather influence where she goes to college. So many people say “winters are a bitch in XXX.” Yeah, maybe if you’re 40 years old and have to shovel your driveway/pay for a plow, find childcare for your kids because school cancelled and work didn’t, etc, etc. But as a college kid, it’s a blast! A couple bonus days off are nearly guaranteed for snow days, scheduling all your classes in the afternoon so you can ski 4 mornings a week at Tremblant (if she went to McGill), etc. Montreal isn’t really any colder than Boston or other northern U.S. cities. Head up the road to Quebec City-Yes, lots colder. Montreal, not so much.

Been raining on and off in Frisco all day long... A nice, soaking mist too when it hasn’t been raining. This is after the thunderstorm Thursday night dropped over an inch. Cant wait for the green-up!

Any recommendations in Malakoff or Athens?

Sorry to hear man.. My mom has had stage IV neuroendocrine cancer for 16 months now and will be 55 in October. Luckily she’s doing well right now and they’ve been able to beat it back a bit... But when you’re stage IV it’s a ticking time bomb. Definitely important to find out where the primary tumor is... If it’s a lung primary, there’s some “pretty good” targeted therapies they can throw at it. In the Pancreas, definitely some clinical trials out there that have shown some promise... Less sure about stomach cancer but that’s just because I haven’t read as much on the topic. If there’s anything I’ve learned through the process so far: -Your time horizon shortens. It’s cliche but you really do appreciate every day more. I used to talk on the phone with my mom 2-3 days a week, now every day without fail. -There’s always someone who has it worse. This is kind of shitty coping mechanism probably in a number of ways, but it’s kinda sorta helped me. I think of all the people who lost their mom as a little kid whereas my mom has seen me graduate college, get my first job, etc... Sure she won’t live till she’s 80, but hey could be a lot worse.