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  1. Every time I think, "Hey maybe I should consider a Tesla in my auto search..." I come back to this thread. Stream of consciousness after catching up.... Nope. Scratch Tesla off the list. Why do I have that stupid thought? what was done to USAID is criminal Confederacy of Dunces is wonderful on audiobook. abebooks.com is a good resource for used books - you can often find books for under $4, shipping included. In some cases, those books are sourced by Half Price Books, but you could not pay $4 to get them in store I am not sure why Elmo keeps touting FSD, especially with the obvious successes of Waymo and Zoox. Aptiv (nee Delco), Mercedes Benz, etc. are also developing autonomous technology. Elmo keeps talking about it and delivering garbage. Tesla's FSD sucks. Waymo seems to be doing fine with it.
  2. LSU made the right decision to keep his father away if that's how the son is going to behave. "Free BK" and "my boy" - Jeebus, be your own man.
  3. Sagarin's computer rankings have PSU in the top-12. I guess his computers are giving them credit for losing to good teams? http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm SMH College Football 2025 ratings through games of 2025 November 22 Saturday - Week 13 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | PREDICTOR | GOLDEN_MEAN | RECENT | STRONG RECENT HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.43] [ 3.23] [ 3.45] [ 3.60] [ 3.60] 1 Ohio State A = 97.09 11 0 72.14( 46) 0 0 | 3 0 | 94.84 1 | 98.45 1 | 101.11 1 | 107.30 1 BIG TEN (A) 2 Notre Dame A = 95.29 9 2 74.21( 27) 0 2 | 2 2 | 94.17 2 | 94.80 3 | 99.55 2 | 104.58 2 I-A IND. (A) 3 Oregon A = 94.12 10 1 74.63( 24) 0 1 | 3 1 | 93.15 3 | 95.05 2 | 96.33 4 | 98.16 5 BIG TEN (A) 4 Indiana A = 93.64 11 0 71.58( 49) 1 0 | 3 0 | 92.18 4 | 94.31 4 | 96.69 3 | 104.50 3 BIG TEN (A) 5 Georgia A = 90.92 10 1 75.80( 16) 1 1 | 4 1 | 89.07 6 | 93.38 6 | 92.50 6 | 93.70 7 SEC (A) 6 Texas A&M A = 90.26 11 0 75.36( 19) 1 0 | 5 0 | 88.48 7 | 93.90 5 | 90.84 8 | 91.86 11 SEC (A) 7 Alabama A = 90.14 9 2 78.64( 6) 1 0 | 6 1 | 90.16 5 | 91.61 7 | 90.36 9 | 91.19 13 SEC (A) 8 Texas Tech A = 89.70 10 1 66.50( 71) 0 0 | 2 0 | 87.80 10 | 89.31 10 | 94.36 5 | 102.03 4 BIG 12 (A) 9 Miami-Florida A = 88.90 9 2 72.79( 38) 1 0 | 1 1 | 88.39 8 | 89.51 9 | 90.27 10 | 92.82 9 ACC (A) 10 Mississippi A = 87.50 10 1 73.41( 34) 0 1 | 3 1 | 86.48 11 | 89.77 8 | 87.79 15 | 89.44 16 SEC (A) College Football 2025 ratings through games of 2025 November 22 Saturday - Week 13 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | PREDICTOR | GOLDEN_MEAN | RECENT | STRONG RECENT HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.43] [ 3.23] [ 3.45] [ 3.60] [ 3.60] 11 Oklahoma A = 87.24 9 2 78.17( 7) 1 1 | 6 2 | 86.16 13 | 87.53 12 | 89.41 13 | 92.51 10 SEC (A) 12 Penn State A = 87.07 5 6 73.76( 31) 0 3 | 0 4 | 87.89 9 | 84.97 18 | 90.21 11 | 89.34 17 BIG TEN (A) 13 Utah A = 87.05 9 2 71.00( 52) 0 1 | 0 2 | 86.47 12 | 85.26 15 | 91.52 7 | 96.82 6 BIG 12 (A) 14 Vanderbilt A = 86.40 9 2 74.56( 25) 0 1 | 4 2 | 85.15 15 | 85.96 13 | 89.63 12 | 93.33 8 SEC (A) 15 Texas A = 86.28 8 3 76.37( 14) 0 2 | 2 2 | 85.60 14 | 87.88 11 | 86.58 18 | 85.03 22 SEC (A) 16 Southern California A = 85.18 8 3 75.09( 20) 0 2 | 2 2 | 84.73 17 | 85.15 16 | 86.71 17 | 88.23 18 BIG TEN (A) 17 Tennessee A = 85.15 8 3 72.73( 41) 0 2 | 0 3 | 85.05 16 | 85.54 14 | 85.82 20 | 86.85 19 SEC (A) 18 SMU A = 84.62 8 3 69.83( 59) 1 0 | 2 0 | 83.83 19 | 83.40 21 | 88.07 14 | 91.84 12 ACC (A) 19 Washington A = 84.54 8 3 71.10( 51) 0 1 | 0 2 | 84.38 18 | 83.18 22 | 87.35 16 | 90.57 14 BIG TEN (A) 20 BYU A = 83.53 10 1 73.11( 36) 0 1 | 1 1 | 81.81 26 | 84.61 19 | 85.20 21 | 90.06 15 BIG 12 (A)
  4. Bears have beaten 2 teams with winning records at the time they played them: Commanders (3-2) and Steelers (6-4). Commanders are now 3-8. I can see the Steelers going 2-4 to finish out the season 8-9.
  5. Bad back 7 and bad QB will make it difficult for Steelers/Tomlin to get to 9 wins this year.
  6. I will admit that I was one who suggested that Caldwell should potentially play more - and maybe even start a game. Manning looked injured, frustrated, and even appeared to have the yips. I will also admit that it was a foolish (or even stupid) suggestion. He needed to play through adversity and get more comfortable. He's done just that. [Not to mention the impact of benching him to recruiting, team dynamics, etc.] Because of Arch's play, Texas was eviscerating Vandy until the defense went a little softer and the refs put their thumbs on the scale. Texas crushed Arkansas yesterday, and Manning was a primary reason for that. It's an even bigger win without a small handful of miscues. Looking forward to kicking the crap out of Aggy.
  7. All great points. As for McCasland's choices about timeouts, etc., some coaches (esp. early in the season) do things subtly different just to see how the squad responds. Not sure if that is what he was doing... The standing around and watching the top player has driven me crazy in watching Texas in the past and Purdue w/ Glenn Robinson. 2-edged sword when you have a player of Toppin's capability. You want the guy making things happen, AND you want his teammates to move around finding a seam for an assist, etc.
  8. Ha. Cut-paste’d too soon after the game. I do not want to get too optimistic, but this might be one of the best Purdue teams I have seen in over 30 years. Guys like Matt Heide and Myles Colvin transferred (to Texas and Wake, respectively) because they were not going to get much playing time. Heide is getting light minutes at Texas but put up 20 recently (yes, against Rider). Colvin is getting 27 mins and 13 points per game at Wake - and hit the game winner against Memphis. Heide saw around 20 mpg and Colvin 18 for Purdue last year.
  9. Purdue and Matt Painter doing God‘s work. 😊
  10. It was Dan Mullen's house in 2022. In 2022, it appears that he sold it to Scott Melker for $100 https://qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1081&LayerID=26490&PageTypeID=4&PageID=10770&Q=1832894977&KeyValue=04427-111-336 I suspect the $100 is incorrect and is a proxy for undisclosed, etc.
  11. "Hasn't been cooperating" could also be code for "refusing to hand over personal property without a warrant." If that place serves high-profile customers, it would make sense to wait for a specific request of the security video. "Video including person X, Y, and Z between times..." Etc.
  12. https://nypost.com/2025/11/16/sports/kris-boyd-left-trendy-nyc-hotspot-with-2-other-jets-over-bad-vibe-just-before-cornerback-was-shot-sources/?dicbo=v2-0i9Ypkd A second car followed through the barrier and also sped off, they added. Sources previously said the shooter fled in a BMW X6 SUV, followed by a high-end silver Mercedes-Benz Maybach, both with out-of-state plates. Sei Less reportedly hasn’t been cooperating with police and refused to hand over any security footage it may have, the sources revealed.
  13. 3 drops in a row on this drive after the 40 yard pass to Mosley. Excepting the pass to Washington, the other two would have been first downs. The subsequent drive had an INT, which looked like it might have been assisted by a UGA hold or DPI. Regardless, Texas showed signs of life on 2 consecutive drives in the 2nd quarter. They looked somewhat competent in the 3rd quarter, but one drive was stalled due to a Texas holding penalty. The 4th quarter was bad. Up until then, poor execution and mental mistakes...
  14. Indiana and Notre Dame.
  15. 33 of Texas' 23 total rushing yards came in the first drive of the game.
  16. YTTV - full boat - $83.99 YTTV - sports only option - $81.99 problem solved! Alphabet/Google itself is valued at $3.34T; it's YouTube subsidiary is valued at around $400B. Disney is valued at $192B. I have little sympathy for either company in this slap-fest. That said, Google, Amazon, MS, etc. own a better means of distribution at present. Even if DIS could put together a perfect app at competitive pricing, they would still need the datacenter capacity to distribute the content. Google, Amazon, MS, etc. are still involved. They'll make money no matter what happens. And they can squeeze the media companies...
  17. Fort Point IPA Trillium Brewing Company Boston, MA
  18. Participating too much (??) in this thread… Juice Bag NE IPA Clover Road Brewing Company Hudson, MA
  19. Bay State Brewing Company Worcester,MA Sinshine NEIPA
  20. Guiness Stout Grand Central. Manhattan one of the meetups for Texas games in NYC
  21. 11 Pins WC IPA Fifth Hammer Brewing Co queens, NY
  22. Guiness The Office Bar Upper East side Manhattan
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