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boilerhorn

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  1. 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...
  2. Indiana and Notre Dame.
  3. 33 of Texas' 23 total rushing yards came in the first drive of the game.
  4. 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...
  5. Fort Point IPA Trillium Brewing Company Boston, MA
  6. Participating too much (??) in this thread… Juice Bag NE IPA Clover Road Brewing Company Hudson, MA
  7. Bay State Brewing Company Worcester,MA Sinshine NEIPA
  8. Guiness Stout Grand Central. Manhattan one of the meetups for Texas games in NYC
  9. 11 Pins WC IPA Fifth Hammer Brewing Co queens, NY
  10. Guiness The Office Bar Upper East side Manhattan
  11. Theta IPA Hudson Valley Brewery Yum…
  12. This. Regardless of the place on the income spectrum, there is always someone willing to take unnecessary and foolish risks to bag a few extra bucks. The question is typically, “Why would someone with $XXX do that for $Y?” Various reasons. Hubris, ignorance, stupidity, and bravado. And, perhaps, they are blowing through their $XXX on hookers, blow, and gambling. An acquaintance dated a forensic accountant years ago. She was hired by large companies to search for unusual spending. She’d occasionally find a mid to upper level exec at a medium or large company who was cheating around $50-$100 on travel expense reports. These fools were risking $250k-$300k per year jobs (10 years ago) to pocket an extra $500 per year. Insanity, hubris, stupidity.
  13. I was referring to the number of Wingo fingers required for a catch. Not the O/U of the game.
  14. Just saw this thread get a bump, so I cannot resist a random stream of consciousness... Comparing Appetite to UYI is somewhat unfair, IMO. In some ways, it is 2 different variants of GnR; in some ways it is not. Appetite was far more angst. The Ritz live show might be one of the best live shows of all time - def for GnR, but top-100 all time of all live shows. Appetite was released summer of 1987. Joshua Tree was released 4 months earlier. The 2 releases could not be more different, but both produced anthems of the age. Def for me. Not a bad track on either record. I first heard November Rain (NR) in 1988 or 1989. I was living in South Florida - part time - as part of a co-op program in college. There were *many* CD/record stores in the area that had access to bootlegs. I overpaid for a GnR bootleg and it contained a version of NR and I was amazed. According to Matt Sorum and Tracii Guns, Axl had been working on that track since ~1984 or 1985 - just 2 years after he left Lafayette, IN to head to LA. I have many strange memories of Appetite. I bought it a few days after it was released and played it for my family. Dad was not a fan. Brothers were. I still can see my mom (RIP) dancing a strange jig to Mr. Brownstone. What a fucking awesome song.
  15. Vandy's Drew Dickey is out. Regents School of Austin Alumni, family, and friends will be disappointed. Now that Will Stone is transferring, there will be zero representation....
  16. I have the over/under at 15
  17. Interesting. Intel is in talks to acquire AI inference platform company SambaNova. I know a couple of folks who are at SambaNova from early in my career. What stands out to me: Chairman of the Board of SambaNova: Present Intel CEO LipBu Tan Member of the BOD: Anthony Lin - head of Intel Capital The latter is "normal" for large investors - you get a role on the board. At some point in the past, Intel Capital was dropping large sums on many AI startups. I am trying to figure out if this is a conflict for Tan. He stands to enrich himself indirectly through the company he's a CEO.
  18. Not reading the entire thread, but these are fucking awesome.
  19. Simcoe Dreamboat. Austin Beerworks
  20. They're down to 2 of the long term members: 84 year old Mike Love and 83 year old Bruce Johnston. They have a strong supporting band, full of capable singers. Mike Love sometimes sounds old and tired; but he is 84 after all. Sometimes he sounds OK. On occasion, John Stamos will play with them. It would be an interesting show in 2005, maybe.
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