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Dbeasy

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  1. ABC National News has been reporting drones not only in NJ but elsewhere. I haven’t paid much attention. Are you trying to tell us that all those stories are bs?
  2. Bump. Unusual question. i need some ideas from the Surly brethren regarding one of my LLC businesses. I’ve used it for several years to do management consulting. I’ve decided this year will be the last one where I actively do consulting unless someone approaches me with short well defined consulting opportunities. I don’t want to look for engagements, nor do long involved ones. However, for certain reasons I really need this LLC (or a new one) to generate some revenue every year, on the order of $15k+ for the next 3-4 years. It doesn’t not need to be profitable. Breakeven ish would be fine. I don’t want to have to monitor the business closely, unless it’s for 2-3 months per year, or do any prospecting for business, or take on much financial or liability risk. I just need that $15k+ revenue to come in yearly for 3 years. Here is an example. I could just have a rental house LLC, but I’ve found I hate dealing with tenants. Any thoughts of any other business I could buy or establish?
  3. I saw an Austin market price trend line a few weeks ago from ~2010 to now. There was a bump in the price trend line in 2021-2022, but now prices are back in line with that trend line. I don’t feel like Austin prices will get much worse/lower unless we go into a recession. Even if inflation spikes again, I’m not clear whether prices would suffer because land is a hard asset.
  4. I assume any player who says they are going into the portal can still play with their team thru the playoffs if they want and the school agrees? I finally added only the second poster ever to my ignore list. Good grief.
  5. Ugh stupid iPhone.
  6. Dumb Aggies voicemail on the hardline, complaining that they made fun of the corps. Hahaha
  7. I’m on a one year quest to get my handicap back below 10. Knowing that a layoff in winter will set me back months, I signed up for an indoor simulator last week in Austin. They use Trackman which is incredible. I literally fixed a major swing flaw in 20 minutes and then went out yesterday and played one of my best rounds in 10 years, if you ignore my atrocious putting. I’m sold.
  8. No one really needs to post anymore. We can just have an AI chatbot post a concern about the game/team, then three chatbots can reference pussies, vaginas, and testicles, then have them all repeat for 14 days. It would be identical to the thread thus far.
  9. The attendance sensitivity is interesting. I wonder if because the arena is owned by investors and not the university there is another factor here that would put greater pressure on Terry.
  10. This is ridiculous. We will destroy Clemson. 18-6.
  11. I have zero surprise at any of those four. I was not a fan when they signed, but that is all Texas could get at the time, I guess.
  12. To improve on execution, this gif keeps popping up in my head regarding practice for the next two weeks:
  13. Almost every week lately, except after Florida, I sit on the game week thread and think to myself that surely this week Sark will figure out the offense. There are moments of sheer brilliance, followed by just grinding to a halt. It’s maddening. Here I am doing the same thing again this week. This offense should score 40+ every game. This offense has all of the personnel it needs to make the 2000’s OU offenses look lame. Yet Sark just can’t get it going. The running game bogs down. They throw brilliant intermediate passes, followed by throws into coverage or batted down by defensive linemen. Or they commit a penalty. This team lacks discipline. And I don’t mean coaches yelling at players. I mean being able to execute the play with the all of the proper actions: no penalties, not letting defensive linemen bat down passes, not having the QB self sack, not throwing the ball where a defender can get their hand in, not dropping passes, not running the wrong route or play, not missing a block by a pulling left tackle, etc. At some point, when you see so many mistakes you have to ask why the coaching staff can’t reduce them.
  14. I have no idea what your sentences are attempting to convey. The issue is that coaches salaries are paid by the school, and as of right now NIL cannot be paid by the school. So that money has to move to a collective or similar non-affiliated entity.
  15. Dbeasy

    Yellowstone

    Jeez. We picked up this show in the last year because of all the talk about it. Managed to cruise through all the seasons to catch up to the current. Very early it was somewhat interesting. There was some meat to the episodes. But now the whole show is basically Dallas in Wyoming, with bad acting and grifting by the show’s creator and writer. What a joke. The end can’t come soon enough.
  16. A thread doesn’t get this long unless there are multiple reasons for the Texas offense struggling, including Ewers, the OL, the play calling, and poor execution. With all of that said, I believe that for a college offense to be successful against great teams, a very mobile QB is required. Requiring a defense to account for the additional runner puts tremendous pressure on a defense. Sark has not historically used the QB much as a runner, except as a change of pace. And he doesn’t recruit QB’s that are strong runners, preferring to pick QB’s who have a strong accurate arm and the intellect to process defenses quickly. It’s been encouraging to see him use Arch a bit to run. You don’t have to run the QB a lot, like a Herman offense. You just need to make a defense pay a few times a half by saving drives with well constructed QB scrambles or designed running plays. It makes a huge difference. The Texas defense always struggles a bit with a mobile QB. Given that Quinn isn’t a mobile QB, there is a ceiling to what the offense will do against good defenses. Sark can bandaid it during the playoffs by using Arch on more series. Having Quinn run on purpose just won’t work. He’s injured and injury prone. Bring in Arch for at least two series each half.
  17. Redirecting a coaches salary to NIL money will be an interesting little trick for sure.
  18. This game lays bare a good coach vs not a good coach.
  19. During the game yesterday I couldn't help but start thinking that the referees were purposely making it very difficult for Texas to win. I've had almost 24 hours to sit back and reflect on it, whether my conspiracy theory is too wild and unrealistic. I've concluded it is not. Those fuckers hosed us.
  20. Excuse me sir, he was referencing Sir Edmund Hilary, a known prankster.
  21. Does Max refer to the streaming app Max/HBO or something else?
  22. Surly, my go to resource for Christmas Day family political discussions:
  23. Losing sucks obviously. And the mistakes and ref penalties were certainly part of it. But Sark has an enormous level of talent in offense. Enormous. He really should be able to put more points on the board than they have against decent teams. Arkansas, Georgia, A&M, etc. The offense should not be struggling this much. If he can’t score with this much talent, what happens if and when the talent drops a bit, like on OL next year.
  24. The problems in order: 1. Inability to run consistently against good DL’s 2. Mistakes - PENALTIES, drops 3. Play calling 4. Quinn. What’s weird is that there’s really no excuse for any of these four. We have an elite OL, a supposedly great OC, and a supposedly great QB. And good prep should address penalties. This team has underperformed.
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