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  1. Just now, Deej said:

    Home fries were always more like this to me...

     

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    Huh.  I googled "home fries," and came up with pics that look pretty much like the potatoes I originally referenced.  But you're right, I also recall getting potatoes with some veggies like onions and peppers stir fried in there.  But again....generally all called home fries.

    Whatever they are.....I think hash browns (of both varieties) are the superior breakfast choice....

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  2. Just now, Deej said:

    Those aren't home fries. 

    What's the difference?  Seriously, they look like most "home fries" I've been served (sometimes they're crispier, sometimes they're not, that's the only variation I can think of).  So...educate me.

  3. We're a Travelpro family, decent amount of travel including semi-regular overseas flights.  They've worn quite well.  Have had a couple of bent extended handles -- they've been an easy DIY replacement (Travelpro sends you the part under their warranty).  That's the only wear issue we've had.  We're not fans of hardsided luggage, but I say that having never traveled with hardsided luggage.

    For long weekends, esp. if flying discount carriers where they charge for anything you can't shove under the seat, my kids both have Baboon to the Moon bags - waterproof with backpack straps.  They can make a 4-5 day trip (maybe even a week, if they can do a bit of washing) out of that bag the small 40L size).

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  4. 30% of American voters view the above as truth.  25% are so uninterested/uninvolved/muh guns/abortion, that they'll vote whichever way their one-issue wind blows.  We are on a razor-thin edge to keep our democracy.  Scary.  Fucking. Shit. 

    Shit…it’s the pathetic infantile language that chaps my ass the most. If you deleted “at levels never seen before” from all of his writing, he’d lose 30% of his word count.
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  5. It is quite seriously my greatest talent in life.  

    You and me both brother. Was hitting 99th percentile on standardized tests starting in 3rd grade. Nailed the SAT hungover as hell. Day 1 of the Bar exam was the multi state (standardized), I was the first person in an auditorium of 500+ to finish.
    My grades, on the other hand, which depended on my self discipline and dedication….they were…fine. I wouldn’t get into UT today.
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  6. 46 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    I like to think of a simpler time.  Don, Jr. and Nate Paul locked themselves in a downtown Austin high-rise closet in 2015.  Don, Jr is talking about he over-inflates real estate assets to lure investors, falsify IRR claims, and boost his father's image as brilliant businessman.  Nate, while leaning back into the drip, inquires, "Wait, you can do that?  We've got a buncha holdings on our books but I can't develop it for what I need to make everybody happy."  Don, Jr. grabs the straw, "Bro, I can totally walk you through it.  It's so fucking easy.  My dad's gonna head into the election looking like a multi-billionaire.  All you need is some political coverage like us.  I've got my Dad and the GOP, who can you get to help you?"  Nate pauses, opens the closet door, "Ken, get in here.  Take this (hands him straw).  We got an idea."  

     

    34 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Goddamnit, that's 100% believable. 

    Sigh....this.  Seriously, on first read, my thought was "wait, how does YGIFS know that?"

    13 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    Eric is on the case with Zillow comps

     

     

    Today, someone needs to introduce Eric to the following term relevant in appraisal of real property: "stigma."

    Appraiser: "Nice house.  I'll have to run some other traps, but looks like it's worth about $250k in this neighborhood"

    "Yeah, it is nice.  And it has all new carpets, because we had to replace them all after Jeffrey Dahmer gutted his victims on the old ones and then cooked their flesh in the kitchen. We kept that stove, though -- it's a good gas range, and Jeffrey said it had great temperature control."

    Appraiser: "Okay.  So...I'm going to lower my appraised value to tree fiddy now."

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  7. 21 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    My conversation with my daughter when she was considering being a teacher.

    Me: Teaching is a noble profession. But, let me ask you a few questions. Do you like having all these nice clothes?

    Her: Yes

    Me: Do you like going on vacations to nice places and staying in nice resorts?

    Her: Yes

    Me: Do you like eating sushi a few times a month?

    Her: Yes

    Me: Well, you're not doing any of that on a teacher's salary.

    Her: (light bulb moment!)

    We had a similar conversation with my daughter a couple of years ago over Christmas, as she looked around and said "you know....I'm realizing that right now, I'm living in probably the wealthiest household I'll live in for the rest of my life."  [She's a linguistics/languages person, looking at grad school and career paths that would eventually put her in management with a multinational/NGO]

    To which I answered "you're probably right.  But there's a WHOLE lot between this household and "oh crap, how am I going to pay the bills" where you can be plenty happy with your life."  There are some careers that put you way too close to the "oh crap how am I going to pay the bills," but there are plenty where you do just fine.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    The way hiring is done / handled, I wouldn’t trust hr screening to identify eu colleges 

    A very good and fair point.  For ANY uni, know what it can feed you into.  A plant in Texas isn't likely to hire an engineering grad from the University of Strathclyde.  That degree isn't going to get you many jobs in the southern US, period.

    But if you're looking at working with multinationals or even just some larger enterprises or NGOs, particularly on the US east coast (or in Europe), they're great degrees.  Also very good for getting into certain grad schools, if grad school is on your mind.

    But yes, if your goal is to just be in bidness in Texas (which is a great path -- shit, it's MY path), then no, a foreign uni is probably not what you're looking for.

  9. 5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    This is a thrilling debate but if I could just jump in and make the quick point that 99% of kids (or their parents) in America aren't going to want to fly across the Atlantic to go to school. 

    It works out for some but I don't think it's going to be high on the list for typical American 18 year olds - especially if their parents can't afford flights back and forth. 

    A very, very fair point.  Clearly, it adds to the cost (even if all you pay for is 1-2 RT flights for the kiddo a year).  Just want to put it out there as something to think about (I mean, it never even OCCURRED to my wife or me when we were college-aged).  It's a path to -- in some cases -- a higher-quality education (especially if your kid is one of those looking to leave Texas) at a lower cost than many privates (and comparable or lower than many out-of-state publics). 

    For example, the boy's final choices were down to University of Denver and University of Glasgow (he wants to focus on international relations, so that's how they figured in).  He had nice scholarships to U of Denver, and his choice to go to Glasgow STILL saved us approx $20k per year over Denver.  If your kiddo is looking to leave Texas, and their options are an American private school, an American state school with out-of-state tuition, or a school in Canada or the UK....there's a good chance that one of the foreign schools will be the better financial choice.  No guarantee, but quite possible.

    And @The Dog, good find on that list.  Most anything in that band of 40%-70% acceptance rate in the UK is going to be a plenty good uni (oddly enough, the boy got shot down by Queen Mary in London, which has a HIGHER acceptance rate, but Glasgow was quick to admit him).

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  10. To go back to the topic, there are some breakfast foods that go in the Breakfast Hall of Fame:

    Yes, the breakfast taco.  In most all of its incarnations.

    Biscuits and gravy.

    Perfectly cooked bacon -- crispy, but not crumbly.

    Hash browns: both the shredded kind cooked in a skillet, and the awesome preformed patties of fast-food fame.

    Grits.  Just....grits.

    Fluffy pancakes.

    Belgian waffles.

    Black pudding (yeah, I went UK on you, so what?  And I know not everyone likes it...but those who like it love it).

    Boudin balls from a coonass gas station (yep, I went coonass on you, too).

    Eggs, cooked to order.  That means sunny-side-up, over-medium, poached, fluffy scrambled, even an omelette -- however you want them, EXECUTE, and make them well.

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  11. 5 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Someone graduating with a CS or engineering degree from UTD is going to get hired faster than a grad from any of those schools you listed. Also, quit calling them directional satellites. They are neither directional nor satellites. They are standalone universities that are part of the UT system. If the state invested more in those schools we could combat the brain drain of smart kids going to middling SEC schools.

    And this.

    UC San Diego is a kickass school, period.  Is it a "satellite?"  By the definition used here, sure...but it's an excellent degree, stand-alone.  The UT system should aspire to be close to that level.

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  12. 4 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    We have VERY different expectations of this thread. They may not be AS hard to get into as UT but these are extremely selective options and simply not realistic for most of us on this thread unless your kids are making straight As and at least half of them are AP courses. 

    I PROMISE you that my son didn't have straight A's to get into Glasgow.  And Manchester is similar, from what I understand.  There's also Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds....quite a few that aren't as competitive as the Oxfords and Edinburghs.  I know that the "higher-end" UK unis are intimidating, but there's a tier below them that is much more attainable, especially because they are trying to attract foreign tuition dollars.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    i challenge you to pay attention to this more.  it's particularly easy to see in commercials. find a 30 second spot with a husband and a wife:  who has the good head on shoulders and who is getting in the way?  your 10-1 ratio will get flipped on its head.

    I dunno.  I don't watch that many commercials.  When it comes to live TV, I mostly watch sports, so according to those viewing habits, the #1 issue in the US is having a bent dick.

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  14. 3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    You know those schools are every bit as hard to get into as Texas, right? 

    Not true.  My daughter was our academic star....and she wasn't top 6%.  Our son is a good student, really smart kid, bit of a late bloomer.  No WAY he gets into UT.  

    Yes, some of the top foreign schools (Edinburgh, Oxford, McGill) are really competitive and hard to get into (some harder than UT, some still hard but not as difficult).  But there's a lot of other great schools in the UK that aren't as hard to get into as UT (Manchester, Glasgow - and quite a few others, those are just the two I know something about).

  15. 6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Ask Cali. Yeah they’re all great schools, and none of them hold the weight of their flagship. 

    Huh?

    Not that I treat USNWR rankings as the infallible bible, but.....

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    UC Berkeley and UCLA tied for the best public university in the country, with six University of California undergraduate campuses among the top 20 and all nine in the top 40, according to the new 2023-24 Best Colleges rankings, published today (Sept. 18) by U.S. News & World Report.

    When your SIXTH in-state public university still makes the national top-20....you don't just have a good system, it's outstanding.  And your top 2 occupy the top 2 spots nationally?  Again, when it comes to public universities, there's California, then there's everywhere else.

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  16. 1 minute ago, HouTex said:

    Excellent point.  I think it's hard to prove either way, but the co-morbidity issue suggests, at least to me, that the Covid death numbers are over-reported.  

    I'm sure there's some measure of overreporting...but don't take that to contradict the truth that COVID, and COVID alone, produced a stack of bodies.  Again, I was working in real-time with institutions that had to figure out additional storage for dead bodies and additional beds for treatment on the fly during the first phase of COVID.  That wasn't just a coincidence.  There were a shitload of people hospitalized and dead who wouldn't have been that way but for COVID.

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  17. 1 minute ago, Grimas said:

    Both also have EU passports so applying several business schools in Europe as well - all with English only programs.

    There are a lot of good options.  My kids both looked at places in the Netherlands and Denmark (and have some EU schools on the radar for grad school).

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  18. 23 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    The fucking idiot Brits and Brexit wrecked this for our kids.  They have UK citizenship through their grandmother, but the EU has now gone out with the bathwater. 

    Don't sleep on schools in the UK.  Bozo's daughter goes to Edinburgh (and my daughter almost did), and my son goes to U of Glasgow.  We have friends at University College London, and my daughter has looked at a grad program in Manchester.  Getting UK tuition would be a sweet deal.  It's still cheaper than private universities in the US, and not MUCH more than many publics in the US, but in-UK is a steal.

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  19. 1 minute ago, Don Johnson said:

    Don't disagree with any of that.  I guess you are saying your son is making his choice not to get the latest shot based on what he DOES know, not based on what he DOESN'T know?

    My kids are in the same boat (minus point #1).  All young males.  Obviously they don't have the choice, so that falls on me.  At the end of the day, IMO, for them (and your son?) it really comes down to "at this particular time, why do we really need this?"

    To answer your first question, a little of both.  The holes in our knowledge about most anything reveal their own information.

    But for him, yeah, at this particular time, based on the collection of factors at play....at this particular time, does he really need it (that is, are the risks low enough for either alternative so that "do nothing" makes sense)?

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