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hookem2010

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  1. I jumped ship from medicine and am working in parks now, with an ultimate goal of natural resources management. Do you think you will ever do the Pacific Crest Hike you were planning for 2020(?), or is that out of the cards now? Here's another fun link, since I'm such a ray of sunshine today. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1032822337/every-national-forest-in-california-is-closing-because-of-wildfire-risk?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social
  2. It's going to be great when the entire American west is desert and savanna.
  3. This is a fun thread.
  4. Haven't seen the film, but just went to the show at Universal Hollywood and it was really cool.
  5. Between hurricanes, the city sinking and climate change (all obviously linked), I seriously wonder if NOLA is going to be on the map a few decades from now.
  6. Did Swam kill MNLonghorn and assume his username or something? The time-line makes sense...
  7. I believe they're dropping a 900+ death total today. Not sure what's up with their reporting now.
  8. Not comparing abilities, but where did DKR go to school again?
  9. Have my strongly worded email typed up. Can't think of a worse trio to dictate any UT agenda than a couple billionaire pricks and fucking Dat Patrick.
  10. Somebody mentioned the weird Florida death numbers over the weekend, but they are continuing to be reported in the single digits daily, despite averaging over 15k cases a day. Something is up there, or they're just going to drop 800 deaths once a week and hope everyone pays attention to the other 6 days.
  11. Definitely nothing wrong with one of the few swing votes in the Senate having a vested interest in not decreasing fossil fuel consumption. JFC... https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3x8bw/joe-manchin-senator-millions-coal-grant-town-west-virginia?__twitter_impression=true
  12. Perseid meteor shower is supposed to ramp up the next three days. Any recs for places near Austin to go to avoid light pollution as best as possible? I inherited a telescope I would like to try out as well.
  13. Kushner went to prestigious schools, as did George W. Bush. Nobody is wrongly accusing them of being smart.
  14. Anybody ever play the phone/tablet game, Plague? Difficulty settings were based on how hard it was to wipe out all humans. We started this pandemic on medium, but whoever is in charge of the simulation must have cranked it down to easy sometime around Thanksgiving. Pretty sure we are on kid-mode now.
  15. We suck...
  16. 2006 vs Ohio State. I kept forgetting about how to pick up tickets as a student so I bought one off a scalper for $100 at halftime. I believe I made every home game during the Colt years after that, except for the Thanksgiving game that year. As I mentioned in a different thread, I left Austin after graduating in 2010, but I'm back now and I'm bringing the 10-win season floor with me.
  17. Not at your level, but I worked in ortho in Cypress, which is very much gymnast territory. They beat the shit out of their bodies even when they're not getting "injured". The stress lines on their tibias were insane. And we didn't treat any personally, but I heard of some horrific, life-altering injuries.
  18. Wife works in anesthesia and they are going up to p100's now.
  19. NBC ignored that Tunisian dude til the last 5 meters. I was confused why they weren't commenting on him as he led the last half of the race.
  20. Hmmm, what carries more weight? Spock talking about snow half a century ago or what is actually currently happening? https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/weather/extreme-heat-salmon-sacramento-river/index.html
  21. Particularly excited to get the opportunity to watch it all unfold! I'm at the point where I feel the need to make any nature-centric vacation plans in the next 5 years.
  22. NBD, just a billion sea creatures in BC killed by the heat wave and the amazon now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs... https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014564664/billion-sea-creatures-mussels-dead-canada-british-columbia-vancouver?utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazon-rainforest-now-appears-to-be-contributing-to-climate-change
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