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CooterBrown

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  1. I haven’t flown through DIA in a few months but there was a rumor they were adding those new scanners you just walk through without removing anything from your pockets like at Q2 stadium. Has that happened? That will make any line move very quickly. This summer the Pre Check line was probably 200 deep and it was just 5 minutes. They’re pretty efficient there.
  2. A few times a week, I’d hit up whatever John Mueller joint was in business at the time and get a half pound of moist brisket and a link for $10-12. Hell, you could do the same at Franklin in the early trailer days and not break $10.
  3. Seriously, is he still around? I guess it goes to show how good a job PK is doing right now.
  4. Kansas gonna take the lead into the half because we can’t have nice things and apparently don’t want them either.
  5. Wilco at Moody Amphitheater. Good I hate that fucking venue. You can’t have a dual purpose amphitheater and park lawn. All you end up with is shitty viewing angles. The sound is also atrocious. Beer stands are in the most inconvenient locations. Band was solid at least. Tweedy was high AF.
  6. You should be no older than 65 at election. Oldest senator would be 71 at retirement. That’s fine.
  7. Weird. Their website doesn't mention Texas. Oh well, it's here and it's glorious.
  8. Do you have kids in the district, do you live in the district, do you work for the district. That'll work.
  9. The first statement that should be required by every speaker at a school board meeting is whether or not they have kids attending the school district.
  10. Capital One is opening a new lounge at DIA shortly. The Venture X will get you in for sure. Dunno about other card levels.
  11. Central Market has Trillium in stock. Dunno how they got it since they don’t distribute anywhere near Texas. Picked up a 4-pack of The Common IPA…for $29. Figured it was cheaper than flying to Massachusetts.
  12. An unfortunate trend at McCallum is that a dozen or more kids transfer from LASA for just their senior year to game the class rank and get a UT auto qualifier. It sucks for the kids that put in their four years at the school.
  13. You don't need a counselor for that. It's required by the feds to be published annually on each college's website. Search for the "Common Data Set". It gives you all the data on what is given out for both needs based and non-need based merit aid. Being OCD about the research, I made a spreadsheet of what I think the relevant data is from the CDS. Below is an example for the School of Mines. Yield is the percent of students offered enrollment who actually attend. The golden goal is 30%. Look for schools with a low yield, they are more likely to buy students with aid. Testing is just the high school academic profile of incoming freshmen. Needs Based Aid is for low income students. Non-Need Based Aid is merit aid. The section on where to find this data in the CDS is in the heading of each column. Colorado School of Mines C1 - Yield C9 - Testing C11 - GPA H2 - Need Based Financial Aid H2A - Non-Need Based Financial Aid Admits Enrolled Yield SAT Composite SAT Reading SAT Math ACT Composite ACT Math ACT English Average GPA Men 4,231 974 23.0% 25th Percentile 1320 650 660 29 28 27 3.84 E - Number of Students Awarded Any Needs Based Financial Aid 346 N - Number of Freshman Students 442 Women 2,607 474 18.2% 75th Percentile 1460 720 750 33 33 34 K - Average Amount of Needs Based Financial Aid $5,104 O - Average Amount of Scholarships & Grants $9,173 Total 6,838 1,448 21.2% 24% Percent of Freshmen 31%
  14. Sounds like he's already his own boss. GTFO of his way.
  15. Getting a single slice of brisket and a half sausage link on a $26 two-meat plate did it for me.
  16. My wife's uncle went to Clemson (CS degree) and spent his entire career working as a solutions architect for various telecommunications companies in the Research Triangle.
  17. She could GTFO of Texas and make over $100K teaching in year 9 in Massachusetts. 2023 -2024 Boston, Massachusetts Bachelor’s Teacher Salary Chart: Year’s Bachelor B+15 1 $63,806 $65,832 2 $71,021 $73,397 3 $74,990 $77,374 4 $78,972 $81,356 5 $82,941 $85,626 6 $87,593 $90,262 7 $92,893 $95,567 8 $98,256 $100,926 9 $102,913 $105,586 10 $102,913 $105,586
  18. The first English Taught Program I found on Google was a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the international tuition cost is €1,500 per semester.
  19. My kid stayed at Andrews for the Texas volleyball camp this summer and the entire floor was roach infested. Great impression for all those girls. I'd never been in that dorm and it looked like it last received a coat of paint in the 70s and had never been remodeled. The old vents in the room doors from the pre-AC days were just covered with a piece of plywood screwed into the door. Just shitty all around.
  20. We toured UNM a while back because my daughter loves New Mexico. I will say I was much more impressed with the school than I expected to be...which wasn't at all. At least the engineering department was very solid. Both Los Alamos & Sandia have hiring offices in the engineering department. The campus was absolutely gorgeous if you like southwestern architecture. The biggest draw back is Albuquerque is an absolute dump. For Texas high schoolers, if you have a 3.0 GPA, you get in-state tuition. As female in engineering, you'd get basically free tuition...IIRC, they covered all but maybe $2,000 of tuition.
  21. One thing I've learned from all the research I've done is that small population states are looking to buy students. They must offer a comprehensive university to prevent brain drain of their own residents but they do not have the high school population to support having a huge diverse selection of majors. The fix is to recruit out of state kids. Hope some stay behind and hope the opportunities keep in state kids into adulthood. University of Vermont basically told us that since my daughter was a female going into STEM, they'd give her enough scholarship to get to at least in state tuition. If you think about it, it costs them nothing. They'll still get 100% tuition but the idea you get a scholarship of that size as an out of state student is a huge incentive.
  22. My kid is top 9%. I'll make her apply to UT but she won't go there unless she happens to get into Cockrell but odds are non-existent with that class rank. Might as well go elsewhere and major in what you want. Actually, I doubt she'd go there even if she got into her major of choice. She doesn't like the campus at all. Having now visited multiple campuses in the past year in, I agree that the campus is pretty underwhelming in amenities and overall maintenance. It still feels stuck in the early 90s when I attended.
  23. There are none. Zoning in Crestview/Brentwood currently allow it but Allandale does not. This new rule would allow it. I'm sure all our NIMBYs will be up in arms but unless they want to foot a legal bill, they will have to bend over and take it. Our POA is optional and only $20 a year. There's no money there to fight anything. I know some people wanted to fight a new construction last year and they learned the POA can't enforce deed restrictions. It has to be an individual neighbor that files the suit and the POA told them it needs to be a neighbor in the same section in proximity to the property. Just being in the same neighbor tens blocks away isn't enough. They gave up when no one would commit money to the legal fund.
  24. I am hoping this causes a premium on my own lot when we sell and GTFO to Colorado. I have a decent size lot in Allandale...80x130, that's perfectly flat and only has a single small Monterrey Oak in the front yard. It's easily buildable up to maximum allowances with no heritage trees to get in the way. Let the developers get in a bidding war!
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