Everything posted by pantone159
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African Safari
I enjoyed the Selous reserve. The Selous river runs through there, and you get to take a boat along the river, and get a different view of the wildlife. I especially wanted to see crocodiles, and I was not there at the right time for the Serengeti, and the Selous did not disappoint. Also lots of hippos, giraffes, very colorful bee eater birds there. I flew in on a 12-seat or so plane to a tiny dirt airstrip, and was then picked up in a small boat for the ride to the lodge. I thought it was a really cool way to arrive.
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Game Atmosphere 2019
I was amused by the down and distance displays on the scoreboard. They had those messed up every way possible. Wrong down, wrong distance, wrong field position. They showed 2nd and 64 to go from the 40 once. I was less amused when they had different timeout counts on different scoreboards at the end of the game. Could some idiot have thought we still had a timeout left from some bad scoreboard display???
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What's going on with this DNI Whistleblower ?
Yep. And I remember 538 making the very clear point, that even though Hillary seemed to have the edge, it was close enough to go either way. The election day results were a bitter disappointment but not a shock.
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Austin Homeless Free for All Ordinance
Comment from the twitter feed from a supposed witness to this: From what I saw the driver entered the intersection a little late and the ped was crossing prematurely. I heard the ped yell something, driver later claimed the ped hit his car. The driver aggressively reversed and pulled over to confront the ped, which is why his car is on the sidewalk like that. Got out and maybe jumped in the air and kicked the ped. They went to the ground, by the time I pulled over and got off my motorcycle the fight was over and the ped picked up the scooter and threw it through the window and ran off I think I am putting most of the blame for this on the got-damned scooters...
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Android Auto
My experience is that Android Auto is a complete pile of garbage, to the extent that I needed to uninstall it from my phone. The main thing that I wanted, was to be able to use Google Maps and show the map on my car console. Sometimes this worked ok, and this was really nice. But other times, there was some kind of glitch that caused Google Maps to crash and reset over and over and over to the point that it was worse than completely useless. I never understood why it worked ok sometimes and not other times. So I quit using Android Auto, and then I had to uninstall it to get Google Maps back to giving me voice directions. Besides that, I did not like how it handled incoming calls and texts, I thought it was hazardous. When I get a phone call in the car, I normally want to ignore it completely, other than to notice that I may want to check who called. I can do that fine with the phone in my pocket. AA made the incoming call a lot more intrusive and hard to ignore. AA also made it impossible to read incoming texts. I definitely do not want to send any texts while driving, but I can sometimes spare a couple of seconds to read one. AA made it impossible to read the texts. I think I tried for a while using the car console touchscreen to find the text messages, but AA is so slow and balky that this was slow and distracting. I definitely thought it was much safer to drive without Android Auto than with it.
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Donald Trump 2019
Yeah, any optimism is 100.00000000000000000% misplaced. I see that CNN mentions that Mitch has a new Facebook ad where he is fundraising from the position that he can stop the impeachment. Absolutely nothing, meaning **NOTHING** will happen in the Senate. Trump will get away with ALL of this absolutely completely. Sorry.
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Donald Trump 2019
A more meaningful map of the 2016 election...
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What's going on with this DNI Whistleblower ?
Yes, no matter what the investigation comes up with, the Senate will do nothing and there will be no impeachment trial. The end.
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Texas AD Chris Del Conte
Except they have a current winning streak at DKR, which we need to correct. (We beat them the last time we played, of course, but that was in CS. They won the last game at DKR.)
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Active shooter thread
Yeah, the guy being robbed would have been complaining about how much it sucks to have been robbed at gunpoint. That sucks. Now he doesn't have to complain about anything!!!
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Donald Trump 2019
I don't see any point in doxxing the spy either, but I would be very very surprised if the Russians were not 100% aware of who this was. Somebody that close to Putin, who 'disappears', along with his family, would have been noticed, and the Russians would become aware that he was a spy if they did not already have a hunch.
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Stupid Question: Will this be Texas’ hottest game ever?
The sun is the main problem, so with a 6:30 kickoff it will be just fine this Saturday, at least once in the stands (and hopefully shade). I guess the formal temperature will be about as high as ever, but it won't be 1/10th as bad as lots of early season 11am, 2:30pm kickoffs, most of the opponents I cannot remember except Rout 66. LSU will be cool and comfy compared to those. We should never play anything but night games until at least halfway into the season. Getting into the gate is going to suck this weekend though, it was hot, not shaded, crowded, and slow, and all those will be worse next Saturday.
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Donald Trump 2019
That map (besides the sharpie addition) does look out of date. If this is from today, then DJT also showed a completely out date map for the storm.
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Donald Trump 2019
That is one of his sure-fire tells that he is lying, when he mentions somebody calling him 'sir'.
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Vaping Sickness "epidemic"
This seems likely. Somebody is making uh, 'off-label', THC vape cartridges, and some bad contaminants get in, possibly bad solvents.
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Donald Trump 2019
Yes, as much as Trump deserves removal from office, as long as the Senate has its current composition, there is absolutely no point in impeachment. And to any extent it could be painted as politically motivated, it would be counter-productive. Mitch out front of Moscow should have told you.
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Running / Triathlon Thread
Awesome hrmaddie, nice way to get a 14er summit. Good that you did not let the Golden Stairs stop you!
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Running Alt-Right Thread of Mockery and Hypocrisy
I think that is the guy who first started it, but it is now run by somebody else, and the guy in the photo a) has nothing to do with 8chan anymore, and b) has publicly called for it to be shut down.
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crazy mofos running the "Badwater Ultra"
And if that is not quite hard-core enough, you can continue from Whitney Portal and hike up to the highest point in the lower 48 states, all in one go. That part won't be so hot.
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Three hundred thousand idiots wanna take over Area 51
I think it is just carbonyl waste from stealth aircraft paints. Should be good for these guys.
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Snake? Check. Uranium? Check. Kentucky Deluxe? Check.
No charges for either the rattlesnake or the uranium, happily.
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Shit's Borked
What do you mean, 'Back to'???
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Great American Coin Hunt? April 21-27
I like the shillings. Those are some of the coins with the highest purity silver (92.5%, 'Sterling') minted anywhere. (Except the last one, Great Britain dropped the silver content in 1920.)
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Great American Coin Hunt? April 21-27
VF is probably a fair grade for those gold coins that futureman has. The $1 maybe is a lesser grade as the word 'Dollars' on the back looks worn. But otherwise they all look nice, so they ought to have collector value more than gold value. Whether a buyer offers more, who knows. I like them! I like the Republic of Texas note a lot too! I have been more interested in paper than coins. The little picture at the left ('vignette') is of Burnet escaping the Mexican army at Galveston Bay. The note was not actually signed by Sam Houston himself. It was signed by a secretary on his behalf, he had better things to worry about than signing all of the nations money by hand. It is not fake, it is his official signature, but it was signed by another person. I have another note of that type, mine is signed 'Mirabeau B Lamar', I do not know who actually signed it though.
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Breaking news - Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on fire
It could be (probably is) a very zoomed in image from far away. The relative height of each building in the image would be proportional to its height. With Notre Dame spire at 300 ft, the Eiffel at 1000 ft, about 3x as tall, and the Eiffel looks about 3x as tall in that pic.