November 28, 20241 yr Has always been such a cool and great story... https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/grandma-who-accidentally-invited-teen-to-thanksgiving-celebrates-8th-year-of-friendship-225643589815
November 28, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Underdog said: Has always been such a cool and great story... https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/grandma-who-accidentally-invited-teen-to-thanksgiving-celebrates-8th-year-of-friendship-225643589815 Certainly beats the alternative of a grandpa becoming friends with a teenage girl he accidentally texted.
November 28, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, aggie08 said: Certainly beats the alternative of a grandpa becoming friends with a teenage girl he accidentally texted. Go on…
December 4, 20241 yr Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later. Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail. CHIEF
December 5, 20241 yr 6 minutes ago, CHIEF said: Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later. Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail. CHIEF Um yeah that was me and on the gift card that’s Eddie V’s with a “V”.
December 5, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said: Um yeah that was me and on the gift card that’s Eddie V’s with a “V”. $25 might get you an appetizer. CHIEF
December 5, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, CHIEF said: $25 might get you an appetizer. CHIEF It'll get you a half dozen blue point oysters, and that's good enough for me.
December 5, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: It'll get you a half dozen blue point oysters, and that's good enough for me. That is what I would order as well. I gave the "Green Hornet" to a buddy. The tilt and trim no longer works, and all of the hinges are rusted, its faded as shit. We had some good times on that boat. If we took it back to POC and dropped it into the salt, I am 100% sure it would disintegrate right before our eyes. Nothing funnier than when we made Justin drive back from the Big Jetties. because we had families with young children, like he was expendable. CHIEF
December 16, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, Parliament said: My mom fwd:fwd:fwd'd me that literally 25 years ago. My mom was on the right wing fwd:fwd. After taking the time to research and debunk every single email for a month, I just deleted the ones that arrived afterward. Had no effect on her. It was posted on Bluesky today, and I had never seen it. I am impressed by you. Edited December 16, 20241 yr by Willfully Horn
December 16, 20241 yr Popular Post I may have the best group of students (120+) I have ever taught (this is year 25 for me). The worst I can say is that they can be a little squirrelly, but they're 6th graders, what are they supposed to do about it? Anyways, you hear a lot about kids these days, and how awful they are, but I'm here to tell you the kids are alright.
December 17, 20241 yr Under the premise that discovery is a good thing, TIL science has discovered how to split electrons into fractions of an electron. https://scitechdaily.com/a-physics-discovery-so-strange-its-changing-quantum-theory/
December 26, 2024Dec 26 On 11/30/2024 at 7:31 AM, Underdog said: This is a few years old but first I saw of it... Posting Canadians doing nice things seems almost like cheating.
December 26, 2024Dec 26 Popular Post On 12/15/2024 at 10:29 PM, tchookem said: I may have the best group of students (120+) I have ever taught (this is year 25 for me). The worst I can say is that they can be a little squirrelly, but they're 6th graders, what are they supposed to do about it? Anyways, you hear a lot about kids these days, and how awful they are, but I'm here to tell you the kids are alright. I chaperoned a middle school trip to Disneyland earlier this fall. I was responsible for a group of 10 boys for three days at the parks. When multiple Disney employees ask you if you're doing okay, or shake their head with pity, or mention how they've never seen that many kids with just one adult, you know you're probably doing something that shouldn't be done as they see it all. I was scared to death going in that it would be a nightmare. To the contrary, I was blown away by how kind and supportive these kids were. For all the talk about how kids are being raised soft and with no work ethic, etc. they're also being raised to treat each other with respect and kindness and are much more fully functional and high quality human beings than any middle school kid, myself included, that I can recall from the past. I truly came away from that trip with more hope for the future than I've ever had.
December 27, 2024Dec 27 Under the premise that discovery is a good thing, TIL science has discovered how to split electrons into fractions of an electron. https://scitechdaily.com/a-physics-discovery-so-strange-its-changing-quantum-theory/Setting up nicely for Pablo and Allan (UT Austin) to win the Nobel in 2025. They were predicted to win in 2024 for the magic-angle in twisted graphene but AI decided it didn’t want to wait to take over.
January 12Jan 12 Link to Stephen Pastis’ post, titled: “Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.” Since I love Watterson’s art, I enjoyed the read. And the comics attached brought a couple of good laughs. https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/ Here’s Pastis’ strip which opened the door. Edited January 12Jan 12 by Willfully Horn
January 12Jan 12 1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said: Link to Stephen Pastis’ post, titled: “Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.” Since I love Watterson’s art, I enjoyed the read. And the comics attached brought a couple of good laughs. https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/ Here’s Pastis’ strip which opened the door. This made my day. I would get our local newspaper if it had comics in it. But nope.
January 12Jan 12 Huge fan of Calvin & Hobbes. In fact, I have one of the books by my shitter. I'm curious how @Willfully Horn came across a 10 year old blog and has Watterson done anything since?
January 12Jan 12 Popular Post I met a kind lady at the SEC Championship. We were seated together, as we'd both gotten our tickets through the Longhorn Foundation. We got to chatting, and exchanged contact info. I always take button with my father's face (my dad passed away in 2023) to games to continue our "tradition" of going to/watching games together. She noticed, and we talked about him. I attended the Peach Bowl, and was pleased we were once again seated together. I had to coach her through the game (lol), and explain our path to victory against Arizona State. She took the photos of me sobbing after. 😂 Neither of us got tickets through LHF for the Cotton Bowl, but were obviously going to find a way to attend anyway. She asked if i had any pictures of Daddy and me....I didn't think anything of it. She asked where I was sitting. And brought me this. The day before his birthday. So he could see better. 🥹 It was so nice for a moment to not have to be the "strong and resilient" one who takes care of every one else and just be the girl who misses her Daddy. To receive comfort without expectation of something in return. There IS still kindness in the world. There ARE still good people out there. And I'm so grateful to her for this beautiful gesture. 💙🤘🏾
January 12Jan 12 36 minutes ago, Nuge said: Huge fan of Calvin & Hobbes. In fact, I have one of the books by my shitter. I'm curious how @Willfully Horn came across a 10 year old blog and has Watterson done anything since? It came up on Bluesky, and I hadn’t seen it. And, I don’t know. Edited January 12Jan 12 by Willfully Horn
January 18Jan 18 Popular Post My niece's son's second birthday is tomorrow. We have a Dollar General right outside our front gate, Mrs. CHIEF decided to go there to get wrapping paper, some dishwasher pods, and a few other odds and ends that weren't worth driving all the way into town for. Saw a young guy drive up in a worn out ol' Chevy. He got out and stood at the front of his truck for a minute. Eventually, he came over to my window. I rolled the window down, and he told me, "sir, I am in a pickle. I've been framing houses and don't get paid until Friday. The weather is going to be bad, and I need to get home to Alvarado to wrap pipes and make sure my family is ready for the cold weather. I have a new ladder I paid $100 for (it was still in the box and he had the receipt) I will sell it to you for $60." If there is anything I am an expert on Surly about (other thread) it is being a sucker. I gave him $60, and told him to keep the ladder. I guess I consider myself embarrassingly gullible. I don't know if I have "Sucker" tattooed in invisible ink across my forehead, but it always seems as though I am the person that people, in need, approach. CHIEF
January 18Jan 18 1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said: I would have done what you did, or give him $100 for the ladder. Or chisel him down to $55. Edited January 18Jan 18 by Parliament
January 18Jan 18 20 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said: The obvious answer was a gift card to the Dollar Store I’m sure he needed the cash for gas. I hardly carry cash, usually just use my debit card. I had $30 that has probably been in my wallet for six months, I gave that, and husseled the wife for another &40, that was all the cash she was carrying. We were in CHIEF Jr.’s truck, we had to go pick up some tables and chairs for the birthday party. Mrs. CHIEF brought up that we should have checked the console, he always has cash in there. Sure enough, she opened it up and there was $200 sitting right there. I would have given him that as well if I would have thought to check it. I don’t mind at all helping a guy that works a sixty hour week to try and take care of his family. CHIEF
January 19Jan 19 Your math isn’t adding up. First you said that you gave him $60, then you said that you gave him $70.
January 19Jan 19 3 hours ago, Kennythetiger said: Your math isn’t adding up. First you said that you gave him $60, then you said that you gave him $70. He kept 10 for himself. Don't we all stash a bit of cash from our wives?
January 19Jan 19 7 hours ago, InkaUtexas said: He kept 10 for himself. Don't we all stash a bit of cash from our wives? I really enjoy cooking. I also have a couple of knives and a few pans that she knows nothing about.
January 19Jan 19 1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said: I really enjoy cooking. I also have a couple of knives and a few pans that she knows nothing about. I have 1 hidden in plain site and some spices. I move the saffron around like Incan gold.
January 19Jan 19 Something good to come out of LSU: BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution. https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2025/01/3_low_cost_plastic_recycling.php
January 19Jan 19 On 1/12/2025 at 10:23 AM, InkaUtexas said: This made my day. I would get our local newspaper if it had comics in it. But nope. That's a subject for an entire thread. I'd say it's about as likely as a buggy whip revival, but I suspect somebody is making money right now selling buggy whips.
January 19Jan 19 Something good to come out of LSU: BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution. https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2025/01/3_low_cost_plastic_recycling.phpIt’s LSU. I presume the methodology is “first, you make a roux…then, ya eat it.”
January 19Jan 19 15 hours ago, Kennythetiger said: Your math isn’t adding up. First you said that you gave him $60, then you said that you gave him $70. I didn’t count it. Was told later she handed me $40. Probably to make her feel superior to my $30. You know how women are. CHIEF
January 19Jan 19 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said: It’s LSU. I presume the methodology is “first, you make a roux…then, ya eat it.” So poop into plastic? Interesting.
January 19Jan 19 29 minutes ago, CHIEF said: I didn’t count it. Was told later she handed me $40. Probably to make her feel superior to my $30. You know how women are. CHIEF So you kept 10 for yourself. No one here is judging. Hell, we would all do the same.
January 23Jan 23 Pretty cool of Bills Mafia... https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bills-fans-donate-to-diabetes-cause-to-support-ravens-mark-andrews-after-2-point-drop/ar-AA1xGKJ0?ocid=BingNewsSerp
January 24Jan 24 Popular Post Wife got a phone call out of the blue last night from a friend of my wife's, but she wanted to talk to me. Wife put her on speaker. She just wanted to update me on something I'd helped only a tiny bit with some months ago. Dear friends of theirs had hit a wall on their immigration status, and they needed a go-getter immigration attorney. As I am the attorney our friend knows, she called and asked if I knew of any names. I do, a trusted old friend. And I told her what I often say -- if he's not the guy for this particular case, he'll know who is, and will send your friends in the right direction. And that's what he did. It wasn't the sort of thing he handles, but he sent them to the guy who IS that guy. And as things turned out, the whole family got their green cards issued. On January 17th, the Friday before the inauguration. So, an entire family of good people, hard working and raising their kids, is safe and secure here in the US now. Due to some good work by a guy who is just a friend of my friend - all I did was make the initial connection. But shit, these days, I'll take anything I do having even the smallest connection with a really good result. Our friend was so happy and excited for her friends, and wanted to call and thank us because it means that much to her. So, pretty cool.
January 24Jan 24 On 1/17/2025 at 9:38 PM, CHIEF said: My niece's son's second birthday is tomorrow. We have a Dollar General right outside our front gate, Mrs. CHIEF decided to go there to get wrapping paper, some dishwasher pods, and a few other odds and ends that weren't worth driving all the way into town for. Saw a young guy drive up in a worn out ol' Chevy. He got out and stood at the front of his truck for a minute. Eventually, he came over to my window. I rolled the window down, and he told me, "sir, I am in a pickle. I've been framing houses and don't get paid until Friday. The weather is going to be bad, and I need to get home to Alvarado to wrap pipes and make sure my family is ready for the cold weather. I have a new ladder I paid $100 for (it was still in the box and he had the receipt) I will sell it to you for $60." If there is anything I am an expert on Surly about (other thread) it is being a sucker. I gave him $60, and told him to keep the ladder. I guess I consider myself embarrassingly gullible. I don't know if I have "Sucker" tattooed in invisible ink across my forehead, but it always seems as though I am the person that people, in need, approach. CHIEF This kinda where I am. If I help 10 people and it turns out 3 were scams, I still helped 7 people. And $60 bucks isn't going to hurt me much
February 4Feb 4 Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group. The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized. In June 2023, the church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys after the organization’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and several of his subordinates attacked it in a night of violence after a pro-Trump rally in December 2020. The ruling by the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath. In a lengthy statement, Mr. Tarrio said the church should have its nonprofit status revoked and Judge Bosier should be impeached. “Their actions are a betrayal of justice,” he wrote, adding, “I hold in contempt any motions, judgments and orders issued against me.” The initial judgment against the Proud Boys determined that Mr. Tarrio and other members of the group had climbed over a fence surrounding the church, which is just blocks from the White House, and burned a Black Lives Matter banner it was flying. The episode took place after a violent clash between supporters and critics of President Trump. The church called the Proud Boys’ actions “acts of terror” in its lawsuit and said they had been meant “to intimidate the church and silence its support for racial justice.” A judge agreed, calling the Proud Boys’ conduct “hateful and overtly racist.” When the Proud Boys failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing” any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols. The ruling was handed down as the Proud Boys were riding high after Mr. Trump, in one of his first official acts in his return to the White House, included Mr. Tarrio and several of his lieutenants in his sweeping act of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term on charges of seditious conspiracy, received a full and unconditional pardon from Mr. Trump. His four co-defendants had their own prison terms commuted to time served. The banner-burning episode had a dramatic effect on the events of Jan. 6. It led to Mr. Tarrio’s arrest on vandalism charges as he returned to Washington on Jan. 4, 2021. As part of the case brought against him, he was kicked out of the city and was in Baltimore when his subordinates took part in the storming of the Capitol. On the night the banner was burned, another Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino, was stabbed on the street during a clash with leftist counterprotesters. One lingering effect of that episode was that it turned the Proud Boys against the police after years of having troublingly close relationships with officers across the country. Another was that Mr. Bertino eventually became a government witness and testified against his compatriots at the trial of Mr. Tarrio and his co-defendants.
February 9Feb 9 Going off planet allows me some joy. ”Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years across and contains a mind-boggling 200 quadrillion solar masses. The newfound structure is dubbed Quipu after an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cords. Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments. It spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years (more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way), potentially making it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, beating out previous record-holders such as the Laniākea supercluster. https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/astronomers-discover-quipu-the-single-largest-structure-in-the-known-universe
February 9Feb 9 4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said: Going off planet allows me some joy. ”Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years across and contains a mind-boggling 200 quadrillion solar masses. The newfound structure is dubbed Quipu after an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cords. Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments. It spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years (more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way), potentially making it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, beating out previous record-holders such as the Laniākea supercluster. https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/astronomers-discover-quipu-the-single-largest-structure-in-the-known-universe I approve the naming.
February 10Feb 10 On 11/1/2024 at 4:52 PM, InkaUtexas said: Yeah, we had a real fun time. Our street gets packed. Handed out about 1000 pieces of candy. Wife did the whole front as a cemetery. Friends came over and everyone carved a pumpkin. My job was sneak around and scare the elementary aged kids. Not bad, just enough to spook them. Scared a little and felt like shit. Took off my mask (I as a parrot) and she laughed came up and gave me a hug. Made my week. I love Halloween. Many years ago when my first born was a toddler, I took him out for his first Halloween. At one house, the mom bent down and asked if him he wanted a kiss (a Hershey's kiss). He stepped up, puckered his lips, and leaned forwards for a ... kiss. During Covid, for Halloween I set up a table by the mailbox with little groups of candy, a pencil, and a dime for each of the trick or treaters. One group came by, and a little girl looked up at me and said, "I love you." Buckled my knees. Her mother was shocked. I also love Halloween. Edited February 10Feb 10 by PTINS typo
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