JJ Husker

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Stayed at the hotel on the left. Had lunch one day in that little thatched roof hut on the left. One of the best things I've ever eaten- a seafood soup with prawns and scallops and all kinds of stuff but notably octopus- big purple colored chunks of leg with the tentacles still on it. It was excellent.

Niagara Falls (Canadian Side) Went to a little town outside of Toronto on business and made a day trip to the see the falls. It was mid January and the falls and all the walkways and railings were frozen over much like this picture. Anyway, looked around a bit, snapped a few pictures and then spent a few hours in the local casino trying to figure out how much I was really gambling with since it was Canadian money with about a .75 conversion factor.

Barquisimeto, Venezuela Mid 90's, before Hugo Chavez. I'm not sure I would go there now. Had to bribe their customs officials to get out of the country. Went there on business and some other guys (who we didn't know) on the flight down suggested we put a $10 or $20 bill in our passport whenever they asked for it. Not having any experience with such things, I figured that would likely cause us to get in trouble, bribing officials and such. So, when we're about to board our plane to leave, this customs guy in a military uniform asks to see our passports, goes into another room with them, waits about 5 minutes and returns and tells us our papers are not in order. This happens 2 or 3 times over about 20 to 30 minutes, all the while they have us situated in this little room with a window where we are watching the other passengers board our plane. We're starting to get nervous. So, the next time he asks for them, we each had put a $20 inside. He returns promptly this time and releases us to get on the plane.

So, do you boycott all Wendy's or just the one where you were illegally parked and trespassing? We were going to eat there. Why wouldn't I park there? Just messin' with ya knapp. I generally like Wendy's but that would piss me off too and I would avoid that specific location in the future. I avoided the local Arby's for about two or three years awhile back. Why you ask.... I got a coke there and as I was drinking it a piece of ice became stuck in the straw. I tried sucking harder and harder figuring it would melt a little and come on through. Well that didn't work so I tried blowing it back out but it had become lodged to tightly. So, I removed the lid, pulled the straw out, and discovered it wasn't a piece of ice at all but rather a small cockroach that I had sucked into the bottom of the straw head first. Needless to say I am now extremely leery of any straw blockage and really like the places where you fill your own drink cup.

Yep, SEARS sold their rights to Craftsman. There are several places that now carry Craftsman tools. That article said they had already or were going to sell their rights to Diehard and Kenmore also. No wonder these geniuses are going out of business. Sell off the only 3 reasons anyone would ever have of darkening your doorway. Science

So, do you boycott all Wendy's or just the one where you were illegally parked and trespassing?

The problem is you took your car to Sears for service work. The only thing I've found them good for is buying Craftsman tools, Diehard batteries, and the occasional appliance purchase. But I think Ace Hardware now carry Craftsman so....

I had an extended hiatus once. Most painful, yet enjoyable, three minutes of my life.

Just an update. The iPad is working out great. I've got a little learning curve on the Apple platform as it is just a bit different navigating around it but it has been excellent and fast for the few credit card transactions I've run through it so far. Takes just a few seconds from turning it on to acquiring the wifi and card reader and boom, youre done. Plus the money gets deposited in the bank the next morning. And there are lots of pretty cool apps out there. My daughter really oikes some of coloring/drawings apps. I've got all my iTunes songs on it now and it actually sounds pretty good with just the built in speakers. Can't believe you can get that much sound out of such a flat thing. The neatest thing I've found so far though is the camera on it. Takes incredible pictures and the "live" feature can be pretty fun. For those that don't know (I didn't), when you take a picture, it actually captures a split second of live movement right before it freezes the picture. As you scroll through the gallery of pics it can be pretty funny watching the movement for a split second before the picture locks in. And the battery seems to last forever. I can screw around on it forever, have left music playing for hours, and the battery will still be at 80%+ left. Only have to charge it once every few days.

Well, they got the 3 big questions basically right. But as TTRR eluded to, the OL is more important to the success of the running game than an "elite" RB is. We had good enough RB's this year but we sure didn't tear anyone a new one on the ground. If we did nothing else except reestablish a dominant running game behind some big uglies, I would be a happy man.

Ummm.....if the IRS finds out I lied about write offs, I would be in trouble. Here's what I mean. As a filmmaker, I can write off virtually any purchase, legally, as a work expense. New bookshelf? It was a prop for a video in my apartment. New laptop? Need it to edit. Nice outfit? It's wardrobe for a short film. So on and so forth. There's no way those things can ever be proven to truly be intended for work vs for myself, and it's not illegal. Is it ethical? Is that integrity? I lost track of the original question but, if you lie about those things, don't use them in your filmmaking, then that is unethical and illegal. But, if you use any of those things legitimately to make a film and could justify it in an audit, even if you use them way more often for personal reasons, then it is legal and I would say not unethical. When it comes to paying taxes, legal and ethical are the same thing. If you have to lie about it, then you cross the line on both counts. If we're talking college football, I would say it is much the same. Of course you're talking to a guy who may have just purchased an iPad for work to conduct Square credit card transactions. No way I'm using that thing personally for all the other things it can do....;-)

Sorry JJ. I like your posts...but this one is BS. I've thought about this some more. You guys were right to call BS on it. I apologize for being a douche.

My conclusion is that coaching mistakes (clock management) cost us fewer games this year, so in that aspect we improved. I think RedFive maxe a good point that the basic difference was that we did not lose some games this year that we never should have lost last year. I guess that sort of an improvement but not a very substantial one. It seems to me we improved towards the end of last year and through the easy part of our early schedule this year and then we declined. Not sure I can conclude that kind of decline is an improvement. But yeah, the W-L record was better and that's all some people look at.

There is some faulty reasoning going on there. 1- Osborne never had consistently highly ranked recruiting classes. It's a bit of a stretch to claim his teams all of a sudden got better because he started getting "elite" talent. 2- CFB was different back then with higher scholarship limits and prop 48 players. It's not like he went dirty to get over the hump. When he did get over the hump it was because of a philosophical defense change not because the players changed, unless you want to consider recruiting for speed equals elite. He realized we needed more speed to compete with the faster Florida schools. It's not like they sat down and said we need some genuine criminals to make this work. Unfortunately, some of that speed came from inner cities and some players that might not qualify today. They weren't doing anything differently than the rest of college football in that respect. 3- Because of the higher Scholly limits there was not as much parity as there is today, thus your admission that there were no Boise States on the scene. 4- His team's were consistently top ten even before the mid 90's run and before we had that rash of problem players. 5- His teams were noted for having walk-on players and home grown talent, especially on the offensive line. That was a result of the practice and development system they employed as well as the existence of freshman football and staff consistency. The narrative that they changed to elite players and somehow went dirty is pure bullsh#t. Yes there were some problem children and yes he did some questionable and debatable things as regards some of those players legal issues. But let's not act like what they were doing was not widely accepted and practiced across all of cfb at the time. Nebraska just had a better system to get desirable results at the time and they did it largely without what the experts would call elite talent. Of course we usually did have fairly elite talent at the IB position because those players wanted to play at Nebraska because of our style of play and our consistently good O lines. That didn't just pop up in the mid 90's when we started winning nattys.

Does anybody actually believe we are less successful than other teams because our integrity is higher? Seems like a narrative only the best fans in all of cfb could come up with. Through these gates...

Most of these have nothing to do with why the program is not at the level we all would like to see. Try- 96- Our starting talent lags behind the 2nd string level of top 15 programs. 97- We have no depth on the roster. 98- Our O line is terrible 99- Our D line is terrible 100- Our current offensive scheme won't work in the B1G conference. 101- We are slow and weak compared to top 15 programs. 102- Our defensive scheme isn't aggressive enough. 103- Injuries are now a yearly excuse used by NU fans but top 15 teams seem to overcome them. It's like other team's players never get hurt. See #97. There's more.....I don't want to hog 'em all for myself.

Been at acceptance for quite awhile but slip back to depression and anger every once in awhile. Acceptance (apathy) is getting the better of me though.

I find it difficult to determine if we really improved over last season. The typical measurables were all over the place. W-L record was better but we didn't beat any good teams. 9 wins is nothing to get excited about with this schedule. We were good in the fourth quarter and that signals a team that won't quit which is good but we also failed to start most games and absolutely did not show up at all for a few games and that is unacceptable always. Last season the team discord (chemistry problems) seemed to dissipate as the season wore on. This year it seemed those types of problems increased as we went. O line play did not improve. D line play, tackling and aggressiveness did not improve. We didn't seem to have any answers for our lack of depth anywhere and saw few if any signs of development of younger players. I think the biggest reason, maybe only reason, our record improved is because the coaches didn't totally screw the pooch with clock management issues like the did the previous year. That's an improvement I guess if you ignore the fact these guys have been coaching forever and that it should've never been a problem to start with. Overall the feeling I got is that we haven't improved, may have regressed a bit, and I saw absolutely no signs that next year will be any better. The only hope seems to be that we'll have the type of qb Riley really wants and that the O line cannot possibly get any worse. IMO when we start playing a little tougher schedule, it isn't going to be pretty. No amount of Kool-Aid consumption is going to help this I fear. My best guess is that we will be going through another coaching (and AD) change after 2017 and before 2018 is over. This pass happy finesse offense and bend bend break defense just isn't going to get the job done in the B1G. I like Riley and really wish it would've worked but it's just the wrong style of play for Nebraska and the B1G.

Easy.....;-) I haven't had a chance to get through season one yet. This is up next though as I just finished Westworld.

Finally got around to semi-binging WW and watched it all over the past 2 weeks. Amazing show, very well done. I always liked the old 70's movie but this series is much deeper and complex. Hope they get season 2 cranked out sooner rather than later but at least they sort of wrapped things up for season 1 so the wait won't be too excruciating. Off topic but, it used to seem like movies did the best job and series like these were a little 2nd rate. But that just isn't the case anymore. GoT, WestWorld, Breaking Bad, and many others just seem far superior to any movie anymore.

Thank you. That helps me understand it from a secular viewpoint. It's just always been plain old Christmas to me and, from my viewpoint anyway, Happy Holidays was added or adopted to help make it more inclusive of all the various celebrations around the same time. BTW, I do acknowledge that there is that element that says Merry Christmas in a snide, this is only our holiday sort of way. I detest that attitude. Maybe I was slow on the uptake in this thread. If that is the people we have been talking past each other about, then I agree with you.