Enhance

Lucky, mine doubled.

25,000 @teachercd?  Do you live in a freaking castle or something!?!?

I am pretty sure putting in that moat was a bad idea!

I go with the old big headphones that plug into my record player.  Is it a pain to carry around?  Yes.  Does it make me seem like a hipster douche, they do.  

@ZRod No, that’s “I hate the Hallmark channel” right there. But yeah, I guess I love her enough to let her watch that garbage on MY tv 

@teachercd you need to go old school hipster douche and carry a boom box on your shoulder.

@GSG Oh I sat next to them alright!!! Come on though, it's just like the urinal law. You don't take the even numbered urinal if there's an odd number total, and you don't take a urinal next to another guy unless there's no other option.

Cough, gag and blow your nose, as if you have some sort of communicable disease. You will then be able to take a whole section (your chioce of views) and put your feet up! 

Some people just have no concept of personal space and intelligently existing in life to accommodate others.

Another one that gets my goat are people who pull into a big (mostly empty) parking lot and park in the spot right next to you.  WTF???

I like to think he's judging his posts before he ever begins typing. Or predicting what my response will be to his posts. 

Went through this myself last month. Is there a set airline that you use? The only thing that’s nice about airline cards is some give you a free bag, priority boarding and other perks that are pretty much hassle free to use. But I chose the Sapphire. It’s a very heavy card. 

I use a Chase Sapphire Preferred and its great. Although if you are considering a Chase Sapphire Preferred, get the Chase Sapphire Reserve instead. It's annual fee is $350 extra per year, but you get $300 each year in travel vouchers, more cash back per expenditures, and free global entry.

Both cards provide free rental car insurance and insurance for electronic purchases. 

I agree with all of that.  I think with some better coaching and better schemes, we won't see running backs going 75 yards untouched, or TE's and WR's without a defender within 10 yards of them.  I think Nebraska has the better playmakers by a small margin right now (I expect this gap to widen very soon), and I'm excited to see that show up on the field.

Interesting as well, in a thread Mav started today about brand strenghth among recruits, Wisconsin came in at 16.

From an insider it seems more than plenty to drop NUs pants

Condolences.

Marriage.  It's not a word, it's a sentence.

Congratulations!  (And also condolences.)   

THANKS MOM

If she was smart, she would have set him up with Tinder or Bumble. 

@VectorVictor maybe she has it all wrong and he needs a grindr account 

@Xmas32 it also helps that their product isn't a$$. Just sayin.

I mean if employee retention is what you want and it benefits the bottom line to pay them 2-3 times what you've been doing, fine. But it still isn't going to do much for a Taco Bell type place as far as increasing customers and sales. It might have the effect of lowering their costs tho.

I have a feeling that those little 4 oz. Taco Bell soft tacos are soon going to weigh in at about 2 oz.  

@JJ Husker I agree that Taco Bell's pilot program is probably doomed to fail.  Too many things working against it.

Those are fly

The service academies consistently crush it when it comes to alternate uniforms.  These are sweet.

Damn...too bad the Washington Football Team didn't run with this idea as their replacement. They look sharp.

I feel so bad for the girls that friend-zoned those guys so bad that they felt guilty and decided to be in that video.

@krc1995 only if you were going Independent. No other conference will touch them now.

Well...okay, maybe the AAC. Or Sun Belt. But that’s it.

Mountain West maybe? Probably too slimy and a touch to east 

Yeah thats going to be a problem without storm drains.  The pipe that broke a few years ago that flooded your driveway.....was it a city main water line that burst? If so go back to them and explain the problem.....maybe they can help you bring in new dirt for the places your lot sunk. Cities always have a stash of dirt and they have the loaders to move it.  You might end up planting new grass or sod etc.

Good call! Yes I contacted them yesterday about it but I believe they've been flooded (see what I did there?!) with calls the last few days. Had to leave a message.

I doubt it would happen, but, I wonder if I could convince them to make a culvert opening to my drain pipe since they felt it was necessary to do that for a bunch of other houses except mine. Wishful thinking...

Did the rush of water undercut your driveway making it sink down? If so you have due cause to get the city to fix that as well.

Dang..I'm weirdly able to help here too.  My SIL swears by Peak Performance.  

I'm going to just start PM'ing all my status updates to you directly LOL

@Redux IMO, I don't believe so--one thing that was appealing about the B1G and that we pride ourselves on is that DoNU is pretty good, academically, and we have been looking for some time to improve on that.

We've improved our academics in spades with the B1G, and it's gotten the notice of schools like Oklahoma that are in a similar situation. Unless Oklahoma has a course change in their future goals re: academics, academic improvement via the B1G is why Oklahoma to the B1G down the road will have a very strong likelihood (even though their idiot fans want the SEC ). 

Joining the SEC would have had an adverse effect on our academics--we wouldn't have partnerships with the few Big XII schools that did happen to remember they were a school first, and the SEC doesn't have any sort of academic consortium (or any sort of inter-conference academic programs of note). At best, our academics in the SEC would be moribund. 

Now, IIRC, the Pac-12 (and the Pac-10) did have something similar, but not as encompassing, as the B1G's academic consortium. So to respond to your question, perhaps we could have been moving buddies with Colorado to the Pac-12 instead? 

I don't think the PAC 10 would have been very appealing to Nebraska, geographically speaking it's further than most the B1G trips and they don't really fit into either division very well.  A yearly match with USC may be appealing but still.

With as hot as the SEC was in 2010-2011 an invite would have been pretty hard to turn down.  Joining a footprint where recruiting is almost on cruise control and you get national love in the form of rankings without doing anything.

@Redux I agree, a Pac-10 invite wouldn't have been appealing, but it still would have been better than our current situation in the Big XII (though not by much). And don't forget matches with UCLA, or Oregon, or Washington (all teams that were certainly competent at the time). 

And I bet it would have been hard to turn a SEC invite down...if we had someone other than Dr. Tom at the helm. IMO, folks like Dr. Tom are quick to remember that Nebraska is more than football, and I don't think he cares for the dirty pool the SEC willingly plays in. 

Now, if it's an Eichorst, or maybe even a Moos making the decision back then, I'd agree. But not with Dr. Tom at the helm.

He could play right away here at Northern Colo....

Dylan is a redshirt Junior, so would have 2 years of eligibility remaining.

Appreciate the clarification.  The UM website lists him as a Senior.

I was at a conference in Texas last year and they had an event at the Circuit of the Americas.  Most of the time, they let people take the class and actually get to drive the souped-up Audis they have there.  But since there were so many of us for on one evening, they had drivers for the cars and we just got to ride.  It was pretty fun just to get to ride in it.  I don't know what it would cost to actually get to drive it but I think it would be a blast.

@knapplc just leave the TCS on and make sure it's got good tires 

If you don't mind dropping bigger coin there's Bondurant driving school in Phoenix.

Isn't there a road course already in Omaha?? 

Well that makes sense. You just don't see much crossover with Vikings, Bears and Packers fans. The ole black and blue division typically stays pretty true to form and usually seems pretty aligned to the city. I've spent some time in Milwaukee and ran into both Packers and Bears fans. There's some pretty strong feelings between those fan bases and I've found Vikings fans to be the third spoke in that wheel. Not sure there's another 3 teams anywhere that all really sort of despise two other franchises seemingly equally. It's kind of a neat and unique phenomenon imo. That's why it seemed odd to me to like 3 Chicago teams and then Minnesota. FWIW, I was a big Green Bay fan as a kid and still have a soft spot for them. But I also loved Fran Tarkenton and Walter Peyton. Sweetness is probably my all time favorite NFL player. But growing up in Nebraska, I kind of had pick a team because none were geographically natural.

Yeah the really tough thing is that as I've gotten older my Vikings fandom has sort of become less. I'm much more of a fan of the NFL in general these days; but, my fandom for other Chicago teams has sort of developed this affinity for the Bears. It now feels complicated because part of me thinks 'well, you like all other Chicago teams, it may as well be the Bears, too' while the other part of me is telling myself 'you've liked the Vikings forever AND Chicago is a divisional foe, you twit.'

I guess how I would describe it now is I hope the Bears do well and I don't actively root against them, and then when the Vikings/Bears play, I sort of pretend it's not happening lol.

DaaaaaaBears

Yeah, but mistakes are a part of racing, and at a certain point you have to let the race have a natural progression without too much outside influence.

I see both sides of it. If you are an Indy or NASCAR fan the penalty looks dumb and the incident is just a normal part of racing. If you're an F1 guy, the penalty is technically by the book but a little harsh for a no harm no foul incident. He pinched Hamilton, but it wasn't like he was totally out of control. You should still be able to defend your position safely.

I couldn't even watch the race because our local ABC station showed the stupid White Sox game.

@jsneb83 next time that happens, try the ESPN app. Happens all the time in the DFW area when F1 is on the ABC affiliate and they choose to show something else instead because of...reasons. 

As for Vettel, I do have a hard time sympathizing with him when he was on the right end of these decisions a couple of times during his run a few years ago. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you're going to storm around like a petulant child and switch the place markers in front of the cars around?

This was all because of Vettel's mistake, and I really have a problem with him returning to the racing line when he completely went off the course. He even admitted he saw Hamilton in his mirror on the broadcast, and that admission has to factor in to whether or not one views this as an 'out of control'/racing incident or Vettel trying to get away with something there. 

I just hope that your next step isn't "I shot the sheriff"

@JJ Husker I don't think the valuation process is near as responsible or trustworthy as we would hope. If I'm being honest, my argument wasn't exactly foolproof. I looked up similar homes, their prices and what they sold for vs. their county valuations in recent years, but I also did it all sort of last minute and there were some obvious flaws in my argument. But what are they going to do, dedicate hours of time to my case? They probably got thousands of complaints and requests for reassessments.

Even the assessor's explanation of why they sided with me felt vague and straight forward. Literally they put one sentence on my report that amounted to 'I looked at the complaint's argument and agreed with them' lol

@Enhance I guess what frustrates me is, I know they base the value on comp sales from a set time period and neighborhood. I researched those comp sales and absolutely none of them supported their huge increase. I gave them about ten comps that supported mine and they just said no, our valuation stands. And they won't provide the basis on which they valued it. I could've taken it the next step and appealed it to the county commissioners but I didn't want to commit any more time to it. They were about $80k higher than my highest guess. They just want/need money and that is hard to fight.

I have been gifted a Shun; chef, boning, and santoku knives over the past several years. I freakin love them. My Dad is the cook in the family, so I bought him a whet stone for Father’s Day last year and it has been quite useful. I was unsure which one to purchase, so I just went with a less expensive one that had solid reviews.
 

Side note: If you want to gawk at some fancy Damascus steel and can afford a cool $1,000 knife, check out Muamasi Fire Art. Joe Rogan talked about him briefly on a podcast and he was a judges pick contender who won an episode on Forged in Fire. Went to HS with him and he is a super great guy. https://instagram.com/maumasifirearts?igshid=11lolgktyp3ns

@TheRedCarver  Very nice.

@Enhance I found this youtube channel to be the most useful for learning to sharpen. Just look for the intro or beginner videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOluHMoKJ6CrS0kcybhaThg

UVA, Michigan, Purdue and Puke. UVA winning it all.

Cincinnati

Michigan

West Virginia

Michigan St.

Cincinnati

Michigan St.

Michigan St.

Kentucky almost suffered the fate of the Davidson vs. Goliath battle.