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  1. Sparhawk

    Weird weather

    Makes perfect sense when looked at from an electrical standpoint. The electrical grid between all the downtown stuff is much more protected and hardened to the elements, so less had to happen to get it back up and going. Almost all the rest of the greater Houston area has elevated and exposed...
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    [Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

    I like it. I’ll wait and see on Red Hulk, but I do like that it seems to be more in the vein of Winter Soldier overall. Isaiah Washington seems to be a good continuation from FatWS, and Ford seems to be a good recast on Ross.
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    Well, that would actually up my chances, they are at zero at almost all occasions.
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    [Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

    I will now never have Apple+. I am/was friends with two of the real Bandits, they cannot be replaced.
  5. Sparhawk

    Weird weather

    There were several not shown here further south along that same track.
  6. Sparhawk

    Weird weather

    We had power almost all day yesterday, other than during the two short power losses kept internet whole day. Lost power several times overnight, lost internet sometime overnight. Kept power all day, finally got internet back around 9pm tonight. Lost cell around 10am today, other parts of town...
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    Weird weather

    We got almost 4 inches of rain, south of Tin, and now with the rain almost 45 miles north of us we’re getting wind gusts into the mid-forties steady around 25mph. It’s all but over for us, about what I expected us to get rather than the “hurricane force winds and 10inches of rain” predicted by...
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    New PETure Thread (aka: Pet Pic Thead)

    Looks like he’s inspecting for how much load the wall can take when he goes to suplex you.
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    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    As an adult, him, that is coming to you to say he can’t pay his bills, then asking where his money is going is a rational question. Point out that he is being wasteful of his money to fix so much of something that there are leftovers and then leaving the leftovers to be thrown out. It’s part of...
  10. Sparhawk

    TIL: Today I Learned

    I haven’t head the one about beam of light and sunny afternoon. I also can’t figure it out. It takes about 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. I could see it being more or less true at night for starlight.
  11. Sparhawk

    :3

    She only had him for 12, but she has some amazing memories with him and his sassy pugness. He passed about 4am this morning, with her holding him. She’s having him cremated and will get his remains back in a week or two. She looking at getting some gems created from some of his ashes. Gonna miss...
  12. Sparhawk

    :3

    Today, my daughter is having to do one of the most difficult things that anyone that has had a pet ever has to do. Her Pug, Louis, will be eased over the rainbow bridge. He’s close to 17 years old, has had spinal issues for the past few years and yesterday he started into actively dying. We got...
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    I'm saying that you've set your start date too late. I think you should be looking at birth in the mid-sixties instead of 70s. Lots of us with earlier birth dates took classes in middle and high school for computers both operation and programming. We were usually having to explain to our college...
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    I shall blow your hypothesis, I was born several years before your start date.
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    That’s very much like our older cat, Merlin (5). The cat puts on a show the he seems to think the dog wants to eat him, even though all she wants to do and would be so happy if she could just sniff him without getting a paw to the snout. But I’ve caught them existing peacefully at one of the...
  16. Sparhawk

    New Picture Thread

    Why would you need to smile? Be yourself and don’t worry about the “you need to smile in pictures” crowd.
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    [Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

    Went and saw Inside Out 2 last night. Enjoyable, yes it builds off the first one. You would have to restructure the whole movie to have it work as a standalone. Interesting concepts with the “memory vault” (that’s what I’m calling it) and the core of personality. 2 post credits scenes, one...
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    [Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

    Interesting. I’m hoping this isn’t going to the same well one too many times. I like that Timm is involved again, but we have Abrams there too.
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    The Disney Thread: For Everything Concerning the House of Mouse

    No, Ironbrig has it right. They are a scary bunch when they get out of their cave. I’ve been a fan since I saw Star Wars in a drive in in 1977, I didn’t see SW:ANH in a theater until the special editions came out in 1997. I’ve seen tons of these people at the conventions (I actually worked at...
  20. Sparhawk

    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

    With the location I've worked most of this week, that would be a cold front. Tuesday, 8:30am, outside temp, 92f, inside temp of control equipment building 98f. By 11am the building temp was over 110f, the interior temp of radio and main PLC box, 122f-125f. I hate working for that municipality in...
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