Recent content by bigiron.sixpack

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    Foreshadowing for the stripe out this weekend...

    Faculty and STAFF. Any university employee has a shot at those sections. I don’t know why folks think that faculty who need the university to succeed and excel and who frankly don’t have the time to buy and hawk tickets are consistently flipping tickets on stubhub. Un tenured faculty aren’t...
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    Our beloved alma mater tanks in the Forbes College Rankings

    Not by choice, but it is part of the bias we must fight when initially reviewing contributed manuscripts.
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    Upvote/Downvote - NC State brought to you by Strange Brew Coffeehouse

    Backstroking / Selling Big Gulps (from the post game press conference)
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    OT: FedEx

    All of that makes sense, but this was the most basic small cube, 2lb package. Check out the time and route from origin in LA to here; it never hit the hub in Memphis, which is the norm.
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    OT: FedEx

    The hub in Memphis was 40% understaffed a month ago. I suspect that has only worsened. They are routing to wherever they have holding/sorting capacity, I suppose. Look at the adventure my recent package had. Also, this was delivered on a Saturday. I had a package delivered on Sunday the...
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    Best pre-med university in MS?

    State currently sends more student to UMMC than any other. According to a commencement speaker two or three years ago.
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    OT-Anyone getting internet from their EPA?

    4-County Fastnet. $80/month for 1GB. We are getting >270 mbps downloads over WiFi and over 300 mbps uploads with the equipment 4-County provided. Life changer for living out in the woods.
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    OT - Starlink Status - Anyone received equipment yet?

    Make sure you photo-document your Viasat equipment return. I returned as instructed, and the thieves took $321 from my card on file. I’ve been trying to get my money back for a month even with photos, tracking, etc as evidence of the return. This seems to be common practice for them based on...
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    RIP Bobby Bowden

    I was watching an FSU game with a friend of mine that never misses a thing during a game. He started laughing saying “Here comes a bootleg!” Sure enough, next play, FSU runs a naked bootleg for conversion on third and long. My friend rewound the DVR and Bowden had snatched a headset off an...
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    We're down 4-0 to Virginia baseball in the 8th...

    Yes, and Cheese put the brakes on Hatcher rightfully, albeit late. You can see it at 17:00 of the video in the OP. I don’t see where Hatcher was at fault other than being much slower than Jordan; of course, Hatcher had to wait on the possible catch while Rowdey was running hard out of the box.
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    Kumar is on the clock

    No deal, and apparently not going back to college ball.
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    We just got a commitment from a 6' 7" 8th Grade pitcher from North Carolina

    Luke Alexander’s family is an MSU family. He was swaddled in a maroon blanket.
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    6 of the 14 SEC teams have met the vaccination threshold

    Yeah, I agree. However, they both said this to me last week. They base their judgement on their own empirical evidence, and both keep up with the literature. I won’t judge them as “wrong” if they were incorrect. Nature is a cruel beast and there are so many variables. This is why I hate the...