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    Bass Master Elite…..

    Columbus MO? Must be a heck of a pipe to get the Tenn-Tom across the Mississippi.
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    OT: What was your hourly pay at the first W2 job you held?

    As he walked off to the cage, my first thought was no way. I did the math with the union scale, he was not exaggerating. Was an interesting place. I was walking behind a mechanical engineer to break when he said "I smell trichlor. I shouldn't smell trichlor here". Turned in to this. Not all the...
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    OT: What was your hourly pay at the first W2 job you held?

    About 15m to quitting time at Carrier in the winter of 85 the lady that scheduled the electricians would start paging them. One of them was in the lab sitting next to me when she paged him. His head dropped and he said "I made $73,000 last year, but I'm tired of working all the time". Valuable...
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    OT: What was your hourly pay at the first W2 job you held?

    $7.25 at Carrier in 1984. Worked 10 hours one Sunday for double and half. That was a sweet paycheck. Took a pay cut to $7 at my next job. Had a roommate at State turn down $20/hr at Chevron??? summer of 86 because the $7.50/hr work where I was sounded more interesting. My dad would not have...
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    Old Main, 67 years ago today..........

    Dad lived there in the 30s. He had a few Old main stories. As a freshmen he got tired of hazing so he caught the guy everyone thought was the toughest senior in the hall and beat him into a couple of days in the infirmary. Turns out picking on someone who'd been delivering ice for a living was a...
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    80s era engineering majors, help me out...

    16 hours is correct. From the 83 catalog:
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    Historical trips

    We've never been on one, but get one of these brochures about once a month. They are pricey. A few of the trips are history themed. https://www.alumni.msstate.edu/traveling-bulldogs https://dda.msstate.edu/document.doc?id=188
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    Greens Fee Prices

    Glad to hear the course I grew up on is still in good shape. Forest Hill just north of Millington is a nice course that's a good deal too.
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    OT: Does anyone have an at home golf simulator?

    On the Rapsodo, chipping is ok once you get use to it. Hitting a chip 10y vs 20y with no reference beyond a picture on a screen takes some getting used to. I now pick a height an try and hit that. Putting isn't a thing on the Rapsodo. 2 on green circles for 1 and 2 putts. I believe they are...
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    OT: Does anyone have an at home golf simulator?

    I have the Rapsodo MLM2Pro. I've had it for a couple of months. Enjoyed it a lot so far. I'm about $1,500 in at this point. I want to get a better mat. I bought a cheap one to see if it was going to work in my the shop. You need 14ish feet from the monitor to the screen for it to work well. I...
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    OT - Pool cleaning advice

    Ditto Lucky Dawg on the trouble free pool site. If you have kids or kids in the neighborhood, get a safety fence. If you are going to DIY the chemistry get a decent kit. I'd get a salt system with a fiberglass pool. Since I have a 42yo galvanized pool I use calhypo, stabilizer, and 20 mule...
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    SOLD - 2 MSU vs LSU Basketball Tickets

    Sent you a PM.
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    Jeff Malone NBA wild shot

    He did a clinic on campus after that. One of the local TV station noon news covered it. Malone started in the right corner shooting 3s while talking to the campers about shooting form. Shoot, step or 2 to the left, shoot. All while looking at the campers and talking. Did not miss a shot...
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    OT: Any Dog (Particularly Labrador) Breeders/Experts

    Pretty dog. Had 2 registered labs that were right at 100 pounds. Yellow female was 95-100, chocolate male was 100-105. Excellent dogs. Female was wicked smart and would retrieve until she fell over. Male was an excellent judge of character. Only person he didn't like turned out to be dealing...
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    Did you all see Elon’s AI timeline to Bloomberg last week?

    Meh. It is a useful tool. Used well it will help with some stuff. It can also get in the way. Several years ago to detect problems in transmission media, I built a cousin of the techniques used in Large Language Models used by AI. Strangely as more data was added it became less accurate for...
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