I get a week and a half off without having to use any vacation time. Ideally, I’ll get to have a day where I can just sit on my butt and not do shit.

Sounds like Murphy’s Law of Replacement Items

I think I was around 10 when I first realized it.

What clued me in was my dad, whose favorite meal was a tuna sandwich and a diet coke, insisting that Santa didn’t want milk & cookies, Santa wanted a tuna sandwich and diet coke.

I’m imagining a Beverly Hillbillies-style listing of synonyms.

Booger sugar

Nose beer

Bolivian rocket fuel

Not a high bar to meet

Concussions could be one thing. But I think there’s enough prestige & cachet in the QB position, not to mention salary potential, that concussion risks ought not to limit the candidate pool overly much.

Personally, I think there are some major factors:

• Seems like there are comparatively few colleges that run pro-style offenses, so too many of rookie QBs only know how to succeed in pass-heavy offenses against inferior defenses, and can’t handle the transition to running the different scheme against opponents who are all pretty good.
• Success in the QB position requires skill in an odd combination of areas: memory, pattern recognition, charisma, super fast decision making, ability to hit a moving target with a ball over a line of tall angry men out to hit you, enough ability to scramble to keep defenses honest, strong enough to take repeated painful blows & keep ticking.

I don’t think anything could realistically be done on the second point, but on the first one it would help if more colleges ran offensive schemes typical of what’s in the NFL.

Problem is, schemes in the NFL are great for situations where teams are closely matched. But college teams often have wide disparities in physical talent that can only be offset through creative schemes.

I always figured that there are 32 starting QB jobs in the NFL at any time, but there are rarely more than 10 good QBs at any time. Most teams will have to make do with mediocre QB play and hope to hell their run game & defense are pretty good.

“Getting nicked” as in getting pickpocketed, swindled, or otherwise taken advantage of?

Makes me think of the “My name’s Buck and I’m here to fuck” scene in Kill Bill.

Demi Moore, Julianne Moore, and idk but probably has the last name Moore

If you like Museums:

• Museum of Fine Arts (1001 Bissonnet St)
• Houston Museum of Natural Science (5555 Hermann Park Dr)
• The Menil (1533 Sul Ross St)

Space Center Houston (the tourist wing of NASA’s Johnson Space Center) is a great place to visit.

If you like big spectacle places, see if you can take a tour of Minute Maid Park (Astros baseball stadium) or NRG Stadium (Texans football stadium).

If you enjoy live theater, options include:

• The Hobby Center (800 Bagby St)
• The Alley Theater (615 Texas Ave)
• Stages (800 Rosine St)

If you think you’ll have the appetite for it, there are lots of good dining options at every price point from a wide variety of culinary traditions. Try some bbq (if you’re from Saudi there are at least some halal bbq options, we have a pretty sizeable halal crowd). Try some Texmex restaurants. Try a pho restaurant. Try a taco truck.

Take a tour of the Hermann Park Zoo (6200 Hermann Park Dr). It’s a big damn zoo with a lot to see. You could also head down to Galveston and visit the Moody Gardens (1 Hope Blvd in Galveston). They have a giant rainforest pyramid and a giant aquarium pyramid. There are a lot of good dining options in Galveston but I don’t know offhand whether any of them are explicitly halal.

Good luck with your visit. The Texas Medical Center has some of the best medical care in the world. I hope you kick cancer’s ass.

12 million SEK =

• 1.12m USD
• 1.06m EUR
• 859k GBP

Lemmy for scratching the reddit itch

Facebook (by way of a disabled account) for archiving pictures of now-deceased family members

Discord, if it counts as social media, for tracking guilds for a game I used to be addicted to, also servers for subreddits I used to frequent & servers maintained by some of the fanfiction authors I follow

Knock knock

Who’s there?

Who.

Who who?

You’re making a good owl!

My parents told me this was my favorite joke when I was around your daughter’s age. Apparently I used the joke non-stop and my parents still laughed every time because of how much I cracked up at my own joke.

Feeling your butt cheeks on the toilet seat just before you lose the battle to hold everything in.

Ned is a lucky bastard, I’ve never gotten to hold more than two kittens at the same time.

What about races where all candidates are hirsute?

• in my jurisdiction, you have to meet certain criteria to be eligible for a mail in ballot, they don’t just get handed out willy nilly
• i don’t trust the post office with anything vitally important, like a ballot or money
• the early voting place is pretty close to my work, close enough that i hit it up a week and change ago on my lunch break

What are the odds of Nebraska Spiderman tweaking his costume to use the same shade of red as NU?

Don’t they each win like ten cents or something?