Topics

1

Kansas State Football / If Dick Linton runs off Tang, will Gene and CK stick around?

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:26:13 AM »

If I’m Gene, I’m furious with Linton. Why would Gene want to stick around after that? Kleinman seems loyal to Gene. This isn’t a terrific situation for KSU.

2

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / LET'S MAKE A DEAL: Name one thing you are willing to concede to the other side

« on: March 20, 2024, 08:49:35 AM »

It's deal time.  Name one thing on your preferred party's (or personal) ideological agenda/platform/whatever that you'd be willing to trade.

3

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / How long will Houston remain kings of the Big 12?

« on: February 24, 2024, 11:48:50 AM »

Are we looking at a temporary situation with Houston as the indisputable kings of the conference? 

4

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Tax Optimization Idea: Move to Alabama, Keep Embryos in your Freezer

« on: February 21, 2024, 06:26:14 AM »

Now that Alabama has deemed frozen embryos to be children, perhaps new avenues to the child tax credits have become available.  I wonder if I can freeze up a batch of a dozen or so children and keep them in my freezer in my home, then claim them on my tax return?  Additionally, I'd like to claim them on the FAFSA and qualify my non-frozen children for Pell Grants.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232815486/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos

5

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Our chickens are roosting in our homes with 9pm games

« on: February 10, 2024, 08:54:10 PM »

We asked for this. This abomination of 9pm games. The blood is on our hands.

6

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Is Tang a better coach than Bill Self?

« on: February 05, 2024, 10:58:26 PM »

Obviously head to head, Tang has settled it on the court and is the better coach. However, there are likely other things to consider.

What are your thoughts?

7

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / 2023-2024 Season and Tylor Perry Officially Successes

« on: February 05, 2024, 10:46:23 PM »

It’s wonderful to have clinched a successful season with this victory over Kansas! Moreover, Tylor Perry is now season MVP as a result of his triumphant effort, leading all scorers in our victory!

Everything else this basketball season is merely icing on the cake.

8

Essentially Flyertalk / Snowbirding and Sunbirding

« on: January 25, 2024, 11:18:12 PM »

In 3 years I may try my hand at snowbirding. Who has done it, or is familiar?  I’m a total noob, and open to any warm area for the months of Jan - March.

Looks like Texas, Arizona, and Florida are the most common.

I’d like to rent a fully furnished  2 - 3 bedroom house or townhome,  with a fenced yard for my dogs for 3 months.

9

Essentially Flyertalk / Quantum Computing — WHAT THE eff WILL IT BE ABLE TO DO?!?!

« on: December 06, 2023, 07:41:13 PM »

I just watched the 60 minutes segment from Sunday about quantum computing and I am now very in what these fuckers can do.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/quantum-computing-advances-60-minutes/

Purported to be able to eventually reach speeds that are millions of times faster than today’s supercomputers.

So, it could break every encryption everywhere all at once or something rough ridin' nuts like that, and so the government is revamping encryption standards because they know this crap is coming.  Apparently people think these things will be able to compute things that would have otherwise been impossible for traditional supercomputers to do even a 1000 years from now.

What the eff, man, this could get nuts.

We plug an AI into that, and give it access to training data in the form of every accessible piece of material connected to the internet in world, then it’s really just bound by the speed of internet connectivity. It’s going to read everything just as fast as the pipes can connect it.

I mean, this could eventually create real honest to goodness sentient consciousness. This path might be the prerequisite to AGI in our lifetimes. 

What an interesting time to be alive!

10

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Zero non-con games, and play the conference twice - LET’S DO IT!

« on: December 02, 2023, 10:00:02 AM »

We have the greatest basketball conference in the world, let’s make it even better and play everyone twice. Remove the non-conference games and make this happen! 

11

Kansas State Football / Looking ahead to Texas (whores up, horns down). Is Maaalik the real deal?

« on: October 23, 2023, 07:54:22 AM »

We play Texas after we play the Houston commuter school that should have never been invited into the Big 12.

Ewers is hurt. Hard to say if this is a good thing or bad thing, because his backup, Maaaalik Murphy, is big and fast. Luckily we get a week to watch how Sark uses Maaaaalik against BYU and build our dossier.

We wash away the stink of the Mizzou and OSU losses if we win this one, AND probably put ourselves in the Big 12 championship game again.

12

Kansas State Football / Iowa HC’s Idiot Kid Thread

« on: September 13, 2023, 10:08:29 AM »

So, many of you may already be aware of this, but I recently learned that the Iowa HC has an idiot kid who serves as his OC, and like every rough ridin' Iowa fan in the universe hates the kids guts…AND, the AD stepped in and added requirements to the idiot kid’s contract that Iowa must average 25 points a game this year or the kid gets less money and gets crap canned. 

The story is here:

https://www.thegazette.com/iowa-football/how-often-college-football-programs-meet-goals-iowa-gave-brian-ferentz-for-2023/


Anyway, there is an X app account that tracks this saga.

https://twitter.com/bfpointstracker?s=21&t=caP-AbJPB0IGla9_bZh6xg

https://twitter.com/bfpointstracker/status/1623054913616879616?s=42&t=caP-AbJPB0IGla9_bZh6xg


https://twitter.com/bfpointstracker/status/1700614611228393614?s=42&t=caP-AbJPB0IGla9_bZh6xg

13

Kansas State Football / 2023 is or is not the year we achieve total conference dominance?

« on: July 15, 2023, 11:09:35 AM »

I am leaning toward us crushing everyone in our path this year. The offense could be great. The defense will probably be well coached and sound, but may not be a big play defense (as happens when you lose a first round DL).

My prediction is that we lose two conference games, and go on to beat UT in the championship game to win our second conference title in a row.

14

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Heat Wave Truth: God Punishing the Confederacy?

« on: July 01, 2023, 12:47:51 PM »

 If you analyze the heat wave patterns (As I and many of my colleagues have) you’ll see that the entire Confederacy is being scalded by the fires of hell (metaphorically?). 

The og part of the good book tells us that God made the heavens and the earth,  and that God punishes. Ipso-facto the Confederacy is being punished by god. go cats 

15

Kansas State Football / The top Big 12 football programs in 2030

« on: June 03, 2023, 10:13:10 PM »

My guesses (not in order)

UCF - Malzahn gets them humming if he stays
KSU - KK is still here, hopefully
TCU - location, school commitment
Baylor - location, school commitment
Houston - location, school commitment

16

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Can a centrist party ever exist in America again?

« on: May 13, 2023, 09:23:50 PM »

I'd kill a drifter to have a party that was completely centrist.  I want a party that simply says "what's the lesser evil," and then deals to get that done.  I am willing to give up anything in a deal to get things done that on balance make things better for everyone...gun control, abortion, taxes, defense spending....Make me an offer!  I'll compromise on anything if the net benefit helps humans more.

17

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / The eff is going on with the judicial thing in Israel?

« on: March 26, 2023, 07:11:59 PM »

Is Israel going to go full fascist or what?

18

Essentially Flyertalk / New Slang Terms

« on: March 23, 2023, 05:05:50 PM »

How about a thread where we come provide the public service of explaining what new slang terms or phrases mean.

This thread could also be used for announcements about when it’s safe for our older posters (e.g guys who have shook Chad May’s hand) to use new slang terms, or conversely to come here and reinforce that certain slang terms should best be avoided by older posters until explicitly being told otherwise.

19

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / What will YOU do IF (wink wink) the civil war happens?

« on: March 08, 2023, 08:55:02 PM »

BlueAnnon followers (and I guess others too),

What will you do in the event civil war starts? Will you take up arms with official branches of service or local militias?  Will you instead join a clandestine resistance?

Or, will you duck your head, assimilate to the local prevailing government, and hope that the authorities and opposition forces are content to leave you alone?

20

The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Artificial Intelligence

« on: March 06, 2023, 07:44:20 PM »

Do you think something will pass the the Turing test (30% of human testers think it’s human) consistently in our lifetime?  Or put differently, do you think I’m our lifetime we will have social issues about the rights of artificial life?

21

Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Is @ISU too much for these cats?

« on: January 24, 2023, 11:37:34 AM »

+5 in Hilton. Can we do it?

22

Essentially Flyertalk / World Cup Travel

« on: December 18, 2022, 09:25:57 PM »

Planning on catching my first ever World Cup match in 4 years.  I will travel to KC for the game.

I plan to just pick a country who is playing there and then dress up like their biggest fan ever. 

23

Kansas State Football / ALABAMA, PREPARE YOUR ORIFICES!

« on: December 03, 2022, 03:28:07 PM »

Alabama, prepare to meet the real power of college football! We are Big 12 Champions and we are coming for you to show you who the real top team in college football is! 

24

Kansas State Football / Big 12 Championships

« on: November 27, 2022, 09:44:34 AM »

Of the teams remaining in the Big 12 after UT and OU leave in July 2025, here is the count on Big 12 championships so far:

Baylor - 3
K-State - 2
TCU - 1
OSU - 1

Simultaneously securing our spot (tied) atop this list and aTm'ing TCU by winning the Big 12 championship would be so fantastic.  To me, the Sugar Bowl is a distant consolation prize or bonus....it's all about conference championships.

25

Essentially Flyertalk / THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

« on: November 11, 2022, 09:21:58 AM »

On this Veteran’s day I want to especially thank those on this board in clandestine operations who do not receive the kudos you deserve. In addition to being a huge poetry, crypto, travel, and cooking blog, this bbs has an unusually high population of secret stuff members and retirees. You know who you are, and we thank you!