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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: midlife crises
« on: September 22, 2023, 10:07:28 AM »
Is it a mid-life crisis when you have anxiety about not making enough memories with children?  Seems more like parental guilt, but I can see it morphing into a mid-life crisis with the actions taken to assuage the guilt.

Sir, boats can sell themselves, but children need their father’s love.

So, build the lake house.  Got it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: midlife crises
« on: September 22, 2023, 09:58:45 AM »
Is it a mid-life crisis when you have anxiety about not making enough memories with children?  Seems more like parental guilt, but I can see it morphing into a mid-life crisis with the actions taken to assuage the guilt. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: In Memoriam: Timhawk
« on: September 20, 2023, 02:49:26 PM »
I always assumed he lived in one of the houses over by the new FB coach and Doug Compton.

He did.  Sold it in 2022.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4545-Bauer-Brook-Ct-Lawrence-KS-66049/111837197_zpid/

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https://kuathletics.com/staff/collin-sexton/

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Collin Sexton joined the Kansas Athletics department in August of 2021 and currently serves as the Associate Athletics Director for Strategic Initiative/Chief of Staff as well as the sport administrator for the Kansas Football program . . . Since his arrival in Lawrence, Sexton has been leading the coordination and execution of the strategic planning process for the athletics department that will determine the priorities and direction of the department.

Gentlemen, we have our Zenger.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: BOATS!!
« on: September 30, 2022, 11:48:41 AM »
I am starting my research for a boat purchase this coming spring and would appreciate input for you seamen on what I should get.

I intend to keep my boat on the same lake, never need a trailer. I expect that for the next 3 or 4 summers I will use it for 50% cruising around, 30% fishing and 20% pulling someone on something (mostly tubes, occasionally a skier on basic 2 skis not wake or slalom).

A few members of my family don’s get around too well, so I am a very strong toward a pontoon…super easy to board from the dock and stable on water.  I highly value a reliably starting motor, and I definitely want a 4 stroke EFI.

I also want to try and keep this well under $20K, so that rules out new boats.  I think I probably either need a 5-10 year old boat/motor, or a an even older boat with a new motor.

EDIT: I will use this thing probably 5 times a week on a slow week, and double that on a busy week, for 2.5 months in the summer annually.

Should I go old ass rough boat with fancy new motor (Millennium Falcon, got it where it counts), or nicer boat with older motor?

Inventory is tight, but I'll work some magic.

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That is quite a jump to get to "highly likely to discriminate" based on this dude's thoughts about Wheaton college. I mean, to work there you literally have to sign a statement of faith that you believe in the trinity, that Jesus was God, that Mary was a virgin etc. By that logic anyone who has ever worked at Wheaton or almost any seminary, church, religious institution etc should be barred from public service.

No, just people who publicly support the university for being discriminatory. Vought said that many faculty and alumni were outraged by the firing in his blog post, so it's not like all of them are bad people. I wouldn't be surprised if Vought is in the minority with his opinion.
There's nothing outrageous at all about the firing.  It's a private religious school.  They have a particular theological view that, ostensibly, they want their students to share.  If one of the professors is sending a message (whether or not she explains the context of her message on her facebook) that doesn't fit within that school's theological view, it makes perfect sense to get rid of her. 

I don't think that thinking that makes me a bad person, I think it makes that professor a bad fit for that particular school.

Well, I believe that discrimination is wrong even when it is legal, so I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.
Yeah but I don't view that as "discrimination."  At least not discrimination in any wrongful sense. 

I don't think a private institution should have to employ someone who is sending a different message than that private institution wants to send.  That seems unfair.  Maybe that's where we disagree. 

Let me use an example that is extreme, but i think still analogous.  Let's say we have a catholic high school math teacher who, one day, decides he wants to show his devotion to satan by getting a large visible forearm tattoo of Beelzebub himself, complete with "666" underneath and a nice big heart around it.   Students can see the tattoo.  It's wrong for the school to say "wtf" and part ways with him?


taking another extreme example, what if the school interpreted scripture to take the position that blacks were an inferior race and fired someone who questioned this interpretation? Would someone who supported that school's action be fit for a high profile position in the federal government? How do you draw the line where "religious freedom" trumps non-discrimination?

The Supreme Court has settled this from a purely legal perspective.  It's called the ministerial exception:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosanna-Tabor_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_%26_School_v._Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission

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Just spoke with the seminal statistics mind of our generation again.  So impressed is he by K-State's accomplishment of a Triple Crown, that he is kicking around the idea of a winter symposium on the event. 

Here's the thing, the statistics community rarely holds symposiums during the winter.  In fact, it hasn't occurred since 1943.  Yet here he is breaking professional norms to highlight the truly spectacular feat we have witnessed.

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I have this friend who's a real numbers whiz.  While most of you probably think he is a K-State alum, he actually didn't immigrate to the United States until after attending college in his home country (some Eastern Bloc remnant).  Anyway, he is renowned for his statistical prowess. Really one of the great minds of our time.

We discussed the recent Triple Crown, noting championships in the only sports that people care about being won by one university in the same year.  From a statistical standpoint, my friend couldn't have been more impressed.  Using the age of the Earth (4.54 billion years), and the fact that a Triple Crown had only occurred two other times in history, we obviously could calculate that such an accomplishment only happens once every 1.51 billion years.  In other words, the odds of this happening again next year, for example, are 1 in 1,510,000,000!!!

Taking it one step further, my numbers guru friend started trying to find something to compare those odds to in order to put it in perspective.  Here is the closest thing he has found to compare it to:  The odds of a university winning a Triple Crown are nearly equal to a random individual winning the powerball lottery on the same day that the Hale-Bopp comet passes in front of a solar eclipse!  Incredible!

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Kansas State Football / Re: Memorial Stadium in Lawrence blows
« on: May 17, 2013, 01:16:27 PM »
This post didn't get its due:


KU has three Big 12 titles already this year:  Men's basketball, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field.  K-State can tie us with three this weekend if the baseball team beats OU.  Gotta admit, fellas... it feels good having the best all-around athletes in the Big 12.


 :kstategrad:

'grats on winning Women's Track and Field inside and out. That is HUGE.


We'll take two more Big 12 titles to add to our massive collection.  It's an embarrassment of riches in Lawrence right now.

http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/state/kansas/study-lawrence-economy-worst-in-nation



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Maybe like a deer head or something

Take it to the Finish a Basement thread...

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maybe, like, a big YOLO plaque

I am not particularly savvy when it comes to decorating, so posting pics would make my interpretation of your ideas much easier.

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Too busy being  :kstategrad: to bother making my office look elite.  However, been at my current place for 18 months, and it is time to start making the place livable.  As I mentioned, it is a corner office, so there are two walls.  One wall has my diplomas and professional certifications.  Each of the windowed walls have large cabinets at the base.  The cabinets are about 2.5 feet tall and can also use something on them.  Also, a large bookshelf runs from floor to ceiling on one of the walls.  Three of the five shelves are already holding materials/files.  The top two shelves are available.

I don't have any of the mid-career stuff to show off (graduated from KSU in 2008 and professional school in 2011).  Already have a picture of Mrs. YB.  We have no kids.  More pictures could be incorporated, but I am looking to go another route.  My only ideas are to incorporate some emaw paraphernalia, but I also need some contemporary professional decorations.

I am not particularly savvy when it comes to decorating, so posting pics would make my interpretation of your ideas much easier.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Guys
« on: November 23, 2012, 08:52:20 AM »
well if big game Bob backs up his smack talk from last year he will decline the trophy.

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-football-coach-bob-stoops-doesnt-regret-saying-it-was-about-time-sooners-won-national-title/article/3627627

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Stoops was again asked about the possibility of a conference tri-champion. Should OU win, there would be a tie atop the Big 12 standings, along with OSU and Kansas State.
But the Sooners would have won head to head against both of those teams – on the road, to boot.
The Big 12 has said it might recognize all three teams, in some fashion. OU, though, would represent the league in the BCS, likely the Fiesta Bowl.
“Yeah, I don't get that,” Stoops said. “They can do what they want. Did you ask them what happened to their whole promotion of the 'one true champion'? You should have. That's all I heard for two days on the whole Big 12 coaches media circuit down there.
“I kind of took offense to it because we won seven of them. I thought they were all true ones. I thought they were changing it that this was going to be the one true one and I guess they reneged on that. That doesn't make much sense to me. I'll let them explain it.”
Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy said Monday that, hypothetically, he would prefer the “one true champion” logic hold if OU won.
“I figured Mike would,” Stoops said. “If you're playing each other, it's pretty simple. If you weren't, then I get that. Some of the Big Ten ones, they didn't have a championship game and two teams didn't play each other. That makes sense.”

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Kansas State Football / Re: How Many Games Will We Win This Season??
« on: October 21, 2012, 12:13:47 PM »
Pound the crap out of WVU and sneak one out against ou, beat the crap out of some shitty SEC team in the NC.

 :surprised:  Which shitty SEC team.  We need to know.

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Kansas State Football / Re: At a wedding in BFE Iowa
« on: September 22, 2012, 10:47:05 PM »
Really...BFE Iowa...like NE Iowa almost Wisconsin.  The reception had a bar with a TV.  I'm like "put on the Cats/OU game at 6:50pm."  Watched the entire thing.  It was great guys....   :lynchmob:

P.S. currently in hotel room.  Will be driving back tomorrow.   Go Cats!

Oh, man!!!!  What a memory.

Random Emaw: "Hey, W'nK, remember the 2012 OU game?"

W'nK: "Yeah.  BigTymed a NE Iowa bartender at a wedding."

Random Emaw: "Sweet, sweet."

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Really happy Beems decided to give this thread another go.  It's like if Lance Armstrong would decide to do another Tour de France.  We'd all cheer for him despite the great odds.

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1998. By far.



Just turn it up. It all felt so elite back in those days. All of it.


If we're referencing biggest expectations through then-current songs, the year was 2004.  A young, freshman Yachtbroker was honing his tailgating skills with new lifelong friend, Wildcatnkilt.  The duo would consistently treat all surrounding tailgates to the following:

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The Bobby Petrino motorcycle accident has turned the University of Arkansas athletics department upside down. Since the accident on April 1, 2012, Petrino has taken a paid leave after it was revealed that he was traveling with someone other than his wife at the time of the accident. The woman implicated in the Bobby Petrino scandal is Jessica Dorrell, herself a former Razorbacks volleyball player. On top of that, there are reports that Dorrell was engaged to the Hogs' director of swimming and diving operations, Josh Morgan.

http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/who-josh-morgan-photo-arkansas-jessica-dorrell-fiance-2911378.html#ixzz1rHeB9jhK


 Never heard of an incestuous athletic department--I hope Bobby's disgusting red-face herpes isn't contagious.

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Well, I feel as though I must remind each of you that this was published in the Wall Street Journal, so please have your salt shakers at the ready.   That is no obscure blog citing unnamed "tv insiders" by any stretch.



Ryan M. Brewer, Ph.D. 









 :love: :love: :love:

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Which Basketball God...
« on: January 14, 2012, 01:42:39 PM »
#teamangel is in mourning. . .

Keeping Angel's ass on the bench is the only good thing Frank has done today.

Playing Jeremy Jones?   :dunno:

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Computers loved our VA Tech win
« on: December 05, 2011, 12:33:25 PM »
Related statistical observation:  Cats starting to repair the conference RPI damage inflicted by KU.

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Kansas State Football / first "OOD," now "farmageddon"???
« on: September 22, 2011, 06:43:13 PM »
http://farmageddonmovie.com/


When is goEMAW going to get serious?  Is it not time to hire general counsel or have someone on retainer?  This place is an IP mill, yet there is no protection for its genius.  Does Beebe effing sit on the BOD here?

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Dylan Meier was in my Business, Government, & Society class spring semester of his senior year.  He lost his starting position to Josh Freeman in the fall.  First day of class Prof. Bloodgood took roll:

Dr. Bloodgood:  [everybody in class but Dylan's name]

Everybody in class but Dylan:  Here

Dr. Bloodgood:  Is there anyone whose name I didn't call?

Dylan: *raises hand*

Dr. Bloodgood:  what's your name?

Whole class:  *holds breath/quiet gasp*

Dylan:  Dylan Meier

Dr. Bloodgood:  who?

Dylan:  DYLAN MEIER

Dr. Bloodgood:  how do you spell your last name?


It was really awkward being in the classroom.  There was only about 35 students in there.  Dylan was unmistakable (to everyone but Dr. Bloodgood) with his long hair.  Was really sad to see him fall so far so quick...

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I see the head priest of Our Lady of Perpetual Butt Hurt is back up at the pulpit.



Really glad you used this again.  Was disappointed it didn't get more  :lol: the first go around.  Very innovative, and a great evolution in your ever-expanding library of BMW "akas."

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