I've met a few people at game watch parties that have done some trips, and they raved about them. Spoiler alert: They were all retired and well-off.
But yes, I've wondered the same thing. I'm at the point in my life where I like to take 2-week vacations each year to somewhere in the world I've never seen. Would I love to do a 4 week African Safari for only $20k? Abso-freaking-lutely. Would that PTO request be approved? Not if I want to keep my job.
It looks like the Alumni Association has tickets available as part of a tour, but the package prices are holy crap high. $2,500 per person for land-only, tickets not included.
FWIW, I booked a Hilton property 10 miles from the stadium for $350. I'll take my chances for tickets.
Pro Tip: Austin airport is a 2.5 hour drive to NRG Stadium. Way cheaper if you can make the logistics work. (note: look into Vonlane, a van service between Austin and Houston. They are awesome)
I'm wondering if you use multiple streams (it says each account is allowed three of them), what are the odds that the streams stay in sync? Having multiple rooms watching could be interesting if one stream is a couple seconds different... someone is getting spoiler-ed.
It seems that with streaming apps, "live" is subjective.
No self-respecting Irish Pub would dare to not offer Smithwick's. We have you covered, MrGate!
- Guiness
- Smithwick's
- Harp
- Norm Peterson (house-made Irish Red Ale)
- Black Lab (house-made Vanilla Stout)
- Boddingtons (eh, UK is close by I guess)
If I can stop playing Baldur's Gate long enough, I can hopefully get some fancy Maize and Blue tap handles engineered up for them too.
Working in IT, I always tell my people to take advantage of the "slow times", when nothing is broken and there are no projects going live. Don't feel guilty about goofing off for a week or two, because you're right around the corner from a hell week where everything is on fire and you have to work all weekend. It goes both ways.
I have multiple one-year stops on my resume and nobody sees it as a negative anymore.
I respectfully disagree. As a hiring manager, I almost never give the resume of serial job-hoppers a second look. I assume our time and effort to train them up will be wasted.
Slightly OT - I recently got some advice to essentially make 2 different inboxes. One inbox for internal email (and maybe super tight vendors) and one for "external" email. Create a rule to send everything to the external box, except company.com senders.
That's a show stopper right there. I need an alert that triggers a pop-up every time I have a PO I need to approve. Those emails are easy to miss, and you become the a-hole real quick when purchasing has to hunt you down constantly.
I'd rather be the a-hole for different reasons, like my personality. :)
I'm forcing myself to give it a chance. So far, not a fan. It just looks "too slick". Not sure I want to spend a bunch of time with the settings to make it look like the old Outlook, when I can just switch back.
Unpopular opinion time. I'm going to just say it - Beyonce is overrated. She shows up a ton here, and I just don't get it. Rihanna I get. Beyonce, nope.
Also, Olivia Newton-John is underrated for how hot she was. And Belinda Carlisle... yep.
While I don't miss the gross colors, I miss how the Adidas shirts fit. The Nike/Jordan ones all feel weird, like I'm wearing them backwards. And they are soooo short.
Being tall is great except when buying clothes. Finding LT and XLT is nearly impossible, and the Nike stuff barely covers my dad curves. Adidas shirts are significantly longer.
Wrong. If you watch through the end of the video, Joel makes great point about why it matters now. Teams are building a resume constantly. Having a resume argument of a victory over the overrated #19, #22, #23 teams in CFP (Clemson) looks better than CFP ignoring the rest of the B1G and Michigan having zero victories over CFP teams.
It's simply a way to make Clemson/SEC wins look more impressive than they really are.
This. If one was focusing on the main point of the tweet (rich record execs taking advantage, etc), I can see glossing over the other antisemitic part before re-reading it again and realizing how awful it was overall. I've got no problems with this. Move on.
Sorry Kirby, but no. This is an awesome tradition that is bigger than you.
Should we also get rid of the Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl since it's not a home game for either UT or OU? Nope.
If this was a one-off money grab at Jerry World, I'd agree with him.. but since he had no problem taking the cash to play Oregon in Atlanta this year, I'd say his complaints ring hollow.
What is crazy is that as good as she is, she statistically will make their pitching staff worse. She had an suburb 1.71 ERA this year, while Oklahoma as a team was at a ridiculous 1.04.
Oklahoma's top 3 pitchers (99.997% of all innings pitched this year) all had better ERA numbers than Storako.
Wilson is from Lake Travis HS here in Austin. It's one of the local powerhouse schools, along with Westlake. We were at a local brewery and were chatting with some Lake Travis football parents and they said more than once what a great kid Wilson is. Very little ego and took his academics seriously.
Also interesting is that they mentioned never having seen or heard of Michigan coaches ever stopping by.
Outside of the fact that I live in Austin now, I still wouldn't go to many (if any) basketball games. I simply don't have the tolerance level for all the stoppages in play as I do for football. With all the fouls and TV timeouts, it's almost gotten to the point where a college bball game is on the same level as a baseball game, where I need to be doing something else and have the game on in the background because it simply doesn't do enough to keep me occupied on its own.
That being said, I do watch as many games as possible even though this current team is hard to watch at times. Being in person though... man, it just doesn't look overly enjoyable in the least.
Hockey games though... almost no stoppages. I feel like if I look at my phone for 10 seconds, I'm going to miss something.
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I've met a few people at game watch parties that have done some trips, and they raved about them. Spoiler alert: They were all retired and well-off.
But yes, I've wondered the same thing. I'm at the point in my life where I like to take 2-week vacations each year to somewhere in the world I've never seen. Would I love to do a 4 week African Safari for only $20k? Abso-freaking-lutely. Would that PTO request be approved? Not if I want to keep my job.
All that is left are 3-night packages for land-only, three hotel choices, starting at $2,500 per person. Team Hotel is $3k pp.
It looks like the Alumni Association has tickets available as part of a tour, but the package prices are holy crap high. $2,500 per person for land-only, tickets not included.
FWIW, I booked a Hilton property 10 miles from the stadium for $350. I'll take my chances for tickets.
Pro Tip: Austin airport is a 2.5 hour drive to NRG Stadium. Way cheaper if you can make the logistics work. (note: look into Vonlane, a van service between Austin and Houston. They are awesome)
You can do "sailgating" at Husky Stadium. We got hosed out of that experience during Covid, but looking forward to visiting Seattle next year.
"So that’s what it’s like to be a prison bitch."
I'm not touching that thumbs up, so here's my 'manual' upvote
But somehow Mahomes is in all of them.
I'm wondering if you use multiple streams (it says each account is allowed three of them), what are the odds that the streams stay in sync? Having multiple rooms watching could be interesting if one stream is a couple seconds different... someone is getting spoiler-ed.
It seems that with streaming apps, "live" is subjective.
It's a tie.
Like a wet sponge?
I'll be honest, I've watched 4 games at Haymaker and have had my truck booted twice. The parking situation around there is a traveshamockery.
I've also supported Pluckers in South Austin and found their hospitality for our watch party severely lacking.
C&B has our own parking, plus an entire baseball stadium next door (Dell Diamond). No boots here, amigos.
This is the one column I save for bathroom reading. I can finally poop again!
Good spot to note that there is a hotel (La Quinta) literally next door to us.
No self-respecting Irish Pub would dare to not offer Smithwick's. We have you covered, MrGate!
- Guiness
- Smithwick's
- Harp
- Norm Peterson (house-made Irish Red Ale)
- Black Lab (house-made Vanilla Stout)
- Boddingtons (eh, UK is close by I guess)
If I can stop playing Baldur's Gate long enough, I can hopefully get some fancy Maize and Blue tap handles engineered up for them too.
Sláinte!
Sodexo concessions.... gross. The proverbial "lowest bidder" for food this year.
Would be nice to see us copy minor league ballpark options and use someone far more creative.
Grilled Cheese Hotdog or queso-infused burger? Yes please. Maybe I'm spoiled in Austin with Dell Diamond nearby.
Also, for…
Harmony House!
Also, for anyone that lived in Texas in the late 70's/early 80's: Taco Plaza
You don't get paid for the number of buttons you push. You get paid for knowing which ones to push.
Working for a results-based company is awesome. The "butts in seats" types... nope.
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Same mentality here.
Working in IT, I always tell my people to take advantage of the "slow times", when nothing is broken and there are no projects going live. Don't feel guilty about goofing off for a week or two, because you're right around the corner from a hell week where everything is on fire and you have to work all weekend. It goes both ways.
I respectfully disagree. As a hiring manager, I almost never give the resume of serial job-hoppers a second look. I assume our time and effort to train them up will be wasted.
Maybe for highly niche roles, YMMV.
Slightly OT - I recently got some advice to essentially make 2 different inboxes. One inbox for internal email (and maybe super tight vendors) and one for "external" email. Create a rule to send everything to the external box, except company.com senders.
Best advice I've ever gotten.
That's a show stopper right there. I need an alert that triggers a pop-up every time I have a PO I need to approve. Those emails are easy to miss, and you become the a-hole real quick when purchasing has to hunt you down constantly.
I'd rather be the a-hole for different reasons, like my personality. :)
I'm forcing myself to give it a chance. So far, not a fan. It just looks "too slick". Not sure I want to spend a bunch of time with the settings to make it look like the old Outlook, when I can just switch back.
Unpopular opinion time. I'm going to just say it - Beyonce is overrated. She shows up a ton here, and I just don't get it. Rihanna I get. Beyonce, nope.
Also, Olivia Newton-John is underrated for how hot she was. And Belinda Carlisle... yep.
PS: Most of the 90's were terrible.
This is the kind of event that makes paying extra for the 4k tier on YoutubeTV worth it.
Except that it's not in 4k. Same as most/all of March Madness. Why is 4k even a thing if we're not going to use it for anything?
/RantOver
Monday night late is a hard 'no' for me.
Final Four should be a Thursday-Saturday thing.
No championship game should ever be on a Sunday or Monday night (looking at you, NFL)
GUT HEALTH! Bones and all.
While I don't miss the gross colors, I miss how the Adidas shirts fit. The Nike/Jordan ones all feel weird, like I'm wearing them backwards. And they are soooo short.
Being tall is great except when buying clothes. Finding LT and XLT is nearly impossible, and the Nike stuff barely covers my dad curves. Adidas shirts are significantly longer.
Wrong. If you watch through the end of the video, Joel makes great point about why it matters now. Teams are building a resume constantly. Having a resume argument of a victory over the overrated #19, #22, #23 teams in CFP (Clemson) looks better than CFP ignoring the rest of the B1G and Michigan having zero victories over CFP teams.
It's simply a way to make Clemson/SEC wins look more impressive than they really are.
Someone is a JRVP listener
This. If one was focusing on the main point of the tweet (rich record execs taking advantage, etc), I can see glossing over the other antisemitic part before re-reading it again and realizing how awful it was overall. I've got no problems with this. Move on.
Sorry Kirby, but no. This is an awesome tradition that is bigger than you.
Should we also get rid of the Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl since it's not a home game for either UT or OU? Nope.
If this was a one-off money grab at Jerry World, I'd agree with him.. but since he had no problem taking the cash to play Oregon in Atlanta this year, I'd say his complaints ring hollow.
No matter how hot she is, there's some guy at home that's sick of putting up with her shit.
That was fantastic. RG3 couldn't help himself
Haha yes! Micky Tettleton was another stance I emulated later.
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I love this thread!!
Dexter Bussey
Doug Bair
Johnny Grubb
Brent Fedyk
John Wockenfuss
Bruce "Toast" McNorton
Wonder what ever happened to Xavier Worthy.... oh, 2nd Team AA.
Fortunately our WR room is stocked. Good on him though
What is crazy is that as good as she is, she statistically will make their pitching staff worse. She had an suburb 1.71 ERA this year, while Oklahoma as a team was at a ridiculous 1.04.
Oklahoma's top 3 pitchers (99.997% of all innings pitched this year) all had better ERA numbers than Storako.
Thanks for posting this.
Is it weird that I always look at the battery level in the phone screenshot?
Dug needs to plug his phone in.
Wilson is from Lake Travis HS here in Austin. It's one of the local powerhouse schools, along with Westlake. We were at a local brewery and were chatting with some Lake Travis football parents and they said more than once what a great kid Wilson is. Very little ego and took his academics seriously.
Also interesting is that they mentioned never having seen or heard of Michigan coaches ever stopping by.
Houston may be the first one and done that wasn't his own decision
I have 2 games on my phone... Splendor and Ticket to Ride.
Both are board game-ish.
Outside of the fact that I live in Austin now, I still wouldn't go to many (if any) basketball games. I simply don't have the tolerance level for all the stoppages in play as I do for football. With all the fouls and TV timeouts, it's almost gotten to the point where a college bball game is on the same level as a baseball game, where I need to be doing something else and have the game on in the background because it simply doesn't do enough to keep me occupied on its own.
That being said, I do watch as many games as possible even though this current team is hard to watch at times. Being in person though... man, it just doesn't look overly enjoyable in the least.
Hockey games though... almost no stoppages. I feel like if I look at my phone for 10 seconds, I'm going to miss something.
No love for Ferris State in the D2 championship game tonight at 9pm ET?
Kobe's dribble drives into a firing squad at the hoop are hopefully an opportunity for learning to maybe, you know, not do that.
That's no way to go through life, son.
Rice4114…
Well played.
Rice4114 certainly is no analyst, nor a therapist.
Do you have one you like? I've yet to find one that looks even remotely "realistic" for a green screen effect
This made me realize I'm already at the "laughing at the absurdity of letting Michigan football ruin my mood" stage of grief.