The last three companies I worked for had protection against thumb or storage drives.  An alarm would trigger IT and you’d get an email or a visit... yet you could easily sync anything you wanted to your OneDrive or Google drive. There’s always ways to get around things but it seems like these folks are just super…

Yup, after getting a surprise on owing last year I changed mine to withhold at the single rate and moved it to 1 (we have a kid).  Hopefully this will stop the paying this year. I’d much rather have a check or zero to pay then send them money.

Random unexciting Jim Ross story: Some friends and I flew back to Dallas from Cancun.  On the return flight I upgraded myself to first class and sat next to Jim Ross. I knew this because he was wearing a shirt with his name on it. He was pretty nice to all the folks that recognized him as they walked by him on the…

Agree with the whole heartily. When my wife traded in her Q50 she was dead set on a Wrangler Rubicon... right up until she drove it. She loved the idea of the vehicle but when it came to actually driving it daily in Austin Traffic that thing would have been terrrrrible. She tried a Denali 1500 as well since it was a lu…

It all has to do with valuing the idea of the institution over the beliefs of that institution is supposed to stand for or the people that attend/ work for that institution; be it a church, a company, or a school this happens a lot.

My first car was a Tempo- $1,200 for a Royal Special Edition apparently made for the KC market (I was in Dallas). There was nothing royal about it, and drinking 10W30 was it’s specialty.

That thing is amazing!

I served prior to 9/11- no one went out of their way to thank me then and it didn’t bother me at all. I actually try not to bring it up now in passing conversation because it drives me insane when some random says “thank you for your service” in an almost automatic-repetitive manner.

I’m in the Mortgage Industry and Fiserv makes a killing for a product that is essentially a COBOL back end mainframe that has a 1990 like GUI interface. As the 2nd most used servicing system (BKFS in all their terrible glory is numero uno) it is infinitely better than thank Black Knights COBOL back end.

My wife has started looking at this for a possible 2019 purchase. She has a 2015 335i M sport, but now that our daughter is getting older she wants something that can fit more than two 10 year old’s in the back seat comfortably. She loves her red car and can’t get enough of the twin turbo V6, but the reality for her…

Yup, showed this to my wife. “Why would I buy that- it’s like my old Q50 but something about it looks less refined and cheap- Who makes that?” Needless to say the conversation died right there. We traded her 2014 Q50 for a 2017 335i M sport. This didn’t move the needle for her at all.

Yup- We moved from Dallas last summer on July 27th. It was 95 in Dallas when we left and 102 in Austin when we arrived. After working for a company that doesn’t have a parking garage I’m looking for a new job and that’s a primary factor in the companies I interview with. Even with Sunshades on 4 windows, tint, and the…

I really thought a story about hybrid Gator-Jaguars fighting would be a lot more interesting.

The whole idea about dedication to a single company died out when companies stopped being dedicated to their employees. When you have small- mid size companies that refuse to provide 401K matching due to cost yet the CEO has a private plane or they only provide the bare minimum in healthcare as the executive staff…

The more times the player rolls over the more it tells me he’s not hurt.  After playing for 20 years I’ve never hit the ground and rolled 5 times due to injury.  It’s more likely I just lay there reeling in pain. 

Definitely, they beat a German squad 0-1 who we know know were terrible (2 goals in 3 matches and finished last in the group), beat a South Korea team that was butt, and got their ish handed to them by Sweden. Yeah, they made it to the next round and then lost 0-2 while having minimum pressure on the Brazil D. So,…

There are lot of white papers and online information on CTE that show it as either present or not based on how progressive the legions are. Here’s two sites that give a lot of general information. With something like this you have to put it into the “Things we definitely know”, “Things that are probable to the result,…

I’m sure it’s made by Axe....

Not very deep in strikers? There’s probably only a handful of teams in this tourney that wouldn’t jump to have Vardy and Rashford come off the bench. When Sterling whiffs on brilliant cross (and we know this will happen) at 68' in a 1-1 game he’ll be replaced by either a killer poacher or young stud who can score from…

It’s tough for me to get behind Brazil winning it all with all the personality issues they seem to always manufacture. Neymar is great, but dominating at PSG while getting hurt and coming in a little rusty seems like a possible concern for someone who would rather take on 3 defenders than pass to a wide open wing.…