I mean, they got two IDs in the SanSan cycle ([[Armand "Geist" Walker]] and [[Laramy Fisk]]), while Anarchs got none. Moreover, now the first Runner ID announced for the Mumbad cycle is another Criminal, Nero Severn. Why are Criminals getting so many IDs in a (relatively) short period, while other factions don't?
Ryan MustardI love how Malik has just taken the leadership roll and run with it.
It's not about getting rid of the past, it's about moving forward into the future.
There's no question that the presence of former Texas Longhorns quarterback Vince Young still casts a heavy shadow over the football program in Austin.
That's simply the result of Young leading the Horns to the school's only national championship in football since 1970, now a span of 45 years.
But for freshman linebacker Malik Jefferson, that's a problem.
All due respect to VY, of course, but "we gotta get his name outta here," says the former consensus five-star prospect.
What does Jefferson mean?
"We have not made that change yet. Someone has to put their foot down and make that change."
When it does happen, the program will move out of what is quickly becoming the distant past and into a new era of Texas football defined by current success. With the timestamp on Young's exploits now expired on the recruiting trail, the Longhorns will only continue to fall behind the in-state competition unless that change happens.
Perhaps it will be Jefferson himself who helps facilitate it.
Ryan MustardLittle known fact, Amber had a huge crush on Anthony Bourdain.
Who would have guessed 15 years ago that this self-styled rebel, who wrote about waitress blow jobs and shooting heroin in his best-selling 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential, would become America's contemporary answer to, say, Mark Twain -- our most enthusiastic chronicler of life outside our borders?
Josh Eells tags along to get a firsthand look at Anthony Bourdain's world domination.
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Tags: Anthony Bourdain food travel TVRyan MustardMan he's got a great scowl.
Lots of interesting quotes in here.
Ryan MustardWould Mack Brown make a good AD at Texas?
Welp. That didn't take long.
Just a day after multiple reports indicated that president Greg Fenves was still considering firing Texas Longhorns athletic director Steve Patterson, the Austin American-Statesman broke the news that Patterson's termination appeared imminent on Tuesday morning.
According to the publication, Fenves was holding a key meeting with Patterson when the story broke just after 8:30 a.m. CT.
Here are some further specifics:
Former Texas linebacker Mike Perrin, a member of the 1968 team that started the program's 30-game winning streak in the late 60s and a member of the UT Men's Hall of Honor, will be named the interim athletic director, the Houston source said.
A loss of confidence from the coaches underneath Patterson helped prompt the change, according to a Houston source quoted by the Statesman. When will it become official? The two sides were apparently negotiating a buyout as of Tuesday morning.
Roughly two months ago, Fenves asked Patterson to change his personal style, one that many inside and outside of the athletic departmnet considered "impersonal or even arrogant."
According to a Monday report from Horns Digest, Patterson hasn't succeeded in those efforts and Fenves was considering removing Patterson from his position less than two years into his tenure replacing DeLoss Dodds. In fact, ever since meeting twice with Patterson in the middle of July, Patterson has been in trouble, according to the Statesman.
A week ago, just as Patterson was touting the economic impact of Texas sports on the city of Austin, Fenves declined to publicly express support for the embattled athletic director, saying only that the two are "continuing to work through the issues," a strong signal that Patterson has not changed his personal style as requested by his new boss.
The handling of the uproar over Texas charging the Texas Tech band $100 for tickets hardly went well -- it took two days for the athletic department to release a statement detailing the changes in policy. And a plane bearing a banner that read "Patterson must go" appeared over Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for Saturday's home opener:
"Patterson Must Go" banner flying over DKR before the Rice game. @statesman pic.twitter.com/rrKCKxAVkM
— Jay Janner (@jayjanner) September 12, 2015
Though it's unclear who paid for the banner, it's a strong vote of no confidence from someone with money to burn.
In the lead up to that Rice game, the school revealed that there 15,000 unsold tickets and the sparse crowd at kickoff provided further evidence of declining fan interest amid rising ticket prices. One fan who declined to renew his season tickets for the first time in more than a decade told the San Antonio Express-News that he "got tired of being treated like a wallet." Even though his season ticket prices increased only marginally, the decision not to renew was one made on principle.
In an opinion piece for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram back in June, Texas communications professor Rick Cherwitz admitted that he didn't renew his season tickets this year for the first time in 36 years:
It was clear to us that the Athletics Department no longer considers faculty and staff to be members of the "family" and "community" — the very people who educate and serve student athletes. Instead, we became another one of the institution's many "corporate customers."
It's not just the season tickets holders or the faculty who don't care for Patterson -- what really concerns Fenves is the poor relationships that Patterson has with many donors, who essentially feel the same way about Patterson as the season ticket holder quoted by the Express-News.
As a result, Patterson's wife has taken a leading role in donor relations, but it's not clear whether that will be enough to repair those relationships. Horns Digest reports that mega-donor Joe Jamail declined to renew his suite this year, though Jamail denied that rumor back in July and did not provide any confirmation or denial for Chip Brown's story.
Throw in further turnover in the athletic department and Patterson's inability to create allies increasingly left him isolated and at odds with Fenves, who quickly tired of the consistent complaints from all corners.
At some point on Tuesday, the move will become official once and for all, though it will be expensive for Texas -- Patterson's five-year contract is guaranteed at $1.4 million annually.
The Scottish whisky that spent three years ageing aboard the International Space Station has finally been tasted. The result, according to the Ardbeg distillery and aerospace company NanoRacks, is a whisky with a "noticeably different" flavour profile to one matured on earth.
Ardbeg, a distillery from the Isle of Islay in Scotland, and NanoRacks hoped to determine what effect microgravity conditions would have on terpene, a set of organic compounds found in whisky and other foods that give them a distinct flavour. By sending unmatured whisky into space along with charred oak wood shavings—which were only brought together inside a sealed vial once in space—they also hoped to reveal the effect of microgravity on the extraction of certain flavour compounds from the oak. A control sample was left back on Earth for comparison.
Three distinct analyses were conducted upon the whisky's return to Earth: chromatography for volatile congener analysis (substances other than alcohol produced during fermentation that give it its flavour); high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) for maturation-related congener analysis; and "organoleptic assessment," which is an incredibly fancy way of describing a simple taste test.
Ryan Mustard"If you expect to see me after the game... Me and Houdini, we family" - Vance Bedford
Vance!
Ryan MustardIt's long. But I am also a sucker for a Texas hype video.
Engage.
Ryan MustardFun for a bit.
1. Locate/build time machine.
2. Travel back in time to kill Hitler.
3. Bring Hitler’s body back to present, show it to Heather. (She hates Hitler, will be impressed, will finally go to dinner with you.)
4. Rethink plan: if you kill Hitler before he does his Hitlering, Heather will never learn about his evil; therefore, won’t be impressed if you kill him; will in fact be terrified that you’re presenting her with mustachioed corpse of seemingly innocent man. So…
5. Travel back in time to stop yourself from killing Hitler.
6. Wait until Hitler’s done a tiny bit of Hitlering; then, kill Hitler, bring back body, etc. (c.f. 3, above.)
7. Once Heather goes to dinner with you and is charmed and finally sees what she’s been missing out on all these years, date her.
8. If Heather wants to be exclusive before you do, use time machine to travel back to before she wanted to be exclusive and swap places with past self, so that the current you can continue casually dating her unencumbered by premature expectations of commitment.
9. Repeat 8 as necessary, until you’ve aged too much and/or Heather comments on your thinning hair, then reluctantly agree to committed relationship.
10. But secretly use time machine to go back and sleep with your ex-girlfriends back when your past self was dating them (technically not cheating because at that point in the timeline you were in a relationship).
11. Travel to future to make sure things work out between you and Heather, just to make sure you’re not wasting your time/machine. If Future Heather is married to someone else, disguise self as kindly old man, sit beside her on train, and casually work conversation to subject of past relationships and why they didn’t work out, then travel back in time and use that information to lock it down. But pay attention: if Future Heather is giving off signals that she’s into you in your old man disguise, keep up ruse and date her.
12. See 8, but don’t worry about getting too old since she’s apparently into older men.
13. Rethink plan again: If you need to continually mess with the space-time continuum and wear an old man disguise to win/retain Heather’s love, maybe she isn’t the right person for you; maybe, of all the people who have ever lived or ever will live, there’s someone else out there who’s a better match; or maybe just use time machine to see if Heather and her future husband have a hot daughter.
14. If yes: To make sure Heather’s daughter also hates Hitler, get hired at her school as a history teacher and focus lessons on the horrors of World War II.
15. Travel further into the future, befriend Heather’s now-adult daughter, and casually bring up the topic of Hitler. When she expresses revulsion, make your move (step 2, followed by modified 3).
16. Be careful: Future Heather may notice that her daughter’s lover looks remarkably like her coworker from the 2010’s who sat two cubicles away from her (so close, yet so far). If so, DO NOT ADMIT THAT YOU USED A TIME TRAVEL MACHINE TO TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE TO DATE HER DAUGHTER. Instead, casually laugh and say, “That’s funny, but a lot of people resemble other — hey, look, it’s Hitler’s corpse that I killed!” (You held onto the body, right?)
17. Tread carefully with 16; the sight of Hitler’s corpse could send Future Heather into an uncontrollable paroxysm of sexual gratitude, and it could ruin your relationship with her daughter if she falls in love with you, too. If this happens, you’ll have only one choice…
18. Go back in time to right before you met Heather and force your past self to grow ridiculous facial hair as a disguise. (Note: NOT A HITLER MUSTACHE.)
19. Proceed as planned — unless it turns out that Heather’s into the hirsute you, and all you needed to do to woo her was grow a beard.
20. If so, probably still travel back in time to kill Hitler, unless you’re too busy banging Heather.
21. But be careful: It’s possible all this meddling with the past, present, and future could somehow create a Heather/Hitler hybrid: her eyes, his haircut, her sweet voice mixed with his oratorical fury. If so, instead of running back to the time machine heartbroken at this karmic comeuppance, pause and consider that finding “the one” might be an impossible fantasy. Maybe “part-Hitler, part-soulmate” is the best anyone can ask for, and you should settle for what you’ve got.
22. So grab “Heathler” in your arms, tell her-him that you’re committed to making this work, and get ready to share a life full of laughter, love, and foiling endless time-travel assassination attempts.
23. Just wait a bit before you bring up raising the kids Jewish.
Ryan MustardAlways wanted to try the aeropress
Great short film profile of inventor Alan Adler by David Friedman.
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Ryan Mustard"To provide some context for that result, the average at Texas for students admitted is 29, but the average composite score for Florida students is only 19.6 ..."
That is some shitty context when you're comparing the average of the kids admitted to Texas to %80 of the eligible ACT students in Florida.
The Longhorns won't have the US Army All-American on campus this fall.
After a lengthy review process, the NCAA informed Texas Longhorns tight end signee Devonaire Clarington that he will have to retake the ACT in order to gain his eligibility, Clarington told ESPN's Max Olson on Wednesday.
Head coach Charlie Strong said on Tuesday that he expected a decision to come down from the governing body this week and despite some optimism on the Texas side, it was not positive news for the Longhorns.
Despite some reports late last week that the hold up came from the Texas side, Strong said that "everything is good" with the university. However, ACT administrators didn't feel the same way after the NCAA flagged Clarington's ACT score of 26 as out of line with his academic performance in the classroom.
To provide some context for that result, the average at Texas for students admitted is 29, but the average composite score for Florida students is only 19.6, and Clarington allegedly experienced academic issues early in high school that put his eventual eligibility into significant question.
The earliest ACT that Clarington could take in the Miami area is on September 12, exactly a week after the season opener against Notre Dame and one day after the deadline to add or drop a class at Texas. And clearly there would be a significant review process even after the testing results come in. So Clarington now has some important decisions to make about his future, but Orangebloods' Jason Suchomel is reporting that he wants to attend prep school and attempt to enroll at Texas in the spring.
Unfortunately, the odds of any prospect ending up at the school they signed with after experiencing academic difficulties isn't particulary high, though Clarington did say that he does want to enroll at Texas no matter what happens.
Re taking the ACT. Wish me luck What ever happens I'm still a longhorn #HookEm
— The beat go off? (@dev_go_deep) August 19, 2015
The further good news is that Strong does have a track record in this area after placing safety Gerod Holliman at a prep school in 2011 and then getting him enrolled at Louisville the next year.
With some luck and some diligence from Clarington, perhaps the same thing could happen here. And at least he's no longer in limbo.
This beach towel featuring Han Solo frozen in carbonite is the only Star Wars merch I want in my life. (thx, meg)
Update: Ok, I had forgotten about the Han Solo frozen in carbonite ice cube tray, which is slightly more awesome. (via @ajsheets)
Tags: fashion Star WarsRyan MustardSharing this feels like trolling.
Ryan MustardCheck out this political ad.
http://io9.com/this-could-seriously-be-the-greatest-political-campaign-1723555465?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=wednesdayAM
Ryan MustardPretty good.
In the future, when time travel is a totally normal thing to do, people will use it to do stuff like tell their 10-year-old selves to learn the guitar so their adult selves can impress women.
(via @mouser_nerdbot)
Tags: time travel videoRyan MustardNo hesitation. Love these writers.
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Ryan MustardLooks like something out of 5th Element.
The 16 'seeds' filled with various supplements that line the top of the Nourish 
On July 10th, 2014, a small, mysterious game called "Do Not Believe His Lies" was uploaded to the iOS app store. Since then, over 40,000 people have downloaded the app. Nobody has beaten it. Hell, nobody quite knows what it is, either.
Then, the game throws you its first riddle: The first puzzle stumped me for a while. I tried the time, AT&T, Share, Feedback. It turns out, you can only see the answer if you have your brightness on your phone all the way up. If you're viewing this on a PC or a mobile device with the brightness turned up, the answer might be more immediately visible to you. Either way: this is just the first puzzle. Nothing major. The solution is: When you punch that in, the game automatically throws you the next puzzle: Morse! Pretty simple. The message translates to: So far, pretty easy. Then it gives you this riddle:This is where I got completely lost. I turned to the , and found that people have been posting there for the last eight months, diligently solving puzzles from this game. Some puzzles took months to figure out. For this one in particular, someone actually inverted the picture, cut it into squares, and rearranged it into the text. This is what it says: If you're playing the game seriously, my bet is that you're going to be inputting a looot of wrong answers—and therefore seeing a lot of ads. Every puzzle also gives you the option to purchase a hint. The hints aren't solutions, but they do cost money. I do understand that the developer needs to make money off this game somehow, but it's hard not to walk away with the sense that it was deliberately made difficult to try to squeeze as much money away from people as possible. Maybe that's just me being cynical. And maybe it doesn't matter in the end—the game is pretty damn good. Even though I've only played a small portion of it, the game managed to unsettle me. Now I'm eating all the mystery up.
Ryan MustardVery cool.
Software from a group at the University of Washington and Google discovers time lapses lurking in photos posted to the internet. For example, their bot found hundreds of photos of a Norwegian glacier on the Web, taken over a span of 10 years. Voila, instant time lapse of a retreating glacier.
First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular viewpoints. Then, we sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker. Our resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the world's most popular sites, like glaciers shrinking, skyscrapers being constructed, and waterfalls changing course.
This is like a time machine, allowing you to go back 5 or 10 years and position a camera somewhere to take photos every few days or weeks. Pretty clever.
Tags: time lapses videoRyan MustardLoved red dead redemption
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Ryan Mustard'- Strong missed the opportunity to call Kirk Bohls "Kurt." Disappointing.'
Ha
Some quick hitters:
- Camp starts August 6th. Then it's a one month slog until kickoff in South Bend.
- Challenging schedule, we'll be tested often early.
- Our seniors have never had a double digit winning season
- Spoke about nine players being dismissed last year and how he never wants to dismiss any kid from the team. They wanted to do things their way and it couldn't continue. Every player was given multiple opportunities to change. 76 players did everything they were asked.
- The receivers have to come on. Marcus Johnson and Daje Johnson need to step up. It's now or never. Strong teased Daje that he hasn't made a play for Texas since the punt return against OU. He's right. And that was in 2013. Warrick and Joe are progressing. The players like Jay Norvell. He's disciplined and thorough.
- Golson considered transferring to Texas. Notre Dame blocked that transfer. Strong said he can't fault them.
- Moorer saw more self-starters in the offseason program than last year.
- Strong missed the opportunity to call Kirk Bohls "Kurt." Disappointing.
- Tyrone Swoopes is the starting QB going into fall camp. Heard will have his shot.
- Strong is in favor of not allowing major incident "troubled" transfers into the Big 12 from other schools. He's looking at you, Oklahoma.
- Malik Jefferson is up around 240 now. Holy moly.
- Strong said J Gray needs to have a big year. I think Catalon will surprise with his versatility.
- Strong says Swoopes has had a lot said about him. He wants to prove doubters wrong. Strong hopes he does.
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We're getting closer, people!
Actual zookeepers taking photos of themselves doing Chris Pratt's Jurassic World velociraptor taming move is a thing. Here's the original:
And the imitators:
Found them here and here. If you find others, send them along!
Update: Laurel sent this one in from the California Academy of Sciences:
Update: Several more zookeepers being awesome via @ohmygoat1, @susiethefivetoedsloth, @parrotman_jon, and @kati_speer.
Update: Ok, a few more via @MrDABailey, The Minnesota Zoo, The Georgia Aquarium, and Reddit.
Update: One last photo brings this meme to a fitting close. This is Chris Pratt himself, taming some children during a recent visit to a local children's hospital.
(via @alexcarvalho)
Update: Ok, ok, one more and then that's it, America needs to move on. Here's the Dinosaur Curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History taming some actual dinosaurs, long-dead though they may be:
(via @thanland)
Tags: Chris Pratt dinosaurs Jurassic World movies photographyRyan MustardThat title is just too good.
Nigel Richards, a God amongst mortals on the Scrabble tournament scene, has outdone himself this time: he’s won the French version of the Scrabble world champs without speaking a word of French.
Ryan MustardPlaystation is always getting the best exclusives!
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Ryan MustardGreat movie.
The Iron Giant has been remastered and burnished with a pair of extra scenes for a re-release in US theaters scheduled for the end of September.
Warner Bros. and Fathom Events are teaming up to bring The Iron Giant back to life. The beloved 1999 animated film is being remastered and augmented with new footage, and it's coming to select American theatres as what the studio's calling the "Signature Edition" on September 30th. There'll also be an encore presentation in select theatres a few days later on October 4th.
The movie earned a respectable $23 million at the box office and critical acclaim, but failed to recoup its $70 million production budget. After reading a bunch of positive reviews, including one from my cinematic divining rod Roger Ebert, I was one of the brave few souls to see The Iron Giant in the theater. Hope to catch it again in September. (via @anildash)
Tags: Brad Bird movies Roger Ebert The Iron GiantRyan MustardThis game is really good.
I only stopped playing Rocket League to write this article, and man am I ever itching to get back to it.
