Fuck Yeah Texas

texasmonthly: This means war. LOL. Truth.

texnessa — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:18 -0500

texasmonthly:

This means war.

LOL. Truth.

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texnessa — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:12 -0500

Texas Hill Country Donkey

texnessa — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:12 -0500

pjcharles:

OK.. I know we were there to look at the Longhorns but as we made our way up to the Barbecue there was this little mini herd of Donkeys. My God are they cute and sweet looking. They make a horrific noise which you can all but forget if you just look at…

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nbcthevoice: Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are dedicating...

texnessa — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:36:56 -0500

nbcthevoice:

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are dedicating “Over You” to their home state of Oklahoma. You can donate at www.redcross.org

Thinking of our neighbors to the north.

If this isnt in Texas, it should be.

texnessa — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:29 -0500

If this isnt in Texas, it should be.

How to get thrown out of Texas ^^^^^^^

texnessa — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:26 -0500

How to get thrown out of Texas ^^^^^^^

gentastic: First meal back in Texas. Yee-haw deliciousness!

texnessa — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:25 -0500

gentastic:

First meal back in Texas. Yee-haw deliciousness!

haveiphone-willtravel: Jerry Jeff Walker @ Gruene Hall Gruene,...

texnessa — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:27 -0500

haveiphone-willtravel:

Jerry Jeff Walker @ Gruene Hall
Gruene, TX

haveiphone-willtravel: Vintage cigarette machine Gruene Hall,...

texnessa — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:28 -0500

haveiphone-willtravel:

Vintage cigarette machine
Gruene Hall,
Gruene, TX

justlikeyoulikeit: “I’m ashamed of how many times I tried to...

texnessa — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:28 -0500

justlikeyoulikeit:

“I’m ashamed of how many times I tried to grab that fry.”

We understand.

standing6four: Yu Darvish Pitch Selection On April 24th, Yu...

texnessa — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:22 -0500

standing6four:

Yu Darvish Pitch Selection

On April 24th, Yu Darvish dominated the Angels, striking out 11 hitters in six innings and allowing just five baserunners (three hits, two walks) — none of whom reached second base. Manager Ron Washington pulled him after 100 pitches because by the end of the sixth, the Rangers had rolled out to an 11-0 lead. Still, the consensus of the Rangers’ TV announcers was that he was even sharper than on April 2, when he came within one out of completing a perfect game against the Astros.

Reddit user DShep put together this amazing GIF of Darvish, compositing all five of his primary offerings into a single animation that makes clear the consistency of his delivery and release point:

Hypnotic, isn’t it? According to the PITCHf/x data at BrooksBaseball.net, Darvish threw:

• 43 sliders (average speed 87.1 MPH), of which an amazing 13 were swings and misses (30.2 percent). By comparison, Darvish’s whiff rate on sliders last year was 22.5 percent. He threw 12 others last night for strikes that weren’t put into play, via seven called strikes and five foul balls. Twelve were called balls. Of the six that were put into play, two produced singles by Mark Trumbo and Josh Hamilton (the latter an infield single). Can’t win ‘em all.

• 42 four-seam fastballs (average speed 95.1 MPH), of which five were swings and misses (11.9 percent, up from last year’s 9.8 percent). Another 11 were called strikes and nine were fouls. Fourteen were called balls, only three of which cane when he was even in the count (0-0 or 1-1), and none when he was behind. Only two were put into play, and both were converted into outs. Darvish topped out at a career-high 98.5 MPH (at least as far as his time in MLB goes), though it’s worth remembering that the f/x system calibration from park to park can produce wide enough margins for error to cloud that assertion.

• 8 two-seam fastballs (average speed 94.0 MPH), of which two were swings and misses, two were fouls, and four were balls.

• 4 slow curveballs (average speed 63.2 MPH), of which two were swinging strikes, one was a called strike and one was a ball. The 31.9 MPH gap between his four-seamer and curve was much wider than the average gap between the two pitches last year, when the heater averaged 93.6 MPH and the slow hook 70.3 MPH; note that the folks at Brooks, who review the classification of every pitch (well after the fact) distinguish that from his regular curve, which last year averaged 79.6 MPH.

• 3 cutters (average speed 91.2 MPH), of which one was a swinging strike, one a foul and one a ball in play for a single by Albert Pujols.

Furthermore, Darvish didn’t even break out his faster curve, changeup or splitter, three pitches which he combined to throw roughly 12 percent of the time last year. All of which means that he’ll have something different to throw at the Angels the next time he faces them. There isn’t a pitcher in the game who can claim that wide a repertoire of plus pitches.

miss4n6tx: I did the math. I have enough packets left to last...

texnessa — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:27 -0500

miss4n6tx:

I did the math. I have enough packets left to last me until it’s available at HEB.

There has never been a more Texan post than this.

vicemag: Some Rich People, Including Jeff Bezos and Brian Eno,...

texnessa — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00:30 -0500

vicemag:

Some Rich People, Including Jeff Bezos and Brian Eno, Are Building a Giant 10,000-Year Clock Inside a Mountain in Texas

Deep within a mountain somewhere in west Texas, The Long Now Foundation are hard at work building a 500-foot clock that’s been designed to run for 10,000 years. I know that sounds a bit like the folly of a Lone Star oil billionaire, but apparently this massive clock is going to adjust the manner in which we understand time itself, so I suppose that counts as having a purpose.

The team behind the construction—boasting names like Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired magazine and, somewhat bizarrely, Brian Eno—want the clock to help destroy the short-term thinking they believe is plaguing society. Their aim is to engage the population so we all properly consider the ways we should be preparing for the future.

The giant clock might seem a slightly excessive way to do that, but when you’ve got Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos investing £27.5 million in your project, you don’t really need to worry about excess.

Executive director Alexander Rose talked me through the concept.

VICE: Hey. So what’s up with this gigantic clock?
Alexander Rose: The clock is an iconic project to inspire other people to get the conversation going about long-term thinking. I was once giving a tour to some IBM engineers and one gentleman said, “You know, this is never going to work. In 3,000 years, they’re going to be sacrificing virgins on this thing and all the blood is going to drip into it and it’s not going to work.” And I said, “That may be, but before you walked in the door here, you weren’t thinking 3,000 years in advance, so it’s already working.”

Sneaky.
Well, what we hope to do is make something so mythic and crazy that people want to tell stories about it and it becomes a meme that can be called upon. When people tell you that you can’t do long term things, there will always be the 10,000 year clock.

I guess so—at least until the 10,001th year. What inspired the clock, Alexander?
“The Millennium Clock,” a clock that ticked once a year, bonged once a century, and the cuckoo would come out once a millennium. If you make it “forever” or of an astronomic time scale of millions and billions of years it dwarfs the human experience and it doesn’t feel like there’s anything you can do that’s important in that time scale. So we thought, What is the human civilizational moment? If you look back to the last ice age, when agriculture started, that’s when large parts of the planet started having what we now call civilization. So that was chosen. If we can look back 10,000 years, then we can look forward 10,000 years.

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texasmonthly: YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST. Go check...

texnessa — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:31 -0500

texasmonthly:

YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST. Go check out @tmbbq on twitter NOW for the full Top 50 list of the best bbq joints in the world. NOTE: this list is alphabetical by city, NOT ranked. Top 4 joints will be disclosed tomorrow. Let the battle begin! #tmbbq (at Texas Monthly)

Texas Twang Fixin' To Ride Off Into The Sunset : NPR

texnessa — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:31 -0500

Texas Twang Fixin' To Ride Off Into The Sunset : NPR:

countryandwestern:

The way Texans speak, from using words like “y’all” to that old Texas twang, is iconic in American culture. But linguists say the twang is fading â and that, in a few decades, “talking Texan” may sound quite different than it does today.

Don’t let that twang die! Say cee-ment and UM-brella. Accents are part of our national charm. See also.

texasmonthly: Trust us, the minute we figure out how to develop...

texnessa — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:16 -0500

texasmonthly:

Trust us, the minute we figure out how to develop a true scratch-n-sniff cover, you guys will be the first to know.

June issue drops next week. Start making your guesses at who made the list and get your antacids ready. It’s gonna be a beautiful summer.

"If a woman calls the Lilith Fund hotline, it’s because she wants an abortion but can’t afford one...."

texnessa — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:12 -0500

“If a woman calls the Lilith Fund hotline, it’s because she wants an abortion but can’t afford one. For these women, the gap between their choice and what is economically realistic is wide. In Texas, the price of an abortion ranges from about $450 to $3,000, depending on how advanced the pregnancy is. For low-income women already struggling with rent, transportation, utilities and childcare (more than half of abortion-seeking women already have children), that sum is out of reach. Economic barriers to abortion are disproportionately high for African-American and Latina women. Long, the Lilith Fund president, noted that 85 percent of the group’s clients are women of color. Last year, the Lilith Fund granted money to 1,214 women—just a third of the women who called.”

- Need An Abortion? Don’t Be Poor (via patrickmorganlives)

klemannlee: Armadillo

texnessa — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:18 -0500

klemannlee:

Armadillo

worldinhand: Big Bend National Park, Texas

texnessa — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:23 -0500

worldinhand:

Big Bend National Park, Texas

ask-the-lonestar: Pearl Stable in San Antonio, Texas.

texnessa — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:00:33 -0500

ask-the-lonestar:

Pearl Stable in San Antonio, Texas.