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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:52:08 -0500
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On 11/30/24 2:03 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 11/29/2024 11:59 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:
>> One post in 24 hours; this is really bad.
>>
>> I should try to fill the void; but I find myself unable to write very
>> quickly (it doesn't help that I keep deleting words after I write them).
>>
>> I did finish something after 15 minutes of struggle, thus a question for
>> any present:
>>
>> I once spent a good deal of time studying the 2015 Hugo nominations.
>> While the Rabid Puppies were definitely block voting, the Sad Puppies
>> appeared to be different. Either there were secret puppies with their
>> own nominations lists (which overlapped the Sad Puppy list) or many of
>> the Sad Puppies were only nominating works that they had read. If the
>> latter was the case, while they could be accused of ungood literary
>> taste, was this block voting?
> 
> I have been bingeing "Dexter" on Netflix all day between running errands.
> 
> I am going to take my 86 year old father to go see our Aggies beat the 
> hell out of Texas University on Saturday.  

A friend of mine put both kids through A&M (one in Mech Eng), and his
ex-wife got her degree from Texas. He is very much rooting for the same 
result you are.


> Or, maybe he is taking me since he got the tickets.
> 

This is the first year we didn't get season tickets since 1988. It was 
always fun to do, but turning a 7-8 hour commitment with 100K+ people 
(and all that entails) into a 3-4 hour commitment in the comfort of my 
home has gone pretty well.

Tony