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  • Alexdykes22 said...

    Wes a few softballs,

    1. What's your favorite kind of pizza. 2. What station is on your pandora/ spotify/ or other music player on? Favorite band/ singer? 3. Favorite and most hated college class

    1. Supreme or Caribbean Jerk.

    2. I listen to A LOT of stuff. I don't do modern country, modern pop and all those bands that S-Boogie listens to that sound like WWE intro music, but I do a lot of other stuff. Favorite bands of all-time are, in some order, The Stones, R.E.M., The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Drive-By Truckers, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, The White Stripes and The Roots .... but I'm probably forgetting some. Also love old country music, Neil Young, Springsteen solo or with E-Street, The Flaming Lips, Mumford and Sons, The Avetts, etc.

    3. Favorite was Comm Law with Dr. Dwight Teeter, simply because I love that man. Also loved every single one of my history and poli sci classes because I'm a huge history and poli sci nerd. Least favorite ... probably anything involving math.

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  • Wes Rucker said...

    1. Supreme or Caribbean Jerk.

    2. I listen to A LOT of stuff. I don't do modern country, modern pop and all those bands that S-Boogie listens to that sound like WWE intro music, but I do a lot of other stuff. Favorite bands of all-time are, in some order, The Stones, R.E.M., The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Drive-By Truckers, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, The White Stripes and The Roots .... but I'm probably forgetting some. Also love old country music, Neil Young, Springsteen solo or with E-Street, The Flaming Lips, Mumford and Sons, The Avetts, etc.

    3. Favorite was Comm Law with Dr. Dwight Teeter, simply because I love that man. Also loved every single one of my history and poli sci classes because I'm a huge history and poli sci nerd. Least favorite ... probably anything involving math.

    I'm glad you at least have music opinions. Most people don't. Most people just want music that's easy to listen to and easy to remember.

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  • On the Adidas/Nike debate, what about Under Armour? Any chance UT goes that route? It seems to be popular too. Would you say the apparel wars go Nike, UA, then Adidas?

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  • Denver Vol said...

    I think you're right, and here's why I think it's flawed...

    If you have a post that gets 4 UV and 1 DV, what you see on the screen is "+3". In the score calc, though, that post would carry a value of 80%, because of the 1 DV. The score should calc off of the net score on any post, since that's presumably the community's ranking of what you contributed, versus the individual up and down votes.

    I think that's why when I look through my posts all I see are upvotes, but my score continues to fall over time.

    Again, it's not a big deal, but I'm a financial analyst for a living so I tend to want to understand things like this.

    I agree with you. However, it is what it is. I really don't worry about it much anymore. I got my degree in Finance, so I guess it's just ingrained in us biggrin

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  • Phlip said...

    On the Adidas/Nike debate, what about Under Armour? Any chance UT goes that route? It seems to be popular too. Would you say the apparel wars go Nike, UA, then Adidas?

    I've heard worse ideas.

    Under Armour would be fine with kids, IMO.

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