Recent content by CRHeel94

Always has to be something...

Fuck, just read that it was in Playa Cocles, Costa Rica on our Caribbean side. That beach is beautiful but the surf conditions can be very tricky with strong rip currents. Believe that they have signs up on that beach to be careful when swimming.

So my team won the National Title in the Costa Rica Pro Basketball in dramatic fashion. After four blowouts in the final series, this one was a nail biter that was decided in the last seconds. We hit some tough shots down the stretch and my PG was perfect from the line on intentional fouls in...

And tonight I play for my fifth national title in CR Hoops. My guys showed some guts in Game 4; we beat our opponent by 22. Even with a shorthanded team, we came out very aggressive. To be honest, my guys believed they could win more than I did. We'll see about tonight.

I did retire early. ;) The stories I could tell...

Bukele has been going hard after any NGO that has to do with democracy, human rights, media freedom, etc. Ironically, this is straight out of the Ortega playbook after 2018. They pretty much eradicated all NGOs including organizations that had nothing to do with politics (Operation Smile?)...

Was reading about this new study. Basically, says obesity is more about diet than lifestyle. Believe Duke and UNC researchers were prominently involved in this study. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-study-blames-diet-not-physical-inactivity-obesity-crisis

the CEO statement turned out to be fake. I never get these situations. My company sponsored more than 100 concerts in my time there. Part of the sponsorship was a hospitality suite. Oftentimes my boss would show up with chicks that were not his wife. Too many times after a few drinks he would...

Vast majority of grad students live off campus. Has been that way for quite a while. Duke requires undergrads to live on campus for 3 years, but there are plenty of loopholes to get around that and live off campus staring junior year. Ever since they took the fraternities off campus there has...

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Death of an Empire, Exhibit No 322 The independence of the Fed is one of those sacred safeguards of the American economy. If Trump goes through with this (and he certainly seems like he really wants to do so), it will signal to the world that the Fed is subject to political whim. I'm not sure...

It really was a startling moment in recent history. It had been a while since there was an attempt on a presidential candidate or President. Also think he won the Presidency on that day.

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My hoops team made the Finals of the CR Pro League. After winning the first game in resounding fashion, the wheels came off. My team captain broke his foot in the second game (and I had lost my best wing defender in Game 1). I'm also missing my American guy who tore his hamstring during the...

So the two big spending boosts are Defense ($150B increase) and ICE (up from $8B to $100B)? Thought I saw somewhere that a good chunk of that ICE spending was for building a wall. Have they not realized that is a really dumb allocation of resources? That's a rhetorical question...I know the...