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Oh, and not to get the BBQ debate going again, but the best pulled pork I've ever had (at least thus far) in my life comes from a small mid-TN chain also called (and not to be confused with the one AJ mentioned in Kansas), Strouds:

http://www.stroudsbarbeque.com/

If any of you are ever traveling through the Nashville area, or between Nashville and Knoxville along I-40 and can spare some time to stop in Cookeville, I highly recommend you give them a try.  If you're a pulled pork buff and especially are of the 'if it needs sauce its not good BBQ' mindset, this stuff is amazingly good.  Moving and getting married has made my life immeasurably better and more complete, but it hurts my heart every time I think about the fact that I used to live literally a 5 minute drive from the Cookeville location.  Stroud's pulled pork was often a staple particularly of my fall Saturday college football watching marathons.

My experience has always been it is Moms who push for kids to have phones earlier than Dads do (at least in the group of friends I have)

My wife and I have been having this very debate the last few weeks regarding her youngest daughter, and that's where we both fall....she's turning 12 and she already has a Nexus 10 tablet + barely uses her semi-dumb phone.  Wife keeps bringing up getting her a smartphone, I think we should wait at least another year.

Just barely over a week away from Week 1 and we still only have 11 people total - there's plenty of room for others to join in the fun.

Especially those of you who either haven't been able to donate to become a member or otherwise haven't reached the higher membership levels, if you enjoy football at all and enjoy the limited information you've been exposed to here thus far, there's even more information you could potentially access if you were to play and come out on top in this.  If you enjoy football at all, give it a shot!

You've been raising him in the wrong geographical locations.   If he'd been in SEC country he'd have had no choice.

If only this existed a year ago....but now that the issue was forced on me to move on and having gotten used to it with the assistance of SwiftKey, unless its an amazing phone spec-wise, it's hard to imagine going back at this point.

Mrs. S4GRU is joining the group.  Come join the fun with us!

 

Robert

Your son old enough to play (or care) as well?

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For instance, Kansas City has http://www.kc2-0.com/about/about.htm .

The two points in that that seem to have merit from a grounded/based-in-reality perspective are the issues of diversity/minority and quality of schools.  The first is likely something that, while there may be efforts that could aid this to some degree, probably realistically only time can change - the second is something that could be addressed more rapidly given the right people and focus in the appropriate governmental/oversight positions.

The rest seems to boil down to issues of perception, and glaring statements such as "Lack of materials or lack of updated materials that provide information on the assets of living and working in the KC region" basically say to me that there needs to be a better job all around between the companies in question, chambers of commerce, etc to sell/market the positives and to break down the perception-based barriers from a prospective employee's side of the fence - and also to thoroughly underscore the cost of living differential while at the same time offering the same if not slightly better salary for like positions.  There will still be people so grounded in their urban environment/mindset who won't bite even then, sure, but I don't believe for a minute that people who would bite with the right education and incentives simply don't exist in metro areas.  My wife is living proof of one such person actually.

Obviously regardless of where you live or what environment you're naturally comfortable in, your first instinct isn't going to be move, and obviously companies in areas with a higher population density naturally have it easier - that goes without saying in both cases.  That said, proper focus and effort as it relates to education and marketing, along with strong enough incentives, can overcome perception and create a positive trend over time.

Some of the more successful people/businesses in the world are those who buck the notion that something is difficult to achieve and not worth the effort, and end up proving a stereotype or assumption wrong.

Look, as an educated geographer, I am no advocate of urban sprawl.  But are you telling me that Millenials like living side by side or on top of one another and using public transportation?  They do not like having affordable houses with yards and being able to drive on non congested freeways to anywhere in a huge metro -- including those supposedly desirable dense urban districts -- within 30 minutes?

 

I did not know these things.  But if they are so, just more reasons why Millenials are the most annoying generation ever.

 

AJ

To look at that from another angle, its presumptuous as best for anyone to assume that the 'best talent available' is always going to be younger....or even for those that fit that bill that happen to be younger, it's presumptuous to assume that they all fall squarely in the center of the stereotypical 'Millennial' mentality or tendencies too.  

The world, America or otherwise, is still one giant melting pot of a myriad of differences and variations based on individuality.  And regardless of what some east coast urbanites may otherwise fool themselves into believing, not everyone thinks or views the world the same way they do or counts the stereotypical environment therein as the end all/be all of human existence. 

By the same token, there's no unwritten rule that states a company's primary corporate presence must be based in either a northeastern metropolitan area, SoCal or Seattle WA to thrive, much less stay relevant in modern society.  I'd be willing to bet that aside from salary/benefits and opportunity for advancement, what attracts better talent outside a local geographical region to a given company is based far more in terms of the company's internal culture and reputation as it pertains to treatment of its employees than where the company is located. 

He may not qualify as a millennial, but I seriously doubt Robert uprooted and moved his family to South Dakota because it was a poster child destination for hipsters.

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Also leasing is cheaper than Easy Pay.

I'll admit my ignorance on the front end, but while this is technically true, is it really that much of a difference in the case of every device?  My impression only relates to the few phones I've seen the differential on between the two, but in those cases there seems to be maybe $2-3 a month difference at most...which to me seems so insignificant as to wonder what the real world upside is to leasing vs. ownership in the end.

When they mean leasing or full price, I think that they're referring to Easy Pay, Leasing, or Full Price. Technically, Easy Pay is paying full price but you are just paying it in installments.

Yeah, I was going to point out that as well.  Consider the source to some extent....an article on WSJ vs FierceWireless or some other wireless industry or even tech site source isn't necessarily as likely to address every minute detail possible.

White Horse

Edit: got this email yesterday -

I got one of those as well, for a location in Columbia PA.

Worms World (Party)

3 weeks from tonight is the start of the season (as far as the games that would be involved in Pick'em that is)....there's 8 of us playing thus far, and plenty of room for more.  Get onboard while you can!

Wow, I had no idea there were LSU fans in Iowa!

Jungle Love

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These dropped yesterday on Anandtech & Tom's Hardware respectively:

http://anandtech.com/show/9522/qualcomm-adreno-530-510-snapdragon-820

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/snapdragon-820-adreno-530-spectra,29824.html

Hopefully QC will have better results with this than they did the 810/430's.

Is this Fantasy Football?  Never tried playing it before.

No, just picking game winners and assigning confidence points based on how sure, or unsure, you are that the team you're picking will win.

Fantasy Football would be difficult here, depending on how many people wanted to try and play together.  Chances are strong there'd be enough interest that would necessitate multiple leagues, and it's not as much fun (to me at least) if everyone isn't swimming in the same virtual pool, so to speak.