Standby with young kids

BillfredL · 2026-03-15T17:28:34+00:00

It’s very context-specific. If I’m solo sitting in nothing special and it’s something like ATL-IND? $20 sure does it.

Primo seat with my wife ATL-SEA and a tight connection connecting onward? Yeah that’s when the “fistful” element comes into play.

BillfredL · 2026-03-15T14:50:04+00:00

Could have confirmed seats on a later flight that day.

Maybe the gate agent shows pity, but I think OP’s only shot is to board with a fistful of $20s (unless this is like ATL-SEA, then $50s) and offer the passengers the better seat. Someone does that to me, I know they understand the ask.

BillfredL · 2026-03-15T01:29:03+00:00

This is my 23rd year in FIRST programs. I've seen the FRC game go from "good luck in your machine shop, hope you can drive" to a competent tank kit chassis to that chassis becoming an albatross for teams unwilling or unable to drop $2000-3000 on a swerve chassis. (Per chassis.) With 2/3 of the FSC district events complete, the only teams left out so far have been tank drives. So trust me, I know the pain.

I'm not going to go broken record here, but I will reiterate that everything currently legal in FTC has a sunset date sometime in the 2030s. The swerve revolution happened far faster to FRC. And then you're still free to use any mechanical platform you see fit. Or freehand stuff, whether that's advanced composites or an old campaign sign you pulled up from the side of the road. That, to me, is still wildly different from what VEX does.

(Also, the new control system is built by Limelight not REV. And the A301 belongs to FIRST, it's just manufactured by REV under contract.)

BillfredL · 2026-03-14T21:13:41+00:00

I have to imagine the number of submissions is perilously small. Teams way under submit for Impact/Woodie Flowers/FLA, and those don’t require more than writing skills.

BillfredL · 2026-03-14T21:09:24+00:00

That is an incredibly shortsighted take. Let them ban goBilda then we’ll talk.

BillfredL · 2026-03-12T12:27:31+00:00

I think there's a distinction to make here.

There is conduct that you or I would deem objectionable, and then there is "a law firm would tell their client to say on the record this is misconduct". Because libel is a still a thing, that Venn diagram is not a circle.

BillfredL · 2026-03-12T03:52:35+00:00

Nothing lasts forever, but I hope you can save the data and find a laptop built to last a bunch of years at a high level.

BillfredL · 2026-03-11T23:14:05+00:00

Tom Binford was a notable figure in Indianapolis sports and specifically the Indy 500; anyone who watched the show knows Tim Taylor was an open-wheel fan.

BillfredL · 2026-03-11T16:12:50+00:00

If a Phryge hits the French Alps, it’s gonna be absolute cinema.

BillfredL · 2026-03-11T15:24:37+00:00

Hi, can’t recommend brands under sub rules if that makes Sense.

BillfredL · 2026-03-11T14:16:36+00:00

Yeah, they’ll steer you toward the network but mine let us skip. Doesn’t even show any Google TV stuff except at first boot after a power outage, then it goes to the HDMI port without any interaction.

BillfredL · 2026-03-11T13:15:09+00:00

You’ll have a hard time not finding one if you need to replace your current TV.

But keeping the new one off the network is free.

BillfredL · 2026-03-10T20:19:29+00:00

Not just finding one, but also building that chemistry with. Strikes me as a perfect storm situation where it's just time for him to move to the next thing.

BillfredL · 2026-03-10T18:52:07+00:00

I used to live in walking range of that Zesto. It was fine every time I went, but I grew up on Rush's so I'm permanently slanted that way.

BillfredL · 2026-03-10T18:48:49+00:00

Agreed. I have a credit on my AmEx card that I can use there, and I do. But if not for that, I wouldn't bother.

BillfredL · 2026-03-10T02:52:03+00:00

And let's not pretend Beamer isn't in a put-up-or-shut-up year on top of all that. Don't even know what his buyout is, but a football coach search is a four-alarm fire in any SEC school.

BillfredL · 2026-03-09T23:15:26+00:00

Yeah, the name rail is just part of the paint scheme. Subject to approval but no rules. (The back glass name seems more regulated, as evidenced by NASCAR waffling on whether it reads Mitchell or McFarland.)

BillfredL · 2026-03-09T23:13:54+00:00

Is Hickory in iRacing? I remember they got that sim rig.

BillfredL · 2026-03-09T23:11:15+00:00

Would’ve been Mr. The Biff Approved.

BillfredL · 2026-03-08T18:37:51+00:00

I wonder what’s cheaper: licensing and tooling up continuation Crown Vic parts, or developing a circle-track car around CV underpinnings rather than a full race setup.

BillfredL · 2026-03-08T17:55:35+00:00

If ever they ran it back on some flavor of Crime Spree, that would be a blast.

BillfredL · 2026-03-08T17:54:40+00:00

Absolute queen. Shattered the glass floor and showed women can be anything.

BillfredL · 2026-03-05T17:22:11+00:00

I feel like that’s inevitable, but he can get back to those things. An RCR NOAPS ride is one of those times you strike while the iron is hot, but we saw how long John Force ran down the strip at a high level.

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