Countdown to Aggie Baseball 2025

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7:53a, 8/20/24
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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 178
Minute Order #111116, dated 10/25/2007; DesLtr 4-2007, dated 12/19/2007
From IH 10 in El Paso, westward approximately 3.0 miles to the Texas/New Mexico State Line. (El Paso County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0178.htm


Check out that welcome to Texas sign in the background.
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In reply to dabo man • 3:21p, 8/20/24
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Texas County Courthouses:
178 Nueces County, Corpus Christi, Texas




Am I going to jail or a bad la quinta...this courthouse is awful. The old one is beautiful.
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In reply to aggiewilliford • 3:48p, 8/20/24
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I was working just a block from it when the new Nueces Courthouse was built.
They were excited that the walls contained coquina shells which gave a pink, rough appearance that probably wasn't worth the cost although I did like how it worked in the small water park attached to the courthouse.
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In reply to aggiewilliford • 5:47p, 8/20/24
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It looks like a hospital
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9:09p, 8/20/24
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I always kinda thought the old court house should have been remodeled as housing or offices.
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12:58a, 8/21/24
Texas Historical Marker 177
LamarCalder House
Richmond, Texas

The land originally belonged to Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long, until it was passed on to Mirabeau B. Lamar, who built the Lamar Plantation. Lamar lived in another house which was later destroyed.

A new house was built between 1859-1861. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style. Lamar never lived in the house, as it was completed after his death, but his widow Henrietta Maffitt did. Their daughter Loretto Evalina and her husband, S. D. Calder, the son of public official Robert J. Calder, lived in the house with their four children until they sold it in 1900. The house was owned by the Hendee family from 1908 to 1996. It later belonged to Felix Tijerina's son.

The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 30, 2005.

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1:00a, 8/21/24
You Had One Job 177



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1:09a, 8/21/24
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They clock on the radar gun in quarter mph fractions… no decimals…

Like this: 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8…and so forth. The trooper has to memorize using flash cards which are higher than 3/4 and this infracting when the mid of the speed is non-zero…
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7:20a, 8/21/24
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Texas County Courthouses:
177 Nolan County, Sweetwater, Texas


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7:27a, 8/21/24
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Aww…Dad pastored there for for several years from last half of third grade for me through end of first semester of sixth. I can't say I recall going to that building. I wasn't old enough to go there for speeding tickets…

I saw a note on one site that the old courthouse was registered with the Texas historical building registry on 1975. I think the new courthouse was completed after we were leaving in early 1973…online notes say 1977. It was refurbished in 2013.

Old look: (their site doesn't use encryption…but safe to click.)


That site has two previous courthouses in fact:

http://www.254texascourthouses.net/064-nolan-county.html


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In reply to greg.w.h • 8:20a, 8/21/24
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greg.w.h said:
They clock on the radar gun in quarter mph fractions… no decimals…

Like this: 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8…and so forth. The trooper has to memorize using flash cards which are higher than 3/4 and this infracting when the mid of the speed is non-zero…
It makes more sense to give the officers a little credit to use common sense, like if someone is going 1/4 mph over the limit, who cares? Usually, in Texas, one won't get a ticket unless 5mph over.
Did you notice the "beware of signs" sign in the background?
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In reply to aggiewilliford • 8:26a, 8/21/24
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aggiewilliford said:
dabo man said:
Texas County Courthouses:
178 Nueces County, Corpus Christi, Texas




Am I going to jail or a bad la quinta...this courthouse is awful. The old one is beautiful.
Can't be a La Quinta because I don't see a Denny's
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In reply to Rongagin71 • 8:39a, 8/21/24
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greg.w.h said:
They clock on the radar gun in quarter mph fractions… no decimals…

Like this: 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8…and so forth. The trooper has to memorize using flash cards which are higher than 3/4 and this infracting when the mid of the speed is non-zero…
It makes more sense to give the officers a little credit to use common sense, like if someone is going 1/4 mph over the limit, who cares? Usually, in Texas, one won't get a ticket unless 5mph over.
Did you notice the "beware of signs" sign in the background?
That "speed limit sign" is also mounted on a wooden stake.
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In reply to Rongagin71 • 8:43a, 8/21/24
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Rongagin71 said:
greg.w.h said:
They clock on the radar gun in quarter mph fractions… no decimals…

Like this: 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8…and so forth. The trooper has to memorize using flash cards which are higher than 3/4 and this infracting when the mid of the speed is non-zero…
It makes more sense to give the officers a little credit to use common sense, like if someone is going 1/4 mph over the limit, who cares? Usually, in Texas, one won't get a ticket unless 5mph over.
Did you notice the "beware of signs" sign in the background?
I had an extensive conversation with a good friend who was California Highway Patrol (memorialized as CHiPs on the Erik Estrada led TV show) officer when I was in the late teens where he explained with terms like "should stop, must stop, should cite."

Another CHP officer mentioned pulling over a guy in a a brand new mustang doing 114 on an empty highway and merely warning him. But, yeah…that looks more like cart path than a road…
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8:57a, 8/21/24
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I have used uncommon "speed limit" signs on private roads/driveways before (e.g. 17 MPH), but never fractional. It was intentional to make drivers think about it since it is not common.
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In reply to Mr.Ackar07 • 11:32a, 8/21/24
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That "speed limit sign" is also mounted on a wooden stake.
Yep. While funny, I doubt the validity of more than a few of these "You had One Job" posts.
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12:15p, 8/21/24
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177

SH 177 was canceled in 1940 and changed to SS 93.
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STATE HIGHWAY LOOP NO. 177
Adm. Auth., dated 2-21-58; Adm. Ltr. 005-1978, dated 05/15/1978
From FM 350, southward and southeastward through Moscow to US 59. (Polk County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SL/SL0177.htm

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12:31p, 8/21/24
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SH Loop 177 from 350 south to 59 shows neatly on mapping tools west/sw of Moscow. Take a look.
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12:34p, 8/21/24
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This was helpful as a resource: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Texas_state_highways
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12:41a, 8/22/24
Texas Historical Marker 176

The Jules Leffland House at 302 E. Convent in Victoria, Texas, United States, was built in 1900. It was a home of local architect Jules Leffland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.


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12:42a, 8/22/24
You Had One 176



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In reply to aggiewilliford • 3:52a, 8/22/24
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I kind of feel proud of myself that I was able to solve that without a calculator
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7:29a, 8/22/24
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Texas County Courthouses:
176 Newton County, Newton, Texas


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In reply to Sea Pony 07 • 7:30a, 8/22/24
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I kind of feel proud of myself that I was able to solve that without a calculator


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8:35a, 8/22/24
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176

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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 176
Minute Order 090669, dated 08/29/1990; Adm. Ltr. 003-1990, dated 12/18/1990
From the Texas/New Mexico State Line eastward via Andrews to IH 20 at Big Spring, a distance of approximately 94.0 miles. (Andrews, Martin, and Howard Counties)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0176.htm

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In reply to Sea Pony 07 • 8:36a, 8/22/24
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Sea Pony 07 said:
I kind of feel proud of myself that I was able to solve that without a calculator

Yes but did you also convert to MPH without one?
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In reply to ensign_beedrill • 8:49a, 8/22/24
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Still pissed that they forced the metric system on us.

That was the only question I missed since I did not have a metric system survey book with me. Had to convert it and reconvert to their answer and I probably left them a note accordingly.
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8:59a, 8/22/24
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Just seemed like only yesterday we broke the 200 mark. I like how this pace is going. Especially when football starts things will go exponentially faster! Bring on the season!
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In reply to ensign_beedrill • 9:13a, 8/22/24
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ensign_beedrill said:
Sea Pony 07 said:
I kind of feel proud of myself that I was able to solve that without a calculator

Yes but did you also convert to MPH without one?
convert 4*4*4 by this way. ((4*4)/1.6 km/mi))*4=10*4=40

Living in Indonesia for several years as a teen installed rule of thumb converters in my brain…
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In reply to greg.w.h • 9:55a, 8/22/24
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I'm unsure of what you're trying to say. State Highway Loop 177 is indeed what is pictured.
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10:08a, 8/22/24
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From life experience, I happen to know that 1 km = 0.621 miles. Useful to know what a speed limit 110 sign means when you're driving in Alberta!

The irony would be if the sign, which apparently is intended to make a road safer by making drivers think about their speed, instead caused a crash because of someone doing math in his head instead of paying attention to his driving.
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1:48a, 8/23/24
Texas Historical Marker 175

LeviMoses House is a historic residential building in Dallas, Texas, U.S.. It was designed by architect H. A. Overbeck with elements of Italianate, Renaissance revival, and Prairie School styles. It is one of the few residences of the Edgewood Addition (1912) that is surviving on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (formerly Forest Avenue), the principal streetcar route across the South Dallas neighborhood. The Edgewood Addition was home to many prominent Jewish families who built their homes near Temple Emanu-El (which is no longer existing in that location). The original owner of the house was Charles G. Levi and then his son-in-law Jacob Moses who succeeded him.

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1:52a, 8/23/24
You Had One Job 175


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In reply to aggiewilliford • 3:14a, 8/23/24
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YES REGERTS
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7:24a, 8/23/24
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Texas County Courthouses:
175 Navarro County, Corsicana, Texas


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