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• “At the scale of human perspective, a spilled snack bag may seem trivial, but to the life of the cave it can be world changing,” the park said in its post about the garbage found off-trail in the Big Room. “The processed corn, softened by the humidity of the cave, formed the perfect environment to host microbial life and fungi. Cave crickets, mites, spiders and flies soon organize into a temporary food web, dispersing the nutrients to the surrounding cave and formations. Molds spread higher up the nearby surfaces, fruit, die and stink. And the cycle continues.”

@rustonj♬ original sound – Ruston Jones

The secret stash box for your vehicle. pic.twitter.com/QphrrLXfdk

— Visual feast (@visualfeastwang) September 9, 2024

I was really tempted to buy $22 general admission tickets for tomorrow’s Texas/Michigan game just to check it out and experience the atmosphere cheering my favorite team. But the more I read about it, the more I realized that you have to go into it knowing it’s a premium experience with a premium price, and I’m careful what I splurge on. Everyone says to avoid general admission altogether, which is standing room only on the top level, and the dome is unwatchable. Of the three levels with reserve seating, Level 2 is the best (and currently sold out). Right now, only Level 1, floor level, has available seating, but read that Level 1 will break your neck while looking at the dome. You have to buy a booth, which seats 8 and currently sells for $616 a booth. So, I bet the $700 price I saw yesterday was for a booth of 8. But that’s over $90 a person after taxes and that doesn’t include food and a tip. A lot of reviews said the audio didn’t sync well with the event and was delayed and there were a lot of issues using the app to order. The food seems above average, and the wait staff is very attentive. It seems the common man’s consensus is that it has great potential but is overpriced. But for those in which money isn’t an issue and you get the proper seating, it’s a phenomenal experience. I would probably check it out for an event I wasn’t emotionally invested. Non-dome area viewing is 11 bucks, and that’s first come first serve and just the entrance fee. 

This is wild Here is how the @TexasFootball TD looked watching from @CosmDallas! pic.twitter.com/UBFoD23LZC

— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 7, 2024

• NIU’s radio call of the final play vs Notre Dame

• I don’t follow college football closely, but this Longhorn team has my attention. I respect a program that doesn’t pack its schedule full of cupcakes. And for me, it’s more of a state pride thing.
• Coach Sark made an interesting point. He asked the media how many visiting quarterbacks have won games on Alabama’s and Michigan’s home fields. That’s quite an accomplishment and something nice for Quinn Ewers to put on his resume. A lot of haters got bent out of shape, looking at it from a technical angle or taking it specifically, questioning how many college quarterbacks have had the chance to play on both of those fields as a visiting opponent. Stark was saying it’s an incredibly hard thing to do. But I saw some news organizations do the research, and no quarterback has ever had the chance. However, Notre Dame did win on both of those home fields in the back-to-back seasons in 79 and 80, but with different starting quarterbacks.
• “Well, Michigan lost a lot of guys.” Well, so did Texas. Michigan had 13 draft picks, Texas had 11.
• I thought this was a shoddy move by the father and showed that Ewers is a respectful young man. A boy walks up to Ewers after the game and asks for a photo. He obliges, and at the last second, the father tells the kid to do the horns-down hand signal. I’m not sensitive about the horns-down thing, but sneaking something in you know the person you just asked a favor of posing for a photo wouldn’t appreciate it, much less making your kid do it after asking for a moment of a player’s time as he’s walking off the field shows what kind of class the man has. I don’t even like it when people pull similar stunts with political figures.
• The Michigan quarterback wasn’t complimentary or gracious in the shellacking, stating, “We let them win that game.”
• I was surprised at how loud the Eyes of Texas sounded in the Big House. This is from the opposite side of the stadium.

just here to share that @st_vincent climbing era is SO BACK pic.twitter.com/HGjW0bOG8n

— Jill (@jillygymnast96) September 7, 2024

The fact it took me real seconds to realize this was @cosmdallas and not actually Kyle Field is wild. Game watching here looks ELITE.

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But this viewing angle from the LSU and USC game last week looks pretty sweet.<

Watched the LSU USC game at @CosmDallas ! It was fun pic.twitter.com/NErSZnlmra

— Andrew Huechteman (@AHecta1) September 3, 2024

• Peters’ Halloween setup normally begins each year in the second week of August. However, this year it became more important than ever to get a head start on the display because her husband has cancer.“You could’ve come to me and said something like, ‘Hey, why?’ and I would’ve explained to them why I did it so early,” Peters said.According to Peters, the Halloween display in her yard takes more than 100 hours to complete and take down.She says for seven years, she’s been building and changing the display, which is free for people to walk through and enjoy. But this year the city has contacted her twice about complaints regarding it.

• Goodsurf is a long-anticipated restaurant and bar with a Citywave wave pool for patrons to test their surfing skills, plus pickleball courts in case you get tired of wiping out on the waves. 

• My grandfather was held in solitary confinement by the Japanese during World War He found it extremely debilitating and later said that he would have lost his mind had not one of the guards given him a box of sewing pins. There were 100 pins in the box and every morning he would throw the contents over his shoulder into his cell. He would then spend the rest of the day finding pins. He said that was the only thing that kept him sane.

• Beckett was then shot and dragged out of his car. As the carjacker drove off, they ran also ran over the veteran, who ultimately died from his injuries.
• That man is probably safer behind bars, but many people want to ensure that he receives their definition of justice.