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There's a new server in town. Nerd out on some technical details.

The Key Play is running on new iron. Late Friday night I migrated TKP from the server that powered it since 2014. The old box was a 4 core I7 chip with 16 GB of RAM. The new box is a 16 core Dual Xeon chips with 128 GB of RAM. For non-technical TKPers, that's upgrading from Narduzzi to Fuente.

In addition, I upgraded its LAMP software stack to newer/latest releases. TKP now benefits from 5-plus years of modern code.

Things you should notice, emojis 😂 (thank you multi-byte UTF-8 MariaDB). TKP will eventually get zippier too. I need to monitor performance and adjust to take advantage of all the new horsepower, but hopefully the site does not buckle under load as it did during Clemson week. Please report any issues or feedback in the comments below.

A sincere thank you to everyone who visits and is a member of the community for forcing the upgrade. And to The Key Players Club for funding it. The next person to join TKPC will test that it actually works on the new environment. 😱

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Wet stuff on the red stuff.

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A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

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30 years after starting grad school at Virginia Tech, I finally defended my dissertation and earned my PhD.
Don't give up on your dreams.

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I have no idea why my username is VT_Warthog.

Arkansas blew a 24-0 lead in the Belk Bowl.

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"Tajh Boyd over the middle . . . and it's caught for an interception! Michael Cole, lying flat on his back, ARE YOU KIDDING???"

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30 years after starting grad school at Virginia Tech, I finally defended my dissertation and earned my PhD.
Don't give up on your dreams.

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Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

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30 years after starting grad school at Virginia Tech, I finally defended my dissertation and earned my PhD.
Don't give up on your dreams.

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The Orange and Maroon you see, that's fighting on to victory.

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Hey! It goes beyond big brother in the sky
Beyond the threat of martial law, No Horus eye
No one came to cuff you they just handed you the chain
Blind follows the blind and now the one-eyed man is king

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Hey! It goes beyond big brother in the sky
Beyond the threat of martial law, No Horus eye
No one came to cuff you they just handed you the chain
Blind follows the blind and now the one-eyed man is king

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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K

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No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

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"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

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No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

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No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

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"We were at the pinnacle, and we did it for years," Foster says. He pauses, nods, takes a deep breath. "And I did it with the best guy in the business."

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If you don't want to recruit clowns, don't run a clown show.

"I want to punch people from UVA right in the neck." - Colin Cowherd

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"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

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My wife takes the kids and leaves the house while I watch my Hokie games.........nuff said

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Old sigline: I've been cutting back on the drinking.

New Sigline: lol it's football season.

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No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

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Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

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Outspoken team cake advocate. Hates terrapins. Resident Macho Man Gif Poster. Distant cousin to Dork Magic. Frequently misspells words.

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There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

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Outspoken team cake advocate. Hates terrapins. Resident Macho Man Gif Poster. Distant cousin to Dork Magic. Frequently misspells words.

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Hokie in West Africa...sadly, I can't jump up and down hard enough for it to be felt in Lane

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"Nope, launch him into the sun and fart on him on the way up"
-gobble gobble chumps

"11-0, bro"
-Hunter Carpenter (probably)

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Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

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"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

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I love a good nap. Sometimes that's all that's getting me out of bed in the morning.

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“You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.”
― John Madden (describing VT's offense?)

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I love a good nap. Sometimes that's all that's getting me out of bed in the morning.

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I love a good nap. Sometimes that's all that's getting me out of bed in the morning.

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2023 Season Challenge: TBD
Previous Challenges: Star Wars (2019), Marvel (2020), Batman (2021), Wrasslin' (2022)

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