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Damor

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  1. Great stuff. Unfortunately, it does us no good here.
  2. @Judge Roybeanbag Not my area of expertise, but it depends on the protocol used. Some call for a higher field strength magnet, some need special postprocessing software, and some may still use a... uh... ummm... special imaging coil. In case of which you'll be glad of having PM @NowThis for further questions.
  3. I thought this was an outstanding film. I didn't go in knowing a lot about it, and had been unenthusiastic about seeing it in theaters because politics, but my assumptions were wrong and it absolutely needs to be experienced (especially heard) in a theater. I was relieved and impressed with the way that they used the journalistic angle to free them to tell the story perfectly without any need to go into the backstory or who was right/wrong. I suppose it was a blank enough canvas that anyone could project their own views on it, but the point to me was that it doesn't matter -- the situation devolves into chaos, destruction, and misery regardless. The flashbacks to third-world shitholes and references to all dictators going out like cowards did a great job of disabusing anyone of any noble or romantic notions that war is anything other than hell and suffering, whatever ideological veneers we think we can apply to it. It's definitely a film that has stayed with me and kept me thinking long after leaving the theater. The more I think about it, the more I like it and feel like this is an important thing that more people need to go see and experience. The "Breakers Roar" scene was one of the most absolutely stunning things I have seen in a long time.
  4. No help there, but a couple suggestions for when she does graduate to a smart phone: 1) Phone contract. It's somewhere in this thread. Make one, everybody sign it, and adhere to it. 2) Do not give her the phone as a gift. It's not hers, it's yours and you're allowing her to use it as a tool. Dad lendeth, and dad can taketh away. Those things served us well with our boys, and we treated cars the same way.
  5. Add me to the Llano fan club. I'd never fished it, but my younger son and I went out with an awesome guide from Living Waters (KC) and had an absolute blast smacking around a bunch of guads and flinging little sunfish everywhere. Too windy for dries, unfortunately, so mostly streamers and some poppers. Just an amazing place. Sometimes it felt like fishing pocket water on the Arkansas, and other places felt otherworldly as you stepped across channels and pools carved deep into limestone and granite. Well worth the trip, the hell on the ankles, and falling on my ass multiple times. And we got the last of the brisket from Cooper's in Mason.
  6. What are you putting that tape on your nose for?
  7. Oh yeah! Check out all his majesty!
  8. There's what's right and there's what right, and never the twain shall meet.
  9. I find your lack of Surly Dickbutt stickers disturbing. I have Yetis and various bus stop enclosures in need of festooning.
  10. Well, I'll be damned. ...and 10m later it was eaten by a lily pad.
  11. @wd40 Yes, it's the basic intro kit from Cabela's/Bass Pro. I can see that it's good enough to get started, but like my other hobbies, I'll soon go stupid with it. At least I'm under no pretense that I'm trying to save money by tying. And it looks like Regals are as much or more than the Renzetti Travelers these days. I think I'd get a lot of use out of the rotary function on the Traveler, but man, the Regals are just beautiful. @troph, as a dorky kid who had half-dried Testor's bottles scattered about his room, the same thought occurred to me. We're just big kids, after all. It's a little early for me to enter my "puttering" phase, but why not? My younger son suggested I'll need a tying station with a pipe rest before long. My older one is off at school in Colorado, so I wrote him a little note and slipped that first ugly fly in the envelope for him to fish when it thaws out. That was a pretty cool misty-eyed dad moment. I'll bet it'll look great stuck in a tree.
  12. Stupid, aggressive sunfish on the fiberglass 3wt is the cure for a shitty day at work. Finally got some time to tie my first one, which will test the premise of "ugly flies catch fish." Here we go down the rabbithole. Already have a Youtube watchlist a mile long, and shopping for a Renzetti. Any overall favorite sites for fly patterns? I followed several Youtube channels, but the problem with that is I get distracted and wander off from my intended purpose...
  13. Dumb question amnesty, please. For presales, is there a preferred option between Amex, artist, and platinum presale? I'd assume I have to designate one when I log in to evil Ticketmaster, and Amex and Platinum start an hour before Artist. I'm assuming that those are better seats, but obviously, I'm not a golfer. Just saw an announcement for Lord Huron (for me) with Kasey Musgraves (for my wife) in Austin the week of Thanksgiving, so this is relevant to my interests.
  14. "They'll never catch me, man... 'cause I'm fuckin' innocent!"
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