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  1. Zero handgun ammo at my closest academy this morning. Grabbed a box of some random .270 win 130gr because they didn’t have what I normally shoot and wanted at least 3 new rounds for the season. (I bet I’ve averaged 5 rnds a season the past 5 years. Don’t hobby shoot with the tool like I used to. 3 zeroing in T -1week and 2-3 rnds for season)

    No steel duck shot either, I was hoping to grab a few more boxes before the winter rush, but should have plenty from past seasons. Dove/target load out the yingyang as expected.

  2. According to one of those Youtube car videos, there are enough Model A parts sitting around, that except for the gas tank, you could basically build yourself a new one.
     


    DeLorean MC is based in Humble, TX now. The widow has sued them and Universal (Back to the Future) multiple times, but IIRC the new owners have the rights free and clear.

    You can get a restoration, OEM parts, or New Old-stock for around $50k.

    Seeing the DMC stuff on news and shows always made me curious if there wasn’t a pretty sizable market for the big manufacturers to do the same with American muscle car era stuff. Package some old stock, OEM stuff with readily available aftermarket components from some rust belt warehouses and sell kit cars.

    DMC is super niche market I don’t understand, but would think the demographic with disposable income and time wanting a “new build” daily driver they can actually tinker on is at its peak if it hasn’t already passed. “Here’s a late 60s MOPAR or 427 Chevy with no miles you can actually work on, sign here and I’ll go get the title paperwork.”

    That being said, I assume DMC is so small they may get exemptions to Clean Air Act and CAFE standards the big manufacturers wouldn’t. A man can dream.
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  3. Give him your Marlin Model 55, bolt action, 10- gauge Tom Tom goose gun. 

     

    Ha. Them Eurasian birds are bigger...that thing chambered for 3.5” #4s?

     

    Reminds me of the time we took my Houston cousin pheasant hunting in the panhandle. We had him so sideways as he packed for his first real bird hunt. “I’d recommend you use a youth 20ga 870 with #8 otherwise you’re going to get tired in the field.” Dad chimes in “You’re out of your mind! and going to wound so many birds. Never pheasant hunt with anything under 34” barrel and 3.5” #2s preferably BB”

    BroInLaw “no no no. Shot size doesn’t matter, what you want though is high brass, high velocity, and a full choke” and on and on.

     

     

  4. I’m a little young to be in the Twilight Zone demographic, but always enjoyed watching the marathons and reruns growing up.

    Thought I had seen most of them at least twice, and “the classics” much more, but holy shit there are 156 episodes with some at 51 minutes!

    Already through S1 and there were a couple that were new to me and several more I didn’t remember the “hook” or resolution. This is going to be a longer endeavor than I anticipated.

  5. I really dont understand the tik tok commercials.    I mean, I understand the commercial itself, but I am so confused why they would be spending money to advertise in the US... 


    Same as FB, Insta, and Twitters. “If there is no product, you’re the product” more daily users is never a bad thing for them. If they sell or are forced to sell every additional user counts for something in the valuation.
  6. We lost internet during a storm the other night, so the Roku was out of commission. I turned on one of the weird antenna channels and every other ad was for a law firm that wanted to hear from people that were raped while in the boy scouts. I didn't know they had Vatican-level problems in the scouts.


    Heard a radio ad for that listed at least a dozen possible abuses. Thanks radio attorney guy I wasn’t aware strangers being naked or showing my kids porn (adult or child) was abuse. Appreciate the parenting tip!
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  7. There was one on Greenville that I went to a couple of times to scratch the itch.  They worked, but I guess the majority view on corn dogs isn't favorable on a year-round basis.  My very wealthy cousin was an investor and did not do well.

     

    There is/was a corn dog 7 in Houma, LA mall in the before times.

     

    Less than a year later, I have no recollection of what purchase need during business travel brought me to the Houma mall, but I know what I had for lunch that day.

     

    Seems like a very niche market, and Fletcher’s >> CD7

  8. Why would you like When I Come Around on a punk deep cuts station?

     

    I didn’t, because I know better.

     

    But my contention is there’s no way to get a “deep cut playlist” on Pandora or Spotify without adding shit in yourself, and then how would I know what I’m missing?

     

    I could make 1000 different punk playlists including b sides of 90s/00s pop punk and I don’t think the algorithm would ever play something off Kerplunk. *checks notes* She was the 5th single off Dookie and hit #5 in the US. If I like /up vote it there’s no way I’m getting “Burn out” or “Christie Road” and not “Basket Case”. But I’m never going to hear the former on an algorithm curated station to up vote.

     

    ETA: sorry for derailing Sirius thread with algorithm talk.

  9. What is that supposed to mean?


    Stupid old Dane Cook joke my family references for unfortunate circumstances.

    I’m on Baltic with crap. You’ve got Boardwalk with 3 hotels defended by boxes of 9mm +P @ 2007 pricing.


  10. This befuddles me (the Pandora comment). How can someone not like curating their own music stations? There’s nothing better than having Pandora or Spotify really dialed in. My Spotify was epic until my kids got old enough to listen and ruined my algorithm with Hamilton and video game music.



    I think his complaint is the same. Song lists are tight, but categories are loose.

    If I have a station with CSNY, Allman Bro’s, and Pure Praire League, they’re more likely to throw in some Eagles and Stones than give me some deep cuts from Buffalo Springfield or The Band.

    Similar problem across all genres. I think the algorithms get really skewed the more popular the song is. I don’t want “90s college rock” cluttering up a punk station because I liked “when I come around” on a Black Flag and NOFX channel. I’m trying to tell you to play deep punk cuts I haven’t heard in 15 years, but you’ll only play the same 3 Green Day songs off Dookie on thousands of pop, rock, and college FM channels.

    A few years ago I saw an infographic, I can’t conger up from the google machine currently, that showed how bad having “Eye of the Tiger” liked or on a channel fucks with the algorithms. Thousands of people have that song on a “workout” station linking it to everything from DMX to Slayer. Then the algorithm tries to suggest Katy Perry - Roar which links it to Gaga et al and modern pop.

    Song lists are tight categorization is loose. People like college radio because they hear songs Clear Channel doesn’t have in the “it fits this genre and these same 300 ‘safe’ songs we play every damn day”
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