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capnamerca

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  1. Hey RPM, where do you buy your juice from?
  2. #truth. Just look at my last scorecard out there. I had no idea where I was.
  3. +1 to chitwood and Dad. Yellow tees are a stern test, hybrid brings a LITTLE bit of fun back in :). #7 will eat your soul (or at least, it's eaten mine.)
  4. And holy fuck do buckets of golf balls get heavy quick ...
  5. Wasn't a thing back then.
  6. Had a family friend who took up walking as a way to get in shape. There's a trail around one of the nicer public courses in NOrth Austin (and some ways to get onto the course itself in the evening). He started picking up the balls he found, and at the end of the year donated 5,000 golf balls (after giving us all the really good ones) to the First Tee. So, you know, beware what you start.
  7. Found my first ever legit diamond in the rough. Walked into a rando liquor store in San Francisco two blocks from Moscone to find a bottle of EC12 in the locked cabinet. Old label, big 12 right on the front. Guy said "$79.99" and I said "get the keys, please." When he opened the cabinet, motherfucker had TWO bottles. Bought 'em both. Looking back, he also had two bottles of ECBP. Probably should have bought those, too, but still ... Also hearing rumors of more EHTaylor Single Barrel this fall, in decent enough quantities that some might actually hit shelves. I"m hopeful, but not naive. We'll see.
  8. Can we stop with this ridiculous take, please? That field was LOADED with NFL talent. We're somewhat salty because Leinart and VY didn't become HOF'ers, but those two teams were a recruiting and NFL-draft goldmine. It's not a fucking accident that the two teams full of draft picks across three years ended up playing the best college football game of all time. " The BCS National Championship Game that capped the 2005 college football season had it all. Two undefeated teams daring each other to blink. Two blue-blood programs vying for supremacy in the world-famous Rose Bowl. The top three finishers in that year’s Heisman voting, each just months away from making the jump to the pros. As Texas and USC meet again for the first time 11 years later, Longhorns 41, Trojans 38 still holds a special place in the legend of the sport. Predictably, those two teams produced a ridiculous amount of NFL talent. In total, 62 players on those rosters—35 from USC, 27 from Texas—appeared in at least one NFL regular season game, while seven coaches went on to ply their craft in the professional ranks. Fourteen players went on to be selected in the first round, and 38 were picked in the third round or earlier. Here, in no particular order, are the 50 players and coaches who enjoyed the most notable NFL careers after that unforgettable game. " (source, and more good reading - https://www.si.com/college-football/photo/2017/09/15/usc-texas-rose-bowl-nfl-careers-reggie-bush-vince-young.
  9. I know how to solve the local problem, I''d just like to still be able to view them on my phone over the internet. To be technically correct, I'd like to have my WIFE be able to view them over the internet, without needing a VPN or the like (i.e. dead-ass simple). Let's also make sure we stay on point - this particular rant isn't about how to solve the viewing problem, it's about the fact that I even have to. (hard coded destinations on routable ip addresses in China? C'mon ...).
  10. Clevlen and Kelly Johnson at WWHS are the two guys hitting in high school that were just on another level. I grew up with Ryan France who was a four-year starter at WW and I think lettered three years at Texas, played for years with Ontiveros and Langerhans ... but Brent and Kelly were better than all of them (and that's not a slight to those guys). Fun fact, we're family friends with the Franklin's (Miles parents). Amazing people. Dad was the mayor of Pflugerville for a time I think? Something like that.
  11. Brent Clevelen. Played ball in HS with his older brother (WWHS holla), watched him just DESTROY people through his prep career. We had one Alumni game at Westwood when Ryan Langerhans and Kelly Johnson both came back, and Brent was more physically talented than both of them. Brent was stuck behind three established pros in the OF in detroit for a while, and just basically missed his window. Cruel game. He had several cups of coffee in the pros, but couldn't stick. Still a crazy nice kid, crazy nice family - he's back in the centex area coaching.
  12. 1-2-3.
  13. man. It seems that every single consumer-grade camera includes parts (if not the entire camera assembly) made in china, and every one of them has easily-googleable proof that they're punching holes through firewalls via hard-coded destination IPs and routing traffic to china. Everyone says "don't worry about it, security camera footage isn't all that interesting anyway" but its the principal of the thing. Ugh.
  14. Is Lorex a chinese company? I just bought the Reolink system, but I"ve since found a few reviews where people have said the system 'checks in' with IP addresses in China every now and then. I need to verify that behavior (mine isn't installed yet), but I"d prefer to not add to the Chinese mesh network, if possible. My house wired with Cat5 and Cat6, so this system would work perfectly - https://www.lorextechnology.com/4k-security-camera/hd-nvr-with-super-hd-4mp-security-cameras-/4KHDIP44W-1-p.
  15. That's always what it was. Google is about ad revenue. More people, more sites, more apps, more content on the web = more clicks. Same idea behind the google labs shit like wi-fi delivered through a series of helium balloons. Marketed as a way to get networks in times of disaster (which is 100% a valid use case) ... but more interesting as a way to get service to under--served areas. Don't fixate on the balloons idea, fixate on the "underserved areas" idea.
  16. The salary cap is very specifically serves to enrich owners, in all major leagues. It does achieve the commissioners' state goal of parity, but the owners have never been worth more, and even in small markets team are more profitable than ever before. Players deservedly want their piece of the pie, but the cap requires that it be a zero sum game. Granted, this is one of those 144-character takes and the issue has more nuance than this, but owner wealth is outpacing player wealth. I don't give a shit about "paid too much to play a game." They should be paid what the market is making available, and the players aren't getting their proportionate share, even with contracts like Wilsons.
  17. oh I completely agree. I'd like to see some of this stuff put into a contract, but even that has it's own, very obvious pitfalls.
  18. I'm really surprised that more players don't try the Brady plan, deferring more money (or taking less overall) after promises that the team will spend to flesh out the team around you. Raw salary pales in comparison to advertising/branding opportunities for people that win Super Bowls, esp QBs. Taking a knife to the organizations hamstrings with your own contract isn't helpful. To be clear, I'm 100pct in favor of "get yours." The owners are getting WEALTHY off of this guy (and all of his teammates). I'm not saying you should take less out of the goodness of your heart. But winning pays more than losing.
  19. Unintended consequences, that's honestly a great reminder. That area definitely carries a lot of water during storms, so my scorched earth idea is probably not a good one :). However, glycosophate is some bad stuff. Even in the 2% forumulations that regular RoundUp comes in. Any ideas for a weed killer that won't cause my grandchildren to have three eyes?
  20. The guy that I work with here in Austin is $150/hr. Worth every fucking penny tho.
  21. I love all of these people ... but this just doesn't work.
  22. Most questions on this thread are about how to make things grow. Allow me to be a contrarian :). I've got a stretch of my yard between my house and a big limestone vein (we're on a hillside lot). I've turned the stretch into a river rock xeriscape, and it won't ever grow anything on purpose. I can say that confidently because I'm not pulling that river rock out anytime ever, and I need the walkway access so it won't ever have shrubs/bushes. Thus ... I want to keep the area weed-free. I want to literally salt the earth. My current plan is to buy bulk salt from Costo (or maybe pool salt), and just sprinkle it down like the worlds best anti-fertilizer. Any other thoughts from the master gardeners on the thread?
  23. My wife bought a pair of seats for the last three seasons, so we could have Hamilton tickets.
  24. Houston, I assume from your avater? (boooo ...)
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