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Posts posted by El Guapo
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This is the best I could do. I call him Squee.As promised - This is Eddie
And this is Carlos
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Thanks guys. I put a java fern and an anubias (?) in there about a month ago and they seem to be thriving. Thinking about getting something to float on the top but the betta seems pretty happy as is and I don't want to risk overcrowding. It also has a small piece of driftwood that I'm trying to get the java fern to attach to. The only other living thing is a nerite snail who's been pretty good at keeping the algae off the cheesy aquarium decorations the kid picked out.
Dumb question but if I add distilled water I don't have to condition it, right?
This has turned out to be a much more interesting project than I thought. Fortunately, or unfortunately, our house isn't well suited for multiple aquariums otherwise it would be very easy for me to get carried away.
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The kids recently talked me into getting a betta. We bought a five gallon tank at Petsmart and set everything up before I knew what I was doing. Fortunately the betta survived and after a lot of googling, I think I'm getting the hang of this. Seriously thinking about setting up a planted tank now - you guys with the reefs have me jealous but I'm not ready to commit to that just yet.
Anyway, I bought one of those API test kits a couple of weeks ago and started monitoring the water. Everything has been fine except pH, which seems to hover between what looks like 7.6 and 8.0 (I think, maybe y'all can give me tips on how to distinguish between the color gradiants on the card). As I understand it, that's a little hard for a betta but it comes out of the faucet at 8+. Any tips on how to lower pH? I bought an almond leaf but that hasn't helped. The guy at Aquatek said to buy a reverse osmosis filter, which probably ain't happening.
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On 9/26/2018 at 11:29 AM, Bottlecap said:
oh fuck, this mix pack is perfection. i love RAs pale ales. Swifty is a GREAT beer.
Had a Swifty last night and I agree that it is an excellent beer.
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That's that place just outside of New Braunfels, right? Yes, it's legit.Freiheit is a religious experience in gluttony for me everytime.
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On 8/8/2018 at 11:01 AM, utee94 said:
I'll try any place that someone mentions, just to see if I can top it and find a closer option, or at least an equivalent or better one. And invariably I find myself both disappointed, and even angry, at wasting time on pho that isn't Tan My.
Pho Phi at Metric & Parmer is really good.
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Finished Season 2 this morning. Didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Season 1; in fact I came close to giving up on it about 2/3 of the way through. As others have said, too many plot holes, too much suspension of belief, too many crises that required too many highly problematic dominoes to fall in exactly the right order to resolve. And that overdone dark lighting. They had some of this stuff it in Season 1 but stretched them to the breaking point in Season 2.
Don't want to repeat what others, particularly Gandorf have said, because I largely agree. I found the Ruth character to be more contradictional than conflicted, if that makes sense. She's smart enough to see that the cousin is smart enough to "get out" of the family traps, but not smart enough to see that she's smart enough to do the same? And she's still trying to steal from Marty, a guy she knows is helping her and trusting her, up until what, the last couple of days? Because her daddy, who she knows is a screw up and who literally robbed her, expected her to because she's a Langmire? Sorry, I didn't buy that.
Also, the failed hit by the cartel on the Snells. Paid assassins firing multiple machines guns into the car, and the only shot that lands happens to hit Mr. Snell in a non-vital area of the chest? Driver is unscathed enough to just drive off? Didn't buy it.
The whole Snell thing got stupid. The baby thing was stupid. Much of the FBI agent's storyline was stupid.
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I'm still pissed about Arkansas 2003 (I think).Other teams constantly make plays against us when they have to and on top of that we gift first downs in critical situations on a regular basis. Been going on for 7 to 8 years.
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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:
Was it piney and bitter?
Making bittering hops great again.
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21 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
Violet is already out. Got it at HEB yesterday. Finally trying Hi C and I dig. The construction has to be a bitch for biz.
Stopped by yesterday and filled a growler of a WC style IPA called Lucifer something. Outstanding. These guys just don't make a bad beer, do they?
The bartender thanked us for coming in and mentioned that the construction was really hurting their business. He said Google maps had been giving people inaccurate directions and falsely reporting road closures. I don't know how google keeps up with that stuff but I imagine it can't be easy with all the construction.
Go support these guys, they deserve it.
Edit: talking about Hi-Sign in case that wasn't clear.
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10 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Brewing an Altbier is a license to print money.
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On 7/15/2018 at 11:51 PM, Larry T. Spider said:
First time at Celis today. Solid selection of beers and nice tap room. They have a lot of stuff on nitro, including their raspberry fruit beer. I asked about that and both bartenders insisted that fruit beers on nitro were going to be big soon. I don’t know if I buy that but it was really good.
Celis has a "golden lager" on tap right now, not to be confused with a golden ale they've had recently. I asked the bartender if that was the pilsner they used to brew back in the day and he said it was the same beer but that it was never a pilsner, it was a golden lager. I always thought Celis Golden was a pilsner but I didn't argue; whatever it was was fantastic.
Sorry, wasn't a big fan of the nitro raspberry and I usually like oddball stuff on nitro. Maybe I missed something because that was the only nitro tap I saw.
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3 minutes ago, bmbmd said:
I don't even get NBC-I'm dish customer. Watching on the app.
I just installed the NBC channel on my Roku. We'll see how this works. So far so good.
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6 minutes ago, dcar00 said:
NBC on spectrum is unwatchable in austin
Same here. Went from mildly irritating to might as well mow the grass. As far as I can tell this is the only channel doing this right now.
Looking for a streaming source.
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24 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:
Anyone else have Spectrum/Time Warner and NBC feed freezing up sporadically?
Yes. Rebooted the box twice but no improvement.
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1 hour ago, deft said:
Este?Yes, that was it. Didn't know they canned it. It's not bad.
Wasn't crazy about the Kung Fu Robot but that guava IPA was allright.
I noticed their Zephyr was back at HEB but they didn't have it in the taproom. It's decent, from what I remember of last year's batch.
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Was at 4th Tap earlier tonight. They've upped their game a bit as long as you stay away from the gruits. Not the best in town, but not the worst either. Very kid and dog friendly if that matters to you.
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4 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Have they fixed the road yet?
Come for the four juicy IPA's, stay for the Peach Sour Berliner Weisse.
Oh, and the Hi-C kicks ass too.
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So I'm at this place last night where the "craft beer" choices were Stella, Shock Top, and Karbach Hopadillo.
Karbach has always been hit or miss for me even before the InBev (?) buyout, but given the other choices I ordered one fully expecting to be underwhelmed.
I must say it was quite excellent, so f the haters.
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Hi Sign's Peach Sour Berliner Weisse is the best fruited sour Berliner Weisse I've ever had, and I feel very confident I'd say that even if it wasn't the only fruited sour Berliner Weisse I've ever had. So good I filled the growler with it instead of the Hi-C I stopped by for. Although I did grab a 4 pack of Hi-C for later.
These guys are absolutely wrecking shop. If you haven't been, you need to make this place a priority.
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,,I think we mostly agree on how to provision and pay for care, and you are probably right about how much we would would wind up spending on administration in the aggregate with a public payor, although I'd be willing to bet that the public payor would probably wind up in the 5% range and the private sector would drive the number up.
As you know, my preference is an almost totally private universal solution, as outlined in Wyden Bennett. I think that's the best path for our country and would put the most downward pressure on cost while providing higher service to nearly everyone. But at this point I'd take a public option or even a vertical "single payer" system as a next step. We've just got to find a way to bring cost down. -
On 6/28/2018 at 9:58 PM, RD3 said:
Not a beer snob but Alstadt was sampling at HEB and I enjoyed all 3 of them. I bought a sixer of the Kolsch and it's a great summer beer.
I don't get the hate for Alstadt. Their lager is fine - it could use a tad more hops for my taste but I suspect it's more true to a German style than my NEIPA corrupted palette is looking for these days.
It takes a lot for a Kolsch to get me excited so I'll just comment that there wasn't anything disqualifyingly bad with it that I could tell. I'd drink it before Fireman's 4 if those were my choices.
I saw that they recently came out with an Alt but I haven't had that one yet.
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On 6/28/2018 at 9:12 PM, utee94 said:
I did notice that Big Bend had changed the name and branding of its Hefe. I liked the original version ok, but honestly thought Steve would have made it more like LO, which he didn't. I'm sure he wanted to make his own mark, but it was always just ok for me.
I'll give it a try though, always up for another good hefe.
fwiw, I thought the original was better than this current version. When it first came out I had one side-by-side with Live Oak's hefe and could not discern any difference. I was told by one of their rep's at an HEB sampling that the recipe didn't change, only the packaging but I'm not buying that. It tastes different to me.
Aquarium Homies Thread
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I probably don't want to know the answer to this, but how many of the bettas you see in the little jars at Petsmart actually get sold?
I realize that a large percentage of them that are sold are probably not cared for properly and die miserable deaths soon after purchase, but they seem to have 40 or 50-ish bettas in stock at all times. Even assuming they get proper care while sitting in those jars (a big if), they can't possibly sell them all, right? Do they euthanize them after a certain point? Do they just die on the shelf and are considered a cost of doing business? Or do they really take the time to keep the water changed (would probably have to be almost daily, right?) until the fish is sold?