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Hornbeliever

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  1. My definition of good movie isn’t whether it will be studied at UCLA movie critique grad school class….this simpleton just asks whether I’m glad I watched or wish I had chosen something else. Glad I watched and glad Bix was in it. Not fantastic but good enough.
  2. Leon’s, Magnolia, and Husk were all quality dining experiences for us. And agreed on NOLA vibe but if I had one weekend to choose and the two parameters were fun and food, I would go to NOLA. If your criteria include sophisticated ambiance and cleanliness and I don’t want to smell puke, Charleston would be a better choice. With that said, we left Charleston wishing we had more time there than the few days we were there.
  3. What is average 30-year rate for standard mortgages (good credit scores, 20% down)?
  4. Nice. I planted potatoes this year for first time an led have not dove in to check them. How did you know time to harvest?
  5. Anyone been to Squable in the Heights? Worth it?
  6. Never done cantaloupe so can’t comment and I don’t love tomatoes so strawberries will be my test. Just planted some for the first time about a month ago so let’s hope I get some in the first year. Stay on the edge of your seat for a few more months until I can opine! I’ve generally been more of an herb guy because of your #3 and #4. Mint thyme basil cilantro with a slew of peppers has been my easy thing for a few years.
  7. Curious what items make it in #1 fire you? I haven't found huge difference in taste for veggies versus store bought, just fruits.
  8. He was also my stats professor in late 90s and I remember he said that he most definitely did not prove OJ was innocent but that the sample that was proclaimed as a million to one was more like 75,000 to one. I remember he said how masterful a job OJ’s lawyers did because they kept proving how wrongly inflated the odds were and how clearly wrong the defense was….all so that no one would notice how ridiculous 75,000 to one (still way guilty).
  9. Many days over the past seven years, I’ve eaten lunch somewhere near 10 and between Heights Blvd and the Beltway (I don’t cross as Niko Niko is my limit). I also love Vietnamese. how did i not know about Roostar? Will need to check out next week.
  10. @Gil Bang doesn’t know shit about fuck in regards to VPN and yet likely knows more than me….so this is a helpful chat he bumped. i want to watch Astros games in Houston. Do these things work on iPhones? Do VPN’s cause glitches or other downsides to the phone?
  11. Sounds great and this is our plan starting in a couple of years. If renting, how did you find your house to rent for that long stretch?
  12. I started the ag exemption process last year as a first time beekeeper. Here was my first year journey: April 1, 2023: hired someone to set up three hives at my ranchito. may 2023: two hives looked to be thriving so put honey supers (small boxes for bees to make honey and not to make more bees) on top of the regular boxes. July 2023: 1 hive produced 30 lbs of honey so I harvested all of it. 1 hive had some honey but not enough for me to want to take. 1 hive just looked weak so figured it was dying. Dec 2023: hive that was strongest got wax moths so died and I had to torch it all. Weak hive now looks ok. Middle hive still going ok. April 2024: the two hives survived the winter and were so full of bees that I added honey supers on both. Also, three hives being installed this week by same guy who set up my first three. it was a lot of fun to learn a bunch and hope my hives live and thrive this year.
  13. I found Hudson house very average. But I also wasn't that impressed by BNC so my taste buds must suck
  14. My first foray into a utensil drawer. I only used scrap stuff because it was on a whim. I will buy more finished plywood and resize some stuff when I replace this now that I know it was fun to build.
  15. Hornbeliever

    Pizza

    Via 313 is legit. No decrease in quality from Austin move.
  16. Just had a good experience (fence for clarification) with @T-shirt Sip in Austin.
  17. Anyone watched Criminal Record? Halfway through and don’t know if I like it or don’t like it…so I guess either way I would out it at not fantastic.
  18. Can you spoiler if her critique means we are taking BTC to the moon? If not, all her logical thoughts are dead wrong.
  19. Hornbeliever

    Indian

    Just tried Himalayan on Hillcroft and 59 and it was quite good. Any other worth trying?
  20. That’s a great idea (monte Carlo simulations). I need to build that into my little model but that requires dusting off my skillzzzz which I might have lost in my twenties. This is how old I am and CSB: my first investment banking internship in NYC was a summer of building Monte Carlo simulations on bankrupt regional cellular firms and running simulations on how many people in America would buy cell phones and then turn around and buy all-you-can use bandwidth plans versus limited minute and text plans. Difference in those assumptions for all these little shitty companies was insolvency versus enough life to be bought out by a big boy. A fuck ton of money was being made in buying their junk debt at 25 cents on the dollar and then betting on that junk co. being bought out by someone like AT&T where the bond would now be rated at the purchasers underlying rating.
  21. I just turned 48 and feeling I’m 5-6 years out from retirement so I built out a retirement excel model for myself. I say damn does what you assume for inflation and for average investment return mess with the numbers. The difference between inputting 3 and 4% inflation is huge, as is selecting between 6 and 7% investment return. Compounding, yo. Anyways, yall put in similar ranges? Or more conservative/aggressive? I said I’d die at 87, 4% inflation and 7% investment return.
  22. What about a deep dive on Super Blue Chips? And on how many calories four Arby's sandwiches have in them?.......sorry, just saw those are covered by someone elsewhere. I wish there was some easy to understand metric that amounts to something like stars per win during their sophomore to senior years. I only care about NFL future because that implies they were great players during college, in theory, and that should have led to wins. Super half baked since I know attrition and transfers and injuries mess up the class calcs. I guess I'd one day like to see something that relates overall class stars to wins since one could define how well players played to the win-loss column and not to how many had brighter future post-Texas.
  23. Just got a Pro-ject record player and decided to build a table top organizer after my first month of frustration dealing with the records and where to store them. Decided on cherry wood and like the teak above, surprisingly expensive. Definitely nowhere near scale of @Spaulding Smails’s nice new table but still $. Now that it’s in use, wish I had done 5 storage sections instead of the 3 with the middle section being very skinny to only fit the record that is playing at the time. Live and learn.
  24. A couple weeks ago, I finally sold out of one of my bitcoins on coinbase for two reasons: (1) to lock in a certain positive return from my 2017 complete dumb gamble and (2) to see if me selling actually meant I would get that cash in my real world account. I knew nothing about crypto in 2017 when I bought bitcoin and still know nothing about crypto but I do know that I like to make a small, stupid, high risk investment each year with a long holding period for said gamble. Even through all the ups and downs of this ridiculous investment, a piece of me always thought that when it was time to sell, coinbase would ask me for some password that I forgot to write down in some "wallet" or some other nerd term and I would get no money back. Well, that almost happened. Took me two weeks to prove who I am after having to take a pic with my drivers license and then a week later with my passport and my cash was restricted the whole time. I had to write on sticky notes what they told me to write like I was a hostage with today's date and Russell Crowe was coming to save me. Finally, yesterday I ended up on a three hour chat with some Indian customer service agent and thanks to Shiva and Ganesh, he unblocked my cash and I was able to successfully transfer those funds from my fantasy account at coinbase to a real bank today. Anyways, success. And let's keep taking bitcoin to the moon,whatever the fuck bitcoin is.
  25. Cairngorms is great. We also stayed in town called Tomintoul where we used as base to go to many scotch tastings. Also stayed at a haunted hotel there that was under renovation (that was an unpleasant surprise).
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