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dlatin

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  1. My son got NCAA football last year and he plays it all the time, this updated roster thing sounds really cool.  Is it difficult to do, is there a good source that explains it all so I could maybe do this for him.  I'm semi-technical, maybe less so now than a few years ago?  He would be so excited.  It took him awhile to get into football with me, now he is a UT nut.


  2. Not much but I’m sure you could hurt yourself. It’s very much a low impact sport but it is a core and balance work out. I wouldn’t trust anyone but yourself on whether your knee holds up. It is absolutely not tennis, basketball, wakeboarding or skiing but it’s not nothing for a weakened knee. You can usually bail on a position before anything happens, but freak stuff can happen. I’ve lost my balance and the board has violently slipped out from under me, it was a no big deal other than a rough fall but my knees are ok so far, so anything can happen.

    I agree with this. A beginner without experience getting up on a wakeboard often struggles and stability can be an issue that may be difficult for someone with bad knees. If someone has done water sports in the past it is pretty easy to transfer and once you get it, wakesurfing can be very easy on the knees if you take it easy.
  3. Does wake surfing put twisting pressure on knees? I have a knee with a permanently torn ligament and have to be careful of lateral movement.

    Not at all, it’s really easy on the body because you are only going 8-10 mph, and you normally don’t have hard crashes, you normally just fall out of the wave and sink. No sore arms from holding a rope. Once you learn, it so easy to get up. There’s a lot of surface area on the board so you just stand up.
  4. We’ve had this place on the lake for 16 years, we moved out here full time 5 years ago. Originally it was 100% fishing, then kids came along and it was toobing, then skiing, then wakeboarding. Last year we were introduced to wakesurfing and we were hooked. I sold my fish and ski and got a boat we could wakesurf behind. I found an ‘06 Supra. It also meant we had to tear down the old dock and build a new one. We got the new boathouse done in July and had a blast this summer. Our lake is often like glass so it makes for great surfing. We’re loving the née dock, wish we would have done it years ago.
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  5. The cunts at hornfans nuked the thread for no reason, because we were all enjoying it. I think that was just prior to the great migration. The thread was reborn at shaggy but I think by that point the story had been pretty much played out. 

    Wow - flashback, that thread is what moved me over to shaggy. Further flashback was Longhornfanzone and Bob, and his ill fated bus trips . I had to move back to hornfans when LFZ collapsed. Now we’re at Surly...
  6. I was thinking about getting another CSR card. I thought I read in the thread above you could cancel, then as long as it was past 48 months all was good. Maybe I misunderstood that. I need to look at the benefits between the CSR and CSP I guess. When they upped the annual fee I wasn’t sure if it was worth the $250 fee (after 300 travel reimbursement). I liked the 50% uplift when going through portal on travel. I should probably look into it in more detail. The 100k bonus at the time made it a no brainer, especially for the fee back then.

  7. I apologize ahead of time because this was covered above, I just want to make sure I have this right. I got my 100k CSR bonus on my 12/21/16 statement, due date 1/19/17. I just canceled my card before the annual renewal and signed up for a CFU to move my points. I now know I should have just leveled that down. The question is when I sign up for a new CSR card? I think it is after 1/19/21, or is it after 12/22/20? Thanks for the help. I’m in awe of you guys. I thought I’ve done pretty well working the rewards over the years but you guys are next level.

  8. Temperature issue may have been from your probe placement.  Looks like you might be touching the bone. I don't use one on ribs but if I did would try to go in horizontally, parallel to the grate, away from the bone, center mass. 

    Potentially - but I was trying to be careful to keep the probe away from the bone. I also used a handheld probe as a secondary check that was reading the same temp. Next time I’ll try to shove it in horizontally. Just glad it was so damn delicious. We cleaned it up!
  9. Thanks, I’ve been smoking meats for 10 years, just never done beef ribs. I’m still perplexed about the temp. I had a probe in during the cook that was reading the same temp as the thermapen I used. They felt done, probed like butter. They were cooking at about 310 most of the day. I pulled them after cooking nearly 10 hours and they were still at 183. I had wrapped them in butcher paper toward the end. When I checked them after an hour the had lost 10 degrees. It was all very odd. I finally just pulled them. They were delicious. I’ll definitely give them another go soon. Thanks for the help and encouragement.3e4d6a1b9e9a138d043a7bd176700ac3.jpg

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  10. If you're lookin you ain't cookin.
     

    Agree with this, I pulled them, let them rest and and cut in. They were really good. Next time I need to not open the smoker and just let it go. They were great but I think I can do better. 9138a588f90027695daa25996129a3b1.jpg
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  11. This is going downhill, I don’t normally sweat smoking ribs, shoulders, chickens. I wrapped them and they dropped temp after an hour. I pulled them out of the paper and put them back. I’ll give another hour and I’ll pull. I have to try them.

  12. The bottom has so little meat it basically winds up as discard, so as luke duke says, don't bother seasoning and don't bother with membrane. If you were braising the ribs, then I'd pull the membrane.
    Regarding your comment on drip pan, I think it's just a photo effect. What you're seeing in my photo is the ceramic heat deflector under the meat. It got pretty soaked in fat drippings and I had a nice deflector fire when they got hot enough during the burger portion of the cook. Depending what you're cooking in, a drip pan with some water may be a good idea just to keep your cooker clean or to prevent a grease fire; beef ribs render out a lot of fat.

    Thanks, just saw this. I pulled the membrane, it came right off. I’m using a WSM so I have the water pan so I didn’t place anything to catch the renderings. Here we go, we’ll see if it is worth posting final results...bae1597a43f4eada35b013527be93fd8.jpg
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  13. Perfect timing on that last post.  I'm doing my first session of beef chuck short ribs (choice).  I was going to ask the salt/pepper ratio and is it by weight or volume.  I see above you said 40/60 salt/pepper by weight.  Do I have that right?  Also, do you do any trimming on the outside fat?  It doesn't look like it from the pictures on here.  I was going to cook at around 240, these are 6.75 lbs, how long roughly is that?  cook to 200?  Thanks in advance...

  14. 5 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

    Re: saving lives vs the economy. 
     

    The numbers in a lot of states, including Texas, do not justify the widespread restrictions that are still in place imo. They were justified initially, but now with weather warming and it being clear that estimates overshot the mark pretty badly, it’s time to open things up. Whether it’s a process or not, it needs to happen. 
     

    Open non essential businesses. Encourage continued mask wearing and social distancing in public. Probably keep schools closed. If outbreak flares up immediately then have to walk things back, but it’s unlikely. 
     

    Over the summer, do as much work as possible on antibody testing, corona testing, ppe production. Investigate all therapeutic possibilities. 
     

    Where the rubber will meet the road is when cases start popping back up in the fall. How will we handle shutting things back down if the numbers are high? Hopefully it will be more nuanced when we have more data. And honestly it will need to be. After how far off the big models have been, a lot of people will be questioning any warnings the next time around. And rightly so, if you think about it.
     

    Gonna be a tougher sell. Hope we’re better prepared. 

    The only way this can really work effectively is to have robust testing, legitimate contact tracing, and a plan of action ready to be followed to a T if cases begin to spike.  Given that is what is likely needed, i don't like our chances of effectively instituting a plan that will be effective. 

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  15. I picked up the Orbi 3 pack on Woot It seems pretty good to me.  My free trial of Netgear Armor security just expired.  Is it worth it for the $70 annual subscription?  It seems like not a bad idea if it protects everything on my network.  I have everything going through this system.  I even have my 24 port switch plugged into it.

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