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    When the Horns brought their A-game, they were a decent team, dominating the likes of Baylor and Kansas.

    This is glorious.  Never mind that Texas beat *checks notes* Bama, who won the SEC, with our little decent team.

    The Big Lebowski Brandt GIF

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    Doggo loving it.  Staying at a cabin about 3/4 mile from CB.  Easy to park for free at the visitor center and take the bus up.  Today a lot more crowded vs Thursday (ghost town) and Friday (2 min at most wait).

    Spicy bloody Mary on point at Paradise warming hut

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  3. 2 hours ago, texasdago said:

    Incentive to get better as a skier... I tell my kids this... the better you get, the better it gets...

    Crested Butte:

    Left side - services mostly greens and blues but can be used to get to other parts of the mountain.  Line.

    Right side - services blues, blacks and double diamonds.  No line.

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    Yup, we got into CB on Wednesday.  

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  4. On 2/2/2024 at 10:14 PM, wackawacka said:

    Drove up to Whistler only to drive right back. What a disaster. The weather was perfect when I booked a place but a day before turned warm and rainy.

    SUCKS. Hopefully, I can get a few more weekdays.

    i am kinda nervous.  we are headed to whistler for spring break (early March) and i've been watching the videos about the bad base conditions.  hopefully get some colder weather.

  5. On 1/25/2024 at 1:53 PM, Horns99 said:

    Anyone have any opinions on staying at Park City base vs The Canyons ? Going for spring break with 2 kids, if that matters

    we have been to Canyons last 2 spring breaks.  We stayed right at the base of Canyons right next to the orange bubble lift in that big hotel/condo place.  From our research, it was nicer than equiv $$ on the PC side, at least for the 3-4 bedroom condos with big kitchens/livng rooms.  you can either 'ski' to PC (mostly riding lifts, then a gondola that connects PC and Canyons) or take the bus.  Taking the bus back right at lift closing time can be a beating, but otherwise it's not too bad.  You can bus into PC proper for dining/shopping fairly easily.  We never rent a car but just uber from the airport to the mountain.

    the base at PC has an ice rink and more shopping places for sure. 

  6. yep, it is becoming harder and harder to find CEX (as a US cit) that do not require KYC.  I have not had issues with CB, but i doxxed myself to them a long time ago and bank transfers are usually pretty fast.  I still get nervous when transferring crypto from a 'fly-by-night' CEX back into CB though.  if you send something on the wrong chain it could be lost. 

    I have been using Phemex and just saw some people get their withdrawal function frozen as they may be forcing KYC.  I really don't care as i am not trying to cheat uncle Sam, but the fewer places that know of my info the better.  Coinbase does not offer some of the coins i am trading in, so have to find other alternatives.  CB also does not have the greatest fee structure.

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  7. On 1/22/2024 at 10:27 PM, closetohumping said:

    I was on the tarmac at John Wayne a few months ago. Perfect weather here but NYC was not cooperating.  Waited an hour or so and finally we get the green light.  Engine starts and about twenty seconds later a "check engine" light comes on.  Waited another hour before they pushed the flight till the next morning.  Next morning, not enough snacks on the plane so there was a delay until a group of us said "fuck the snacks get us to NYC."  Free drinks for everyone at least.

    yep, our flight to Bham for the UT/AL game was scrapped due to mech issue.  we get another plane ~1.5 hours later and AA just said fuck it and told everyone we were taking off without drinks/food or it would be another hour delay.  

  8. On 7/25/2023 at 5:16 PM, gyroprotagonist said:

    reminds me of my dad's (well grandad's) old JD.  towards the end we had to pull start it with the truck every time with my dad bitching my 12yo old ass out for taking off too fast.  air up the tires for every run.  hydraulics were actually decent and only leaked a bit.  eventually some rainwater got in the engine block and froze and that's all she wrote.  i want to say it was built in the 50s and lasted 35 years or so. 

    quick web search and this photo looks the most like what i remember

     

    The front wheels were definitely closer together than a lot of the other models and you had use the individual rear tire brake to turn.  Although it could have been a 4010 which was built in the early 60s.

    was out at the place a few weeks back and snapped a pic

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  9. so biggest difference in the playoff game vs last half of reg season was getting Lamb the ball.  McCarthy seemed to have figured something out to get CD the ball even when other teams knew that was the obvious plan in the regular season.  5 games in a row of over 100 yards and a TD or whatever the stat was.  did the Packers just corch up a better scheme to shut down Lamb and Dallas had no answers?  did the last 8 coaches Dallas faced prior the Packers just not care about stopping Lamb?  I get that playoffs are a whole different deal, but damn.

     

  10. Both sides of the ball were outcorched.  Fans in the stands were stunned and could not get into the game from the beginning.  Most had brought out the anointing oil and put Dallas in a rematch with SF in the NFC title game.  Again, something HC should be taking care of.

    Would McCarthy get hired as a HC if he were let go?  

  11. 20 hours ago, Skipper said:

    Looked out yesterday and didn't see flow.  Sure enough, some valve was stuck (which according to my pool guy shouldn't have stopped the flow) but there was obviously something frozen somewhere even though equipment still trying to run.   Before draining equipment and salvage what I could, I turned pump off, poured a big ass bucket of hot water into the pump and ran it.  Did that a couple of times and second time did the trick.  My auto freeze switches from pool to spa in 30 min intervals but ended up just locking it in pool mode and seems to be doing ok 24 hours later.  Still don't know WTF happened.   Weird.

    the 30 minute interval is not enough frequency to prevent ice from forming in my experience.  my system got effed in the last big freeze despite having power the entire time.  it was set to run on and off at 30 minute intervals. I have a new controller this time around it just runs 24/7 when the target temp is hit.  no issues so far this year.  paying a little more in electricity is worth way more than $5K+ repair.

  12. did prime rib and lobster tails. pulled the meat at 115F from the green egg and let it rest wrapped in foil, then the in-laws were late, so it rested for about 1.5 hours.  Still turned out great

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    lobster tails were cut in half and grilled with some butter.  Managed to not overcook them and they turned out great.  

     

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