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  1. 9 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

    I spent one month's commission check last december when I bought my fiancee's.  /shaggysalesmafia

     My girl is very low maintenance, not nearly as extravagant as my ex.  She actually found a ring that she liked at Sam's club.  I told her fuck that, I'm not buying an engagement ring the same place where I buy paper towels and dogfood.

     Went to my local jeweler (for some reason, all the Alter family in Beaumont went to  UT Law school. . .) and he cut me a pretty good deal on a double halo cut with good clarity.  Now I need to buy a band to go with the engagement ring.

     When I returned home from buying the ring, I logged in to Sam's website for shits and giggles and went to the engagement ring section and sorted highest price to lowest. . .who on Earth would spend $130K on a online ring purchase from Sams?

     Also - I let my fiance pick the ring.  She had a budget and knew exactly when she had found the "wow" ring, the one that made her cry.  Then she left the store and I gave it to her a few months later.  She's happy because she got to pick it out.

     We have different tastes - I'll show her something that I would buy and it's completely different than what she would buy.  I'd buy a platinum with a big emerald cut solitare, she would pick something completely different.

     

    You gave her a budget for her engagement ring? Guess you have to start training them early. 

  2. More details on the big aggy recruiting weekend. 

    Ryan Brauninger

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    I mentioned this on the radio this morning, and after thinking about it, I don't think we talked about it on the boards.

    Anyway, Texas A&M is looking to host a recruiting event for their top targets on the second weekend in June. It's looking like Javonne ShepherdKenyon GreenIsaiah SpillerBobby WolfeErick Young, etc, and a bunch of commits will attend. 

    I've heard they'll set up non-football style competitions (Xbox/PlayStation tournaments, board games, tug of war, charades, scavenger hunts) throughout the day with visitors put on teams. 

    This is also the scheduled visit dates for out of state prospects Adrian MedleyHunter Rayburn, and Nakobe Dean

    We'll release the visitor list when we get a more comprehensive grasp on everything. 

  3. 36 minutes ago, midtown said:

    I went to renew 2 passports ago.  At the time I had the anniversary green US passport.  Did all the paperwork, pictures, etc and dropped it all in the mail.  Two weeks late I get my torn and mangled application back in an envelope with a not saying my letter was damaged during the mail process.  No passport.  How does a letter get damaged at a mail facility and the passport just disappear?  and I really wanted to keep that anniversary green one.  Now I have to apply like a brand new with the lost passport form and now I have to get a copy of my birth certificate from fucking Hawaii where I was born.   

    The best part will be the extra secondary screening you get for about 10 years for losing a passport. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Uncle Nate said:

    I've been doing "lazy" keto since mid-April.  Lazy meaning I'm not tracking my macros...instead I'm just eye-balling it.  So I'm sure I'm probably not religiously under the 20g of carbs per day and probably not hitting the fat target I should be.  Also started Intermittent Fasting the week after starting keto.  Started with 16:8, but quickly transitioned to one meal a day for about 4 days a week.  So far I've lost 18lbs.

     How many of you doing keto are tracking your macros daily?  Do you feel that the tracking makes a difference and is necessary?  I'm just not disciplined enough to do the tracking, but I'm wondering how far "off" I am on my estimates.

    Sounds like you are doing it just fine your way. Using an app like myfitnesspal makes tracking it pretty easy, just have to get used to the routine of entering your meals. 

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Viper said:

    Yeah I was weighing an ecobee vs a nest, and I really liked that the ecobee had additional temperature sensors you could set up in different rooms. I'm interested to hear how Nest's new temperature sensors compare.

    I don't have an ecobee, but I have the three nest sensors, which work great. You can view the temperatures in the various rooms, and select which one, the sensors or the thermostat, you want to use to set the temperature. I am sure the ecobee does the same, but it was really the only thing the nest was missing, besides HomeKit support if you care about that. 

  6. On 5/20/2018 at 11:26 AM, The University said:

    we've had a nest thermostat since they were first introduced. temperature gauge on it was totally out of whack and it's an older model that doesn't support additional sensors. so, out with the nest and in with the ecobee 4. it's taking some time to get comfortable with the new interface, but so far, the ecobee is a great replacement.

    New Nest can also use temperature sensors. 

    This is not a good look for Amazon here. 

     

    A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.

    "My husband and I would joke and say I'd bet these devices are listening to what we're saying," said Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name.

    Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home's heat, lights and security system.

     

    But Danielle said two weeks ago their love for Alexa changed with an alarming phone call. "The person on the other line said, 'unplug your Alexa devices right now,'" she said. "'You're being hacked.'"

    That person was one of her husband's employees, calling from Seattle.

    "We unplugged all of them and he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house," she said. "At first, my husband was, like, 'no you didn't!' And the (recipient of the message) said 'You sat there talking about hardwood floors.' And we said, 'oh gosh, you really did hear us.'"

    Danielle listened to the conversation when it was sent back to her, and she couldn't believe someone 176 miles away heard it too.

    "I felt invaded," she said. "A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'"

    Danielle says she unplugged all the devices, and she repeatedly called Amazon. She says an Alexa engineer investigated.

    "They said 'our engineers went through your logs, and they saw exactly what you told us, they saw exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry.' He apologized like 15 times in a matter of 30 minutes and he said we really appreciate you bringing this to our attention, this is something we need to fix!"

    But Danielle says the engineer did not provide specifics about why it happened, or if it's a widespread issue.

    "He told us that the device just guessed what we were saying," she said. Danielle said the device did not audibly advise her it was preparing to send the recording, something it’s programmed to do.

    When KIRO 7 asked Amazon questions, they sent this response:

    “Amazon takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."

    Amazon offered to “de-provision” Danielle’s Alexa communications so she could keep using its Smart Home Features. But Danielle is hoping Amazon gives her a refund for her devices, which she said their representatives have been unwilling to do. She says she’s curious to find out if anyone else has experienced the same issue.

    "A husband and wife in the privacy of their home have conversations that they're not expecting to be sent to someone (in) their address book," she said.


     

  7. 3 hours ago, pearlandhorn said:

    When the wife had carb flu, she drank a lot of water and Gatorade. Just an FYI.

      

    I gained a few pounds over the weekend thanks to a steakhouse visit. Back on the grind and back to 286. 

    The gatorade probably knocked her out of ketosis so there goes the Keto flu. 

  8. 8 hours ago, 1978horn said:

    Looks like you still only get 20 hours of recording.  Which may not be a huge problem with all the on demand programs now, but if you want to keep things forever will start to be a problem.

    

    Good thing it only saves for 30 days. 

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