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MadTrapper

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  1. Wife got me the first book of Murderbot Diaries for Christmas. Looking forward to giving it a go...
  2. Just finished The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Fantastic read. I thought the third bin really came off the page. Less abstract than his Children of Time series.
  3. I'll throw in another for Milwaukee. I like how integrated their battery system is.
  4. Was with Central Mutual via HUB but switched over to Progressive a week ago. Reaching out to some folks this week to dig a little deeper...
  5. I recently transferred ownership of our rental house to an LLC that I set up. Any suggestions on companies that do business insuring homes/assets owned by an LLC instead of an individual? Would I have to go down the business insurance path?
  6. Good job, man. We are at a similar range...was at 215 this summer and now down to 173 after cutting most carbs and booze. Looking back, can't believe all the crap I was eating throughout the years that I'd somehow justify to myself. On a much better track now.
  7. Just finished the Children of Memory (Children of Time series) and it was fantastic. It picked up a Hugo award this year as well. Highly recommend.
  8. Agreed. That's basically what Vowels said during their interviews.
  9. It's pretty minimal. They make like 30k net bbls/day from GOM and operate 3, maybe 4, fields. They have a pretty minimal exploration leasehold, too. Guyana sucked all the capital away, understandably. Most of the private players have a more valuable GOM portfolio.
  10. Looks like XOM takeover of Pioneer is coming to fruition. From WSJ: Exxon Mobil [uS:XOM] is closing in on a deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources, [uS:PXD] a blockbuster takeover that could be worth roughly $60 billion. A deal could be sealed in the coming days, assuming the talks don’t hit a last-minute snag, people familiar with the matter said. After posting record profits in 2022, Exxon has been flush with cash and exploring options that would push it deeper into West Texas shale. An acquisition of Pioneer, with a market cap of around $50 billion, would likely be Exxon’s largest deal since its megamerger with Mobil in 1999. It would give Exxon a dominant position in the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, a region the oil giant has said is integral to its growth plans. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that the two companies were holding preliminary talks. Exxon has a market value of $436 billion, so the deal, which would be the biggest takeover of the year, should be easily doable.
  11. Offshore GOM lease sale postponed from last week to Nov 8 basically due to obscure and questionable whale environmental proposed regulation. New 5 year plan for the outer continental shelf just came out (finally) and feds are proposing one lease sale every other year for GOM and nothing in Cook Inlet. The last 5 year plan had two lease sales a year and that was kind of nuts, but every other year is a bit too few. Maybe one day we can get back to some level of consistency again. I'm all for offshore wind and renewables and energy diversification, but don't deliberately bite the hand that feeds you.
  12. They could use computer vision image recognition with either the existing cameras on the car or ones in a better position to pretty easily automatically monitor if they are outside the lines or not. I don't see any reason why that would be particularly difficult and it's super cheap. Don't need a massive sensor network on every track...that's overkill and not necessary. Then the drivers could have instant feedback and the video feed could capture a still image when it happens.
  13. I just finished the second book in that series, Eyes of the Void. It was excellent and I enjoyed the character development, particularly of Ollie and Kris. Looking forward to when the third book comes out in I think May. Have you read his Children of Time series? Completely different style but still excellent. I still need to read Children of Memory. In the meantime I'm finally getting around to reading some of Alistair Reynolds' stuff.
  14. MadTrapper

    Vinyl

    Got this baby today. One of my favorites albums and musicians.
  15. Went on Friday and did the bus from downtown. I was on the first bus in the morning and they seemed to run smoothly, though I did hear some stories of drivers getting lost. Came back after FP2. Food and drinks were good and I liked that they had water refill stations. Sun was brutal and shade was at a premium, but it's central Texas, so it is what it is. Overall a great experience. Turn 12 was amazing. Loved the smell of the breaks.
  16. Feel bad for the fans in Japan.
  17. Just curious...why no south Louisiana?
  18. Props to @utee94 for the advice a couple months back. Ended up getting a reasonable turn 12 ticket on Friday at COTA for the USGP. Heading up that weekend for Alumni band for the Iowa State game, anyway. Going to be a great weekend.
  19. Just started rewatching it with my young daughters this time to see how they'd react to it and so far they seem engulfed. We started the pilot, but didn't finish it and I just skipped straight to the regular episodes. However, IMHO, I still think there's some really good writing in the pilot between Q and Picard.
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