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HoustonHorn

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  1. I have to recommend Sara Electronics in Houston. I bought a pioneer Kuro from them over 10 years ago and had a really good experience. But recently needed to get another TV and decided to call them and they beat the best price I could find from a legit online store by a couple hundred bucks, and they came out, moved one TV, set up the new TV, cleaned up all the wires to the various shit and installed everything properly for a very reasonable price. Very friendly and they spent the better part of the day doing everything.

    Was definitely skeptical when I called them because they wanted to come out and see where the TVs were going, what I needed done with all the gaming shit and wires. I figured it would be kind of a BS hard sell type deal and they wouldn't be able to beat the price and just upsell the install. But they did great work at a great price. John Michael was the sales guy I dealt with.

    Definitely worth the call if you're in the market for a TV and want it delivered and installed, etc.

  2. Pok-e-joes had some solid fucking fries. I used to work at Bookstop and would grab an order of fries for lunch. Mix the bbq sauce in the ketchup and it was damn tasty. Used to live near the Pit too. Usually got a burger, but back in the day it was passable bbq.

  3. I will fight anyone who says Gatti's Pizza sucks. I grew up on that pizza and nobody will convince me there's better pizza than pepperoni and meatball with a large side of ranch. Great after a game of soccer when you are 5, great after baseball when you are 12, great after golf when you are 18, great when you are drunk as shit in college and great now every time I go to Austin. So different and better than other joints.

    Houston has some very good pizza places, but if you asked me what my final slice would be. Gattis. Hands down.

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  4. I hate my LG V30. Between it and AT&T it is barely usable as a phone or connected device. Had trouble even staying connected to WiFi. That said, the music sounds great with the quad-DAC processing.

    Won't get a Samsung with that ridiculous Bixby button.

    I'll probably see what Verizon is offering in a couple months and ditch AT&T.

  5. Mine racked up $1,350 in in-app purchases. Turns out she’s been doing it all summer, but more sly like a fraud scammer. Keeping it to $35-45 a day, sometimes a week solid. In total, close to $3,000. Best of all, it was mostly on musicly?  An app that you buy “like” points and hand them out to people you like. Real solid value there. Thank God fraud control caught it today. 
    My daughter did this a couple years ago. $3500 in just over 2 weeks. I had Amazon digital purchases filtered in my Gmail so I didn't see what was going on. Luckily I'm probably in the top 1% of Amazon purchases and managed to get it credited back after quite a bit of threatening. Plus it was a bunch of digital eggs or diamonds or some other bullshit so there wasn't really a loss. My wife was in the phone at the same time disputing the charges on the CC.

    My daughter's tablet had been having issues and I'd been on the phone with Amazon several times and I guess during one of the times the parental controls had gotten reset so she could buy whatever she wanted. I think that also helped in getting them to credit it back.

    Pretty stressful scrolling page by page and seeing endless hundred dollar purchases with no idea when they would stop. No spanking but a pretty tense conversation. I don't expect it will be an issue again.

  6. Just now, Johnny Sack said:

    VY in that Urban Meyer offense that is set up for QBs to score TDs VY would have scored about 30 a year on the ground.  Tebow got all the short yardage carries.  VY was good at short yardage too but could also house one from 80.

    Most importantly VY  was excellent from 5 yards out. On 4th down.

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  7. Suggestions for a tough leather strap, e.g. Shark. It came with canvas and rubber so covered there. Will need to stand up to humidity, pool and gulf time. Checking out SNPR, Vintager, and Aaron Bespoke. Other suggestions for large (26mm) sturdy straps?

  8. Tits stand alone as a selling point for any straight 18yo make. That said, the obvious rudeness could have a negative impact on Moms.

    I agree that the demographics here are 50yo white male living in his 325k dreams in Katy and not necessarily football recruits. But, Tites.

  9. I wouldn't call it a disappointing finish, more like a boring one. It was close to watching paint dry, unlike Jordan getting hot to win last year and the epic Phil/Henrik duel in 2016
    This years final round was all about attrition, and Molinari played the steadiest hand. This year that makes him The Championship golfer of the year. Don't get me wrong Molinari played better than anyone and he deserve the win. But while Saturday was exciting as people were going low, today was about me hoping that Eddie Pepperell wasn't going to win. Not that I have anything against Pepperell, but he was off the course before it got interesting and I didn't want to have to watch the Champs round as a replay.
     
    2 new names to see if they build on their Open performance - Pepperell and Zander Lombard, both played well and to be honest I'd never heard of either, unfortunately Zander finished with an 82 (dropping 54 places today).
    Firestone, then the PGA and the FedEx - those will be nice to follow, but I always look forward to The Open and early prebreakfast major viewing.
    Disappointing in that it was boring. It had all the elements to be one of the all time great final rounds and Nick Faldo won with 18 pars. Not to take anything away from Molinari, it was great golf (and he actually did have birdies at the end.) Well deserved, but it lacked the drama that built up over the first 12-14 holes.
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