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utee94

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  1. First, we're going to need Nicole to stop killing so many people. Or, at least, dump the bodies in the ever-present freshly poured concrete foundations of newly constructed mixed-use buildings, rather than Town Lake.
  2. Good thing we don't use enough rail in the US to ever fall under such an attack. We're thinking 3 steps ahead of those terrorist bastages!
  3. Just got tickets to see it Sunday night, I am so excite.
  4. Oh yeah, I'm not talkin about the operation that they chose to warn them about to shut down. I'm just referring to the idea that our reps were "unnerved" by Ukraine attacking the bridge and making attempts to liberate occupied Crimea. What a bunch of pansies. If that's "unnerving" to them, then they're really gonna lose their shit when Ukraine succeeds in blowing that bridge off the face of the planet. I'm hopeful @atomheartbevo's assessment is correct and that this was the feeling from before we knew that putin's redlines are not real. But given how generally wimpy our approach has been to this whole thing, I have my doubts.
  5. From the article above-- if these actions are bothering US politicians and diplomats, they better get used to the idea of a lot more. That bridge is eventually coming down one way or another. Ukraine will do it completely without our involvement as they've already proven. The idea that our pansy-ass diplomats are bothered by this is infuriating, and frustrating.
  6. Or worse yet, fills up at that stupid salad bar beforehand. Salad is what food eats.
  7. I always put it this way-- a packer trimmed brisket is the perfect combination of fat, connective tissue, and lean meat. It cooks so beautifully and tastes so great, because it is self-contained. Making any changes to the composition or dimensions of that perfect package, alters the cooking chemistry, resulting in a more volatile cooking process and a less consistent final product. I'm not saying that splitting up a brisket can't be done, I've seen folks do all kinds of things to attempt to approximate a full packer cook, with an oddly trimmed or split-up source. Some of the results are really good, but in general they are sub-optimal. Just my take after cooking a bazillion briskets and trying to help others do the same.
  8. This is from yesterday. That SOB @phdhorn did it again!
  9. I've been to lots of games at Kyle Field. I've seen several more Texas wins than losses there, and it's a great time walking out of there with a Longhorn victory, while they're hanging their heads in shame.
  10. Negged. Maybe we need a Central Texas specific rain thread, and then a rain thread for all the other schlubs, so that I don't ever have to read such blasphemy again.
  11. Always have to buy the insurance or make sure the stay is easily cancellable if you're headed anywhere in the Caribbean during hurricane season.
  12. It's definitely, extremely rare. We had decent rains in July 2016, although the real heavy rains that increased the lake by over 30 feet fell the month before, in June. We also saw heavy rainfall and flooding in July in 2007, I remember that one quite well as it closed down the lakes for periods of time from high bacteria levels. The one I remember before that was June/July 1997 because it also closed down Lake Travis and Lake Austin for several weeks. At the time my boat was trailered so we went out to Buchanan for much of that summer. Apparently we also had quite a bit of water in July 2002, I don't really remember that one for some reason. Anyway if you're interested in historical lake levels by year and by month, this site has it: https://www.golaketravis.com/waterlevel/
  13. Thanks. I don't know anything about fine dining in Waco, just wondering. Have you ever tried a place called Pignetti's? A good friend of mine is one of the owners and operators, he's got a couple decades in the restaurant business in Austin, and a few years back decided to move to Waco to open a new concept. (apologies for the hijack, San Antonio thread)
  14. Bags of cash are not NIL. And when you have a situation where the current AD didn't hire the current football coach, you are most definitely not aligned. Look no further than Schloss and Trev's epic meltdown.
  15. I'm just saying if you shift all that rain that hit the Llano down onto the Ped, then we'd probably be talking about a 10-foot rise, not a 5-foot rise. It's not a direct correlation, there are all sorts of losses along the way, when it has to go an extra 50 plus miles and through multiple dams.
  16. It was just over 634 as recently as 3 days ago. All of this movement is very recent. And it's true that the recharge zones for everything below Buchanan, including the Llano, technically feed into Lake Travis eventually, but there's still a good chunk of that water that's diverted, absorbed, evaporated, or for whatever other reason just doesn't ever quite make it. Direct hits on the Ped and all tributaries within the official Lake Travis basin are the much more direct and efficient ways to recharge LT. But yeah, all that rain out west is still helping. If we could get another hit like that in the same areas, with the ground already saturated, then we'd be talking about a major event that could raise the lake level significantly.
  17. Where's your place in Waco? Just curious.
  18. I was gonna go with "throw a coke on 'em" but I'm open to alternatives.
  19. Agreed, and it's not unlike the "rudeness" of Japanese tourists when it comes to behaviors like rushing onto elevators and crowding for space, because in many of their home cities, space is a much higher premium than it is throughout the USA. Even so, "rudeness" is defined by the host culture. And if "ugly American" tourists are to be called out in other countries for not conforming to the local standards of etiquette, then the opposite is no less legitimate when it comes to visitors to our country.
  20. Oh noes! The lake is so low we're stuck on a sandbar with no way to get to shore! I guess we'll all have to huddle together tonight for warmth...
  21. Well thank goodness they cleared that up for us. No floodgates will be open for Lake Travis as it rises from its current 46 feet below full, to a potential 41 feet below full. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
  22. Yeah, like, bar-top epoxy and resin clear-coat? I had a nice piece of live edge black walnut that I coated and then turned into my dining room light fixture. I think I posted some pics at the old joint.
  23. utee94

    RIP Chuy's

    Fajitas are pretty popular around the nation as well.
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