Everything posted by MadTrapper
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All Things Brisket
What type of smoker is that?
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Home Owners, Auto Insurance, and Related Stuff
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...
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Home Owners, Auto Insurance, and Related Stuff
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?
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2023 Fatass Thread of Dominance
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.
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Scifi/Fantasy Book Recs
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.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Booger, FSU played like dog shit. That's why.
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Formula 1 2023
Agreed. That's basically what Vowels said during their interviews.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
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.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
It's what "La Quinta" means.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
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.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
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.
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Formula 1 2023
Cara Delevingne
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Formula 1 2023
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.
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Scifi/Fantasy Book Recs
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.
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Vinyl
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Formula 1 2022
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.
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Formula 1 2022
Can they not just go on wets?
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Formula 1 2022
Feel bad for the fans in Japan.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Just curious...why no south Louisiana?
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Hey Oil Barons.......
RIP indeed to a legend.
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Formula 1 2022
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.
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Why would someone watch Star Trek: The Next Generation (over and over again)
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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Formula 1 2022
Yeah ok I see what you're saying about GA. That makes a lot of sense.for Friday and I'll probably just do that. Many thanks.
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Formula 1 2022
So I'm looking at COTA tickets for Friday for the USGP. Any suggestions on where to get seats at COTA? Turn 1, 4, and 12 look intriguing based on the track layout, but I've not been there before.
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Formula 1 2022
Perhaps, but telling him to box right in the middle of him trying to overtake Checo was really odd. Read the room, Ferrari.