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  1. 7 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Lot of pussies in this thread. 68 for heat in winter, 78 for AC when it’s hot out. Some summers I’ll turn the AC off entirely and let it get up to 81/82 during the day in the house and be perfectly fine. 

    Tell us that you like to walk around naked and unashamed in the summer without telling us that you like to walk and naked and unashamed in the summer.

  2. 3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    I take a couple spoonfuls of sauce from this and put it into my chili for extra flavor and heat.

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    We liquify a couple of cans of this from time to time and use what we need for the current cook, then freeze the rest and use as needed.  Great flavor for lots of what we like to eat.

  3. Just now, Anastasis said:

    What I take away from this is that you don't know how to cook lamb. 

    Funny!  I cook lamb very well!  It's just more interesting than steaks. 

    I know that I've told this story before -- here or on TOS, but I was hosting some clients from Germany and Belgium for dinner in Texas at a high-end steakhouse and we were all in the mood for lamb.  When the lamb was presented, the clients were blown away at the portion size.  They whipped out their phones to show pictures of the lamb entrees they'd been served a couple of nights before in Paris -- clearly 1/4 the size of the Texas lamb.  Everything is bigger in Texas.  

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  4. 11 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I had a very nice steak the other night at the argentinian place in the hill country galleria, but I could hands down cook a better steak myself with minimal effort. This is the curse that we have been given. 

    Which is why I mostly order from the appetizer menu or get a lamb entree at high-dollar steak houses.  Steak tartare, foie gras, oysters rockefeller, etc. -- all are way more interesting than something I could do (as well or better) at home.

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  5. 23 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    Just wanted to chime in that I've heard Craig Way go station break to station break discussing the various permutations Texas men's basketball could be seeded in the tournament and manage to detail probably 150 different scenarios in what is undoubtedly a demonstration of a genius level command of choices that only a super computer could possibly equal.  And it made for quite possibly the worst radio I've ever personally experienced. 

    You obviously haven't listened to much Dave South radio.

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    The high point of Austin sport's radio was 10+ years ago on Fridays when Jeff Ward would have his (then) MIL, Phyllis, on to make her NFL picks. She sounded lit half the time (I think the bit was even sponsored by Twin Liquors) and it was just a rich, drunk lady who knew nothing about football making her selections while her son-in-law egged her on. I think waste of oxygen Ed Clements even added to it a bit.

    That bit was definitely sponsored by Twin Liquors -- and it was fabulous radio!

  7. Just now, 4doorsMoreWhores said:

    Unlike cops, I would say I generally like game wardens. 99% of all of the many interactions I've had with them have been fine if not pleasant. Most of those were duck hunting on public waters or coastal. But there have definitely been a few times the GW acted like an asshole, the lone Star Law GW was one of those. I didn't even know who he was on that show at the time.  And as someone said above, warnings and them cutting any slack is rare. Game Wardens normally operate very by the book, and I'm cool with that. Make sure you know what you're doing and the rules and regulations pertaining to the location and type of hunting you're doing and you won't have a problem. 

    My only hunting experience is deer/turkey on big leases in Central/West Texas.  We have always made a point to reach out to our GW before hunting season and let them know that our camp is always open for a steak dinner or whatever we happen to be serving that night.  No issues, at all.

  8. 2 hours ago, Orange&White said:

    There was a new law passed in like 2007 or sometime around then and City Limits hunting isn’t always illegal now.

    Now, to your point, one of the requirements is that the land must have been annexed after 1981 so I am not sure how that applies to Great Hills area.

    https://eparisextra.com/regional-news/hunting-inside-city-limits-know-before-you-go/
     

     

    Our public servant, Lloyd Doggett owns or owned (haven't checked public records lately) a bunch of that undeveloped land along Spicewood Springs Road between the Great Hills neighborhood and the warbler habitat.  Not sure about if all/any of that has been annexed by COA.

  9. 1 hour ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    It's called economics and "highest and best use."  Exhibit A is the Amaya's Taco Village deal.  They are gonna build a tall building there and Amaya's plans to use the ground retail space for their restaurant operations.  That dirt on South First is way too valuable to justify the current situation.  No doubt that the proprietor's retirement will be greatly enhanced by the proceeds from the property sale.

    Just checked out this property on the Travis Central Appraisal District website, looks like it is two different tracts.  They have been very fortunate to keep the valuation down over the last 5 years.  That said, stroking a check for around $35k each year for the privilege of baking and selling your baked goods at a property that you supposedly own is, to paraphrase Peggy Hill, no bueno at all. 

    https://stage.travis.prodigycad.com/property-detail/302951/2021

    https://stage.travis.prodigycad.com/property-detail/302952/2021

    And thankfully, it would seem that Mr. Becerra, et al. owns the property, so good for him and his family.  The same deal happened for Matt Martinez and his family, of Matt's El Rancho fame.  They were able to turn the current Four Seasons site into the current South Lamar location and a lakeside recreational property in a tax-free exchange.

    Similar good fortune for Moses Vasquez's family and their tamale shop at 100 Congress back in the 1980s.

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  10. 1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    I get it, but it’s getting harder and harder for small mom & pop businesses to survive, and the property values make it financially foolish to keep things as they are. Even if their kids or someone else wants to take it over, the property owners can’t say no to a sale. Lots of this is natural and inevitable, but all the growth and new money accelerates the process.  It is what it is, but it’s still sad. 

    It's called economics and "highest and best use."  Exhibit A is the Amaya's Taco Village deal.  They are gonna build a tall building there and Amaya's plans to use the ground retail space for their restaurant operations.  That dirt on South First is way too valuable to justify the current situation.  No doubt that the proprietor's retirement will be greatly enhanced by the proceeds from the property sale.

  11. 1 hour ago, Porterhouse said:

    False - if you’re on air talent for a very popular show. The guys that host shows at The Ticket in Dallas make, on average, in excess of $300K per year. Like any career track, longevity generally makes for a higher earner. ‘Charlie Hodge’ is a friend of mine and corroborates this. 

    Lots of qualifiers in that statement -- very popular show, in Dallas, as starters.  There is no way that the guys in Austin are pulling down ratings like the guys on The Ticket in Dallas.

  12. 4 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    This but also how about gramma and grampa being cheap tippers. Crisp 5 spot will do the trick.

    My wife's late (rich) uncle was always in the $3 tip club.  Whenever he picked up one of our tabs for the two of us, I'd always try to offer to pay the tip.  Even if he refused my offer, a $10 or $20 bill would always magically end up on the table when we left it.

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  13. 17 minutes ago, troph said:

    I really don't care what you make your coffee with, if you're using tap water your coffee probably sucks worse than OU.

    Yep.  I definitely use filtered water in my old school, whole bean grind, french press setup. 

  14. 10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, it's a dispute resolution mechanism.  If the parties push it to a trial, there's going to be a "winner" and a "loser."  The winner is unlikely to feel like they have won and the loser will have lost, and sometimes which is which is not exactly clear.  There is and should be a motivation to settle, to come to an agreement where you retain some control over the misery you experience and what you win and lose.  Settling is almost always better, and the earlier, the better.

    This quote from A Civil Action is appropriate:

    Trials are a corruption of the entire process and only fools who have something to prove end up ensnared in them. Now when I say prove, I don't mean about the case, I mean about themselves.

    Good stuff, but I prefer Jerome Facher's (Robert Duvall's) quote: 

    The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.

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  15. 7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    RMDs later in life (they get bigger as you get older) from traditional IRAs can make you withdraw more than you want/need and that's straight income, so that can keep you paying taxes for a while longer than really planned.

    While on the subject of RMDs, I've been preaching to my older family members and friends about the tax efficiency of making direct payments from a traditional IRA to charitable organizations (your church, for example) that they would ordinarily just write a check for.  Such distributions count against your RMD, the donor avoids a taxable RMD distribution, and the charitable organization gets its money.  A sure win-win if there ever was one in the tax code. 

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  16. 6 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

    Knew a family with 4 siblings, a daddy, lots of money and a big ranch in the 45-55Mill range.  The kids started fighting about it before dad died and as they were all adults, lots of bullshit rose to the surface. The ranch couldn’t or daddy didn’t want to split it up because of headwaters or something so the kids tried to figure out who deserved the whole thing and what that meant to access to the trust etc. Shit of course got ugly with differently some siblings declaring they would never let other siblings visit the ranch if they got it. This was as much a cherished childhood place as a working ranch.

    So, daddy gave the ranch to charity.

    I've seen the same situation and the donation of a big ranch to a charity.  The place is still a working ranch many decades after the donor's death, and its operations fund a very worthy charity.  

    It is sad to see heritage ranches get subdivided into little ranchettes.

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  17. One of my best friends was a partner at an Am Law 100 firm and was approached by one of his Fortune 100 energy clients to go in-house.  Probably 7 years ago.

    Best move he ever made.  He's lost weight, has more free time, plenty of $ and benefits, and isn't busting his hump trying to find new business while trying to get his billables, too.

    Good luck.

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