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tokamak

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  1. Epic lineup. I recommend you try one of each and report back.
  2. Saban did Bama a huge favor by sticking around long enough for the shine to come off that goober.
  3. Hell yeah I have, that’s my shit. Check post #282.
  4. I think so. There’s some Austin connection, at least.
  5. Like hogs at a trough. Tax dollars -> corporatized charter school networks -> political contributions. And the majority of voters will lap it up. Really impressive long con they’ve run.
  6. 450 people were outside my zoned middle school this morning because HISD is firing the popular principal with no reason given. At this point it’s really hard to see all this as anything other than an effort to tear the district down completely.
  7. I haven’t had Lalo yet, but they’re getting really good distribution. I was just at Hobby airport and all the bars there basically had your usual celebrity stuff…and Lalo.
  8. No water this time to satisfy @texasdago Like eating a bowl of vegetables. A little on the warm side. Very complex. An exceptionally well made tequila although I have to admit not my favorite flavor profile.
  9. I definitely think there's a movement of people experimenting with other species of agave and doing interesting artisanal stuff with it. But also pretty sure that if you distill anything other than blue agave specifically, you've made mezcal, not tequila.
  10. Yeah we are really lucky. Of course there’s rare and special stuff out there, but by and large the best tequila is readily available and costs less than $100 per bottle. Only thing we really have to worry about is that it takes agave plants 7+ years to grow.
  11. I’m watching the Tom Brady deal. There is a LOT of coke involved here.
  12. Somehow I've been sleeping on Hank Mobley my entire life. Like, I knew of him of course, just never dug in before. Bummer because I've missed out all these years, but great because now I can go through the whole damn discography and it's all fresh.
  13. PSA: Spec's is having a sale on tequila and mezcal for the entire month of May. I stopped in a small location in Houston today and didn't see anything scorching hot, but it might be worth a look. I asked the guy working there if it was the same bottles on sale all month, or if it was going to rotate. He looked at me like I was speaking Mandarin Chinese, so who knows.
  14. Harris County here. They hit me with a 10.5% increase. I uploaded some comps and photos showing that the house will need foundation work eventually and they just came back with an online offer of 2.6% increase. Y'all think I should take that? Honestly I think we should be flat or even down a little bit given the market in the neighborhood, but I doubt they'll see it that way. I'm leaning toward taking it.
  15. No children's hospitals left in the state?
  16. Doesn’t have to be a pilot. As for Stowa, I don’t want another one. Love my Marine but want to mix it up, brand-wise.
  17. I tend to go for a simpler, more classic look. My two current auto watches are an Aqua Terra and a Stowa Marine. I tend to be biased toward brands with a significant watchmaking history. I've had my eye on an IWC Pilot lately, but also thinking about getting something less expensive now and then something else in a year or so. Hence the post. Nomos is a great suggestion, I love their aesthetic. I also like that Horage in your 2nd post, but not as familiar with that brand. That probably gives you an idea of where my head is at.
  18. Been out of this thread for a few years. What brands do y’all like in the $1k-$2k range these days?
  19. Oh man. Since I first started getting into tequila about a year ago, I've read a shitload about the additive free thing, and I've definitely got some thoughts. The short answer for me is "yes". For me personally, I want to try everything, but there's just so much out there that that's just not possible. So I do tend to buy AF, almost exclusively in fact. My theory is that it's both a decent indicator of producers that are putting a little more care into their product and using more traditional methods, as well as tending to be smaller producers rather than global behemoths. Those are blanket statements that aren't always true, of course, but the bottom line is that I have to start somewhere. That being said, I find the AF "movement" to be very dogmatic, occasionally to the point of being offputting. I'm talking mostly about the tequila subreddit, which is the only other place that I read/post about tequila. There are quite a few people there (not all, but probably a majority) that subscribe to the belief that additive free necessarily equals good stuff and anything with additives is trash, not worthy of the drain. I have two big problems with that. Number 1, it stifles discussion. That subreddit is boring as fuck, because it's the same 10 blancos being recommended and talked about over and over again. They may as well post a list at the top that says "buy El Tesoro, G4, Ocho, Cascahuin, etc" and shut it down. Novices that come along and say they like Casamigos or whatever get shit on. Questioning the status quo of discussion there gets you shouted down immediately. The even bigger problem I have is that I strongly, strongly suspect that "AF = good, additives = trash" isn't even true. I would bet that there are plenty of tequilas out there that are carefully made by thoughtful people using traditional methods who also happen to use some additives to achieve a certain flavor profile or provide consistency across batches and years. I don't see what's wrong with that, honestly. They're not breaking any rules, it's all right there in the regulations. There are probably also plenty of tequilas on the market that don't use additives, or use them sparingly or only occasionally, that aren't "certified" AF. Just off the top of my head I can think of a handful of reasons why a producer might not be interested in participating.
  20. NFL contracts are basically rocket science to me, but I'm like 95% sure that they can walk away from Cousins after 2025. So Penix understudies for two years (and/or fills in for Cousins in the event of injury) and then they hand him the keys. Then they have two years (plus a 3rd if they pick up his option) to see if he can be the guy. Clearly they believe they are a playoff team with Cousins, meaning a worse pick position in next year's draft. I think the big question is could they have traded down and picked up more assets and still landed Penix. I hadn't seen what @Pam Cummings said about Penix and the Raiders. Only time will tell if this all works out, but IMO you can see what they were thinking. It's way more defensible than Denver's "sign/draft a bunch of guys that suck and hope one of them magically turns good" strategy.
  21. It’s interesting that we’re taking 2 RB every cycle. We’ve built up quite a stable (backlog?), especially since RBs can usually play pretty early.
  22. Dua Lipa seems nice
  23. Ok I chortled at the penne alla vodka thing
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