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  1. Well for me this has been quite a journey.  I grew up on the Luv Ya Blue, and the move to Tennessee was sort of the end of my NFL fandom with no Houston.  Started to take some interest with JJ Watt on the squad.  But I decided I would start rooting for my old hometown team once again in 2020 and shades of the Oilers, the bed shitting began and 4-12 was the final tally I think?  Anyhow Deshaun being a moron helped send the team into turmoil, and I thought "Fuck me" any Houston team I root for is doomed if the ball isn't round.  But this year has been awesome.  You could see from the beginning the defense seemed to be a little more intense, and you saw flashes of hope with a good OL and some new key young draft picks.  I could see this team growing into something.

    Having them turn the corner the same year more Horns have ascended has been frigging awesome!  They really are starting to build something!  Now just stay healthy and let's home we can get the ball to bounce our way in the coming weeks.  It's nice to have football hope again for the long suffering fans of Houston.

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  2. A note on the raw tortilla discussion.  One thing we have noticed is that if you are making quesadillas after cooking the tortillas you need very little butter (if any depending on brand) because there is a higher oil content in the raw tortillas.  The other thing that I started doing last year was cooking the tortilla to where the first side was nearly crispy before I flipped it.  Then when the thing puffs up after the turn, I take some of my grated taco cheese and put in in middle of the tortilla to make a melting cheese base for my meat.  The puff collapses from the colder cheese, and about the time the cheese starts to soften the other side of the tortilla is done.  Then I just make a regular taco, but I like the crispiness of the tortilla.  I guess in the end it's half quesadilla half taco, but all delicious!  

  3. Well, bought some baby squid and some head on shrimp at H-Mart, to pretty up some pasta.  Truffle cream pasta with baby Squid (calamari) and shrimp with roasted broccoli. Sort of interesting dealing with the raw squid cleaning it.  I have always been a fan of fried calamari. But wanted to try a less caloric presentation with a quick sauté.  I grabbed some head on shrimp simply for a colorful presentation but damn if it wasn't some of the sweetest shrimp we have ever had.  I am guessing because the head was still on?  Going to roast some later with head on vs head off, to see if the head was the secret sweetness factor. 

    Anyhow a pretty plate that tasted great.  That truffle cream oil, was fantastic on the pasta.

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  4. Aggies take note.  You only give the extension AFTER acheivement, not NEAR achievement!

    Happy for Sark and glad we have him.  I think he is excited to continue building his legacy along with that of bringing Texas truly back.  The thing I like even better about Sark now is he knows the challenge ahead.  He knows it's really hard to get to the promised land, and even tougher to stay there!  We have the right man for the job!

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  5. One thing that is in play now that was not in play in the past is the use of AI, in targeting and battle planning.  This I would think would be especially helpful against players like the Houtis.  I would assume that identifying movements, and congregations of key players might be much easier using AI?  You have to assume the Houtis are in a game of cat and mouse.  And the advantage of the mouse is the ability to hide.  I would think that AI might be a great assistance here?

  6. Interestingly this is the first true battle testing of US forces in the face of new drone based warfare.  The good news is we can crush them if we want to.  The bad news is the risk/reward from a financial perspective works against us.  High tech is awesome, and allows precision.  But drones are the new guerrilla warfare.  Cheap, effective, and expensive to combat successfully.

    Lots of balls in the air in the region, but also likely a pretty painful pin prick from the coalition.  Main thing is Biden is smart enough to get a coalition for this action, as an attack solely by the US would be much weaker(IMO), even if of equal damage infliction.  It will be interesting to see if the Houtis simply take the pounding in stride and keep the attacks coming.  Or does this pin prick make them change behavior?  

    Mainly it's about financial stability and trade for the US and the partners.  But Iran and the Houtis don't give a shit about trade and know quite frankly that our desire to protect trade is our "weakness." Because the risk reward from a cost perspective tilts in their favor, should they keep disrupting shipping.  So then does the coalition really start pounding? Selectively pound? No cost effective solution.  So do we have to be willing to really, really inflict some damage if there is no change in behavior after this initial strike?  Or just repetitive similar level or response?  

    It will be interesting to see what happens.  

    **I will also say what I have always said about the region.  Everything you need to know can be summed up by watching three hours of "Lawrence of Arabia."  Same tribal problems for centuries.  Not much has honestly changed since this movie about WW I was made in the '60's.

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  7. I love cornish hens!  We used to get the two packs and basically stuff them like mini-turkeys with dressing.  A delicious way to create a pile of tiny bones!

    This was my final Sushi act.  Actually got a fair amount of meals out of about $60 or so in fish.  This final hurrah was basically a pile of whatever was left, and some reheated sticky rice.  I made a "Comet" on a plate and put it in the fridge, but then screwed up after chopping stuff up, and forgot to use the darn comet plate.  So I guess it was the almost comet...

    Best damn leftover meal I have had in a while.

     

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  8. hmmm... Coincidence that Saban gets a beat down by Texas at home, and then decides to leave as Texas comes into the league?  

    I think Saban simply knows that Sark has got something going on here, and it's a lot tougher answering questions after home losses.  I think when Saban benched Monroe after our dominating win, that was a mistake. But that Saban needed to do something to rattle the team as a whole. 

    Basically, Saban retired, because he wakes up every morning now hearing hoof beats....

     

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  9. 20 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    Did you buy your fish locally or order from a speciality website?

    I bought the Bluefin and Salmon at H-Mart, along with the plethora of ingredients to get started.  I learned in the process that all most all wasabi on the shelves is simply dyed horseradish interestingly enough.  The fish market at H-Mart is pretty cool, they have a lot of live in aquariums, and  good supply of prepared sushi, and sashimi grade fish. 

    Most common is tuna and salmon so I started with those.  I know that keeping fish cold (no matter the situation) is important, and what I did to keep the stuff extra cold in the fridge was get a Tupperware container to put the fish in and put some ice in a ziplock to keep the fish literally ice cold.  The other thing is to keep the exposure to air down, so I cut off what I need, rewrap in plastic and return to the tupperware ice step up.  

    One thing I have sort of decided already, is that I prefer a snow cone style hand roll, to a normal roll.  Simply because I can put more stuff into them and less rice as a percentage.  Plus super easy to personalize and add or eliminate ingredients for each person.  The other thing is while in my mind I sort of poo-poo the Krab (fake) it's a nice protein supplement that lends a creamy nature to the hand rolls.  Anyhow something new, and fun to fart around with.  Plus you can make the shit look pretty, with a little care. 

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    The hand rolls are easy to roll and you don't even need a mat.  The little tab is where you rub some rice on it to "glue" it to the nori roll.  Below is a pic of ingredients for a similar tuna hand roll.  But shows one of the tricks I use constantly to create a quick, sanitary, and disposable surface to work on.  I sprinkle a little water on my countertop, then lay out a sheet  of plastic wrap (or more for like a brisket rub), and the water tension holds the plastic wrap in place and keeps it from sliding around.  Plus cleanup is non-existent! 

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    Salad with Krab, seaweed salad, tuna, spicy mayo, and spicy mayo for lunch. Best looking leftovers I have ever had!

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  10. **Oh yeah since nobody else posted yet, the one key to doing the piggy shapes is to cook them on Parchment paper, where normally we would use a silpat mat on a pastry.  It was definitely a two person operation to get the wreath onto the platter intact.  The wife peeled away the parchment paper as I stabilized with a pair of spatulas trying to fully support the hot bread as we slid it into place.  

    Last night for the Championship game we took our first foray into the world of attempting Sushi at Home.  The daughter gave me a nice Japanese knife and I figured time to start learning some new stuff and techniques. Nigiri is mainly a victim of my newbie knife work.  When I first started my (again not the best) knife work on the cucumber taking off the end I liked the look of the seed cluster,  so decided to make it the base of spicy salmon, along with the seaweed salad.

    Totally fubared the first roll as I cut the nori too short and overstuffed.  Would have tossed except for ingredient costs, Actually made a tight second roll that I of course did not take a picture of.  Decided to try and make the more difficult roll with the rice on the exterior and it turned out ok, for my first try.  I think I fucked up the rice and that made it harder to get an even consistency across the nori to begin with but live and learn.  Anyhow a new cooking adventure!  One I have to get at least adequate at to justify all the start up ingredient costs.  And live up to my daughter's gift of such a nice knife!

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  11. Forgot that I took a pic of the Christmas Eve spread this year.  As well as the inspiration for the Pigs in blanket Longhorn.  I doubt I will ever do pigs in a blanket again in mass where it's not a wreath around the holidays

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  12. You know, the pain has returned.  Watching the difference in Washington playing from behind and watching Michigan run the ball relentlessly early was depressing.  We showed Michigan the way, and it was mind boggling to see the same receivers that were pulling shit out of their assess dropping easy catches.  Again... sort of depressing.

    Just made me feel like we really let that game get away with sloppy play.

    Again it was also interesting to see Washington get screwed over by the refs calling ticky tacky penalties on Washington while missing Michigan linemen hanging onto outstretched defenders jersey's on big gains with no calls.  

    Anyhow... just depressed me again.  I guess the bright side is that I honestly think that if we had just played mostly mistake free football, we might bvery well have been lighting the tower last night.  And that is fucking depresing...

  13. What's funny is that A&M is walking through shit.  They could have made a carpet out of $100 bills with the $78 million bag they tossed on the dumpster fire.

    The main thing the guys they are picking up to plug the leaky ship need to think about is... where they are gonna transfer to next year, as hope in A& evaporates next October like it does every fucking year.

  14. It's painful.  No other word accurately describes being "so close, and yet so far away."  But if you look at it objectively two things are true.  First, Washington played a great game. Penix was very accurate and mobile, and their receivers flat out went out and made plays.  The muff was costly so not a flawless game, but nearly lawless when you look at the penalty perspective comparatively. If you don't give them credit for a great game, you actually discredit our players.

    Second is that played far from a perfect game, and nearly won that mofo!  If we simply get almost anything going our way we win it.  But that's what makes it so damn painful, knowing you honestly did not come close to playing your best game, and still being so very, very close.  Just one or two less unforced errors and we are playing next Monday night.  But if you don't love the character of this team, you simply don't have a heart.  They scratched and clawed despite all odds damn near overcame all the miscues!  The team we had two short years ago would have lost by 30+ to this Washington team.  So pain must be viewed with perspective.  

    The one thing I just thought of while typing this, brought a little grin to my face.  Texas IS Back!  And now we have set a team standard to play up to that is truly on a championship level.  So let's lick our wounds, tip our hats, and get back to work. 

    That made me think about what I might tell the guys if I was Sark- First off' let me say how proud I am of all of you.  Each of you put in the hard work over the the last year so that for the first time in more than a 15 years (yelling) anyone could honestly say Texas is Back!  But now you all know what it takes from a commitment and intensity level to make it this far.  I want each of you to look at the man next to you, and know that each and every one of you helped raise the bar and get us back.  I want you to look at the man next to you and commit to putting in the work it's gonna take to get back to this place.  It's not gonna be easy.  But we know know how to rely on our family, support each other, and now what it takes to get this far.  Look at the man next to you again, and commit in your mind to push past what you did this year.  Raise the bar again!  You know what it takes, so let's do what we need to do  in the coming year to once again PROVE that Texas really is back!  Love you guys! Let's huddle up...

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  15. 19 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    True.  My son gives me shit that the van is not camping all the time.  He's kind of right but I don't care.  I'm never going back to sleeping on the ground.

    Good thing you didn't draw the line at digging a little hole, and trying to aim your poop to fall into it....

  16. the... script.... Yikes! Terror! 

    The reason Sark scripts the plays early is... wait for it... 1) he can.  2) to try to assess tendencies, and hopefully see the ones you are looking for! As the genius of Sark's offense and quite frankly his offensive mind is try to simply try to take advantage of natural defensive tendencies. Find something that defenders tend to do natually, no matter who is coaching and take advantage of whatever that might be. 

    Think of something as simple as a stop and go route. The goal is to get the defender to "bite" and slow down for half a step, which then gives the receiver a half a step on the defender with a greater degree of acceleration.  It's about trying to identify tendencies.  And if you see one then call another play later to try to confirm it.  It's about gathering data in real time.

    It's not perfect, but it's a methodology, to confirm or refute what you thought hours and hours of watching tape showed you.  

     

    But either way, you have to admit that you would take a bite out of this... only if it wasn't the first one! (out of respect).

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  17. 2 hours ago, Scraps said:

    Welp time for my hail mary

    Had Oregon as my 43 pt confidence but feel like where i am and what I have left I have to swap to Liberty to have a legit shot lol

    Feel your pain, flipped from Tennessee to Iowa with about a minute to spare... for the same reasons, or so I thought.  Still a glimmer, but went the wrong way. Got lucky with LSU just now.

     

  18. So SD card is higher quality image at a lesser price is the way to go if you have access to camera, and do not need time sensitivity?  I assume time stamps are on all images?  Wifi/ Cellular is mainly for timeliness?

    I am also assuming that the card units are higher res?  Or is that a misconception?

     

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