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Mittens

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  1. Eh. No Brown, no Porzingis and lost both Kornet and Hauser mid game. I was more impressed w/ GSW's length and defense than anything else about them.
  2. Much better options out there. I remember reading about someone DIYing something similar probably 20yrs ago - he was a prepper and had it set up near the entrance to his bunker, and was looking to replace the paintball gun w/ a real gun for the apocalypse times. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=371711939266982
  3. I was just sure those ears were going to start pinwheeling to help paddle. 🤦‍♂️
  4. Mercedes w/ the Bottas love today
  5. Stuttgart lose 2-0 to Atalanta. Put at least 3 shots into the side netting - literally just inches away from victory. I hate being a have-not and this was my biggest fear: Have great success and lose our best players so we end up sucking in CL. 😭😭
  6. https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/black-gold-austin-barbecue-restaurant-design Inside Austin’s New “Elevated” Barbecue Restaurant, Where You Can See the Pits From Every Table The team behind Black Gold, opening on November 9, converted an auto-customization shop into a sit-down spot that seeks to blend good design and craftsmanship into the barbecue experience. Standing in Black Gold’s pit room about a week before the Austin restaurant’s opening day on November 9, Mems Davila rests his hand on the handle of Stevie Ray, one of two 22-foot-long smokers custom-made by Cen-Tex Smokers in Luling. (The other pit is named Jimmy.) The mustachioed pitmaster and former musician has been serving barbecue out of his Wünder Pig food truck since 2014, and he’s spent the past three years working with local firm 3 Fold Design to transform this former Crestview van-customization shop into an upscale barbecue restaurant with a style as sexy as the crispy bark on Davila’s brisket. Stevie Ray and Jimmy, their names a nod to Davila’s music background, power both the food and design of Black Gold. Because Davila wants his guests to witness the alchemy of smoke and flame as they dine, he asked Allison Gaskins and Page Gandy of 3 Fold to incorporate the pit room into the interior of the restaurant, an engineering and permitting challenge that the City of Austin said could not be done. But during the lengthy process of converting the property, 3 Fold made it happen. And here we are, admiring Stevie Ray’s nineteen-foot iron exit stack, through which all that good smoke will, indeed, exit the building. Elegant steel pendant lamps dangle from the pit room ceiling, an uncommonly luxurious touch for a space that, in most barbecue joints, is tucked away and covered in offal. “These are pendants you would typically see hanging over a kitchen island in a high-end build,” says Gaskins. “They are statement pieces. And here we are, we threw them over pits. We needed to have these accents in here to make it flow with the whole space.” This union of massive industrial barbecue pits with pretty pendant lights is an apt metaphor for Black Gold’s overall mission: to blend good design and craftsmanship into the barbecue experience. “We did not want it to be ‘give me the tray of the half pound of this, half pound of that,’ ” says Davila, wearing a black T-shirt with the curvy yellow letters of the Black Gold logo, a tattoo of a pig sneaking out from the right sleeve as he gestures with his hands. (He isn’t leaving the old-school ordering method completely behind, though: Black Gold will use it at its backyard food truck, open daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) “We want to have the method of cooking, grilling, whether it’s smoked or reverse sear or whatever it may be, to be part of an elevated experience. You know, with beautiful details. With Wally’s Oaxacan old-fashioned, you can actually see the smoke coming off the glass.” https://blackgoldatx.com/ 1521 W Anderson Ln. Austin, TX 78757 https://maps.app.goo.gl/rsZWAQD2cbMR1Lp69
  7. I was referring to what year you think 20 years ago was...
  8. You might need to break out that TI-86, my friend!
  9. This.
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  11. Making a run up to CO over Thanksgiving. 1st time to the mountains in 4 or 5 years - not sure which will fail first, my legs or my heart. Praying for good snow 🙏 11/24 Winter Park 11/25-26 Copper 11/27-28 Snowmass
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    8 watching paint dry, and he knew it immediately
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