Robin Masters

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Winning a title with Kyrie and some scrubs (Kevin Love played like a scrub most of that series) just makes KD LBJ. I guess that's not bad, though.

A couple of years ago my dad brought me some Bodacious Mobberly BBQ. Was 4 hours old by the time he got here with it. Was still amazing. I went there shortly after that, was there at the open. Everything was real good but not wow. A couple of days ago got there about 2:30 got some of the last brisket. OMG incredible. The bark was perfect, just some of the best brisket ever. They also had a Bucks BBQ sticker on the door, the market of a quality place?

You dumbasses talking this better without KD nonsense need to stop and go back and watch the championship they lost to Cleveland, and then watch them the next year. The thing that KD absolutely delivers is a guy that gets his own shot when the shot clock is running down. If Curry is not hot and drawing the double team no one else on GSW can consistently get open. Curry winds up with hugely contested DEEP 3's. Farther you go in the playoffs, refs letting them play a little, Curry has some struggles at times, and they become very beatable. Durant puts a stop to that. Yeah they have slowly got away from what to me was the most beautiful ball I've seen. That first year with Durant, when things were clicking it was truly special. They have gotten lazy knowing KD will bail them out. I predict if KD makes it back, they will get back to that beautiful ball, no more heat check crap. Don't be afraid to run the offense, etc.

Meanwhile in Oklahoma

Everyone likes to get some old vise and restore it but I wouldn't. Do some googling on ductile iron and vises. The DI is much stronger than cast iron, like double. It's only been around since the 1940s. I went with this Yost. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E8ITETS/ If you can wait, Amazon usually runs a big sale on Yost once or twice a year. I paid $120 in early December.

Whenever the refs haven't been giving me even legit undercut fouls, and I need 3 points late in the game, I make sure to do the silliest looking jump forward 3 feet and kick my leg out shot, instead of just shooting the shot with my normal form. Sorry, yeah you got robbed on some stuff, and they got robbed on some stuff but probably less, but that last shot was stupid. Game on the line it's not time to rely on the kindness of refs. Hell let Gordon or Paul shoot it if that's all you got.

Greekest Of AllTime?

Is Doris, high, drunk, having mini-strokes?

I did Lofoten/Tromso in the winter for northern lights. He's not kidding, amazing area. I'm telling you drive. Every time I've been on a train looking out the window, wow that looks coo, and it's gone. In a car, wow that looks cool. Stop, turn around, go back. I would keep your schedule as loose as possible. We were there mid-July for the Oslo, Bergen stuff. We had drizzly, crap weather about half the time. On the plus side it never really got dark, so you have can have long long days of touristing. Bring eye masks or whatever you need to sleep. You do not want a hotel room on the street side, mostly it's no AC, open window if its hot, and people are up all hours making noise with the all night twilight. Copenhagen is great. There's that one row of colorful buildings along a canal that everyone takes a pic of. Take the tourist boat tour there that goes around a bunch of canals. They have several kick ass museums. One is right next to Tivoli Gardens, the Carlsberg Glypotek. Carlsberg beer guy a few generations ago had a very solid art collection, as well as Egyptian mummies and what not. A block or so away The National Museum of Denmark. Like their Smithsonian. It's huge, tons of cool things. They do a changing of the guard thing if you're in that area and you probably will be at some point. Noma is open again, but probably impossible for reservations. It's been 4-5 years since I was there but back then there was a some places like Bror and Amass that were former Noma chefs doing their own thing, and those were not that hard to get in.

We rented a car in Oslo and drove a loop, out to Flam. On the way we stopped at one of the super old churches. Google rick steves norway in a nutshell and he has some about the flam area. I really can''t remember the order we did it all in but I think we took an out and back on a train, and then the same on a Fjord cruise. After that we drove to Bergen. Rick is going to have you train out there, do a one way train down to the water, cruise one way, then train to Bergen. I didn't mind the out and backs because everything was draw joppingly good, plus we saw of great stuff driving ourselves. We spent a rainy day in Bergen wandering around the old town, then drove down to Stavanger. We were going to do the hikes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preikestolen and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjeragbolten but we had crappy weather so wound up only doing Preikestolen. Well worth it. They have some designated scenic routes. Overlap those when you can, but man we saw amazing stuff all over the place. You'd just be tooling along, and bam, waterfall coming out of the mountain right by the road. https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/ Norway is expensive compared to anywhere. We loaded up on sandwich making stuff, and we had a kitchette in our Stavanger hotel and it was still costly.

More like Russians gonna Russian

Cut out all the bs. They're trying to drag 30m of entertainment out into multiple hours on the skills night. Do the whole thing in an hour tops. The skills challenge and 3 point guys better be sucking wind in the finals, they run each round so fast. This cuts down on all the interviews with rapper, actors, virtue signallers, etc. 3 point needs to be head to head. If I could handle it growing up on our Zenith console, I think a split screen on my current TV that's a zillion times bigger will be ok. Dunk contest, go back to the old ways, if you miss a dunk it's a zero, sit down. Maybe people don't try as crazy of a dunk, but then maybe they have their shit together. And if they make it to the finals they're still going to go for it. Get multiple judges like Dr. J. Julius didn't hand out 10s for mediocre dunks. I'd do away with props, extra people, etc. Just you a ball and a basket. Show me something new, there has to be something that hasn't been done. Can't do that? Then do something I've seen before, at a much much higher level. The old guy games were awful. Some could shoot, some could do nothing, those knees earned their retirement. If you want to do something like that make it shooting only, horse or whatever, no dunks, just shooting. Then again you saw how bad they all shot the other night with ol man Curry. How about a 3 on 3 with the top 6 rookies. 15 by 1s, 3s count as 2, make it take it. No subs. Ok take the top 12 and do 4 teams. Celebrity games always suck. Yeah there might be a non athlete celeb or two that played division 2 or whatever, but its more often whatever network has the game is owned by megacorp, and on one of megacorps other networks they have that new show with that gay actor that they really need to keep in the closet, so lets have him do this sports thing, that will fool everyone. Or you have brat actor that somehow has a following, and he has agreed to sign on to so and so project if we get him in the celeb game. AS game itself. Go back to conferences. Let the fans vote the starters, the coaches vote the rest, and the head coach can pick an additional player or two but not from his own team. Though I admit I do like seeing some of the lineups these drafted games produce. Want to motivate the players? Losing team has to spend the first week after the season doing community service stuff.(oh but all professional athletes love doing that stuff, their leagues tell me so in commercial after commercial.) Get a little crazier. Pick 17 peeps on each team. Three groups of five on each team, either they play full quarters each, or 5minutes each quarter with the clock stopping for that changeover to happen. 4thQ coaches can play whatever combo they want. The extra 2 are for injury but can play in the 4th if desired.

I'm picturing this guy getting hold of the cougar and telling it about his keto diet, how he chose his preferred running shoe and the pussy just willed itself to die.

That was a shit call but it went against Draymond, so therefor it was fine.

Isiah Thomas is such a beating as an announcer.

Amazing how many TV games this year wind up missing a marquee player. Boston Philly tonight, no Kyrie.

The Niji 500 was the hot shit when I was an engineering student about a jillion years ago. Typical .7mm lead but it had a cool feature. You push in on the pocket clip part of it, and it retracts the whole tip inside itself. Push on the ass end like a typical ink pen and it comes back out and locks in place. Even better this made a click going in and out, so you could sit around clicking it in and out and annoying everyone else while doing so. Some other company was making them about 10 years ago, yasutomo or something like that. The Pentel click eraser, mentioned earlier in the thread was also the hot setup.

In no particular order Patton Shawshank or the Green Mile they're weirdly interchangeable to me and I flip back and forth on which is better. Empire is Better but Star Wars was probably my first blew me away movie. Also the first movie I saw multiple times in the theather, first movie I sat with my dad and watched twice. Godfather I've went through 3 phases. Love for the first, then seeing the 2nd one as the best, now I'm back to thinking the 1st is better. Schindlers List Peak Spielberg The Right Stuff - Glad to see someone else giving this some love. This came on two tapes when we rented it when I was a kid. I remember watching it all a couple of times before we took it back. Pulp Fiction - Peak Tarantino and so different than everything else at the time. Braveheart - This one is starting to drop for me but it's up there. Goodfellas - Peak Scorsese yeah I take this over Raging Bull The Silence of the Lambs - The best bad guy ever. 10 is not enough. No Clint Eastwood western, my mom would kill me for no Bogart, no To Kill A Mockingbird, Citizen Kane etc. etc.

The key is that tornado spin he gives it. I'm sure that makes them go down much easier.

That was a ref screwjob, BUT I don't mind the Rams winning because it still makes Jeff Fisher look worse and worse, that he couldn't do anything with the core of this team.

As far as gut bacteria I have followed this since 2009ish. I had a bad bout of food poisoning while traveling overseas. Took a cipro to quickly deal with it. A few days later I felt horrible. This persisted for months. Brain fog, occasional heart racing, indigestion, vision problems, twitching in my legs. I went to two different Mayo clinics. They basically had no idea at the time that anything tied the gut and the brain/neuro stuff together. I had tons of tests, all negative. I read tons of stuff online and kept seeing other people having similiar problems. Eventually this lead me to gut bacteria health. A very fringe idea at the time. What helped me the most was probiotics. Maybe a "duh" thing now but back then it was voodoo. I started eating yogurt and taking a couple of different probiotics that were recommended on the hippy dippy alternative medicine blogs of the day. Looking back now I'm pretty sure the cipro wiped out the good bacteria in my stomach along with the bad. I ate a simple carb rich diet for a few days which helped bad bacteria flourish in my stomach. It's known now that these bacteria can travel the vagus nerve to the brain and influence all kinds of stuff. I also think my stomach being screwed up caused me to have border line low b12. My numbers weren't below the cutoff that most doctors say is low, but they were close, and some people are symptomatic at those levels. I was at those low levels while taking b12 pills. Now I get a b12 shot when the brain fog starts and the twitching gets out of hand in my legs. I also take under the tongue drops. Stomach problems mean you do not absorb the b12 in your stomach, so sublingual is the next best to a shot. If you're interested in this stuff have a look here https://hackyourgut.com/ The guy also has a private facebook group. You get some weirdos in there, but good info to. To me it's just staggering how little modern medicine knew about the stomach, and how many different things they are figuring out it controls, or is tied to. And one final word of advice, to all. Sleep. This is part of my problem right now. We have a 2 1/2 year old and a 5 month old. You can do a lot of things right with diet and exercise, but if you don't get enough quality sleep you will struggle.

About to jump in on this. Like most I lack motivation and know if I had tried in the last year I would have quit after a week or two. My wifes phone was getting sluggish. 3gb free out of 128gb. I just backed up and deleted 6 months worth of baby pics and now it has lots of free space and is snappy again. This is how my brain has been for a while. Too many things going on, unable to give any of them enough attention. Lately though I'm starting to wrap up a lot of loose ends. Another week and I should have a huge project done. With that freed up space in my brain I'm going to tackle my disgusting fatbody. My history. I'm a man ahead of and behind my time. In the 1990s I started my own business. I didn't have time for meals. I usually ate one big meal at dinner. Everyone told me how unhealthy this was but I was in decent shape and didn't gain weight from it. In the early 2000s when I was up to 225 and wanted to get to 180 I did the Keto of the times, Atkins. Grilled peppers with sausage. Back wrapped, cheese covered everything, pork skins about 50 different ways, etc. I would throw in a fasting day now and then, nothing but water. Everyone told me how unhealthy this was but it worked and I felt great after the first couple of weeks. The big problem I had at the time was I liked to bicycle but low carb just killed my energy. Rides that I averaged 18mph on I was struggling to do at 14mph. I quickly got to 200, got to traveling a lot and fell off the wagon. Still I stayed low for many years, then it started going up slow and steady. Late 2000's I was 240 and joined a gym, had a personal trainer, tried eating their zillion tiny meals a day and I didn't lose weight, and started almost blacking out at the gym. Orange juice would bring me right back so it was a blood sugar thing. I solved it by quitting the gym. 2011 I did a 2000 mile bicycle trip. I weighed 260 when I started, 260 when I ended even though I was burning tons of extra calories each day. Now I'm 280+. I can tell myself you need to get it together because your wife is 15 years younger(humble brag), nope doesn't work. You need to get it together because you have two young boys and you don't want them being those weird kids that's dad died when they were young. Nope, doesn't work. All that is working is looking in the mirror and seeing what looks like me after some hollywood makeup artist put a fat mask on me. I recently renewed my drivers license and holy fuck, what the hell is that under your chin, a goiter? So enough. The question is how hard to go. I've been reading about the "snake diet." The mainstream consensus is it's dangerous, stupid, and won't work. Which makes me really want to try it. It's basically eat a big keto meal, then fast for a day or two, repeat. However during the fast you drink snake juice. Water with some different electrolytes dissolved in it. That way you're not pissing out all your electrolytes. I kind of like the idea of a few months of suck and then switch to a mostly keto lifestyle forever. Bread and sweets I can do without. Potato is my weakness and will be my occasional cheat. At the very least I will 16-8 or better intermittent fast and low carb. Exercise wise, I hate to even walk right now. My feet hurt when I get out of bed in the morning. I have a recumbent exercise bike I am going to start on. For a goal once I get below 250 I will feel safe once again on my road bike. I really don't want to snap a seat post and have the broken part up my ass. Sub 200 I want to ride a century. I want to pull my boys behind me in a trailer on some smaller rides. So give me another week to get my meals planned out, groceries bought, project done and it will be go time. I have declared it on Surly, that's as written in stone as it gets.