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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    While beer can chicken tastes amazing, there is some thought that you don't want that beer can burning in your oven. Most people freak out about the plastic BPA liner but my understanding is it is actually the ink they use to color the outer can that you don't want burning up and infusing in...
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    MLB 2015 Season

    No worries, 11 is my favorite number
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    MLB 2015 Season

    Until the BBWAA admit to their culpability in perpetuating the steroid era and stop using their votes as a method of trying to reclaim some sort of moral high ground on the subject I have no interest in who they say is or is not worthy to be memorialized amongst the greatest players to ever play...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I will say this about Gabbert, he looked way more comfortable in the pocket than Kaep has, granted that was against Atlanta's "vaunted" pass rush. About the only egregious throw Gabbert made was the 2nd INT, outside of that I thought he looked pretty decent. Throws seemed crisp, decisive and...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Trying to double cover Julio Jones with a linebacker and a safety. Ugh
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    The Beer Thread

    Why can't you drink it?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If you can find it, Ballast Point's Habanero Sculpin is amazing in chili imo.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    The SETI Institute looked at oddly dimming "E.T." star, found nothing | Ars Technica
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    So I did some science last night. Picked up a sixer of Firestone-Walker IPA. This is at the upper end of a typical IPA ABV at 7.5% but figured it would be a good test. Test 1- I drank 1 beer over 20 minutes then waited 20 minutes and tested: BAC- 0.04 Test 2- I drank 2 more beers over 40...
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    Car Buying Help

    I always negotiate the "out-the-door" price. They are more than welcome to divvy it up however they want on the sheet as long as the number I write on my check matches the number we negotiated. That is what I tell them, but this is for new cars, I've never bought a used car from a dealership...
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    Car Buying Help

    As everyone else said, shop around and find a CU that will give you the best rate, but keep in mind the dealership may be able to beat that rate so it is worth it to give them a shot. I always make sure to negotiate the out-the-door price of the car and settle on that figure first before I...
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    Smartphones

    Wait, did he use the "v1.0" line on his own or did you quote my earlier text? Cause I totally just pulled that out of my ass...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Don't get me wrong, I pretty much always have a DD since my wife doesn't drink. If I don't have a DD it's either an Uber or couch for me. But it does have me wondering if when I have a couple of pints of IPA at lunch and my wife asks me if she needs to drive and I'm like "nah, not really" if...
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    Tool might eventually release a new album someday

    I've given Money Shot a couple of listens now, I'm liking it. Feels a bit more cohesive than other offerings but still has a nice balance of serious and tongue-in-cheek. Have tickets to see Puscifer next month, I'm pretty excited. I get why people who are fans of Maynard's other projects...
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    Smartphones

    Yes
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    Smartphones

    Maybe just needed to update the Fi app? /shrug
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    Smartphones

    I'm guessing that you got Fi SIM Card v1.0 which isn't compatible with any other phone, while they've released Fi SIM card v2.0 which works for the 5x/6P plus is backwards compatible with the 6.
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    Smartphones

    Hmmmmm, don't know on that one. Maybe it is somehow tied to the specific device IMEI or something? When I signed up for Project Fi I never specified which device I was bringing so they wouldn't have known it I had a 6 or 6P...
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    Smartphones

    More info on the Nexus' cameras:Camera showdown: iPhone 6s vs. Nexus 5X vs. Galaxy S6 vs. LG G4 | Android Central TL;DR
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Went to Costco and bought just these two items. I'm not sure how accurate the BAC thingy is, but if it is fairly accurate I'm surprised at few drinks it take to get to the legal limit (0.08 here in WA).
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Damn doubles
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    The Beer Thread

    For $600 you could get a pretty kickass traditional homebrew setup that will allow you to brew up to 5 gallons of beer at a time, and the ingredients will be a fraction of the cost of of the PicoBrew recipe kits (my average 5 gallon batch cost around $25 and nets 50 12oz bottles), granted it...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    Yeah, I'm not starting Dez unless a healthy Romo is in there. I watched the whole game last week and Cassel looked terrible whenever throwing the ball further than 5 yards down the field.
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    Tablets

    Some quick browsing over at XDA tells meyesmaybe, it can be rooted, but that is just reading headlines. Have no idea how easy/hard/realistic it is to do so nor how current the information is. *edit: I'm having a tough time figuring out if this latest gen (which I guess is 5) has been...
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    Tablets

    I have one and like it. I mainly use it as an e-reader and podcast/music player but works decently enough for browsing the web and a few other things. You get pretty roped into the Amazon echo-system, and the entire thing is designed to sell you shit from Amazon, which doesn't bother me too...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Just brine, drain, bag usually. Sometimes if I'm doing regular salt I might season with paprika or something else depending on what I'm serving the pork with.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm with Canada on this one. Big Lebowski references are always acceptable.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I've been doing a lot of sous-vide pork-chops, I love the way they turn out. I've also taken to brining them first for about an hour before throwing them in the sous-vide bath. Recommendation I first read was a 10% solution but I thought that came out too salty so I dropped it down to 5%...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    So I'm sure everyone is going to be all over DeAngelo Williams this week, is Jeremy Langford worth a pick-up with Forte being down for an indeterminate amount of time?
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Oh they do, but I started him in my fantasy lineup which means he is destined to shit the bed tonight.
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    FMFT
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    Smartphones

    So I've had a chance to play with the cameras in both my 6P as well as in a 5X (which are exactly the same aside from some software-driven differences). So far I am very impressed. There is virtually no shutter-lag whatsoever and the focus is incredibly quick. Burst mode works very well but it...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    You are assuming Jed York's ultimate goal is winning football games. I doubt he views putting in a QB who sells a ton of jerseys and cutting the huge salary Harbaugh would garner as "fuck ups."
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    No, that is absolutely right, should just chuck the ball over there regardless of play call. What I am saying is most of the time QB's go up to the line with a run/pass option. If Kaep either doesn't have a pass option to check into or is being told to flat out not make changes at the line it...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I'm not sure if this is an indictment on Kaepernick or the Niners offensive coaching staff. On one hand, doesn't matter what the play is if you are the QB you need to read the entire defense and account for everyone. No excuse whatsoever for an NFL QB to miss that. On the other hand it tells me...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    West might be single-handedly saving my fantasy season right now. Also hoping to squeeze a few more solid outings from McFadden before his inevitable injury.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    My wife and I couldn't even agree on the date we "officially" got together. We really never did anything special for it other than noting "oh, we've been together for X years now." But on the flip side, some little acknowledgment of the anniversary (flowers, date night, etc.) is probably...
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    Smartphones

    I got 3 years out of an N4 as well. The main thing to worry about with the 6P is that apparently they are a pain-in-the-ass (if not impossible) to repair on your own. So just from the standpoint of wear-and-tear you might consider using a case if you want the phone to physically survive 3 years.
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Wow, the VLC streams work awesome. Thanks for posting the reference.
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    Smartphones

    The 6P comes with an A-C cable, but it is like 10" long and so far I have not found a single outlet in my house where the cable is long enough for the phone to set down in a normal fashion. Either the cable flat out won't reach at all or if it does the phone would still be half hanging. Even in...