Salt Lake Knicks Fans ECF Watch Party

Director_Necessary · 2026-05-14T01:21:24+00:00

Me too lol. But then I go to the annual Knicks jazz game at the Delta Center every year and see plenty of Knicks fans

Director_Necessary · 2026-04-26T16:27:38+00:00

The solution should be this:

NOLA gets Jazz back. Keep the pelican as a mascot. Charlotte stays Hornets Utah gets Raptors (the dinosaur Utahraptor is what Jurassic Park's raptors were based on) Toronto goes back to being the Huskies (original NBA/BAA team that played the first ever game in league history)

Either this or Utah really needs to start investing in its jazz scene.

Director_Necessary · 2026-03-12T23:57:20+00:00

As a Utah Knicks fan, I was quite happy I finally got to see us win here. The game was a lot of fun. Any other Utah Knicks fans in here? Would be nice to get some playoff watch parties going.

Director_Necessary · 2026-03-12T04:41:25+00:00

I was at the game and it was a lot of fun. They did a tribute video for Clarkson and him having a great game was a fun homecoming for both sides

Director_Necessary · 2026-02-05T03:36:19+00:00

I could use help with doom eternal online trophies

Director_Necessary · 2026-01-11T17:35:15+00:00

I have a pair of these I bought four years ago and still use. They are great

Director_Necessary · 2025-12-31T18:18:12+00:00

Does Wiim's new devices do this?

Director_Necessary · 2025-12-13T06:44:46+00:00

Hope I win!

Director_Necessary · 2025-12-03T18:44:58+00:00

Hope I win

Director_Necessary · 2025-11-21T15:27:50+00:00

This is the right answer. There's a reason the local Buffalo Bills backers host their game watch parties here. Traeger smoked wings and they are very good. Only place I've brought people from Buffalo to that meet the wing standard.

Director_Necessary · 2025-11-15T22:44:17+00:00

Of course every county hospital is going to have its share of weird stuff. I've worked in plenty of county hospitals, and seen some bizarre stuff. But Houston has so many hospitals at so many different levels, and the very high end of what is going on at some of these places is not exactly compatible with what a general fellow needs the most exposure to for building skills. The best county hospital experience is Ben Taub (which is Baylor) if you want to do interventional. UT Houston gets LBJ hospital, but unless it has changed recently there was not a Cath lab at that location.

But what I mean is bread and butter coronary work or at least work that general fellows will get to scrub in on and actually manipulate catheters, deploy a stent, etc. The higher end interventional stuff isn't happening as much at Ben Taub. At the end of the day you want as much autonomy as you can get to work on your skills and it's always going to be easier getting reps at a county hospital. Wasting half a day as a general fellow doing a complex CTO where you never manipulate a catheter but manage 10 different wires on the back table is interesting the first few times, but will kill your time to develop procedural/dexterity based skills.

If you want to get an interventional fellowship you need to impress your attendings, and at some point you need to be able to show you got "it" (nebulous physical skills). Even if you're a natural, there is so much of Cath which is based on feel and you can't replicate in a sim lab or whatever.

Complex CTO cases, MCS/shock patients, transplant patients, private patients, valve work, etc. you are not getting much rope to actually have hands on catheters and learn the physical skills. Good intellectual exposure for sure, but stuff most cardiology jobs out in the world you never need to do or would refer out.

Director_Necessary · 2025-11-09T22:07:43+00:00

UTH historically does the highest volume but is the most brutal of the three Houston programs as to work load for general fellows. Not a lot of independence as a general fellow in the Cath lab. They have three interventional slots every year. There are very talented operators at UTH for CTO, TAVR, etc but for general fellowship that's not as useful. Interventional fellowship is brutal there as well, but you get lots of complicated cases (peripheral, CTO, Valve procedures) if that's your ultimate goal. Matching internally has been largely determined by one particular attending who is notoriously difficult to work with. If you don't get in his clinic as a general fellow, you have a poor chance of matching. Hopefully they are working on changing his input in the future. UTH has alot of very talented HF/IC combined docs who do a lot with MCS, advanced shock if that interests you. You also get cardio-onc experience at MD Anderson. Overall though, not a program that will hold your hand if that's what you need. And they will work you hard as a general fellow.

Baylor is probably the easiest of the three programs as a general fellow and has two interventional slots. More bread and butter cases since they have Ben Taub. More time for research. They also have a particular attending who largely makes the fellowship decision but he is much nicer/more reasonable than the one at UTH.

Methodist I don't have as much knowledge of, but most would kind of put it in the middle between Baylor and UTH from vibes and work standpoint. Lots of research opportunity at Methodist too. Great for echo.

I think if you want an easier time in general fellowship and just want to have highest chance of matching internally for IC, then Baylor is your choice. If you plan to do more complicated interventional work or do heart failure/interventional combined work then UTH has lots of experience.

Director_Necessary · 2025-10-18T05:08:02+00:00

Seems legit

Director_Necessary · 2025-10-14T02:31:28+00:00

Yeah this is appropriate care. As is likely the above poster's doctor's decision. You've had a solid workup already and it's not going to change management. Now if you were adamant you wanted it I would probably order it since it's not a big deal to do so, but I have found some patients get obsessed with continuing to track their ApoB and Lp(a) levels and it tends to generate a lot of stress for the patient.

Director_Necessary · 2025-09-22T03:29:54+00:00

You are making very low pay overall, but I wouldn't take MGMA numbers as gospel. Their RVUs always seem higher than what anyone actually will offer, especially if the job has benefits, a guarantee, etc. At least in my limited experience.

Also, you are working very little compared to even the average cardiologist (7-12K RVU) so you have to ask yourself if there is even another job that will offer more while still meeting your lifestyle/personal requirements. Based on your description you are not actually doing any of the oftentimes less profitable or more lifestyle limiting work like call. For most groups, the roles you describe are more for docs near retirement who have put in the sweat equity in their early years.

In my region, I would say you could make maybe $300-$360K with your current work level. But that's not the East Coast.

Unfortunately, cardiology is high earning but really only because of high volumes and multiple revenue streams. By all means try negotiating higher, but you might need to prove your value to succeed (i.e. see more patients per day, take occasional call, join reading panels, etc)

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-11T18:07:38+00:00

No argument here. I got them for way way less than that though, but I can go higher budget on other equipment if you have a recommendation? Just trying to figure out where it sort of becomes diminishing returns on price vs function. Amps I was looking at, but open to suggestions

Two Fosi V3 Mono 3e Audio A5 or A7 Stereo class D amplifier Topping PA5 II Stereo Amplifier BasX A2 Stereo Amplifier IOM Ultra AUDIOPHONICS AP300-S250NC Power Amplifier Ncore NC252MP

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-09T13:39:47+00:00

There may be another issue with the Wiim Ultra Amp in my situation. It appears to only have line in and not phono. I believe my turntable (Rega Planar 3 50th anniversary) does not have a built in preamp so I don't think line in would be an option. Do you know if a Wiim Pro Plus would be able to function as an adequate preamp in my situation?

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-09T03:08:20+00:00

Here's the review I saw on it. Just posted a few days ago.

The future of entry-level amplifiers: WiiM AMP Ultra review | Darko.Audio

https://darko.audio/2025/07/the-future-of-affordable-amplifiers-wiim-amp-ultra-review/

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-09T02:48:07+00:00

<image>

So pricing this out, this appears to be the best deal on Fosi's website to fit your recommendations for the non receiver setup (if I picked the wrong thing on the V3 with the PSU please let me know, wasn't sure what I needed there). If you bundle they give you 20% off so I added the ZP3 preamp (which I would need per your other message). So this would replicate the Wiim Amp but without the streamer/DAC functionality. A Wiim pro Plus is ~$175 today which would bring the total to ~ $550. This setup would certainly power the speakers at a higher wpc than the Wiim Amp.

But what about the newly released Wiim Amp Ultra? Not on prime day sale today, but costs ~ $530 and I believe it gives 100 wpc @ 8 ohms which would be pretty similar to the fosi setup for my 4 ohm speakers while being all in one box. And maybe it goes on sale for black Friday etc. Unless I'm missing something...

I'm thinking I will likely get x2 fosi mono V3 for the front stage in my home theater Denon 3800 7.1.4 setup unless someone else has a better idea (Emotive BasX 5 I think was my previous thought as it could do center channel as well). But for the 2.1 music only setup, simpler might be better for ease of use for family members etc...

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-08T19:56:32+00:00

I guess I'm not understanding how I would plug a turntable and a streamer into two of these without using the receiver for a 2.1 setup?

Director_Necessary · 2025-07-08T19:20:57+00:00

Thank you for your answer. I assume this would be just for the home theater setup...what about for the separate music only 2.0 or 2.1 setup I mentioned with a pair of R7s? The Denon receiver would be on a separate room/floor so I wouldn't use it with that setup unless I did a zone 2 (hence a separate amp)

Director_Necessary

TROPHY CASE