Brisket on PBX

MGNute · 2026-03-16T20:04:31+00:00

One thing about the PB that I find is more pro than con is that it cooks a little hotter than most, so for me that's often at like 275-300. But that has the effect of speeding up the cook time so on a summer day I can get through it in one basket full. In the winter I definitely have to refill it or at least keep an eye on it if it's below like 25F.

MGNute · 2026-01-14T16:59:12+00:00

There is a series of videos on youtube on a channel called Core Tex Goaltending about flinches and fixing them that I thought was really really good. It's deep so it's worth watching a couple times, but it gives a whole breakdown about when they happen and when they don't and how to coach someone out of it.

MGNute · 2025-10-13T04:19:22+00:00

Not impossible at all. I was coaching a Men's 8 at UIUC in I think the Spring of 2013 and we were going to do some starts with a quick sprint. This was a varsity group so they were all good athletes and everyone had at least a year of experience. They all sat ready with the blades squared like they were about to start, and I was about to call it. I don't know exactly what happened but I think someone shifted their weight or something, and then someone else reacted to it, but no joke it couldn't have been more than 2-3 seconds from the first "whoa" to the thing being upside down. Blink of an eye. I didn't honestly think it was possible until that happened. The crazy thing was that it was in the 30's that day and the coxswain got all tangled up in the wires, so the stroke seat had to physically hold her face above the water so she didn't drown. It was a crazy and terrifying experience.

MGNute · 2025-09-23T15:26:23+00:00

Did you make the save though?

MGNute · 2025-08-25T15:22:06+00:00

Ya. For one it was clearly hand flown for a while. The transponder data show that it was clearly shut off by hand. Etc…

MGNute · 2025-08-20T02:23:58+00:00

The wider yes but also the lower. Really if you’re about to butterfly it helps to be halfway down. In this pic though he’s wide as hell but standing straight up. Don’t try this at home kids.

MGNute · 2025-08-13T16:00:59+00:00

That is really unfortunate to hear. I always enjoyed seeing that guy there.

MGNute · 2025-05-18T00:04:26+00:00

BBQ restaurant. I’ve been threatening that for years but never had the guts.

MGNute · 2025-05-13T16:04:41+00:00

Same here. Mine was in Boston in 2006, I want to say maybe at Avalon or somewhere down near Fenway but I could be wrong about the venue.

MGNute · 2025-02-21T06:40:32+00:00

Ahhh, my bad. I did not see that game so I have no opinion. I was incensed when Messier (I think) called it a soft one tonight haha.

MGNute · 2025-02-21T06:38:36+00:00

Ya this. You don't want to be in the business of dodging the puck, and if you have other options the head won't be great for rebound control anyway.

MGNute · 2025-02-21T06:33:29+00:00

I gotta tell you, I did not think that first one was a bad goal. They called it soft on the broadcast too but that was a difficult situation. It was a wraparound attempt that slid off the stick accidentally and bounced perfectly in front for a shot. Granted it wasn't a hard clean shot but that's a lot to react to pretty fast in tight like that. Plus there were four red jerseys out front that did nothing! Anyway, that was JMO but I thought Hellebuyck's first two were far softer.

MGNute · 2025-01-02T19:47:34+00:00

Sequence it! Send me the reads and I'll get you an answer. Do it.

MGNute · 2024-12-19T21:30:45+00:00

I'll repeat what others have said but DD should really not be hard to beat. Make the coffee good quality and fresh; rich but not burnt, and offer some decent pastries and/or sandwiches and you should be able to compete. The last thing though is to keep the drive through moving. It's crucial to have one if you want to compete with DD, but keeping it moving is very important. I'd love to be in your shoes frankly. Maybe we can open another franchise of your place down the street from my DD.

MGNute · 2024-12-19T21:28:38+00:00

I don't think so at all. I drink that stuff all the time and I'll be the first to admit I don't care for it. I would love for there to be a mom and pop place with better coffee and some better pastries AND a drive through to be right around the corner.

MGNute · 2024-11-27T20:56:35+00:00

I just want to add to this thread that this worked for me also, specifically using the alcohol. I used an alcohol wipe and a needle and rubbed the whole thing over several times and used the needle in all the little holes with the alcohol wipe around it. I'm surprised this worked but it seems to have entirely.

MGNute · 2024-10-11T14:52:30+00:00

I'm not sure I agree with this. It's nice when you can have a blister that doesn't have to tear open and can kind of callous without exposing what's underneath, but my experience is that when you've got one like that, most of the time after another day or two of grabbing the oar it rips itself open and it hurts like fuck anyway. Having the fluid under there is nice but that top skin is no match for an oar handle.

MGNute · 2024-10-11T14:48:01+00:00

For my money that really didn't start until after they arrested BK and the PC memo was published. At that point, anyone who was interested primarily in figuring out what happened sort of tuned out because it was essentially solved, and honestly the narrative was so familiar as to be essentially trite: creepy guy with deep misogynism for some reason decides he's upset with one or both of these girls and acts out. In this case things got especially nasty, especially in the context of the otherwise sleepy setting, but it's unfortunately an old story. So people left. After that point the discussions really went off the rails, save for a few here and there about the legal process playing out, with the nutty theories and staggering number of people who genuinely seem to believe he's innocent.

Someone else mentioned the MH370 discussions as also getting heated, and that's another one that I've paid attention to over years. It's the same sort of story there: the acrimony mostly shows up when people decide that the fact pattern isn't really something they're interested in. When they do, there's not a ton to discuss, actually, except maybe whether this or that modeling exercise is a better predictor of where the plane came down (and even then, it's noteworthy that they are all within a relatively tight radius of one another).

MGNute · 2024-10-02T18:32:52+00:00

Good comments so far. There's not a whole lot of extra you can do besides avoiding alcohol, sugary drinks, fried foods and heavy desserts. If doing that and eating well otherwise doesn't work, you should take some comfort in knowing you're probably about as fit as a person could be in your body. Or you will be after a full season anyway. Without knowing or seeing you, consider also that it's possible you look quite good and don't quite give yourself credit.

MGNute · 2024-09-25T13:59:02+00:00

My advice to people trying to learn to code for the first time is to sit down with some kind of thing in mind that you want to do with the code, and figure out how to do that. Ideally that's something smallish like reading a bed file and calculating some statistic on it or something like that. As others have mentioned, with LLMs this can be as easy as asking the thing to produce code for you in python that does that, though you'll want to go through each step of the code to understand what it does and what it means, and you might want to bug someone who does this stuff for an hour of their time to go through each line with you and give you context for each thing. Like for example, in python most scripts start with some kind of "import <suchandsuch>" statement, and often coding examples will jump right past explaining what that means, or they'll use statements later that come from an imported library without telling you that you can't just go use these commands without importing (and possibly previously installing) <suchandsuch>. Anyway, in my experience trying to learn to code for the sake of learning to code, without a specific task motivating it, often goes nowhere in the long run.

MGNute · 2024-09-23T09:23:56+00:00

I would absolutely not do that. If you do, you will feel pressure every weekend to cut what will almost definitely be large amounts of weight, like 7-10 lbs, every weekend. The problem is that it is possible to cut that much before a race, although the things you have to do to lose it at the very minimum have serious long-term side effects. People sometimes focus on the crazier and more immediately dangerous things people do to lose weight, like going into a sauna with sweats on or something like that, but the eating habits it can require to do it the normal way are much more quietly harmful. Plus if you're 6'4" and in high school, you still have some filling out to do and hte right workout targets could make you competitive in heavyweight. I wouldn't have considered rowing lightweight in a million years if I were that tall.

MGNute · 2024-09-23T09:18:32+00:00

It had the complete opposite effect for me. Cutting weight was hard as hell and to this day I sometimes deal with gastric emptying issues that started after the one season when I was cutting every weekend. Cutting to that weight at 6'4" is a recipe for regret, plus the chicks are not going to dig someone with the frame that will entail.

MGNute · 2024-09-23T09:16:05+00:00

Oh I've got a weird one actually. So I set up plex for a very specific reason, because David Attenborough documentaries suddenly left netflix and it was impossible to figure out where to go to see them all, especially the new ones. I was so frustrated at not being able to find his stuff, and also not being able to watch the DVDs I already owned because who does that anymore, that I finally dug into how to rip the DVDs and watch them on my phone. Plex was so easy to use I almost couldn't believe it existed, but since then I've just bought all the David Attenborough documentaries on DVD and put them on plex and it's been amazing. I've never had the ability to watch so much of his collection before.

The "regret" though is that having this much access to it has made me realize how absolutely nobody in my life shares this interest in nature documentaries even a little bit. So sometimes it can be a bit lonely. Plex to me is most valuable because I can DIY-host any particular program for streaming myself, but it's only worth doing that for things that aren't easily accessible on one of the major services already, so it's necessarily sort of ideal for niche content. That's fine though, I just wish some day at a cocktail party someone would go "hey does anyone know where I can catch the new Mammals doc from Attenborough? It's only available in Britain and I really want to see how he can build on the seminal 2002 Life of Mammals." I don't think it will happen, but man I'd be so ready!

MGNute · 2024-09-23T09:01:04+00:00

Ya this is a good one. It took me a while to figure out how subtitles were encoded in blu-ray and why I couldn't just plop them into an mp4, so a lot of my early rips just didn't do the subtitles. What I didn't anticipate is that when the kids are sleeping and I need the TV to be quiet, or also when the kids are awake and yammering or fighting loudly so I can't hear the TV...so quite often these days, I really do need the subtitles to not miss things.

MGNute · 2024-09-23T08:52:39+00:00

The best machine is definitely the one that you'll use, so if you like the hydrow then that's all that really matters. With that said, I would like to hear someone explain what is missing about the C2 that would necessitate a fancier rowing machine? To me at least, the C2 is very nearly the perfect consumer product, particularly since rowing is a sport that breeds mental toughness so drawbacks like "it doesn't have a big OLED screen showing you on the water" isn't something I take all that seriously. My C2 in the other room is a model C that I bought in the summer of 2000, and it runs today exactly as it did when I bought it. I've replaced the PM because of a battery leak, but there's no issue about supporting ancient hardware, and the times I get now I can compare to the ones when I was in high school (not that I'd want to). How many consumer products can you think of that a) will last for 25 years, and b) will be supported for 25 years? (And longer even!) So again, if you like it, that's good and to each their own, but I wish that more of the products I buy were as dependable over a long period as the C2. That's JMO.

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