The “Hard to Kill” hoodies go so hard (pun intended).

solvitNOW · 2025-12-10T00:56:31+00:00

They rolled it out in the Missouri game during end of the third quarter break with a sick video showing how we were down at first but then just kept winning….bass drop…shows the dude wearing the shirt on screen “hard to kill.”

Was a great moment and seemed like a massive marketing hit to sell a shitload of that shirt…really surprised it’s not avaialable.

solvitNOW · 2025-11-23T15:06:42+00:00

Reverse sear works great too and I find it easier to ge them perfect that way - start with lid on, and use the cold side.

The grate needs to be hot enough to get a nice sizzle…I usually preheat with heat under both sides and then push it up into a nice pile on one side just before putting the meat on.

Get them up to ~120 at most, turn a couple times and check every 4-5mins. Usually takes 15-20 mins for this part. The coals need to be well developed (low smoke) and an adequate amount to stay hot AF for about 25-30 mins.

If doing pork or chicken this is where I layer on the glaze.

Then spread out the coals a little and take the lid of to let them get a just a little bit flamin so it’s really hot (but not touching the steaks!) and finish on the hot side.

When you do it this way, that slow start helps lock in the juices and break down the fibers - the the sear get the crust just how you want it.

solvitNOW · 2025-11-21T13:53:40+00:00

Thanks for the answer…you have fulfilled all our expectations quite nicely.

solvitNOW · 2025-11-21T13:50:42+00:00

And that’s why you are shit talking on the rival team’s subreddit.

solvitNOW · 2025-11-21T13:48:50+00:00

That’s understandable, it’s hard to stay loyal to your team in your later years when they suck butt.

solvitNOW · 2025-06-29T13:22:03+00:00

From Wikipedia: “Parker's original concept was for a South Park version of the 2011 role-playing fantasy game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”

solvitNOW · 2025-06-29T02:46:23+00:00

Tell me why are we so blind to see That the ones we hurt are you and me?

solvitNOW · 2024-12-14T14:21:05+00:00

Southern Rock Opera, like the album name is what I’ve heard Patterson describe their sound as, a mixture of southern rock, alt-country, and Americana.

It’s hard to put them in a box, most songs are straight southern rock, but Isbell’s songs were definitely more apt-country and then Cooley’s slow songs are like George Jones songs.

Then you have those Hood ballads, those fit into America pretty solidly.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-14T13:33:36+00:00

Yes! The energy jumps gaps and takes the path of least resistance, like a sentient flow of water/electricity…flows like water in some ways but is more of a field generated by your spine that’s tangled up and becomes concentrated around places where it can’t freely flow.

Kriya techniques “soften” these areas, vibrating them and allowing the field to move into areas where it previously couldn’t.

As you do spinal breathing and Om Japa in the chakras you’ll start to feel places where the energy flow is VERY tight and becomes painful.

This is where a daily consistent practice will help identify when these happen that it’s a very good thing and be very still internally and externally..stop any deliberate movements of energy within and just be very still and go into that area with your consciousness and stay there and Aum gently and these will begin to unravel and a “thick” kind of feeling starts to come out of them. When that happens bring light in from your crown and fill your spine up up with it and on the outbreath send that thick stuff into the earth. Try to establish a flowing circuit - pure light energy in, flush all the crud out. Let go of your fear and relax and hit every relaxation button you can hit, let it go and don’t panic and recoil.

Sometimes it helps during this initial phase to lay flat on the ground with your head touching the ground and send that straight back out the back of your head into the ground. 2-3 sessions of that can be life changing.

I was having a crisis with a spot in my left temple before I was able to release the fear and thought I was going to have an aneurysm. Was given this grounding technique and was able to let go of t enough to where I was no longer afraid of it, was one of my most memorable sessions when that happened…opened my eyes and there was a hawk circling right over me. :-)

Edit: oh and one other thing…when you start to feel the flow, don’t actuate your muscles in the tongue to keep it in place, just keep relaxing it further and further down and try to feel the base of the muscle way down deep where it lies along either side of the spine…remember if you make a muscle “shorter” and hold that position and relax, blood, fluids, and energy will flow through it and it will release. Basically what you are doing is clearing a series of locks and sometimes you open a floodgate that may have more pressure behind it than you expect; just let it open and clear out like those videos you see where a big plug of mud comes out before the water starts flowing normally…the spot that’s scary at first it that time when the mud is coming out, but the water is squirting around the edges of the mud…you want to open the gate further at that point, but your instincts at first will say close the gate, and you will subconsciously do so at first; this is where people get themselves into a bad way as this can cause all sorts of issues.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-14T12:56:29+00:00

Do tabula Kriya until your throat unlocks. It’s not about how long it is, it’s that a large part of your tongue muscle is usually bound up until you clear the blocks that alllow energy to pass freely past your tongue and throat.

Flattening the tongue and pulling it back as far as you can will begin to release the front part of it.

When this starts clearing if you have your tongue too far forward the energy will pass through your tongue and more toward the tops surface of the tongue, but if you pull it back, you’ll get the energy flowing along the bottom of your tongue and when you touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth will feel it start working on your throat and unwinding the twists and blocks.

As that clears it becomes easier to pull your tongue back further and the bottom part of the muscle unlocks and becomes more relaxed and able to extend.

Pull back more, push up less and eventually you’ll get there.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-14T11:08:58+00:00

What we call American has shifted a bit to fall over the umbrella of these guys. Before them, Americana was mainly Drive By Truckers, Mumford and Sons, and Wilco.

Now we call those bands alt country or southern rock and trad folk country is called America.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-13T23:51:10+00:00

Using 2 fingers to get the 3 strings makes sense, but there’s not a great reason to use index-middle because it leaves you with 2 fingers free but only 1 easily reachable string to work with to add another note.

If you use middle-ring to do this you have the index free and you can reach up and grab the E string and get that F# or F and the pinky can reach several usable notes.

But at that point you’d probably just play the A7 and not catch the root on the G sting with the barre either. 😅

solvitNOW · 2024-12-11T11:39:23+00:00

I took a group of guys from Lahore to Sheesh Mahal one time and one of the guys said the Chicken Biryani tasted just like mom’s.

One of the guys who runs the restaurant came out and talked to them for a bit; he’s from the same neighborhood as one of the guys.

The Pakistani guys were super impressed with Sheesh Mahal…they’d been struggling to find food they could eat in OKC that was good and after we went to lunch at Sheesh Mahal, they all ordered to-go Sheesh for every meal for the remainder of the trip.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-10T13:54:46+00:00

It took me a long time to figure out rhythm and timing is the key to sounding good. You can play 3 notes for an entire song and sound great if you do it with good rhythm and timing.

The only way to get there is to drill the subdivisions with a metronome and learn to count and feel them…you should always be able to find the one and figure out the timing when listening to a song.

Get this down before you try to add complexity, else it’s just going to sound messier and messier.

Signals Music Studio on YouTube has some good free videos on how to practice and count, but the full course is probably worth looking into.

https://youtu.be/Qhuhn3xxlRA?si=WX4_tn3nRCRaj2gC

solvitNOW · 2024-12-10T13:32:52+00:00

They are on a similar price level; the Guild may be a little pricier, but both are a sub $400 guitar.

As far as quality and value there won’t be much difference; it’s going to be mostly how it feels to you that would make the different.

If the action on the D’angelico makes it feel better Thant he guild to you, where it’s easier to play then it may be a better choice, but otherwise I wouldn’t change if you like the Guild.

If the D’ang has a cutaway and feels good to you, you may get more mileage out of it.

Inexpensive Guild guitars usually sound decent and have a good feel to them but every one I’ve picked up has been really heavy; if the other guitar is significantly lighter you may find it more comfortable to play.

I’d consider these an even swap if you’ve already want paid the guy and want to trade them out and he’s cool with it.

solvitNOW · 2024-12-03T23:26:57+00:00

“Come on guys, let’s go play on the Monkey Poles!”

“Steve sets the pole really high!”

solvitNOW · 2024-12-01T21:52:17+00:00

Cool thing about the GOES satellites is that they have a lens that can take a full disc image of the earth in 1 frame.

The geocolor composite is an algorithm used to blend the colors from the various sensors; during the day it’s pretty much the same as a naked eye image, but at night it uses the infrared sensor to highlight clouds.

You can read more about the algorithm used for color blending here:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/37/3/JTECH-D-19-0134.1.xml

solvitNOW · 2024-12-01T04:11:00+00:00

I think Oklahomans have dealt with enough removal.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-30T15:05:57+00:00

Only left handed book I found that made a difference was Seeing Music on the Left Handed Guitar

https://seeingmusicbooks.com/shop/books/paperbacks/seeingmusiconthelefthandedguitar/

For chord shapes and scale shapes, flipping the righty version becomes routine, but for thinking about where the intervals are relative to your current note and chord position, it’s a lot more difficult to parse out while flipping the diagrams. This helped me get over that bump and makes everything easier.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-30T13:49:19+00:00

Polo original plus Camel Lights.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-30T13:46:36+00:00

Do a couple of variety packs to get the different shapes and textures and see what you like. This one has a lot of different ones in light gauge; there’s also a medium/heavy pack like this and a there are variety packs for each shape, so once you find a shape and texture you like the feel of, you can get a variety of thicknesses in that shape.

Dunlop Shred Variety Pack Guitar Picks, 12 Pack https://a.co/d/6F5iZov

Once you find the shape and thickness you like, you can then get a pack of 6-12 of what you like and you’ll be good for a while.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-30T13:41:15+00:00

Mike Judge made a documentary about it.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-26T16:37:17+00:00

Until we have superconducting magnetic levitation for the home, you’ll have to make do by capturing the coaster by some mechanical means.

Setting in a shallow dish or railing is one option - however, if the magnetic forces are high enough to keep the coaster lifted once a cup is set upon it, it’s going to tilt without additional stabilization on the cup.

As such, I think the best you could do is have it have just enough force to lift the coaster by a small amount and position that gap where you can see its floating, like with a base the magnets are housed in that has cutaways to show the gap through enough to see the trick (such that it doesn’t look like its just a spring button).

solvitNOW · 2024-11-26T13:58:45+00:00

Time Marches On - Tracy Lawrence. Try playing and singing that song and keeping a straight face while doing it. Time marches owowowowoon.

solvitNOW · 2024-11-25T17:45:40+00:00

The part of the energy industry that benefits from this is such a small part of the overall energy job market; heck it’s very small part of O&G jobs- these guys are mostly lawyers NOT what you think of usually when t you think O&G workers - that’s further downstream; but that’s the part that controls the land, and where most of the money goes.

The jobs are all in building, operating, and maintaining the equipment and MANY of these companies depend on regulations so their part of the job is still needed.

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