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re: Toughest Auburn season

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/8/25 at 9:21 pm to
This season could have been very different if we simply eliminated so many stupid penalties.
Yep. 216 points in 4 games, 93 in the other 9.

Tells a story.

That team would have slaughtered any of Freeze's teams.

re: So…who calls plays vs Vandy

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 11/2/25 at 7:08 pm to
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Anybody can call plays. Come up with your favorite 15 (really 30 because you can go either side). And keep running the ones that work. Mix in some randoms, but keep going back to what works.


Hugh Nall is holding on line 2....
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Google said one of the top questions was if he was still sober


That same question also applies to Sarkisian and Kiffin, and several other names that have been discussed.

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However, it is going to just make more of those bastards head south. No thanks.


Maybe they will bring the pizza with them?
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This article has some analysis on this subject. It concludes that the total return of JEPI and JEPQ lag the market, and you could have achieved the same total return with something like 67%QQQ and 33% cash, or something similar.

YMMV
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People should donate their money to church and to the poor and actively use their resources to help those in need.


Growing your wealth is the way to "..actively use their resources to help those in need". It feeds the engine the gives people jobs and opportunities to grow wealth themselves, so they can spread opportunity to others as well. More people benefit from this investment cycle than could ever benefit from a handout.
Actually, it's pretty simple. Most Big Government, Big Business, and Global Social initiatives have one goal: more control. It's simply become clear that it will be more easily accomplished through AI, Big Data, etc, than by an energy rationing program.

re: Retirement advice

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/28/25 at 1:34 pm to
Just about every brokerage now has some kind of free or nearly free robo-advisor with the options for additional human advisory services for additional fees.

If you really don't know anything, then start with something like that but keep some small percentage of your assets separate and invest it the way you see fit. Evey year, compare the two and decide which one you want to stick with.
FDR and his advisers admired Mussolini.

re: Stat of the Day

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/19/25 at 8:44 am to
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Defense was lights out tonight. Our offense fricking killed us.



Seems I remember that defense getting a PI and a PF at a critical moment, just like it disintegrated during the last drive of the first half against UGA.
Asset allocation and periodic re-balancing are your friends. Large Growth stocks are overvalued, maybe, and if the bubble pops that's where most of the air will come from. Other asset types are not overvalued, or at least not as much.
60 year old mechanical engineer here. Personally, I couldn't possibly sit in a class room again. I briefly though about grad school once then actually took a few days and walked around campus before a football weekend, including going through the engineering buildings and looking into the class rooms while the classes were in session. That's when I told myself "never again".

I spent the last half of my career in Automation and Motor Controls, much more electrical than mechanical. I was self taught. I applied controls and variable speed drives to plant processes to solve various problems. I was good at it and the bug bit me.

What goal do you want to accomplish with this degree? Most likely, to actually accomplish it will take way more individual initiative and self taught skills than it will any kind of classroom instruction or diploma on the wall.

Nobody who ever hired me really cared that much about what my degree was, they were way more interested in my skills and accomplishments.

re: It’s time

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/12/25 at 11:09 am to
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The bad calls didn’t rattle Freeze he just sucks.


Disagree. He totally blew 3rd and short and 4th and short after he called the timeout hoping for a targeting call on our receiver.

Maybe he should have called the timeout, but he should have used that time to coach up the offense for a very makeable and critical short yardage play and not spend his time lobbying the refs. Both the 3rd and 4th down attempt looked like our offense wasn't ready.

re: Jackson Arnold

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/12/25 at 9:56 am to
Which is why I started my post with "Not defending Arnold".

Seriously, at this point, do you think we'd see anything different with another QB? It'd be more of the same.

re: Jackson Arnold

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/12/25 at 9:12 am to
Not defending Arnold, but Jason Campbell was a bust until he got Al Borges, then he was a Heisman Candidate.

Coaching matters. This was a replay of the South Alabama game. Shut down in the second half after a superior coaching staff went into the locker room and made adjustments.

re: Help - ribs

Posted by CharlesUFarley on 10/11/25 at 8:00 am to
I cook mine in a kettle usually. I like to build a fire to one side of the kettle so that I have part of the grate that is directly over the coals and part that isn't. I put a foil pan of water underneath the indirect side. You can just fold up aluminum foil to make one, you really don't need much water.

I then put the ribs on a rib rack on the indirect side. If doing multiple ribs, I rotate them during the cook so that each one spends some time more directly exposed to the coals. Sometimes, I place each slab directly over the coals for a while to get them charred a bit, then place them back on the indirect side of the grill.

Mine are usually ready in about two hours or less. I pull them when a fork easily sticks through the meat all the way across the rib.

My ribs are more like grilled than smoked, but they do have smoke flavors. I wrap with foil afterwards then wrap in a towel and put in in ice chest for about 45 minutes or so. The carryover cooking still cooks them a little more but it is more of a redistribution of the juices that happens that seems to make them better. You could skip wrapping and eat them after they stick real tender, they'll still be good.

I don't like cooking them while they are wrapped. Ribs cooked like that lose some flavor, but they do get to that fall off the bone state that some people love, especially if you sauce them (I don't). I think they seem more steamed than grilled when done that way.

Your mileage may vary. Start with what seems best and easiest to you and work your way from there. Good luck.
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If your only 1 -2 % of the worlds population, shouldnt you be considered a minority?


More like a treasure.