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zzyzzogeton said:
I use tepins, a native pepper from the southwest and Mexico, for my home-made picante sauce. When I make my "mild" batch that the rest of the family can tolerate, I only use about 1/2 ounce to 3/4 ounce of chopped up tepins for a 2.5 gallon batch. The first batch of the year each year is an experiment in fire as the peppers "heatness" will vary depending on the climatic conditions that year. Tepins will vary from 25,000 to 100,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Units). About the size of a pencil eraser.
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There's another pepper down here that is frequently confused with the tepin - the chili pequin. The pequin is similar but long, rather than round. Probably about 2.5 to 3 times the size of a tepin and about 1/2 as hot.
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Zzzz, good to a friendly face bidding on my Bk9.

Maybe if you win the sucker, I can track it down and buy it back in the future
 
Murphnuge said:
I like the idea of a mini prybar, but I can't imagine a situation I'd ever need one. I also can't imagine me holding 9ut from buying one much longer. Attaching it to a sheath with ranger bands is a good carry option.
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I used it 3 times in the last week.. popped the hinge pins on a door, slid the latch on a broken lock fixing my garage door, and used it to scrap a sticker off the back glass of the wife's car. Once it is riding in your pocket, you find things to do with it.

granitestateofmind said:
Agreed. Looks like we have a sci-fi club here in Beckerland. Kim Stanley-Robinson, anyone? Dan Simmons and the Hyperion Cantos?
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Loved the Mars series.. I read a couple books in the Hyperion series a long time ago.. may have to check it out again. Have you ever read The Cross-Time Engineer
series by Leo Frankowski?

NathanJ said:
Hey Lee, I've got the same Victorinox multi tool. I use mine all the time, like it a lot.
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Same here, I got mine in 2000 and used it at work for years, still the best tool, just too heavy to pocket carry, I used to have a sheath for it, but it came apart years ago.
 
Silverthorn said:
Wanna talk about a verbose author ? How about L. Ron Hubbard It took him like 1300 pages to write battlefield earth which could have been done about 500 pages less, and really well..lol
Never trust a religion written by a fiction writer.
I read War and Peace in high school, just to say I had pretty much. Took Biblical lit, when I didnt need a lit credit, because im a masochist.
I LOVE to read, but mostly anymore fantasy or sci fi. I did read a lot of the classics as a younger man, but when you read Lovecraft, Frank Herbert and Anne Mcaffery at 8 years old, you get weird tastes in literature.
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Hubbard couldn't write his name if his life depended on it... They guy blows poopy chunks..

Doc
 
One book they made us read at school was "Of mice and men" and I absolutely loved it. I read that book over two nights and the teacher gave us two weeks to get through it. Another school book was "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" and I really enjoyed that too.
 
stvpourciau said:
Zzzz, good to a friendly face bidding on my Bk9.

Maybe if you win the sucker, I can track it down and buy it back in the future
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I would have no problem with that. :D Shouldn't be too hard to track me down. I'm not planning on going anywhere.
 
rkmoore said:
No, I just have a job and a life and stuff. If anyone has anything constructive to add, I would appreciate it.
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I apologize; I meant no harm...I was just....sorry. It is the snark thread, after all. Luckily, others have fielded your request for info with more alacrity.
 
Im not real big on politics, and this isnt meant as a political post. But the show "Commander in chief" is pretty good.
 
rkmoore said:
BK1 Brute is up on the exchange at a pretty good price. Just sayin'.
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Not anymore. I snatched that puppy right up. Referring to the post I made about turning my best friend into a budding Beckerhead, since he wanted my BK1 right off the gitgo, after I get this one in, I'm gonna offer him his choice of either this one or the other one I already have for what I'm paying for this one. For me, it's a win-win situation... Either my best friend gets a BK1 and is happy and I get to be happy for him as well, or I get to have another one to play with and I'm happy. :D:D:D
 
Ever end up buying more things for yourself when you should be christmas shopping for others?? Bk15 inbound and just got a mora companion in the mail....:o
 
I'm feeling pretty guilty about the 15, may have to return that. At least with the mora it was barely 2 day's worth of lunch.
 
got a little polishing in. bit by bit...
 
Honestly? No. Since I hate shopping, I decide what I want to give folks early in the year and then try to find it on sale during the "off-season". Whatever I'm looking for is NEVER on sale at Christmas time. I'm usually done with Christmas shopping by May or June, although this year it was August before I found the last item I wanted on sale. Then at Christmas, I can sit down at the mall and laugh at all the people scurrying around carrying bags and bags of stuff. I remember back in 1984, when I came home from 2 years based out of Japan, I had enough stuff bought up for Christmas presents that I didn't have to buy anything until 1987.
 
Evening all. Any other Beckerheads mess with Strider knives? Just got a SNG and I'm in the breaking in process, this thing is brutal on the thumbs!
 
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