MacGyver

No doubt.

When you’ve gone down the private equity route for as long as they have, suddenly being left out in the wind with less access to capital is not a good thing. You can read this as, “we’ve pillaged all we’re likely to get, so let’s push all the future risk off onto shareholders.”

He's a terrible influence.

As promised: https://www.dlttrading.com/lionsteel-bestman-slipjoint-single-blade-sheepsfoot

I’ll try to remember to post the link when it goes live in the morning.

DLTTrading.com. They drop tomorrow morning (Friday the 15th) at 0900CST. Unlike Spyderco exclusive drops, I don’t expect these will sell out in minutes. You should have plenty of time to get one. Between these guys and St. Nicks Knives down in Huntsville, I don’t know that you’ll find nicer folks. Their customer service is great, and they’re just the salt of the earth.

Man, natural or red or both? Decisions, decisions

You’ve got it. Y’all will be in our prayers.

I’ve had my eye on one in natural micarta - the sheepsfoot seals the deal for me. On a similar note, this Smith and Sons lockback sod buster is one of my all time favorites. It’s only available every now and then, but if I was looking for a small knife, a sod buster profile would be in the running.

It’s not the cheapest knife out there - but this DLTTrading is probably going to get some of my money on Friday with this M390 Lionsteel run:

My favorite knife of late is a sprint run Spyderco Paramilitary 3 in M390 steel. I’ve got a bigger PM2 in the same steel and I simply cannot say enough good things about it. A good stropping is all it needs to maintain an edge. If the PM3 is too big, I’d probably go with a Delica.

I’ll close it.

Is it your RMR thread?

Edit the topic. You should see a drop down menu.

Vanderbilt’s burn unit is one of the best around. He should be in good hands there. I’m so sorry to hear this. We’ll keep him and his family in our prayers.

If you’re basing business decisions on Facebook traffic, I question whether you might be better off just taking that money and just burning it. We’ve already got the data showing that they’re purposefully inflating numbers they’re showing advertisers. Instagram is owned by Facebook for those who may not know. Like it’s predecessor, it’s a giant time suck.

My parents have a giant hickory nut tree right behind their house. It drops so many nuts that it’s actually kind of problematic as they age. I didn’t realize how many varieties of hickory trees there were until last night when I was researching them. On their particular variant, the nuts were quite bitter when raw, but really pleasant when roasted. The squirrels sure love them. If you’re sitting out on their back deck this time of year, you’re likely to end up getting showered with hickory nut hulls as the squirrels chew through them.

I always thought you were supposed to toast hickory nuts first.

Oh, that looks like a fun evening.

Looks to be “minute of hog” accurate.

That last one is a nice fish!

Few thousand per million in coverage on the first $50MM or so. It falls off steeply the higher you go up the tower. Nobody writes that whole policy. All the carriers take chunks of the risk. Most of the major carriers are writing limit loss checks on this. Some of them who were attached at multiple points will write more than one check.

Yeah, scratch that. They've got a $750MM excess casualty placement. That's insane. They certainly got their money's worth.

This is at least $635 million above their insurance tower.

Metamodern sounds in country music is a great album. If you ever turn on country radio and think, “man what happened?” you’ll enjoy it.