Favorite team:LSU 
Location:Lakeview, New Olreans
Biography:Ph.D. LSU '77 Taught Botany labs. Partied seriously.
Interests:Dogs and food (not mutually)
Occupation:Administrator/Scientist
Number of Posts:30
Registered on:6/25/2010
Online Status:Not Online

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Trout Bandit and Nawlens Bandit, the WWL link quoted: “Ray McClain, LSU AgCenter crawfish researcher at the Rice Research Station near Crowley says the straight tailed mudbugs were actually more likely to be alive before going into the boiling pot.” "Research at the LSU AgCenter has shown t...
LSU crawfish researcher, Ray McClain, was quoted in this issue of Gambit and in this link http://www.wwl.com/Study--Straight-tail-crawfish-were-not-dead-and-sa/18471954 that the LSU AgCenter has “disproved” the premature death of straight tailed boiled crawfish belief, as well as disproving the beli...

re: At the Gym: 65 and Beyond

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/13/14 at 12:49 pm
"Most 65+ guys I see at the gym spend most of their time working out their jaw muscles talking to some other 65+ year old guy while sitting on a machine or bench I'd like to use." -Cwill OR they're sitting on a reclined exercise bike, reading the paper pedaling at about 2 mph. So there you g...

At the Gym: 65 and Beyond

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/13/14 at 11:39 am
Just back from the gym (Anytime Fitness, Lakeview, N.O.). and got to thinking. Seems to be a pattern to this working out stuff. At 9 or 10 I started noticing the neighborhood kids’ big brothers in their garages, on those cool naugahyde benches, bench pressing 300+ lbs. At around 12 and beyond...
Hmmm... Sounds pretty damn awful....

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/7/14 at 3:49 pm
Hi No Tiger. Not flippin' out at all. Maybe a little "emotion sticker" would help with such comments (winky face?). This is a fun board. I'll probably start hitting more new restaurants just to post here and get y'all's comments on the places. I DO so much want to be like my idol, Mr. Tom Fitzmor...
So, how's about calling an Italian sausage pizza: Italian sausage po-boy pizza with red sauce and cheese. Think that I'll pass on the browned ground beef with (double) cheese pizza. ...

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/7/14 at 3:28 pm
Sad about the "class distinction" comments. Don't want to open that can of worms here, but I'll go to any restaurant anywhere, regardless of the "clientele." I grew up in a dirt poor family and neighborhood and, well, I’m no longer there. Gee, about the only things that I consider when choosing ...

re: Why is Wednesday spaghetti day?

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 3:03 pm
Funny AlaTiger! Hey, so Monday is RB&R; Wednesday is S&M, and I remember meatloaf having an assigned day. From Cracker Barrel: [i]Tuesday: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes A slice of our homemade Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes with choice of one vegetable. [/i] So maybe fish on Friday. What's o...

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:56 pm
Hey Gaston, I spent the last five years of my college career there; saddest day of my life- graduation day, that it....

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:54 pm
Winkface. I don't get it....

re: Haas Avocado tree?

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:48 pm
Might just work. They don't really big like oaks....

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:47 pm
LSU Balls—Sounds like ya’ll are a fun bunch. And Oenophile Brah,-- Yeah, ya right! Guess that we need to take the good with the bad with the streets. We do have some fine eating places in N.O....

re: Haas Avocado tree?

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:42 pm
They are slightly less freeze tolerant than citrus trees. I remember some trees in the past that made it four or five years and got zapped by temperatures in the low '20s or teens. This is where having them next to a big house and near a south wall helps. Or get a really big tarp... ....

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:36 pm
Hey, are all you folks LSU graduates? :lol:...

re: Haas Avocado tree?

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:32 pm
It's fun for kids to stick toothpicks in and grow a tree-- Sort of like doing the same with a sweet potato. It is a common misconception that avocados are diecious; that is, that a tree is either male or female. They are monecious, whereby both sex organs are on one flower. There is avoidance fo...

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:23 pm
I did go to Brisbi's shortly after they opened. All I can say is that I'll give them another visit. They had a lot of trainees there and I guess that I hit it during "sea trials." No "hate post" here. Heck, tomorrow might be a good day to try it again for lunch. I'll report here if I go....

re: Blue Crab Restaurant N.O. Review

Posted by LSU77ATO on 2/6/14 at 2:14 pm
No, that is a quote from the paper menu that I brought home (I live in Lakeview). I have no interest in the place other that checking out a decent West End place to eat Seafood. I remember most of the joints in West end from the '50s and '60s. I'm waiting to get really hungry so that I can get t...