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re: Any way to watch Kade Anderson's debut tonight?
Posted by LSshoe on 8/22/26 at 3:44 pm to TigerBanditjohn
Well shite, when he first got called up the TV guide said fox was playing the mariners game so I set it to record. They've apparently changed the game to the pirates dodgers game so guess I won't be watching it (on tape delay). Lame.
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Coffee talk (or, should I buy a French press)
Posted by LSshoe on 8/22/26 at 9:32 am
We've got some keurig latte maker thing at our house which sort of works because the wife likes lates and wants goofy flavored coffee while I like black (or maybe a dash of milk) coffee that tastes like coffee. The problem is that after years of use anything that comes out of it tastes like some abominable mixture of all the 1000 different types she runs through it. Even after I try to clean it which she has no interest in doing.
All that to say I think I need my own coffee maker, and I think maybe I want a French press but I have never used nor drank from one. I figure there's bound to be some coffee sages here that can help fellow out.
I really like the taste of (good, or at least decent) coffee, but I'm caffeine sensitive. I drink 10oz of half caff coffee and that gets me going. When I'm at work and drinking fully leaded I can only go with about a half a mug. More than 2/3 and I get wired.
Therefore I don't need something that can make a lot. Just one good mug really. Also, even though we have a keurig we almost never use packaged pods. We have a few little filter things you load up with a scoop then rinse out. I also only drink coffee at home a few times a week (2-4), so I don't really want to splurge on a bunch of fancy whizbangs for something that I likely wouldn't use every day.
I was thinking maybe I'd like to get a French press. It allegedly it makes a good cup of coffee. I already have a kettle. I figure I can make a good 10 or 12oz for myself and the wife can continue to drink her flavored coffee milk abominations.
What I don't know is all the intricacies of French press use. I typically just buy pre-ground coffee and bonus points if it comes half caff or I just mix a decaf and regular. Do I have to start buying whole beans and grinding or can I get away with continuing with pre ground? Also how much of a PITA is it to clean afterward? Is it possible to extract less caffeine from the grinds using a French press, while still extracting plenty of flavor?
Am I maybe on the wrong course and should be looking at something else instead?
Learn me something, ye knowers of coffee, for I am a simple minded sipper in search of a good cup.
All that to say I think I need my own coffee maker, and I think maybe I want a French press but I have never used nor drank from one. I figure there's bound to be some coffee sages here that can help fellow out.
I really like the taste of (good, or at least decent) coffee, but I'm caffeine sensitive. I drink 10oz of half caff coffee and that gets me going. When I'm at work and drinking fully leaded I can only go with about a half a mug. More than 2/3 and I get wired.
Therefore I don't need something that can make a lot. Just one good mug really. Also, even though we have a keurig we almost never use packaged pods. We have a few little filter things you load up with a scoop then rinse out. I also only drink coffee at home a few times a week (2-4), so I don't really want to splurge on a bunch of fancy whizbangs for something that I likely wouldn't use every day.
I was thinking maybe I'd like to get a French press. It allegedly it makes a good cup of coffee. I already have a kettle. I figure I can make a good 10 or 12oz for myself and the wife can continue to drink her flavored coffee milk abominations.
What I don't know is all the intricacies of French press use. I typically just buy pre-ground coffee and bonus points if it comes half caff or I just mix a decaf and regular. Do I have to start buying whole beans and grinding or can I get away with continuing with pre ground? Also how much of a PITA is it to clean afterward? Is it possible to extract less caffeine from the grinds using a French press, while still extracting plenty of flavor?
Am I maybe on the wrong course and should be looking at something else instead?
Learn me something, ye knowers of coffee, for I am a simple minded sipper in search of a good cup.
re: Question about baseball seating and donations
Posted by LSshoe on 8/22/26 at 8:14 am to hawgndodge
I've had seats in the new box since... Maybe not the first year it opened but probably a couple years in. Had been on a waitlist for years while I was still in college and did the TAF student thing where if you give them $100 it counted like you gave them $1000. That was apparently enough to get me a shot right around the time I graduated.
My tickets are down the line in the outfield. They're cheap enough that I don't have a mandatory TAF fee every year. I want to say they were in the ballpark of $600/3 a few years ago but have bumped to $900+ now.
I think if you get a chance grab any seats you can get even if not as many as you want, then try to relocate or expand every year till you get to be around where you want. You'll have a better shot that way than holding out till your desired area opens up.
My tickets are down the line in the outfield. They're cheap enough that I don't have a mandatory TAF fee every year. I want to say they were in the ballpark of $600/3 a few years ago but have bumped to $900+ now.
I think if you get a chance grab any seats you can get even if not as many as you want, then try to relocate or expand every year till you get to be around where you want. You'll have a better shot that way than holding out till your desired area opens up.
$200/person seems steep to me. The idea seems cool though. I don't see the offsite prep as a bad thing though. That lets him/her come in and start cooking rather than spending an hr+ taking up space in your kitchen and making a mess. For $200/person I'd expect to get a ton of really good food and/or bountiful supply of a paired wine.
re: Google maps update, immersive view and traffic overlay in select markets
Posted by LSshoe on 8/21/26 at 6:50 am to UltimaParadox
I still see traffic data in maps...
re: Who wants to buy their very own Panzer?
Posted by LSshoe on 8/20/26 at 10:00 pm to SmelvinRat
Love me some Panzer General II
I'd probably drink it like I do pomegranate juice. Just a splash of Juice into a cup of cold water. Pomegranate juice flavor is strong enough that it doesn't take much at all. I'd think blueberry would work about the same. One of those containers of Pom they sell at Costco will last me weeks and makes for some tasty water a few times a day.
Larry needs to break away from TD and start his own site: LarryDroppings.com
But for real, please NEVER do this
But for real, please NEVER do this
I started lurking around 2006. Signed up in 2008. I don't post a ton but I've definitely spent way too much of my life on this site. Thank you chicken for creating the only social media worth using with any regularity. It's usually a shitshow in here, but a delightful one. Let's go for another 25 years
re: So many good Mellow Mushroom locations in the Southeast. Why did the BR location not last?
Posted by LSshoe on 8/9/26 at 8:12 am to Paul Allen
Back when I was in college I enjoyed the pizza during the waking hours. I enjoyed occasionally getting wrecked on their shroom tea in the night hours. I know it's been closed for a good while but it had been a long while before that since I last went.
re: Do you think the process to getting a driver’s license in the US is too easily attained?
Posted by LSshoe on 8/9/26 at 7:38 am to Mike da Tigah
More thorough training and testing, plus some kind of regular (even if something like 10years) rexamination would be beneficial, however UK driving and US driving are not really the same thing. That the US death rate would be higher I can believe, but based on what statistic? Per driver, where a likely higher percentage drive in the US? Per anum, where there are gonna be more people driving due to size and thus surely those numbers would be higher? Per person? Per mile/km? This is actually one where I'd feel fairly confident it would be safer than the UK some I'd suspect the average drive length to be much higher than UK
My car is 10ish years old. In that time I can probably count the amount of times I've washed it on one hand. I just don't care. I clean the inside out a handful of times a year.
Kiffin was easy and fun to poke fun at for much of his career, and was kind of an entertainment of his own. I never really hated the guy, though I never really wanted him as our coach either. CFB is a weird, incestuous place. One day a coach (and nowadays a player) can be the devil incarnate and then the next be the savior cometh. Or the opposite. You kind of just have to cheer for your team or be in misery.
I will say that he seems to be a changed man. And that's trying to set aside the PnG glasses. If nothing else he's trying to put on a front that he's a changed, and more mature guy. And even if it's completely a coach speak facade that's still a stark contrast from the kiffin of just a few years ago.
He has the potential to be really good here. We'll see if that manifests, but I'm a FANatic so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until I'm ready to run him out of town.
I will say that he seems to be a changed man. And that's trying to set aside the PnG glasses. If nothing else he's trying to put on a front that he's a changed, and more mature guy. And even if it's completely a coach speak facade that's still a stark contrast from the kiffin of just a few years ago.
He has the potential to be really good here. We'll see if that manifests, but I'm a FANatic so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until I'm ready to run him out of town.
First game in 07 was actually a Thursday night game at miss st.
It was a game we won something like 41-14 but somehow felt like we played "bad" while doing so. Weird game.
Second game and home opener was VA tech. Was an awesome game for sure and lots of fun, but another thing often forgotten was that shortly before the game (I think within a few weeks) there was a shooting at the school which might have had that team less focused. I think LSU beats them handily regardless but I wouldn't be surprised if that had them distracted and lead to it being an absolute beatdown.
It was a game we won something like 41-14 but somehow felt like we played "bad" while doing so. Weird game.
Second game and home opener was VA tech. Was an awesome game for sure and lots of fun, but another thing often forgotten was that shortly before the game (I think within a few weeks) there was a shooting at the school which might have had that team less focused. I think LSU beats them handily regardless but I wouldn't be surprised if that had them distracted and lead to it being an absolute beatdown.
re: Projected 2027 Baseball Roster
Posted by LSshoe on 7/27/26 at 7:53 am to MorbidTheClown
So at this point Schmidt confirmed he's not going to sign MLB, but any idea when we'd find out if he will actually come to LSU? Could it theoretically take until the winter?
re: Logan Schmidt
Posted by LSshoe on 7/25/26 at 10:03 pm to CrewsMissile3
Yeah until after signing day or he makes an announcement I'm not going to get my hopes up. But would be awesome if he did make it here.
I have bought next to 0 hardware dedicated to any of my self hosted stuff. It's just refurb/repurposed mostly old tech.
My main LLM server is my former gaming desktop. It has an nvidia RTX 2060 which can run some of the smaller models pretty well. It already runs Linux so I just have ollama in docker with gpu passthrough. There are a few other containers I will also spin up at times. It also serves as a bit of a terminal server. I will put it to sleep when I'm not using it so it's not always on.
I also have an ubuntu LXC running as a guest on a Proxmox server that is an old HP mini prodesk. That one is mostly just used as a fallback when my desktop isn't on since it always is. It's much slower but it's fine for stuff I'm not waiting on a prompt response from.
I have another old desktop that is my "primary" server running Proxmox. It has an Ubuntu server VM that's my docker host. I have openwebui, n8n among other containers.
In all I don't do a huge amount of LLM things, but it's fun to mess around with. You can learn a lot even without big powerful hardware.
My main LLM server is my former gaming desktop. It has an nvidia RTX 2060 which can run some of the smaller models pretty well. It already runs Linux so I just have ollama in docker with gpu passthrough. There are a few other containers I will also spin up at times. It also serves as a bit of a terminal server. I will put it to sleep when I'm not using it so it's not always on.
I also have an ubuntu LXC running as a guest on a Proxmox server that is an old HP mini prodesk. That one is mostly just used as a fallback when my desktop isn't on since it always is. It's much slower but it's fine for stuff I'm not waiting on a prompt response from.
I have another old desktop that is my "primary" server running Proxmox. It has an Ubuntu server VM that's my docker host. I have openwebui, n8n among other containers.
In all I don't do a huge amount of LLM things, but it's fun to mess around with. You can learn a lot even without big powerful hardware.
Johnny's isnt fancy pants pizza by any means and it's not going to win any awards but it's a lot better than any of the pizza mill chains (pizza hut, dominoes, etc).
That being said I just so happened to have eaten it tonight (for probably the first time in a year or two) and I don't know that it's noticeably any different than any other time one has it.
That being said I just so happened to have eaten it tonight (for probably the first time in a year or two) and I don't know that it's noticeably any different than any other time one has it.
I think that there should be two or three "free" pickoff moves, and then after that a ball is awarded to the batter for each subsequent failed pickoff attempt. That allows for pitchers to still try to nail someone leaning too hard, but would stop throwing over 10x between pitches.
As for the minimum batters faced, on one hand I think it's a good way to speed up or at least not slow down the game. On the otherhand in college sometimes a pitcher straight up doesn't have it or anywhere near close to it and with this rule that means you might see a pitcher come in wild and load the bases and there's noting you can really do. Also, while it kind of sucks as a fan, in garbage time innings of nonconference play you might see a coach get a lot of back end or young arms a chance to get an appearance for experience's sake and that becomes harder with the 3 batter rule. 2 batters might make more sense.
As for the minimum batters faced, on one hand I think it's a good way to speed up or at least not slow down the game. On the otherhand in college sometimes a pitcher straight up doesn't have it or anywhere near close to it and with this rule that means you might see a pitcher come in wild and load the bases and there's noting you can really do. Also, while it kind of sucks as a fan, in garbage time innings of nonconference play you might see a coach get a lot of back end or young arms a chance to get an appearance for experience's sake and that becomes harder with the 3 batter rule. 2 batters might make more sense.
Personally I would avoid a lot of the mayo or cream based dishes. Too many opportunities for food spoilage.
Jambalaya or burgers and dogs would be my rec. Watermelon or other fruit is always good too
Jambalaya or burgers and dogs would be my rec. Watermelon or other fruit is always good too
I'm not in any way an expert on any of this, but my understanding has kind of been that the further into the draft you get, the higher chance "your guys" make it to campus for lots of complicated reasons, although nothing is really for sure until well past today and on to after whenever last day to sign is. Some drop out because the couple teams they had agreements with for numbers they liked didn't come to fruition. There's still the chance that teams will throw a pick at them anyway and the intricacies of it are beyond me but maybe they're just grabbing "rights" to a player in case they change their mind or maybe that's the pick they're using to not sign so they can save up money for someone else. And other times you think you're out of the woods on a player but then complex circumstances occur and he gets sniped. Also sometimes the inverse happens and a player you assume is gone pecan ends up not signing and comes to campus.
Basically it's a madhouse and effectively just a roulette wheel
To reiterate, all this is way beyond me and I don't keep up with any of it outside of looking at LSU players and prospects when this time comes around every year. So take what I say with a pinch of salt and a dash of tabasco.
Geaux tigers
Basically it's a madhouse and effectively just a roulette wheel
To reiterate, all this is way beyond me and I don't keep up with any of it outside of looking at LSU players and prospects when this time comes around every year. So take what I say with a pinch of salt and a dash of tabasco.
Geaux tigers
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