cgrand

re: What’s your everyday spice ingredients Or every other day essentials?

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 10:38 pm to dexy82

at the risk of sounding pretentious…we make our own dried herb blends and dry powders and the results are amazing. Like, you immediately tell the difference.

and it’s not that hard to do. Right now I’ve been seasoning everything with the herb blend, powdered mixed peppers (cayenne, bell, shishito, poblano) and of course S&P and haven’t needed anything else except some oil and acid

Food and Drink

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re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 6:29 pm to Tigerlaff

here’s the label

I also top dress with composted manure. And water (a lot). Everything I’ve read says you can’t water or feed too much within reason, do you find that to be true?

I’m going to build a bamboo frame that I can tarp for freezes that will cover the whole patch and then run a heater under that. Would you mind posting again the wireless thermostat you use?

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 6:14 pm to BigAL Golesh

quote:
OMG Elon is such a failure!!! Just look at spaceX stock dropping!!!

a little twitchy today aren’t you

re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 5:02 pm to AyyyBaw

quote:
Not a true date, but jujubee does grow and fruit in south LA. Referred to as Chinese dates

I did not know that. Thank you I’ll do some research

Tropical update, baby plants edition:

Banana patch

the little ones are just starting to grow but these two namwah are cooking.

plantain in the ground now

I’m fertilizing with this every two weeks

lemon guava, cherry of the Rio grande, Barbados cherry

shampoo ginger finally starting to grow. I added about 8” of rich garden soil to the bed plus a ton of composted manure and I’ve been watering every day. And I added an overhead shade screen. Don’t listen to anyone telling you this is easy to grow

re: OpenAI planning to delay IPO

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 4:02 pm to UltimaParadox

quote:
. It is searching for other lines of revenue, including dabbling with placing ads inside ChatGPT

this is ZETA by the way; this is why the partnership with ZETA was struck. OpenAI (as opposed to anthropic for example) is a consumer based model, very similar if not identical to what google did. to be a consumer based model means depending on ad revenue. they cant go public safely until ad revenue is embedded and predictable/scalable.

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 3:24 pm to Utah

quote:
This thread is dropping faster than SPCX stock.
At $176, down $50 from its high just two days ago.

bump

re: Any plumbers here? Have a belly in the main drain line under slab

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 3:07 pm to GREENHEAD22

call roto rooter. they fix these ever day

re: Fee Based Financial Adviser

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 2:00 pm to RanchoLaPuerto

who is your banker? If chase they offer a very attractive wealth management plan

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re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 1:34 pm to AlxTgr

it appears this was a down year for Betelgeuse. I haven’t seen a one and I’ve got a full 8x20 bed plus a 20’ trellis of squashes

re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 1:33 pm to Tigerlaff

speaking of palms does anyone know of any medjool date palms successfully fruiting in our area? We eat a LOT of dates. I have plenty of room in full sun, and they look cool

re: Nebius - NBIS - AI Infrastructure Company

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 1:26 pm to LB84

yes it’s been a massive financial drain on the buildout. No doubt. But so has been the space economy (just to use an example). And it has resulted in some pretty intriguing tech advancement. I don’t have reason to doubt their vision (pun intended)

anyway, META is not buying NBIS :LOL:

re: a thread for ZETA

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 1:01 pm to cgrand

thru heavy resistance at 22.50. A setup and close above here brings 25-26 into view and a 52 week high. Looking good barring any unexpected bad news (related or otherwise)

re: Nebius - NBIS - AI Infrastructure Company

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 12:55 pm to LB84

quote:
The Horizon World and VR stuff was a colossal flop.

reality labs is a $2B+ company all by itself. But what I was referring to is their buildout (ongoing) of business and consumer subscription services including the open source Llama models which are quickly becoming a self contained ecosystem

couple that with their ability to sell excess AI compute and you’ve got, as I said, the opposite of wandering, as their massive AI related capex indicates

re: Dinosaurs of the Wild West new trailer 7/7/26

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 12:21 pm to Proximo

if that’s not a comedy I’m gonna be disappointed

Movie/TV Board

re: Has anybody here had luck with off brand Ego replacement batteries?

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 12:19 pm to Loup

go get the chainsaw, you’ll stick with EGO

re: Nebius - NBIS - AI Infrastructure Company

Posted by cgrand on 7/7/26 at 12:16 pm to SquatchDawg

I would underestimate META at your own risk. Open source AI is the future outside of sensitive/highly regulated/secure tasks (ie: 99% of enterprise activities).

whatever they are doing now or want to do in the future is the opposite of wandering around :LOL: