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ChEgrad
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Wish they made those gloves back in my day.
This is what it proves - technology today makes catching the ball much easier.
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I rarely listen. He has talent and he actually can do a great job interviewing people and talking sports. He just chooses not to do that for the most part.
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You need ESPN+ sub to watch them all. If you have YTTV you can watch games via SECN but they are rarely on that channel until postseason (unless its the in broadcast market game).
This is wrong. I have watched many games on SECN+ in the ESPN app, which does not require an ESPN+ subscription.
re: Tell me about The Island in Plaquemine
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/8/26 at 2:52 pm to lsupride87
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Hole 2 maybe the most challenging golf hole I have ever played. I would actually like to see 50 pros play it in a tournament from the tips and see the scoring average
I don’t think it would be a big struggle. I played in the club championship with a long hitter there and he hit driver, 5-iron I think.
I’ve made more triples on it than birdies, maybe even pars, but I’m too stuborn to play it intelligently.
re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/8/26 at 2:36 pm to ChenierauTigre
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My beefsteaks are loaded with tomatoes. the pole beans are 2 feet past my 8' trellis and have baby beans on them.
I planted probably the second week of February. Started slow, but things moving now. Got some Sun Sugar and Sugar Rush cherry tomatoes starting to ripen. Larger tomatoes starting to really put on fruit. Violet Delight eggplants finally flowering after a very slow start. Some 4” long banana peppers. Sugar snap peas being inundated with powdery mildew. Harvested yellow squash three times already.
re: New recliner
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/7/26 at 7:24 pm to LemmyLives
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I have my leather one that I bought in 1999 in front of me right now. Why replace it if it works?
I have a cloth Lay- Z Boy recliner/rocker from about 1987 or 8. Does need to be recovered, but it is tucked back in our bedroom now. Just can’t get rid of it - all our kids were rocked in that thing. Still works perfectly and is very comfortable.
re: Rant about weighted GPAs.
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/7/26 at 7:02 pm to GeauxTigers123
It makes it more difficult to determine who is valedictorian. I know of someone who was not valedictorian because they took one more class then the named valedictorian - choir or a foreign language (can’t remember). Since it was only on a scale of 4, it lowered their GPA and dropped them from being valedictorian. They had more credits, but a lower GPA. I think the school may have subsequently fixed their ranking system, but it was stupid to begin with.
re: Aix en Provence—best things to do?
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/4/26 at 12:16 pm to dyslexiateechur
There’s some good stuff in Marseille. You can take a boat to the Chateau d’If - of Count of Monte Cristo fame. Not terribly exciting and much different than portrayed in movies, but I enjoyed it.
You probably can take a boat to visit the calanques from Marseille. Very beautiful. I’ve only done it from Cassis, but I think they leave from Marseille also. Beautiful.
Aix is a nice town. They have an art museum which had a Cezanne exhibit when I was there. Nice if you are into impressionists, but I don’t think it was a permanent exhibit, although he did a lot of painting in that area. It is known for its fountains. Has nice farmers markets and shops, but I’m not sure of what days/times for the markets (Saturday and Sunday morning for sure I would think).
There is a pretty well preserved Roman theater in Orange and many Roman ruins in Nimes.
You probably can take a boat to visit the calanques from Marseille. Very beautiful. I’ve only done it from Cassis, but I think they leave from Marseille also. Beautiful.
Aix is a nice town. They have an art museum which had a Cezanne exhibit when I was there. Nice if you are into impressionists, but I don’t think it was a permanent exhibit, although he did a lot of painting in that area. It is known for its fountains. Has nice farmers markets and shops, but I’m not sure of what days/times for the markets (Saturday and Sunday morning for sure I would think).
There is a pretty well preserved Roman theater in Orange and many Roman ruins in Nimes.
re: Aix en Provence—best things to do?
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/4/26 at 12:02 pm to BlackenedOut
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Aix has a great Roman coliseum
I think you are thinking of Arles or Nimes. I’ve not been inside of the one at Nimes, but I’ve been to a bullfight at the one in Arles.
re: Aix en Provence—best things to do?
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/4/26 at 11:58 am to Shotgun Willie
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We did a tour of the aqueduct and the Pope palace.
Pope palace is in Avignon.
Pont du Gard is northwest of that. Not terribly near Aix, but doable in an 11 hour stop if you rent a car.
re: Over 62,000 students applied to LSU this school year.
Posted by ChEgrad on 4/2/26 at 12:30 pm to LSUfan4444
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Until / unless they drop the on campus living requirement for freshman, there is no shot in hell we are sending our daughter there.
As a former student who lived on campus for three years, I think living on campus has many benefits. Campus has everything you need. Basically never need to drive in your daily life. No worry about parking. Can walk to intramural sports, the rec center, athletic events. I just don’t see the downside.
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He’s the best coach in college basketball and it’s not even close
All you had to do was watch the practices at the final four the two years the UConn won - they practiced better than the other teams and it wasn’t close. That was coaching. They may not win it this year, but it won’t be because they weren’t prepared.
My grandfather would be remarried already, not dating. I think he did wait 9 months one time to remarry. May have been shorter the third time when he was in his 70s.
re: Wilson Alexander moving on from the Advocate/Times Pic
Posted by ChEgrad on 3/25/26 at 11:22 am to ProjectP2294
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One time he missed a whole weekend series for a wedding or some shite
Have you ever missed work for a family event? This is not an unforgivable offense. In fact, it is often a good thing.
re: LSU Golf course is closing
Posted by ChEgrad on 3/25/26 at 9:27 am to ChestRockwell
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Terrible idea to build a new arena. Lsu has awful facilities for the students. Focus on that.
How so? The dorms/apartments are much better than when I went there. There was no Rec center when I went there. Everything is better than it was 40+ years ago.
And I think that is part of the problem. Kids don’t go to college for the education. They go for the lifestyle.
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suggest their filet topped with crabmeat and bearnaise sauce.
Friends just ate there and said the crabmeat was a bit off. Might ask about the quality of the crabmeat before ordering. He said they said go through a lot a crabmeat and it is more difficult this time of year to supply.
As someone else said their fried oysters added to a salad are great. Generally the best fried oysters in town.
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I agree but I feel like they are putting them in places just to do it now. Some are so small that the cars approaching ahead and on the right are basically on your left. Takes 2 seconds to circle the whole thing.
I don’t mind small ones - better than a stop sign.
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Engineering is full of Calculus in engineering classes, on top of 4 semesters of straight Calculus. I never used it once in my career. My boss got excited once because he thought calculus might apply to a plant problem. He was wrong.
I used calculus a good bit. And differential equations. Can’t say that I always remembered exactly how to integrate or solve, but the internet came through. Even cracked out my textbooks on occasion.
Now my job was on the technical side in R&D, so we were modeling processes and doing reaction engineering.
Quick glance inside my frost cloth and my tomatoes and squash I planted in early February look fine. Harvested some yellow squash yesterday - delicious. Some uncovered Asian chili pepper seedlings (volunteers) look fine so don’t know if I even need to cover the (mostly) pepper bed.
I’m 65. My dad died at 64 from brain cancer. Did everything right. Was always healthy. Until he wasn’t. I’ve realized it for quite a while now.
re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by ChEgrad on 3/16/26 at 10:31 am to Mr Sausage
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Over the last few years, I have built those rows up with mushroom compost and topsoil all on top of black filter material.
You did not put the topsoil and compost directly on the sandy earth? According to many proponents of no-dig gardening adding compost and mulch directly on top of poor soil allows those materials to transform the soil underneath - taking poor soils and creating a rich, organic filled soil that holds moisture and filled with nutrients. Without digging and mixing.
Anyone here done exactly that and what were the results?
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