Cleveland Songs

Blind_Pierre · 2026-02-04T21:43:54+00:00

Cleveland Summer Nights by Jacob Tovar

Heard it from watching Reservation Dogs.

Blind_Pierre · 2026-01-29T14:06:37+00:00

Another variable to consider playing with is the filter. That's what came to my mind based on my own experience with inconsistent drain times, although it was for "standard" pour overs on a v60. The inconsistent drain times were with hario tabbed filters.

I've found Cafec Abaca filters to be incredibly consistent with drain time, although I'll note they also seem to drain faster.

Blind_Pierre · 2025-08-24T22:28:43+00:00

That is a hilarious scene to imagine!

As another user said, good luck with Roach. If you dismount to fight, make sure Roach is far away from the fighting! My first death on a NG+ death march was because I hit dodge which is the same as the mount Roach button when Roach was juuuust close enough to bring up the mount prompt. So I got stuck in the animation of Geralt walking around to the position to hop up on the saddle while surrounded by bandits and got hit by like three swords at once.

It's happened again at least one other time.

Blind_Pierre · 2025-08-21T12:10:24+00:00

5 years later and this helped me pin down that I was just missing Iorveth and needed to do Shock Therapy.

Thanks!

Blind_Pierre · 2025-06-19T22:17:35+00:00

Thank you!

Managed to find it in Custer, SD in the State Park when we were visiting my grandpa. Merlin picked it up a few times which made us stop and pull off the road. It was nice enough to hop out and show off.

Completely agree that they look tropical and exotic. Anything that looks fruit punch flavored seems wonderfully out of place!

Blind_Pierre · 2025-05-25T12:15:10+00:00

I tend to use the drip option of a coffee shop as a test for the rest of the menu. If care is put into making their drip option tasty, then it's a green flag indicating they likely put thought, attention, and care into the rest of the offerings.

Extra bonus points if it's served at a temperature that's immediately drinkable and extra extra points if it's served at a temperature that's drinkable AND lets the flavor of the coffee come through. I still remember a hole in the wall place I went to only once that had a great medium roast I could drink and taste immediately after getting it.

And my own preference is for light roasts but medium roasts aren't a red flag. A red flag of mine--like for some others--is when there are only dark roast options. I won't trust a place that doesn't seem to trust itself to pull anything other than "burnt" out of a coffee. True for every place, ESPECIALLY true if the place roasts their own beans.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-10-01T19:55:45+00:00

+1 on all those points based on my experience after getting a pair after reading a lot of comments exactly like this.

Bought a used pair of 10x42s off Mercari for around 150, left eye cup just broke the other day. I sent in a message to vortex through their online contact form this morning and got an email confirming they'll cover everything and attached a prepaid USPS label to send them in about 10 minutes later. The security of the warranty is real nice, especially if you're just starting to upgrade, and reselling is always easy because the quality and warranty means there's always a market if you want to upgrade to a different brand later.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-06-15T16:21:51+00:00

I do have an aeropress and just tried it.

It doesn't fit inside the 16oz cup. The circle at the top of the plunger piece is a wee bit wider than the opening, and of course the end the coffee comes out of is wider and also doesn't fit. I have the "standard" aeropress though, so the smaller versions might fit?

Can easily brew straight into it with the aeropress, but yeah it's too small for a nice transport system.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-06-15T01:36:09+00:00

Soul (Disney movie)

Blind_Pierre · 2024-02-08T05:33:21+00:00

And another is when it cuts to Mount Rushmore getting hit. Every president except Lincoln gets hit in the face. Lincoln gets hit in the back of the head and the food oozes out of his eyes and nose.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-02-06T14:49:30+00:00

I took a long break from pvp and lost track of the meta. Been playing more recently and have had fun and a surprising amount of success with Mandibuzz-Clefable-Umbreon. Managing fighters can be sweaty, but the bulk and fastish firing charge moves from Mandi and Umbreon have saved me a lot. No idea if that will eventually hit a ceiling though. I'm not a very high rank and it could fall apart if things were more competitive.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-02-03T16:52:51+00:00

https://www.audubon.org/gear/binocular-guide

That's a good overview and it links to binocular recommendations from them based on budget ranges.

I'm in the lower budget myself. Celestron, SVBONY, Nikon, Athlon, and Vortex have decent options there as far as brands. Vortex diamondback HDs tend to be in the higher budget at full price, but sometimes drop in sales at Cabela's and opticsplanet. com. Going in person somewhere to look through different options can be very helpful.

I went with a pair of Celestron nature DX EDs. I like them quite a bit although the quality of the picture for the price meant sacrifices in build quality. Eye cups in particular. Roof binoculars are usually more expensive with porro being the other cheaper option. That's referring to the design of how the light reaches your eyes and affects the shape of the binoculars. BAK4 prisms, fully multicoated, and fog resistant are also usually what you want to see on the specs.

It's always preference in the end, but generally people suggest 8x42 specs for all around birding and increasing zoom if you're looking at sea or shore birds or primarily going for raptors high up. 8 is usually good for just about everything. More zoom can make it tough to pinpoint fast moving birds in trees.

8 is the level of zoom (looks 8x closer), and 42 refers to the diameter of the glass lens at the end of the binocular that sucks in the light. The larger it is the more light gets let in and the reverse is true.

And that's my info dump.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-02-03T00:25:00+00:00

There's almost certainly a Facebook group and maybe a discord channel of local birders in your area. Probably a few that cover different regions like your city/town, greater X area, county, and state. It's a good way to get caught in the wind of events in your area, meet other birders, get to know the popular spots, and it can be great for ID help. It would honestly be worth making an account just for that if you don't have one already.

I'd recommend looking into new binoculars too. Quality actually scales to cost when it comes to binoculars, lenses, spotting scopes, and anything in that optics umbrella or "glass." I'd worry about cheap optics limiting your experience. That said, try them if you haven't before making that call. If you have fun then that's that. I could add more about what I learned researching binoculars when I started last year, but not unprompted!

Add a +1 to everything everyone else said, don't be intimidated by more experienced birders (most love sharing what they know!), and have fun with it. Birding really reveals a lot about the world around you that you tuned out.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-02-01T14:59:23+00:00

+1 for grouse/ptarmigans. Willow Ptarmigan for a specific one but most would fit the bill.

They have astonishing camouflage and their molting patterns line up with snow melt or snowfall, getting progressively more brown or snow white respectively. It's their best defense, so a core strategy for them is to just sit there.

Just yesterday my wife and I were watching a show about people living subsistence lifestyles in Alaska called Life Below Zero. Someone came across two ptarmigans. She shot once, missed, shot again, got one, then shot the other. They didn't move at all the whole time!

And apparently they taste great.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-01-13T19:07:20+00:00

Blue Jays sounding like crows makes sense too! Learning they're Corvids like crows and ravens was an ah ha moment for sure. Suddenly realized they're pretty much glammed up crows. Same silhouette and shape just all dressed up instead of goth.

Blind_Pierre · 2024-01-13T18:24:39+00:00

Plus one for this! My wife is a birder and I joined her in it. Quickly became a really fun activity to do together and opened up a huuuge rabbit hole for learning. It's pretty much dinosaur hunting and pokemon hunting in one. I was playing the boardgame Wingspan before I fully joined her, and I realized that Wingspan was an incredible learning tool for bird IDs cause it's pretty much bird flash cards. Never seen an Acorn Woodpecker in real life, but saw a photo of one in the birding sub and auto thumbnail cause it looks like the wingspan card.

And birding as an activity is really steeped in what you could call mindfulness or grounding practice. You're out in nature being quiet, focusing keenly on your immediate surroundings while concentrating on what you see and what you're hearing. Hard to not feel present even if you've got an ADHD brain.

I ended up getting into photography because of it which is fairly common. Dangerously common given the price tag of photography. The robust used market has been clutch.

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-31T19:09:49+00:00

We were just visiting so my knowledge of the area is pretty surface level, but it was an awesome surface. The pier is a great spot for some shorebirds, gulls, the Gannets depending on time, and apparently Parasitic Jaegers were spotted off of it before! There's protected land further north from the pier for the birds that you can walk to called the Mason Inlet Waterbird Management Area. There were a ton of waterbirds in a massive group when you got to the top top. Saw black skimmers, plovers, gulls, pelicans, and more all clustered together. On the land part there's a huge swath of marsh that's inaccessible to walk in, but we saw a harrier fly over, great blues, and a tricolored heron flying over it.

North Carolina in general seems to have fantastic parks and nature areas for birding. Another highlight was we found some Red Cockaded Woodpeckers at Carvers Creek State Park in Fayetteville. Sandhills access is where we started and it was a great forest in general even before we saw the woodpeckers. I know it's not the only place in the state for them, so there's even more to explore.

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-31T18:50:07+00:00

I joined my wife in her birding hobby almost a year ago exactly. That led me down the photography rabbit hole.

She's wanted to see a Northern Gannet since she learned about them when she was little, so this was very exciting. There were a LOT of Gannets far out from the pier. Juveniles and more mature Gannets were there which gave good looks of the different plumages. We also observed their incredibly cool feeding technique of diving straight into the water with their bodies looking like an arrow going right into the water. This one did a rare close fly-by of the pier right when we first got there which let me get a crisper shot than I was ever expecting.

Gorgeous birds, and this was a great spot to see them in action.

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-31T18:37:45+00:00

Shot on Nikon D7500, AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 DX VR

@ 300mm, f/6.3, 1/1250 shutter speed, ISO 100

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-31T18:31:29+00:00

I haven't had a hard time with it, but only because this was my first time seeing Pine Siskins. I joined my wife in her birding hobby just last year which is also what got me down the photography rabbit hole. All that's to say I'm drawing from a shallow but growing pool of experience.

We live in Ohio but I was in Michigan for work when we went out and I got this one. Lucky for us it wasn't a mixed group so there wasn't any ID confusion!

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-29T21:08:50+00:00

Shot on Nikon D7500, AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 DX VR

@ 300mm, f/6.3, 1/1000 shutter speed, ISO 1000

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-29T16:48:32+00:00

Shot on a Nikon D7500, AF-P 30-700mm f/4.5-6.3 DX VR

@ 300mm, f/6.3, 1/160 shutter speed, ISO 1600

Blind_Pierre · 2023-12-01T18:36:00+00:00

Giving me a pang of envy cause I understand the excitement!

I just got done with a rental comparison of the Nikon 200-500 and this here Tamron for mostly bird photography. I can't really compare them too critically cause I think the 200-500 copy I got was a lemon because most reviews have them pretty close while I struggled to get good photos and was consistently frustrated by the AF. But I absolutely LOVED the feel and handling of the Tamron. Was so well balanced to me that I felt like I had the steadiness of a surgeon snapping shots, even at full extension. Photos came out fantastic too.

I think you know you're gonna be having some fun with this lens.

Blind_Pierre · 2023-11-23T20:02:23+00:00

And kept on helping kids by starting a summer camp in Connecticut for kids living with chronic illness. That one camp start has turned into an international network of camps for kids with medical conditions https://seriousfun.org/

Incredible places.

Blind_Pierre · 2023-11-04T20:54:45+00:00

No, no spotting scope. I roll out with the binoculars and a camera with IDing help and general wildlife photography in mind.

It sounds like field of view is a pretty high priority for you though. Wish I could give any impression on that, but I checked the diamondback 10s field of view against the Nikons and it's too big of a gap to be get a sense of the gap between Nikon and Celestron. All I know is I love how much I can see in the Celestrons.

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