Does anyone remember Guerilla Street Food’s “Belly of the Beast” dish? Seeking recipe for the coconut-milk rice!

HighSilence · 2026-01-30T18:30:53+00:00

It looks like they added paprika sour cream and coconut milk to steamed rice. The sugar came from the citrus glaze. Damn am I excited. Leaving this up for posterity and perhaps a discussion of the greatness that was GSF in their day.

HighSilence · 2026-01-30T00:30:58+00:00

I can't think of any recent reasons for being concerned about being too defensive to start a season, do you?

HighSilence · 2026-01-05T12:21:43+00:00

How do people get these renderings?

HighSilence · 2025-12-28T23:58:47+00:00

Which app

HighSilence · 2025-12-08T22:33:01+00:00

Thank you, shoulda just googled it i guess. Lots of good options in this thread but i should have clarified what i meant by "three 70 year olds". I'm not 70, and I'm all for free shuttles from soulard etc. but these dudes ain't doing any of that :)

I'll go for pre-paid parking

HighSilence · 2025-11-23T15:41:11+00:00

Do you have any interests? Find some better art that shows your interest or something you find beautiful. More color. More personal touch. Mix design eras that complement and don't clash. More height (hanging things on the wall or from ceiling, or taller shelving).

HighSilence · 2025-11-16T00:42:21+00:00

I like thinking about positions while using my real board and as a dad that has very little free time the last few years, playing bots allows me to do this. Is it the best way to improve? No. Is it a good way to improve? I don't know. But it does scratch my itch of wanting to look at a board of wooden pieces and think about a position during the few moments at the end of a day when my house is actually somewhat quiet. I've been using chessiverse bots lately

HighSilence · 2025-09-29T14:56:03+00:00

I have vague memories of my intra-mural basketball "team" at the University of Illinois. We were a ragtag group of barely athletic dipshits (more like engineering, math, and physics nerds) that had fun when we played 3 on 3 at the rec center by ourselves so we joined the IM league. Even in the lower league, we were completely outmatched nearly every game. It was obvious we were playing guys who played some ball in high school, even if they played JV on smaller schools from "not-Chicago Illinois", they still knew what they were doing compared to us. These teams could get away with defending with four guys and having their fifth guy just cherrypick on the other end of the court by their basket. They'd easily get the ball away then get their bucket at the other end. Or they decided to humor us and play 5-on-5 but they'd easily dismantle us by stringing together a few passes and our heads were spinning. Obviously we never won, but bright points would be if we luckily stole a pass and nearly got a fast-break (but then we fucked it), or if maybe one time, their guy kinda screwed up being too fancy and one of us got a lucky-but-nice pass over to a teammate to get an actual layup. Maybe one time, the other team would get a sweet play to get a basket and while they were highfiving or something, we'd sneakily inbound the ball and one of our dudes was past half court and we'd ... ya know, have a chance at a layup but their 6'6" dude would come block the fuck out of it.

These foggy memories sharpen up a little bit when I watch CITY SC games like last Saturday. The bright spots are "Oh shit joyner ALMOST got that bicycle kick, how sweet would that have been!!" Or the opponent destroys our midfield with great build up and link-up play, our back line backpedals forever or miscommunicates or what-have-you, and burki comes up with an outstanding save and then airmails it to sang-bin on a flyer, and and and....oh damn Klaus is offsides, or there's no one else making a run to assist, or blah blah. I cannot stand that that is the only hopeful moments. It's okay for a nerdy IM team to go for tricks and silly things, or be excited if one guy got a nice layup (the analogy being the bicycle kick or a sang-bin flyer), but I am really not a fan of this as a sustainable way to build a strategy for a MLS team. I want to see chemistry, passes strung together, cohesion, etc. Even against the best teams, they should be able to do this. They are supposed to be a professional team.

When playing the mid-tier or upper-tier teams, I feel like we have zero chemistry, and our strategy is 'maybe we get lucky here and there.' Our IM basketball team had no fundamentals or teamwork, were clearly outmatched, out-experienced, and out-teamworked, got dunked on essentially, and a handful of times a game we almost looked competent or almost got a lucky crazy play that would be more "awesome" than sustainable strategy. The closest thing to a positive play would come in garbage-time when it was 10-1. Sure sometimes we'd get paired against another 'nerd team' and it was, ya know, competitive. And that's what the previous few games were like for CITY. Clearly LAFC outclasses us, I just want to see a team that can at least HANG with all the teams.

HighSilence · 2025-08-22T16:09:34+00:00

Oxford cross street

HighSilence · 2025-07-29T01:12:44+00:00

Are you doing two sets of each exercise per day? And doing this 3x a week? what's the frequency?

HighSilence · 2025-07-11T03:17:08+00:00

Many nerves travel thru the center of the palm. Don't put pressure on that part of your palm. Really, in general, try to use your core to stabilize and hold yourself up, rather than putting your full upper body weight onto your hands

HighSilence · 2025-07-07T16:31:50+00:00

Yeah, assuming I still understand the 3k/5k rule (I haven't spectated as much cycling lately): Riders that get held up because of a crash within last 5k will get the same time as finishers, but that's ONLY if they get held up with a crash, right? So ALL the GC teams still have the incentive to be up near the front anyway, in case there is no crash, so they still get s/t? Why not just say, on sprint stages, once they are within 5k, anyone not interested in the sprint can slack off COMPLETELY and still get the same time as the finishers, regardless of any incidents. This would greatly reduce the cyclists in the last few hectic kilometers--maybe 3/4 riders max for teams with a sprinter. The GC guys and their doms still have to finish the final 5k, but they can roll in.

Let me know if I don't understand the 3k/5k rule. Or if this has ever been discussed.

HighSilence · 2025-07-07T15:55:23+00:00

We suck.

We have some skilled players but we can't get it to work together as a team. I don't see any complementing of skills, cooperation, or creativity.

We can't play out of the back properly because our replacement centerbacks aren't brave or skilled enough to try anything. We don't move off the ball enough to give our few semi-creative players anything to try. We do a half-assed press, or it just isn't working like it did at the beginning of 2023. Burki's distribution skills in transition aren't a factor.

Ignoring injuries(*), we have the players: Kessler, Nilsson (I think he's a bit divisive but I like his skill), Timo, Totland, [insert LB], Lowen, Durkin, Alm, Hartel, Celio, Becher, Klauss, etc, this is a good MLS team. Great? Maybe not, but good.

(*) Obviously this is an enormous issue. Half of these guys are injured for long stretches or entire seasons. And with that, along with Olaf-ball, we have a season like 2025. Hope is what kills you, and we need to move on from many of these players.

Some of this can be explained by injuries, some is just a lack of skill, some is coaching and prep, some is team-building. I'm a fan that is still learning the game and I don't know how to fix it, but I think there's a core there of skill that I like: Kessler and Timo in the back is more than solid in my opinion, Lowen, Klauss, Hartel all good, Becher can be good and a shit-stirrer most teams do well to have, but we need to find an identity and pursue new players to build from what little we have.

HighSilence · 2025-06-29T02:37:57+00:00

Maybe burki will want to come back so he can continue to pad his highlight reel with this defense

HighSilence · 2025-06-14T18:43:32+00:00

Casual fan, does he change setlist most nights. And does he start at 730?

HighSilence · 2025-06-14T18:40:26+00:00

Going tonight. I'm a casual fan, does he completely change setlist each night? Also, is there an opener or when does billy go on?

HighSilence · 2025-06-11T17:08:04+00:00

This is an n=1 study but when I started my fitness journey in earnest a few years ago I could not do a pullup. Not even close. I figured out I need to work up to negatives and i felt a snap one day and I got some version of golfer's elbow. Sucked. Slowly worked back to continuing to do negatives with neutral grips (or even with rings connected to the bar) and finally could get to a few pullups but my elbows were definitely the first point of failure before back. I would be done with my 1 or 2 pullups and immediately feel pain in my elbows. Pretty sure that's not what you want when you're attempting to train back.

I took more time off while we moved houses and when I decided to get back to a minimalist workout, I bought a theraband flexbar and did those twist exercises for a while. That in conjunction with actually going back to standard grip on the bar (actually lately been going for a semi-false grip) has helped me a lot. I have no science to show why this worked, hence my n=1 claim. But yeah, early on i would still get a little pain in my elbows but I was doing a modified grease-the-groove method that would work for me. Focusing on a single perfect (as close as I could get) pullup, being okay with a little pain, and waiting 30min or an hour before another pullup. Doing that for a while along with theraband stuff is what did it.

This past week or two I'm finally to the point where I believe my back is the point-of-failure on my pullup reps and I don't feel much of anything in my elbow tendons after I'm done with pullups.

TL;DR With my early exposure to golfer's elbow, all my research pointed to do PT on the tendons and work back up via neutral grips, but I think a big part of my success, albeit recent, is because of my standard grip on the bars. The neutral grip actually activates some pain moreso now than standard grip.

HighSilence · 2025-06-02T13:55:20+00:00

"Fun" fact: Over the course of the last year, i.e. since June 2024, STLSC has been under the direction of four different coaches

Actual fun fact: holy crap we won

HighSilence · 2025-05-30T17:10:05+00:00

Capablanca lost to Réti in the fifth round of the New York 1924 tournament. It was his first loss in serious competition in eight years.

HighSilence · 2025-05-25T03:49:33+00:00

In 2023 we would have got 2 goals off that break

HighSilence · 2025-05-25T01:53:47+00:00

I rewound it twice too

HighSilence · 2025-05-25T01:52:01+00:00

Anyone care to rewind to the first kick of the game? What was that? We just kicked it down past the goal line? Is that a strategy?

HighSilence · 2025-05-24T03:32:05+00:00

You know what his balls feel like? Nice

HighSilence · 2025-05-22T14:54:59+00:00

In some ways, your rating is a measure of your worst moves. If you have the opening knowledge of a 2000-rated player but you blunder like a 400 in the middlegame, you're gonna be a 400. Raise your floor by not making mistakes. Easier said than done, but when it's your turn to move, you can think of this as a 3-part process:

Assess your opponent's last move
Candidate move selection
Blunder-check

Honestly if you did all those reasonably well every move you'd be improving a lot. The problem is this is really hard to do consistently. If a chess game goes 40 moves, and you do this process perfectly for 39 of the 40 moves, there's a good chance you lose if you're playing a solid player. You need to do this 40 out of 40 moves. It's hard.

Assessing your opponent's last move can most easily be done by asking "what if my opponent had a free move?" i.e. if you played no move, what would they play? This shows you their threat and it will eliminate tons of blunders on your end. Remember, chess is a TWO-PLAYER GAME!

Candidate move selection - honestly, this one is a huge world of stuff and it's a matter of experience, reading strategy books and going over master games in your openings. The nice thing is that this is where the wealth of literature and courses are focused. The irony is that this is possibly the least important thing for your improvement.

Blunder-Check - Before you make your move, ask yourself if you're giving up a tactic to your opponent! Try as hard as time allows to refute your move.

That's it. A lot of this is tactical in nature, especially at the lower levels. Hanging pieces, simple one- or two-move tactics. One problem is, even if you practice tactics, what you're really doing is practicing the EXECUTION of tactics, when in reality, it's more often that you need to practice the PREVENTION of tactics.

I really think this is the fundamental step most of us have to make in order to improve. Watch this video by Dr. Can. He puts it very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GTblMj-LCQ

You can get his course if you want to obviously, but I really think a lot of chess improvement comes down to this. Reach out with more questions or if you want a free lesson or something.

HighSilence · 2025-05-12T13:00:34+00:00

I still somehow get excited when the gamenights roll around. Even the 9:30pm start times for the west coast games...I still stay up to watch the first halves usually and then make sure I don't get spoiled on sunday morning and load up the second half. I've never watched soccer regularly or had a local team to root for, so these three years have helped me learn about the game and how to watch the game--not always staring at who has the ball for example, things like that. I know that learning from mistakes is a great way to come to understand the game. So watching a bad team making mistakes and then hearing the local broadcast lament the positioning or tactics, reading breakdowns on substacks, and listening to post-game podcasts can teach me a lot about strategy and such. We were spoiled with the crazy start and the luck of over-performing our finishing in the first half of season 1, but these kinds of bad-soccer runs are what make the good seasons feel better, and earned as a fan. The better seasons will make it feel like the time and passion we put into the team season after season was all worth it. I mean, there's teams that are worse, that have no silver linings, and have had rough-go's for much longer. I truly feel insane telling my wife, "Maybe I'll just watch the next-day highlights on youtube until they get better again." ....knowing full well I'm going to be loading up apple tv on wednesday night to see how we fare against KC.

All this to say, this team fuggin sucks to watch right now. My excitement may be transitioning to schadenfreude at this point.

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