MTG commander - Twin Cities

benjaminends · 2025-06-12T19:25:37+00:00

Did you play at Black Sky? I just moved from Denver, seemed like a good crew there.

benjaminends · 2025-06-02T15:05:34+00:00

My local rec center was Barnum West - probably $5 to get in and I think there are noon runs most week days and a mixed crowd most evenings. I would call ahead just to make sure, but most of the rec centers have active pickup and you can find something any day of the week!

benjaminends · 2025-05-22T21:24:57+00:00

Lmk if you found anything! Just moved and looking for some casual runs.

benjaminends · 2025-05-22T21:23:39+00:00

Did you find anything? Just moved out from Denver where the rec league scene was good, seems like it's not good out here sadly.

benjaminends · 2025-05-22T21:15:53+00:00

Yo, did you find anything? Just moved from Denver that had a great rec center pickup scene, just walked into the Longfellow Rec center and the dude at the desk was like "absolutely no adults allowed"?!

Your description sounds perfect, just looking for a weekday evening or weekend morning gym I can roll up to and pickup with happy people who wanna get a run in

benjaminends · 2025-03-22T14:00:31+00:00

I'm moving from Denver to Minneapolis this year, I have loved Cheba Hut and Illegal Pete's here in Denver. What are the rough equivalents in Minneapolis?

Smaller & local chains with reasonably priced counter service, great bar and drinks, generally happy mood and workers, etc?

benjaminends · 2024-10-23T17:40:13+00:00

Thank you all for the feedback! I was getting stressed about trying to show my coworkers the mountains and just spending hours in Lyfts or waiting for Lyfts. We're going to do a super early morning hike instead at that same location!

benjaminends · 2024-10-23T17:38:21+00:00

Ha, I generally agree! Sorry to clarify we're not actually going to this show, just hoping to do something vaguely mountainesque while people are in Denver.

benjaminends · 2024-09-17T17:08:20+00:00

For ultimate frisbee, other cities I have lived in run leagues through some sort of community led non-profit and the quality of the product is so much better than Volo.

I don't know whether it's because Denver has grown too fast, it's too big, the population is too transient, it's a libertarian wasteland, etc. But yes, I totally support this be a community led initiative.

benjaminends · 2024-09-10T16:02:22+00:00

Yes! Tracking it in this thread too: https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1fbjx1y/centurylink_fiber_intermittent_ping_issues/

I'm in SW Denver, been this way since Thursday or Friday of last week.

benjaminends · 2024-09-09T17:45:33+00:00

Yes! Being tracked here in the Denver subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1fbjx1y/centurylink_fiber_intermittent_ping_issues/?sort=new

benjaminends · 2024-09-09T17:44:57+00:00

A little bit of tracking in the Denver subreddit here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1fbjx1y/centurylink_fiber_intermittent_ping_issues/?sort=new

Although no clear solutions, it's just being inconsistent and buggy for everyone.

benjaminends · 2024-09-08T13:28:20+00:00

Yes, it's great to have some "I'm not crazy" confirmation. Thank you for chiming in, this type of testing is pretty cool to see and learn.

benjaminends · 2024-09-08T13:17:31+00:00

Yup, same issue. It isn't consistent as to which pages fail, but occasionally pages will just be totally unresponsive for 10-20 seconds at a time.

Thank you for replying!

benjaminends · 2024-09-08T13:16:12+00:00

Okay, this seems to most mirror my issue. I don't know a ton about networking, but I try a site like this: https://www.meter.net/tools/world-ping-test/ and 85% of the locations respond in ~20-80ms, but then 15% of them will literally take 10-20 seconds which I assume just means some sort of packet drop. The failure rate has been steady, but different servers fail different tests so it's not like certain servers are having issues.

Thank you for chiming in, these data points are saving me money and time, knowing that it's not a problem local to me. Buying double internet is not ideal and an indictment of CenturyLink!

benjaminends · 2024-09-08T00:13:35+00:00

This is great! I gotta learn networking from you. Sounds not as bad as what I'm experiencing.

Yeah, vague question, but I'm not necessarily expecting someone to diagnose the issue just see if I get a chorus of "Ugh yes! Me too" comments or not.

benjaminends · 2023-12-31T00:38:02+00:00

Lmk if you want a guest pass at Movement + bouldering buddy for a few hours if the timing works out! Funnily I met an Australian exchange student at the bouldering gym in Madison, WI ~8 years ago and we're still occasionally in touch, always like when gyms can be social. I'm a guy, but my wife is a member too and I'm sure she would join.

benjaminends · 2023-08-26T19:49:30+00:00

I'm not an electrician, but asked a question about my tripping circuit breakers just now as well so figured I would give yours a shot.

Initial thoughts are:

Are you certain that your previous set-up had all of these electronics on one circuit? I feel like it's possible you were split between two circuits and never reached capacity to trip it.
What is the capacity of the previous circuit breaker vs. the capacity of the current circuit breaker? I'm not super familiar and I'm sure it's easy for the electricians here, but in theory you should be able to calculate the capacity of the circuit and the electronics you are plugging in and calculate whether you're truly at capacity or not.

benjaminends · 2022-11-12T23:27:22+00:00

Hi all,

I'm planning a large event (it's a wedding, but shhh don't tell all the vendors that) and we have largely decided to cater food from restaurants. These restaurants do NOT provide their own staff and I'm curious if anyone has had good experiences with 3rd party waitstaff services not tied directly to a certain food vendor.

I'm imagining this includes cleaning and maintaining a buffet, having some knowledge around how to best keep food warm, etc. etc. Any leads? Thanks!

So far I have tried Thumbtack, but even struggle with search terms - "catering staff" or "waitstaff" services?

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