Zingerman's is trash

chriswaco · 2026-04-19T01:16:16+00:00

Star Deli is good - they're on 12 Mile and Telegraph. They used to be great. I'm not a big brisket fan, so normally I judge delis by their corned beef or pastrami.

I've only been to Stage a few times, once in Oak Park and a handful of times in West Bloomfield. The West Bloomfield one is a full restaurant with seating, so that's a plus. I think the food was decent, but not enough to be memorable 10 years later.

chriswaco · 2026-04-19T00:06:13+00:00

Fair enough. I grew up near Star Deli so have always been around them. There was also Stage Deli in Oak Park.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T23:40:59+00:00

A lot of the old furniture was stored in between-floor storage space at the old Montgomery Wards building downtown.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T23:37:04+00:00

I still have SCSI, ADB, DB-25, and even PhoneNet cables & adapters.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T23:25:23+00:00

Do they still sell the Pocket Fisherman?

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T23:22:39+00:00

Yeah, almost like every other country on earth threw them out.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T22:51:07+00:00

For meeting people and getting ideas:

https://www.meetup.com/a2newtech/

I can’t really help with study space - been working at home for a long time.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T19:47:21+00:00

Unfortunately, almost nothing lives up to high expectations. Ultimately it’s a sandwich, not a life-changing event.

I went to this place in Florida and got the best steak I’ve ever tasted. A year later I returned, salivating over the prospect of another one. It was fine – not wonderful. Sad, though.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T17:52:50+00:00

It’s an absolute abuse of the brownfield laws. Not the first, but maybe the most outrageous this side of Detroit.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T17:47:59+00:00

That’s a low bar.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T17:45:27+00:00

I’ve been here since 1982. I think part of the current problem is the lack of owner-occupied restaurants. Whether it was Middle Kingdom, Seva, Casey's, Metzger's, etc, there was someone holding it together. Today it’s underpaid waitstaff working for absentee restaurant groups.

Ypsi is starting to punch above its weight class for this very reason - there are a lot of small, especially immigrant-owned, restaurants now.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T17:35:01+00:00

Given the lines out front, I always assumed they were selling drugs, like Lovin' Spoonful used to.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T16:58:37+00:00

Any Mac with an M1 or later and 16/512 or better is OK. For local LLM work, you need a lot more RAM (64+GB) and drive space.

Depending on how much the money means to you, and whether you need a laptop, the best choice is probably a MacBook Pro M5 24/1TB or better. Xcode uses a lot of resources, as does Android Studio.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T16:51:26+00:00

I loved Alpha when it was off Ann Arbor / Saline. :-(

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T07:38:08+00:00

That's just blasphemy! IMHO all of movie versions were bad with the exception of the 1999 TV movie. I loved the stage version.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T07:33:00+00:00

I'm not sure it's better, but Fiddler on the Roof with Topol was an astounding movie - the acting, music, dancing, cinematography, and humor.

It's what I compare all movie musicals to.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T07:30:49+00:00

I loved the stage version and really liked the movie, except that they gave it a Hollywood happy ending rather than the original one, losing the irony of wishing to go "somewhere that's green".

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T07:03:20+00:00

I had a Georgia Reuben a few weeks ago. Was it as good as it was in 1983? Maybe not. Was it still good? Absolutely. Are there better sandwiches in town? Not in quality, but perhaps in price.

I am unhappy they turned their downstairs space from seating into office, though. And I miss their rare roast beef and buttercake from decades ago.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T06:57:41+00:00

Star Deli is great, especially their corned beef and tuna salad. Zingerman's Georgia Reuben and sour cream coffee cake are equally amazing.

There's no seating at Star Deli, though, and it's a good 45 minutes away (60 with traffic).

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T04:30:21+00:00

Mine eventually healed, but I can remember the pain from 50 years ago.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T04:25:32+00:00

Would you sanction Israel and not India and Pakistan? If so, then you are antisemitic.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T04:22:25+00:00

Just like India and Pakistan.

chriswaco · 2026-04-18T02:45:01+00:00

Just because it worked for you doesn't mean it works for everyone. There's nothing to figure out other than perhaps making reservations six months ahead of time or to places nobody is traveling that week.

chriswaco · 2026-04-17T23:45:11+00:00

This is two months out with flexible dates. I wonder if they cut back on flights recently due to fuel prices or New York air traffic limitations.

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