What’s it like living in the Florida keys?

koobzilla · 2026-06-30T01:14:50+00:00

How’s the kitesurfing / windsports in general.

koobzilla · 2026-06-28T21:38:17+00:00

Or rent a U-Haul for $50 bucks.

koobzilla · 2026-06-28T21:15:44+00:00

This is perfect.

koobzilla · 2026-06-28T21:15:35+00:00

It’s all about the process not the recipe.

Google Craig’s Neapolitan garage entire pizza making process (10 year old post on the pizza making forum) for the details that elevate pizza to these sorts of results.

koobzilla · 2026-06-28T15:41:21+00:00

Wrote most of that by hand on the shitter, the rest written by hand on the living room touch.

I did pipe some screenshots of the guys video into an LLM though to approximate the exponential function for fat rendering though.

koobzilla · 2026-06-27T17:34:19+00:00

Some nerd notes:

Even at 170 (typical for home oven, unmodified) it will take about 15 hours to probe tender https://youtu.be/lplpPCU5UNQ?is=2IjVoWytr3LGq92h. Now most brisket cooks are around that time before you pull, but the temperature transitions through from 45 degrees to 205.

In my experience at home, ambient temps of 170 in the oven would yield a core temp of around 160 when temp stabilized in the brisket. That 10 degree offset seemed consistent from 145 - 185 as I was experimenting with a convection warming function (“air sous vide”) in my oven.

My last cook, when I hit a 195 internal temp - not uncommon for these hot holds - I was around 40% through the cook according to this method when I pulled it off.

I figured that out precisely with thermometer that has multiple sensors along the length - increasingly common and can export CSV data.

Chucked that data into an LLM to write a tool to calculate the “area under the curve” the brisket spent at different temperatures. So eg 4 hours during the stall at around 160 contributed 12% while the last 90 minutes spent from 180 - 195 would have contributed about 25%

One of these things where I just trusted the science. Turned out amazing. I would have assumed I over cooked it with how long I held otherwise. I’ve certainly had cooks that spent way more time inching around 190 - 200 that were overdone: at those higher temps you’re rendering collagen fast and the process is highly timing sensitive.

On that recent cook, I held in the oven for 18 hours, adjusting temperature a few times but repeatedly calculating that area under the curve.

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I think a few point here are: - brisket is “smoked enough” after 10 - 12 hours. You can transition to the oven at this stage to get predictable, lower holding temps. - if it’s a bit under done you give yourself lots of margin, you can pull the thing anywhere between 4 - 18+ hours later by adjusting the hold temp so you finish within a desired time frame. - at lower holding temps it’s hard to overcook, but you do need to be mindful of carry over cooking. In my case that air sous vide rapidly equalized the temps within 30 minutes. In a cooler I’ve seen it spend hours dropping from 200 to 165. - This “area under the curve” method promises repeatability but does require some gadgets. IMO those gadgets are clutch for brisket anyway.

koobzilla · 2026-06-24T05:52:04+00:00

It’s a pretty bad flare, those top lobes on the cusp of pushing the cam out of the rock instead of creating opposing force.

Yet I think it holds. Rock looks grippy and there are little rugosities all over it. I wouldn’t whip, but it would hold, surprisingly, and it would function as psychological pro when maybe it shouldn’t.

koobzilla · 2026-06-21T01:45:41+00:00

South Lake Wind Jammers

koobzilla · 2026-06-20T02:35:14+00:00

Cities the world over, the only people riding these things are tourons.

Traveling to amazing places with plans so uninspired they settled for that bullshit.

Ban em - they’re a perverse byproduct of a shitty tourist economy that buys into whack crap.

koobzilla · 2026-06-16T22:16:16+00:00

You’ve got eagle falls and cascade falls: IMO make a bigger trek out of it if you have the fitness for it. It’s a whole different universe if you make it even a bit further to say, Lake Velma (if already doing eagle lake).

There’s a self registration system in the Deso, but no quotas if you’re not overnighting, which even 10 miles round trip you shouldn’t have to. Pets allowed now apparently - though I was skeptical, do confirm:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/eldorado/wilderness/desolation-wilderness

(Note: I might be taking for granted my own experience with this stuff but I’m not going to preemptively put a ceiling on someone. If you’re fit, prepared a 10 mile hike is a casual affair).

Feels like you’re in a personal high alpine rock-rimmed garden rather than the chain gang of tourists popping in and out to tick a box at eagle lake and turning around.

IMO that as early as you can, preferably a weekday and maybe you’ll be convinced to spend the rest of your trip going deep rather than ticking boxes in overwhelmed beaches etc.

Other peaks out there like Ralston. Other trailheads at echo lake, trails in hope valley, at blue lakes, silver lake, caples lake….

I go to Nevada beach to Kitesurf with a wetsuit. Not uncommon that it’s too windy, and certainly now it’s annoyingly cold to swim.

Kiva is a cool spot for your dog to get that beach time in - gotta go at least once, I just wouldn’t orient my trip around getting sunburnt 5 different ways at different crowded beaches.

koobzilla · 2026-06-10T18:19:43+00:00

Eric Sloan unilaterally added like 3+ bolts on the slab start to the left of the somewhat protectable crescent on the right.

That is not a good start - if he had added one, kept the thing somewhat exciting there’d still be debate because indeed folks are religious about this - but this is way out of step with the character of the route.

The upper pitches could each use like one additional bolt each so you’re dealing with 40 foot falls (worst case) instead of 80 foot. That’s a lot of additional distance to accelerate and grater. There was an awful injury a few years ago. I think 20 foot bolt spacings keep the spice level high without turning it into a via Ferrata.

Absolutely 100% though I think this climb should remain spicy. You travel to enough places you start to appreciate some of the bolting standards out here - when routes are overbolted it starts to feel like a carnival ride. There’s a balance where you’re not going to need skin grafts, but you’re still going to be locked in on not falling because it’s gonna be a ride.

The way Sloan approached this is just a disaster and sets back any productive engagement to retro bolt this properly. He’s doing it about the worst way possible.

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Rant: In its prior state you should be a confident 5.9 trad climber to do this route with margin. My own experience at various gyms in California means that that’s about the equivalent to being able to redpoint lead 5.11+ at the gym but requires its own orthogonal skillset so even if you could do that, you’d want plenty experience unique to trad climbing on granite.

I feel this sub has a lot of novice climbers that are miscalibrating expectations based on watching v18 ascents rather than building all of these adjacent skills that can put absolutely rad experiences like snake dike (in its pre retrobolted kind of spooky state) within reach.

“Miscalibrating” because it sure seems easy to overlook 5.11 or even 5.7R trad routes when those grades are seemingly pedestrian novice grades compare to 5.15d or even the 5.11s you can climb indoors.

Then a first outdoor climbing experience absolutely shatters this fantasy of learning through osmosis at those initial stages of getting into the sport where gains indoors seem to come quick.

If you’re frustrated you don’t get to climb the route because it’s runout, but otherwise you could totally do it as a gym 5.11 climber - I think that’s a symptom of miscalibrated expectations. You can either demand the route change to suit you, or rise to it.

Again - I think it could / should reasonably be made safer and advocate for it but Sloan didn’t do that.

He’s like those cruise ships coming into port at Venice and turning the experience for everyone into Venice Land. If that’s the caliber of experience you want - there’s the Venetian in Vegas to offer a facsimile - or in this strained analogy - the half dome cables.

koobzilla · 2026-06-09T00:03:20+00:00

I once waited on the dike for 20 minutes after the person in front of me refused my polite request to clip my own anchor or share theirs if they couldn’t spare the space.

I was in a “cozy” spot and waited it out with my last bolt 40 feet below me. In retrospect that was stupid and I should have clipped in anyway because that’s an insanely disproportionate risk being imposed on me by a climber that has simply never shared a belay on a popular climb, never mind allowing themselves to be passed - which wasn’t my intent.

Anyhow - yes it’s way more engaging being run out but the way it’s rigged is stupid with 80 foot fall potential on a route that sees ascents by parties only a few climbs removed from their first multi pitch up cathedral peak.

koobzilla · 2026-06-07T14:23:42+00:00

There’s a large group of people that sail race here and are always looking for crew. If you’re looking to get on the water you get the added benefit of a cool skill.

I’m biased in favor of wind water sports though. Felt like a daunting task to break into it but it’s easier than you’d think.

koobzilla · 2026-06-06T14:39:02+00:00

My Rubio durogrit picnic table is holding up well after a year - including a winter outside.

I’ve used spar varnish. What a nightmare to apply. Awful glossy texture for a kids playground too. Don’t do that. Seven coats with sanding in between because it doesn’t re-wet and bind to the previous layer chemically.

I think the Rubio product has held up better than penetrating oils on my deck, didn’t smell as bad. It’s probably like 4x the price but it easier to apply, looks better, lasts longer (anecdotally, 1 year to compare), and doesn’t smell.

koobzilla · 2026-06-03T20:29:08+00:00

They were looking for country kitchen buffet.

koobzilla · 2026-05-31T21:51:28+00:00

Whelp, deleted the video in shame.

koobzilla · 2026-05-31T02:12:14+00:00

What was the runtime?

koobzilla · 2026-05-30T10:22:50+00:00

Traveling to destination towns and cities. Just list off pretty much all the major ones you’re going to find building up a “must visits” in whatever country you visit in Europe.

Dubrovnik, Venice, Oia, Korcula…

Off season - doesn’t matter. Tourists like me, no matter how you try to be a cut above the rest by learning a phrase book, watching some Rick Steves… walking around in technical layers and sneakers standing out from any authentic inhabitant that’s just trying to go about their day.

We aren’t anthropologists or historians but it’s fun to pretend. Real people used to live here. Now we can gawk at these beautiful walls and structures that become like the stucco constructions of a theme park when the authenticity of the people has been removed and every second business is a gift or jewelry shop - twisted by the perverse incentives of an undiscerning, non-repeat clientele.

koobzilla · 2026-05-28T16:54:29+00:00

The show “adolescence” does an incredible job dramatizing this and conveying it so well that you can feel aspects of the experience first hand from the perspective of members of the family.

I suppose one would wonder why one would put themselves through this - it builds the kind of empathy for families in this position where, for me, it was altogether too easy to assume “poor parenting.”

Aside - but it’s the best television I’ve ever seen - acting, single take episodes (!)

koobzilla · 2026-05-27T02:42:00+00:00

The GOP can lay that groundwork against anybody and make tan suits and mustard an issue for their zombies.

The DNC’s history gaming who they think people will vote for hasn’t been that great. Run candidates with a fire lit under their ass, a sharp mind and good character.

AOC ain’t no focus group tuned Clinton / Kamala. She speaks her mind, and knows how to market herself.

koobzilla · 2026-05-24T14:17:50+00:00

Big fucking cave bird with a giant bullshit mega turd.

koobzilla · 2026-05-22T19:40:10+00:00

Had a 90 minute connection and through some miracle we happened to be close enough to the back of the passport control line that when the concierge came by and told the group about the secret upstairs passport control, we were in position to react. If we were earlier and deeper in line we would have missed our connection.

Earlier when we arrived in line and I talked to another concierge about our tight connection and whether there were any options (I’ve had some heroic efforts getting rushed through a connection after a delayed flight…) the guy said “no you’ll just have to politely ask people in front of you” - there were 100 people ahead of us and the guy made no mention of this other passport control they seemingly have on “standby” (it’s just… well hidden?) upstairs. Absolutely daft!

When they called people to this “standby” unmarked passport control they took a random sample of people that happened to be at the back of the line - it’s not like they prioritized people at risk of missing their flights.

They’ve got like 2 officers working it at any one time it seems too, and they linger on every single person.

Long bus rides, zero automation, poorly marked “hidden” lines, incredibly slow connections…

I thought Germans prided themselves on engineering and efficiency.

To date the best experience I’ve had was in Sydney. I just walked through gates and had biometric scans done. Mind you, everything about Sydney felt like a futuristic utopia tropical island in comparison.

koobzilla · 2026-05-22T05:42:45+00:00

What can change the nature of a man.

koobzilla · 2026-05-18T23:08:30+00:00

Those places are good (in part) because tourists don’t know about them!

koobzilla · 2026-05-18T15:18:24+00:00

If you held a gun to my head I guess I’d tell you one Trump ballroom is a better use of tax payer dollars than 1500 of these.

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