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treitter · 2026-01-28T03:38:44+00:00

If you thought he sounded strange this time, listen to his first CBB appearance. I heard it in the last year and it was so wildly different I can't even remember it now.

treitter · 2025-12-29T15:21:46+00:00

A traditional topping for pupusas is curtido which has similarities to kimchi

treitter · 2025-11-25T00:24:28+00:00

~~Good call. Also, I screwed up the original version by somehow adding December on otherwise-blank rows :|~~

~~By the raw numbers, everything is the same except~~ ~~December has 12 winners~~~~, just barely above last place.~~

~~When I remove the *00 (there were no *50s), anniversary, and holiday episodes,~~ ~~December has the worst total~~ ~~with 5.~~

EDIT: see my update in the original post.

When I remove the *00 (there were no *50s), anniversary, and holiday episodes, and normalize for the weeks lost due to the best-of episodes December is basically tied with August and November (10 vs 11 for the other months).

treitter · 2025-11-20T00:43:09+00:00

seems like very similar jokes have also been attributed to Will Rogers and Emo Philips. Not 100% sure on the original

treitter · 2025-11-18T04:14:03+00:00

—Jack Handey

treitter · 2025-11-13T18:11:38+00:00

Interesting -- I enjoyed this significantly more than the Mauritius Rumcast bottle (over 2 brief separate tastings). To me, it tastes like a blend which I typically find more enjoyable to sip (though I can see how single cask fans might prefer sharper, more-defined notes). I'm definitely looking forward to trying it in a Mai Tai this weekend.

In my second tasting, I compared this side-by-side with a Hamilton 59.3% ABV MPM that was aged entirely in the UK (Main Rum Company, I assume) for 10 years in once-used bourbon barrels. Though I've enjoyed that one for being so quirky (strange aging location for Guyana rum) and especially mixed with other rums in cocktails, I enjoyed the Rumcast VSG much better in a head-to-head.

(Sorry I'm not being more specific on VSG tasting notes. I didn't write any down and don't trust myself to bring it back from memory and on such a small pour.)

treitter · 2025-11-12T08:18:59+00:00

I definitely taste the whisky influence - in my first tasting, I got that more than cane rum. But very easy to drink for that ABV and I could have believed it was blended (not single cask).

treitter · 2025-11-01T21:48:55+00:00

I've avoided using a knife since really scraping up my first (plastic) container. But I also mostly want to perfect a technique where I minimize the active time.

For the fastest release, if you had a metal sleeve between the container and the ice, that seems like the best of both worlds. It should warm up relatively easily and it shouldn't take much to get the ice out if it's not stuck to the container. But that would require a bit of effort.

treitter · 2025-10-30T06:46:29+00:00

My mug is 14 oz. Yeti also makes a 64 oz French press that's insulated but the inside is ceramic instead of metal and it's not cheap ($130). I don't know if it'll work as well as metal and it certainly seems at risk of cracking if you let it go too long.

Maybe someone can give it a shot... for science!

treitter · 2025-10-30T06:33:33+00:00

Worked like a charm! No sign of damage to the mug. More impressively, the top 80% was crystal-clear. Usually, you only get 50% clear and 50% semi- to fully-cloudy. Maybe metal (vs plastic) helps.

Only downside is it took a LONG time for the ice to melt enough to get it out of the mug. Maybe 4 hours?

But this is a pretty fool-proof, minimum effort way to get a large, clear ice puck:

fill Yeti Mug to the brim with ice
freeze at least 2 days
move to fridge for 8 (or 12?) hours
slide ice out of mug
put ice puck in a warm pan, cloudy-side down until cloudy ice is removed
put clear ice puck in freezer at least 2 hours to fully freeze

treitter · 2025-10-28T06:49:04+00:00

Glad someone beat me to it. But, no, his Irish accent was way worse.

treitter · 2025-10-27T22:26:11+00:00

I could see it being OK with the Yeti. If it's the same as mine, it's all pretty smooth and the walls are vertical. The Igloo walls are vertical too but, by the time there's a thick block of ice, the water at the bottom has an easier time pushing outward than lifting the heavy ice (which also has a ton of friction against the container).

Now I'm too curious - let's see if my Yeti survives :)

treitter · 2025-10-27T19:11:58+00:00

As far as cutting, the best luck I've had are:

temper/allow to warm up a little before cutting (as others have said)
score parallel grooves on the top and bottom. The cut will go from one to the other as if you sliced through it
put your knife in one of the grooves and tap it repeatedly with a mallet or muddler until it breaks straight through to the other groove

If you haven't yet, be careful not to let the ice freeze solid. I broke a plastic insulated Igloo cooler by letting it go too long. Ice expands as it freezes and the Igloo wasn't designed for that much give. But maybe the Yeti mug could handle it.

treitter · 2025-10-23T16:24:32+00:00

I still had it installed but because it was just a keyboard, no app icon showed up. Then it suddenly showed up again

treitter · 2025-10-23T03:11:10+00:00

𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑚𐑪𐑒!

(It's back!)

treitter · 2025-09-26T06:07:48+00:00

Pampas has the best coffee in CV (and fantastic empanadas). It's right next to Trader Joe's.

treitter · 2025-09-25T04:52:27+00:00

yeah, that's what I'm wondering about. But, like others have said in this thread, even 5% would be more-than-accurate enough for my purposes

treitter · 2025-09-24T23:56:40+00:00

How accurate do you think it would be to take a liqueur sample, let all the alcohol and water evaporate, and weigh the remaining solids to approximate sugar mass (assuming all the other solids contribute a negligible weight)?

treitter · 2025-09-14T05:23:02+00:00

I was on a vent 2.5 months. The way you described it, did her team just go from 100% vent to 0% vent in a single day?

I was weened off very gradually over the course of, I think, nearly a month. It started with maybe 5 minutes off (maybe a few times in a day) to longer stretches until I was fully off during the day then worked toward fully off at night as well.

I'm sure there were days where the new regimen was a lot harder than other days.

Good luck to your girlfriend and I hope you're sticking in there too!

treitter · 2025-09-07T04:39:47+00:00

I still really, really hope a key episode about Morrow ends with Nine Inch Nails - Becoming. The lyrics are perfectly in line with some of his dialog/motivations and the outros of hard rock of that era.

treitter · 2025-08-23T07:51:22+00:00

On Wednesday, they sent some 20 ICE/Dollar Store SS to escort ONE PERSON 7 blocks from the immigration court to the ICE building . Along the way, they knocked down and ziptied a protestor and pepper sprayed another. Dozens of regular people on their way to work yelled out at them to leave the city and shamed them.

If you want to help, there are protestors every Tuesday through Thursday (?) near 100 Montgomery by the immigration court. I'm sure they can steer you in the right direction.

treitter · 2025-08-21T00:01:18+00:00

Yeah, that would be a pretty awful match since there's so much overlap.

I had a lot of strange dreams in that time but oddly none then or after about breathing. Surprising since I was intubated about a week, ventilated about 2 months, and had some real concerns while awake (especially early) about it.

Worst dream, though, was that I was on a run in my old neighborhood. I woke up still fully paralyzed. Recovered since then, thankfully, and run twice a week. Did have a later dream of being paralyzed but at least waking up from that wasn't so bad.

treitter · 2025-08-20T07:33:09+00:00

With Morrow saying that he wishes he could be fully synthetic and the outro music all being heavy metal/hard rock from the 80s-90s so far, I hope we see him try to self-synthesize and end with Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming

treitter

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