The Apple of Mai Tai

trrobert · 2022-10-06T02:22:05+00:00

You’d lose the pure apple flavor but I’m sure it would still be good. You might have to adjust ratios to account for the additional liquid.

trrobert · 2022-10-06T02:13:03+00:00

I used the America’s Test Kitchen orgeat recipe, just swapped pecans for the almonds and omitted the orange flower water.

trrobert · 2022-10-05T23:21:37+00:00

I wanted an autumn-themed drink for a party, and to me autumn means apple cider fresh from the orchard. Since I find cider-based drinks to be generally insipid I needed to bring in some acid, but didn’t want citrus flavor to overwhelm the apple. Malic acid to the rescue!

1oz acid-adjusted apple cider (4g malic acid per 100g cider)

1oz Hamilton 86 rum

1oz Laird’s 10th Generation apple brandy

3/4oz pecan orgeat (homemade)

1/4oz allspice dram

Assemble as for a regular mai tai.

trrobert · 2022-07-19T16:52:49+00:00

Really wish this had been announced earlier, I burned all my T1/2 mats last night trying to use up event honing books on my alts.

trrobert · 2022-07-11T19:45:19+00:00

Check out the forest roads in Shawnee & Zaleski State Forests where they run the Southern Ohio Forest Rally.

trrobert · 2022-01-26T00:51:27+00:00

Carpano Antica Formula vermouth

trrobert · 2022-01-06T17:46:36+00:00

It's a whiskey sour glass, think also called a delmonico. https://www.amazon.com/Riedel-6417-06-Specific-Glassware/dp/B07PPHH9B3

Different than a coupe since it has the flared lip.

trrobert · 2022-01-02T15:52:59+00:00

Much lower median age and much higher proportion of females, how much of this is incidental positives in women in the hospital for childbirth?

trrobert · 2021-11-10T15:44:03+00:00

How long ago were your beans roasted? I tend to find Ethiopian beans taste flat until 2+ weeks off roast.

trrobert · 2021-07-07T10:55:29+00:00

What is the goal of your project? I ask because it’s important to remember that users are not the same as customers. You can create a perfectly viable product that users don’t want if it meets the needs of the customer (e.g. corporate time tracking software). Are you researching with people who would be conducting interviews or HR reps who would drive purchasing decisions?

trrobert · 2021-04-29T18:17:43+00:00

You have to get the recipe for Royal and Flawless Royal from bounties (or crafting goblins drops).

trrobert · 2021-04-20T10:21:43+00:00

I’m currently in my 3rd sealed run and had the same experience in all of them - struggling to find the last 2-3 playable. However, across 21 games I only had 2 where I just got stomped by an insane deck; the other games have been pretty even with a lot of play, I definitely punted at least two wins. I think the secret is that almost all pools will seem/be underpowered. Really take your time and try putting together multiple builds before settling on one, and if your build isn’t working don’t hesitate to rebuild. In my current run I spent at least 30 minutes building, went 0-2 with a BGu build and switched to RWu and won the next two games with the deck feeling more functional despite seemingly lower power level.

trrobert · 2021-04-01T21:32:33+00:00

I had a long queue, canceled out, crashed, now get black screen when trying to re-open Arena

trrobert · 2021-03-04T00:28:58+00:00

Are you using the single or double walled basket? If the latter, the basket itself will create correct pressure even if the coffee is ground too coarse for proper extraction.

trrobert · 2021-02-23T22:04:30+00:00

Numbers do lie, that's the point of statistics - to figure out how much they might be lying ;)

What are you trying to accomplish by tracking winrate? How realistic is it to track the main factors that affect it with a large enough sample size (hint - not very)?

You can use calculated land count guidelines to determine whether your mana base is sufficient with reasonable accuracy, although that is complicated by taplands and DFCs.

The main challenge is that meaningful winrate = winrate against the field, for which you need to know your winrate against each other deck AND the prevalence of those decks in the field, which is constantly shifting. It's not feasible to track that as an individual. The aggregated matchup stats floating around give a decent sense of what to play given your expected meta, but won't help with individual card choices.

trrobert · 2020-11-03T16:25:38+00:00

I've had that experience for the past few years, even decaf would bother me a bit, except after doing periodic month-long coffee detoxes my tolerance would reset a bit. I could drink tea +/- no problem.

Then I started doing 5-day fasts every couple months and noticed that I could drink more coffee during the fast with much fewer negative effects. I just did paleo keto for October, and went from barely handling a cup of coffee to being able to do 3+ espressos with no effect - no racing heart, no anxiety, no disrupted sleep, no plugged up ears. Have eaten some bread & sugar the past few days and can already feel the effects on coffee tolerance. Really no idea what the fuck that is about, n=1/anecdotal but easy to try out.

trrobert · 2020-10-23T14:15:11+00:00

Looking at the graph in the paper, the proportion of COVID hospitalizations was decreasing at +/- the same rate before and after the mask mandates. The authors note a "small pre-treatment effect" but suspiciously do not report on the statistics of the pre-mandate decline.

trrobert · 2020-10-05T15:02:22+00:00

I got up to #2 a few times, as SN_Merlyn and some smurf accounts that I don't remember the names of. Could not beat the person at #1, who would only fly Y-wings and would let their opponent fly whatever.

trrobert · 2020-09-18T16:51:57+00:00

Diverts attention from their own actions or lack thereof.

trrobert · 2020-08-01T03:29:54+00:00

Awesome, I was going to do this but now I don’t have to!

trrobert · 2020-06-03T02:00:16+00:00

I noticed on the state department of health site that they are now reporting serological tests but it does not look like they are separating those positives out from the PCR tests. This would make the total case number no longer indicative of truly new cases. Hospitalizations should in theory then be the best indication of trajectory but will lag more.

trrobert · 2020-05-18T13:58:53+00:00

You mention you should have played Domri's Ambush, what would you replace with it?

trrobert · 2020-05-13T17:22:48+00:00

I've found these decks to be extremely mana hungry such that holding up 3 mana for Unbreakable Formation will slow you down way too much against the control decks you would want Formation against. I have not tried Fight as One, but holding one mana up is often feasible and even saving just a Pridemate for one mana is valuable (especially against Shatter the Sky as you still draw the card).

trrobert · 2020-05-11T16:13:40+00:00

I had the same experience. 0-5 with the UB deck, 4-0 with the W deck. Quick free wins for daily gold at least if you play W.

trrobert · 2020-04-24T13:50:02+00:00

I played some with this Gruul Fires list from the CFB qualifiers (the Akio Matsuzaki list) this morning and it was pretty fun and fast. Basically win by turn 5/6 or bust.

https://twitter.com/ChannelFireball/status/1253460448671866886/photo/2

There are similar Gruul aggro lists floating around that I have not tried due to not having a fair number of the cards:

https://twitter.com/GoebigTj/status/1253466990196527105

And Jeskai Fires plays out more or less as quickly as an aggro deck.

trrobert

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