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Sam Lin

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  1. We've had this Kitchenaid since ~2009 and it's still in great shape. Under a covered patio and it's AZ so it never sees wet. Is really well built, heavy gage metal, valves still feel tight. Only thing that has broken is the metal mesh above the sear burner, but we never use it, so it's a non-issue. I'd try contacting KitchenAid for parts first.
  2. Work that could have been done between, say, 8 and 10:30 am?
  3. Quite a few recent James Beard winners scattered around LA now.
  4. Stayed at that Hyatt a few months back, got lucky and saw two carriers in port, one headed out during my stay: Did not have breakfast.
  5. The High thread is that way --------->
  6. Then there's this, Diablo 4 race event to lvl 100 on permadeath. Guy wins, then server disconnects so his player is killed for "disconnecting." https://kotaku.com/diablo-iv-hardcore-level-100-race-disconnect-carn-1850514675
  7. I watch a lot of gameplay and speedrun videos now, as a way to learn more in-depth aspects of a game and also appreciate what a truly skilled player can do. A lot of times I much prefer to watch an expert play than to play myself any more. It's like watching a performing art. Particular shoutout to GDQ, Games Done Quick. They run physical events, livestreamed, a couple times year, where they get the top speedrunners for a pile of games to do speedruns in front of a live audience with livestream. The runs are commentated by other top streamers, so in one stream you quite likely have all the top experts in the world for a game, and between the gameplay and the commentary you learn SO much about a game. They add special goals to each run if certain donation targets are met (for example, they've had the player do a section blindfolded), and all donations go to charity. Sometimes the audience becomes a part of the stream, everyone sings one of the songs together, or a couple cosplayers impromptu act out a scene of the game while the player is going through it. It's just a wonderful gaming event with a wonderful community and shared single purpose. If you are searching, they do SGDQ for Summer Games Done Quick, and AGDQ for Awesome Games Done Quick. https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick https://www.youtube.com/@gamesdonequick For Faster Than Light (FTL), Twitch streamers Holoshideim and Rand118 are the top in the world. Holoshideim holds the record for longest string of wins on Hard mode, no Pausing. This game is insanely hard. New players take many tries just to beat Hard once, and that's with pausing to think about the next action and plan for enemy reactions. Holoshideim won 100+ games straight with no pausing. For Fallout, Many a True Nerd. Just a guy who absolutely loves the games, and it shows. He explains, he demonstrates, he has hilarious screwups, it's just contagious fun watching him play. He notably did "you only live once," playing through the entire game using only one life bar. He also has done "kill everything" runs that are great fun to watch. He also streams other games, his Subnautica stream was a hilarious pile of mishaps. ARS Technica has a lovely series of journalism-style articles and interviews talking about popular games and digging in to what makes them so good. For example: https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/how-immersive-stories-deepen-the-horror-of-games-like-soma-and-amnesiac-rebirth They've also done a series called War Stories where they go back and talk to developers of successful games and share some of the stuff that happened in development. Example: https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/war-stories-ultima-online-the-virtual-ecology Isn't that redundant? Watch Many a True Nerd on YT if you want to learn more about Fallout than you ever wanted. He explains game dynamics, he shows little bits of story that are super niche situations, it's just a way for even a die-hard Fallout fan to discover even more about the game. And even now he still learns new things, and he's been a Fallout "specialist" for 10+ years.
  8. There is definitely not a camera setup.
  9. Nope, not for the apple anyway.
  10. Neighborhood FB is the gift that keeps on giving:
  11. No. And if you get to the corpse quickly, it's still warm! https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/dead-duck-day-marks-that-time-a-scientist-witnessed-gay-duck-necrophilia/
  12. No disagreement here. That's a very odd policy to allow, most of the time the retake "overwrites" the original take.
  13. Getting on a tangent, and a bit philosophical, but I don't agree with this. It isn't so much to learn as to get in the habit of learning (most of the actual info we learn in school is not applicable to work or life later, excepting certain occupations and the pub trivia circuit). Being forced to make new work for identical assignments isn't helping that one bit. And the time wasted in busywork for an identical assignment is time taken away from other activities that may actually be new "learning."
  14. Neighborhood FB group:
  15. CSB tangent: HSBC had the only campus bank at RPI so had a stranglehold on the student population. Absolutely horrible service, zero attempt to help the customer, and endless rape on fees because they could. They definitely lost me for life in the first month.
  16. They make silicone ones that are supposed to be non-stick. Never tried one myself.
  17. Presenting the leg sweep self-KO:
  18. I have a lot of respect for the mechanical value Tissot offers (huge power reserve, some materials that used to be "exotic"), but that's a tough look to take seriously. Would fit right in at Swatch.
  19. Sigh. I knew as I was reading that she meant charcuterie board. #FML
  20. The shrinkage is normal (or that's what you try to tell her). Start cook, end cook. Close to 50% shrink:
  21. On kamado, the deflector itself gets very hot and you get radiant heat from the deflector that makes the meat surface on bottom side see a higher temp. Try doing double indirect. On KJ it means a set of deflectors in lowest position and then a second set of deflectors on the lower grate position, typically using the X-ring. Food on top grate position. This gives a second air gap and second set of deflectors and results in much more even heat on the meat. You can also do this by putting deflector on lowest position, use a couple foil balls or another heat-resistant spacer arrayed in a triangle, and put a pizza stone on top of the balls. Again to get an air gap and then a second insulator. I'm unfamiliar with Primo deflector arrangement but I'm sure it's doable as well. No experience with offset, but I can make some guesses and suggest some things to try. Is it reverse flow? If so, the grill body under the cooking grate (the middle air deflector plate) is a hot surface and will radiate heat, just like the kamado deflector above. If you can, try suspending a drip pan under your cooking grate, not to do anything to drippings, but to block radiant heat off the grill body. Radiant heat is line of sight, so you don't want the meat to "see" the grill body underneath. I can make more educated guesses if you post some pics of all aspects of your offset. If not, the air coming out of the firebox is definitely going to cook the meat more on the direct impact side. I'd try using foil to make a "sail" or wind deflector, wider than the meat, and have it protrude down from the leading edge of the meat under the grate some inches, so you aren't getting the hot airflow constantly across the bottom surface of the meat. (Sorta similar to when people gently tent the leading edge of the meat with foil in an offset; you're trying to block the direct airflow sweeping across the bottom). Also, again, radiant heat off the fire itself - is your firebox positioned where the fire can "see" the underside of meat? Block that line of sight with something.
  22. Chevy also intends to fully drop AA/CP support in 2024-2025, so they have zero incentive to implement it well/fix bugs now. They think the market is going to think that their own in-house infotainment is better. This plan is going to fail miserably for them.
  23. I was told there's a very active FB community for them, if you use FB. Have never looked myself, but if it's anything like the Kamado community, yes, the best community is on FB.
  24. But Funyuns are not mostly fun.
  25. Sounds like you need a bigger smoker then. Can't even fit a small pot. Jeez.
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