-
Posts
200 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Everything posted by Hayduke
-
Finally got it on the app through my NVIDIA Pro on the living room TV, but it took several tries, unrecognized (but good) passwords, and various other steps. I was able to avoid having to watch the end of the softball game, but missed the entire first inning. Pretty sorry integration of ESPN/SEC+/everything else.
-
Yep ... I've got it on my phone now, but not my desktop, either in YT or ESPN+. Gonna go try the living room TV, but had even more trouble there earlier in the week.
-
ESPN telling me it hasn't started yet. YouTube telling me it's scheduled for 7:20.
-
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Westie for the Win American IPA, District 1 Brewing, Stevens Point, WI. In the back is The Rising Sun, a Japanese rice lager my son ordered. Liked the Westie. Not fond of rice lagers. Also got D1's Quad City, a Belgian quadrupel. That's one fine beer. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
So Peter would like it. Then again, he likes all the fruit beers. -
Looked around my old haunts in Lincoln Village in Darmstadt, part of the now-closed Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne. Seems the old enlisted quarters are being reclaimed as apartments or something, but the street view wasn't available. My old junior high school is up in the upper-right and just looking at the map made an address I hadn't thought of in decades pop right up in my head: Bldg 4431 C6 Lincoln Village, last apartment in the last stairwell. Like @Mittens says, absolutely a time warp. Found a blog post about the shuttered base with a ton of pictures in it. One of them showed the fence around the main base, where the PX and commissary were. As kids we found a spot where the space between the metal pole and the concrete column was wide enough for us to sneak through so we could go into the snack bar and play pinball all Saturday morning without needing our parents to get us onto the base. I can still hear all that Motown soul on the jukebox.
-
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
How pronounced is the apricot in that one? That bottle looks like a 750 ml, but I suspect it was pretty easy for a couple of people to finish off. Or even one. The sour fruited ale I posted the other night, OTOH, was something I came to regret purchasing in a 4-pack by the time I got to the end of the pint. I said the Brewing Projekt usually pulls that stuff off nicely, but that one was a bit much. -
So you went to Hoffenheim for a game? An aspect of German football I love is that a village like Hoffenheim (with barely over 3,000 people) can have a club playing big-time sport, although I know the stadium is now in Sinsheim. And that's around 13K itself, with only about 37K in the area right around Sinsheim-Hoffenheim. Makes a small city like Mainz seem like New York in comparison, and Mainz is about the size of Bryan-College Station. (And everyone knows B-CS isn't very good at keeping its pro sports teams competitive in the bigs.) One of the reasons I probably can't keep up with players is I spend too much time looking at Google Maps, like the view @Mittens provided above, around game time. Great way to get myself in the mood for being temporarily in Germany.
-
I do remember watching Stuttgart lose that painful game to Mainz in May 2017 when it made that first relegation final (although I had to look it up to check my memory). The fans were so crestfallen and angry -- and rightly so after that really long run in the Bundesliga. That was the first time that relegation really registered with me. I watch more of those games now than those involving the top teams. More often than not, Schalke, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Darmstadt, and of course Mainz have tended to provide more drama for a league where Bayern finishes things early.
-
Had a Rotary Scholarship to study at Gutenberg Universität in 83-84 and stayed on in the Odenwald through early 1985 because of some generous Rotarians who gave me temporary work at their firms. Was not a fan at the time, and Mainz 05 was no more than a regional club. But I stumbled across some Bundesliga stuff about 10-11 years ago and was surprised to see Mainz in the top flight. Been watching ever since, especially after I started doing some high school sports on the side and our regional sports web site needed soccer coverage. Still a bit of a noob, I'd say, when it comes to following the rest of the league -- coming late to a sport seems to affect my ability to retain info. Had a couple of younger siblings born in Bad Cannstatt in the early '60s, but I was too young to develop the same ties to Stuttgart. We were later stationed in Darmstadt, so I follow Darmstadt a bit. What drew you to root for Stuttgart? Never got across the river to Wiesbaden for some reason, but have always wanted to go see a few things there.
-
Haven't visited the BL thread in forever. Thanks for keeping it going, @Mittens. Will try to contribute. Mainz fan here -- normally worrying about relegation, but big fun on the other end of the table this year.
-
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Probably breaking some kind of beer thread law here, but posting anyway. Paczki, for those who don't know, are the Polish Fat Tuesday donuts. Beer purists will scoff, but I just think of these as alcoholic smoothies. Another from Brewing Projekt in Eau Claire, WI, which seems to be able to pull these things off nicely. Goes well with Horns and UTSA. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Brewing Projekt in Eau Claire. Helps to have the brewery name, I guess. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
My contributions to today's happy hour: Their They're There NEIPA, Cow Cow chocolate milk stout. Picked 'em up while an Irish dance band was playing. The taproom, on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI, was packed. Highly recommend. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Son's home from the Twin Cities for spring break. Why is the Cake Gone imperial porter aged in rum barrels from Central Waters. Good beer to split -- 13.3 ABV. I've had this one when its been north of 14, too. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Hayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Since we're talking about aggy and all, does anybody know if lawn-mowing as therapy, or maybe planting your yard with native grasses, has any positive impact against sleep apnea? -
I know. The masala was good, but at the same time, I'm left thinking, "What might have been ..." So now I'm googling around and found this cocktail recipe (which also sounds interesting) and this page called Hard Soups, which says about tequila masala, "This one is actually pretty gross but the pun was too strong for us to walk away." Somebody's gonna have to report back. And somewhere in another room of the house, my wife is typing on a post called, "Stupid shit my husband does."
-
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Hmm ... work on post-tenure review packet this afternoon, or pack my bags? ... OMW. -
In our household, the wife apparently believes the official domestic language is womplaining. On another note, she comes in a minute ago to tell me she's made some Indian food for lunch. Chicken tequila masala. To be fair, she's Costa Rican and is not really a language-oriented person. After 25 years of marriage, I've decided it's a convenient excuse to avoid seeking comprehension anyway -- just weigh risks and rewards, then move forward.
-
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Thanks ... I'll take that. But you're confusing me with somebody from an honorable profession. I'm just another drunk, lazy faculty member from a smaller state school, trying to decide if AI-generated work makes grading more or less bearable. Not sure I could take being a college student today, though. Very different job outlook than for '80s and '90s grads. Even with better students, I find myself wanting to write, "Learn a trade!" Maybe I'll move to Austin and apply to mop floors at Celis, then use my critical thinking skills to work my way up. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Thanks. My initial thought was the traditional use, but I couldn't quite accept that conclusion -- maybe because that kind of brevity isn't my tendency. And there's always the possibility that his workplace is wherever he wants. As a guy who ever more frequently has a beer or cocktail to bring at least some enjoyment to grading student work, the latter explanation looked more sensible each time. Illusions shattered, but they're still good-looking beers ... -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Alright, I'm going to ask the dumbass question. imo = in my office? I've been scratching my head on that one with each of your beers. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I assume you mean the CW Milwaukee tap room, but if you ever get out to the central part of the state, the main brewery is in the little town of Amherst and also worth a visit (and shoot a DM if you get anywhere near there and need more drinking partners). I once convinced one of my great beer-drinking and hiking friends to bike the Tomorrow River Trail out of Plover to CW in Amherst on a Sunday afternoon. Told him it was only 24 miles round-trip from the trailhead. But it was the extra 7ish miles from our neighborhood to the trailhead (so 14 out and back) that made him want to kill me. Next time we'll haul bikes to the trailhead. Fortunately we also were able to rest-stop at a bar right on the trail on the way back and get some tap root beer. Some local ladies were kind of hitting on us and I think my buddy would have let one have him just to get a ride home. And, no, you don't want the pics rule to apply on this one at all. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I once thought Spotted Cow was overrated. My attitude changed after a hike on the Ice Age Trail down by Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, a few years ago. It was the only craft beer in Mama Mia in Baraboo, run by Macedonians, which has pretty damn good pizza. And Spotted Cow, as a fairly light ale, really hit the spot. I now appreciate it more, but think one reason others go nuts is that it just sorta says "Wisconsin" like @Hammerin Hank's TBC above says "Texas." And both of those states also mean beer -- probably for different reasons. I also didn't know New Glarus didn't sell out of state. Found out a couple of years ago when talking beer with my son's friends on dorm move-out day in Minnesota. His buds raved about it. So now we usually take some with us to the Twin Cities, and I always take it to Texas. My Galveston uncle had never had it when I brought him some along with the Point bock @Iceman talked about above. My uncle also passed last year, so that's yet another beer I'm happy to have shared. And of course @Al_4_ISU is right. New Glarus makes a ton of fine beers, and if you ever get a chance to visit, you should. Take a brewery tour and you'll get a token that gets you a New Glarus beer at most, if not all, of the restaurants in the town. We used ours at Sugar River Pizza, which sits on the Sugar River Recreation Trail and also makes a fine pie. (Apologies for no beer or trail in the shot, but it's a fine beer setting, right across the road from the Little Sugar River, which joins the Sugar not far from there.) -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
We were talking at happy hour last week about how some of us are more susceptible to buying beer just because of the label, and that brand is one that makes me guilty. Picked up something from TBC about three years ago -- can't remember which -- on the way back to Wisconsin for that very reason. The Texas FM sign is an icon and just looking at it makes me homesick. Stick it next to a Horn silhouette and I'm ready to daydrink.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!