Just south of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is a bona fide New England lobster pound. A place with open saltwater tanks holding live lobsters. They are flown in from Maine to SFO and offloaded and stored at the New England Lobster Market and Eatery in Burlingame, California.
This establishment is modeled after traditional lobster pounds and shacks in New England. This store is the source of “fresh Maine lobsters”, served in San Francisco’s fine restaurants and hotels. The general public is also welcome to shop in the market for live lobsters, shellfish, frozen lobster tails, and local crab. The market also has an eatery and restaurant that serve delicious lobster rolls, lobster tacos, and whole lobsters to the public.
While its far from the prices found in Maine, its still the cheapest place to eat fresh New England lobster in California.
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This toy brand started as the Hassenfeld Brothers company in Providence, Rhode Island, in late 1923. The company originally made textiles, then produced pencil cases and school supplies.
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At the Burris / Steiner booth in SHOT Show 2025 they had a ton of new optics to show off. Their entire line of Fullfield scopes has been updated for their 50th Anniversary. These scopes feature stylish red turrets which are user changable to other turrets with zero stop and calibrations.
Burris has a new enclosed emitter Fastfire E. But by far, their biggest debut is their new XTR PS model of electronic augmented long-range scope with a in-tube heads-up-display. This optic syncs with their ballistic App for you phone that helps you calculate your adjustments as well as starts a shot timer when it senses recoil from your rifle.
Last month, I participated in the Budget Rifle and Ammo Challenge created by BoomStick @FukuYTmark6 and LongRilfe @MnShootingSports. This challenge target has six 3/4″ target rounds which are small but not unusual for a 50-yard rimfire challenge target. The real challenge is the limitations on the price of the gear and ammo you can shoot it with.
This challenge is limited to factory rifles (no upgraded trigger or barrel) and optic must have a retail price of less than $700 combined. Moreover, the rimfire ammo used must be bulk box 22LR and excludes more premium ammo types such as CCI Standard and Norma Tac22 (CCI standard is premium? love it!).
I accepted this challenge with a smile. My rifle is a factory Ruger Precision Rimfire which I bought on a Black Friday sale. I’m going to count the average sale price today which is about $400. That means the scope I choose has to cost less than $300. Fortunately for me, I recently reviewed the Discovery Optic LHD 8-32×56. A very high magnification scope for a very budget price of about $249 https://youtu.be/Jn7LcnJBsbg. For the challenge, I shot it with Federal AutoMatch a 40grn LRN round.
During the challenge run, my 3rd shot was a wildly off flyer. This inconsistency would plague the rest of my run. My best target was the 2nd with two shots going through the same hold. The rest were inconsistent. I ended up with a score of only 7 of a possible 18. Federal AutoMatch was even worse ammo in my rifle than Aguila, with which I scored 11.
I reviewed the Midas G2 Pro 12×50 over a year ago and found they produced some of the clearest images I’ve tested from a 12x binocular under $500. Over the course of the year, it’s helped me spot my targets at the range and been a solid performer. Last week I took it to watch a major league ballgame at San Francisco’s Oracle Park.
Watching a ballgame is a different experience with this optic. I didn’t have a tripod or mount to steady and it was constantly scanning the field, fast panning to follow the ball and plays. In this use case, I found that the Midas was a bit more finicky to find its best focus. I found myself adjusting the focus and diapoter. I also found the exit pupil’s sweet spot to be slightly past the maximum extension of the telescoping eye-cups, so I’ll probably add some extended rubber cups if I want to use these at another ballgame.
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This brand is a German footwear and apparel company. It is the second largest athletic and fitness brand in the world, behind Nike.
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Crunch Fitness is a worldwide fitness brand. Crunch was founded in NYC’s Greenwich Village in 1989 by Doug Levine, a former stockbroker. It’s tagline and philosophy “No Judgments” was ment to remove the intimidation factor from going to the gym.
I started working on Crunch Fitness advertising back in 1995. I designed an wrote headlines for a variety of print and billboard ads. Today I work on freelance creative projects for Crunch.
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This brand was named after it’s founder Adi Dassle. It first attained popular awareness in the early 1980’s among the hip-hop community. Rappers Run-DMC wrote a song estolling their name and footwear. Unfortunately they perpetuated America’s mispronouncication of the brand.
April Fools! The Bear Creek Arsenal does produce the Grizzly Glock-alike in a variety of sizes, including a compact 9mm. The pistol shown in the video by Patrick isn’t a real one. But they were gracious enough to let me film this at their booth at SHOT Show to mad props to them.
Alto’s Adventure is a free-to-play sports/action game for Android and iPhone, released in 2015. In this game, you play as a snowboarder in the Andes. You start the game playing as Alto. You can unlock additional snowboarders with modified abilities like faster top speeds.
The developers wanted to create a game that captured the “flow” state feeling when carving down a slope on a snowboard. They’ve succeeded. This game is one of the most beautiful games I’ve played. Both in the design of its graphics as well as its atmospheric procedurally generated soundtrack.
During the game, you constantly ski “downhill” from left to right on procedurally created terrain. You can jump or back-flip by tapping or pressing on the screen. As you play, the time-of-day, lighting conditions, weather, and visibility can change.
As you ski, you can spank llamas you pass, pick up glowing coins, and power-ups such as feathers and magnets. Alto must avoid random chasams, rocks, campfires, and “Elders” who chase you down to punish you for spooking llamas. You can grind on aqueducts and decorative bunting draped on poles.
Just in case you’re wondering, this is a legit review of the game. But this video was an April Fools. But if you do want to see more Lets Play videos, let me know and I might start creating content.
Last year, Discovery impressed me with the ED-PRS Gen2 5-25×56 scope with its high-quality glass, features, and street price under $500. They told me they were working on a 6-36x version but had delayed production until they were satisfied with the results. The wait is finally over with the XED 6-36×56 with a street price of just under $700.
This scope is share many of the features of the new ED-PRS Gen2 MOA like its new throw lever design and its tool-free turret screw tops. The XED is slightly longer and heavier overall with a noticeably wider parallax dial than the ED-PRS. The biggest change is the XED’s 35mm tube which allows a wider range of adjustments.
The XED utilizes Japanese ED glass for excellent optical clarity and brightness while minimizing chromatic aberration. Most high power scopes have tight eyeboxes, the XED is unforgiving at 36x. Tight eyebox aside, for those that require a bit more magnification than the ED-PRS 5-25x, the XED is tough to beat.
