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  1. brooklynpiper

    Feedback Loop Disintegration, Anyone?

    @georged Had a recent mandatory training in AI at work. One of the modules was about prompting and said one could chat with the AI about how best to prompt the AI... Part of the training was trying it. I noticed when I started typing the AI started suggesting the next word. So: the AI was...
  2. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    How timely! I just began it. How'd you like it?
  3. brooklynpiper

    Malawi Burley in Gawith Flakes

    [this is a placeholder for Rachel’s response and all the action between forum members that ensues every time. Please enjoy this message and emoji for now while these things get summoned🎅]
  4. brooklynpiper

    SEMOIS?!? WTF!!

    I think, particularly in Semois, these bits are nice
  5. brooklynpiper

    FS: 07/28/2025 7-year Aged Dan, Wessex, F&T, Rattrays, McConnell

    A few updates: PRICING $30/tin, take $5 off for 2 or more tins, free shipping for 3 tins or more NEW TINS Adding 2018 Dan Tobacco Sweet Vanilla Honeydew to the lot Adding 2018 Drucquer & Sons Levant Mixture to the lot as well. This tin is 100g. $40 Adding two...
  6. brooklynpiper

    Capstan Blue back in stock

    Saw the other thread on this. It’s crazy Capstan Blue isn’t sitting on shelves, especially at the markup Capstan has gone for in recent years. It’ll probably go back to more available once things get settled at STG. Its not like they make small esoterica esque batches of this. They’ll be pumping...
  7. brooklynpiper

    FS: 07/28/2025 7-year Aged Dan, Wessex, F&T, Rattrays, McConnell

    Old Ironsides and Brebbia No. 9 are no longer available.
  8. brooklynpiper

    FS: 07/28/2025 7-year Aged Dan, Wessex, F&T, Rattrays, McConnell

    $30/ea, all tins purchased 2018. No visible denting or damage to any tin. Brebbia Latakia Flake No 9 (Syrian label, but not sure about that claim) Robert McConell Latakia Flake Dan Tobacco Old Ironsides Fribourg & Treyer Vintage Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug Dan Tobacco Mallard Wessex...
  9. brooklynpiper

    XXV Reserve: A Celebration of 25 Years of Smokingpipes

    no that was last year's version
  10. brooklynpiper

    XXV Reserve: A Celebration of 25 Years of Smokingpipes

    bought it, tried it, it's 100% Orlik Golden Sliced
  11. brooklynpiper

    Jim's Low Country Pee Dee Review.

    Low Country Pegasus?
  12. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    Selma Lagerlof - The Emperor of Portugallia Lagerlof was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909.
  13. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    The Appointment by Herta Muller Another Nobel Laureate - this Romanian-German writer was awarded the prize in 2009.
  14. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Tokarczuk received the Nobel Prize in 2018.
  15. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. Fantastic. Pearl Buck received the Nobel Prize in 1938. She was the first American woman to be awarded the prize.
  16. brooklynpiper

    What are You Reading Now?

    The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in 2024 and is the first South Korean woman to be awarded the prize
  17. brooklynpiper

    Blending Question - Mellowing The Beast

    I would recommend trading it for a blend you actually like rather than taking an unopened tin and futzing with it. But, if it’s part of your enjoyment, then chase it. Perhaps add more of C&D’s red Virginia cavendish which is already a component. I don’t think the bulk option brights or burley...
  18. brooklynpiper

    The Best Pipe for different Tobaccos

    A great point though I prefer the feeling of drinking out of a plastic straw over a paper or aluminum straw. There may be some differences in chamber width burning constituent tobaccos, but in the end the greatest difference between pipes is smoking one you like.
  19. brooklynpiper

    What’s Your Favorite Cocktail Recipe?

    Stake through the heart: First eat a raw clove of garlic, chewing well. Then bring glass up to your mouth and breathe in it until it frosts the glass with condensation. Pour in whiskey and white wine. Stir with your finger.
  20. brooklynpiper

    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    Not a fan. It’s not as bad on mobile but on desktop this is no good.