Agreed. I wear my pants until they’re dirty. At night, I hang them up somewhere with air movement. Spot clean any dirt or spills. I can usually get 4 to 6 weeks out of a single pair. It helps that I use a standing desk in my office, so I’m not just trapping humidity against a chair all day.
Bummer about the fall; hopefully you and your bike are unscathed. Massive thumbs up for winter motorcycling! I did it on my FJR, and it was always a tense occasion. And where I live (PacNW) doesn’t have real winters like yours.
Fully agreed on the marketing to children. And I think the established and emerging research around the effects of junk food really show the ill effects of our industrialized food supply. See: “The Dorito Effect” by Mark Schatzker; “Sugar” and “Hacking of the American Mind” by Robert Lustig; Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Basically, if it wasn’t raw when you bought it, that food is most likely bad for you.
Spurlock didn’t “fail to disclose” his food lists; he steadfastly refused to disclose what he consumed because it would show him, most generously speaking, to be Captain Obvious and at worst to be full of shit.
FWIW, that downvote wasn’t me.
Morgan Spurlock seriously manipulated the experiment to get the results he wanted, like completely stopping his regular exercise regimen while drinking massive amounts of alcohol. A cursory look at the numbers shows that he couldn’t possibly have gained 25 pounds on the diet he claimed he ate. I despise McDonald’s and they deserve all the negative attention, but Spurlock was a grifter and charlatan.
Thanks. And now all I can hear is “BRUSH brush ~brush brush~ FLOSS floss ~floss floss~.”
Anyone else see the Edmund Fitzgerald? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald
My partner and I are both well into our 50s. When on land, our bed is on the floor, and we snap out of bed. We usually live on our sailboat; getting in and out of our berth is more akin to spelunking than getting out of bed.
I (think I) understand the point you’re trying to make: this shit gets harder with some age. Do I have that correctly?
I can’t emphasize this enough: take care of the hardware. Yoga, Pilates, weight training, cardio, core strength, stretching, attention to posture, etc. I have coworkers and friends 10 to 20 years younger than I with half the mobility, strength, and speed. And I have all kinds of issues from abusing my body in my youth. But some basic care keeps things usable.
If anyone’s curious, here are some good starting points for keeping your mobility or restoring physical capacity lost to age:
All that is a lot of words to say: the dreaded middle aged decline doesn’t have to be inevitable. But you do have to put in the preventative maintenance.
Well, clearly YOU didn’t learn your lesson! :D
Holy balls. I used to be an instructor in the career retraining field, so I believed your numbers. Trust, but verify: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
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They were acquired by Opta Group in 2023. Since then, the quality has declined while prices increased. And around the time of their acquisition, they started doing some shady stuff when claiming USB-IF compliance. The cables were blatantly not USB-IF compliant.
Another example: I personally love my Anker GaN Prime power bricks and 737. Unfortunately, among my friends and peers, I am the exception. The Prime chargers are known for incorrectly reading cable eMarkers and then failing to deliver the correct power. This has so far been an issue for me twice, but was able to be worked around.
This is absolutely by design. The corporate raider playbook is well-read. See: Sears, Fluke, DeWalt, Boeing, HP, Intel, Anker, any company purchased by Vista (RIP Smartsheet, we barely knew ye), and so on. Find a brand with an excellent reputation, gut it, strip mine that goodwill, abandon the husk on a golden parachute, and make sure to not be the one holding the bag.
FWIW, I regularly use a Zoom H8 and do my major editing/mixdown in Tenacity, minor quick stuff directly in the H8. I give Ardour a try every few years, and things are definitely getting better. I just don’t have a lot of patience for getting the audio working in Ardour. I still support Ardour because I see that things are improving.
The setting that worked for me is “Switch to Bitwig.” :D
But seriously, I never got Ardour to work on any OS, and that seriously bums me out. I’d love to be just that much closer to 100% FOSS.
“It’s what … I do?”
The US really needs a replacement, for example a national digital ID based on PKI… you revoke their access to the account, and everything else that uses the account can keep working
There is already an open standard growing around exactly this concept, Web5 Distributed IDs (DID): https://dev.to/tbdevs/what-is-web5-233o
Disclosure: I worked on the implementation for an Open Banking company (does that need to be disclosed? <shrug> I’m including it lest someone think I’m a shill)
Okay, I just recorded some h.265 footage with a Pixel 7a. I haven’t had a chance to pull the video into Resolve (another Blackmagic product). Using Camera 2 is intuitive* and powerful. Quick, intuitive controls for focus, exposure, and white balance locks. Easy focus and exposure, easy access to the controls I need on the fly. I didn’t see a RAW video option, but the gamut looks reasonable enough to be able to apply a LUT and still get the final effect I want. YMMV, however I think this results in video that I can use when I’m shooting in situations where I don’t want to use my bigger video camera. This is now my go-to for quick shoots and conditions when I don’t want to use the bigger, more expensive cameras.
So, thanks OP for this post!
*Gawd, I hate that word for software, but it fits here.
Halo effect warning. I own/use some other Blackmagic camera, controls, and software; they’re industrial strength. I was irrationally avoiding them for reasons I can’t even recall now. Probably some BS “Who are they? They can’t possibly be any good.” So I’m excited to try this out, but my knee jerk reaction is: FINALLY! Blackmagic’s products IMO have so much attention to things pros need, that even if this is only so-so, it could easily evolve into making Android phones a semi-proper video camera competitor to iOS ProRes.
Yeah, that doesn’t really answer your question, but hopefully adds some context to something something cinnamon toast crunch.
Not to be confused with transcoding, which is important to viewing media.
When was the last time you even tried to live without buying anything built by exploited labor, abusive extraction processes, and run by oligarchs? You can’t. It would maybe look like a hunter-gatherer or maybe a primitive pastoral life. It is literally impossible for any of us to be having this discussion in this medium without some of exploitation and/or abuse. There is no moral consumption under capitalism, hell probably even impossible under any globalism.
So fuck right the fuck off with your sanctimonious bullshit.
Wait… You’re supposed to clean them?! :D