My first day in Seattle, I stayed here. I got plastered in the hotel bar and when I woke up, my car that I just towed 3,000 miles was broken into.

Great intro to the city lol. Lived here for the past 12 years.

https://youtu.be/N5Rs8zdEHJw?si=jFusKJdAzHXCaTBh

Ironically, it didn’t break, but when I was on the road and needed a power drill to fix something, I didn’t feel bad about dropping $500 on a new Milwaukee from Ace hardware.

Power tools. If you are not a professional and need to buy a tool (if you can’t borrow one), buy the cheap one.

I used a $30 Ryobi drill for over a decade and it was fine.

Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.

In case you’re not being sarcastic, Whistlindiesel…

But they’ve also been the target of some vandalism.

EVs tend to look like this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.

If you sidegrade to a Casio F-91W, there’s a fun open-source project called Sensor Watch that repolaces the PCB to bring some nice features.

My watch can now tell me sunrise/sunset times, run 6 different count down timers, and act as a full dice set for DnD.

Full list of complications: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/watchfaces/complication/

Like half of the water in the US goes to grow plants to feed animals that we eat. Fuck those animals, I want that water.

Nuts in brownies. Fucking don’t.

I mean to paraphrase Brenan Lee Mulligan: “if you have magic that can teleport things instantly, giving the task of delivering letters to Earth’s slowest bird is animal cruelty.”

With very few exceptions, that popular TV show you like with either end bad or get cancelled before it gets a chance to end bad.

Bilbo says he feels like butter spread over too much bread.

Just don’t eat all the bread! If I have too much bread, I freeze it. I don’t butter it with a tragically small amount of butter.

The line should be like “too little butter spread over bread” or something.

Haven’t watched this particular video, but we watched the iPhone 14 one when my wife was shopping for a new phone a year ago.

He only does landscapes, so he won’t answer the question for indoor lighting.

And I guess I can walk my claim back a bit. I’m just a bit frustrated since I had a hard time finding a purpose built camera that could match an iPhone while being remotely pocketable.

Ricoh does alright for my purposes.

I mean computational photography is exactly how you beat physics. And it’s shockingly good.

https://youtu.be/3EFW_dAX9lQ?si=LvaoeAG6h9HQoKc4

Highly recommend this guy’s videos on the matter. Can’t find a good comparison at very low light, but even dusk conditions are fine for a new iPhone.

Yeah way too big for my purposes. I needed a camera that’s with me literally all the time (as much as a phone would be).

He GRIII doesn’t have interchangeable lenses, but it’s still a 24MP APS-C with an f/2.8 prime. I’d argue it’s as “real” a camera as any other.

I bought a Canon T2i in 2010. 19MP, APS-C sensor. Had it fitted with a $1200 17-55 F/2.8 IS lens. Used to bring it to family Christmas every year for the group photo until around 2016. My cousin handed me her phone to get the family on it as well.

Between improvements in sensor technology, whatever post processing was happening at the time, and the lenses on the iPhone, it blew my camera away.

It’s actually pretty hard to find a midrange camera now because phones are so good. I switched to a dumb phone last year. Best pocketable camera I could find to complement it that wasn’t a toy was the Ricoh GRIII which came out in 2019. Got a 4K camcorder. Best I could do was a Sony AX700 from 2018.

My uncle who asks which peloton instructors I like informing me that he only picks the hot ones.

Like, you’ve been married to a woman for 30 years. I get it, you’re straight.

There are solutions for this, but they’re a little more abstract. Like some people sit on yoga balls instead of chairs. They force you to keep your muscles engaged all the time lest you fall over.

They even have some designed to be desk chairs. https://www.sithealthier.com/products/classic-balance-ball-chair

There are also sit/stand desks.

Oh for real?