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Celery Man

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  1. I would not be able to resist the temptation to just order the team to add a “t” to his username
  2. this has been stuck in my head. note that I'm not arguing that it is better than the original. but i like it
  3. Merger and reorg happening at work, I’m going to go ahead and get rolling. A saw a post for a really interesting position yesterday. Searched on LinkedIn for “companyname” + “jobtitle”, found a post with a link to the job from talent acquisition and then found another post from an engineering manager promoting. DM’d the manager with a quick “this seems really cool, here are some things from my career that it reminds me of, I find this stuff very exciting and would love to talk more and see if I can help your team” blah blah blah, I had an interview lined up by the end of the day. I’ve never been super comfortable just reaching out and connecting with recruiters, which I guess I’ll get over but this feels like a good hack. I often see hiring managers post about open positions with an invitation to connect.
  4. I have a tortilla press, bigass cast iron thing. Yeah it doesn't work for flour tortillas, you have to roll them out. I think it works on those tortilla making machines at... Taco Cabana or whatever because the press is also the cooking element. Mine also don't really shrink up too much when i cook them. The first few batches I made that was a big problem. The change I made that i've attributed the difference to is following the "mix the dough until you can stick your finger in and pull it back out clean" advice. Another thing that may have an effect is letting the dough balls sit for longer. I made and balled up the dough yesterday at about 1 and then cooked them at 9:30 (which was entirely driven by kid bedtimes, but I let them rest for a while these days). Another thing I started doing was spray the balls with oil before covering them with plastic.
  5. the fresh off the comal tortilla with shredded cheese and doña is 🤌
  6. deleting the user will effectively ban the threads
  7. I think I have a pair in my string drawer, but I haven’t tried them yet. Effective marketing.
  8. who dares to defy the texas chili reinheitsgebot
  9. Lone Star Special strat has to rank at or near the top of non-standard strat models.
  10. Someone else here has one of those, right? Supposed to be great.
  11. man one of the all time greatest "gigs" of my life was when I was 13 years old, I had my strat and one of those little battery powered Vox AC1 amps and my friend had his pearl export series drum kit and somehow we were signed up to man the salvation army Christmas donation bucket outside of Best Buy. Fuck them bells, drums and guitar. I have no idea what we even played but we probably raised $27. We later formed our first couple of bands together. He went off to study music in college and then conservatory and lets see what weird shit he's up to now
  12. The original title in Swedish always strikes me as so awesome, and I may have only noticed it the first time when I was watching that movie with subtitles. "Men Who Hate Women". I should go watch these again. I remember feeling like the casting in this movie for both Salandar and Blomkvist felt more real. Or maybe, Rooney Mara got sufficiently weird as Lisbet to pass but Daniel Craig was still a bit too Daniel Craig for the chain smoking beaten down disgraced journalist.
  13. yeah they were good. it's been a million years - the books were really popular in about 2009, that was right around when Netflix started doing "Instant Watch" in addition to DVD by mail, and in addition to every weird documentary ever the swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies were on there. The actress who plays Lisbet is really great. I also can't believe they never managed to make the rest of those movies with Mara. I think they got stalled somehow and then made the second one with... the woman from the Crown? and it sucked? Would have loved to see that trilogy completed.
  14. you could accomplish the same result for a fraction of the cost by returning mailto:derka for every request
  15. the conventional wisdom is that the d28 is the choice for clarity, while the hd28 has a bit more complexity
  16. Also just cause I have them - hd28 and d41 side by side. They are highly similar guitars, sonically - I love them both, it is silly that I have them both.
  17. I hauled a kiddie pool home from ace hardware this weekend.
  18. There have been changes in bracing and placement, "forward shifted" versus not forward shifted, etc over the years, and so this description of the difference is only mostly correct So, Martin introduces the D28 in the 1930s. It has certain characteristics and herringbone purfling around the top of the guitar. WWII breaks out and the herringbone goes away because that part came from Germany, and around the same time they switch from scalloped bracing to straight bracing. In the 1970s, a market has developed for pre-war Martins and so Martin figures out how to make a pre-war spec 28 and also realize that the bracing shifted towards ths soundhole in this period. So they introduce the HD-28, which has scalloped and forward shifted bracing, as well as the herringbone detail on the top of the guitar, meant to have the more open and dynamic sound of pre-war Martins. People also still love the tight and powerful sound of the 1950s Martins and so the D-28 remains on the market. The D41 came out in the late 60s. I'm not sure the exact timeline of that model, but generally speaking (and for sure true of bogey's as well as mine from 2001) it is highly similar to an HD-28 with different cosmetic appointments and with wood pulled from a higher graded stack. Scalloped bracing, forward shifted, spruce (for sure sitka, not sure when they switched from east coast appalachia adirondack to pacific northwest sitka) top, east indian rosewood back and sides. Abalone on the top, fretboard, headstock, and string pins. Cool looking pattern inlay on the back strip. The D45 in comparison has abalone on the back and sides as well as the top, and is pretty identifiable by the abalone outlining the part of the fretboard that sits on the body. The wood is graded visually, I don't know exactly what characteristics they look for in the spruce to be rated more highly. Curious what the ebony is like these days on standard d/hd28s vs d41s, wouldn't surprise me if the 40 series Martins get the jet black and the 28s have a bit of white on them.
  19. the engineer who thought to describe the loose wiper problem as an automated system for airspeed based aerodynamic optimization didn't buy a single drink that night
  20. she's the best
  21. I’m trying to find the funny and relevant Hustle and Flow gif but that was just a good movie. Whoop that trick.
  22. Slept in, Father’s Day lunch with some running shoe shopping for the wife at REI mixed in. Toddler pulled the checkout line stanchion down on her head so we got a bandaid and had to fill out an incident report. And change shirts.
  23. Absolutely this is the guy, thank you lol. Be high mid day glued to the floor of my sublet at campus estates off riverside eating hot dogs and freaking out
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