Here’s a list of things I used to jerk it to

I drink coffee on my porch with my wife so we can identify birds and say hi to all the runners and dog walkers.

Sriracha on pizza is fantastic, eating that at this second.

Correction: Underwood Sriracha

Golden ratio here we come

Be prepared to talk about class projects you’ve done, what went well, what didn’t go well and how you’d improve that next time. If you do any extracurriculars like clubs, game night, or even a frat, include that as it shows you can be social.

I have a candle scent called Jacob Elordi’s bath water

Yeah if you’re not building birdhouses and remodeling your sauna it probably doesn’t apply to you.

Not Porter Cable. I bought a PC cordless set as my first set because it was inexpensive. I was wrong, it was cheap. None of the cutting tools are square and 0 isn’t 0, you have to fiddle with it to get it square. My oscillating tool died with not many hours on it. The orbital sander works great but tears through batteries, probably a quarter the life of my DeWalt brushless tool on the same mAh size battery.

I am on DeWalt now. A prior employer gave out DeWalt tools as safety awards, and then I worked for a subsidiary of Stanley so I got steep discount on DeWalt. It is crazy how much that stuff is marked up, but it generally holds up well.

I have some heavy industrial experience with DeWalt and Milwaukee 1/2" impact wrenches. Heavy usage, using it every hour for 12 hours a day 7 days a week. The DeWalts battery rails would wear and loosen, intermittently losing electrical contact. This was a problem with the tool, not the battery, so we’d have to replace the tool. The Milwaukees were smaller and lighter for comparable torque output, so less chance of repetitive motion injury. The Milwaukee batteries eventually shook themselves to death, breaking the plastic fastening locations inside the battery case requiring replacement of the batteries. It was cheaper to replace batteries over time with Milwaukee than replace tools over time with DeWalt.

Milwaukee has a larger variety of tool than DeWalt from my experience. I’ve encountered a few things that Milwaukee makes but DeWalt doesn’t, like battery powered palm nailer.

Looks like Makita also does its own thing.

If anything, we have more access to obscure content. We have obscure movies we’ve found streaming and watch repeatedly. We love Trolljegeren and Interstate 60.

We also still have some weirdo discs too like the live action Mario movie.

What has two thumbs and doesn’t like Tom Cruise?

It is a totally normal function of a totally normal brain. What is NOT normal is for it to drastically change in adulthood. That could suggest a change to the part of the brain responsible which should be checked out.

Define proficient? I’ve never stopped getting better at any of my jobs, but I hit “good enough” after a year or two. After 5 I had improved processes and procedures enough that I could do my boss’s job, and when they gave that job to someone else I left to do a similar higher position elsewhere.

I still carry those skills with me, so I am much more prepared even when dealing with something new because I’ve dealt with similar problems in the past.

In 2012 I went from 245 to 170 in about 6 months using keto. Straight up keeping net carbs below 20 was enough to get me to 200 where I plateaued for a few weeks. After that I started calorie restriction to 1800 (as a 30ish M) and that got me to 170. My 30ish wife had to restrict to 1400 calories to hit 140 on keto. We allowed ourselves up to 1 low carb drink a day and that seemed to help keeping water weight off and avoiding plateaus.

The nice thing about keto is hunger is much weaker without carbs driving the insulin cycle.

After losing all that, I stopped counting calories but kept my carbs at or below 30 net a day and maintained my weight no problem. I also started biking and got down to 158 which was too low for my frame so I upped protein and started lifting. That got me leveled off around 175 and looking good.

I held that for 8 years until 2020. I started night school, moved states, and got a new job and went back to standard diet due to stress and time constraints. I gained ten pounds a year even trying to limit calories and finally said enough is enough and got back on Keto this month. Losing weight again no problem, I plan to be back below 180 by my camping trip on Memorial Day.

Tell me why

I’ve loved half of that list and now have to read the other half

Fwiw I am not paying $800 for software improvements that are artificially withheld from the hardware I own. I used to upgrade annually, but I’m still rocking a p6pro and not feeling any pain points yet. Eventually my battery will start degrading below lasting a day but hasn’t happened yet.

This is a tough thread for me, am old dude who loves music but I don’t recognize 3/4 of what others have posted. I’ll have to check out some of it but it has been hard for me to find new bands I like. Songs Ohia is an example, but lots of them are too twangy, too folksy, or overuse auto tune.

Anyways, to the question:

• Cranberries - Zombie

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Poor song

• Simon and Garfunkel - The sound of silence

• NIN - Hurt

• Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

• Dolly Parton - Jolene

• Annie Lennox - Don’t let it bring you down

Why not neither?

Wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam