Post what you are thinking at this very moment

[Godfather]

Ok I used the ublock origin plugin for a bit today... no more youtube ads. Seems to work really well.

https://ublockorigin.com/

[KevinD]

Unfortunately I use the Samsung browser, with duckduckgo. That looks to only be for I think Google browser?

[lost in melb.]

Unfortunately I use the Samsung browser, with duckduckgo. That looks to only be for I think Google browser?

Yes. A simple solution is to get a VPN. I use NordVPN, which has a built in adblocker.

It also means that your internet provider can't see what you're surfing either. Complete anonymity.

[DemonGeminiX]

Fuck, adblock ultimate finally stopped working for blocking youtube ads, RIP. Going to have to find something new... sounds like ublock origin is the way.

:-k

Didn't I fart around with this last year sometime? Yeah, uBlock Origin works, if you're not logged in to an account. Nothing works if you're logged into an account, they just shut down your ability to play videos.

I liked Youtube better back before Google bought it.

[FBD]

I liked Youtube better back before Google bought it.

eugenicists ruin everything

[FBD]

head rothschild dead, the world just got a bit better

https://i.imgur.com/NEEn4dQ.jpeg

[FBD]

wew lad

augmented some point of practice I was doing, unleashed things I need to take some time to refine and integrate

sufficient to take leave from work

settling would seem to indicate its a good idea to also take leave of what's going on in the world - I've already seen enough and know where we are on the trail, its not really doing a whole lot of good to have the magnifying glass on all the flora & fauna we pass on the trip. you guys dont think certain flowers are plastic :lol: but that's ok, these things will remain to be examined later, enough energy has been spent for the time being.

may be around here or there but for the time being fuck computers, fuck the internet, fuck work :dance:

[FBD]

:lol: this ladybug was flying wildly about my desk and crashed on my mousepad. gave it a dab of water like the size of it, its spent the last like 5 minutes drinking the whole thing down, almost gone

[lost in melb.]

wew lad

augmented some point of practice I was doing, unleashed things I need to take some time to refine and integrate

sufficient to take leave from work

settling would seem to indicate its a good idea to also take leave of what's going on in the world - I've already seen enough and know where we are on the trail, its not really doing a whole lot of good to have the magnifying glass on all the flora & fauna we pass on the trip. you guys dont think certain flowers are plastic :lol: but that's ok, these things will remain to be examined later, enough energy has been spent for the time being.

may be around here or there but for the time being fuck computers, fuck the internet, fuck work :dance:

Have fun!

Try not to sit around smoke a bunch of dope and get paranoid :razz:

[FBD]

Have fun!

Try not to sit around smoke a bunch of dope and get paranoid :razz:

:lol: I'd get a talking to if I acted like you have been

[FBD]

I was gonna go throw today, but damn its windy and chilly

was sitting in 2nd place at putting league when I left last night, should mean some cash :dance: I keep migrating what putters I'm using, I've gotta have like 50 of 'em by now :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

Why does it always seem like other people have the best luck in the world and I have no luck at all?

[lost in melb.]

:lol: I'd get a talking to if I acted like you have been

Your survivability surprises everyone :)

Now, what in God's name is throwing? Are you talking about a round of golf?

[FBD]

Your survivability surprises everyone :)

Now, what in God's name is throwing? Are you talking about a round of golf?

Disc golf, man! I've mentioned it a handful of times, perhaps you just missed it :D Now that I think of it I posted a cool down under course over in the all things aussie thread, NZ where they did Lotr, great views there. It got a lot more popular when covid came and everything shut down. I was rather skeptical at first glance but after going and playing, nope, this shit is fun. All the essence of ball golf, different flight physics, and mostly free to go play. Takes 1:30-2 hours a round of 18, everything's shrunk from yards to feet more or less. Par 5s are somewhat rare though and the norm is par 3s at most courses, home is par 57.

A buddy of mine raised his hand to be el capitan of our b squad team at our home course for Team Challenge over the winter so I said fuckit I'll play. Got a home match tomorrow so I will be making a bigass pot of chili today for it since home team provides food. I usually make a 2-3 alarm habanero beef/pork recipe, no recipe :lol:

Oh nice, my buddy does a/b pool and women separately at putting league, hell yeah I won that shit not going against the A pool guys :lol:

[FBD]

Go walking up to hole 6 to start yesterday and my buddy (capt) tells me "I had every intention of getting you a favorable matchup, but unfortunately you and I are in the shit here"

:lol:

I checked after the match and yep, dude had +105 rating points on me. I still shoulda beaten him, I was pretty fkn pissed I didnt, lost 2 w 1 to go.

We still won the day, but boy was I pissed about losing that friggin match. Had a wack drive on 6 but that's hard to birdie anyway, wack on 4 12 13 14 18, 15 is short and I thought he had a long putt so I laid up then I look and oh...shit he's got 15 feet, I'da went for that death putt with the 20 foot drop behind it if I paid better attention. It was enough fk'n up that I was pissed, lol. But what got me the most was chaining out my birdie putt on 1 and missing the comeback from down in the stream after, that woulda set us even with 4 to go instead of going into hole 2 down 2. It was on the side of an embankment and ~30 ft...but I make those all day :roll:

Afternoon came and my body felt like such shit that my partner carried me the entire round. I had one good putt on 13 after we both air mailed a 40 footer for par and went way the fuck down this hill, but I had a good bogey save from 70 feet away and 20 feet down....but other than that my body was just not behaving and giving me arbitrary %s of output from various body parts, it just results in discs all over the goddamn place :lol:

TC is fun but its a bit too much, it was chilly & rainy all day yesterday. My chili is all gone, so that's good.

[lost in melb.]

Disc golf, man! I've mentioned it a handful of times, perhaps you just missed it :D Now that I think of it I posted a cool down under course over in the all things aussie thread, NZ where they did Lotr, great views there. It got a lot more popular when covid came and everything shut down. I was rather skeptical at first glance but after going and playing, nope, this shit is fun. All the essence of ball golf, different flight physics, and mostly free to go play. Takes 1:30-2 hours a round of 18, everything's shrunk from yards to feet more or less. Par 5s are somewhat rare though and the norm is par 3s at most courses, home is par 57.

A buddy of mine raised his hand to be el capitan of our b squad team at our home course for Team Challenge over the winter so I said fuckit I'll play. Got a home match tomorrow so I will be making a bigass pot of chili today for it since home team provides food. I usually make a 2-3 alarm habanero beef/pork recipe, no recipe :lol:

Oh nice, my buddy does a/b pool and women separately at putting league, hell yeah I won that shit not going against the A pool guys :lol:

Sounds like fun! And when you say shrunk from yards to feet I assume you mean it's played on a dedicated course...

Golf is fairly popular around in the city Melbourne. My grandfather was a big player :)

[FBD]

Sounds like fun! And when you say shrunk from yards to feet I assume you mean it's played on a dedicated course...

Golf is fairly popular around in the city Melbourne. My grandfather was a big player :)

Moreso just that in ball golf everything's measured in yards, disc golf we go by feet....but you metric folks it stays meters

Definitely dedicated courses. They seem to vary a lot more than ball golf in that ball golf its pretty much always par 72 unless its a chip n putt course, but disc is all over the place. Page Park is a par 57.

Dad's a big golfer too, always loves to bring out that story of beating this other top tier guy in a high school match back in the day 9 with 8 to go :lol: He's got a perfect Ben Hogan swing, or at least he used to. Got me golfing when I was 5, which is most likely the reason I can whip a disc lefty :)

I'll put up a vid from page in wtf

[Teh One Who Knocks]

What a week last week :| :suicide:

[lost in melb.]

What a week last week :| :suicide:

Work or life? :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Work or life? :-k

Both lol, but mostly work. We were down 2 people last week so I was out in the shop working trying to get parts made, and of course in the meantime, all the paperwork I do daily was piling up, so now I have all that to deal with. It's never ending.

[FBD]

Both lol, but mostly work. We were down 2 people last week so I was out in the shop working trying to get parts made, and of course in the meantime, all the paperwork I do daily was piling up, so now I have all that to deal with. It's never ending.

hope you can retire early with all this work you put in, bro

[Teh One Who Knocks]

hope you can retire early with all this work you put in, bro

That won't happen lol, but I appreciate the sentiment.

[FBD]

That won't happen lol, but I appreciate the sentiment.

well, I hope for all of us that we all get to retire comfortably at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKz1Kgykp4

[lost in melb.]

Both lol, but mostly work. We were down 2 people last week so I was out in the shop working trying to get parts made, and of course in the meantime, all the paperwork I do daily was piling up, so now I have all that to deal with. It's never ending.

Sounds like you were holding the place together!

[DemonGeminiX]

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was 6 foot 4 and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich...

[Pony]

Both lol, but mostly work. We were down 2 people last week so I was out in the shop working trying to get parts made, and of course in the meantime, all the paperwork I do daily was piling up, so now I have all that to deal with. It's never ending.

I feel ya, I'm back to work 2-3 weeks early this year due to warm weather and ongoing projects. We're in the path of the eclipse 4/8, we open for business 4/1. We canned a long time manager last fall and now lost two more that chose to not return, plus our other long term maintenance guy is scaling back. Pretty much leaves me as the sole remaining long term "on site" staff.

At least I managed to hire a full time guy and we have a couple Visa kids coming back that know the routine. Think we will be ok, but it's gonna be hectic for a few.

[lost in melb.]

I feel ya, I'm back to work 2-3 weeks early this year due to warm weather and ongoing projects. We're in the path of the eclipse 4/8, we open for business 4/1. We canned a long time manager last fall and now lost two more that chose to not return, plus our other long term maintenance guy is scaling back. Pretty much leaves me as the sole remaining long term "on site" staff.

At least I managed to hire a full time guy and we have a couple Visa kids coming back that know the routine. Think we will be ok, but it's gonna be hectic for a few.

A good time to demand a pay rise :shifty:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

A good time to demand a pay rise :shifty:

https://i.imgur.com/6af3tIy.gif

https://i.imgur.com/8QsZJHY.gif

[FBD]

https://i.imgur.com/I2ye6jy.jpeg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

BOHICA :|

[DemonGeminiX]

He... is... so... full.. of... shit.

[KevinD]

Microphone has arrived. Got Room EQ wizard installed on laptop, and started studying how to actually use REW/mic. Gonna be a long process since this is my first time "tuning" a car sound system. Wish I knew someone who knows about this stuff, but so far its pretty interesting and enjoyable.

[FBD]

Microphone has arrived. Got Room EQ wizard installed on laptop, and started studying how to actually use REW/mic. Gonna be a long process since this is my first time "tuning" a car sound system. Wish I knew someone who knows about this stuff, but so far its pretty interesting and enjoyable.

what are ya missing about the process?

[FBD]

well that's a first, sat night I managed to sling my disc bag improperly, phone went out, in the rain, I ran the fucker over with the car, screen facing gravel :doh:

[KevinD]

what are ya missing about the process?

I'll start a thread with captures of speakers from REW.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

God I hate the time change so fucking much.

[FBD]

it made it worse getting taunted by congress where they said they were going to get rid of it and then the dems add some garbage that nobody wants and the bill was killed. we should have a law that prevents congress from trying to put a bunch of unrelated shit in a bill, they already have these omnibus bills that are general bills that have all kinds of shit in them.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Colorado is actually ready to go onto permanent DST, but one of two things need to happen to trigger the change. Either the feds need to repeal the Uniform Time Act of 1966 or four other states in the Mountain Time Zone need to change with us. What sucks is, we could stay on Standard Time without any law changes, the UTA of 1966 lets any state opt out of changing to DST, but for a state to stay on permanent DST, you need Congress to approve it.

[FBD]

screw standard time, dark too early

Congress, they're a bunch of crooks, as gram always used to say

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Wasn't snowing at all at 7 last night, and this was 3 AM when I got to work (and the roads are absolute shit):

https://i.imgur.com/vhDKBdjl.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/iUWjDHZl.jpeg

[FBD]

dayum!

[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://i.imgur.com/BdvIyhBl.jpeg

Still coming down...

[FBD]

I was out throwing discs in a tank top yesterday :lol:

ace runs on 12 & 17, missed by a foot or two, just wish I didnt catch that tree on 18, I smashed that one pretty good

little studio musicianianing until 1am tho, I'm tired today

[lost in melb.]

https://i.imgur.com/BdvIyhBl.jpeg

Still coming down...

Wow, how can this be so!?

[FBD]

Wow, how can this be so!?

its pretty simple - co2 has about a cunt hair's width above fuckall to do with the climate writ large ;)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Wow, how can this be so!?

Massive snowstorm :dunno:

[lost in melb.]

Massive snowstorm :dunno:

I'll be swimming there soon :d

[FBD]

its so nice out its ladybug day, when all the ladybugs that come find their way in my house for winter start trying to escape. that last one didnt wanna get caught, but I finally did and brought 'im to the window and held my hand out with it on it, crawled 3/4 the way down my finger, turned back and looked at me for a second, then turned back around and went to my fingertip and took off :wave:

[FBD]

some good synchronicity lately, buddy of mine used to like to draw and hasnt in forever, his mom bought him a sketch pad since he was talking about it, so I decided to bring him one of my easels - he's a music teacher and one of his students who has some bad eyesight problems just so happened to have a lesson the day I dropped it off, while he was out scrambling around trying to figure out he was going to accommodate for the vision issues for the lesson in a few hours :lol:

[KevinD]

https://i.imgur.com/BdvIyhBl.jpeg

Still coming down...

Work wants me to fly up to CO Tuesday for 2 weeks and run the 5 or so rigs we have in that area. Told them all my stuff is in Odessa, y'know. Where I work??? I'd have to go to Odessa first. Tbh, don't want to go.

[DemonGeminiX]

My local movie theater closed down. It opened in 1990, the year before I moved down here from NJ. I have a lot of memories in that theater. I'm really bummed out.

[lost in melb.]

My local movie theater closed down. It opened in 1990, the year before I moved down here from NJ. I have a lot of memories in that theater. I'm really bummed out.

Netflix et Al. notches up another kill.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:suicide:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

My local movie theater closed down. It opened in 1990, the year before I moved down here from NJ. I have a lot of memories in that theater. I'm really bummed out.

The very last drive-in theater in metro Denver just announced they are opening again for another season after saying last year was going to be the end for them.

[DemonGeminiX]

The very last drive-in theater in metro Denver just announced they are opening again for another season after saying last year was going to be the end for them.

That's cool. I've never been to a drive-in.

[KevinD]

Didn't realize it, but I have been spending most of my time lately on guitar and especially car audio forums. I look back and I see that I've almost daily done fly-bys here, but not posted.

[lost in melb.]

Didn't realize it, but I have been spending most of my time lately on guitar and especially car audio forums. I look back and I see that I've almost daily done fly-bys here, but not posted.

It's been pretty quiet. I haven't posted much either. In transit in Budapest, about to eat cheap pizza. Lol.

[lost in melb.]

https://i.ibb.co/yfJkR8z/20240404-195437.jpg (https://ibb.co/1vxXn9C)

And I've just come from Shanghai. That's two authoritarian countries in a row.

[Godfather]

Back from a trip to Cali. Had to go for a work conference so I flew my wife down at the end and we went to Palm Springs for a few nights. Fun times lounging by the pool but wasn't otherwise that impressed, went to a few restaurants and the food and main strip are all kinda meh. Weather is unreal though and played some really nice golf courses at decent prices since apparently this is already near end of season with it getting so hot. Overall great trip!