wheeljack

wheeljack, 1 month ago to random

#QOTD

Scenario: all your currently owned cars have been vaporized in a microwave/non-dairy creamer accident. John Wick will eliminate you and everyone you've ever made eye contact with unless you buy a BRAND new off-the-lot car from a local brick'n'mortar dealership (local here meaning within your state or whatever the analogue to state is for your country). To make this purchase you have your current finances and credit.

What new car are you buying?

wheeljack, 1 month ago to random

Oatmeal raisin is vastly superior to chocolate chip, but if you disagree, that's fine and I'm glad you get a cookie you enjoy.

wheeljack, 2 months ago to random

#MorningJam

This one was suggested to me by a friend (the same one that got me into vinyl).

Some dope early '80s dance/soul/R&B

https://songwhip.com/rene-and-angela/walltowall

wheeljack, 2 months ago to random

People who drive with just their rear windows down must experience some sort of masochistic joy from buffeting.

wheeljack, 3 months ago to random

#MorningJam

I love that of all the people to potentially do a cover of Cobrastyle, Robyn nails it.

https://songwhip.com/robyn/cobrastyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVECruSI3k

wheeljack, 3 months ago to random

#WeirdCarMastodon

I'm 99% sure this is a Subaru, but which one? Is this a Justy? Maybe one of the 2-door GLs?

wheeljack, 3 months ago to random

#MorningJam

It's here!!!

20 year old me is -very- confused as to why I'm so excited for this. But he's an insufferable dick and this album is a gottamn delight.

wheeljack, 4 months ago to spotted

#OnTheStreet #Carspotting

E30s used to be ubiquitous, but this is the first I've seen in a while. This one was done up well, and a 2-door manual like an E30 should be.

I've never seen a Mazda3 in this color. On closer inspection it was an unfortunately orange-peeled respray. Super eye-catching, assuming that eye is attached to someone who cares about Mazda3s, hahaha

A white BMW car parked on a street with trees and a house in the background.

wheeljack, 4 months ago to random

Remember kids, when you post Youtube links (and others), remove the "si=" and whatever is after that equal sign. That's how they track who's sharing things to whom. (You'll also need to remove the question mark if that's the only something=something in the url.)

wheeljack, 4 months ago to Sacramento

🙌✨THE BEAM✨🙌

#Sacramento

wheeljack, 5 months ago to vinyl

Figured since Dua Lipa had my most listened-to song of 2022, it was worth picking up a physical copy of Future Nostalgia. This is one of those albums that probably would've been more appropriate on CD than #vinyl, but then I wouldn't be a cool record kid.

wheeljack, 6 months ago to vinyl

I finally found a copy at one of the local #vinyl shops. Been wanting this for long enough to justify the price of it new.

wheeljack, 6 months ago to random

Since I've been solo in the house, I've been using the built-in speakers in the Studio Display. They're not bad (actually pretty amazing for monitor speakers), but I had a hankering for the feel of being encapsulated in sound that only headphones can provide.

I can't articulate the specifics, but Apple Music just sounds -better- than Spotify, and it's that much more noticeable with my Sundaras.

#WeirdAudioMastodon

wheeljack, 6 months ago to vinyl

I saw this and immediately had to have it. Signed copy, white #vinyl. It's every bit as good as the album cover suggests and every bit as bad.

Rear of album cover for Trey Magnifique's "Mature Situations"

wheeljack, 6 months ago to kings

I'm not too much of a sports person, but my buddy got us tickets to the Kings game tonight and it was a blast. #LightTheBeam

Building in midtown Sac
Public transportation in midtown Sac
Light the beam!

wheeljack, 6 months ago to random

What possible evolutionary benefit is provided by making it feel so incredibly satisfying to pick scabs?

wheeljack, 6 months ago to random

I'm really thinking about ditching Spotify for Apple Music. I had free trial of it a while back and liked Apple, but kept Spotify as I was on a multi-user plan with my ex.

Now I want to jump ship, BUT I also have the fear of losing all my liked songs. Not sure if there's an easy way to export my list out of Spotify, or see if there's any songs out of my list Apple doesn't have.

@Dylan and @Mark, I think I remember you two talking about ways to convert playlists from one service to another?

wheeljack, 7 months ago to random

I'm getting REAL tired of getting interested in things either to find they have a way higher initial cost than anticipated, or they have a low initial cost and I end up buying way too much of said thing because it's "cheap".

wheeljack, 7 months ago to random

So, I want something that hits faster and for less duration than a gummy, but I had to give up the vape pen as it was triggering my asthma.

Would I have any chance of a dry herb vaporizer working with my dumb irritable lungs? I don't know anybody with one to be able to try it, and they're a bit more 'spensive than impulse buy money.

wheeljack, 7 months ago to random

#WeirdAudioMastodon

This looks neat, but as a headphone nerd 200mW@32ohm seems kinda weak (plenty for IEMs and Portapros, though.) I'm also not familiar with that DAC chip.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

wheeljack, 7 months ago to random

Came across this one again :D

wheeljack, 8 months ago to vinyl

I'm beyond excited to have Chiac Disco on #vinyl.

wheeljack, 9 months ago to random

Autocorrect is intentionally bad with certain words and makes intentional unnecessary corrections as a way of manipulating speech and controlling thought. It alters the words and phrases you use by artificially changing the difficulty of entering them, training you away from words and phrases "they" don't like.

wheeljack, 9 months ago to vinyl

#vinyl

Got another batch of records from my 'rents. This is more my Dad's side of the collection, lot of trumpet-focused jazz But there's still some really interesting stuff here.

This is a 1991collection of Elton John covers. From a quick perusal, a lot of this isn't available via streaming. Of particular note is the Kate Bush cover of Rocketman, Tina Turner doing The Bitch is Back, Hall and Oates doing Philadelphia Freedom, and Sinead O'Connor's version of Sacrifice.

Album cover for "Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin"

wheeljack, 9 months ago to random

Are there any cheap takeoff 17s that would fit my speed3? Factory wheels are 18x7.5 +45mm.

I wonder if Mustang wheels would work, but I'm not sure if the offset's gonna be right. I think it's in the ballpark, the numbers are finding have them listed as being 35-50mm for everything SN95 and up.

I just REALLY don't want to muck with scrub radius on this car as I imagine it'll only make the torque steer worse.