JohnnyEnzyme

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JohnnyEnzyme,

In retrospect, I wouldn’t have minded if Steve’s total frat-boy narcissism had been toned down a bit, initially.

That way when Bobbi and Steve first dated, we might have gotten the initial illusion that there was a semi-spark of mutual interest, setting up Bobbi’s later realisation that Steve was just a hopeless idiot. In that way we would have had the pleasure of seeing Steve’s ego actually bruised, with life offering him a teachable moment.

As is, with Bobbi’s indifference right from square one, Steve had the luxury of bullshitting himself without getting truly invested, as he did with pretty much everything else in life.

JohnnyEnzyme,

Waaaaiiitaaminute…!

So who’s saying “snort snort” exactly (the birds, concealed), or is it a sound effect?

JohnnyEnzyme,

It’s hard to see the Pacers slowing down the Celts too much, and yet look what happened in game 1 before disaster struck.

Still, I’d love to see the Celts not given a huge rest before facing the West champ. From the ESPN schedule, it looks like a West game 7 could happen on June 3rd, with the finals starting on June 6th, giving the West a mere two days off, potentially.

JohnnyEnzyme,

I’ve actually seen photos of this technique used on Japanese trains, where it’s evidently super-common for people to stare at foreigners for minutes on end without an ounce of self-awareness.

Couldn’t find any photos of such via quick search, but did find this: reykjavik.jp/tsb/

Some guy very kindly created a cover for people to print out and slip over whatever books they’re reading. XD

JohnnyEnzyme,

In my desktop Chrome, it does say “not secure” next to the link, so possibly the website is being auto-rejected by your browser for safety reasons.

So then, I’ll just upload one of the three pics and copy-paste some text:

https://i.imgur.com/sMdhLF0.jpeg

Through the years living in Japan, I heard many non-Japanese friends complain of staring in public. One such incident inspired this, a book cover for a fictional book called Why Do Japanese People Stare At Foreigners? by fictional author Masao Suzuki (coincidentally the ex-president of department store Matsuzakaya shares the same name).

The idea is simple, print out this cover and wrap it around a suitable book. Then once you get stared at in public to the point of discomfort, take out the book and start reading with the cover facing the starer. The person is then made aware of the situation in the most Japanese of ways, through non-confrontation.

JohnnyEnzyme,

Actually the last three before this made little sense without Heathcliff. Unless you believe in magic puppets, I guess.

JohnnyEnzyme,

Well then, everything and nothing makes sense with and without Heathcliff.

It’s the unifying theory behind quantum mechanics and general relativity, they just didn’t know where to look!

JohnnyEnzyme,

The act of looking changes the reality.

JohnnyEnzyme,

LeBron James Headlines…

This seemed like hyperbole until I remembered that achieving ALL-NBA at 39yo is unheard of. Maybe in other major sports, but I don’t know that it’s ever been done before in the NBA.

I still have Wilt, Jordan and Kareem on my Mt. Rushmore, but it’s going to be damned hard to argue against LeBron as the hooved, horned animal when his career is done.

JohnnyEnzyme,

What would be some commonly unused features?

JohnnyEnzyme,

I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I’d researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn’t realise that it required power, meaning I couldn’t just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn’t have been a requirement as it already had power.

I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

JohnnyEnzyme,

You’re a big help.

JohnnyEnzyme,

While I don’t dispute any of that, it seems to me that Google’s CAPTCHA services can also cycle endlessly no matter what.

For example, I’ll have uMatrix give full permission to the service early in the day, and the queries will never end. Come back a few hours later and it will work first-time, no problem. Other days it might loop in images more than usual but will eventually work.

As if they have no issues with my particular setup, but sometimes lose track of my progress through the CAPTCHA.

JohnnyEnzyme,

World collapses and all maps of New Zealand are destroyed.

That made perfect sense to me for a moment because I’ve read several times now that NZ seems to be the preferred location for global billionaires to build their ultimate survival bunkers when collapse happens.

Plus, I imagine they’d want people topside to hang on there reasonably well for several reasons, such as a labor pool, genetics pool, testing pool, and possibly to grow some food on the surface.

JohnnyEnzyme,

@LaunchesKayaks

My cousin loves this shit and idk how. It’s so fucking gross.

@teamevil

Oh my fucking God…they are like shitty Cheeto soup

If you make it as-is then yeah, I’m sure it’s pretty mediocre, but similar to ramen, if you use some simple food hacks, then this stuff is friggin’ delicious. Here’s some tips:

  • First of all if it’s soupy, then you’ve added WAY too much water. It’s not supposed to be like that.
  • Second, it’s generally a bad idea to microwave or pour boiling water in to mixes like this because: 1) the stuff usually doesn’t cook very well, and 2) whatever’s in the container will usually leech in to the food. This probably isn’t too bad for this Cheeto’s stuff (cup is made with cardboard and maybe plastic / wax coating), but is dreadful for the instant ramen mixes, which usually use styrofoam.
  • So, it’s best to start with some veggies in a pot before adding the ingredients. Stuff like onions, thinly-sliced cabbage, maybe a tomato make a huge difference. Since you’re already likely a spice-head if you’re trying this out, add some extra red pepper flakes and maybe some curry powder, too. After that all cooks for a while, THEN add the noodles. Could throw an egg in there, too.
  • Cook until noodles are soft, drain any excess water if necessary, then stir in the flavoring and some extra grated parm or similar.
  • What you get is a deliciously spicy alt to mac & cheese which features thinner, tastier noodles and all kind of extra flavors. Perfect cold weather snack IMO.

@hOrni

JohnnyEnzyme,

Not true.
As with loaded ramen, it takes very little effort to make this kind of meal.

Yeah, it might seem complicated for a first-timer, but if you simply experiment a couple times, you’ll hit on a personalised, tasty hot snack that you can pretty much make in your sleep.

JohnnyEnzyme, (edited )

That’s meaningless without an example, and just dodges the point of what I’m saying.

A “real meal” could be almost anything. Last night for example I was in the mood for french fries. So I spiralised a large potato, soaked it in two cold water baths (IYKYK), pressed, drained, brushed with oil, then spent about three 10min intervals air-frying and carefully turning & separating, repeat. Finally seasoning them and enjoying them.

Guess how much more effort that took than doing the loaded mac & cheese?

JohnnyEnzyme,

Maybe your experience was like mine in class. It just wasn’t the right format for me, and I needed to find a different way to unlock the door.

JohnnyEnzyme,

Thank you for these thoughts & interesting perspective. :-)

JohnnyEnzyme,

Okay, looks like same issue today.
I tried editing the post, but it didn’t jump any higher in the community’s “active” list.

Will try again tomorrow.

JohnnyEnzyme,

Seems okay today!

The former ‘problem post’ is sorting properly now, and a new post made today looks like it’s being seen by people in the “active” streams. :D

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