cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26207385
pH3ra
joined 3 years ago
In my mind, I've made it abundantly clear what I want.
Every sentence that starts with "in my mind" is not objective, therefore there is no fault in a faulty translation by the interpreter. If you want to be understood, you can either try to be clearer or give up on the responsibility of being understood. And if you give up on that responsibility, you cannot complain about the outcome of said communication.
You're either not paying attention, or not focused on me enough to hear what I'm saying
This is an extremely narcissistic way to view relationships: if I'm not focused on you it means that I
A) have something more important to think about
B) I have not understood the gravity of the situation and that can be corrected
Of course if I think something trivial is more important than you it might be a problem, but this is hardly ever the case
now I'm mad enough that I fear I will start an argument if I need to spell it out again
Not talking about it is a wonderful way to start a bigger, heavier argument later
Me: "Ok I'm listening, what do you want to say?"
Every woman I met in my life: "Nothing..."
So it's not just us Italians
I mostly watch guitar luthiers on youtube nowadays as a background for when I do stuff like washing dishes and such, so I don't want to listen to people yelling.
My favourite channels are twoodfrd and Doug McCormack for this reason exactly: they're laid back, constructive and polite
Go for it as soon as you can gaslight one of your friends into buying a dum kit
I got it second hand in a pawn shop when I was on vacation in Dublin. It was initially supposed to be just a souvenir, but I kept it as I never had a complaint with it.
Wussy just dropped
So the universe is flat, right?
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez to go to space on next launch from Jeff Bezos' rocket company
You wish
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez to go to space on next launch from Jeff Bezos' rocket company
"Baby you're a firework"
I learned about the existence of this book almost one year ago and the story is pretty fun:
Do you remember this guy?
If you do you grunt when you get up from the chair. If you don't, this was a meme from 2009, when the internet was a way different place.
This meme came back to my mind last year, when I was talking with a friend and they didn't remember it, so I googled it and found out that his name was Gerry Alanguilan and he was a comic writer from the Philippines. And I found out that the guy, other than being a renowned inker both for Marvel and DC, also drew and wrote Elmer, a satyrical and dystopian story staged in a world where chickens become sentient.
The plot was so appealing that I started deep diving to find about this book I never heard about: the worldwide promotional tour for this comic had to be cancelled due to a sudden illness of the author, so it never took off and remained pretty obscure and hard to find, expecially in Europe, where it had a limited printing but only in France and UK.
I managed to find a copy on eBay last month that could be shipped here and now I'm glad I can finally read it.
Always braid your cables kids, it helps with shielding
As I said in the last post I made, I had the intention to upgrade the guts of my newly bought guitar. I switched out potentiometers and pickup selector for something that wouldn't feel as cheap, added a coil split mode through push/push pot and added a treble bleed to brighten up the tone. Everything I needed I found on Thomann.
Here's the schematics I made with DIY Layout Creator, which is a really cool piece of free software that I can only recommend if you're into this sort of stuff. You can find it on FlatHub as well.
... but I had such a good deal with this guitar that I couldn't miss the opportunity.
I started being interested in this kind of design since Squier reissued the Toronado in its Paranormal series, based on an old Fender model discontinued in '06.
And I found out that Ibanez gave such a design a chance in 2012 with the Roadcore Series and in particular with this mid-tier model: the RC320.
While searching some information about it, I found a listing of a guy selling one not far from where I live. It was a really, really good bargain so I ended up buying it.
The guitar is a distillate of features from all the most iconic guitars manufactured in the last century: it has a mahogany body and humbuckers like a Les Paul or a PRS, an offset shape like a Jazzmaster/Jaguar, a 648mm scale and a bolt on maple neck with rosewood board like a Stratocaster, but with a flat radius and the crazy low action only Ibanez can make.
And as an upgrade, the previous owner installed a couple of Blues Engines pickups, that have a very apt name given the warm tones they produce.
I have in mind over the next months to upgrade the electronics and since the humbuckers are splittable, add a push/push potentiometer to experiment with an alternative configuration. I'll try to post some pictures of the job.
Following the post of this week, I'm really happy of how it turned out.
Now I can retire my old Beringer TO800
For my birthday I gifted myself a DIY Pedal Kit: it's a clone of a quite famous effect, can you guess what it is?
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Un mio amico è partito un po' di anni fabper l'Olanda con zero conoscenze di computer eccetto averne montati un paio, ha incominciato a fare IT per le aziende mentre si guardava filmati su youtube per risolvere i problemi che gli capitavano e pian piano ha imparato. Nel frattempo ha preso lezioni di programmazione e adesso gestisce la parte software di una startup. Ovviamente devi trovare una situazione che favorisca questa cosa e in Italia ahimè ce n'è poche.