I’ve been in the professional workforce since 2003 and haven’t been to one of these. A company I worked for in 2004 had one but since I was new, I had to pull the oncall shift so couldn’t attend. Pretty sure they were going out of style by 2001. If any company I worked for hosted one now I would just think it’s odd and say I was out of town anyways. I like my direct coworkers but can’t imagine a scenario where I would want to attend a party with the managers and execs.

West coast US…it’s only just beginning.

I took a class in my undergrad program titled Human Engineering and Ergonomics. It was an elective in comp sci but I really think it should have been a requirement. Going through how humans communicate and perceive interfaces/communication. Every developer should have to take it.

I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.

So long as you realize we are just in volume 5 of the year 2020 it all makes sense.

Ahhhh. That makes sense. I guess I had always assumed that it would be more efficient to have one centralized “burning of the gas” event to create and distribute electricity than numerous individual burning events to create heat but it makes sense that due to the efficiency of just converting gas to heat directly it would be more efficient.

I think my curiosity is more around the “why” of the gas lines. I put in another comment above but it’s a good amount of effort to run and maintain these lines when we already have and need electric. We’re adding an additional source of risk to these environments for what additional benefit? I’m not talking trash about gas I’m just wondering what the selling point is. Like I said, I have a gas furnace and it’s fine…no complaints. Is it much more efficient than electric? Hotter? There has to be some compelling reason to put in the effort.

I guess my question was more about the “why” for gas lines. I mean it’s a lot of extra effort to put them in place and maintain them when we already have electric coming into the houses.

This is a reason I never understood modern homes in the US being built with natural gas furnaces and appliances. My house had a gas furnace even though most other homes around have electric. You have a flammable gas under pressure going through miles of pipe to get to each home. A leak anywhere could be really dangerous along those many miles. Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this (maybe I’m wrong in that I just don’t hear of many). Meanwhile, electric appliances use the electricity that has to come into a house anyways.

I miced up a drummer for home recording using cheap Fender conference mics that came with the fender PA. It’s all she had. It technically worked but I ended up having to overlay the kick and snare with samples in the DAW to make it sound decent. I’m the sound and recording guy for a few local bands as I’m their only free option (I’m in them). One of these days I swear we are going to have something worth “real” recording and use a studio. Until then, I improve slightly every time I work through these things.

I’m not particularly good at micing up cabinets but with the 57, my guitar tone sounds good no matter how bad my placement seems to be (slightly off center damn near touching grill). I tried so many ways to get bass decent on it but the 52 just worked without effort. I’m sure an expert could probably get the 52 to sound decent/good but for the rest of us, just use a 52. Don’t have a 58 so can’t comment on that but I doubt any Shure mics are bad.

All of those yes but not the kick and bass mic. Had to buy a beta 52 for those.

LOL I just pictured someone surrounded by wrappers of Metamucil and not a veggie in sight. “I’m getting all the fiber”.

She can have them.

The only way he could effectively run it into the ground was to attach his name on it.

For all of the shit people talk about the English language, this is a big thing I appreciate about it. What the hell was the point of even gendering random things from the start? In German, the main gendering are die, der, and das with das being gender neutral. I would like to see a world where in scenarios like that they just move everything to das.

The 2007-2011 Australian TV drama Sea Patrol.

“The Stellantis spokesperson concluded by saying that owners can permanently opt out of in-vehicle messaging by calling the company’s customer care line at 800-777-3600.” well that’s some bullshit. They made it so that you can’t change a setting without a phone call.

I thought the younger folk would be faster on computers than me but I had to show a junior new hire IT tech what a zip file was and how to open it. Something that I assumed would be second nature to them, they hadn’t seen. Growing up with analog and moving to digital as society progressed, I assumed the next generation would smoke me in tech but it’s been surprising that because tech has “Just worked” for many of them they haven’t had to learn how it works. A blessing and a curse I suppose.

I was wondering how the episodes were so long and well done. I kept thinking, “why can’t all new Star Wars be this good” and I’m guessing it’s the cost. Andor and Rogue One are easily my favorite Star Wars experiences.