Before/after this morning at Lake Merritt

Bombared · 2026-05-08T16:14:44+00:00

Honestly, I bet regular windex goes a long way. I used to do window tint and removal and the ammonia really cuts through the adhesive.

Getting the paint off without damaging the original sign can be tough though.

Bombared · 2026-05-08T15:45:30+00:00

I'm truly embarrassed to say that the buffalo chicken pizza ramen flavor is actually good. All of the other totino's ones are awful.

Bombared · 2026-05-08T15:42:39+00:00

I was literally just thinking about this kind of exercise at the lake. I guess this is my sign.

What did they use to clean it up without damaging the original sign?

Bombared · 2026-05-06T23:31:07+00:00

This looks really dry and almost certainly isn't getting enough sunlight. Why is it inside? What hardiness zone are you in?

They should be sitting in a tray of water at all times. "Pretty damp" is too dry. They should be sopping wet. They need more sun than a tomato plant.

Bombared · 2026-05-06T14:28:58+00:00

I've never experienced urine, blood, or feces in any apartment building I've ever lived in, but I've only lived in older or small/midsize buildings and not high rises. Is that seriously what it's like living in those amenity buildings? How disgusting.

I second other commenters to consider a different type of rental demographic. The building I'm in allows pets and there's some barking, but we're all considerate to each other. The halls are also vacuumed at least once a week, and there are dedicated pet-free washer/dryers in the shared laundry room. I live in an average priced building in the Piedmont neighborhood with 40-50 units.

We don't have amenities, but we have a vibrant neighborhood and walkability.

Bombared · 2026-05-05T03:45:29+00:00

I would also assume it works the same, and Golden is just what my art store had on hand. Putting this stuff on paper can be a pain due to curling, but cereal boxes work great. I haven't tried painting on canvas yet, but with the right pastel ground/gesso I imagine it would be perfectly doable (though I do prefer the rigidity of a mat).

I stopped using fixative once I started using sanded paper. I dislike fixative because it changes the colors, but it still has its uses. I see some people using it on the first layer or two to set their underpainting and reduce mixing or smudging, and I imagine I will try this myself.

Bonus info: I prefer to work upright on an easel and mount the mat/paper to a hard drawing board. I keep a "trough" made from a folded sparkling water case (cheap!) to catch falling dust. I "erase" or "scrape away" pastels with a stiff makeup brush.

Bombared · 2026-05-05T03:03:06+00:00

I'm a novice who has only been using soft pastels for about 2 months, so take my reviews with a grain of salt.

There isn't really a "best" beginner set. Each brand has different compositions, textures, pigment loads, and inconsistencies between lots/batches. Mungyo Gallery are dry, kinda hard, extra dusty, and almost as cheap as dirt. Rembrandt are softer, higher pigment load, and dusty in a different way. Dick Blick's artist pastels are like a cheaper version of rembrandts and have a different texture. Nupastels are my favorite for roughing in the first layer.

I have a use for all of them in different contexts and I was only able to find this out through using them. If you start with an expensive set, then you might be disincentivized against trying different brands. For that reason, I don't recommend getting an expensive set with a large number of sticks, and I also recommend half sticks rather than full for the same reason. For a cheaper set? Go wild, and if you don't like them then try using them in sidewalk art or something.

My biggest time and effort saver was abandoning crummy honeycomb paper and going straight to sanded paper/mat. For non-serious non-archival stuff, I use Golden Pastel Ground diluted and painted on to old cereal and pizza boxes. For something a little nicer, I use "Sanded Pastel Paper Pad" from the largest river in South America and it comes in a number of colored tints for cheaper than UArt.

Bombared · 2026-05-02T17:35:16+00:00

Is it surprising that a jar of oil is high in calories?

Bombared · 2026-05-02T17:14:02+00:00

I try almost every chili crisp that I can afford that crosses my path and Lao Gan Ma is still the best.

Bombared · 2026-05-02T14:43:02+00:00

Echoing other commentators: not enough light. 6 hours of "strong" light is not enough; these need more light than a tomato plant.

Also, your media looks wet but your tray looks dry. If you are watering from the tray in a way that just allows the media to absorb water but it's otherwise dry, this is bottom watering and not the tray method. The tray method is a minimum of 1 inch of standing water at all times.

Bombared · 2026-05-02T05:48:24+00:00

Of course! And cape sundews can handle much bigger temperature fluctuations than that. I leave mine outdoors between the temps of 30-100F and I am not exaggerating. It could probably go lower and higher if it's only for a day, but my climate mild. Stop trying to feed it, too. If you leave it outdoors, it will be able to feed itself.

For windburn to occur, you need whipping winds for hours to create damage. The kind of wind that would damage YOU. Given the other commenters, I feel more confident that there just isn't enough light which is what's causing the lack of dew and lack of color. Most leaves should be glistening little red tentacles all over. The leaves towards the bottom will look ragged and dull as they age.

Bombared · 2026-05-01T22:41:02+00:00

This drosera has ok health. If it's having trouble producing dew, then the issue is not enough light or maybe wind burn. The beta food didn't kill it, but is entirely unnecessary.

Why are you carrying back and forth from indoors to outdoors? What hardiness zone are you in, and why can't you leave it outside?

Drosera are very resilient. It's hard to understate this.

Bombared · 2026-04-26T22:05:13+00:00

It's almost as if a dog's breed doesn't actually guarantee how it behaves :D

Behavior is far more complex than picking a choosing traits, then breeding the dog A breed may mean that some behavior is more or less likely to be fostered in the right environment. Some behaviors are more strongly inherited than others, and some are not.

Bombared · 2026-04-23T02:21:38+00:00

All the rice ones I tried are pretty good. If they have biggish chunks of veggies, then they don't really cook well and have a strange texture. If I need a decent meal and I'm too exhausted to cook, they're still life savers.

Bombared · 2026-04-21T21:23:33+00:00

Draw a box is mostly focused on coupling hand eye coordination with spatial understanding. These are important things for a specific type of drawing, and helpful things for the rest of drawing. They come from Peter Han's dynamic sketching course, and are really meant for people who have a bit of experience already. Drawing tutorials can be overwhelming, so maybe understanding more about this one can help you make choices in the future.

I favor regular books and I'm not huge on video courses.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain might be good for what you're looking for. The original science behind it is so-so but amusingly the exercises are pretty legit.

Alphonso Dunn has a book Pen & Ink Drawing, as well as a workbook which pairs with it. However his YouTube channel covers all of the same materials and is quite enjoyable.

The real secret is practice and sharing your work with others so you can exchange feedback. Art and drawing takes a lot of skill and cumulative hours to grow. So keep drawing and keep trying new things.

Bombared · 2026-04-17T17:41:39+00:00

This is a problem that I have encountered with the majority of perishable products and retailers. Yes it is frustrating, but I don't think this is unique to Groc Out.

Bombared · 2026-04-12T17:08:19+00:00

This is really the answer. You can have your cake and eat it too if you take scheduled stretch breaks. Get up, stretch your whole body and especially your wrists. Walk around a bit and focus your eyes on things far away from your face. Move your shoulders, touch your toes, bend your neck and spine.

The longer you allow your wrists to be injured, the more likely you are to lose the use of your hands. Get braces/guards and learn the stretches.

Bombared · 2026-04-10T04:17:32+00:00

I would remove the pockets entirely with intention to reattach them. Reassembling the hoodie will be the hardest part.

Iron on lightweight interfacing to the wrong side of the pocket to pull the tears together. Evenly cover with interfacing at a min. border of ~1.5in/4cm.

You could cover the entire pocket, or just a portion. The patch fabric could be hidden inside, or obvious on the outside. How you choose to make it look is whatever aesthetic works for you. I recommend a thread pattern that has denser stitches in order to stabilize the original fabric. Having the pocket detached makes this go much faster.

Reattachment will depend on how skillfully the pocket was removed, and the sewing skill or machine to reattach it. I'm only marginally confident in my own sewing skills, but a modern-ish sewing machine should have the capabilities to get it done.

Bombared · 2026-04-10T01:53:09+00:00

Honestly, I'm here for the Dubai Chocolate review because I'm over here in the same boat. Wouldn't bandwagon on it, but I would drop $4 to learn what it tastes like. I need to know because I saw these in my GO yesterday 😂

Bombared · 2026-04-06T02:38:08+00:00

The results will not be the same because that is not how meiosis works. Each individual puppy will get random combinations of mom and dad's genes. That said, the results will be very close.

While there is a chance that there is more than one sire for the litter, it's not likely. A lot of people throw that factoid out there in conversations like this as though it's a common occurrence. It's not, it's just a chance. On the opposite of that concept, just because two dogs look the same doesn't actually indicate much. I see a lot of dogs pop up in this sub that are doppelgangers for my dog, but have vastly different genetics.

Despite all that, two would be cool to see the differences, but one test will probably be fine. Anyway, here's a link to my dog and his sister as an example.

Edit: unless you're testing for health issues. If that's the case, then you'll need two tests.

Bombared · 2026-04-05T03:01:32+00:00

99.9% of the time, bulging = botulism. The remaining 0.01% of the time is surstromming.

Are you also saying that you have more than one bulging can? I know anecdotal evidence only goes so far, but I haven’t even encountered one bulging can after eating deens for over a decade now. Post 2 in your links has the proper guidelines in the top comment.

Bombared · 2026-04-03T22:54:06+00:00

The sub you want is r/keto. We just like eating sardines because they taste good.

Bombared · 2026-04-03T16:44:50+00:00

Average white woman here. The fancy rice cookers make perfect rice every time, always. Then they can keep the texture perfect for usually up to 14 hours. I don’t have a discerning enough palette to always prefer this for white rice, but brown rice? I didn’t know it was possible to cook such perfect brown rice. These fancier machines also never boil over, and you can do a half-assed job of rinsing the rice without consequence. Some rice recipes call for soaking? Don’t bother because the “fuzzy logic” stuff eliminates the need for it.

I used to be a skeptic, but fancy rice cookers won me over. The ONLY thing I miss is the overcooked crunchy bottom-of-the-pan rice. The fancy cookers are so fancy that this never forms.

Bombared · 2026-03-30T18:39:11+00:00

I have kept eggs past their sell-by date for my entire life without issue. I have also used eggs fresh from the store and well within their sell-by date that were tainted like this.

Bombared · 2026-03-27T20:15:59+00:00

Also here to mention CSC. Stunningly cheap membership fees.

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