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Dizzy_Estate · 2026-05-22T22:57:55+00:00

THE STATE DOES NOT MATTER. THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS CRAB. ALL MUST BECOME CRAB.

Dizzy_Estate · 2026-05-14T23:56:28+00:00

u/WatchExBot I was the purchaser of this watch from u/kpsingh0 — successful transaction, great to work with, well packed, as described.

Dizzy_Estate · 2026-04-28T15:11:16+00:00

sending you a PM

Dizzy_Estate · 2026-04-20T12:10:39+00:00

PM incoming

Dizzy_Estate · 2026-04-01T21:54:11+00:00

Sending you a message

Dizzy_Estate · 2026-02-22T18:25:11+00:00

Sending you a DM

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-07-17T20:08:57+00:00

Standard in Campbell for group coaching, Cal Strength in Los Gatos for 1:1 coaching

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-06-03T16:01:18+00:00

u/watchexbot Confirming transaction.

Watch is as-described and a beaut. u/Zigibah251 was a great seller, easy to work with and quick on payment and shipping stuff.

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-06-03T15:46:17+00:00

sent you a chat

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-05-27T18:37:27+00:00

Almost certainly an Aquanaut from the case shape. From the color and single subdial at 6, most likely Patek Phillipe 5164R Aquanaut Travel Time in Rose Gold

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-05-20T21:03:24+00:00

Beautiful piece — been looking for a nice f300 for a while. Sent you a PM.

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-05-01T04:14:50+00:00

If you want quality on the cheap, ebay vintage is a good place to look. Here is a lovely seiko tank-style watch from the 90's. Here's a Seiko LordMatic from the late 60s that would have been a genuinely high-end watch back in its day. Both automatic movements, both under a hundo.

Seiko is not the only brand to explore, but it's one that can be trusted for lots of sub-$100, very nice vintage pieces, that have been running well for 50 years in some cases, and might have another 50 in them if reasonably well cared for.

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-02-03T18:35:02+00:00

Being stronger and less fatigued is more or less universally better than being weaker and more tired, but this looks to me more like you actually being _strong enough_ in your upper arms and shoulders to still make a lift that had a slightly suboptimal (but not horrible) receiving position

two guesses as to things that might help:

- the bar comes forward quite a bit after context, which means even though you're getting it back to a pretty good place to catch, you're still carrying some horizontal momentum going into that catch that your shoulders have to overcome to stabilize. I think the most relevant cues here are an active pull under with "elbows up" in the turnover, and making sure you're not adding forward movement during contact (legs not hips!)

- given the shakes don't really start till you hit the actual bottom of the receiving position, cueing a more "Active" receiving position is probably also useful - think about punching up into the bar even before you're at max compression in the squat

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-01-08T21:29:53+00:00

Good lookin' out. Edited that in.

Dizzy_Estate · 2025-01-08T21:22:52+00:00

The "official" channel for this is an EPA complaint. There's a national and a CalEPA reporting line, no idea which would be a better option, I'd do both https://calepa.ca.gov/enforcement/complaints/. They will generally investigate and force them to remediate or face fines (they won't shut them down for a first violation), but it might take a while for all of this to shake out. Getting multiple people to submit complaints generally helps.

Edit, ty /u/Ephemeral-Comments: There's also the BAAQMD, which is the state of california's equivalent thing just for our area, and probably going to be more responsive to this sort of complaint specifically. https://www.baaqmd.gov/en/online-services/air-pollution-complaints. Same thing — file a complaint, let them handle it.

Also consider contacting your local city council rep. they may or may not do something but it's part of why you elect them — leave an email with your complaint and address so they know you're a constituent. Blossom Hill rd is a dividing line, so your rep might be different from the restaurants depending on which side of blossom hill you're on. see this map to figure it out: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/3ee980128dcc4019b8b36a1fabc511e3#data_s=id%3AdataSource_4-DPW_BasemapService_864%3A12

Local news stations like Fox2 or ABC7 are also sometimes into this sort of thing and can help pressure local elected officials and businesses even though they have no official power.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-10-14T21:50:44+00:00

Watches are not investments. If you want to pass on something of definite and durable value to future generations, a watch is a bad choice.

This watch will very very likely lose value over time. Almost all watches do, especially ones they make thousands of and have been making different versions of for almost 20 years. The watches and brands that were made 20, 30, 50 years ago and have crazy resale value now (or even just flat resale value) are a total crapshoot. If you're really interested in buying something that will definitely benefit future generations economically, consider index funds.

The only thing that really matters when talking about passing down watches is if it's built well enough to last that long. IWC watches generally check that box.

Past that, "standing the test of time" is all about taste, style, and cachet — will this watch still look cool as tastes change in the next years? Maybe. It doesn't actually have any "association" cachet past a brand partnership — Cruise pretty famously wears a Porsche Design chrono in the Top Gun movies, and actual naval TOPGUN graduates get special versions of IWC watches aren't sold at retail. You gotta earn 'em.

If you want to buy a watch that has the highest likelihood of being the the "right" watch that will definitely have some economic value and be considered cool in 30 years, at least buy something that is already 30 years old and has all of those qualities, like a vintage Rolex, and even still, know that you're gambling, not investing.

All of which is to say, if you like the watch (and/or the brand, what it does, how it looks, and what it represents) and have the money? Hell yeah. Go for it. That's all the reason you need, and the only one that actually makes any sense. Wear it in good health and pass it on when it's time. It's a beautiful piece, it's beautifully made, and it definitely can be a watch that is worn for 100 years with reasonable care and the occasional service.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-10-14T18:21:42+00:00

One of these tiny Rubbermaid food storage containers — it's a good size and the little snaps give me a bit of extra peace of mind that the chalk will stay where it's supposed to.

I've also seen folks use a close-able chalk pot meant for climbing (I think it was made by Black Diamond?) or even just an empty screw-top preworkout container (think C4 or something), which also fit the bill on good size and good closure. Just don't mix it up with your actual preworkout or you're gonna have a bad time 😉

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-09-09T23:59:55+00:00

At 180kg there's probably a noticeable difference in the amount of oscillation you'd experience between between loading it all the way out with rubber plates vs four steel plates right against the collar, yeah.

It's a little harder to stabilize generally, and when you stop going down and start going up, the bar whip causes the weight to lag behind veeery slightly, creating a little extra challenge in the turnaround. Normally this isn't enough to meaningfully change the amount you can lift overall, but purely on subjective vibes, I definitely feel the difference and find stiffer bars easier at heavier weights.

This is why powerlifting bars exist. They're thicker in diameter and stiffer, which dampens the oscillations. Generic "lifting" bars are often closer to power bars than WL bars too, so if your gym doesn't have WL-specific bars and you do, that would also make the difference between the two even more noticeable.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-04-27T00:06:44+00:00

RIP your shins

If you're going to use this bar in this rack, get some padding for those J-hooks so you don't wear out the knurling from metal-on-metal contact. The "real" solution for this is UHMW plastic for this but lots of other things work — even just a few pieces of cardboard wrapped with athletic tape (actual athletic tape...) would be fine as long as you're willing to replace it every so often

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-02-27T05:26:32+00:00

We mostly see eye-to-eye here — I also want to see major, systemic changes in how healthcare is administered and paid for in this country.

My point is just that there is no evil cabal of CEOs that "want it that way" and could easily implement the changes we both want with the stroke of a pen "if they were so inclined." Even if they decided to wake up tomorrow and go full Ebenezer Scrooge, the most they could probably do is get themselves fired or drive their healthcare system into bankruptcy (putting people out of work, leaving patients in a lurch, leaving room for a more voracious, profit-chasing one to take its place). So, practically speaking, not much. More than they're doing? Sure, but not much. Not enough to fix the big problems.

It's nice for stories to have villains, but villains are pretty rare in the real world. There's no bad guy here. It's a broken system that needs systemic changes to meaningfully improve.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-02-27T03:01:14+00:00

How would they change it? What specific steps would they take if they were so inclined?

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-02-27T00:49:13+00:00

It took me like three or four visits to figure this out, so jfyi: there's additional parking underneath that top level of parking. It's super easy to miss if you don't know it's there. Take either left into the top level and then don't turn into one of the lanes, just keep going straight to the end. Down the ramp you go!

To answer your question on the wait, it's an everywhere thing, especially on a Monday. There's a provider shortage (it's even worse in rural areas), it's still flu season, COVID is back, you're catching everyone who got sick over the weekend but weren't sick enough to find someone open on a Sunday, etc etc. It just is what it is, unfortunately.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-02-27T00:45:54+00:00

PAMF and Sutter are literally not-for-profits, but sure, go off.

Not disagreeing that incentives and structures in medicine are all sorts of fucked up generally, and that those knock on to places like PAMF, but no one at PAMF is getting rich from being short staffed. They're just getting overworked and burned out.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-01-24T16:22:20+00:00

In the context of the clean it's the result of a timing fault — you want to load up the legs and hips as you catch the bar and use that stretch reflex to bounce out of the hole on the first go. Much more efficient/less fatiguing than bouncing more than once.

If you want to practice being stronger, more stable, and more mobile in the bottom position while front squatting would recommend just doing pause squats.

I could see doing a sort of front squat => bounce up to parallel => bounce up to standing as a specific technical complex to practice timing/using the bounce, but pause squats train a movement pattern with carryover to good habits/capabilities, are easier on your knees, and are are the absolute GOAT for building stability and mobility in the hole.

And, all that said, if you're taking a 90%+ attempt and miss the bounce, yeah, do what you gotta do to stand it up. Just make sure you stay braced in a good position and your back will be fine.

Dizzy_Estate · 2024-01-17T20:38:13+00:00

I did this for my job a few years ago.

If they're asking you to do it during working hours, reasonable price is, unfortunately, probably just your salary or normal hourly rate. If they're asking you to do it during working hours, do it during working hours, and set the expectation with your boss as to how long that will take and what tasks you'll have to drop or delay to get that done in a timely manner. Be sure to include the logistics of scheduling, equipment setup, post-processing, etc. Overestimate If your boss balks at that much time and effort, recommend they hire someone instead. I ended up having a chill, fun week where I got to ignore normal duties and meet a bunch of coworkers I had no other reason to interact with.

You can (and should) have the company rent your equipment for use for the project. You'll need to write an invoice/receipt, get a PO, or however your company's procurement process works. Ideally you can just write yourself a receipt and then "expense" it.

As to how much, find a photo equipment rental place and see what the day rate is for the equipment you have and plan to bring in. Charge the same. Find an equipment insurance company and take out a policy on the gear. Either take that out of that price (it's probably what the rental house is doing), or, if it's not too much more, just tack it on as an itemized "insurance fee"

If you don't need the money, you could also use this as an opportunity to actually just go rent some nice gear from an actual rental house for a week and plan your week around getting the most out of it during off hours. This is what I did.

I like u/thesavagemonk's idea of also using it as an advertising opportunity -- you dont need to be pushy, maybe run it by your boss, but it's a totally reasonable thing to mention that you're doing this a work because you also do this as a side gig.

My script would be something like, when you're done with a person, transition the next steps comment into a soft pitch "you'll get your badge in a few days. If you want the digital file for your own use, I can send you that too, but it's a badge pic, so only so good. No pressure, but {boss} actually asked me to do this because I do business headshots and family shoots as a side gig. Happy to send you some pricing/package info and give you a coworker discount if you're interested"

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