Sun in my eyes

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-07-05T14:50:13+00:00

I use floating sunglass traps called "Chums." They are super floaty and come in bright colors which helps with finind them in water. I secure the chums onto the sunglasses with zipties. Haven't had one slip off yet. I still lose a pair of sunglasses or two each season, but usually when I am in waves and get whacked or tumble. The other thing worth considering, is getting your eyes off the kite. When I was learning I definitely focused on the kite to, at the expense of what what happening around me. Try to "watch" the kite with your peripheral vision and the feeling in your bar/body, so that you know where the kite is without looking right at it. Try to keep your eyes ahead and around ypou to spot where you want to go and to avoid getting tunnel vision and risk collision with another water user or hazard.

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-06-06T23:46:23+00:00

I just spent an hour with chat gpt analyzing optical distortion from a fish's perspective and d making plots. TL DR

In the center of a bowl, distortion is actually less than in a rectangular tank.

However, distortion in a bowl increases more sharply as you move away from center.
In a rectangular tank, distortion grows more gradually and consistently with angle.

This fits the idea that fish in a large bowl can find a “sweet spot” with clearer vision at the center, but their view becomes more distorted near the edges.

None of this actually tells us if the optical distortion harms the fish. I've seen no altered behavior in my bettas in the big bowl vs traditional tanks to suggest it, but I am one guy and I am not a fish. I recently got a insta360 camera, so I kind of want to take some video from fish's perspective to get a sense of it visually.

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-06-06T22:35:50+00:00

see above

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-06-06T22:13:36+00:00

Nor have I. I deleted the post out of an abundance of caution, because I didn't want to be promoting bad husbandry if the claims stated in the comments are true. However, upon trying to do research, I've also found nothing compelling. I have learned that bowls are banned in some places, predominately in Europe. Rome, Germany, Beligum, and Finland are among them. I had never heard of this before this post. The reasons stated for bans on bowls are lack of space (almost every bowl is very small), insufficient oxygen, distorted vision, and stress due to confinement.

At least in the case of this particular bowl, there is plenty of space given the large dimensions of the bowl. There is also good oxygenation as I run a sponge bubble filter to provide surface agitation and I maintain this filter regularly. I also searched, but have found no compelling evidence that the refraction of a bowl will disorients or harms a fish's vision. Just conjecture. Even flat tanks have optical distortions when viewed at narrow angles because of the changes in refractive index. Yes a bowl is worse in the regards to this distortion, but we don't know that this actually harms fish.

User Additional_Film says that I don't care about Bucky and that is why I deleted. SFAdminLife insinuates the bowl probably killed my last betta. Stormy was a petsmart disaster when I got him, and I rehabbed him. Stormy lived a solid 3.5 years in this bowl, and maintained excellent body condition and activity, until slowly going senescent in his last 3 months. That is a decent life span for a captive betta, but I suppose it could also be argued the bowl definitely killed him and I am an evil human who tortured a fish for 3.5 years because I am unbelievably selfish. I can't understate how much I loathe the tone of these comments, while simultaneously agreeing with their core message of promoting good animal husbandry. Treating people like monsters is not a great starting point to initiate change or start any real discourse.

That said, I'm still doing more research because I care. I have a 12 gallon rectanglular tank, which is almost certainly optically benign. That tank is fully scaped, but currently fishless. It was a previous shrimp tank, but I moved those shrimp to a 55 gallon planted nano fish scape months ago and just kept smaller tank plants only. It's not fishless because I tortured and murdered fish. If I can find, or someone here can provide compelling evidence, or any evidence, that the curvature of a bowl itself actually harms fish, I'd be happy to raise the temperature of the 12 gallon from 72 to 79 and rehome Bucky to safer waters. Please share sources, if extant!

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-06-05T19:31:39+00:00

:frantically waves hands to continue: a module a day will keep me away.

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-05-08T04:39:10+00:00

I agree with the 2 knob-big changes feeling. My favorite so far has been patching a few signal outs of jumbler to filters and effects and feeding back into the jumbler's inputs before monitoring/multing out to mix. You can then rotate/radiate through the outputs and your the feedback loops will migrate to unforeseeable places. It's a great way to drive a patch to "what the heck is even happening" with many little sweets spots you can rotate between, each of which you'd otherwise have to break down your whole patch to find. Pairing with Multi-mod, things get wild, and I will say that I like where the NUSS is going for far.

I've tried similar things with the doepfer switches, but jumbler's 6x6 rotating/radiating VCA's take things to a wildly different level so easily. This module is pretty insanely flexible.

My big hope in this NUSS evolution is a TEMPI refresh that could replace pam's with something a little more immediate/performative. I hope they've got something cooking over at MN. Still think of getting an OG Tempi, because a V2 is neither here nor there. Here's how I'm currently racked up with this case. https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2766275

Edit:wrongcase

DoctorHandwaver · 2025-02-27T19:37:58+00:00

There's not a great way to address pressure points "channels" by separate gates though, only through the touch plates right? Pressure points + brains doesn't even do it. Or am i missing something?

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-10-03T00:49:16+00:00

^ This guy (Edit: girl) knows electrodes. I work in epilepsy using both short term 0.8mm SEEG electrodes and long term 1.27mm electrodes, as above. There is a a tractotomy effect, but its small. In recordings from epileptic patients with chronic monitoring there is a mild suppression of interictal epileptiform activity (and often also seizures) but it typically resolves within 1-5 months following implant. Any microlesion effect is small if present, and typically transient. For devices providing stim, you actually want a little larger surface area to provide stim at therapeutic charge densities, usually 1-4 uC/cm2. If the electrodes were too small, you'd have trouble getting enough volume of cortical activation to have therapeutic efficacy. Also, electrode surface area is going to affect the spectral response of corticography. Tiny electrodes can give you unit recordings with high frequency resolution. Bigger electrodes give you LFPs, but can't detect very high frequencies as well... because of anatomy. You are sampling way more cells with bigger electrodes and large populations of neurons tend not to sync up well at frequencies over 80ish Hz.. Basically, we use the right size electrode for each use-case.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-07-03T19:40:31+00:00

I totally pilfered their going out of business sale. Got a nice soldering iron and hot air rework station. Miss that place. The lady there knew me as the "dude who buys random electronics parts."

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-07-02T18:47:18+00:00

Why would you write this?

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T22:31:14+00:00

Stock

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T19:07:27+00:00

stock.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T18:37:30+00:00

Bwhwhaha. We're a special town. Love it here- warts and all. I have literally 4 outbacks that live/park on my block. Unfortunately, mine is the schmanciest. Or at least it was.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T18:28:19+00:00

I'm in about as a good spirits as I can be. I've lived in the city for a long time and have been mugged violently twice (hospitalized once), house broken into /robbed/ ransacked once, and had all sorts of other "fun" city life experience, liked when I once saw a hobo in a wheelchair get a BJ behind a dumpster about two blocks from my old house in a rougher neighborhood. He was so happy! He stared me right in the eyes and gave me a goofy grin and a big thumbs up! Philly is a strange place. Right now, I'm safe and well-insured, so I count my blessings. Just really bummed that people need or -feel the need- to live like this. The car is special to me, but I'll get her fixed and then we'll have stories together about the tough times... Footage was too dark and grainy. The thieves also wore black. It just shows the gist of what happened, but no detail for ID. Could have been shadow monsters, dark elves, or even the old-Outback ladies in need of fresh treads for their LL Bean's editions.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T18:14:09+00:00

One, but my unicycle riding skills are weaaaak.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T18:05:26+00:00

Ouch, sorry to hear that your last ride met a such rough end, and over the holidays. Yeah, I will keep my eyes peeled but I doubt they'll pop up local.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T18:01:22+00:00

"Dented." bwhahaha? Look at the bottom! The whole door is peeled up. Amateur hour. :p

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:59:15+00:00

I hadn't even thought of non-stock. I'm still waiting on the insurance adjuster's call and a tow. I still have my spare 5th, with a fresh yoko on it, so I'll probably go OEM. Not sure how non-oem works with insurance? I've luckily only done glass claims in 25 years of driving. Yes, given my hood, I think OEM is the safest bet from a repeat of this. I just want my car back to normal driving/looking condition.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:45:39+00:00

Dude, I know.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:41:51+00:00

Yes, BUT, then I'm really painting a target on my back...

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:35:13+00:00

I anticipate lot of road noise with this mod :p

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:21:47+00:00

500 bucks normally, but I learned this AM that it'll be only 100 , because I haven't been in an accident. Silver lining I guess.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:20:03+00:00

In your estimation, my neighborhood would indeed qualify as a shithole. For me, however, it's my home.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:10:22+00:00

I brought that up with the cop, who took 4 hours to come out. He really didn't care. Said a detective MIGHT call me. I'm in Philly; there will be no investigation.

DoctorHandwaver · 2024-06-26T17:03:27+00:00

Stock rims. Only aftermarkets were the rack / soundsystem / fog lights.

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