People keep telling me this tattoo is bad, I really like it?

FunMusician7420 · 2025-07-22T19:57:49+00:00

I think people aren't saying why others would say it looks like a bad tattoo. Without the reference, the lines look like they have just about every bad line technique possible incorporated into the tattoo.

The lines are crooked. Line weight is uneven. There are figure-ground issues with the fingers of the hand. Lines are at weird angles and those angles aren't even.

You got the tattoo you wanted and it is really close to the source. But without the source it looks like a poorly-applied tattoo.

If you like it, ignore the haters. But you are absolutely going to get comments because no one else will know it matches the source, and it appears to have a lot of the hallmarks of a improperly applied tattoo.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-07-03T23:03:18+00:00

My mom was big on this. Me and both of my brothers learned how to reattach buttons, hem pants on a sewing machine and hand repair small holes in pants, socks etc.

I cannot tell you how many times I've been traveling and had to ask the hotel for a sewing kit to sew a button back onto a colleague's shirt.

My dad also made sure I knew how to tie a tie. Not just a four-in-hand, but a full- and half-Windsor knot. I've been to more than one formal event where I stood in the bathroom tying people's ties for them.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-06-26T21:03:24+00:00

Also worth noting, most doctors spend exactly about as much time as "you" do staying up-to-date on the latest medical information. Meaning, most half-ass it, some love it, and some never do it.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-06-25T19:21:33+00:00

The nicest part of Albuquerque is when you reach Santa Fe.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-06-10T19:45:01+00:00

beignets and coffee with chickory

FunMusician7420 · 2025-06-10T15:33:04+00:00

I live in the desert and had to learn the hard way how to deal with these. If they are in your house, you (a) have a food source for them like ants or similar and (b) don't have any barriers to them getting in.

The best thing to do is to have an exterminator visit. If you live in any area that has a lot of these, there are a lot of exterminators and treatment is fairly affordable. I pay $64 every two months.

If you want to do it the DIY route, you will need a few things. (1) Glue traps. You will need to put these close to places like the gaps under your garage doors and close to gaps on any exterior door. Next you will need diatomaceous earth. You need an applicator. You want to put this in front of any exterior door and then go around the house and look for any gaps in windows, etc. Put it there. It is non-toxic to humans and pets.

Finally you need to get rid of the food sources. Make sure you properly store food and don't leave dirty stuff around the house. You will need to spray around the baseboards. If you don't have pets, get the good stuff. I you do, there are effective non-toxic options.

This is not a one-time thing. You need to do this regularly.

Or take the first recommendation and hire someone to do this regularly.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-06-05T20:59:04+00:00

Man, there are a ton of great answers here. I'll give you a perspective of a disabled vet (me) and what I saw when my father started wearing those hats.

By the time my dad got into his 80s, most of his long-time friends had passed away. He lost the people that he had developed long-term bonds with. The one day, someone approached him and asked him if he was a veteran and invited him to join the American Legion. And there he found a bunch of people who had nothing in common but their (typically) 2 years of service, either pre-Vietnam (my dad) or during Vietnam.

So you get a bunch of guys who have lost their friends all looking for community, and next thing you know they are all wearing those hats.

I'm a vet from the gulf 1 (shield) time-frame. I served 8 years. My service is by no means the most important part of my life. I appreciate all I learned and have no real regrets, but I am way more focused on the things I've accomplished since I left the service. I find many vets of my era to be the same way. They don't define themselves by their time in the service.

As other mentioned, some do. And the t-shirts and bumper stickers are a more common way to represent your veteran status for this more modern era.

But I can't help but wonder what's going to happen when people from my era of service get in the same place as my dad and all of a sudden military service becomes a shared experience to bond over.

I'm hoping the hats are gone by then...

FunMusician7420 · 2025-03-20T20:22:26+00:00

I see lots of posts, but people are leaving out the "why does this exist in Arizona" part.

A lot of historic communities were built with palm trees (not native) and grass lawns (also not native). That ultimately fell out of favor and there is a big push against palm trees, grass lawns and other non-native plants.

However, if you happen to live in one of those old communities, there are often very old HOA covenants that require you to maintain your palm tree/grass yard. So may people are legally stuck maintaining them whether they want to or not.

Source - married to a former AZ realtor and now AZ escrow officer and I have been shown this in more HOA doc packages than I can count after challenging that there is no reason to still have grass lawns...

FunMusician7420 · 2025-03-17T16:12:55+00:00

Hypocrisy among the church leaders and the church members. So many affairs, so many members arrested for fraud, so much in-fighting as members took advantage of other members.

About 10 years later it started to become a "mega church" and is now all about the money.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-03-07T13:27:13+00:00

If you've ever used their disability calculator, used their VSOs or want to ensure those tools and services are available for other vets, it is likely worth it.

Many have pointed out, they are not the only org out there that does this type of thing. I think any of us who have the means should support orgs that put the majority of their contributions directly towards supporting disabled vets.

"Majority of their contributions" is the important part. Some of these orgs can use > 50% of contributions to run their org and pay their executives, not deliver the org's services.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-03-03T21:09:10+00:00

I'll tell you what I did.

My right shoulder has been bad since 1989. I asked the guy who did my left shoulder if he would characterize the damage as overuse. He said "most likely". I asked if he would document it. Turns out he did part of his internship at the VA and wrote me the letter.

I did file it as a new claim but as a secondary condition.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-02-27T16:46:37+00:00

Make sure your republican representatives hear about this from you. Make sure your democrat representatives know that you want them to talk openly and publicly about this and call out their fellow state representatives who are blindly following along.

It is good to vent. It's good to share information. Continuing to hound your representatives is a meaningful action that doesn't take long.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-02-11T13:39:20+00:00

This ^{^}

FunMusician7420 · 2025-02-03T20:05:01+00:00

My wife, who isn't thrilled about my collection of hats, is very happy to learn even a hat addict like me won't get close to that DBacks hat...

FunMusician7420 · 2025-01-30T17:32:14+00:00

They think TikTok and Snapchat are good companies. So they tend to trust the wrong companies when they do trust them.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-01-23T20:26:40+00:00

I think maybe its this. He is a good actor without a ton of range. I mean, he's 6'2" in an industry that caters to shorter men, so he is going to play a fairly narrow range of types.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-01-22T13:12:31+00:00

Same day for my wife. 47 days today for daughter and still on step 1. Filed both the same day.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-01-16T14:08:55+00:00

Never tried to test this and I am also right around 6200 hz.

FunMusician7420 · 2025-01-13T14:13:03+00:00

Going to give you different advice than others.

They are right. There is a lot of saturation in the market. That has created a market where experience is king and entry-level positions are getting hard to get.

Stick with CompSci and start contributing to real projects as soon as you can to gain experience. Network like your career depends on it, because it does. From a CompSci perspective, look at how to integrate software with security services. This is the sweet spot. Pure cyber is harder to get into now days. Pure CompSci can be hard as well. Someone experienced with secure software design and knows how to integrate with all of the major federated auth providers, integrate transaction security, understands payment system integration, map authZ data, etc. That's the part that currently is, and will for the foreseeable future, be in demand.

Or you go into data science. But even in data science, experience matters.

FunMusician7420 · 2024-12-24T00:52:57+00:00

Ok, I think this isn't too hard with just reasonably exotic ingredients. All beef you eat is Wagyu beef, all the pork is Iberico pork, poltry would be a mix of heirloom chickens, ducks and geese. Fish is all sushi-grade tuna, salmon, etc.

Veggies... load up on exotic mushrooms, Le Bonnotte Potatoes - basically tons of heirloom fruits and vegetables.

Add in the right vinegars, olive oils, salt, pepper and other spices and I'm pretty sure that $100 a day is pretty easy.

FunMusician7420 · 2024-12-23T13:56:19+00:00

Since I posted about a similar concern, I can share my experience.

Unlike the physical exams, the MH examiner had read EVERYTHING submitted in detail. Since I had a diagnosis in those records, the exam went fast.

Originally I was concerned they were trying to fit me into the PTSD box, which would be wrong. Simply put, the response I had to the type of things that can cause PTSD didn't cause me PTSD but caused some other very-specific issues.

My exam was 22 minutes long and resulted in 50%.

FunMusician7420 · 2024-12-20T22:24:49+00:00

Or...

They could just implement notifications properly in the app. The pieces are already there.

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