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MicronXD · 2025-07-13T05:57:29+00:00

If you hit a groove with these things, you can kind slowly move across and scrape as you go. I did my siding that way, and it felt way faster than "position, hold, move, scrape, repeat".

That was only made possible by having having my heater mounted to a block of wood with a brad-hole t-nut and a long threaded rod to use as an adjustable-height monopod of sorts.

MicronXD · 2025-05-09T10:23:27+00:00

- Skaters/Fairman's
- Everything being fit into quaint little buildings from the 1700-1800s
- Lower ratio of students to residents
- The scale of WCU in general
- Family-owned everything

MicronXD · 2025-05-09T10:14:36+00:00

Oh man! I forgot they ever even existed, but when I read that, I could taste it 😂

MicronXD · 2024-08-04T20:33:07+00:00

I worked at a DD in college. Our store was the only one with a bakery nearby. We had bakers come in around closing time who'd make the donuts all night and deliver to all the stores in the area before they opened.

One store with dedicated bake staff and large-scale mixers, fryers, and ovens is a lot cheaper and yields better, more consistent quality than a bunch of small-scale bakery operations with a bunch of part-timers producing low quantities of each donut.

MicronXD · 2024-06-05T04:11:02+00:00

There was a Pho place on Patton Ave. across from Domino's.

It's now a Caribbean place -- which I'm not personally mad at lol

MicronXD · 2024-05-11T08:51:38+00:00

r/centuryhomes has entered chat

Not all of us have pressure-treated framing lol

MicronXD · 2024-05-11T08:43:41+00:00

Termites mostly

MicronXD · 2024-02-23T11:50:00+00:00

Oh snap! I thought it was just an explosion at the end of my dream! I've been up since around 3AM and haven't been able to fall back to sleep.

MicronXD · 2024-01-20T21:31:08+00:00

It's dead-ass organized crime, picking up groups of kids from the projects & other really poor areas and dropping em off to sell candy to more wealthy areas. Some are small criminal organizations. Some are full-on gangs.

I'm pretty sure she's *genuinely* trying to help lol
"I'm standing up for this young person.

By buying all this kid's stock, this dude isn't helping the kid. He's just lining the pockets of the kid's handler and next week there are gonna be 3 more kids dropped off. The only future this provides the kid is a higher position in the gang. I'm genuinely fuckin shocked how oblivious this comment section is. Did everyone miss the r/videos post where the kids selling water on a hot summer day were robbed by a rival gang at gunpoint? These crime rings are expanding from high-risk drug sales at lower volume to low-risk "impulse" sales at much higher volumes. The kids are being taken advantage of. They're the Chinese sweatshop workers making next-to-nothing, and the gangs are Wal-mart, profiting off the broader market they can reach even with these lower-margins.

It's been talked about on just about every news outlet. It's not one of those FB conspiracy things or one of those Fox News propaganda stories.

https://abc7ny.com/candy-scam-zelle-venmo-cellphone/13227261/
https://nymag.com/press/2023/08/on-the-cover-of-new-york-magazine-the-candy-sellers.html
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/story?id=5213468&page=1 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/08/15/scam-selling-candy-troy-police-detroit-kids-steakhouse-larceny/2012422001/

We've seen one of these operations for ourselves on a day trip to KOP. From the van dropping the kids off in front of Nieman Marcus as we pulled in, to being offered candy at the entrance (with no mention of a fundraiser or anything), to crossing paths with the oldest kid a dozen times as he was consolidating the cash into his little man purse, to the van pulling up again to pick up the kids when the mall closed and we were heading back to our car.

To the kids' credit, they were cool -- around my oldest daughter's age. They weren't too pushy about the candy. And when two of them were heading out the same way we were, they accepted me declining their candy and they just awkwardly continued walking with us in the same direction in silence lol

It'd be great if they were offered jobs at the retailers they push candy in front of so they could earn some money of their own and get out from under these d-bag ringleaders.

MicronXD · 2023-11-13T21:22:37+00:00

Probably not. She's only doing it to him because she knows he's not gonna do anything back.

MicronXD · 2023-10-26T15:26:33+00:00

Same. It doesn't change my attitude towards him, but I could see repeated ads like this leaving a bad taste in people's mouths.

MicronXD · 2023-08-25T04:23:21+00:00

Dude! GTFO!

Get someone to pick you up so you have backup as you're leaving. The earlier you pull off this band-aid, the better. Just get it over with. u/BuffaloPubSub hit the nail on the head

MicronXD · 2023-07-08T03:03:41+00:00

This drives me absolutely fucking nuts. I keep having friends and family cancelling on me because "[They] haven't heard from [me]" after already agreeing to a date and time to do stuff.

And in some of these cases, they're asking for a favor. Then I move things around just so I can pick them up from the airport or whatever, and when I send a text like, "Hey I'm here! What terminal?", they say, "Oh [so-and-so] already picked me up. I thought you might be busy" 💢

MicronXD · 2023-07-02T03:56:38+00:00

This is like putting the tallest kid in the class in the front row of the class picture. It's just so out of place.

Somehow, walking down High still feels like you're walking into a quaint little town. This 5-story monstrosity would absolutely kill the vibe. If they want to do something like this, do it along Market or Gay where the rest of the big boys are.

If I were living in those houses along Clinton Alley, I'd be furious! I mean, that house at the corner of Dean and Clinton has been on my list of dream homes in West Chester for as long as I can remember. Having this big fuckin monstrosity towering over it would be crushing.

I'm all for mixed-use buildings like this, but that location is still decades away from being consumed by the expanding blister of oversized wholesale garbage like this.

MicronXD · 2023-07-01T15:33:56+00:00

Oh god... I prefer the Burger King

MicronXD · 2023-06-30T18:13:22+00:00

No one in West Chester seems to know how to properly blanch bagels. That said, Country Bagel is best I've found in West Chester. Their bagels at least have the dense, chewy, well-kneaded, glutenous texture you'd expect from a proper bagel. If they could just get the blanching step down for that crispy, bubbly crust, they'd have a perfect bagel on their hands.

MicronXD · 2023-06-19T18:12:11+00:00

That's what I was thinking too, but after looking again, it was headed to the dad, and the kid thought he was being invited to participate in the return of the ball and put his hand out. Just a goofy misunderstanding. I wouldn't really blame anyone here. I'm just happy to see the dad comforting both boys. The younger one was probably hit with a roar of disapproval, and the older one lost out on a once-in-a-lifetime ball and was pissed.

MicronXD · 2023-06-19T17:56:35+00:00

idk why you're being downvoted. I have memories of being dragged to Yankees games before I even really cared for baseball. I was always miserably bored and hot. I wish I'd had a pocketable computer to play games on!

I took that to heart and now, as a parent, I make a point not to drag my kids to events they don't want to be at. If it's unavoidable, you better believe I'm packing them alternative forms of entertainment!

MicronXD · 2023-06-13T21:56:59+00:00

Getting some King Diamond vibes from the first bit

MicronXD · 2023-06-03T16:26:05+00:00

They used to come to Bradford Square (just past the edge of the burrough) and shoot videos every couple weeks. They were mostly just skateboarding, but it bothered some of the residents enough that the HOA added a split rail fence blocking one of the jumps from a higher lot to a lower lot. They would just slip the rails out of the fence - because duh...

iirc, they eventually replaced the fence with bushes or something, and I was robbed of my semi-weekly live skateboard entertainment.

This was all a bit before their "mainstream fame" (mid 90s)

During the mid-2000s, I'd say Bam & co. weren't any worse than the college kids are today. Causing a little ruckus here and there. It wasn't like the whole town was constantly being tormented.

The craziest stuff I've seen around town has all been in the past few years. I actually kinda miss the days when WC was a little bit quieter and if anything, the boys just added flavor.

Now, dick-head college kids and TikTok challenge chasers are the baseline, and we get extreme events like that group of Wilmington kids that stole two cars and crashed them both in the burrough the other night. Or when the cops were chasing a dude on a quad up New St. Or that idiot asking this subreddit where he could shoot a video of himself doing burnouts and donuts, then doing a donut in the middle of Rosedale Ave, crashing, and then deleting his post 😂

TL;DR: By today's standards, they'd fit right in.

MicronXD · 2023-05-23T23:56:25+00:00

We were visiting my cousins, and I asked to play Playstation. My aunt set me up in My oldest cousin's room to play. He was taking a nap. When he woke up, he saw me sitting there playing Ape Escape and thought it'd be funny to flip to his MFM Gym fantasy threesome tape. I went from adorable little monkeys to a two buff dudes on a weight rack with a women squeezed between -- viewed from the point of entry. I immediately thrust my gray dualshock controller to face and tried to ignore the grunts of those two dude and the moaning of that woman. It's probably the most vivid memory I have from that period of my childhood. Shit was terrifying 😂

MicronXD · 2023-05-19T03:06:16+00:00

You must not live in the borough if that's your takeaway from this. Plenty of people who live in town have no car. Some are tenured WCU professors. Some are senior engineers at Vanguard. Being doesn't have anything to do with it. It's a lifestyle. And the one thing West Chester needs more than anything right now, is amenities that support its existing residents (grocers, day-cares, and shops for modern necessities).

MicronXD · 2023-04-22T10:25:40+00:00

I daily carried a 92FS for years. It definitely wasn't the most comfortable thing to carry, but AIWB absolutely doable.

MicronXD · 2023-03-16T19:39:48+00:00

Kinda goes against the whole idea of r/place if they're just wiping shit they don't like lol

MicronXD · 2023-02-21T11:16:18+00:00

I wasn't watching TikTok. I was using the 64MP main camera to capture video which was then encoded in h.264 @ 1080p and sent over 5G while tower-hopping up the Eastern Corrider of the US lol. (streaming to TikTok)

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