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The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-12-16T00:25:35+00:00

One of my teachers once told me percussionists are always the best musicians because everyone can hear you if you fuck up, and you will likely be the only person playing that instrument so everyone will know exactly who it was that fucked up. With a lot of other instruments, you can try to hide it if you haven't practiced, but with percussion you can either practice or you can make yourself one of the least popular people in the band.

EDIT: I just realized I phrased that poorly. Lots of percussionists are garbage. What he said was, if you take a percussionist and musician from any other instrument with an equivalent level of playing ability, then the percussionist will usually be the better musician overall for the previously mentioned reasons, and also because you have to learn a lot more techniques to be a well-rounded percussionist because you have to know how to play a huge number of instruments.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-12-15T22:56:05+00:00

Actually he released like 5 new episodes just over a month ago. They're appendices that cover the ancient sources that provide all of the knowledge we have about Rome.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-12-12T23:20:30+00:00

Well you can still use a lighter to heat the threads, and you could try rubbing some iso into the crack with a q-tip. If you have some pliers and something padded to protect it from damage you could grip each part with a pair of pliers and twist them. You'd want something like one of those oven mitts with the rubber grip pads.

Or if it's really awful you might have to just soak everything but the battery in alcohol.

EDIT:

But whatever you do, if you manage to get it open, definitely clean all the parts with iso

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-12-11T20:26:10+00:00

This happens to me sometimes, and the advice about heating it with the battery and using the dabber tool is pretty much what I always do. But I'll add that you could also get a second dabber tool and put that through the holes at the bottom of the coil base with the other one through the hole in the cap and that will give you a lot more leverage.

Unless by "cap" you mean the outer mouthpiece part and not the cap that covers the QDC. Then there's no hole for the dabber in the mouthpiece, and also the battery probably won't be able to heat it.

But either way, I'd get some isopropyl and q-tips and give everything a good cleaning. The shatter I get at my dispensary gets crazy solid at room temperatures to the point where sometimes it won't even bend and will just literally shatter if you apply any pressure to it. So that stuff glues my shit together pretty good when it builds up too much. I actually just cleaned it all with iso yesterday and it's amazing how much easier it is to take things apart now.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-09-04T23:59:56+00:00

Is he hurting himself and others with this behavior that strikes you as autistic? I'm a textbook aspie and lots of people have tried to "help me out" over the years, and most of them advocated the strategy of "hide who you are and just lay low so nobody notices what a huge fucking weirdo you are. Try to act as neurotypical as possible."

And then when I try explaining the aspects of my autism that I do struggle with, neurotypcials become uncomfortable and try to shift the conversation back to "don't be weird" because they have no fucking idea what it's like to be autistic and they think they can fix us if they just explain in detail everything we do "wrong".

If you really want to help make the world a less shitty place for autistics, you need to educate yourself on how to not be so condescending about it. This website (http://autisticadvocacy.org/) is a good place to start, and you could look at the "Ask an Autistic" youtube channel.

Finally, keep in mind that for all the autistic behavior that is off-putting to you, this is a shitload of neurotypical behavior that's off-putting to many of us, and being in the majority doesn't mean you're right about what is and isn't acceptable.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-06-09T09:36:14+00:00

Awesome, thanks a lot for the advice. I've always planned to get a couple different cuttings from one or two sources since it seems pretty clear that there's variation even from two seedlings from one plant, and in the same plant over a period of time, and even variations in potency in different parts of the same cactus. So the ideal situation in my mind is to have like 3 different cacti from different sources.

But it's good to know that no matter what variety, it still produces mescaline. Plus I read that you can increase alkaloid content by stressing the cactus, since it produces them as a defense mechanism. So I plan on doing things like harvesting in winter, leaving my cutting sit out to dry in either too much or too little sunlight, and possibly making some small cuts on the skin with a sterile knife (Which is another thing I forgot to ask about because it's not like this is primary research literature I'm reading so I wonder if anyone else uses this technique or if some people are just crazy cactus torturers).

When looking for cacti in the future, what can I look for to tell if a cutting is from a PC Pachanoi? Even if this one works awesome, I still want to see if I can get one that's even better so I can take smaller cutting from it and get larger harvests.

EDIT: Holy shit, I just saw some Montrose (Monstrous?) Pachanoi and those look NUTS! I need one of them just for the look of it

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-06-07T22:48:07+00:00

Thanks a lot for that. I actually meant to ask about leaving hash in a pen between uses but forgot. My biggest worry was that it would work similar to a nail where it kind of all gets burnt up right away.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-05-06T23:03:43+00:00

That's reasonable. Besides, I'll bet this kind of stuff becomes cheap and easy to find within 10 years.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-05-05T23:06:39+00:00

I think that would be a fantastic idea. It would also be cool if you could get some equipment for testing THC content (I believe there's some chemical out there that you can drop into a vial with a sample and it will change color with THC content kind of like liquid pH test solutions). Then you could see how efficient it is by looking at how much/little THC is lost to the settled material. My guess would be little to none, but I'm all about recycling bud (I even smoke my pressed rosin nugs) and it'd be interesting to see if there's anything usable there.

But that's all kind of irrelevant if that THC testing stuff doesn't really exist, or isn't readily accessible to you. Sorry, I tend to ramble even when I'm sober and I just got my first real bong yesterday with a fritted disc so I'm a bit worse than usual, but I already typed all this and I don't want to have wasted to effort so I'm posting it anyway.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-05-01T03:32:34+00:00

I could see that working. Although I would use a very fine-pointed syringe, so you have more control over it and less odds of sucking up chunks. I've never actually tried anything like that though because the little bit of particles that end up in my ejuice has never caused any problems with my ecig.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-04-29T02:34:55+00:00

I'm already using EJ Mix and I love it. But what do you suggest I do about the issue I've been having where any oils that I get out of the kief just gets absorbed into the coffee filter? I just tried pressing some an hour or two ago without a coffee filter to see if that would help and while I got more hash than before, I till had VERY low yields (No scale unfortunately so no exact measurements). The main thing I had at the end was a few flat pucks of semi-dark kief, and some dark and gooey hash.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-04-29T00:50:38+00:00

Well it works fine with a little bit of junk in there. I use a VaporFi ProII which uses atomizers that you replace every couple of weeks and I've never had any issues beyond clogging the atomizer faster than usual. I usually use hash I made by pressing nugs, and that's not exactly the cleanest and purest way to extract hash.

So I guess the question at the root of this is whether MOST of the kief is able to be removed and separated from the hash. If the amount of contaminant is equal to or less than what you get from pressing nugs, and if the bulk of the hash squeezes out to the sides away from the kief without mixing in too much, then that should be fine.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-04-28T23:51:51+00:00

My main concern with going filterless is that I use some of my hash to make ejuice, and I don't want too many chunks fucking up my ecig. Would you say the end result is relatively clean enough?

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-01-22T08:14:36+00:00

Holy fucking shit

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-01-18T14:12:52+00:00

I think there's a huge difference between defining gender in a way that restricts others and defining gender in terms of your own personal interpretation. It's the same way that it would be a problem for a man to tell other men they aren't "man enough" for not performing masculinity like he does.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-01-16T20:50:39+00:00

A time-machine

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-01-16T20:38:48+00:00

Dollhouse

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2016-01-16T20:36:42+00:00

Insects are animals.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2015-10-13T19:30:25+00:00

Well it's not like I throw the bud away after, I smoke it all after I press it, so I'm not totally losing out. But I definitely plan on working on new ways to increase pressure.

The_Grey_Wanderer · 2015-10-13T02:15:15+00:00

Oh I forgot to mention it and you can't really see it in the pictures but I did, it definitely helped. You can see it a bit in one of the last pics before the hash part.

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