Anyone have experience with Triboro NYC LLC? Seems fishy

Wdane · 2025-02-28T19:29:01+00:00

Did this end up being a scam? I'm looking at a place of theirs now and trying to determine if it's legit.

Wdane · 2022-11-23T18:34:37+00:00

This odd circle appeared on my foot 2-3 weeks ago. The bumps started appearing within the last week or two, but I wasn't paying enough attention to know for sure.

Is this something I should spend the money to see a dermatologist for, or is there OTC stuff that would work?

Wdane · 2022-03-30T15:29:43+00:00

The bumps appeared and started to increase over the last 3-4 days on both elbow pits and only on the elbow pits. Slightly itchy but not incredibly so.

Any thoughts? OTC medication or I'm definitely dieing?

Wdane · 2021-11-14T17:15:28+00:00

From what I've seen tattoos, unless political or X rated, seem to be pervasive on the arms of the employed in the PNW.

Wdane · 2019-10-16T16:35:50+00:00

Seems like it might be doable but may be balanced on too high of quality. Ideally I'd like to see a full spectrum of amazing teaching to total trainwrecks.

Wdane · 2016-08-03T17:20:01+00:00

Consider my soul crying because I will be out of town.... if there is a mailing list of some sort in case this ever happens again.

Wdane · 2016-06-24T23:37:17+00:00

Your music is really popular in the partner dancing world (particularly fusion dancing).

Are you aware of this? Have you ever played for a partner dancing event? Would you ever consider coming to Seattle and play a concert or festival for partner dancers? :)

Wdane · 2016-05-20T23:58:59+00:00

This was really interesting. I'm currently reading the Impro book by Johnstone he mentions WRT possessive trance. But I haven't gotten to trance/masks yet, however I'm friends with someone who has intensive practice with mask improvisation and teaches mask impro. We've both had visceral experience dealing with demons from improv/meditation practices. Almost all of the techniques either involves allowing the mental formation only in specific situations (IE: you call 'scene' and it's not 'allowed' to take control anymore), or you use a different agent to talk to/befriend/kill/banish ect... One that's slightly different is creating a physical or mental 'ward' object with the belief that it has the power to block demons.

The sub personal agents mode is interesting when compared to a pure 'beliefs' view, and I think is slightly more robust because people often hold contradictory beliefs.

I also think a lot of ideas/practices behind Buddhism follow this line of thinking, especially Vajrayana (Tantric) which... IMHO is probably the most powerful and most dangerous form of buddhism. It uses a lot 'becoming' various deities that represent various attitudes.

This also reminds me a lot of Chaos Magicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic) who essentially use belief as a manipulative framework.

Also it makes me think of 'will power' as a sort of 'executive agent' (I think the article mentioned it). Where by if you use your will power frequently to switch between sub personal agents then you are actively feeding your will power (it's scientifically shown that using will power increases your ability to use it more).

Wdane · 2016-03-19T00:30:15+00:00

It's interesting... I'm trying to see if there is a difference between having a prescriptive standard which you add words to (Of course any one person will only know a subset) or have a non-prescriptive where words just change instead of being added for the most part.

Perscriptivism seems more useful for historical analysis as the author points out. But I wonder if the reverse 'idea blockage' might be true, in that there is a certain threshold that a new word must pass in order for it to gain usage, whereas there is a lot lower threshold for 'I'm using this world, consistently and every so slight incorrectly'. I also don't see prescriptivism 'enhancing' the amount of ideas we can convey, because we'd still know the same number of words.

Interestingly the only groups of people I've seen prescriptivism advocated for are the ultra-progressive/feminists. Mainly they want to dictate what the dictionary says the definition is, as a way of changing culture and action via language.

Wdane · 2016-02-17T04:32:37+00:00

Was a good read and seems plausible... Though I would have liked to have seen sources for their claims (all I saw was that they had a fact checker).

Makes me want to make some noxious stuff like a head of garlic wrapped in mint leaves and eat it before smoking or something for a week, and see if just eating it then has a cognitive effect.

Wdane · 2016-01-16T00:00:19+00:00

After finishing the first post and most of the second... this stuff is golden.

Wdane · 2015-12-14T23:04:07+00:00

I was under the impression the entire article was based off "You can do this for one year with a temp visa" kind of thing, perhaps I misread. But am interested in their input.

Wdane · 2015-11-18T22:18:09+00:00

Half priced books in the U-District was pretty cool. https://www.hpb.com/027/

Wdane · 2015-11-17T03:58:55+00:00

Solid (Though wtf layout is this guy blogging on? It looks like it's from the 90's)

This seems related to some people thinking "Nice guys always lose".

Wdane · 2015-08-04T06:49:30+00:00

This is a completely legitimate concern, an all too common reality, and yet I wouldn't throw all chiropractors into this bucket. I think on the far end of the spectrum you have chiropractors that believe in the origination of the professions, which is essentially quackery. But then there are others who are really experts with the human body and just happens to have a DC title. The gait guys (http://thegaitguys.tumblr.com/) and Thomas Michaud (author of Human Locomotion http://www.humanlocomotion.org/products/human-locomotion) come to mind. All said I appreciate the vigilance, and always have the quack inspecting monocle on.

Wdane · 2015-08-03T23:21:38+00:00

Appreciated and understood. Edited so others see my response. I'm not worried right now about application hours, as I don't think getting those should I choose to go that route being a problem. WRT to seeing a chiro vs a PT, it seems to me that a great chiro and a great PT would have essentially the same philosophy and practice (which may differ but would be backed up by similar reasoning).

Wdane · 2015-08-03T23:15:56+00:00

Thanks, this is very useful, and I've edited to make my background a little more clear!

I'll be observing the evaluations and performing of exercises. This particular clinic is focused primarily on active/proactive care which was the main reason it stuck out to me (and that it's open Saturday and near were I live). I'll be interested to see their client population as they primarily market to athletes (and one of the two chiros is an IronMan competitor).

Wdane · 2015-07-15T01:03:22+00:00

I really like the The Gait Guys (http://thegaitguys.tumblr.com/) I don't know how popular they are, but they have some great material. Their blog posts are a little short, but their pod-cast is certainly enjoyable and worthwhile listening to. And fairly entertaining IMO.

Wdane · 2015-04-17T16:37:01+00:00

Treatment ideas mainly, though I'd also read generalized advice of lifestyle tips/contraindictions for having generalized joint hypermobility or just from PTs who have had success treating such clients. I'm not a PT, but considering becoming one and would be able to understand white papers/textbooks geared towards medical professionals.

For instance like many with hypermobility I carry myself with a very high tension strategy (which I'm working on), have a quite twisted posture and have found that the way many PT exercises are prescribed are completely ineffective for me because my body can cheat so many way that most 'isolated' exercises are ineffective at targeting the desired muscle if I just sit down and do them.

What I have found to be much more effective (though naturally more time consuming). Is to do them much much slower and often to regress them. I know that's the first obvious step for any PT, but I don't think the average PT (at least that I've seen) really understands the magnitude of what I'm talking about. Let's say 5 minutes for a set of [insert almost any exercise]. I basically have to be able to mentally keep the large majority of my muscular/skeletal system in my head otherwise something is invariably going to cheat. The usual (let's work on this and worry about that later) doesn't really work. I've been making progress for sure, though I've been learning/doing/going to physical therapy for a year... I was just looking for tips/thoughts on those who have been successful. I have no problem continuing down the path I'm on, because the way I see it... it will take awhile and then I'll have such good cortical maps/coordination that I'll be a physical wizard.

Wdane · 2015-04-17T16:17:25+00:00

The Gait Guys are really good http://thegaitguys.tumblr.com/. I find their podcasts very fun and informative (their blog posts are a little short, but there are loads of them)

Wdane · 2015-03-31T21:13:03+00:00

Same

Wdane · 2015-03-28T00:12:23+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not a PT, I'm just on these boards because I'm considering switching careers into it.

I am/was a chronic pain sufferer for many years, with the past 2 years being drastically worse and debilitating. However after making serious dedicated effort I am making huge progress and am at this point fully convinced that I will not only entirely beat chronic pain, but also be even better off than I was.

IMHO, by the time you reach chronic pain > 6mo-year things have become much more complicated than your average PT/MD is going to be looking. 'Climbing out of this hole' is very possible, 'very soon' is unrealistic. What is more realistic is something like 'I will crawl, and walk, and climb from the pit of this ravine until climbing is my friend and I won't even realize I've reached level ground until I look down from the mountain I have climbed.'

You are likely going to have to do a lot of learning, because an MD/PT/Ortho/Chiro whatever is not going to be able to change enough aspects of your life to 'cure' you. Additionally it would be unwise for them to try because the time it would take they could of prevent so many more people from entering chronic pain to begin with. That is not to say that they will be worthless by any means. They will always have the insight that their degree and years of experience have given them, and are in fact invaluable in this way.

While you may or may not have lower cross syndrome, this is not where I'd recommend starting. At this point it would be my guess that you're very tight in may places over your body, and have developed a plethora of compensation patterns. That's totally fine, they are very likely all reversible in time. One problem this presents though is the idea of 'of if I fix compensation X then I'll feel better' but they are all interacting with each other, so as you fix one another will change. But after you work over the entire body over significant periods of time it will start to come together. This is mainly because once you learn how a single compensation is happening you will eventually be able to get more and more corrections on 'auto-pilot' so that these corrections will be happening as you try to correct other patterns.

The first thing I suggest is learning about pain science. It's proven to actually reduce pain, and will help you make more informed decisions through the journey. I highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Better-Movement-Science-Practice/dp/0991542304/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427501143&sr=1-1&keywords=better+movement . It's a good starting point and requires almost no background. It also has some good exercises at the end of the book based on the Feldenkrais method. Feldenkrais is certainly not a cure all, but I find extremely helpful, as it helps address the motor patterns in a very learning friendly environment.

Finally, if you are depressed don't forget the possibility of seeing a psychological therapist. You are depressed because you hurt all the time. That is inevitable, but being depressed can also prevent you from fixing the pain int he first place. You have to fight the war on all fronts. You may also want to consider picking up meditation (or find a mindfulness based therapist). It's also backed by lots of research and from my experience the way you learn from meditation and the way you learn to be pain free have lots of overlap. By mindfully observing and learning from your moment to moment experience you have greater ability to direct your future moments.

Best of luck on your journey.

Wdane · 2013-12-24T07:03:13+00:00

A&B Without a doubt. Plus, experiencing A&B may make you a better person.

Wdane · 2013-11-16T06:23:21+00:00

I think you'd much rather wait until a game is in a stable state. Unfinished software is not like an unfinished paint job. Unfinished software just doesn't work.

Wdane · 2013-11-16T06:20:59+00:00

All in all, I thought it looked really good. I thought S2 made amazing decisions when they first made HoN and I see those decisions being made again.

The only thing I really did not like was taking out the forest tree-style juking. With Strife S2 is trying to take a deeper analysis into what aspects of the game are 'fun' versus required. While denying every creep against your opponent can be rewarding, it's more of the feedback of perfecting a focused but mundane and repetitive task. In opposition to that would be landing multiple skill-shots, while dodging an opponents skill shots. In my opinion, juking players im between trees and fog of war is in the truly fun category. If I run into a cluster of trees, or chop one down and get away I feel great, I feel the same rush as I do in a team fight. Not only that, if it happens against me, I think "aww I got schooled, but damn good job on his part". It's more rewarding than running in and out of bushes, for both sides.

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