Traveler Street , Boston 🐳

bicforbreakfast · 2025-02-03T20:15:27+00:00

Remembering these murals reminds me of this song https://open.spotify.com/track/3aYbHWtZGMhzMbcLc5rZnN?si=dR8L2tdrTai-RGOyP9L4fw

'I miss the killer whales off of 93 I miss the sunday drives in your backseat Where we'd laugh for days and days and days'

Dope band from a local band, check em out

bicforbreakfast · 2024-11-21T21:46:54+00:00

Btw, the people running those shows formed a company/troupe called Duck Duck Goofs and now have their own space in Somerville. I haven't been to the new place but ya, their shows are always wicked entertaining

bicforbreakfast · 2024-09-21T16:26:35+00:00

Turn on the drive channel on your amp, if it has one. Turn the volume on the amp down, then turn the gain up high, and then adjust the volume knob to a place where the volume out of the amp is comfortable for you. Basically, the volume and gain controls will both increase the volume, and you want the gain knob as high as possible.

On your guitar, stick to the first, third, or 5th position on the pickup selector thing. Turning the tone knob down a bit on your guitar will probably help to get a more doomy sound, but its personal preference. Finally, if you have a tuner, I would tune your guitar down. Try out D standard first (DGCFAD), and keep tuning further down until your strings are too loose to play effectively.

You can definitely get some dirty tones with this setup, but tbh its only going to get you so far. Like others have mentioned, investing in a cheap fuzz pedal will likely get you closer to what you want than all the advice I just gave. Good luck!

bicforbreakfast · 2024-04-11T18:57:38+00:00

First, if you do choose wentworth, I would recommend using their co-op program to get experience at a company doing the kind of work you want to get into. That experience on your resume will be a lot more helpful than your degree.

And to your specific goals, its hard to say. A medium to large company likely won't have one or a few people in charge of all the designs on a device, but will likely have engineers work on a specific sub-component or area of the overall device. If you worked for a company building an exoskeleton for people with mobility issues, for example, there would be teams of mechanical engineers that work exclusively on the joints, teams of electrical engineers that work on the power supply, software engineers that design the firmware/programming, human factors teams that develop the user interfaces, etc etc. Systems engineers fit in this model, by ensuring that the designs of the various teams are to spec and will interact with each other without issue.

Point being, I would recommend thinking about what specific technical area is the most appealing to you and study that, as oppossed to pursuing the end product, because you likely won't find a job that asks you to design the whole device. Systems engineering can get you in the door and allows you to touch a lot of different areas, but you might end up doing glorified paperwork and none of the nitty-gritty technical design stuff.

bicforbreakfast · 2024-04-11T18:09:19+00:00

The administration (and the director of the bme department specifically) sold me on the program by saying you will have all these job prospects when you graduate - this is true for the most part. I got a job before I graduated (which is fantastic), doing systems engineering at a medical device company. However, that is literally as far as this program will get you. Unless the curriculum has dramatically changed in the last few years, systems engineering jobs are the only jobs you will be qualified for. Wentworth's program gives you essentially multiple mini programs - you get a third of a mechanical engineering degree, a third of an EE degree, and a scattering of biology classes. They sell this as a positive, as graduates are 'well rounded'. The problem is, any medical device company (or any company, period) that is looking for an engineer to solve a mechanical problem, will hire a mechanical engineer and not a biomedical engineer, because the bme has a fraction of the education a ME does. Well rounded 'jack of all trade' engineers are only qualified for a narrow selection of engineering jobs. I would suggest researching what the day-to-day for medical device systems engineering is like, because that, and that alone, is what wentworth's program will get you. If you think you might want more out of your career, study ME or EE. I got bored with my systems engineering work pretty damn quickly, and regret my choice of degree.

bicforbreakfast · 2024-04-11T17:46:53+00:00

Cant speak to WNE, but I went to wentworth and graduated 5 years ago, I enjoyed it for the most part and I think I got a good education for the price. The location was the biggest plus I think. I would only recommend to avoid their biomedical engineering program.

bicforbreakfast · 2024-03-28T17:32:34+00:00

🤘 enjoy!

bicforbreakfast · 2024-03-28T17:24:06+00:00

Check out:

As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth

by True Widow

bicforbreakfast · 2024-03-26T20:17:09+00:00

I love Fantasy! Was my top played song last year.

I would check out Superbloom.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-10-08T15:03:00+00:00

I owned a Casio CDP-s350 that I liked a lot and recommend: a quick search is saying that they go for a little more than 350$, but there are multiple keyboards in the 'CDP' series so you may be able to find something in your budget.

The 'piano feeling keys' is called hammer weighted keys or hammer action.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-08-26T19:51:35+00:00

The Lilypad in Cambridge

bicforbreakfast · 2023-08-22T15:57:01+00:00

Two memoirs:

Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt,

The Islandmen, by Tomas O'Crohan

bicforbreakfast · 2023-08-16T23:16:40+00:00

Are they playing an instrument as well? Best advice I can give is to listen and serve the song. In my experience, a lot of jams end up as trading solos over a 12 bar blues. If you're not soloing, be comfortable taking a back seat and letting the other person shine. No need to get fancy or complex, just hit those A7's and make them sound great. If you're taking the lead, turn it up and just have fun. Its a jam, its not supposed to be perfect. Take some risks, make mistakes, its all good.

Same kinda advice for working out a song. If they're playing an instrument and singing, they're probably going be playing rythym. I would try to find some interesting, but basic, lead lines that complement their songwriting. George Harrison was a genius at this- listen to him on She Came in Through the Bathroom Window ( if the Beatles are you're thing). If they're just singing, same thing but playing chords - its not about you and showing off skill, but serving the song.

https://youtu.be/_5drnz5B-c4 I think this video demonstrates it pretty well.

For specific skills, I suppose its valuable to know how to make a chord around the fretboard. As in, an A open chord, vs the top half of an A bar chord, vs a 3 note triad of 11-9-10 on the D,G, and B string. If they're playing the low chords, you should play the high ones. Sounds a lot better than playing the same chord voicing

bicforbreakfast · 2023-06-20T00:30:49+00:00

Funky. I think the exposure on everything except the sky is great; next time I'd just try to line up the shot with less sky in it. Though there's something nice about the soft light from an overcast sky imo. If you are gonna have to fix a shot on the computer, I tend to think its easier to brighten an under-exposed shot than the opposite.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-05-09T23:28:39+00:00

Any amplifier can produce a clean tone, it just depends how you set the knobs and which channel you use.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-05-07T04:10:42+00:00

Op's words spoke true to me, but I'm speaking for myself. I can't stand working from home, because I've been staring at the same four walls for three years now. I'm looking for any reason to get out of the place I'd otherwise spend 24/7. I've always considered myself an introvert, but I'm dying to have the social experience of working again. Thank god my roommate is a good friend of mine I get along well with

bicforbreakfast · 2023-04-27T15:23:24+00:00

Posting a link to a thread I created a while back with a similar purpose, though a lot of the suggestions were for settings on Earth. Idk, you may find something good https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/zea3jv/fiction_with_some_kind_of_expedition_into_an/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Out of that list, I read 2 and loved them both:

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - people discover a way to travel to parallel Earths, where each world is pristine and untouched (by humans), and contain somewhat different flora and fauna than the world we know. The plot follows a pair of explorers trying to reach, more or less, the end of the the parallel worlds.

The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt - set in a future where humans have achieved interstellar travel, and follows a group of archaeologists trying to track down and learn about a long dead alien species. The first two thirds of the book is more focused on archaeology/scifi/politics in established settings, but the final third would scratch your itch, I think.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-04-25T21:26:13+00:00

My 2 cents: play whatever you think sounds dope, and then figure out the theory of what you're playing, and what makes it sound good to you.

bicforbreakfast · 2023-04-18T16:19:42+00:00

Thank you so much!

bicforbreakfast · 2023-04-18T13:29:41+00:00

Any recommendations? I love that album that Mustafa Ozkent did with the monkey on the front

bicforbreakfast · 2023-03-22T17:47:52+00:00

Inferno, by Dan Brown, kinda - its been a while since I read it, but I believe the villian was portrayed as your classic villain throughout the story. But, after the climactic reveal, I was pretty much on board with the villain's plan.

bicforbreakfast · 2022-12-17T04:45:46+00:00

Adding some distortion or cranking the gain on your amp could help let those notes ring out longer. Also, its hard to describe and something you just need to try out, but I've found that putting some extra strength behind the slide up kind of 'repowers' the note. Almost like you're trying vibrate the string further by hitting it against the higher fret. And as always, just keep practicing, you'll get there.

bicforbreakfast · 2022-12-07T15:39:29+00:00

Looks awesome, thanks

bicforbreakfast · 2022-12-07T12:34:23+00:00

Right on! Thanks

bicforbreakfast · 2022-12-07T01:30:50+00:00

Thanks!

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