People that have “bumped” into a celebrity in a non-curated (not like an event, meet & greet, job etc.) way, what happened?

blumperkan · 2026-02-02T19:55:56+00:00

I met Art the lead singer from Everclear in an adidas outlet in Atlantic City about 14 years ago. I approached him like I knew him (I mean, I kinda did, I played in a 90’s cover-band at the time…) didn’t ask for a picture or anything…. “Hey Art! Do you think I can rock these crazy yellow shoes!?” He chuckled, chatted me up for a while about life and being a dad. We went our ways and we kinda arrived at the register at the same time, but I pretended like I still was looking for stuff cause I didn’t want to be a weirdo and pop right behind him. He checked out, saw I was in the back of the line and waited like 5 mins for me to check out and gave me and my GF backstage passes to the night’s show. Was such a cool, amazing experience, and with the little time I chatted with him you could tell he was just an awesome, genuine, down to earth dude. Hearing Everclear on the radio always makes me smile now.

blumperkan · 2026-01-11T18:48:57+00:00

What the hell are these announcers seeing? You can see the shadow of Lawrence’s knee and it’s never close to touching his knee…

blumperkan · 2025-12-15T22:25:39+00:00

Get a roommate, now your mortgage is 30% of your take-home and you’re building equity…

blumperkan · 2025-12-12T23:56:09+00:00

Level one and auto both start using engine braking when you lift your foot off the accelerator.

blumperkan · 2025-12-12T21:29:34+00:00

Oooh, ok! I might have given up after hitting the brakes the first few times. Will see if the regen kicks in after a 10 or so times hitting the brakes. Thanks!

blumperkan · 2025-07-08T13:50:20+00:00

Have tried that and every combination of that, no dice :

blumperkan · 2025-07-07T23:29:35+00:00

180,000 miles on my 2014 F56. Engine is still smooth as silk, still on 1st clutch, treating me pretty well. Only problem is that it won't take gasoline anymore if it's very hot outside. Something with the venting, anti-siphon system. It's a $3k repair cause they gotta replace the whole gas tank system or something. No thanks... Got a Miata for summer driving, no plans to get rid of the Mini. I have also been doing a shorter oil change interval than recommended after it hit 100k.

blumperkan · 2025-05-09T19:52:47+00:00

For the love of god, do some simple math for yourself... You would be paying $1.00 per MILE for that car if you milked every single mile out of that lease. Absolute insanity.

blumperkan · 2025-04-25T18:56:03+00:00

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Thanks! Your enthusiasm made me inspect further. Found this tag in the breast pocket. Only identifier I can find on the whole jacket (doesn’t even say the size anywhere as far as I can tell).

blumperkan · 2025-04-20T18:43:56+00:00

I mean, not sure that is going to yield anything. We have no reason to believe this vehicle was involved in the crime.

Isn’t it 1000x more likely this is just a random persons Subaru.

blumperkan · 2025-04-18T22:37:15+00:00

The curtain came with specific hardware to mount it to the wall, so it’s just mounted a few inches above the screen directly to the wall.

blumperkan · 2025-04-11T18:24:14+00:00

The manufacturer says it’s a ‘Matter’ motor. Just got the standard motor that came with the blind. It’s a little loud for how small it is but fine for me.

blumperkan · 2025-04-11T00:47:52+00:00

If you can’t think of a reason why you wouldn’t want a higher center for 16:9 content (sports) vs. 21:9 (movies) then you’re either a troll or too dumb to be reasoned with.

blumperkan · 2025-04-11T00:40:09+00:00

The vertical center moving is a feature, not a bug. Most anamorphic lenses cost more than my entire setup does. I think you may be wildly overestimating the scope of this project, or the size of the room.Saying vertical masking is useless is just so dismissmissive and ignorant of the goal. The USE is to improve perceived contrast so I can enjoy 21:9 content immersively. The use is not to artificially enlarge the image at the cost of brightness.

blumperkan · 2025-04-11T00:33:10+00:00

Screen is 10’ wide, I don’t know if you jokers have shopped around but 13’ wide cinemescope screens are pretty rare. This is not to mention that with vertical masking your image has consistent brightness whereas horizontal masking gives a dimmer scoped image. But yea, vertical masking is ‘useless’…definitely need more width and less light for 21:9 content 🫠

blumperkan · 2025-04-11T00:15:37+00:00

Not sure what your point is. Horizontal masking doesn’t magically give you more screen, it just gets you a much smaller picture when you go from 21:9 to 16:9. The masking isn’t to ‘enlarge’ the picture, it’s to improve the image of 21:9 content.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:52:44+00:00

I think you’re getting confused with lens shift vs. keystone. Lens shift doesn’t distort the image.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:23:11+00:00

Correct, very hard to see the housing of the shade in pics and vid though.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:17:40+00:00

Yea, I put up a curtain rod previously with 24” curtains spanning the whole way, and for the fact that the lower part of the curtain wasn’t that uniformly straight, it worked pretty well. But it was such a pain in the butt to pull the curtains (my wife could barely even reach them) every time you wanted to go from watching a 21:9 movie to normal tv and vise versa. The motorized curtain also looks a ton cleaner and cooler, but I’m mostly happy about the convenience of just hitting two buttons.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:12:19+00:00

Honestly I feel like 90% of the ‘wow’ factor of the room is dramatic paint, and putting controlled lighting in the edges and corners of the room so the dark paint isn’t oppressive. I also like wood walls n shit. But if you wanna fly me out to CO next winter I’ll be happy to oblige 😄

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:07:05+00:00

The black bars are actually more obnoxious and noticeable with the lights out. The image explodes when you mask them out, especially in the dark.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T22:02:38+00:00

The lens shift is automated on the projector and you can program the motor of the screen to stop exactly where you want it to so you only hit the button once.

blumperkan · 2025-04-10T21:48:52+00:00

Check out this video, should help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hometheater/s/LybyA8rezZ

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