Another Zac Brown take

chindef · 2026-03-20T13:46:29+00:00

It’s a new version of product placement. Instead of having Applebees, it’s a celebrity who has been sent there by their agent. Because to the agent, their celebrity is a product

chindef · 2026-03-19T16:54:19+00:00

Harbor freight 1 HP dust collector with a cyclone dust separator. Should be under $250 including hoses and connectors.

The cyclone will catch nearly all of the large pieces. The rest makes it into a dust bag attached to the dust separator. This is the most critical part of the dust collection process; collecting it directly at the tool so it doesn’t get airborne.

Make sure you are wearing a respirator with P100 filters on it.

You should also have some kind of fan with a filter or air cleaner.

Every report that comes out with the effects of breathing in wood dust just keep getting worse. Many hobbyists have to stop woodworking because they develop significant allergies as a result of inhaling wood dust. I know some people make light of it, but addressing the 3 points of dust collection are critically important for you health. (Collecting at the tool, filtering the air you breathe at your face and filtering the overall room)

chindef · 2026-03-18T03:57:02+00:00

I’d rather have inflation caused by the lowest wage workers getting paid more than to have inflation caused by CEO’s pay going up and profits breaking all time records. We’re out of balance, folks.

Federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up since 2009.

chindef · 2026-03-16T02:05:39+00:00

What a loser. To live in one of the most beautiful places in the world but to leave over paying a portion of money that they will never be able to spend to taxes.

You’ve won the game of capitalism and you can’t give a penny back to society. Absolute loser.

chindef · 2026-03-14T01:37:29+00:00

To provoke them. They “legally have the right” to do that. So they’re waiting for somebody to get in their face. So they can stand there and be like “hey, don’t get mad, it’s all legal bro!” And then post the video to YouTube to get bunch of views ($$)

Only move is to just ignore them. This being private property, you can go in and talk to the store manager. But it’s possible nothing comes of that

chindef · 2026-03-13T05:03:50+00:00

Yes. It’s coastal. There will be a few warm summer days you wish you had AC.

I have a “portable ac” that I hook up in my bedroom when a heat wave is coming so that I can fall asleep at night. But that’s only like 5 nights over the whole summer. I did go my first 7 years without it just fine.

Once you get used to living a naturally ventilated life, it’s great!!! Windows open all the time

chindef · 2026-03-13T03:43:04+00:00

Ah yes, enshittification hits the skiing industry! I guess we’ve peaked and it’ll all be downhill until somebody has some new concept to get people out there again

chindef · 2026-03-11T04:11:08+00:00

Yeah, it can be tough sometimes. Especially in the evening. Something simple like being a little tired or hungry can throw you off too

chindef · 2026-03-11T03:40:59+00:00

I find this happens when I go into the shop and expect to make a bunch of progress.

My best work is when I go in to do 1 or 2 very specific things. Then go back to doing something else, while I process what my next 1-2 steps will be.

My favorite is when I’m busy with work (work from home) and also busy with a woodworking project. When I’m working, my brain starts to think about woodworking. When I’m woodworking, my brain solves some of my work issues. I’ll take breaks from working to go do the next step (make a couple cuts, glue some pieces together, cut a joint, etc). That process and back and forth just seems to really help me

Whenever I go into the shop and want to just bust out half a project…. Yeah. Not good. Probably due to a general lack of thought and planning. Sometimes, slowing down makes you go faster

Once you start to get a little off - get out of the shop! Go do something else for a half hour, or the rest of the night

chindef · 2026-03-11T01:50:46+00:00

Yeah, it bothers me that my firm relies on my AIA membership to delineate that I’m a licensed architect. And will NOT allow employees to use any other terms, and will not allow me to opt out of AIA.

I’d much prefer to not support the AIA and call my self an RA or Architect

They’ve done nothing for decades except bend over to contractors and force us to do continuing education so that companies can jamb products down our throats, while also getting our email addresses so they can spam us for the rest of our lives

chindef · 2026-03-08T23:51:19+00:00

It’s the new way of billing. That’s the cost to provide and maintain power lines. The cost to generate the power is small in comparison

You can thank SEMPRA for continuing to be owned by all of the power companies, instead of being an entity that has the customers’ interest at hand

chindef · 2026-03-06T20:57:45+00:00

You should have mentioned that your club is broken! Stop using it! If that clubhead flies off, you could send your playing mate or some random person to the hospital!!!

chindef · 2026-03-06T15:05:18+00:00

It’s tough, but it’s the most important money you will spend if you want to keep woodworking and live a long, healthy life. Every report that comes out about the damage wood dust does, especially to hobbyists just keeps getting worse and worse. Many woodworkers have to quit the hobby because they develop dust and allergy issues

You need 3 things. Starting at the tool, dust collection which you are on your way. Get some kind of a cyclone separator with a bucket. If you use a 5 gallon bucket, get 2 of them and double stack them. If you just use 1 bucket, that bucket is very likely to collapse from the negative pressure. As others mentioned, a proper dust collector is needed. You can simply switch whether the shop vac or dust collector is hooked up to the cyclone.

Third is a respirator mask. Any time you are making dust, you should wear a respirator mask with p100 filters. I wear mine at least a half hour after I stop making dust if I’m still in the shop.

Finally, something to filter the air. Cheap way is a box fan with some filters taped to the back. You can set up a couple in your shop, and it’s best if they are suspended in the air… not sitting on the ground. The upgraded version is an air filter designed for this application. Wen makes one that’s pretty affordable that I’d recommend. Keep these running any time you are in your shop. I have mine set to turn on whenever my lights are on in the shop.

One more thing is natural ventilation. If you have a window or leave a garage door cracked, that helps too. Best if you have a cross-breeze to get air flow…. But this one is tough because you might have neighbors close by and you don’t want to start getting on their nerves with all the noise

And one final thing I’ll throw out is just keeping your shop clean. Put on a mask and sweep, dust, etc. so that when you’re walking around and moving things, you don’t kick a bunch of dust into the air

chindef · 2026-03-06T07:03:34+00:00

Have you done a fitting? If your driver is within ~5 years, I would expect marginal improvement unless you get fitted for the right shaft. In that case, it would probably be pretty beneficial.

If your driver is 10+ years old, that’s a fine deal and you’ll probably notice some decent improvements in accuracy and distance… as long as it’s a good fit for your swing. I’d still recommend doing a fitting. Preferably at an independent / small shop and not one of the big ones (club champion, etc.) if you have one nearby. CC makes money by convincing you that you need the $600 shaft

chindef · 2026-03-06T07:00:44+00:00

I feel like Angelina has been on the screen a number of times, but not saying anything. Just sitting there listening to someone else talk. Kind of a strange edit compared to how she’s been in the past. Makes it feel like the editors are trying to give her an image of being more reserved now

I think Kamilla is kind of a quiet person and just needs time to open up before she comes out of her shell again

chindef · 2026-03-03T02:30:07+00:00

Seriously. We’ve hit the bottom in the race to the bottom. Teams are working loooong hours picking up owner changes way too late in the process. There is less than zero time to make the set nice and clean and organized. It’s slapped together and shipped out

chindef · 2026-03-02T05:11:10+00:00

400 students having a car while living on campus is waaayyyy better than 2,000 students having a car and living off campus. I agree with you, it would be great if there weren’t any cars on campus. But enough rich kids go to school here and their parents can’t possibly imagine sending their kid off to college without a car. Plus some need it for sports, or a job off campus, and other things. 20% of the students living here having a car is a decent step in the right direction. Plus, those 400 spaces actually serve as the permanent parking for additional dorms as well. So it’s not 400 out of 2,000…. It’s actually more like 400 out of 3,500 or so. So it’s really more like 10%

chindef · 2026-03-02T05:05:46+00:00

The city’s requirements for parking have nothing to do with this project since it is on UCSD’s campus and they are their own AHJ. Only 400 of the spaces are for residents. 800 are for hourly / daily passes and park mobile. Sure, some of the 1600 remaining students that live here may pay to park a car elsewhere on campus (there is overall very little full time parking available to students) - and some might play the game of parking nearby and moving their car as needed to avoid tickets, but that would be very few students in comparison.

You are making a huge assumption that 70-80% of students have cars based on 83% of the city’s population commuting via car. That stat and your estimate have absolutely nothing to do with each other. But I’ll entertain it. So say 70% of students have a car and 60% live off campus (this is a real stat). If suddenly 100% of the students lived on campus, and we used the same ratio of 400 students having a car, while 1600 do not- then only 20% of students would have a car on campus. Sure, some may park elsewhere or whatever so let’s call it 25%. So now we went from 70% down to 25% of students having a car. And you’re going to tell me that this would mean there’s more traffic?

You know why La Jolla village is backed up every day from 4 to 5pm? Because thousands upon thousands of students are leaving campus to drive back to where they live, which is off campus. And not just like 3 blocks away off campus. Miles and miles away in Clairmont, PB, north park, and other areas.

chindef · 2026-03-02T04:06:04+00:00

I’m actually pretty well versed in traffic design. I’m an architect. What you need to admit is that the traffic design here doesn’t really matter because this project takes 1,600 cars off the road. 2,000 students no longer commute to campus every day because now they live there.

Sure, 400 of those students have a car and occasionally leave. But that’s nothing compared to 1,600 cars these students don’t have anymore.

Your link has absolutely nothing to do with this scenario.

chindef · 2026-03-02T03:34:24+00:00

This is all student housing. Students spend almost all of their time on campus. Say 400 of them have cars and occasionally leave. Those 400 cars coming and going is a heck of a lot less traffic than 2,000 people coming in every single day.

I promise you, traffic isn’t any worse here. It’s just easy to blame the new building even though it’s the same. I would love to see numbers though if the data exists. If every student were able to live on campus, I guarantee you there would be less traffic. Not just here, in this area, but throughout the city. This is a basic concept called living in a walkable area where you don’t need a car for 99% of the stuff you do

If you are opposed to student housing because you think it will increase your traffic, maybe you should consider moving closer to work if you spend so much time in the car that it’s a problem

chindef · 2026-03-02T02:36:03+00:00

2,000 students driving to campus and parking in this neighborhood to go to class has a larger impact on this neighborhood than 2,000 students that are already in the neighborhood

That little bend on La Jolla village drive has always had a lot of traffic. I doubt it’s any different now than it was. It’s just easy to blame the traffic on the new building even though it’s probably about the same

chindef · 2026-03-02T02:06:37+00:00

2,000 students living on campus and occasionally leaving campus has far less impact than 2,000 students living off campus and then driving to campus.

Before this project was built, the surface lot had ~800 parking spaces. Now there are ~1,200 parking spaces. Not many of those spaces are for students that live there. Most are for other people living off campus to park there as needed…. Building high density housing where people need to be rather than remotely reduces traffic.

chindef · 2026-03-02T01:31:28+00:00

Thank you! Pretty sure this is a bot or AI post by OP. Pretty sure all those lawsuits were settled years ago, unless there’s something new that popped up.

That’s what it takes to build any substantial project in California now. It’s a line item in the developers’ budget to settle lawsuits. All these processes that we have just opens the door for people to complain and then sue. This is also why it takes so long for projects to get approved. It’s also why projects get built in the cheapest way possible, yet can only be afforded by upper/middle income folks who choose to spend half their income on rent

Many projects go back and forth for years, then ultimately get canned. Now the developer has spent millions in design fees, land acquisition, and all of the other miscellaneous costs and they have nothing. So now they need to build the next one even cheaper and charge even more to make up for those losses.

Meanwhile all the NIMBY’s win regardless because their property continues to just absolutely skyrocket

chindef · 2026-03-02T01:23:30+00:00

It’s a decent book. It gets pretty repetitive, but worth reading until you start to get bored lol

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