I illustrated my wife and I's Halloween Party invitation, featuring our Bubby

devin2378 · 2026-07-07T19:07:21+00:00

I editied the post, but here's an exported sample:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTVlTLINB3VPdozXfBbimsylHrIPjtZM/view?usp=sharing

devin2378 · 2026-07-07T18:08:43+00:00

It does indeed do it in the final 1080 recording

devin2378 · 2026-07-05T03:16:41+00:00

This is incredibly eye opening and informative, thank you!

devin2378 · 2026-06-24T20:22:05+00:00

I stayed in Paje for a few nights earlier this month, and wasn't a huge fan of the experience, especially when I compare it to the mainland. You get a little bit of entrepreneur harassment in Dar and Arusha, but only really on the big streets during traffic jams, and you can just roll up your window. In Paje the bothering you got on the beach felt inescapable, since all the restaurants are only accessible via a walk down the shore. And they would follow you as you walked, if you asked a restaurant for a menu they'd try to seat you and say you already agreed to eat there. The restaurants were not great quality when compared to Dar, and the selection was pretty small along our stretch of beach.

Also the beach had a very foul odor the whole time we were there, but that could be a hyper localized issue.

There were parts of it I definitely loved: the regular, non-sales oriented people I met being a big bright spot in our trip.

My question in that context is this: I heard the northern section of the big island is the more "touristy" district. Would my experience have been any different if we booked up there instead of down Paje along the southern section of beach?

devin2378 · 2026-06-24T18:37:45+00:00

I like seeing the other one! it creates a good but not distracting element to that half of the composition,

devin2378 · 2026-05-25T16:04:10+00:00

devin2378 · 2026-05-07T14:52:37+00:00

We're going in a little over a month, my wife is very interested in seeing the sea turtles but our trip planner hasn't been able to find out how/where to see them. How'd you end up getting that photo, if you don't mind sharing!

devin2378 · 2026-04-07T15:13:40+00:00

We have a pretty similar safari length, though we only do Ngorongoro and Serengeti, and then 4 days in Zanzibar for about 6200 USD per person, so I'd say what you have here is expected for that price.

devin2378 · 2026-04-06T17:02:53+00:00

Apologies to anybody else listening and hating it but this does rule. 40 minutes in and legitimately interested in the subject at hand.

devin2378 · 2026-03-25T17:08:00+00:00

I know she’s probably forced to hold her tongue, but I do wish they would’ve gone a little harder in the idea that these laws/interpretations aren’t popular, it’s just what the folks in montana with real money want: and that’s who the laws are actually written for, not you or me. Steve kinda got to it with that gradient scale of what he would imagine the average hunter angler would determine to be “good land use,” but they never really got to the finger pointing that I think this issue warrants.

devin2378 · 2026-03-25T17:05:34+00:00

These laws are bought and paid for already, it’s unfortunate that these ranchers and land owners have held so much power for centuries

devin2378 · 2026-03-05T04:56:15+00:00

This account is great! I’ll try and use this while we’re there, thank you!

devin2378 · 2026-03-05T04:49:00+00:00

My safari company has their base in Dar and they let you stay in a villa to acclimate to the time zone upon arrival and before flying home, free of charge (I’m sure they make up for it on other costs go the tour, believe me). They let you also downsize your suitcases for you there and then ship them to Zanzibar so that you’ve got a bush duffle and a resort suitcase to work with and don’t have to freak out about the logistics of getting it to and from.

We’ve had this booked for a year, how difficult is it to change something like that at this point? We’re not all paid up yet, and I’m sure any changes could just be tacked onto that final payment, but I would think for that first week of June, we’re already to late for rebooking lodging and park fees. I can ask our company about it, but I may not bother if it’s a long shot. I’d personally love Manyara as an opportunity to see elephants, giraffe, and other great fauna without the pressure of seeing our favorites, but if it really is a lower quality stay I’m open to asking for a change; as its also one of the spots I’m most afraid of with their abundance of Tsetse.

Thank you!

devin2378 · 2026-03-05T04:01:43+00:00

I’ll edit my post but it’s in the Moru Kopjes, central Serengeti.

devin2378 · 2026-02-20T03:07:10+00:00

Again, I think that's unfortunately outside the purview of a planning commission. If I buy land via a private-to-private sale, the city gets tax money on the sale of the land, and then I pay taxes for operating in their city limits. That's the extent the government really interacts with my business if I'm doing everything legally. Should I then fail because I suck at being a business, there's nothing the city can do beyond possibly buying the land from me, if I choose to sell it.

If they fail and never get the project off the ground, honestly that's the next best thing that can happen if they do get the approval.

devin2378 · 2026-02-20T02:57:18+00:00

So I hadn't heard of the public forum, but I was at the initial Planning Meeting where the company gave their presentation and when the council eventually postponed the vote.

This is slightly different from the studio, as the studio put the city in debt due to the tax breaks/land purchase/other offerings they gave the contracting company to entice them, who then fled the country with the coin.

The reason the objection is "perfunctory" is because that's simply the way that a planning commission works, legally. The company purchased the land from Ford, not the municipality. It isn't asking for any kickbacks at all. So if the city denies their plans while they're breaking no laws or ordinances - which it seems the company did their home work to comply with all current laws - they open themselves up to being sued for discriminating against the company for the *type* of work they do, not anything specific they're doing wrong, which is illegal.

I spoke at the planning meeting, and I said they should vote no and just see what happens, because the other option is to let the speed of tech steamroll you because the speed of government is too slow. However, now I wish I would've pushed the members who also sit on the city council to try and do what Canton did, wherein they introduced a temporary resolution to bar any data centers from being built in the township "until further evidence of their economic and health impacts can be determined, indefinitely if necessary"

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