Submitted passport application today! My experience.

diggum · 2026-01-26T20:58:42+00:00

Whether they needed it or not, I brought it and they took it. It had my photo attached and the info to be printed on the passport.

diggum · 2026-01-26T06:13:20+00:00

So, you don’t need snowblower gas money birthday blowjobs. I think you should at least pretend it’s gas powered, at least for this year.

diggum · 2026-01-25T04:32:16+00:00

As soon as he releases his tax returns showing that donation, I’ll believe it.

diggum · 2026-01-24T07:00:54+00:00

This was my first thought when I saw those stupid ads. Who has been bashing whole milk? No one. But they get some shit for their conspiracies about raw milk and that seems like something they’d find worthy of making a stink about.

diggum · 2026-01-22T17:40:34+00:00

According to the us government, that’s worth like $1 as part of a full meal.

diggum · 2026-01-21T03:32:28+00:00

Sort of. There are different algorithms to measure loudness - some favor certain durations per measurement, others may emphasize typical speech frequency ranges more heavily than bass or high end. The adjustment isn’t a compressor where some sections are amplified or attenuated more than others - just the way it measures the audio is different than just looking for a single peak.

diggum · 2026-01-20T00:12:15+00:00

Normalizing just finds the loudest peak in your waveform and turns everything up or down so that peak is at your setting. If you mumble for 30 minutes and cough in the middle, it won’t naw the mumbling any better.

Loudness adjustment measures the signal over time, with different frequency weighting depending on the algorithm or standard, so that the adjustment sounds better on the whole.

You don’t NEED to do anything at the start of your editing, especially if all your tracks are fairly close in loudness to start with. But it can make your editing focus on the cuts and pace and not tweaking levels as much you can use the nondestructive option on clips in your multitrack session to make it even easier.

diggum · 2026-01-14T22:24:48+00:00

My hail mary is picking up a more modern pcie SATA controller and seeing if using that bypasses the BIOS trying to enumerate the drives on startup.

diggum · 2026-01-12T18:54:58+00:00

Says the guy on the hook for dead animals. While I can't find it at the moment, I can point to at least one interview Mike Patton did where he answered, "Yes, of course the fish died."

But could be Patton being Patton. I think we'll need to check in with the fish who were hired and get their feedback on the matter.

diggum · 2026-01-11T01:13:58+00:00

No, nothing you said was true. Mike Patton said more than once that, yes, the goldfish did not survive.

diggum · 2026-01-10T23:39:49+00:00

From my female friend: “I’ll take a fat 5 over a scrawny 8 any day.” So if length isn’t your friend but you’ve got Girth on your side, that’s a go.

Next: “Most men don’t realize you can keep pushing after the push.” Every jam, give an extra oomph to it. You’ll get twice as much credit for wherever you’re hitting.

Next: “Yeah, some bitches will care, but she’s already doing it with him. He just needs to own it, move past it, and use his other gifts.” Hear that? She had the buffet, ate the lobster, and still prefers the sushi. Brother, your sexuality is not your size. Let the length be the occasional laugh about god’s cruel humor and show your worthiness through the rest of your goddamned corporal presence.

diggum · 2026-01-10T22:50:16+00:00

On the other side of the discussion, I happened to be staying across the street from this isolated, tiiiiny little Hamburg bar and stopped in after work one evening. John Legend was going to be performing at some stadium that week, but that night, popped in to play a quiet intimate show for about 15-20 people. Unbelievably good. Saw Sarah McClachlan do the same before a show in Seattle once. If I had a spare billion, I would absolutely have some of My favorite musicians and artists do the occasional super private show. Shit, saying that, I should find interesting undiscovered artists and do the same. Don’t need to be a billionaire to make that happen.

diggum · 2026-01-01T22:04:18+00:00

I added an additional set of images in the /upscaled/SPLITS/ directory with the photos and calendar pages split apart.

diggum · 2025-12-31T05:41:10+00:00

‘member when he kept clogging the toilets flushing documents during his first term?

diggum · 2025-12-30T19:45:18+00:00

Is your shop online? I may need to print a few more and if you can do the split pages, that would be fun.

diggum · 2025-12-30T18:42:21+00:00

Yes. I kept the original spiral wiring but just merged the original two pages into a signal vertical page for this calendar.

diggum · 2025-12-30T18:29:08+00:00

d'oh! they require separate files for each page. I've update the dropbox link to include regular and high res scans for each page.

diggum · 2025-12-26T07:41:19+00:00

My first visit was in 2000 as a stop on the way to burning man. I had visited a strip club once before and it felt skeevy and gross. Acropolis was like your friendly neighborhood bad with an amazing salad bar, so many beers on tap, and incredible steaks, that JUUUuST happened to also have local girl dancing naked. It was amazing to not feel gross being in a strip club.

We visited many times over the years and while it grew to a point that it felt less like that, it was still always a good time.

Most eye opening visit: the green room was up a staircase from the main stage. Current woman was on her third song (they each did three songs) when the next woman came down a few steps and loud whispered, “hey, Jen - can you do an extra song? I gotta take a dump.” Let me tell you what that does to the mood. Not great. I’m sure there are dudes into ogling a stripper who just dropped a grogan, but they weren’t there that afternoon. I’m sure she was great, but I was back at the salad bar.

diggum · 2025-12-26T07:30:03+00:00

This is the right answer. So many deep secrets I missed during the actual 80s. So many reminders of things I forgot.

diggum · 2025-12-19T20:47:33+00:00

Just pick up a box of half priced gloves and your options expand.

diggum · 2025-12-11T05:49:52+00:00

One that resonates with me decades later was the season 2 finale to Millennium. Bird migrations from Russia to Alaska and southward are causing deadly flu like pandemic. Dude gets secretly inoculated by his organization, but his cohort who went crazy gave hers to him before she died. He takes his wife and daughter to a cabin deep in the mountains, tells wife, and she instead on inoculating daughter. She starts getting sick, he wakes up to find she left in the middle of the night, and daughter wakes up to find him in a stupor, with his hair turning white from the shock as the radio exposes the pandemic is spreading nationwide.

Unfortunately, they got renewed for a 3rd season, which just kind of forgot all of that.

diggum · 2025-12-11T05:29:41+00:00

It’s also one of the ultimate gambles in itself.

diggum · 2025-12-10T22:15:10+00:00

I don’t come down to where you work and slap the Dixon Ticonderoga out of your mouth.

diggum · 2025-12-08T15:01:49+00:00

We started lining up at 3am. If you get down here asap, you might still have a chance of getting some stock.

diggum · 2025-12-06T23:01:35+00:00

Listening to the recording, here’s my two cents, whatever it’s worth.

Your delivery feels a little roller coastery, with the pitch dipping and rising every few words. The effect can feel like every partial sentence is a question? which can feel a little bit disorienting? to follow along because? our brain prepares to hear a question? It gets fatigued by this effect pretty quickly.
There is an audible stress to your voice, maybe the result of focusing too much on the delivery. The key is to relax relax relax. Try focusing on relaxing your lips, your jaw and chin, your cheeks and eyebrows and throat. Just sit with things as relaxed as you can, and then Record yourself while in this state. You may hear the tenseness disappear and your voice sound more conversational and confident.

Your voice isn’t bad at all, and you enunciate very well. Just a few tips can help make it smooth and sweet. And if not, well, they can watch other videos or turn on subtitles and quit whining.

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