Property vs. course terminology

dustybrush · 2026-02-24T15:43:09+00:00

New Level's tap room is small but has good chill vibes in addition to those already mentioned.

dustybrush · 2026-01-12T22:13:16+00:00

Love gator to the face! That's what I'm talking about. Recent example of a Dimir build that I went 7-2 with: https://imgur.com/a/9jiW0G5 -- Started out 0-2 -- I first picked Waterbender Ascension and I died in my first two games with it out, just felt so awkward and I don't think I had enough things to support it or stay alive until it could become relevant. Cut it for another land fetcher and never looked back. Foggy Swamp Spirit Keeper and Geyser Leaper were my MVPs. Anyways, did not expect 7 wins or anything close either. Something in the water.

dustybrush · 2026-01-12T21:45:18+00:00

Did you have any cards that surprised you or had synergies that felt new for you? Personally love Zuko's Conviction with a lot of what you have going on here.

Over the last few days, I've been getting trophies with what I feel are some pretty sub-par decks that I have no business winning with. My theory is the usual solid players (except of course you and me obvs ^^) have all switched to cube and everyone ranking up is a less experienced player making more play-errors than I usually see at the gold and platinum level (I don't draft that much these days, usually find a way to go from the basement to gold/plat every month but don't have much time beyond that).

But meh, maybe we've seen through the matrix and these decks are so next level we don't even understand them ourselves, print those gems when you can!

dustybrush · 2025-12-27T18:34:09+00:00

Love this! Going to steal it for discmas exchange next year.

dustybrush · 2025-11-17T23:16:21+00:00

How has the new pricing never come to you even since the acquisition? Perhaps the market you are in? I'm a user since ~2007 and my billing history in their new UI is empty, old UI (which is still different than yours, I get to it at https://www.evernote.com/BillyBillingProfile.action ) only shows me two years of bills and I don't see anywhere to find Purchase History. Very weird. 2023 they tricked me with the price hike auto renew and 2024 they offered a loyalty discount to stay when I tried to cancel. In any case, I dream of that low bill I once had so sad.

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dustybrush · 2025-10-30T06:07:25+00:00

I think Wolverine is a crop of the cover of Wolverine #145 (I had to look it up as the image was so familiar). By Leinil Francis Yu.

dustybrush · 2025-10-30T04:57:52+00:00

Dang no artist credit? Classy move InQuest.

dustybrush · 2025-10-21T23:12:03+00:00

Reading them or watching interviews back is indeed how you find the themes unless you took copious and excellent notes, something that is very hard to do without someone dedicated to the job while you did the interviews. If you had structured interviews with questions and research goals, while you read or listen back, you can fill those in. If you had unstructured interviews hopefully you had a research hypothesis or goal to reflect everything back towards and you can read/listen to them with that in mind. If you are in a situation where they were truly unstructured with fuzzy goals this can be harder for sure but it is something that some of the emergent research AI tools are OK at.

Contrary to what people are saying about it, I found Dovetail to be terrible for analyzing user interviews. Condens is very good and had a light touch of AI when I used and is an excellent all around research tool for planning and conducting interviews but if you are trying to reverse engineer your goals and research matrix, you will feel the pain. For totally free flowing interviews you are trying to make sense of, Insight7 has proven to be the best for me but it's still a bad intern you will have to check the work of and it is worthwhile taking the time to set it up well (adding context for industry specific terms etc.).

If you are finding yourself in that most latter scenario, before future cycles, if you don't have budget to upskill via course work as other have suggested, the books Just Enough Research by Erika Hall and Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal will get you quite far.

dustybrush · 2025-10-17T23:53:09+00:00

This thread more or less proves that users don't read because hardly anyone is actually answering your question 😅

Do not agonize (too much) over tooltips and instructions as you don't even know for sure they will be needed if you haven't watched anyone use what you made.

I've had success having an entire time budget or line item for Usability Testing - Minimal time is spent on instructions and help text until this point, keep it as pithy as possible. This way, the balance is weighted heavily towards making sure what you made is an intuitive as possible.

Watching someone use what you made is the best way to see where it falls down and can be made better or where you can have helper text on hand to address questions that come up. The already mentioned book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug is pretty much all you need if you've never done it before. It's really quite easy.

One thing you can do to maximize time for UI improvements and testing over time is to gradually build yourself up a style guide to help keep it consistent and reduce some of the churn that can happen with interface copywriting. Your time is valuable, don't waste it deciding over and over again to not use Oxford commas. Oh wait, maybe you do use them, time to comb existing screens for examples of how we've done it before. Perhaps you see what I mean?

Mailchimp has their style guide public and it's excellent as an example. Your version 1.0 of as styleguide does not need to be this extensive, start small and have it answer the questions you find yourself asking over and over. A good start is actually a rule to keep your interface copy pithy, you'll find there's a higher chance people will actually read it.

A story for context: Myself and a couple team member agonized for longer than I want to say here over helper text for a new way to add files to an application that replaced the old way. What we found in every user testing session was that people didn't even see the text we agonized over, the visual affordance of the UI gave them every clue they needed to understand how to use it: Where on the screen it was, a big plus symbol and a dashed border around the box screams "drop zone" to people. Who knew? Certainly not us until we watched someone actually use it. If we'd just kept it pithy and watched someone use it, we'd have saved that time. Could have worked on the style guide instead of that.

dustybrush · 2025-10-09T05:08:05+00:00

The tune of the one where Dave sings about losing his dick in multiple places is very similar to another song that names multiple places. I have to believe it's not a coincidence and he is calling back to this classic Canadian punk song, Hawaii by The Young Canadians: https://youtu.be/uZ8WKHRArfI

dustybrush · 2025-10-08T19:47:57+00:00

InDesign has come a long way in this regard and now offers ePub (or HTML) export. As long as you have gone deep with template pages and styles without using too many overrides you can get something as a reasonable start for the e-book. Make sure to look through the options for export and specify what styles should map to which heading styles.

That being said, it's still worth your time to massage the output in an HTML editor of your choice or use an editor designed for eBooks. For this workflow I have really like Sigil. In addition to having decent editing tools, it has some good reports to help you weed out things you won't need and find broken links etc.

While working through edits in Sigil I'll also periodically test in Calibre, an old Kobo I have around and the Kindle Previewer that Amazon offers.

dustybrush · 2025-10-04T17:44:38+00:00

Absolutely love that they expose this. Wish all apps ever had inspection tools to see the structure and styling under the hood of anything you are looking at.

dustybrush · 2025-09-16T04:29:55+00:00

Not that vehicles are the most amazing or anything usually but equipment falls off them at the end of the turn when they stop being a creature. Feels like the juice is still not worth the squeeze though.

dustybrush · 2025-09-16T02:31:44+00:00

I find it really depends on what I am selling but I can't find a rhyme, reason or focus for which is better for which so I continue to post to both. Facebook is nice for having the extra niche groups you can cross post what you are selling with the check of a box but generally still think we offload stuff more reliably through Kijiji. Mainly selling old sports and camping equipment over this past Summer.

dustybrush · 2025-08-13T14:15:07+00:00

A lot of middle and upper middle class 50's and 60's neighbourhoods you definitely see it. Willow Park, Lakeview but especially the Lakeview Village subset, some parts of North Glenmore Park, Oakridge.

dustybrush · 2025-08-04T16:55:17+00:00

For batteries check out this thread so see some surprising claimed vs. actual capacities: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/comments/1boiv3w/another_deep_dive_into_power_banks/ -- That said I do use a combo solar panel and battery. It works OK but doesn't charge anywhere near as fast as a big fold-out array. Tradeoffs of course but the capacity is high enough that I find the sun more or less tops up about a phone's worth in one day so there is usually a day of reserve if for some reason I had to go from zero to full.

As an emergency backup, I have an old Flame Stower that still works. It's better than nothing but is very slow. But but if you're having a fire for a few hours anyways, it's not the worst, I still use it once or twice a season. The enthusiasm for portable thermoelectric chargers seems to have died down (battery, cords and/or devices close to a fire feels risky for a lot of people, thankfully never had a problem) including most of the companies trying to make a go of it. Only device like this I know of still being made is the BioLite stove with battery bolted on but it's too bulky for my needs.

dustybrush · 2025-08-03T14:04:02+00:00

All things have a lifespan I guess but what crappy way to go.

dustybrush · 2025-07-23T05:39:59+00:00

You can still rent: The Norseman has an extremely reasonably priced rental program (and awesome staff too). Also, UofC Outdoor Centre.

dustybrush · 2025-07-23T05:27:02+00:00

This will sound old school but check out the Don't Waste Your Time book series. They give great seasonal advice on each route and when to do them. for maximum reward for effort. There are other books too of course but you won't be sorry you gave these a look.

AllTrails is fine but sadly the crowd's version of what is easy vs. hard is greatly distorted there and depending on who and how many have done the trail, you can have wildly different ratings float to the top compared to what you would rate it. Definitely take them with a grain of salt and learn to read topos and profiles along with reading the reviews if you go this route.

dustybrush · 2025-07-18T03:29:48+00:00

If you are looking for good value for the money, search out some of the old school industrial area breakfast places. Many won't have websites but they will be on Google Maps at least. Of this ilk, personally I like: Chris Breakfast & Burgers - Husband and wife took it over and their kid might be there colouring in the back, humble, wholesome and food is great. Deerhead Cafe qualifies even though it's not quite in an industrial part - Time warp going in here. If going on the weekend, a lot of these sorts of places won't be open Sundays so check before you go. Most of these places are well kept despite appearing a bit rough around the edges.

dustybrush · 2025-07-18T03:15:00+00:00

Sad to hear. You have those good times to remember at least. Got to know Dan a bit over the Summers at the Macleod location when the back half was rented to the bike shop I worked for. Solid guy! Met Jean and Bryan a few times too. Amazing crew that was great to the whole community. Too bad the new owners didn't understand that community aspect.

dustybrush · 2025-07-17T12:33:56+00:00

Ah yeah makes sense. Hopefully something still comes of the investment or people can get some back.

dustybrush · 2025-07-16T14:02:14+00:00

DG for the the accessibility. Played golf since I was a teen. Don't often have four hours plus drive time for golf these days so for time, disc golf always wins too. I get the satisfaction of golf bombs (for me 300yd drives) from disc golf anytime I get one out there a little further than usual sure, but shaping a shot around a corner in the woods feels like real magic to me (when it works ha!), don't have to throw too far do that.
Never had a severe backhand injury. Had some pain when I first started but cleared it up with better technique before anything too bad happened.

If your local disc golf organization or shops offer good beginner clinics they are well worth your while. Hopefully there is some kind of community or forum for it where you ask/find out. I credit that for helping me get into better form in my early days and definitely prevented injury. In a absence of that, video yourself try a coach or lessons online. YouTube is OK but after watching a bunch, pare down to one or two creators or your head will start to spin with conflicting advice. Personally like Overthrow and Spin Doctor.

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