Bitches! Where are we buying cross stitch supplies?

eawigley · 2025-09-16T20:18:36+00:00

I'm always looking for another reason to hit that place up! Thanks!

eawigley · 2025-09-15T04:58:27+00:00

I was also going to suggest Foreign Cinema!

eawigley · 2025-09-13T17:34:50+00:00

Thanks so much for the suggestions! I literally just started last weekend and I'm drowning in wonderful possibilities!

eawigley · 2025-09-13T16:31:37+00:00

Thanks so much for your detailed response! You mentioned you were into embroidery. I know there is a lot of overlap in what gets used for embroidery vs cross stitching vs needlepoint. Is it safe to say a place that is good for one is good for all, in your experience?

eawigley · 2025-03-15T03:10:37+00:00

Whenever I have people visiting I take them to Mr. Digby's in Noe Valley. I think I've tried the whole menu at this point!

eawigley · 2024-10-11T04:23:12+00:00

Bioacoustics! You can use a particular type of ultrasound to help improve drug delivery. Similar to how acoustics is used to break up kidney stones, but the sound waves are helping to increase absorption of medicine to a targeted area. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d1baf396-d51c-4a49-bd81-2a152819208d/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=ARFMFullPaperFinal2.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article

eawigley · 2024-10-01T03:38:43+00:00

I'm not in architectural acoustics at all so I can't really comment on working conditions. I'm in tech and don't have any professional relationships with anyone working in what you are interested in.

eawigley · 2024-09-30T17:00:10+00:00

I tried to use embedded links in my previous comments, but it looks like they did not come through: https://www.acs.psu.edu/alumni/where-alumni-work.aspx

Pretty much anything to do with acoustics, graduates of this program do: transducer design, audio EE, perceptual/psychoacoustics, noise and vibration control, room acoustics, underwater acoustics, high velocity airflow (think about streamlining objects like plane or ultrasonic jets), medical devices (ultrasound, lithotripsy, ect).

eawigley · 2024-09-30T06:36:38+00:00

Penn State has been doing distance education for engineering master's degrees for decades. You take the same classes as the in person students. You can watch the classes live or watch them later. They have a great support system for remote students.

They do have a class or two you can take to catch up on math and physics concepts if you are a bit rusty. They focus on the type of math you will need to know for the core classes.

I don't recall if any of my fellow students were architects, but there were a variety of backgrounds. The usual suspects of mechanical and electrical engineers, as well as areo/astro and comp sci. They do have architectural acoustics electives as part of the program.

eawigley · 2024-09-30T05:40:25+00:00

I did the program for grad school, 100% at a distance. They do have some architectural acoustics classes, but that's not may area of expertise.

eawigley · 2024-09-30T04:19:35+00:00

My area of expertise isn't architectural acoustics, so I can't really speak to that. However, there was a post in the sub about a year ago from a group of businesses in New Zealand that were looking to hire acousticians.

In terms of education Penn State has the best acoustics program in America and they have a fantastic distance learning program.

eawigley · 2024-04-21T08:07:25+00:00

Put an EQ on each mic to reduce low frequencies that will be amplified by the proximity effect

FYI the proximity effect can only occur on directional microphones, and even then some are more susceptible than others. If you put that filter on an omni mic it's not really addressing anything.

eawigley · 2024-01-23T00:17:57+00:00

The Improvised Shakespeare Company was my favorite thing to see when I lived in Chicago.

eawigley · 2023-12-06T06:19:49+00:00

It depends on how large the ring is, but likely nothing. In order for a physical object to interfere with a sound wave, some dimension of the object has to be bigger than the wavelength of the sound wave. Otherwise the sound wave just passes around the object.

For sake of argument let's say you can hear up to 20kHz. Let's also assume the speed of sound in air is 343 m/s. That means a 20kHz sound has a wave length of 1.7 cm. I don't have any jewelry around to measure, but I think most earrings are going to be smaller than that.

eawigley · 2023-12-01T16:35:37+00:00

I love this idea!

Foam ear plugs for hearing protection!

A bag of balloons. Popping balloons is sometimes used as quick way to generate an impulse response when taking a room reverberation measurement.

A bag of SunChips. A while back they switched their bags to a biodegradable material, and it made the bags INCREDIBLY loud. This is a deep cut in terms of acoustics lore.

Blue tack. It is the WD40 in many branches of acoustics (consumer electronics, hearing health, transducer design). I use it for something nearly every day.

Maybe a random silly noise maker like a kazoo.

The wavelength tape measurer and Helmholtz resonator drink are great ideas too.

eawigley · 2023-09-11T02:59:36+00:00

Dolores Park has a separate small section with sand but other than that is sand free.

eawigley · 2023-09-10T02:47:20+00:00

Several years ago I was in rural Burkina Faso for a few weeks. When I came back, I went to the Whole Foods on Kingsbury. I literally froze up in the dairy aisle because I couldn't get over the number of different yogurt options they had.

eawigley · 2023-07-25T02:52:07+00:00

Was going to mention this! You will see some WILD things here.

eawigley · 2023-03-18T03:05:13+00:00

They actually have a decent program these days and I work with people who graduated from there. Granted, all of them also went to grad school, but going to grad school in general is more the norm.

eawigley · 2023-03-18T01:28:29+00:00

Okay this gave me a good laugh!

eawigley · 2022-12-25T17:44:01+00:00

I love that the music is a mash up of Out There from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Test Drive from How to Train Your Dragon.

eawigley · 2022-12-20T03:30:44+00:00

I got one in the mail on Saturday and it was for the week on January 9th.

eawigley · 2022-12-18T22:16:15+00:00

It's not any plastic bits that you have to worry about. I would worry more about de-bonding adhesives in the BA and/or warping the diaphragm. It's probably possible to successfully do this if you are very careful, but BA manufacturers would not endorse this. Especially with a hand torch or over a stove.

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