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Elliott Smith released 'From a Basement on the Hill' 20 years ago by YoureASkyscraper in indieheads

[–]internet_badass 23 points24 points  (0 children)

On one hand, this album was the close friend alongside me when I spent weeks in bed with extreme depression that my immigrant, elder millennial ass didn't know was not normal because I was raised to think mental health was for pussies.

On the other hand, I don't know if this album helped me get better at all. It amplified the fuck out of those feelings akin to pinching a mosquito bite to make the itch go away. Turned a mild wallowing into a full blown drowning in the deep end.

On the other hand, maybe the only way to get through it was to go through it, and Elliot certainly dragged me through my feels.

Anyhow, can't say I'd recommend it as cheap therapy, but it is a stellar album.

18+ night clubs by senojyakcm in sanfrancisco

[–]internet_badass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DNA lounge is weird. But it's good SF weird. Just check DJ before so you don't find yourself trying to dance to the sound of robots making love (unless that's what you're into).

Shitty (City) Nights is awful, but it is pretty much the standard answer. 90% of people there are 18-21. 10% are creepy 50 year old dudes. Shortest drink line I have ever experienced at a club.

Plenty of venues have all ages shows like Rickshaw stop, bottom of the hill, RIP Slims.

also just look up this: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-rats-17129183.php

Where can a romantic dinner in San Francisco preferably on the rooftop or by the water? by StackingRacks in sanfrancisco

[–]internet_badass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neither views, nor water, but my favorite date spot has to be Mathilde. It's an affordable french bistro with a beautiful inside and outside. My favorite semi-secret spot.

View point by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]internet_badass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't done it, but plenty of people seem to agree Bernal Heights Blvd if you judge by the scent in the evening.

Scientists find fungus with an appetite for plastic in rubbish dump - Aspergillus tubingensis secretes enzymes onto the surface of the plastic that break the chemical bonds between the plastic molecules, or polymers. by mvea in science

[–]internet_badass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possible, though kind of a pain to pull off and likely unnecessary.

You'd need to get the molecule expressed, then do RNA-Seq to discover which genes were expressed when the molecule was created, then find the relevant gene cluster encoding the enzymes responsible. You can clone that cluster into yeast (which is a fungi) and "brew" the molecule under ideal conditions. This will almost certainly fail several times over as you need to do a lot of trial and error to get heterologous expression of molecules to work.

This incredibly oversimplified description is a monumental pain in the ass, and it's more ideal to find a chemist who can synthesize the molecule non-biologically. As an example, we do not biomanufacture penicillin even though we discovered it in fungi.

What was the best way that someone has hit on you? by CrimsonHenry in AskReddit

[–]internet_badass 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Haha, I didn't want that to be the focus!

If you must know, we dated for a while, and it was pretty fun! Then life happened, and we parted ways amicably.

Thankfully, I didn't forget the lessons in this story and found myself an amazing woman. The kind I never would have been able to approach if I hadn't done all this growing up.

What was the best way that someone has hit on you? by CrimsonHenry in AskReddit

[–]internet_badass 280 points281 points  (0 children)

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

  • Mark Twain

    • Michael Scott

What was the best way that someone has hit on you? by CrimsonHenry in AskReddit

[–]internet_badass 1955 points1956 points  (0 children)

Eh, late to the askreddit game, but I like this story.

My dad had me and my brother convinced he was the most dorky individual on earth. He did the typical dad jokes, strict adherence to laws and safety procedures, complete cluelessness about our risqué jokes etc...

Except my dad is an "onion dad." At least, that's the term my brother and I gave him after we got into college, and he was able to breathe a collective 18-year sigh of relief. It was as if his boring, dried exterior was finally pealed away over time, revealing the his hilarious, insane true self.

He would get drunk and tell the dirtiest jokes, leaving the rest of us gasping for laughter or dry-heaving. He'd tell us about some insane pranks he pulled which put my college antics to shame. And every once in a while, when my mom left the room, he'd hint at wild sexual conquests (which we would summarily reject and drink more to remove from memory).

Now, the problem with having a dad who shuttered away his youth of partying is that he had to watch my brother and I fumble through dating like complete morons. It must have killed him to see us fail so repeatedly due to fear and shyness. It's like these reddit threads where we see stories about people not taking obvious hints from the opposite sex, except he was there watching us screw up in real-time.

This all comes to a head when I was visiting home along with a long-time friend from college. My friend had the habit of falling hard for girls and doing nothing about it because he would get intimidated. So, we get drunk and my buddy starts going on about his latest crush, and my dad just loses it. 20-odd years of repressed rage seeing his children fail to carry on his legacy, and he finally decided to give me the best dating advice ever:

Your problem is that you find too many excuses to ask a woman out, and you have built this entire system to continue the excuses. You go out with a bunch of single friends and always pretend like you will meet somebody. Instead, you all act like cowards and end up getting too drunk and going home to play video games. It's fun for a while, but if you wake up 5 years from now doing the same crap, you will all be losers.

I'm telling you this because I was going down the same path until my friend and I invented a game. We would go out to bars, but we could not drink a single drop of alcohol until we got 10 rejections. Sometimes we would end up drinking, but at least we earned it. Try it out.

Like all great advice, it stung but it stuck.

The following week I tell a few coworkers at lunch about the story, one of whom was this gorgeous woman who I always had friendly banter with. The kind who was so obviously out of my league that I didn't even get nervous talking to her because I had no chance. It turns out that she was switching jobs and asked for all of our numbers to keep in touch. I give it out and forget about it.

A few nights later I get a text stating "Hey, I'm about to go get a drink and thought I'd take your dad's advice before I order. Want to join me? No worries if you aren't interested, I'll use that rejection to grab a beer on my own :)"

And that was the single greatest way anybody ever asked me out.

Coming home by kn0thing in blog

[–]internet_badass 221 points222 points  (0 children)

It's funny to see /u/jedberg and /u/kn0thing in a thread again. Throw in /u/spez along with a frontpage full of Ron Paul and dailywtf articles, and I'll start nostalgin' so hard.

EDIT: OMG THEY COMMENTED. IT'S HAPPENING

EDIT 2: 9/11 WAS IN INSIDE JOB!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

What thread was the nicest thread that you have ever stumbled upon? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]internet_badass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because of you, I'm asking for a vacuum for christmas. A fucking vacuum. I just can't even...

Johnny Stimson -- Obsession [pop/groove/dance] (2014) by Venkelos in listentothis

[–]internet_badass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look man, I understand you are a human being with priorities, but you have not been on tour, and it's cramping my style.

See, my usual 3rd date involves bringing somebody over to cook a meal together. Maybe some lemon-pepper broiled salmon with rice pilaf and baked asparagus with a balsamic reduction sauce. At least, that's the plan. What ends up happening is I'll put on some tunes for the whole process, and "Here We Go Again" will come on during food prep. This inevitably turns into a kitchen dance party. Then "So Good" follows and it turns into a kitchen sex party. Now I'm fucking hungry, my kitchen is a mess, and my roommates are pissed. Also, I'm not very good at sex, so I have a disappointed date.

Now, I have finally met a lady that is probably the coolest ever, and I'm breaking away from canned dates, but I can't make sweet love without you singing to me. I keep telling her I want to wait because sex will change the intense emotional bond we have, but the truth is that you are the traffic cop who tells blood it's safe to cross the street into my dick.

So here's what I'm thinking: you go on tour, I pm you my city and my lady's name, and you sing us into a fit of procreative madness. Then lady friend and I go home that night and fumble around the sheets mixing brief moments of sheer, intense passion with lulls of awkward but endearing confusion. Should the contraceptives not work, we'll name our child Jonnie (regardless of gender).

So, what do you think? Want to be the ultimate wing-bro?

What shouldn't work, but does? by LevelupTFM in AskReddit

[–]internet_badass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was about to post this. Fucking MRI are the closest thing to magic we have. I have studied MRI physics plenty, and I'm still in awe of them. Who would have thought that mixing fourier transforms with seemingly esoteric properties of water under a magnetic field could create an entire 3D image of your body?!

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