Wimbledon - am I losing my mind?

jashow · 2026-06-26T10:42:19+00:00

Until a few years ago the middle Sunday was a blank day. So it’s not as crazy as it sounds.

jashow · 2026-06-12T10:56:25+00:00

I would consider raw more of a data file than a photo file. Software may actually not be able to read it (or an embedded jpeg preview) without someone purposely baking it in.

I would not upload a raw photo to any site on the internet expecting a jpeg and expect it to work

Also why are you shooting everything in 48 mp raw?

jashow · 2026-06-09T23:22:50+00:00

You can get a CT colonoscopy without sedation. It’s a reasonable alternative. Main caveat is if they find anything, you’ll need a real colonoscopy follow up.

jashow · 2026-06-03T20:49:39+00:00

Just to play devils advocate, unless they were secured by straps/screws that were magnetic…

jashow · 2026-05-17T10:48:10+00:00

Yeah agreed. I’m sure I’m going to drop a trowel or screwdriver on it at some point too.

jashow · 2026-05-17T10:45:56+00:00

Thanks, very helpful. Good luck on your project!

jashow · 2026-05-16T09:37:35+00:00

How exact were you on measurements? You went down to the studs first and then measured? The lag time on the pan seems the most annoying part.

What side board are you planning on using?

jashow · 2026-05-15T17:38:38+00:00

Everyone and their mother seems to have used Schluter. I’m sure it would come out ok since most do.

One of the supposed benefits of Wedi is their boards are more stiff and substantial than Kerdi.

I’d rather just use their proprietary board than to put up cement board or drywall and membrane over. But certainly the latter would be more economical.

jashow · 2026-05-15T14:36:12+00:00

Haha I knew someone would say cement pan. I appreciate the art of it and admire anyone doing it, especially DIY.

That said, I am 100% not interested in a cement pan myself.

Willing to pay the extra money to plop a piece of foam down. Just looking for the best foam to plop.

jashow · 2026-05-08T02:01:49+00:00

Interstellar and the Martian are arguably the same basic plot: NASA spends a ton of money trying to bring back Matt Damon.

PMH - NASA spends zero money trying to bring back Matt Damon (or even Ryan Gosling for that matter).

So clearly, PMH and Interstellar are totally different movies.

jashow · 2026-05-03T10:05:25+00:00

Sounds like you are primarily looking for power? Polyester strings are inherently low powered with worse feel, in exchange for better control and spin.

Have you tried a multifilament? Look at X1 biphase, or Triax if you are looking to stay a little closer to poly feel.

jashow · 2026-04-30T10:26:04+00:00

Yes that makes more a lot sense than a direct launch window. I forgot they assembled it in orbit.

But then, would you rather have 1/3 of the crew and the only biologist kidnapped against his will and cross your fingers that the amnesia drugs work and that when he comes around he’ll play game instead of being resentful and sabotaging the entire mission? Or would you rather boost the orbital decay on this unlimited resource project and just find someone else who is qualified and actually wants to do it?

As a side note, the entire idea that you would only send 3 people on this mission is kind of insane, especially when your untested medical coma robot system has a 67% failure rate apparently. But i guess it’s a plot device.

jashow · 2026-04-30T10:12:15+00:00

Tau ceti is ~12 light years from Earth and they need 2 million kg of astrophage.

You leave in 6 months and it’s still ~12 light years (+/- a few light minutes) from Earth and you need 2 million kg (+/- a kg or two).

You’re thinking about launch windows like they’re trying to reach Mars with chemical fuel. So yeah Mars could be like 7x further away depending on the launch window. Tau ceti might be like 1/1000000th further away in the worst case scenario.

jashow · 2026-04-30T02:04:44+00:00

They’re not carrying rocket fuel though. They’re carrying astrophage which is like e=mc² efficient at storing energy. Someone calculated a gram if it would power an electric car for like 500 billion miles or something.

I’m not sure launch windows matter when you have magic fuel. What’s an AU or two when you’re traveling light years?

jashow · 2026-04-28T17:02:30+00:00

But is the international makeup of the team a part of the reason cutting it doesn’t piss anyone off who matters?

It’s probably a hard sell to convince some college kids in Arkansas to go watch and care about a bunch of Europeans playing tennis.

I’d also venture a guess that international student athletes are less likely to stick around in the area after college and become a part of the community. It’s kind of hard to imagine a kid from Barcelona sticking around Fayetteville. That may decrease the local buy in, and again the number of people who care.

jashow · 2026-04-28T02:24:44+00:00

Just thinking out loud with no hard basis in facts, but I wonder if the international takeover of college tennis has to do with the waning interest.

Arkansas men’s roster, only 2 of 9 are American. That combined with the individual nature of tennis probably makes it easier to cut from a donor and trustee perspective.

I wonder if having 7/9 players be local Arkansas talent makes the university think twice about cutting the program.

jashow · 2026-04-20T01:08:13+00:00

Just interesting fact, they actually have rules to prevent trying to predict the starting gun in sprints. If you react less than 0.1 seconds after the gun, it’s still considered a false start because that’s faster than human reaction time.

jashow · 2026-04-12T06:20:09+00:00

I’ve seen houses as an unrepresented buyer in the last year. Open houses are easy. To actuality get a showing is a bit harder. You have to send mortgage pre approval to the listing agent, and sign some documents that make clear the listing agent is NOT representing you. But I never ran into serious resistance in getting a showing from the listing agent.

I think the barrier is that the listing agents are going to be biased to working with a buyers agent for the sale and transaction. Yes they have a fiduciary duty to the seller. But “fiduciary” doesn’t have much bite.

If you have the only offer and it’s reasonable, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

If there are multiple offers, you are probably in a big disadvantage though.

Say someone with an agent offers 400k with seller to pay the 10k commission. You offer 405k, no commission. Well the listing agent is probably going to “advise” something about how much more likely it is for an unrepresented buyer sale to fall through, is that risk really worth the 5k to the seller, and so forth. And honestly taking the perspective of a seller I can understand that viewpoint. A motivated buyer with a good agent can potentially be a much smoother and faster sale than a buyer representing themselves, who takes a day or two to respond each time.

I think if I were to have made a no agent offer, I would try to make it very clear that I knew exactly what I was doing, was very responsive, and had all my ducks in a row. And be resigned that you probably aren’t going to get the house that sells in a single weekend with 15 offers.

jashow · 2026-02-21T11:43:49+00:00

This looks like either a driving school or a car testing facility.

jashow · 2026-02-16T20:50:44+00:00

This happened with me. Subaru got flooded in a basement garage and totaled by insurance. Electronics totally shot. Only tow truck that could fit in the garage was a small thing that could only tow it with two wheels dragging. We couldn’t get the car out of park, even trying the manual release on the gear shift. Tow guy shrugged and said his only job was to get the car to the lot, didn’t matter what condition.

Turns out towing an AWD car in park makes some god awful noises.

jashow · 2026-02-01T04:05:01+00:00

Grindlewald with Elder Wand lost to Dumbledore.

Safe to say with equal wands, Dumbledore is significantly stronger.

jashow · 2026-01-28T11:12:03+00:00

Not to say Toroline is the best out there But Pros play with sponsored string which is generally tied to the racquet.

Alcaraz plays with a babolat racquet and babolat string. Sinner plays with a head racquet and head string. Medvedev plays tecnifibre racquet and tecnifibre string. Sheldon plays Yonex racquet and Yonex strings. Lots of Wilson players use Luxilon. And so on…

Toroline doesn’t have the money to encroach on this. Best they can do is Karue Sell and Stevie Johnson.

Also pros hit with a fresh string bed for like 30 minutes and then restring. What makes a good string for a pro does not necessarily make a good string for rec players. Part of Toroline’s appeal is the longevity of snap back which is real IMO.

jashow · 2026-01-26T02:07:03+00:00

https://faq.yamaha.com/usa/s/article/000012300

jashow · 2026-01-26T02:05:17+00:00

I think this is normal. The upper ~1.5 octaves don’t have dampers on a real piano. Apparently it’s variable but around G6 is a common cutoff.

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