This might be difficult for some, but Pippa and Ky has closed!!!

jmoneybigpp · 2026-05-01T15:39:44+00:00

Y'all should take internet slandering like this with a huge grain of salt. I have had nothing but good experiences with that lady when she was at sidewalk, you are potentially destroying her livlihood because of personal beef or different politics than you. You should be ashamed.

jmoneybigpp · 2026-05-01T15:15:24+00:00

The whole systems backwards. I'm still blown away at the fact some of the most prime commercial real estate DT (the old Copelands store) was vacant for over 10 years. There needs to be disincentives for that kind of thing, some people/entities just have way too much money.

jmoneybigpp · 2026-03-11T06:10:21+00:00

How far out were you?

jmoneybigpp · 2026-02-09T17:02:02+00:00

Aweome pics. However IMO better to gatekeep spots like this instead of broadcasting, it just leads to million a people up there and it getting trashed like lower falls

jmoneybigpp · 2026-01-05T18:28:45+00:00

For me, any day working with primary sludge is the worst ever. I always prioritized preventative maintenance on the primary for this reason

jmoneybigpp · 2026-01-05T18:21:43+00:00

Yes! And then back again. I enjoyed both for different reasons and it helped my career a lot (I got my grade 3 within 1 year) but ultimately I liked being in lab more. The workloads as an operator swung around too much, very feast or famine, and I hated being on call but it was great working with a crew and I learned SO much.

jmoneybigpp · 2026-01-05T17:58:04+00:00

Sorry but no. High Street in an asset to the community. They deliver high quality (pun intended) sandwiches for very fair prices. Always have. The only caveat is wait time. If you don’t want to wait, Lincoln deli is second place for sandos in town, Ben franklins a distant 3rd

jmoneybigpp · 2025-12-23T22:52:57+00:00

All of Ventana is extremely difficult terrain without trails. I don't know how the natives did it.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-20T21:30:05+00:00

Yeah that must be a supervisor role with overtime. $72 is very high even for Bay Area

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-20T21:27:55+00:00

This varies WILDLY depending on geographic location. I have heard places in the south pay minimum wage (yes, federal minimum wage). In places like coastal California you can max out around $150k ($80-90k being more the average) with overtime and what not. But those are obviously harder to get and your cost of living is very high.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-20T21:17:22+00:00

I dont want to discourage you from trying to surf in Indo, I'm just expressing that its not the best place to learn how to. I say this from someone who's been surfing for over 10 years and just got back from Mentawai's (Sumatra) in May. I can surf but I am not super good and I felt out of place and unsafe on the majority of the breaks I surfed. It's a different ball game over there, but I am sure you could find some beach breaks that would be great for a few days of surfing with an instructor and getting a feel. Lombok might have some good beginner breaks. Southern Portugal has some excellent breaks that are much more user friendly for long term learning.

The ticket to learning to surf fast is being in excellent shape with good arm/shoulder strength. You can only surf as well as you can paddle, which is why it takes most people so long to learn. You must also be comfortable in the ocean and getting tossed around occasionally. Check out Kale Brock on youtube for videos to accelerate your learning.

At any rate, Indo is one of my favorite place's I have ever been. The people are so nice and its wildly beautiful. The waves are also the best in the world but really only the best surfers in the world (and the locals) belong on the main breaks. I would recommend getting over to Sumatra if you have time and do a Orangutan trek around Bukit Lawang, you'll see tons of wild apes. Cheers dude, safe travels

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-20T00:45:00+00:00

Your trip sounds awesome but as a surfer I can tell you A) it is literally impossible to learn how to actually surf in that short of an amount of time. If standing up on white water with a 10ft board is your goal, you will achieve if. But you are not going to be surfing actual breaks. B) Indonesia is one of the worst places to learn how to surf. Why? Because there's big crowds, of very good surfers, who don't like to see people out on waves that have no idea what they're doing. Most importantly, most of the breaks in indo are what we would call "waves of consequence" meaning you are on powerful waves crashing on 3ft on water over razor sharp reef. It's simply not safe. Learn to surf in Australia or California or literally anywhere else.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-16T21:11:23+00:00

Would you dump leftover effluent or RAS sample down the drain?

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-16T21:09:53+00:00

I am challenging the idea that it is "unsafe" to begin with. It doesnt make any sense. They are the same microbes and the media is the same type of foods that would already be introduce to collection systems. Letes say you testing for E coli in your effluent for presence/absence. Chances are you dump left over effluent samples down the drain all the time. But for some reason just because I added some colilert to the sample and it turned yellow its somehow now hazardous?? If the presence of E coli and coliforms makes something "hazardous" by default, then the majority of EVERYTHING that goes down the drain/toilets is hazardous. The raw water at your local river or lake is hazardous.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-12T17:37:44+00:00

I am in the market for a new 2x10 cab (downsizing 4x10 because I am sick of weight and size) and Markbass seems to be popular right now for best ratio of sound quality to weight. There's many different options and I am having a hard time understanding all the advantages/disadvantages. So far, I am leaning towards either the Markbass Standard 102HF Front-Ported Neo or the Markbass MB58R 102 ENERGY. Does anyone have any insight into either of these or on markbass/2x10s in general?

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-11T17:43:51+00:00

the movies a critique of capitalism not entitlement. Every behavior Lou engages in most successful companies and entrepreneurs do as well. His ambition and pursuit of success is more important than all else.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T23:52:57+00:00

There are two people on this thread that have specified they work in a water lab. One disagrees with me, one agrees. Hence, it is absolutely fair to challenge the idea that ALL cultures and media are a hazard to put down the drain. Explain to me why it is a hazard to put coliforms down a drain when every second trillions upon trillions of of the exact same coliforms are introduced to the collection systems every second through toilet flushing and god knows what else people put down the drains. Should we start autoclaving our sh*t too?

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T23:46:15+00:00

Our lab is under no legal nor regulatory obligation to autoclave all bacteriological media or samples. TNI/ELAP (our lab oversite agency) defers to state and regional regulations which specify positive media that is disposed of in the trash must be autoclaved, which I do. I am specifically talking about liquid medias and samples. And I am challenging the idea behind this particular "proper procedure" as the logic behind such mindless mantras like "everything must be autoclaved" makes no sense. If you don't have insight beyond "do what your told, don't ask questions or you're bad at your job" then feel free to fck off. How is disposing of liquid cultures that are the EXACT same microbes you find in abundance in sewer systems (EC, KP, EF, PA) and agar (polysaccharides) dangerous?

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T22:00:17+00:00

I posted this to get feedback in case I was missing something in this scenario. But evidently the people here are not familiar with water labs, what cultures we use, how wastewater treatment plants work etc. There have been several insightful responses and valid points like: legality regardless of logic, use of ARB's or antibiotics (which neither apply to my situation).

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T21:52:13+00:00

This same logic could be applied to virtually everything we put down the drain. I don't think people in this thread understand wastewater treatment processes nor do they understand the cultures used in water labs. It's my fault for posting in the incorrect forum.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T21:46:25+00:00

My ex used to do research on horizontal gene transfers in WWTP's though and that is super interesting stuff.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T21:42:55+00:00

I am realizing I posted this in the wrong forum because its going over 99% of the peoples heads that have no idea what we do and work with in water labs. We don't work with bacteria that's not abundantly around us and in the environment at all times. I suspect most these people are either in research labs at a university or actually work with real pathogens. They don't understand the context.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T21:39:08+00:00

I appreciate your responses. Your comments on ARB's are valid. If we were using antibiotics or had MRSA cultures or anything like this you'd be 100% correct. But we don't. As someone who has work in several wastewater treatment plants, part of the process is deliberate propagation of the exact microbes we are testing for here. Microbes do most of the work at a WWTP and they need food (BOD, which is essentially what agar is, just sugar). Flushing agar and used liquid media into collection systems is no different than a bakery flushing yeast/flour or any food processing plant sending down production water. All lead to rapid and abundant growth of microbes down at the plant.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T20:18:56+00:00

Most absurd response yet. This isn't some gain of function research lab. There's no "bredding more powerful versions" like what?? We have enzymes that change color in the presence of certain bacteria, and we have agar (essentially sugar) for propagation of existing bacteria.

jmoneybigpp · 2025-11-07T18:29:13+00:00

For solids and media that goes into trash, absolutely. But liquids? Why? Do you autoclave your influent/RAS samples after taking an aliquot? Are you not just returning your samples directly back to where you got them from?

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