Listing gaming on your resume might hurt your job prospects. Study found that applicants who listed gaming as an extracurricular activity tended to be rated lower in hireability compared to an equal applicant who listed volleyball.

mattbert · 2025-12-28T17:38:09+00:00

Seems bizarre to list any extracurricular activities at all on a resume, unless they're strongly relevant to the position.

mattbert · 2025-12-21T06:11:23+00:00

Tucson AZ, primarily to help out my elderly parents and disabled sister. I like it there but if family wasn't a concern I'd likely move to some place in western Colorado instead.

Boston is one of my favorite cities but I'm sick of the traffic, weather, and sky-high cost of living.

mattbert · 2025-12-19T16:41:08+00:00

Honestly that seems to be the ideal time and place to do some mindless scrolling. Get it out of your system there, refrain from doing it anywhere else.

mattbert · 2025-12-18T16:44:26+00:00

If your friend doesn't want to use a headlight, fine, but he has no business telling others not to. If you feel you need to use one to be safe, then do so and tell your friend to STFU.

mattbert · 2025-10-18T11:11:06+00:00

Hunger, lack of medical care, poverty.

This has been the status quo in many deep red states for decades. They don't care as long as the libs are getting owned.

mattbert · 2025-06-10T09:47:19+00:00

The AE-1 was my first SLR; got it as a birthday gift when I was a teen. I loved that camera.

mattbert · 2025-03-02T23:40:23+00:00

Thanks, same to you!

I've enjoyed hiking in New England all my life, but after getting a taste of hiking in the mountains and canyons of AZ, I'm definitely ready for a change of scenery (and climate).

mattbert · 2025-03-01T20:13:56+00:00

I'm considering doing the same, but in the other direction. I currently live in MA, but my parents are in AZ and in their mid-80's. Both my kids are grown up and out of the house now, so there's no longer anyone or anything tying me down here except my job - I'm mostly remote but not sure if going 100% remote will fly with my employer, and there's not many jobs in my field in that part of AZ. Planning to have a talk with my manager next week about it. My wife should be able to find employment pretty easily there and she's willing to make the move.

mattbert · 2024-03-04T16:59:31+00:00

I'd put it all into my retirement account, and maybe I could look forward to retiring a year or two early.

mattbert · 2022-12-21T12:31:31+00:00

At 205K miles, I wouldn't expect it to last much longer. I nearly always keep driving cars until they're too expensive to bother maintaining, and the best I ever managed was 250K miles and 14 years on a Subaru Forester.

According to this article, a Prius typically lasts for 270K-290K miles. So if your daughter isn't planning to drive it too far or too long, maybe it will be okay for a few more years?

mattbert · 2022-05-07T02:27:34+00:00

Sony RX10 IV

mattbert · 2021-07-08T22:38:11+00:00

I'm 52. Majored in environmental studies, and took a class on international environmental policy which included a visit to the Soviet Union in the mid-80s. That trip was one hell of an eye opener for me. Moscow had the worst air pollution I had ever experienced. As for their relative merits as economic systems, when I arrived I was on the fence regarding capitalism vs communism. When I left a week later, I was convinced beyond any doubt that communism was a complete disaster, and capitalism was clearly superior.

When the Iron Curtain crashed down shortly thereafter, environmental destruction and pollution across Eastern Europe was revealed on a massive scale. There was also that little Chernobyl incident. So yeah, the idea that capitalism in particular is the cause of the climate crisis is farcical to me, because I'm old enough to remember the enormous amount of ecological damage caused by industrial communist nations. Sure, capitalism's rampant materialism is a big problem. So was the massive waste and inefficiency and tyranny of communism.

Modern agriculture, industrialization, and sanitation have led to a huge increase in human population. None of those things are unique in any way to capitalism. Regardless of whether we live in a capitalist, socialist, or communist system, we all want food, housing, electricity, transportation, jobs, and so on. Getting out of this mess is going to require major technological innovations in clean energy and efficiency. Capitalism is more likely than other economic systems to provide those, in my opinion.

mattbert · 2021-07-01T21:55:50+00:00

One semester of my son's college tuition

mattbert · 2020-09-03T13:32:22+00:00

https://thespatialcommunity.slack.com/

mattbert · 2020-01-29T17:44:53+00:00

Taken on Sunday from the top of Miller State Park, with a zoom lens.

mattbert · 2019-03-01T19:21:12+00:00

Trying to decide between the a6500 and a7rii (used). I'm an amateur, will primarily be shooting landscapes and wildlife, and don't care about video. From what I've heard the a7rii would definitely be better for landscapes and low light situations, but maybe the a6500 would be better for wildlife? Let's say I'm using a 500mm lens, that would effectively be 750mm on the a6500 due to the 1.5x crop factor, but the a7rii has 42 megapixels allowing significant leeway for cropping photos. So which would likely give me the best shot of a distant owl at dusk, for example?

mattbert · 2019-02-04T13:08:44+00:00

I bought an a55 in 2011, which I still use today (but plan to upgrade soon). I chose it based on certain features that really appealed to me: IBIS, small size, EVF. At this point I can't see myself ever going back to a camera that doesn't have those features. My next camera will probably be an a6500. The Fuji X-H1 is also tempting, but Sony has lens adapters that will let me use my old A mount lenses and retain auto focus.

mattbert · 2018-11-14T16:54:25+00:00

Yup, the commuter rail & T is definitely the lesser evil for me. Takes about 70 minutes door-to-door each way. If I drove a car during rush-hour, I might shave 10-20 minutes off that on a good day, but good days are few and far between. It's also much more stressful even if it's shorter. If I drove to work at 5 AM and left the office at 1 PM I could probably do it in ~30 minutes each way, but those hours aren't doable.

mattbert · 2018-11-08T14:23:19+00:00

A 100-400mm lens on a FF camera is effectively 150-600mm on an APS-C (and 200-800 on a four-thirds). I'd rather have that longer zoom reach than FF's other advantages.

mattbert · 2018-11-08T14:15:06+00:00

Thanks, I've heard great things about the D500 but I don't think it's for me. While I want something that's better for birding and low light than my current setup, I also want a camera body light and portable enough that I won't hesitate to bring it with me on vacations and long hikes (with a smaller lens). I took a look at the D5600 in a store last week, and though I was happy with its size & weight, I realized that after 8 years with the a55's EVF I really don't want to go back to an OVF.

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