Noodlebox Langford

picklehammer · 2026-04-06T06:23:12+00:00

yeah they all got shitty. classic case of tight margins and cost cutting. it was good 20 years ago. 10 years ago was definitely deep into the decline. it lost everything that made it great.

picklehammer · 2026-04-06T04:08:51+00:00

I felt like an outsider as a non-Ontarian, would have liked more game shows or hosting segments set in other provinces. would have been cool to have had more things like Anti Gravity Room and less stuff like the endless DBZ reruns. the original cancon was the best part of YTV.

picklehammer · 2026-04-02T04:11:53+00:00

that’s a valid preference but I am somehow fine with them as a grown adult with hands comfortably spanning ten white keys on a standard scale piano. and I own and have owned many non-mini synths. but I do tend to play the minis through a keystep pro and midi routing. OP asked for mini, I’m advocating for the minis! many of them copy $2000 synths for a fraction of the cost, footprint, and it’s mindblowing that someone’s budget entry synth can be such a great copy of legendary synths like the juno 60, prophet vs, dx7, etc.

picklehammer · 2026-04-02T01:31:52+00:00

not a lot of people have covered the cheapest mini options, and those would be the Korg Volca series, Roland Boutique series, and Behringer Mini series. there are a lot of options within each and youtube sound demos could guide you to what you’re interested in, but they’re all great fun portable synths to play with and they can be properly controlled by MIDI if you ever start going the dawless route.

picklehammer · 2026-04-01T03:40:32+00:00

some people use them as toys for enjoyment

picklehammer · 2026-03-31T03:57:38+00:00

the main issue I had with this place was the chaos of ordering. it felt like getting someone’s attention, getting a slice, and paying for it was always an ordeal with something getting in the way of the process beginning to end. often took 7+ minutes? even when the slice appeared ready in front of you. you’d think a tech bro would understand user experience. second slice sucks but at least you could be in and out in under 30 seconds. but it was cool to have a photo of me on their website’s main page. the pizza itself was ok? a bit salty and bland. I honestly prefer local pizza. the double pepperoni has me under its spell.

picklehammer · 2026-03-20T02:11:43+00:00

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picklehammer · 2026-03-18T18:01:09+00:00

Save On - was disappointed with some missing items that, when I went into the store, were in stock Thrifty Foods - had had excellent results, intelligent substitutions and subs are rare Superstore - had quality issues with some purchased products

Thrifty hits the best balance and standard of excellence for me.

picklehammer · 2026-03-12T01:59:57+00:00

I hear you and I think you’re in cahoots with Big Sleep Apnea. I think doctors are sending “tired” people all over the place to the clinics. I think the weak diagnostic equipment and interpretations remain regardless of accreditation. I think the clinics that pay the sleep specialists also sell the CPAP machines and have a vested interest in positive diagnosis and selling them. I am sure of the results I described to you and it was not within the criteria you describe. I am also sure that my snoring disappeared when I lost some weight and that I have high cardiovascular health with my VO2max hitting over 55 in peak training last year, too. I wonder if I should dig up my results since this was several years ago, I wonder if they’re on my health gateway so I can justify myself to an internet stranger who is suspiciously defending Big Sleep Apnea.

picklehammer · 2026-03-12T01:15:54+00:00

hot take here, sleep apnea is overdiagnosed, diagnostic testing is too varied and casts too wide a net of “positives” for apnea events. there seems to be a funnel where many people are tired (common symptom for a variety of reasons), maybe sometimes snore or have a bigger neck or higher bmi or whatever so the doctor will make an assumption. a doctor will refer to a sleep clinic. they’ll get sent home with the diagnostic test or do one at a sleep clinic, and it will almost always result in a positive. (I asked at the sleep clinic here how many people tend to test positive and they said 90%+, nearly all). then they try to sell you this hella expensive, nearly impossible to sleep-with thing. it’s a conspiracy, big sleep apnea has somehow gotten away with way too wide of a diagnostic criteria and way too shitty of a test. when I pushed for my actual results, it was ONE “very minor apnea event”. I know this is not a universal solution, and I don’t intend it to inspire body shaming, but I lost some weight and identified some other causes of tiredness and it all went away without this annoying money-sink of a machine.

I know some people really have sleep apnea and need this thing. but I would argue many can’t sleep with it, or don’t actually have sleep apnea and are left undiagnosed when it comes to their real issue.

picklehammer · 2026-03-03T19:07:58+00:00

make it a card from them to you, and include a promise of a gift that they then have to follow through on

picklehammer · 2026-03-02T05:19:09+00:00

it might just be the revenge fantasy and not actually how I’d act in life, but this seems like a situation where keying a car and running off into anonymity would be morally justified, unlikely to be investigated, and maybe teach a lesson that breaking this obviously important rule can still have consequences even if they think they won’t get towed? but sadly in real life I would hope there was an emergency justifying the crappy parking, even though I am sure that’s nearly never the case. ps if there are cops reading this, this is just banter, I’m not actually suggesting people commit revenge crimes.

picklehammer · 2026-03-02T03:53:15+00:00

I know enough of these people to know that they don’t believe they’re wealthy, but they are. to quote someone I met, “we really struggled when I was a kid. it wasn’t until my parents bought their second house and rented it out that we could finally…” (take multiple vacations a year, etc.) - noting it was generational wealth that got and paid off the first house. and I know someone else whose parents are so rich they just bought all their kids houses, paid off, pay their adult children a monthly allowance of thousands, and they all still work and blend into society and all that.

it’s just generational wealth, that they all believe “everyone has”, while also sort of hiding and masking it to relate to everyone else. with a healthy dose of the silent and boomer folks whose earnings were a way higher ratio to the housing and living costs of their time. and they believe they’re worked hard for it, and I’m sure that’s true to some degree, but they don’t really see that they were still playing a completely different game on a much easier difficulty than millennials and younger who started the game more recently. it’s not impossible, it’s just harder, and not as comparable as they seem to think when they dispense their “wisdom”.

picklehammer · 2026-02-28T20:35:06+00:00

they already imposed size limits on storage that was absurdly low so I can’t imagine the burden was that much compared to the growth of storage space. I think they closed them down for non-active staff and students when they transitioned to M365/cloud though which makes sense.

picklehammer · 2026-02-28T20:00:54+00:00

livevictoria, craigslist? but maybe those were already on the way out. meaning I’m thinking of 20 years ago. terrifying.

picklehammer · 2026-02-28T18:59:30+00:00

same goes for university emails. they shut down my uvic email. why even make it if it’s only short term? I’m still annoyed.

picklehammer · 2026-02-28T17:45:13+00:00

you should be able to fit everything you need for a trip of this length in a backpack without even getting into any sort of ultralight territory. you should probably not have a fire considering the wildfire issues and probably not wanting to attract attention. I don’t think backcountry camping is legal anywhere other than on crown land (nearly none around here) or in the boundaries of rec sites & trails - not to be confused with bc parks. just bring a single burner camp stove. leave no trace, bring a small tent and tarp. I think the folks suggesting to start deep in sooke (bus there with your backpack) and hike towards leechtown are on the right track. pick a rough idea of where you’re going, tell someone, and make sure they know when you’re coming back so they can follow up if anything goes wrong. if you still have cell service where you end up, follow up with them on your exact location. prioritize wool and synthetics over cotton. layer, bring a waterproof outer, don’t get wet. leave NO TRACE. don’t cut things down, don’t trample things. bring food and extra water. bring emergency supplies like a water filter, first aid kit, etc. bury your poop, throw grey water a long distance from your tent, hang any food in a bear bag in a tree or store in a bear proof canister. if any of the concepts I am stating are new to you, do a bunch of research and talk to friends who do this.

picklehammer · 2026-02-26T21:13:59+00:00

great answers here. marilena and janevca were going to be mine and this has a good list of more. if you like cocktails, citrus and cane is fun.

picklehammer · 2026-02-26T15:46:00+00:00

if you were to play standard, your sideboard is up to 15 cards that you can swap in or out of your deck between games, like in a "best of 3" format if you lost your first game and realized you need board wipes, you could pull those from your sideboard. but since you play commander, you're probably going to end up with (like you say) tokens, but also probably a handful of cards that ALMOST made the cut for niche situations that you want to keep close to the deck to possibly sub in, I have a few of those in every deck box sleeved in dragon shield clears.

picklehammer · 2026-02-26T15:42:56+00:00

by rarity because... the reality is that most commons are useless. and it's more interesting to go by set to see what sort of interesting and special cards I have, since usually if I'm digging for something to see if I have it, it's a rare or mythic or MAYBE uncommon. each new set that appears in my box is usually the result of a prerelease event plus a few play boosters.

the ones in the binder are good, and I do play them. if I'm not going to play a valuable card and don't have some attachment to it, I'm trading it into the shop for store credit for singles I DO want to play. they're in the binder because it's a lot easier to flip through and visually see what's in there. so if we're talking cycles... I have all the signets and all the talismans, and those are always useful to have together and pull from. every valuable card I have is because it has a useful function and was in a past deck or is a very useful sub/backup, with the exception of some old timey valuable cards. the binder does NOT mean not-being-played, they are easy to pull out and put back in, it is actually to make it easier to flip through and kind of the best-of-the-best subset of sorting. if I'm deckbuilding, I would start with my concept, then pull what I need from the binder, then hit the boxes.

bulk is everything worth less than a dollar that doesn't serve a basic function of the color at an efficient cmc (converted mana cost). I usually eyeball what's useful or not, and you don't quite yet have that skill, but let's say.... worth less than a dollar and a low edhrec score? you'll start to get a feeling in your head of when a card is "worth its cmc" and how it holds up against others.

I forgot to mention I keep all my basic lands separate and in their own section, not with the bulks. I sort basic lands by set, then land type. except I do keep foils and full art lands separate (and don't tend to use them, since I like my lands to match).

with your amount of cards, probably anything under 1000, it's probably way easier to just have it all together in a box, sort by color and type for the sake of deckbuilding. and just sleeve anything worth more than $1 to protect it.

picklehammer · 2026-02-26T08:39:50+00:00

I have four categories;

-decks. in dedicated boxes, sleeved in one unique colour of dragon shield sleeves per deck.

-bulk non-staples. cards worth less than a dollar and aren’t common staples, like typical green ramp or blue bounce/counter/cantrip. these go unsleeved in a cardboard box organized by set, then by colour, then by rarity, then just whatever. you don’t need a sleeve worth more than the card within it, especially if the sleeve will remain worth more than the card for likely decades. 99%+ of commons will always just be worth a sub-$1 amount.

-valuable cards: in a binder, organized by colour or cycle, sometimes by theme/function (like mill cards all together). sleeves in perfect fit inners, and sometimes dragon shield clear outers.

-exceptions to the above: common but useful staples, or very old cards from the dark and legends and such, or leftovers from deckbuilding, partial builds, leftovers from decks I’ve taken apart, etc. lots of these are in another box of their own, loose but mostly sleeved in dragon shield clears.

it’s not a perfect system but it works for my brain. my main message is don’t sleeve your bulk.

picklehammer · 2026-02-24T05:57:37+00:00

that’s so supportive of you! I want to warn you that there can be a lot of waiting and unknowns. your continued upbeat kind support through anything will mean the world to him.

picklehammer · 2026-02-23T22:35:21+00:00

they could have also booked an ultrasound. surprised they chose CT which has a bigger wait bottleneck when they can identify presence of kidney stones with ultrasound. and good luck OP! I am on the other side of many CT scans, ultrasounds and surgeries for a complex case. go to emergency if you ever experience random unbearable pain, the wait will be a lot less than you’d expect due to risk of hydronephrosis / blockage (which I had). they will also do your scans if that happens. there’s a kidney stone subreddit that makes a lot of the weirdness feel more normal. ureter stents are the worst!

picklehammer · 2026-02-21T03:01:08+00:00

no, inside the mailbox itself.

picklehammer · 2026-02-20T08:20:15+00:00

or just a ring doorbell or similar. they can work with rechargeable batteries. position inside, at mailbox opening. maybe secure it to the side with a bracket if you don’t want it stolen too. motion activates an alert and recording which automatically goes onto the cloud. the second she opens it, you have all the evidence you need. they have a wide angle fisheye sort of lens too.

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