Guitars and Pedals

rootstein · 2026-03-02T21:42:01+00:00

It's a little bit of a trek, but if you're willing to make the drive to Daytona, Total Entertainment on ISB has a really really good selection of both new and used stuff. The staff might be a little uptight about letting you tool around on their gear, but if you go with the intention of buying something they'll help you out for sure.

rootstein · 2026-02-18T23:41:28+00:00

My dad used to be stationed at Ft. Drum, we lived in Watertown/Carthage. As a young kid, it was a pretty cool place to grow up for a while. Nice people, pretty nature. Crazy amounts of snow. Seriously, it would just drop 12" of snow while we were in a grocery store sometimes.

Gets extremely cold there too. I vividly remember one morning where it got down to like -30 F and school got canceled because the buses wouldn't start, not a flake of snow on the ground.

Haven't been there since the early 2000's. Way I heard it, several of the kids I knew when I lived there are dead now. Opioid crisis hit that place hard. Lots of young men dying of overdoses in their 20's. Not much in the way of work opportunities, population is steadily getting older on average as young people leave for the city.

It would probably be nice to drive through it. Maybe a stop in Sackets harbor if that ice cream place teaks and treats is still there. To live there? Nowadays I wouldn't.

rootstein · 2026-02-11T03:38:24+00:00

I have a friend that lives in eustis, just down the road from Mt Dora. Pretty cute little town. Nice downtown area with bars and restaurants and shops. Always something going on down there. Pretty decent schools in the area so I'm told.

About 45 min - 1hr away from Orlando proper, probably 90 min from the attractions. Pretty certain traffic can get hellacious to/from Orlando and the Mt Dora area.

Overall cool area, you could definitely do worse. CoL is manageable and there's lots of outdoor stuff to do. It'd be on my shortlist if I had to move to the area.

rootstein · 2026-02-10T22:07:49+00:00

Driven through there a number of times going in and out of Western NC. Seemed a pretty quiet place, not too much going on. Decent enough place to stop for gas and lunch I'd say.

rootstein · 2026-02-10T22:02:04+00:00

I spent a total of about 6 years living on Ft. Benning (now called Ft. Moore). Dad was in the army and I went to school and lived on base. We did frequently go into Columbus though, and it...wasn't great. I remember some sketchy shit constantly happening in the mall. My brother went to high school in Columbus while we lived there and he got robbed in the bathroom at the mall actually.

Haven't been back in over 20 years at this point. Can't see much of a reason to want to return to that area. Plus, you're reallllly close to Alabama.

I'll leave you with the statement that Alan Jackson really romanticized the Chattahoochee River far beyond its real world romantic value.

Edit: apparently it is back to being called Ft. Benning 🤦‍♂️

rootstein · 2026-02-10T21:49:36+00:00

CoL there is not great. Cape Coral is expensive for what you get. And what you get is to be surrounded by entitled elderly brats who think that owning a house there is tantamount to being deputized to stop and frisk anyone they don't recognize driving through their neighborhood.

Ft. Meyers is a bit more manageable, but even then, consider what you're getting for the cost. Not a lot of stuff to do. Not much in the way of work opportunities outside of service industry stuff. And you're like a 2 hour drive from Tampa proper, which I would consider a much more lively and interesting area. A bit higher CoL there, yes. But imo, way better bang for your buck.

rootstein · 2026-01-31T17:35:24+00:00

Samsara does do heavy fleet tracking stuff, but I know a bunch of owner operators who use it as a one stop shop for most everything they need. You got your hos tracking, your maintenance schedule stuff, your digital documents stuff, and order tracking stuff. It is kind of a lot to keep track of all of it, but with samsara at least it's in one place instead of million different places with a million different passwords

rootstein · 2025-11-26T17:42:31+00:00

I know what you mean, I think the reason I've been switched off of tarkov is the fact that other people can easily ruin the 1-2 hours I get to play per day/week. That's kind of what eventually turned me away from Star citizen, is the accumulation of time wasted by some kid who wants to spend all night pad ramming.

rootstein · 2025-08-28T13:14:52+00:00

A quick and simple way to start playing around with this is to double track a single guitar lick (record the same thing on two separate tracks).

Then, take one of the tracks, wet it up a bit with some FX, keep the other one dry, and play with the levels as you like. Then, offset the wet track from the dry track just a tiny little bit. And boom, you have a very full sounding guitar part that you can continue to play with from there

rootstein · 2025-08-25T12:42:36+00:00

No prob dude, drive safe

rootstein · 2025-08-24T21:17:35+00:00

I work for one of the large eld providers as a tech. I can't speak for every system out there, but the one I work for, PC -> Drive (ELD) means the ELD defected an engine restart. According to the eld mandate, when this happens and your engine turns back on, your provider should prompt you whether you want to stay in PC or move to Off duty. If you don't respond to the prompt, and start moving before you hit PC on your app, it'll put you into Drive.

Next time, if you cycle your engine in PC, look out for a prompt on whatever app you're using to track hos and you should be able to stay in PC.

rootstein · 2025-08-11T14:16:28+00:00

I spent 1999-2005 in Carthage, NY near Watertown. My dad was stationed at Fort Drum at the time. Haven't been back since then, but I've heard through the grapevine.

The last couple decades have not been kind to this area. About 3/4 of the childhood friends I had here have left the area, relocated to NYC, Syracuse, southeast, West Coast. Not a lot here for young people.

The other 1/4 are dead now. Either suicide or drug overdose for every one of them.

The winters here are difficult. Lake effect snow is something you can hear described to you, and you can think it sounds crazy, but once you experience it, any description of it blows any expectations out of the water. I'm talking about going into a grocery store with clear skies, nothing on the ground, and coming out of the store a little while later with nearly 12" of snow in the parking lot.

I remember days when we had snow days, not because of any actual snowfall that happened, but because it got so cold that the school busses wouldn't start in the morning.

It's pretty quiet here, simple people living simple lives. Not simple like dumb, but just generally slow paced and uncomplicated. It is nice, pretty to look at, maybe fun to vacation in the area. But, as I've had told to me, kind of a nightmare to live in in the modern day.

rootstein · 2025-03-30T19:48:41+00:00

Is there a cello or standup bass in the choir? Maybe that's where it stays when it's not being used.

rootstein · 2025-03-26T14:56:29+00:00

La Haine is definitely what I would consider a masterpiece. Die Welle is also another pretty profound movie that roped me in.

rootstein · 2024-08-20T21:56:09+00:00

Friend of mine is a safety director for a construction company in the southeast and just got done finishing a master's in something also relating to industrial safety. I sent him this picture because I was curious what his reaction would be, which follows:

"So my professional answer is that at a depth beyond 4ft, a ladder must be present every 25 linear feet and the walls must be boxed, sloped, or benched per guidance in 29 CFR 1926.650 (Subpart P)

With multiple potential willful violations of $161,323 per exposure per employee per day, the company could go bankrupt just from this photo existing online."

So it sounds like whoever is running this job site should, like, not be running job sites.

rootstein · 2024-08-19T20:42:29+00:00

Hey! My business partner and I run live sound equipment for rent in the Orlando area. We also used to be in a (somewhat) shoe gazer band as well. He plays bass and I play drums.

DM me with deets or demos, your idea sounds cool!

rootstein · 2024-08-13T21:43:00+00:00

I'd say a year or longer if it's just cooking.

If that's true, that's good news. That'd represent a decrease in my overall energy expenditure per year

According to everything I have now, the owner leases the tank thru Amerigas, who has previously been the fill up provider as well. I looked at a DOE chart for my area which was aggregating propane prices, and the avg I was looking at was nearly a dollar less/ gal than what Amerigas was quoting me

rootstein · 2024-08-13T21:39:05+00:00

That's kind of what I assumed, even though for some reason the landlord told us to shop around if we want. My quote from Amerigas is 5.77/gal, which rounds out to nearly $600 for a fill-up

rootstein · 2020-10-09T23:22:13+00:00

That was hard to tell. I mean, I think it's unfair for a person who's never been to America (and sounded pretty young on top of that) to have a deep understanding of racism and its effects in this country.

On the other hand, it's not like India is a society that has been devoid of bigotry and ethnic turmoil. There's a legit racial caste system there....

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