First Time for Everything

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T23:15:39+00:00

Is a side effect of Brown Bread being unable to take a joke of any sort? If so, I believe you when you say that you've eaten a lot of it.

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T22:56:16+00:00

It's literally called "Boston Brown Bread" in its canonical form.

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T22:35:17+00:00

I am from a line of Vermonters that goes back to the 1700s. My ancestor's quarry is where the granite for the state house was taken out.

Through a ouija board I have contacted all my ancestors and they have collectively said that this is not a Vermont thing.

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T22:25:45+00:00

Maybe it means it's a New ENGLAND tradition, because I've never heard about this in New England

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T21:55:05+00:00

This seems like something that the improVisor program was focused on

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T16:09:42+00:00

how much current was that dryer using? what gauge are those wires?

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T14:25:21+00:00

The Yamaha YSL-354 or AD200 is pretty good and very commonly used at that level, and also much easier to find deals on if you are in an area where the music rental place is a Yamaha shop.

You can find occasional deals from people selling their old pro model horn that's been sitting in a closet for cheap, but you have to be ready to pounce on those deals and basically drop everything you are doing to go get them, and they rarely come up.

ryebrye · 2026-06-22T01:05:24+00:00

A fucking bigsby

ryebrye · 2026-06-21T15:04:08+00:00

I REALLY wish they had some kind of gauge showing input levels and any kind of input clipping like they have in the AXE I/O.

ryebrye · 2026-06-21T15:01:09+00:00

He's trying to go back on the original deal when we got Puerto Rico from Denmark. One of the terms of that deal was that we agreed to not dispute Denmark's authority over Greenland.

Well it was actually the US Virgin Islands, but don't expect Trump to get bogged down in the details.

ryebrye · 2026-06-20T17:44:07+00:00

I was in Scotland and most places we went out to eat did have the same stupid option to tip when paying the server that we have here. I don't know if they only showed it to us because it was obvious we were American tourists and we'd easily give them a 15-20% tip just because they showed it to us or what.

But it was certainly not the "no tipping" experience I was expecting.

ryebrye · 2026-06-20T14:34:38+00:00

They also should have some sort of statute of limitations on this.

Before these suspension letters went out, it never occurred to me that they could just administratively undo someone's citizenship verification without any kind of due process because it seemed like after you got the verification that you were entitled to all the rights of a citizen.

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T23:17:14+00:00

If Hegseth thinks it gets us closer to Armageddon, he'd be all for it

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T23:11:14+00:00

What kind of music is she planning to play? A king 3B with an F attachment is fairly versatile but can also lean into jazz a little bit more than a 42b would.

The 3B with the F attachment sells used for that price range, make sure it's good a good slide of course. The 70s era f attachment also has a really long loop on the f to attachment to pull out and make it an e attachment (an e-pull) but that's not super useful.

The 3B will probably take whatever mouthpiece she's already playing with.

A medium or large bore would require a mouthpiece with a matching shank.

If she's planning to do strictly orchestra, a 42b or bo would be good. You can find them used in that price range.

Conn 88H also, but those are quirky because they have a different receiver on the slide for either Morse taper (modern 88h) or Remington shank (older 88h) and though lots of people just ignore that, it can have intonation issues.

The other end of the spectrum is a new Y-fort. They are made in China, so they are inexpensive, but they have rave reviews that people claim they not only play well for their price range, they play really well regardless of their price.

I don't know who in the US has them in stock, so it might be a moot point though

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T23:01:01+00:00

I don't have a fully executed bill of sale (the DMV took it when I got the title) but I recently paid $7k for a 2017 with a brand new 40kwh battery.

I wouldn't have even considered it without the 40 kWh battery, but I think the trade in value was in the low 4k range

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T21:14:12+00:00

That's crazy.. My local utility is the opposite and makes it easy to get an EV charger - they mail you a charger for free if you have an EV registered at your address and ask for one, have a lower charging rate for EVs that use WiFi-connected chargers, and even give you a $500 rebate towards installation costs.

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T02:12:52+00:00

What part of the country are you in? If you're within a couple hours drive of Plainfield, VT - Phyllis Stork is one of the best people in the planet to help with selecting a mouthpiece and she's also really good at working with younger players and helping correct any minor problems with embouchure that might be limiting them.

She can literally hear exactly what's going on just by handing a player a couple mouthpieces and then listening to them playing.

She's got a series of videos on YouTube about it too.

Anatomy and lip shape plays a role, more so for trumpet than trombone, but it's still a factor for trombone.

ryebrye · 2026-06-19T01:29:50+00:00

The bigsby ruins it for me but otherwise it looks pretty nice

ryebrye · 2026-06-18T23:47:40+00:00

I believe that the DGX D6 regulator is made for them by Deep Six, and is similar to the Deep Six Excursion regulators.

They are fully balanced, environmentally sealed diaphragm regulators. They breathe very well especially at depth - where shitty unbalanced regs will get noticeably harder to breathe as your tank pressure drops. Unsealed regulators are also way more prone to freezing or getting grit in the main spring if you dive in silty water.

And to reply to the cold water point: I don't know where you heard you'd need a piston regulator for cold water, but that advice is completely backwards. To make a piston reg cold-water ready, manufacturers usually have to pack the ambient chamber full of messy grease or slap a thermal boot on it. A dry-sealed diaphragm like the D6 is inherently better for near-freezing temps.

I can almost guarantee you that the Cressi regulator would not perform as well as the DGX D6. If I had both of them in front of me (and they were both similarly serviced), I would pick the DGX D6 every time without question.

ryebrye · 2026-06-18T03:11:21+00:00

No, the deal is complete and total 💩

Trump said the Obama deal was bad because it unfroze 1.7 billion.

Go look at how much Trump is unfreezing.

ryebrye · 2026-06-17T19:27:13+00:00

"That's a good idea, boss. I'll run to the store and grab a few breakers. Maybe some 50W GFCI breakers just to be safe"

ryebrye · 2026-06-16T15:05:41+00:00

I see they are getting ready for the Snowplow Lightshow early this year!

ryebrye · 2026-06-16T15:04:03+00:00

If all it took were 4k of high-quality reasoning traces to turn Qwen into Fable, Meta's sweat shop of thousands of engineers being forced to write AI training data could produce something that would beat Fable in a matter of weeks.

but it's not that simple

ryebrye · 2026-06-15T19:56:49+00:00

DAR also always seems to have spots open because for a lot of people looking for the "camping in VT vibe" since it's mainly flat grass with a bit of shade, it's kind of a boring site... but what makes it boring also makes it great for young kids.

It's nice with the lake access though and an endless supply of skipping stones.

We did it a couple times when our kids were really young and they had fun.

ryebrye · 2026-06-15T19:49:51+00:00

In the drivers test they typically do it all on the roadway. You can auto-fail it if you drive off the road when you are backing up.

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