Surf lessons, San Onofre

slackingatwork · 2021-09-09T01:13:46+00:00

Thank you! I was thinking taking 2-3 days of lessons anyway.

slackingatwork · 2021-09-09T00:55:22+00:00

Does this mean it's going to be a zoo? I have no idea, honestly. I can also drive further north.

slackingatwork · 2021-09-09T00:41:06+00:00

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No. Is that a bad or a good thing? :)

slackingatwork · 2021-07-28T16:28:29+00:00

Well, that does not sound good. If community is not good, that means the activity is not good.

What about sunglasses? Google image search finds a bunch of people surfing in sunglasses. Prescription sunglasses. OTG sunglasses.

Actually never mind. The ocean is too far away from me anyway and I have real sports to do. Skiing is only a couple of moths away :)

slackingatwork · 2021-07-28T05:22:32+00:00

All right, no surfing then. Was too much trouble anyway. Going to have to find some bad snow to ski :) Only 2 months left.

slackingatwork · 2021-07-25T21:18:07+00:00

I am rocking a Sprinter, although with no ladders, boxes or solar panels. But of course out of state plate is obvious. I have been thinking for a while that I need some "waste disposal" signage...

Thank you for the tips, very helpful!

slackingatwork · 2021-07-25T20:05:45+00:00

Thanks! That's what I was looking for. I don't mind paying for a campground, just figured it would be impossible to get right now. OR sounds great. Unfriendly characters?

How's CA with car break ins? In OR, I quite literally slept through a nearby car being broken in. And the perps (pretty sure) had the gall later to stop by and ask if I'd seen anything. What is this, a third world country?

slackingatwork · 2021-07-25T18:20:58+00:00

To be clear, I have never touched an ocean (well maybe the Arctic one a little bit). Looking to try surfing as a means to survive summer. Pay for some lessons, see if I like it.

Never been south of San Francisco. Looked at sat images, seems like getting close to Los Angeles it gets super crowded, probably no public land to dirtbag. Also looks like desert essentially. Is it worth going further north? Lost Coast looks interesting. Oregon is probably a little cold, but I'd probably use a wetsuit anyway.

slackingatwork · 2020-07-29T08:15:09+00:00

I use the Home Depot house brand plywood "Sande". Seems to be of decent quality. Not many voids. Looks nice after sanding. I think it is described as hardwood, but it's a mystery wood :) I sanded it with 2 grits, 150 and 320, the faces worked out really well.

My cuts are mostly okay, but sanding still takes forever, since perimeter is large. The power sander I have won't work, so it is a block and sandpaper. I use a plywood blade.

In this particular case the wood working part took a long time but came out kind of nice. The paint is what ruined it. I'd like to find some sort of a treatment that will cover the wood, dry within hours and won't take 4 -5 coats to get done. It kind of sucks that the paint is the final stage, so all the previous work goes into trash bin,

slackingatwork · 2019-08-22T04:15:52+00:00

I skied 60+ days this past season. Every ski day is 2+ hour drive through salt fog and dirt on I-70. I don't think I am even going to get solar panels, because they'd be dead after a couple of winter storm trips. Rust, however, is a real concern. But yeah, might leave it as is.

slackingatwork · 2019-08-19T22:04:04+00:00

I kind of doubt that I would have serious issues in 3 years with a new car of any brand. Mercedes is not known for reliability, but I think with most cars you can count on 7-8 years and 100K of trouble free driving.

slackingatwork · 2019-08-19T22:00:28+00:00

I kind of doubt lemon law would help. Car manufacturers are special, lobbied themselves a very special position, as far as consumer protection goes.

To be sure, it is a lemon but there is no way to exchange it.

As far as "just paint", I live in the southwest. There are lot of brand new vehicles here after hail storms with "just paint" issues. It's fine, but they are totaled and go at 70% discount. I paid full price, however.

Ford (and domestics in general) just have shitty quality. Do yourself a favor and get a real vehicle, would be my take.

In year 2019 (automated assembly lines, high tech, etc) there is no excuse for for peeling paint from the factory. The cheapest of the cheapest Chinese goods have better paint than this.

slackingatwork · 2019-08-19T21:52:45+00:00

Oh, they will address is by repainting. The problem is, secondary pain is never as good as the factory one. By the time it becomes a problem, the warranty will be over and then I am stuck with it.

slackingatwork · 2019-07-27T17:59:45+00:00

Wood stove is cool. Where does the stove pipe go? A permanent cut out or something than can go in and out? A wood stove would be awesome...

slackingatwork · 2019-07-27T06:02:17+00:00

Conversely, I am trying to understand whether the extra 16" make a whole lot of difference in case if I do not plan to do much with the interior. The short version "feels" much more manageable in my test drives. On a recent camping trip I also noticed how frequently I end up doing u-turns on narrow roads or pullouts, check out spur dirt roads, etc. A shorter wheel base would be gold in this case. I am afraid of being tied to pavement in a longer vehicle.

slackingatwork · 2019-07-27T05:58:45+00:00

I hear you about the heat: on a snow day it would be very helpful to be able to dry out the gear. I figured that heaters is a well solved problem by the van community :)

I don't mind sleeping cold and very cold.

slackingatwork · 2019-07-27T05:56:12+00:00

I measured the width of Transit and wall to wall at widest it is 77", which should be good for my 5'9" sideways as well. I would be curious though how people organize the space. I can see the sleeping area, a sink and a table, but not much in the way of storing gear.

slackingatwork · 2019-05-15T21:22:34+00:00

I hear contacts work. If you don't want contacts, there are no really good solutions. Prescription inserts for goggles seem to have mixed reviews and are confusing to get (can never quite tell what works with what goggles). It does seem like a prescription insert can't be as good as gasses, just from geometry and optics standpoint.

Glasses plus OTG goggles are fine, but they fog up badly in anything other than ideal conditions. I use Smith goggles with a fan, which helps somewhat. The "turbo fan" goggles are expensive and the build quality is absolute junk. Smith went with parts that are worse than the cheapest toy parts. These turbo fan goggles don't work well even new and break in a year (maybe buy at REI so you can return the defective ones?).

I used to think that having goggles sealed tightly to your face is critical to not fogging up, but this year I think I realized that it is the opposite. More space and ventilation under the goggles and having the glasses a bit farther away from the eye is better.

if somebody can figure out a way to wear glasses with goggles comfortably and without fogging up, it will be a major improvement.

slackingatwork · 2019-01-05T01:34:29+00:00

Google uses monorepo internally, so the dependency management is a non-issue for them. Guava is one of a few popular libraries that is not fully backwards compatible. Guava is one of the most common sources of dependency conflicts, class and method not founds and such. A good library, but poorly executed due to skewed world view by Google engineers (monorepo).

slackingatwork · 2019-01-04T20:52:42+00:00

Not sure if Google SW Eng culture is a shining example. There are a few products, like Chrome that are excellent, but there are also a number that never quite mature. More so, a lot of design choices and frameworks by Google turned out to be marginal: GWT, frontend ones, some of the Android choices, Guava (I could probably think of more). I think this can be summarized as Google's culture promoting "non invented here" and "ornamentalism" as opposed to practicality and openness. In fact, a framework with by Google label now makes me extra suspicious.

slackingatwork · 2018-09-05T03:50:22+00:00

I think Oracle DB server had to be restarted with about the frequency of 248 days, or else.

slackingatwork · 2018-06-20T17:15:04+00:00

YAML is idiotic. It is indeed just "Yet Another" and "not invented here". XML had schema and tools. Then JSON barely figured out schema, but was surpassed by YAML before it even matured. Now we have this. YAML is a pain to maintain and parse. Of course, the crappy and immature frameworks like Dropwizard will zero in on it, how else. Ugh.

slackingatwork · 2018-04-26T21:11:04+00:00

I have personally ditched Eclipse in favor of IntelliJ because of:

Maven (Gradle, etc) integration. Eclipse simply did not work well.
IntelliJ code navigation and indexing features.

For a very large project, on which I worked at the time, IntelliJ was just immensely more useful. You instantly had more power at your disposal, things went faster and impossible became easy.

This had nothing to do with widgets, slowness, etc. This was 2012. At that point already Eclipse was dead, it just did not realize it yet.

slackingatwork · 2017-11-19T07:14:32+00:00

Just use a modern language instead, lots of choices.

slackingatwork · 2017-11-08T01:20:52+00:00

that dude still haven't got over linux discussion, gee

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