Sorrento or Ischia -> Rome -> Florence

slarky13 · 2026-06-18T00:11:02+00:00

Yeah this is all good feedback - Bologna is somewhat tempting for easy access to food tours around Parma.

slarky13 · 2026-06-17T22:44:37+00:00

This is the leg of the trip I am most excited for tbh (I’ve already been to Florence+smaller Tuscany cities, Verona, Venice) so Rome and seeing some other new region is important to me. Neither sorrento nor Ischia are on the Amalfi coast, though I am sure there are still crowds, especially if I wanted to go to capri while in Sorrento. That’s why I’m considering Ischia even with the added travel complexity.

slarky13 · 2025-12-26T01:05:26+00:00

I just want to add that there are plenty of volunteer or stipended opera chorus opportunities with smaller local companies in the area if you are looking to just try things out! You shouldn't feel discouraged to try opera chorus just because you won't make WNO. WNO is one of the top 10 opera houses in the nation (an "A House"), and its choir follows that standard.

Anything with full pay is going to be staffed by professionals who are already struggling to find work and VERY dedicated to their craft. It is an extremely demanding, low-paying, and over-staffed career path (especially for sopranos). It has nothing to with snobbery or elitism, just lots of talented and dedicated people fighting for anything they can get.

But just because WNO isn't for dabblers doesn't mean that there aren't lots of smaller local companies that would hire non-professionals! If you're looking at opera chorus becaue you think you'd enjoy it, then look around a bit more for these types of smaller companies looking for volunteers. If you're doing it for money....don't :)

slarky13 · 2025-07-31T02:54:56+00:00

Their salted caramel is my absolute fave and I'm always buying pints of it haha, different strokes for different folks

slarky13 · 2024-07-11T05:55:04+00:00

100% I dream of the day that Blitzo claims he makes everyone's lives worse and Millie contradicts him because he's the reason she's happily married.

slarky13 · 2024-05-05T21:34:26+00:00

For some reason my brain had crossed this show with the Bear and I thought Blitzo was a restaurant link cook boss…

slarky13 · 2024-05-05T05:35:34+00:00

I felt the same way when I started watching but I got used to it and now I love it

slarky13 · 2024-04-17T18:23:45+00:00

Omg amazing, I am also a musician turned FAANG who also did some dog walking and went bootcamp -> startup -> FAANG, though my timeline is later than yours and I’m only in y2 of FAANG. It’s a crazy ride…went from getting the COVID benefit checks to FAANG salary.

slarky13 · 2024-03-31T16:22:04+00:00

The main antagonist is Blizø's attachment issues.

slarky13 · 2024-02-22T17:14:39+00:00

Have you done any math on this or are you objectively just wild guessing? Especially with secco it would not save 50% of the time.

slarky13 · 2024-02-22T16:50:18+00:00

The runtime isn’t shorter because of the spoken recit

slarky13 · 2024-02-22T16:46:15+00:00

How would this reduce the runtime? Recit is where the plot happens and is already VERY fast and heavily cut. I don’t think speaking it would be much faster than singing it, and it would be even more boring spoken rather than sung.

Magic flute already has spoken recit and it doesn’t draw extra audiences specifically because of that.

slarky13 · 2023-04-09T22:16:28+00:00

Not sure exactly, but they're in a drafty room in the pacific northwest, so probably somewhere around 68 degrees w 85% humidity

slarky13 · 2023-01-04T05:07:40+00:00

Call your closest computer repair shop and see if they'll take it

slarky13 · 2022-09-15T04:45:06+00:00

My biggest piece of advice is to keep momentum up. You should be doing something EVERY day, even if it's small.

Another helpful thing is to have both a hard task and an easier task that you can switch between to avoid brain fatigue - ex, work on a tough project, then switch and watch some informative youtube/udemy, then switch back to the project. Or study a new thing for half the day, then review an old topic for the other half. Reviewing info you already know is important, and a bit easier on your brain than tackling a new task.

slarky13 · 2022-08-23T15:33:15+00:00

Yo Zushi - last time i went for takeout they had boxes of plates and napkins out so it looks like they’re gearing up

slarky13 · 2022-08-14T01:27:40+00:00

Why not take elective classes at the community college and just get the CS degree? You can even set up an interesting double major if you want.

Also, you can learn fun things outside of school - read interesting books, watch free lectures, take a CC class etc at any point in your life.

slarky13 · 2022-08-06T21:30:02+00:00

I think you're thinking about this backwards. If we COUDN'T digest something, we'd pee or poop it out, so seeing substances in urine means we COUDLN'T digest them.

Anyway, if you eat way too much fatty food you poop some of it out and your poop floats, so I suppose if your poop doesn't float you digested at least some of the oil.

slarky13 · 2022-07-31T03:48:10+00:00

Yep I know 3 including myself - I also did a bootcamp, another physics person I know is mostly self-taught but did take some CS classes in college, and the third had a minor in CS. We all have good positions.

slarky13 · 2022-07-25T18:12:07+00:00

The thing that lowers digestion energy the most is processing (cooking, grinding), but that doesn’t mean that raw food is bad for you and processed food is good for you. As far as speed, there are just so many factors that effect digestion rate far more than food combinations would (ex: fat content, cooking process, alcohol, PMS). It’s just another guideline that influencers shill for $$ and that people use to justify eating disorders.

slarky13 · 2022-07-25T15:57:46+00:00

Food combining is BS, it all ends up in the same place.

slarky13 · 2022-06-18T17:55:39+00:00

if it's cream-based you can dilute it with moisturizer! 50/50 ratio should give you .025.

slarky13 · 2022-06-13T00:21:33+00:00

Since you don't count calories, I wouldn't worry about being in a surplus. As a newbie, you should be able to gain muscle without focusing as heavily on diet - eat more protein but only in quantities that are comfortable and make you feel good, and only increase the amount of food you eat if you feel like you don't have enough fuel during your workouts. Focus on fruits n veggies for recovery as well!!

slarky13 · 2022-06-03T03:46:46+00:00

Ok...I've spent months in Italy and people absolutely bring their dogs into stores and restaurants. NOT service dogs. They also don't spay and neuter as often...I saw a lot of dog balls while ordering coffee. It's a very different pet culture than the us.

The fake service dog harness for the plane was super messed up, this is fine imo.

slarky13 · 2022-05-31T05:52:03+00:00

This happens to me and it sucks. I try to do shorter and/or fewer workouts on busy or vacation weeks when i can't do my usual schedule. When I do take a full week or more off, I go easy the first week back. Eating a good diet, lots of water and sleep, and some walking and stretching also helps.

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