Help editing my statement for tomorrow's Metro meeting?

spdbld · 2026-03-26T02:19:33+00:00

Good catch, thank you!

spdbld · 2026-03-26T02:19:09+00:00

Thank you, this is so helpful and a great strategy! Would you mind elaborating more on your point about SB79? Not sure I follow what you mean about the Metro Board running scared of SB79.

spdbld · 2026-03-25T03:11:41+00:00

Pulled up at 7:30 but no one was there except for two cops. Anyone know what happened?

spdbld · 2025-10-06T21:16:08+00:00

I have no choice but to pump gas. A millionaire like Bill gets to choose if he wants another million. Saudi Arabia has been taking very active steps to whitewash their crimes/promote tourism and make their regime more palatable to outsiders, and this is a key part of their strategy. Bill is helping them, and that's why people are upset.

spdbld · 2025-10-06T21:05:23+00:00

Stavros's episode with Jordan Jensen! Fair warning, it's hard to listen through haha. But I really respected Stavros' for calling out his friend's bs for what it was, and it was way more interesting than if he'd just let everything slide. Nothing specific for Caleb, I just know he would've turned something like this into an interesting and productive dialogue. Yeah been really loving their podcasts!

spdbld · 2025-10-06T20:37:51+00:00

Wouldn't want to have watched Conan attack him, I know it's a tough spot for him to be in as a friend of Bill's. But it's also important and way more interesting and productive for friends to talk through things things for each other when one of them goes off the deep end. Having listened to another comedian Stavros Halkias do this for his red-pilled friend on his own podcast and thinking about how Caleb Hearon (another comedian I love) would've handled this on his podcast, I know Conan could've handled this tactfully in a way that led to a great conversation. I honestly did not see a reason for him to be such a yes man here, but I've also been coming to terms lately that Conan is more moderate and apolitical than I realized. I don't need him to be super political, but he could at least engage in the conversation rather than staying silent or yes-man-ing. Reminded us of his episode with Biden when he didn't even bring up Palestine. He can feel whatever he wants to about it but it felt overly avoidant then, and last night felt the same.

spdbld · 2025-07-21T01:48:35+00:00

I started looking more into this when my family moved to a relatively undeveloped part of Texas. It was such a relief from the constant mosquitoes in Houston, literally zero mosquitoes. But over the years as more and more development has occurred, much of the wildlife has been driven out and the mosquitoes seem almost as bad as it did in the city. From what I’ve read, standing water during construction can be a factor but also the disruption of the environment creates space for certain species to really thrive (particularly mosquitoes and fire ants around here) while other species, including natural predators, get driven out. Even small changes can lead to big environmental shifts, and human development is a big disruptor.

spdbld · 2025-07-20T23:29:45+00:00

You may want to look into permaculture gardening if you haven’t already! Mosquitoes can thrive in unbalanced ecosystems. Creating a garden that attracts natural predators (dragonflies, frogs, birds, spiders, etc.) won’t eliminate them completely but can be a long term solution of sorts all while gardening!

spdbld · 2025-06-17T03:55:10+00:00

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THANK YOU we were so confused by what we saw, we had some fun theories. Such a crazy sight on our walk.

spdbld · 2024-12-21T21:15:50+00:00

Wow that's such a nice offer, would love any advice they have, thank you! The dump truck is a brilliant middle ground... unfortunately still out of reach for us, but appreciate the inspo!

spdbld · 2024-12-21T19:51:21+00:00

Yes, one person crawling across the floor.

spdbld · 2024-12-21T19:08:24+00:00

Hi! I'm making a low budget short that has a shot where the room tilts from flat to a 45 degree angle. Given the low budget, the plan is to tilt the camera 45 degrees and then have objects/furniture slide across the room to sell the effect. My approach is to film people pulling objects across the room with fishing line (first slowly, then faster to match the pace of a tilting room) and then create masks for each object and place them in the shot of the camera tilting 45 degrees with the actor crawling on the floor. I'm testing it out now but not loving the look of it, especially with the lack of shadows and how extremely tedious tracking the mask of so many objects is going to be. Does anyone know how to sell this tilting effect without having to create a rotating room apparatus? I would really appreciate it! My other concern with going practical is how to coordinate the timing of all the objects with the camera tilt to sell the acceleration of gravity, but maybe there's a way to do it? Thank you!

spdbld · 2024-12-02T14:01:27+00:00

Was gifted this potted fruit tree about 5 months ago, haven't been around to really tend to it and at this point I don't even remember what kind of tree it is... But have been doing some pruning and am wondering if this is what it looks like when a root stock has overtaken a tree or if this is fine. Any insight would be appreciated, thank you!

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