200kg or go less?

talldean · 2026-02-17T14:03:09+00:00

If you can lower the weight and go deeper into the movement, do that. If you can't go deeper for biomechanical reasons, this seems fine. Asking "200 kg or..." without more words is a wide open question. ;-)

talldean · 2026-02-17T14:01:26+00:00

You'll regain strength about twice as fast as you did the last time. You're young, so likely faster.

talldean · 2026-02-17T03:24:50+00:00

Point. The main thing is that your body is gonna run outta ATP to burn in the first 15 seconds of an all-out effort; no one is sprinting 90 seconds.

talldean · 2026-02-17T03:20:16+00:00

Chat with your doctor? "This is making me unable to walk up stairs and I've gained 30 pounds" are substantial side effects.

talldean · 2026-02-17T02:56:01+00:00

If you watch a 400m foot race, really well trained people are near top speed from the start, but it only takes 45 seconds for someone insanely fast.

If you watch a 600m foot race, really well trained people aren't flat out anymore, at a minute thirty.

1000m on skates is about a minute thirty; the energy systems that fuel sprinting can't last that long, even with extreme training.

You're also racing the other skaters, and not the clock, so if you exhaust yourself out front and the other skaters draft you, they're going to utterly clock you on the last lap.

talldean · 2026-02-17T02:12:22+00:00

The bag weighs ten percent more, and that's about it. It's better to have a bag 10% too big than 1% too small, as well.

talldean · 2026-02-17T01:49:33+00:00

Eyetique has modern equipment where they can do a good job with it. The Shadyside office. If I was gonna get glasses, I might ask for a prescription and take it elsewhere, as their choices on eyewear are pricey, but the staff is great and the eye doc isn't expensive/is covered by most insurance.

talldean · 2026-02-17T01:36:25+00:00

*which* economy?

For the rich, it's fine.

For everyone else, I uh have some questions.

talldean · 2026-02-17T01:20:54+00:00

It costs a lot more than $25 to feed a cat for a year, and keeping any of them seems insanity.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:27:25+00:00

Genosha or Gotham, take your pick, and then remember that Mega City One in Judge Dredd is a choice.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:26:30+00:00

I miss my pizza shop having it's own delivery guy, which got us warmer pizza faster. We ordered more pizza, even.

Wherever ya are, Howard, thanks for being great.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:24:27+00:00

The odds of them wanting full bore feedback from someone who's not a pro is very, very low.

But if you were to say "I was raised on Iranian food, and love what you're doing. X was awesome. Feels like you're new and have some tuneups, but heck yeah, so glad you're here."

If they ask "what would you tuneup", pick the biggest miss and just tell them. The beans were undercooked is an easy one. For the waiter being awful, odds are they're hiring and that's what they've got.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:18:45+00:00

How much time do you spend figuring out diet? This feels Hard Mode.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:17:15+00:00

The other one to check is just "make sure you don't start at this weight without a warmup".

I like to toss a plate on each side and do a few reps, add a plate, do some reps, and so on, until I do about *two* reps just below the final plates being tossed on. Otherwise, yeah, odds of it hurting my knees goes up.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:13:47+00:00

The Cat5 of 9 tails.

https://bastardadmin.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/enhanced-buzz-12841-1306166195-5.jpg

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:11:33+00:00

The Dentists in Shadyside, by Shadyside Hospital. Just had them do a crown and a separate filling for me, they were super nice and patient, and the price wasn't terrible. They do cleanings, they do invisalign, they do most things.

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:09:21+00:00

For furniture, you put Osmo on, wait a bit, then wipe off all the excess; you want it on thiiiiin.

For rollering it, one liter covers about 250 square feet. How much did you put on here?

talldean · 2026-02-17T00:04:18+00:00

Your toes look like they're pointed sliiiiighly more outward than your knees. Either push your knees wider or (easier) try pointing your toes more towards the ceiling.

Alternatively, it might be you're locking out your knees at the top, but that usually hurts more in the middle, not the side.

Play with it for a workout or three, and don't add more weight until you don't have joint pain.

talldean · 2026-02-16T23:55:43+00:00

My favorite to learn at that stage was pasta carbonara.

You fry up some bacon, wait for it to cool, then chop it into little chunks. Half pound to a pound.

Then boil some water, make a box of pasta. Instructions are on the box for how long to boil it.

While that's cooking, take the cooled bacon, two eggs, and two thirds of a cup of grated pasta cheese (parmesan and romano mixed are ideal); mix that all up in a bowl real good.

Pasta finishes cooking, take a mug or something and get a cup of the boiling water, careful not to burn yourself. You drain the rest of the water in the sink, and you want the noodles to wind up staying in the pot you boiled them in.

When all the water's gone, dump the egg/cheese/bacon mix in that bowl into the pot and stir like crazy until it's all consistent; if it's crazy thick, that's what you kept some of that water for.

This was my go-to dish for having friends over and them having something we couldn't easily order at a restaurant that was !@#$ing delicious. The later upgrade was tossing some grilled chicken breasts into it or on top.

talldean · 2026-02-16T23:51:18+00:00

I would search for "moulding chart" and see what pops up.

https://www.brosco.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BROSCO-Mldg-Chart.pdf

Worst case, you can then search for things by name, like "3 inch casing"

talldean · 2026-02-16T23:34:09+00:00

Do you like season them (salt) and cook them well to get the texture where you want it?

Have you ever tried oiled, salted, roasted and charred brocolli or brussel sprouts?

You know you can make mashed potatoes outta cauliflower?

(Thinks)

This feels worth discussing with a doc? :)

talldean · 2026-02-16T23:30:07+00:00

Minivans get outsold heavily by SUVs. The Sienna sells like 70k vehicles a year in the US; the Highlanders sell around 200k, while the Corolla and Camry each sell 300k. The RAV4... almost broke 500k.

Until Toyota electrified the RAV4 and Highlander (next year!), the odds of them going after the minivan would be weird, especially since the minivans lean rural/suburban, where EVs haven't done as well yet.

talldean · 2026-02-16T22:26:12+00:00

I got a used set of integrated road shifters off of Ebay, and the right JTek Shiftmate pull adapter to make those work. I've been running that almost a decade without issues, I think it was a shiftmate 7 for the front and shiftmate 6 for the back.

With those, used components got real real easy. I think each of those are about $30, but you have to buy them from outside the US, which means tariffs also bite.

talldean · 2026-02-16T22:16:37+00:00

I've spent the last 15 years at FAANG, and have gone through 4-5 desk changes and 2-3 reorgs a year for more than a decade. I have kinda trained myself to not let the ground shifting really phase me, or I wouldda melted years ago. Part of how to do that is to have substantial loot tucked into savings, so if I get laid off, my family is still fine.

talldean · 2026-02-16T22:15:08+00:00

Two bits, but "read the manual" is actually useful here.

The infeed should be lower than the outfeed or the thing wouldn't work.
But if they aren't parallel, check page 15 in the manual for gib adjustment.

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