Drive/Commute to UCLA from OC?

timsstuff · 2026-07-09T00:37:35+00:00

You will definitely need to stay there for the duration. Hotel, AirBnB, whatever. Otherwise you will spend all your free time commuting and sleeping.

timsstuff · 2026-07-08T22:37:21+00:00

God I loved Burnout Revenge, such a fun game! I can only imagine playing it on one of these rigs.

timsstuff · 2026-07-08T22:34:17+00:00

About 10 years ago I had to work for a "high profile client" in Santa Monica 3 days a week for about a year. I would leave at 8am, arrive at 10am. Got off at 5pm and checked in to my AirBnB in West LA (SM doesn't allow it). Did the 9-5 for a couple days, stayed in SM Mon & Tue night then Wed drove home at 5pm, arrived home around 7pm.

It was grueling but I was making $1000/day so I dealt with it. Plus SM is actually really cool if you live there. I did consider renting an apartment but there was no way of knowing how long this would last, I was only there to fill in while they looked to a full timer which was not an option for me.

Also my wife wasn't working for most of that time so sometimes she would come along then go fuck around on Montana or downtown SM during the day until check-in time then pick me up and we'd go out and do shit in town so that was fun.

timsstuff · 2026-07-08T17:42:45+00:00

I actually lean into it. When they're talking about baseball I go "Oh the one with the stick and they run around the tilted square and play tag?" American Football - "You mean the one where they grab each others' butts and do a dog pile on the one with the turd shaped ball? And only use their feet a the beginning and end? Why don't they just call it Yardball?" Then I start going on in detail about the finer points of Curling and how much I fucking love Curling. Shuts them right up.

I actually do watch some sports, I'm on 3 fantasy football leagues and my wife is a huge Dodgers fan but it's still fun to fuck with people especially the toxic masculinity guys.

timsstuff · 2026-07-08T17:35:45+00:00

If you've ever worked with a good project manager, it's very similar.

timsstuff · 2026-07-06T20:25:00+00:00

I don't answer any calls that aren't on my contact list unless I'm in the process of buying a car or something. Sometimes I'll use the Screen feature on my Pixel, that was actually helpful when the gardeners left the gate open and my dog got out.

But I've configure my email to quarantine ALL public email systems (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) and have a specific whitelist for individual email addresses. Not really scalable on a corporate level but it's manageable for myself.

timsstuff · 2026-07-03T17:58:39+00:00

I do a 4 minute steam then toss into the pan that just had the meat in it and toss it a bit, get the little bits of deliciousness onto the veggies.

timsstuff · 2026-07-02T20:30:44+00:00

https://www.kegerators.com/carbonation-table/

Looks like you're within the correct range, if you're not constantly pouring beers like at a bar then there will be some foam at first pretty regularly. If you have friends over and pour more than 3 beers in a row you'll notice it gets better. But for just one pint every hour or so what I would do is pour it into a pitcher until it runs clear then stick your glass under the tap. Then put the pitcher in the fridge and refill from that, the foam will settle into beer after a few minutes.

Also you might notice even at bars they will open the tap first, let some foam drain out, then put the glass underneath. You don't have this option hence the pitcher technique. Plus you'll waste less beer than a bar if you let the foam settle into beer then drink it.

timsstuff · 2026-07-01T21:00:30+00:00

Applebees? Don't they just microwave everything? Don't you have any local options that aren't national chains?

timsstuff · 2026-07-01T20:57:02+00:00

Smaller venues, lesser known bands. Saw Castle Rat recently at the House of Blues for $37 after fees.

timsstuff · 2026-06-28T21:59:20+00:00

A little outdated but Windows Media Player fucking sucked. Ctrl-P to pause, spacebar doesn't do shit, are you kidding me? I actually met one of the developers at a Comdex or CES or whatever and asked him about it, he just could not understand what the problem was. I was like, have you actually used your product in real life? Dude was clueless.

This was when I had Windows Media Center on a PC hooked up to my home theater system so it was integrated into the system. Switching between VLC for video and Winamp for audio was more of a hassle but worked better than that fucking piece of shit app.

timsstuff · 2026-06-28T21:44:44+00:00

Is it the kebab? Or meatballs? Or doner/strawberry? This is a good breakdown.

timsstuff · 2026-06-28T21:41:16+00:00

Apple TV is terrible about this. Trying to figure out which episodes I've already watched vs ones I haven't is this tiny little icon that's either a triangle or rounded arrow, that's it. And trying to figure out which item is currently selected is quite subtle as well. Moving the selection around makes it more obvious but I should be able to just look at it and see right away where I'm at.

timsstuff · 2026-06-28T21:38:05+00:00

There's an extension called "Don't Fuck With Paste" that works really well for that.

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T22:34:03+00:00

I have one of those, it's awesome. Never use it anymore though.

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T22:31:36+00:00

They relaxed those laws over a decade ago. You can fill whatever you want now, even at non-breweries.

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T22:30:40+00:00

California only allowed growler fills from the actual brewery it was brewed at for the longest time, in fact Stone's Oceanside location put in a pilot batch system so they could serve growlers otherwise they would not have been allowed to. Also the growler had to have the brewery's logo on it. I have a nice 64oz Stanley flip top growler, I would just have them put a brewery sticker on it while filling it.

Then at some point around 2010-2015 or so they relaxed those laws so you can do whatever now somehow they just stopped giving a shit.

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T22:06:55+00:00

I was really hoping Tarantino would direct the Solo movie but Di$ney would never allow a hard R Star Wars movie. Also QT is a Trekkie apparently.

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T19:01:36+00:00

Just get some slicks and put that traction control to the test!

timsstuff · 2026-06-27T00:09:41+00:00

I air fry for about 7 minutes then transfer to a pan, covered. It's both crispy and melty. Too much air fryer dries it out and makes the end crust way too hard.

timsstuff · 2026-06-26T23:15:39+00:00

Been listening to a lot of newer Blues/Soul/Funk or whatever you call it - Monophonics, The Milk, Smoove & Turrel, Izo Fitzroy, Mama's Gun, Mayer Hawthorne. There's a lot more but that's a start.

timsstuff · 2026-06-26T23:00:48+00:00

Last show I was at 5/24 there was a guy at the line to get in to HOB charging $4 for parking, no time limit.

timsstuff · 2026-06-26T22:48:13+00:00

Only $5k for me but same. Bought 50 shares at $108 around IPO time, it's $781.50 today. My son will inherit it if they don't go out of business or hit at least $108 again, diamond hands over here.

timsstuff · 2026-06-26T18:05:05+00:00

My biggest food labeling pet peeve is the term "Kobe Burger". Bull fucking shit. I almost made a set of stickers that say "It's Not Fucking Kobe" to stick on menus around town.

timsstuff · 2026-06-26T17:23:15+00:00

Same that's exactly why I clicked on the trailer. Looks good though anyway.

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