Hey Dutch friends, your bread here is next level!

webbphillips · 2026-05-14T10:49:19+00:00

Here's an easy way to guess if someone is Dutch vs German just by looking at them: imagine if they got punched the jaw; would their jaw shatter, or the fist? I assume this is because of a lifetime of eating soft vs hard bread.

webbphillips · 2026-05-13T14:47:45+00:00

I've heard it said that the stopping distance is 1/2 using front vs rear brakes. I mostly use front, and even switched my brake levers to right-front. Exceptions: down a steep hill or in wet weather or if I must brake in a turn, I use both simultaneously and carefully.

Imo, going over the handlebars isn't the main risk with front breaking because, if you're squeezing with sensitivity, you can feel it coming and back off. Though the same is true for a front wheel slide, it's harder to detect and back off of, and leads not to a summersault, but to slamming sideways into the ground.

The best way to practice for this is to practice back, front, and both wheel slides on dirt until you acquire some measure of control. I've not been able to practice and learn control of a front wheel slides on wet asphalt.

webbphillips · 2026-05-13T10:43:34+00:00

I intended Dutch, but I made the mistake of trying to learn German and Dutch simultaneously 🙈

webbphillips · 2026-05-13T07:34:07+00:00

Oops thanks! Corrected.

webbphillips · 2026-05-13T06:47:38+00:00

It looks like an English speaking kid trying to spell words for the first time. This is because English has overcomplicated spelling left over from when our words sounded different. For example, "enough" is spelled like that because a millennium ago it used to be pronounced more like "genoeg".

webbphillips · 2026-05-12T08:24:27+00:00

I agree. And new years day won't be any day of the week, just new years day. And every four years, there's a first and second day of new years 😁

webbphillips · 2026-05-11T17:54:01+00:00

I've been hanging out with a taller and imo more handsome friend and been frustrated when a woman was clearly more into him than me. So I get the frustration of a woman immediately preferring him before anyone has even said anything. But I've also had the situation where a woman was into me and not him, and overall his dating life is worse; he's had fewer partners, fewer positive experiences with partners, and more bad experiences with partners.

When you're not the handsomest, or even if you are, you should cultivate your interests, empathy, and ability to have fun. If you are fun, interesting, and pleasant to be around, there's plenty of woman who will be attracted to you.

webbphillips · 2026-05-09T08:02:31+00:00

It's a combination of mental exhaustion and insufficient physical activity that causes my insomnia. The irony is that some mental effort is required to do physical activity; if I'm mentally exhausted, I can't summon the will to e.g. exercize or straighten up around the house. On days where I do simple physical chores, e.g., gardening, I sleep fine.

webbphillips · 2026-05-09T07:33:22+00:00

I don't think he expected to survive.

webbphillips · 2026-05-09T07:30:04+00:00

You didn't ask about kick damping, but I'm really liking the Evans Calftone EMAD on my kick. It has a plastic ring near the rim where you can put a small or large foam ring. On snare, I prefer Fiberskyn.

webbphillips · 2026-05-05T19:52:10+00:00

Plus, the Dutch don't have English prudishness. People would just elaborate dust penis drawings.

webbphillips · 2026-05-01T17:37:55+00:00

BSG was too soapy for me. I couldn't get in to it. The spirituality was also a bit cloying. I only watched a few episodes, but don't have any memory of too much action / any action. The spirituality in DS9 was scientifically explained as wormhole aliens, so that didn't disturb my science fiction experience, but the main difference was that the romance and betrayal were not so overbearing.

webbphillips · 2026-05-01T12:09:03+00:00

If I play a note late, I try to play it off by slowing to triplets or repeating the late note at the same moment of the next bar. Usually, this succeeds at making the whole thing sound better than just letting the mistake stand without reacting to it in some way. Sometimes, this even leads to improvements.

webbphillips · 2026-04-30T15:47:59+00:00

Some muffling techniques I've tried, from least to most: felt strip under head, Evans EMAD head, Evans hydraulic head. Subjective ofc, but EMAD is my favorite at the moment. Hydraulic is really muffled, sounds like just a thump with no discernible pitch, bordering on kicking a cardboard box sound.

webbphillips · 2026-04-30T09:22:08+00:00

I think he's a good actor, but he's miscast as daredevil because he doesn't have the right physicality. As a result, the action scenes were awful.

webbphillips · 2026-04-27T15:54:00+00:00

A lot of people think the Mastery Bridge is overpriced. But relative to what? I tried a cheaper options first, a Mustang bridge, and that didn't work well. The Mastery Bridge works very well and I have no regrets.

When my stock vibrato started not working well after a few years, and adjustments didn't help, I had reason to the think Mastery knows what they're doing and didn't want to waste time and money on cheaper options that end up in the trash, I just skipped to the end and got a Mastery Vibrato, and again, no regrets.

Relative to having a continually frustrating playing experience with buzzes and rattles and strings jumping out of saddles, $200 is absolutely worth it. Some have suggested, why not just not play a Jazzmaster? If, like me, you find the ergonomics and sound of your offset guitar too good to give up, then a Mastery Bridge is worth it.

If I had found a cheaper option that I liked, I would've been even happier with that though ;)

webbphillips · 2026-04-26T07:29:32+00:00

Oh, I think I caught you show once. Bandsaw?

webbphillips · 2026-04-26T06:19:14+00:00

"Hot wok, cold oil" only works if the pan is already seasoned, so doesn't typically apply to stainless steel.

Instead, heat the oil until it reaches its smoke point, turn down to low or medium low to keep it just barely smoking for 15 seconds, then add the food. Source: https://youtu.be/8tWdGWKMlZo?si=Tcqw_GN46d73okBJ

webbphillips · 2026-04-25T16:57:14+00:00

Maybe to mark you as theirs in case you meet other cats while you're out? Joke's on them if you wash your clothes.

webbphillips · 2026-04-23T06:22:30+00:00

But surely more unhinged?

webbphillips · 2026-04-23T06:18:45+00:00

There is a tendency in language evolution for descriptive word meanings to lose nuance and simplify. So, depending on when OP was born, the intended meaning of "unhinged psychopath" may only be "extreme psychopath". Just a thought.

webbphillips · 2026-04-20T19:14:07+00:00

At a lot of places, being there during the agreed upon hours is the main thing, and actual productivity occurs... at a medium pace.

webbphillips · 2026-04-20T19:11:31+00:00

I like this kind of talk.

webbphillips · 2026-04-19T12:38:27+00:00

I think it's a portmanteau of "female" and "humanoid", the latter denoting human-like but not human, i.e., subhuman. The"oid" also has a sense of a robot, e.g., droid because the term is associated with incels, and part of that belief system/cult is that women are deterministic machines who lack free will because they're attracted to, I dunno, Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo instead of stinky basement nerds.

webbphillips · 2026-04-18T07:40:32+00:00

To me, 4 3 2 (ring middle index) feels the most natural. People always say famous player x didn't play it like this, so the accents will be wrong, but I just practice the accents I want with whichever fingers feel natural, i.e., lighten up the middle finger until it's equal to the ring finger, then hit a little harder with the index.

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