Favorite album on Sansui Linear Tracking 🤘

Had this vinyl for years without a turntable. Wanted something with some charm/meaning, Dad gave me his vintage/retro turntable recently.

FYI setup is turntable into a cheapo Pyre pre-amp into aux port of Marshall Bluetooth speaker. Nothing special but special to me. This album will never get old.

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 5 days ago

Tank top + button up

Can’t believe it took me this long to realize this combo actually ROCKS

Some work to do to find the perfect undershirt. Neck cut not too low, torso not too long, decent fabric.

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 20 days ago

Boulevardier tweak

Always found Negronis and Boulevardiers too bitter and heavy on the aperitif side. Found the perfect balance with the following:

2oz whiskey
0.5oz Campari
1oz Cocchi vermouth (preferably Antica Formula)

This ratio makes the cocktail hot and prominent with whiskey, sweet, smooth and rich with the vermouth with just the right bitter cut for me.

Give it a try!

Any recos for how to order this at a bar without being annoying?

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 20 days ago

Recording two tracks at once

Every post ive seen had a simple issue like no interface etc. I have a Microphone plugged into input one of a Steinberd UR22 mkII, and a guitar plugged into input 2.

I can only ever hear one at a time in Garage band, and I can only record one at a time in Garage band. How can I record both at the same time?!

Thanks

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 27 days ago

How much to spend

I’ve seen questions on here about staying under a budget etc, that’s not my question. I don’t have a budget per se, but I’ll only be using the detector once.

My girlfriend’s family is selling their cottage later this year which was a bustling Muskoka Hotel/Resort all the back in the late 1800s. I’m sure there’s some cool stuff there.

So my question is: what’s the minimum amount I need to spend to actually be able to find things that are.. maybe 4 inches down and varying materials.

And is a pin pointer more or less necessary given that I’ll only have a few days to look around and will only be doing this once…

I also need it by tomorrow or at least Saturday morning. So Amazon Prime delivery would be ideal..

Edit: seeing on Facebook Marketplace a Minelabs Go Find 66 water proof one, no accessories for $190. Showing retail value of $350.. thoughts on this one?

Thank you!!

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 28 days ago

White Kimchi and Pickles

White Kimchi follows ModernPepper’s recipe on YouTube minus the Plum extract and stevia, I used a bit of honey instead. But paste is fish sauce, ginger, garlic, pear, fermented/salted shrimp, honey, onion, plus white flour paste and lots of water.

Cabbage was salted in quarters for about 10 hours (started at 5am and forgot about it until about 3 am that night) then cut into pieces and mixed/packed with green onion and carrots. Fermentation is super active after 48 hours. Will move to the fridge tomorrow and let it age for a week or so.

Pickles are cucumbers with the tips cut off and soaked in an ice back for 30 mins before packing. Then simply 3 cloves of garlic (went with less this time so it’s not so strong), dill, pepper corns, brown mustard seeds, a bit of white onion all in a 3% brine. This is after 48 hours. Will let it go for another 48 or so then pop em in the fridge. Hoping for good results 🤞

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 1 month ago

Paper Plane variation

Didn’t have Aperol so I substituted 1/2oz Campari and 1/4 sweet Vermouth (Cocchi Storico) and up’d the whiskey (using Bear Face Canadian whiskey here) to 1.25 oz keeping lemon juice at 1oz.

1.25 whiskey
1oz Amaro Nonino
0.5 Campari
0.25 sweet vermouth
1oz Lemon juice

Turned out to be even better (for me) than original Paper Plane recipe. Sweet vermouth adds the depth and sweet roundness I need to balance the lemon juice. 10/10 recommend. Shown as a dirty pour here bc apparently we don’t have any clear coupe or nick and Nora glasses 🤔

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 1 month ago
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Ominous CN Tower

I figure this sub is more for stories rather than just photos but thought this one was pretty cool. Taken from my balcony in Regent Park. No editing at all

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 1 month ago

Trying something new/Loafers

Never work loafers before, but they’re crazy comfortable, are these the right style for me??

Pants were freshly ironed, the corduroy is just prone to wrinkle type marks. Also didn’t have time to hem the pants so inside roll up for today.

Watch would be great but I don’t have one/am currently looking

Thoughts/concerns?

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago
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White Kimchi!!

I’ve been making regular kimchi for a few years now but decided to try white kimchi. And I like it MORE. Of course kimchi is delicious but I find with large batches I almost get flavour fatigue, maybe because I didn’t grow up with it and/or I’m not making Asian/Korean meals all the time so the flavour doesn’t always match what I’m making. But I swear this white Kimchi is so light, so delicious, so clean and it makes this incredible broth. And I’ve found that it’s aged even more dramatically than regular kimchi, 3 weeks in the fridge and it’s gotten so much more delicious and complex.

Go try it now!

Modern Pepper recipe: https://youtu.be/qShpfn1p3ZM?si=WlVf35y\_2JLXGfZX

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago

Atmosphere next to a vacuum

Been thinking about ways to explain this to a flat earth and I think I found a good one.. because I get it, thinking intuitively. It might be confusing as to why you could have air next to space. Here’s my angle:

Imagine a planet floating in space with no atmosphere at all. Imagine then it runs into a single “air molecule”. Because of gravity, that air molecule sticks to the surface now imagine it runs into another air molecule, then another one, then another one until the surface of this planet is covered evenly with one layer of air molecules. No problems so far right? I mean, why would the air molecules have a preference towards the emptiness of space versus the surface of the planet?

Now let’s build the second layer of air molecules, and a third, and a hundred, each one slightly less densely packed than the last and continue this until there hardly any..

It’s the “preference for the emptiness of space” idea I’m trying to work around. “Vacuums don’t suck” to quote professor Dave

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u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago

Parallel rays

Been casually thinking of practical ways to disprove these hilariously idiotic claims. It occurred to me today that, if the sun was close, reflections of sun light would not behave the way they do.

Because sunlight rays are parallel you can take a mirror and even over a long distance the light is reflects will maintain its shape, it’s why you can reflect sunlight to the bottom of a well.

A close sun wouldn’t do that or at least we could visibly see a blurry light spot cast.

Could simulate that easily with a light bulb vs lasers… that is if flat earthers can comprehend the idea of parallel rays at all. Which I’m not too sure about.

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago

White Kimchi

My first time making white kimchi, absolutely unreal. I followed the recipe by ModernPepper on YouTube. It’s got all the lip smacking deliciousness of regular kimchi but without the spice. Plus the prep is a bit different, calls for a lot of water so the result is this insanely delicious brine/broth. I fermented it for about 5 days then put in the fridge and it’s only gotten better and better over the past few weeks.

Highly recommend.

Bonus pic of the huge batch of regular Kimchi I prepped yesterday. We have traditional (big quarter head pieces), chopped version, Asian chive and daikon. Total of about 7lbs of cabbage. Cant wait to try em in a few weeks.

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago
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Gut check on workflow

I’m building an app mostly for a vehicle to learn not necessarily with commercial goals, but wanted to gut check my workflow and if there’s a better way.

I’m using CoWork to directly edit the local files on my machine, then running them in XCode onto my iPhone. I find an issue, whether it be a rendering issue that I screenshot on my phone or an error in the code which I screenshot and load into the chat for CoWork to look at and fix.

This workflow of screenshotting errors and issues, is this the best way? I often get stuck in the classic loop of “Done! It’s all fixed” to which I respond “the issue persists here’s the screenshot”

Wondering if there’s a more efficient want to handle that issue/resolution cycle.

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u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 2 months ago

Kimchi not salty enough

I’ve got some white Kimchi going right now, day 3, fermentation is very active but I tasted it and it’s not salty at all. Wondering if I should take it all out and add salt now before I put it in the fridge for 2 weeks. Or if I should just add salt as needed when I eat it. Would exposing it to air affect the fermentation or will I be okay as long as I press out all the bubbles as usual?

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 3 months ago

Save, Invest or spend?

As of August I will be paying $2,850/month in spousal support for the next 6 years. As of June 15 I will have just finished paying off $38,000 in personal debt, I was paying 1,000/mo for the last 3 years and $2,000/mo for the the last few months to clear that up before I start spousal support.

I’m 38, I have no personal savings or investments to speak of and no real retirement plan since the companies I work for general don’t offer pension (advertising). My monthly financials while paying spousal support will be pretty tight, i will have enough disposable income to enjoy life but won’t really be able to build appreciable savings, or afford vacations really..

Because in Canada/Ontario spousal support is 100% tax deductible I expect to get a good refund every April.

My question is: should I invest that money, just save it as cash or use it to reimburse myself every month so I have higher monthly cash flow just for life?

Rough calculations of investing $14k/yr then continuing to contribute $2850 for two years after spousal support ends shows I could have over $200k. But I’ll be living pretty tight for that entire time.

OR do I take the first two tax refunds, save those for a rainy day, then invest the rest?

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u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 3 months ago

Sharing expenses with partner

Just wanted to share this as it’s been working really well. (This is not an ad/not sponsored lol)

Been using KOHO for like 10 years now (I think it’s Canada only but I’m sure there are many US equivalents. But it’s pretty much solved the issue of shared expenses with my girlfriend.

I make a lot more than her so I think it’s fair to not split things 50/50 so we agreed on 65/35. This would usually be very annoying, asking for reimbursement, or I get this, she gets that. But I got her on to KOHO too, and they let you have a joint account. So we use this joint account for any expenses we want to share. Groceries, meals, bills, rent, you name it. And every two weeks we simply load it up according to that split. Usually keeping it simple at $650/$350

Then we both add the joint accounts virtual card to our Apple wallet. Totally removes the friction from the expense sharing process.

This is different from having a joint bank account because all our income still goes to our individual accounts, we can’t see into each others accounts, and all of these accounts are free.

Anyone else used KOHO or have any other expense splitting approaches that have worked well?

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u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 3 months ago

Ontario Canada Simple Divorce

I know it’s virtually impossible to get solid advice via Reddit, just looking for a gut check.

In lieu of borrowing $25k to go to court and possibly end up paying more for longer. I agreed to pay my ex wife 26.8% of my take home pay for 6 years. We were together for 13, married for 4.5, she was diagnosed with MS, is doing fine but wouldn’t definitely play that card in court, she’s essentially never worked so income would be listed as basically 0. No kids, no house, no investments, no savings. No debt equalization.

I figure this was the smartest move since I just got a new job where I make significantly more than when we split 3 years ago, so to avoid having to disclose my new financials I’m just saying f it, pay the 27% for 6 years and be done with it. No lawyers, no court.

She gets legal rep for free via Legal Aid Ontario, so they’re drafting everything up now. Will have a pro review it before I sign.

She’s asking for the mid amount according to the spousal support calculator on the Ontario govt website.

Thoughts?

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u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 3 months ago

Update tucked in

Better I think but still cringing at this colour combo unfortunately. Will do one more button up on the shirt too.

u/Ok-Strength-9129 — 3 months ago