Lights get stuck
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Lights get stuck

We got these really really cool pool lights that looks so cool when they're floating around but they always end up stuck around the skimmer.

I would like to put a little guard around it somehow but I don't want to restrict any water flow into the skimmer or restrict any debris from getting into the skimmer but I don't want my little lights getting stuck.

Any thoughts?

u/mikeinstlouis — 2 days ago

Improve my piano playing while not at the piano

I asked chat GPT what I can do to improve my piano skills, sight reading, anything that I can do while I'm just sitting around looking at my phone. Maybe read a book on music theory or just look at sheet music and the recommendation it gave me was complete ear training app. I got the app and I looked at it and I don't know if this is really going to help me.

Is there any evidence to say that this is really going to make me a better piano player and better sight reader? I'm at a level where I'm starting piano adventures level 5 if that puts into perspective where I am. I just didn't see how determining whether something's a perfect fourth or perfect fifth is going to help me. I hope that makes sense. Does anybody have any recommendations of something that I can do while just sitting around looking at my phone? Or is this a good app to use. I don't plan on playing in a band or anything or improvising I just want to be able to be sheet music and play classical music.

Thanks

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u/mikeinstlouis — 6 days ago

I can't find a phenomenal live TV streaming site

This weekend I found a site that I believe might have been Russian but had all the United States TV channels. Everything from Turner classic movies to the weather channel and I can't find the damn thing! Looking everywhere in my history but I still can't find it.

I'm looking for Paramount Plus right now. Anyone know any streaming sites where I can stream this? Thank you all!

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u/mikeinstlouis — 29 days ago

Videochat Scam?

Why does it seem every time I go on an app that people want to immediately videochat? I have heard somehow they can get your contacts list on Facebook and threaten to send everybody the videochat unless you give them money.

Am I just being over cautious or why is it everybody wants to video chat right off the bat and what are the scammers doing when I video chat with them? Also how are they getting people's contact lists and their phone and on Facebook?

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u/mikeinstlouis — 2 months ago

Negative Reddit Trolls?

I know this has been asked before but I can't get a good answer for it. What do you call the person who posts on people's questions trying to make them feel stupid or belittling them? For example, there was a poster who asked what to do while trying to speak Spanish with someone like a server and they reply in English? Anyone who's learned a foreign language understands that this is a real phenomenon that happens all the time. Of course some idiots had to reply, while not even answering the question, things like well the waiter's not your monkey in a circus they don't have to perform for you,.. and another one said something like well you should leave them a good tip and go pay someone else to speak Spanish with.

It was a simple question but they always have these stupid answers that sound like they're trying to make themselves seem better than everybody else and put the original poster down. I've seen the word troll but I think dickhead may be more in order. Does anybody have any idea what these people are called? Another example is that some dickhead may write Google it or something like that. I think the sense of an anonymaty gives losers who have nothing else in life going for them a chance to make themselves better.

There's got to be a name for these people.

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u/mikeinstlouis — 2 months ago

I hate to say it but I think I'm done with weight watchers

I'm a physician and I lost 50 lb on weight watchers and encouraged all of my patients to join weight watchers but I can't do that anymore. The 0 points are killing me. It makes no sense logically that I can go have scrambled eggs and chicken breasts and stuff like that and still have 28 points left for the rest of my day. The calories puts me way over the weight limit. People say oh there's zero foods they're meant to be eaten in moderation blah blah blah but weight watchers gives you no guardrails for what moderation is. They just say eat a little bit of it. That's not working for me I need structure and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way but weight watchers you just lost another member. You need to fix this.

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u/mikeinstlouis — 3 months ago

I plan on moving to the Clearwater Beach down to Treasure Island area in the next year year and a half. I was given a recommendation for a real estate agent who has since changed companies and I'm not really sure if he is the best one for me. Can someone give me a recommendation on who to talk to, what company I should be working with to get a condo that's right on the water? I understand that it's a special knowledge to be able to do this and I don't know if the new guy that I have been working with has this knowledge. I guess I could ask him how many condos have you closed but does anybody have any idea how I should be looking so I can get my dream place.

Once again I am looking for a beach condo, one right on the water. I think it's a little bit different than looking for a house so I was wondering if anyone had any specific recommendations for beach condo real estate agents.

Thank you

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u/mikeinstlouis — 4 months ago

I have a 33 megabyte PDF file that does have some pictures in it that I'm trying to convert to an EPUB or something that I could read on my phone. The great Calibre has always been a colossal fail when I have tried this before so now I'm coming here. It gets stuck at 1% and I don't know what to do like I said I don't know 33 megabytes is a long but it kind of gets stuck and it's useless. I've read that maybe converted to another format and then to a knee pub but I just want to keep the integrity of the book so I can read it on my phone

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u/mikeinstlouis — 4 months ago