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  1. Spoony Rice

    Spoony Rice Member

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    Walked around Comic con today and I saw Markiplier and a couple seconds after saw Orlando Jones walk into a hotel. I've never been to comic con but if I can see celebrities walking the streets, I'll be coming next year too
     
  2. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    My perennial faves are:

    Hiatus Kaiyote
    Taylor McFerrin (at least his Early Riser album)
    Thundercat
    Squarepusher
    Pink Floyd
    Flying Lotus
    Boards of Canada

    Of these, Hiatus... though they are technically a neo-funk band, have very diverse styles in their songs I like. Flying Lotus' early stuff is purposefully thematically loose as he didn't really find his sound until later albums (which I didn't like as much)... and Boards changed styles over albums rather than thru themes within. I listen to all of these in two or more playlists almost everyday, though.

    My first real taste of Early Riser, came right before going to Japan summer of last year. It'd been more than 20 yrs away (due to career, moving, recession, etc.) so I wanted to mark the trip with some music that made calmed yet stimm'd me. Playing this music in ear monitors while I walked through a country with a vastly different cultural beat than the one I was raised in, but still remained close to the core of me... was weird. And thus I remember the beats of Hokkaido and its people and colors of life, sifted and filtered through this album -- and found resonances that were astonishing. It quite wonderfully, matched up well with the circumstance of an ex-patriate revisiting a long-lost bin of Japanese memories in-situ... which is apt when you actually listen to it there. ;)
     
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  3. marioworldakb

    marioworldakb Under Girls Stage48 Donor

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    Taking a break from stage until some time next month cuz I got to catch up some papers and got a pretty heavy schedule from my part time job ToT

    Sharing some of my sources for 48/46 matome news which I usually post on the forum.

    Hope some of you guys can make use of it and help spread more useful and proper information around to make the community a better place for discussions.

    (Lurking mode on)

    General 48/46 news:
    http://an48.net/
    https://twitter.com/an48net
    https://twitter.com/AKB48GNEWS
    https://twitter.com/akb48memo

    48/46 TV, Concerts, Live, Stage snippets (Some h-core wotas):
    https://twitter.com/yu_ki_48_mk2
    https://twitter.com/keikeikei9

    48G SR matome:
    https://twitter.com/AKB48GV

    AKB mobile matome:
    https://twitter.com/AKB48Mobile

    NGT SR matome:
    https://twitter.com/sr_ngt_48

    NGT Photolog:
    https://twitter.com/NGT48photolog2

    STU news matome:
    https://twitter.com/stu48antenna
    https://twitter.com/stu48akb
    https://twitter.com/stu48matomeblog

    BUBKA magazine:
    https://twitter.com/BUBKA_henshuubu

    UTB magazine:
    https://twitter.com/wani_UTB

    BLT magazine:
    https://twitter.com/BLTTV

    EX Taishu magazine:
    https://twitter.com/EXtaishu

    BOMB magazine:
    https://twitter.com/idol_bomb

    AKB48 LOD filming staff:
    https://twitter.com/AKB48_LODstaff

    Hosoi Takahira (AKB Theater Manager):
    https://twitter.com/taka_hos

    Scramble Egg Chief Editor (Random useful news):
    https://twitter.com/s_egg

    If you feeling adventurous I suggest you dive in 2ch itself lol
    http://carpenter.2ch.net/akbsaloon/

    Feel free to add the list
     
  4. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    Phew -- okay, busy weekend. Sat = my friend's Element, today sealed the deal on my mother's new used Camry. :yikes:[hehe]

    Looks like the Element was just low on trans fluid... but for a long time, probably a few years. A bit of metal flake in the fluid, but nothing coming apart, thank goodness. Performed a fluid swap in his driveway... and lo and behold, crisp shifting again. While under there, though... found his end links and suspension bushings were fried -- that's a trip to a shop as I don't have the tools to do it. So tune in next weekend (or whenever his parts come in) for part 3 of this saga...

    Camry -- not really my mom's favorite color (black EDIT: green, missed that I created this post before I knew which Camry was the One), but it was pretty sano in all other respects. No smoker, no kids, medium miles with good highway use, good records of all repairs, no wrecks, single owner... even the price was quite fair for a Camry. Checked what I could see -- and the stuff that was replaced was all OEM Toyota parts (with Toyota, going with the OEM stuff is pricier but a *lot* less headache as the parts are of higher quality and last longer 90% of the time).

    So far so good. Took it on a test drive... good power (though I don't have anything to compare it to but my V6 Accord), no funny noises or evidence of bait-n-switch tactics. Suspension just had new struts installed all around but the anti-roll bar bushings in back needed swapping, minor quibble. Tires were Michelins, good stuff. Little bit of parking lot dings but the optional body side moulding protected from most of them. The trunk floor cover was a bit ratty, and the accessory belts and battery needed changing. Seats were leather but not terribly well-cared for (understandable, as the owner had a limp). But everything was acceptably clean and not at all abused. Settled on a price... showed up with cash ;)... and it worked. She even threw in two new tires... but since they were a brand I didn't care for, she relented even more on the price to have me take them away. :p Her kids all drove Audis and BMWs so none wanted a green, OEM-stock Camry. Well, hopefully my mom will appreciate it enough to take care of it. Who am I kidding? :rolleyes:

    So... after replacing the belts and battery today, my mother got a look at her new car. She hated the color. I told her I hated car shopping for her. That seemed to end the argument. I need to get the suspension and trunk floor squared away, and she can have at it. It has a BT feature I need to teach her how to use... if she actually listens to me about anything more tech-advanced than her pocket slot machine game. :fp: Then go about seeing how much the salvage yard will take for her present, reamed-out car... :(:chuffed:
     
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  5. Astro48

    Astro48 Upcoming Girls

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  6. Samara Morgane

    Samara Morgane Member

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    Feeling like dropping this here:

    if the video does not show watch the video here
    I love Nookie's voice!Her english prononciation is bad here but I like the performance!I'm fan of her band Slot so I was surprise when I found this!
    Dead Stars is my favorite song of Slot!

    if the video does not show watch the video here
     
  7. CutePanda

    CutePanda Next Girls

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    UFC 214 !!!!!!!!


    if the video does not show watch the video here
     
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  8. nobodywil

    nobodywil Upcoming Girls

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    This rematch would have been better two years ago. But Jones isn’t the same fighter anymore. Especially after Jones couldn't even dominate a one-armed OSP. On paper, Jones wins 99 out of 100 fights between the two. But this 1 fight, DC could be tonight's lime light stealer. Heel DC :awesome:


    I'm actually more interested in watching Robbie vs Cowboy. In a perfect world, this would be the Main Event (with or without a title) of any PPV and Free Card. I want them both to steal the whole F'n show and take home some bonuses. :1st:
     
  9. CutePanda

    CutePanda Next Girls

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    i like Jon Jones fight and hope he could dominate DC in this fight. 3 title fights in UFC 214.....hope they live up to the expectation.
     
  10. nobodywil

    nobodywil Upcoming Girls

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    The only man that can beat Jon Jones is Jon Jones... If DC wins, it's not because he's the best... it's because Jones isn't "100%".

    If Jones wins... I will be laughing my A$$ off... Its a lose lose for DC either way. :awesome:
     
  11. CutePanda

    CutePanda Next Girls

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    as long as Jon Jones dont do those illegal knees to the head on a grounded opponent or illegal elbow...he will win the belt tonight :lol:

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  12. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    Ongoing vehicle-tech-doing-car-maint-for-friends-&-fam saga:

    My non-mechanical buddy's Element's parts haven't all come in yet... so decided to see what else might need fixed while we had the downtime.

    Took it for a little drive as we needed to get started early anyway... and while driving noted that it pulled a bit to the left when braking for a light. Repeatable and consistent. Also, I don't know how much more sensitive I am to how a car drives due to my background... but the loose suspension bushings were so distracting driving this thing around, I couldn't imagine NOT feeling something was wrong... but like I said, when you know how things work, you tend to notice stuff the ignorant will consider normal.

    However the left-pull seemed not to come from the suspension, but from the brakes. So after we grabbed some Costco dogs and got home... I got the Element on jackstands and pulled the left front wheel, then unbolted the brake caliper. But drawing a finger across the inside of the brake rotor, confirmed my fears: there was metal-to-metal contact beginning to dig grooves into the rotor, but still some pad left so it didn't squeak. I asked Non-Mech-Bud if he'd heard a shrill squeak sometime in the past year. "Yeah, actually it was really annoying and I was gonna get it in the dealer to fix it... but it went away, so didn't get it looked at". :fp: Lesson learned -- he needs both front brake rotors and pads now, and may as well get the rear ones with pads too. Luckily brake wear items are some of the cheapest things you can swap on a Honda, thank God (not that I cared about the cost -- he's paying for all of it upfront).

    The Element may be a bit ugly... but man is it versatile. Super-roomy inside, no B-pillars so access to the interior is as good from the sides as from the rear, and the back seats fold into the side walls so the whole space can be used for cargo or camping. It really is the clever and functional crossover version of the Accord (which the stupid and ill-fated Crosstour was absolutely NOT). Plus, you can pick up a lo-mile loved one these days for ~$10K... $5K of mods into one, and you have a crossover that can out-accelerate a Z-car and keep up with it on a twisty road... have AWD and enough off-road ability for light trails... and enough interior room to sleep inside it while camping, or transport a washer and dryer in it, upright. I don't know any other car that offers all these abilities in one car/SUV for this cheap -- which is why I still want one. :hehe:
     
  13. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    Awake due to my wife's just caught a cold... and her coughing is keeping me up. :^^;:

    A quick chronicle of my week...

    -- people who hate natto. Now, I can sympathize with those that hate natto smell, as well, it's not supposed to be eaten like that (hence, the packets of sauce and mustard in the container). But there's no reason to hate it, just because you don't know how to use those condiments...

    Most people just dribble the sauce/mustard on, mix it a bit, then try to eat it. This insures you get the max amt of skunkiness from the slime. The solution is so simple: take both packet contents out over your natto. Mix rapidly, until the sauce and mustard create a kind of foam -- makes sure all the beans are covered in the foam -- no shiny beans showing. That way you know it's mixed well. Should be fine like latte foam of even finer. Scoop a bit of this foamy natto into your natto-hating pie hole...

    Not only is the harsh, dishrag-like smell/taste of the natto gone... but the flavors kind of become creamy, mild, subtle even. This works with even the cheapest natto. I don't even use the mustard anymore, and substitute ponzu for the packet sauce. If you choose this method, only use about a TBS of ponzu -- too much will drown the slime and it won't make foam. No extra ingredients, no drowning the natto in crap that negates its healthy nutrients. No excuse. ;)

    -- these Oreo-like flavor options for macadamia nuts. Uh, NOT what this 5th-gen Local grew up with. Seriously, *SPAM* macadamia nuts got signed off by your board of directors? :yikes::tongue:

    -- Amazon's stock price just dropped Jeff Bezos out of the richest man in the world spot. Well, maybe the entire state of Hawaii found out his company doesn't include ship Prime to it, Alaska, and PR -- as in vendors can now charge as much or more than the product to get unobtainables from the mainland. :tongue:[hehe]

    -- there can be as many as 100 billion brown dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Brown dwarves are between stars and planets in size, lacking the mass for gravity to start fusion in their cores. That 100G number rivals the number of luminous stars, and is apparently significantly underestimated. Can this account for some of the lost matter in the universe attributed to dark matter? Possibly, but not completely. :shocku:
     
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  14. CutePanda

    CutePanda Next Girls

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    if the video does not show watch the video here
     
  15. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    Just got a kick in the balls today, regarding my mother's Acura and the shop I was going to have it worked at...

    It was going to be $2900, to fully bring this Acura back into roadworthy, decent condition, mechanically. Aesthetically, it was pretty solid still, since it had low miles and was always garaged. This included parts... or so I thought.

    For those of you who know about car repair and maintenance (not too sure if this board has many of them, but I don't know): if your shop labor rate is $100/hr, which is reasonable for any competent, well-liked shop... then this list of work is a full 29 hrs of labor @$100/hr:

    Engine mount (1.0hrs),
    rear suspension bushings (5.0 x 2),
    rear swaybar end links (1.0 x 2),
    front ball joints (1.0 x 2),
    front bushings (3.0 x 2),
    front swaybar end links (1.0 x 2),
    radiator/coolant swap (1.5),
    power steering flush (1.5),
    accessory belt swap (1.5)

    None of these flat rate times are unreasonable, though many of them a seasoned tech can do in half the FR time or less. Since I didn't understand I had to also pay for the parts (~$600), I wanted to see if the owner would cut a bit of slack on the labor. He said unfortunately times are tough and he can't budge on FR for anyone... and judging by the state of things at other shops I talked to... this isn't ego or greed talking.

    So the actual bottom line is $3500. Well... they say every windfall you get (the great deal on the neighbor's Element)... you eventually pay for. :^^;:
    Looks like things are going to be pay-in-advance this year. :whistle:
     
  16. karles48

    karles48 Member Stage48 Donor

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    This site is amazing!! :awesome:
    https://es.lyricstraining.com/ja/search?qry=AKB48
    Choose a song and a level (from beginner to expert), press 'Play', press 'Quizás en otro momento' ('Maybe later')...and try to write the right words. A great way to practice!
    PS: this is the Spanish version. I guess there is another for English, but this is the site i get by default.
     
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  17. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    ^ This is the Eng ver: https://lyricstraining.com/ja/search?qry=AKB48

    --

    Mom's Acura: so I talked to the owner of the shop yesterday... people here aren't known for being open to negotiation as their attitude is "if you don't like it, go somewhere else" sort of insular arrogance typical of an island business. As I threatened to pull the whole job if there wasn't some negotiation though, reality (negative Yelp review, crappy economy) eventually did seep into some skulls... I was impressed, as normally these hayseeds tend to fatally stick to their 'principles' on reflex, even if they lose business. Never make it with any real competition, as on the mainland or a bigger city. :glare:

    Anyhow, I chose to do the smaller jobs by myself, and left them the big suspension work I didn't have the equipment for... which saved 12 of those 29.5 labor hours -- meaning 17.5 hrs, or fully half. Also got them to sign off on axles for free since the suspension would be off already, which'd be another 1.5 hrs @ normally. So new total = $2100 -- far more reasonable than $3500, which is half its current worth unfixed. Could get more if things went sour (wife also knows this business), but since butting heads the shop owner and I both want to play nice, which is a relationship I may need in the future... finding an ally in an automotive shop around here is not something to be flippant about. I'll give him business through my wife's contacts for good measure...

    Element: I got to the credit union today and withdrew the agreed on price while the owner was on the phone... by 5pm I was the proud new owner of a cherry green 2011 Honda Element with 38K mi -- you read that right, a 6-yo car with less than 40K. Coincidentally, I got to see what my neighbor'd replaced the Element with -- a 2018 Honda Ridgeline, fresh with paper tags. We went for a spin -- they're really nice inside, and there's no comparing the Element's stock 2.4L 170-bhp engine with the Ridgeline's 3.5L V6 with 110 more bhp -- it was a rocket. Well... until I get my mods in, anyway. :hehe:
     
  18. David61

    David61 Under Girls Stage48 Donor

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    Last night I was at the World Athletics Championships in London for the 100m Final. After the race I took these photos of Gatlin and Bolt, as you can see they had rather different receptions from the crowd and the media!

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  19. stormy

    stormy Kenkyuusei

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    Since a young age, being 'burdened' by a brain that processed the world differently... I've always been able to sense changes in the environment around me. Understanding what this meant, by neurotypical parents (as well as rather generally ignorant, in hindsight)... led to some rather heated arguments between generation gap / parent vs. child / neuro vs. ASD extremes... resulting in my first suicide attempt at age 16. The rift, again in hindsight... was mostly one of tolerance vs. intolerance, of my attempts to communicate my world to those who not only refused to, but virtually could never, perceive it as I did.

    One great gift of serendipity I was able to enjoy years ago, was studying Rinzai Zen Buddhism with some great teachers. These teachers were enlightened, which is a term I still don't fully understand -- and am not expected to. But the aspect I recognized most in their method of teaching Zen, was to a person, economy of words. There are no neurotic, motor-mouth Zen masters. Instead, they stress shutting up and watching closely, to what's going on around you, *now*. And their perspectives on the world were the first real encounter in my young life (at the time)... of other human beings that seemed to see what I saw, felt what I felt... yet did not have the interpersonal fetters or extreme sensitivity to anxiety I'd carried as a yoke all my life.

    But it wasn't until I began to train in bodywork... that these teachings had any resonance within me.

    There's something about putting your hands on a person's body... and changing it so the client can walk when she could not, hug when he could not, dance when she could not. There's an assumption that I was in no way exempt from, that when you work a body, you do the manipulation, the body receives it and obeys commands. I have to stress with the greatest emphasis possible, this can't be further from the truth. But in the beginning, it was a realization as distant from me, as chickens from T-Rexes...

    You have to work bodies to 'get' this, my father taught me. This was one of two skills this quite arrogant and insecure man transmitted beautifully to me, as a father should, to a son. The rest he was perpetually dismal and dismissive about... but driving a manual transmission automobile, and deep-tissue bodywork, were the gifts he bestowed closest to properly, to offset his bumbling, self-medicated course through the china shop of my childhood. Both skills, not surprisingly, used the same method of teaching: the Chinese tech device owner's manual method -- the utter basics, then reply to all questions with 'figure it out yourself'. While it dredged up and peeled back the scabs of old wounds... the one thing it forced, was to try everything to see what worked. And that drove the development of my technique -- which quickly diverged so far from my father's style, he was no longer able to critique it by any other measure than final results. And apparently, by the fourth year or so, I'd been getting more than a fair share of those...

    However... where he had me in this I-didn't-ask-for-this-but-whatever competition that grew between us... was his ability to sense conditions in his clients that I could not. Was it experience? That meant my time in those waters were a long ways away. But there was no doubt, I was missing something in the technique. And just like my father's style of teaching, it wasn't going to give me any answers free of seeking.

    I remember that week. Jammed with clients, but I couldn't seem to satisfactorily get the work to 'set'. Why wasn't my work being received by these bodies like they were only a month ago? Where'd I derail? Obsessing with the basics, combing for missed connections, none. My ASD-enabled spatial 'holodeck', useless to help. All of the technique was correct. What else was there?

    That question burned. I was short and terse with the weight of that sentence behind my eyes and on my chest, for days. I remember thinking, Jesus Christ... all this way, to trip up on one question? Is this the end of my road at this gig? I contemplated looking for hotel jobs the next morning, as everyone does here on this stupid rock. The next day, I had a whopper of a client -- a full 2hrs to work out her issues, sweat pouring into my eyes. The question was oddly, not burning as much as pulsing. Her arm was sore from a misaligned, stubborn elbow joint... and then, with some mechanism...


    I knew the answer to the question.


    I went to bed that night, reeling... still standing in an ankle-deep pool of realization, thousands of utterly silent, featureless, but perfectly reflective miles in every direction. While working the next client that morning, the words finally came: no one can tell you the answer to your question, because the answer can't be told to you... it has to be experienced. And with that, a huge cold shudder rattled down my back and blew out a knee... as this was what Roshi and other masters I'd read about, stated with absolute clarity. There's another language that wisdom speaks in... and that client was the one who brought it out in me at last.

    Since that day... I've been able to add notes in the margins of that chapter, but the next is as yet not satisfied that I harbor the conditions for it to be. I don't know how you'll get to your moment of doubt, wrestle on the mud floor of your hut the entire night with it... until at once it touches your thigh, and suddenly... someone, somewhere, decides to burst your bubble of contemplation, and leave you standing alone and nude, in a strange, larger universe.

    Well... all I have to add to your realization, should you endeavor to have one, is... for fuck's sake, cover your junk... then come down from that mountain, no one lives up there. ;)
     
  20. marioworldakb

    marioworldakb Under Girls Stage48 Donor

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    Japan is being hit by typhoon 5 straight up

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