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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • My current hope is to have an induction/gas mix one day. Boiling and simmering and so on are just so much more efficient with induction, but I need to move and slide around my saute pans a lot. This creates two problems.

    First is needing to learn a new cooking style since most induction cooktops either can’t transmit heat very fast vertically, or turn themselves off if they detect the pan isn’t in sufficient contact with the cooktop.

    Second is worries I have about the durability of induction cooktops, again with regards to the same sliding and slamming (not too hard, but still) around that happens. Scratches, or even worse, cracks, depending on the exact surface of the induction top would be a huge pain.

    An unrelated problem that someone has already pointed out is woks. I have a ridiculous outdoor wok burner already though, that at least solves the indoor air quality problem, at the cost of me hating the summer a little.



  • Am a programmer, with no real medical knowledge, but I almost laughed out loud in a theater watching a CPR scene once. The person was giving the tiniest little chest compressions you can imagine, standing straight up with their arms out straight in front of them and only really moving like, their forearms. To an adult recipient.



  • I’ve been extremely happy with the Nikkor 200-500 5.6, especially with a 1.4x teleconvertor. I see the lens on mpb.com for around $900 if you can stretch that much.

    That lens is just barely hand holdable, but I’d go ahead and grab a monopod (I have the Benro MSD46C SupaDupa, and it’s great but I’m not 100% in love with it, I’d see what’s good on the market this year if I were you) and the Wimberly MH-100 gimbal head. Smallest/lightest/cheapest gimbal head ever, but absolutely capable in every way. This combo works shockingly well for me in almost all circumstances tbh, haven’t felt a real need to upgrade it in any way yet.