For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
Bad day to be into computers
I dunno the inner workings of Walmart? Been here for over a decade and I’ve held a few positions of authority within.
Been here for over a decade
My deepest condolences.
Like an American Walmart? Like in the US?
So: Do they really sell guns or is that a meme? Or is that a red state thing? Because I don’t think I saw any in the walmarts around me.
They used to. Most Walmarts now only sell a limited selection of shells, like 12 gauge, and some rifle cartridges meant mainly for hunting.
Afaik, no store in the company sells actual firearms anymore. We have a selection of airsoft guns though.
My Walmart sells guns. The one closest to my kid’s in Arkansas does too.
Is that why it’s named AR-Kansas?
It’s the same as Kansas but they sell AR’s in walmart.LOL, I highly doubt that. Shopped guns in AR Walmarts. They only sell hunting-style kinda stuff. No pistols, nothing “scary”.
(I’m probably missing the joke. 🙄)
Depends on the community I guess. It’s not a red state thing as I’m in one and it’s hit or miss whether you’ll see guns in Walmart.
Work: Chemical engineering, activated carbon (especially production), membrane filtration and high pressure boiler systems (shoutout @Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world).
Non-work: Moonshine making, Festival organizing (quit two years ago), plumbing, carpentry and general home improvement.
The few, the proud, the usually seated, the stationary engineering people.
very interesting areas of expertise! Any interesting stories you have? Organizing a festival is such a huge undertaking.
Festival organizing is obviously a lot of work, even for smaller festivals like we did (think a big tent with 1500 guests and a few artists and dj’s). Since most of the work is done beforehand, we usually had it quite chill on the festival days. So we always took our times, hung out backstage with the artists and always had a buffet going there. Most artists loved being with us, because usually they would just get an assigned dressing room and a stage time. We loved doing this, because we got to hang out with the artists. So, amateur tip; if you organize a festival, hire bar personnel for the festival day and have a good time.
Sounds fun! Well deserved for all the effort that goes into it.
I was a citizen of the internet before the www started.
Same. Internet was for usenet, e-mail and irc.
Telecommunications network operation
You and me both mate.
Picture related
Wireless telecoms is no better. Out installation on the right, the competitions on the left.
High pressure boiler systems.
Ah ha, my moment to brag about it:
90% of Lemmy are Westerners, I probably know about Chinese Languages than most here. (Except a few users like @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world, they probably know it better)
I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin and kinda understand Taishanese (台山話）(Taishan not Taiwan)
I can read basic Chinese characters, type Pinyin and Jyutping. Can’t write on paper tho, idk how to recall it from memory, but I can recognize it if someone else wrote it down.
(But don’t ask me to teach you lol, I only went to grade 2, not exactly a pro at it, I lack the vocabulary)
Btw: I watched some youtube videos about foreign visitors to China, and um… their tones are kinda off, like waayyy off. Even people who’ve been there for like 10 yeats still have the tones being kinda wrong. (Its very hard, probably impossible if you didn’t grow up used to the difference in tones.)
Good brag👍
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Hum, I’d say probably drawing technique. Since it feels like the majority of the lemmy denizens are still tech people, my skills are enough to be above average. Our artist community is growing, so I’m happy for that, and hoppefully it fills the fediverse with more OC! :)
Always appreciate your artistic contributions - can’t stress it enough :)
Are you self-taught or did you go to art school or something similar?
Thank you very much, dear mod. ( ꈍᴗꈍ) I did both sort of, I studied graphic design, and we had some traditional art training there. after I graduated I studied in the university of youtube haha I actually honed in my skills there.
That’s so cool! I wish there were more artistic jobs people can express themselves in.
It’s a skill to know how to teach yourself, I feel like. :) It’s obviously good to get an official education but to know what you need in addition to that is a skill in itself
It is a good skill and has served me well! Hey, and since you are still a student, I wanted to thank you for mantaining our very small, niche community here on lemmy :D ,you must be very busy with school and still you make space for it. I appreciate it.
That’s so nice of you, thank you - doing my best :) I’m in my last year of school, so I’ll only be having less and less time to post content, but I’ll still try my best.
I have 2h of commuting everyday - that’s when I usually post stuff if I’m not at home :D
The end of my studies is in sight, fortunately ✨
Maxfield Parrish’s use of color theory and it’s application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.
That’s really specific
:O I’d follow you into battle.
Thata specific enough for you to be the best with no goddamn doubts in anyone’s mind.
If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum… do it! The colors glow like nothing you’ve seen.
When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.
Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.
It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.
Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.
Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90’s IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie…
I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.
Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.
Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.
At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I’m going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one’s gotten it right. I’ve always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.
I won’t even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.
Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish… do it. It’s absolute magic.
How is “average lemmy user” defined? I probably know more about eg. tea than the typical/median user. But there may be a true tea expert here that pushes the average up by a lot.
How is “average lemmy user” defined?
You do not define such things. You just listen to your own built-in average-o-meter.
It’s a good question. You probably know more about tea than the average Lemmy user and most Lemmy users. The fact that there may be one or two people who know more than you do does not disqualify either claim. But OP’s post description is basically about knowing more than any other Lemmy user — and that’s hard to say.
I don’t think you could be better than any one other person at most things on, say, Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller, and much more focused on certain areas. If you fall outside those areas, you likely have a few advantages in expertise. Tea being one of them as social media in general leans more toward coffee.
How to know when stats is taking over your life ☝️
more of a pedant
Ship systems such as radios, echosounders, transponders, etc. (AMA, I guess, if you so wish)
Roller skating. In that community my skill level is nothing special. But it’s not a common hobby to have at all these days (at least where I am) for the average person.
I used to roller skate a lot in my younger days. Took my son to the roller rink a few a times and found out I could still do it pretty well.
Nice. When I am teaching students in our intro class that everyone takes it once regardless of skill, I can always tell when someone has skated as a kid (or done other sports like skiing) even if it’s been decades for them - it’s just much easier to return to than to start from scratch like I did.
Intro class? Shit, my intro class was strapping on skates with metal wheels and being let loose on my neighbors driveway. My younger sister had non-metal wheels probably because that what was found used. We didn’t have a lot of money at that time.
Bringing friends and community together? I see an awful lot of Lemmings talk about disliking people, being introverted, etc.
I think if there’s one main thing people will remember about me, it’s how I bring people together. I get all my depressed friends off their ass and make them hang out with me, fun stuff :)
Skydiving
~4500 jumps that included; night jumps, competition 4-way and 8-way, a couple of record jumps (I was on the a team that set state records in 3 different states back in the day) , Demos into various stadiums, air shows and a couple of NASCAR races.
I might know a thing or two that the average Lemmy user has no idea about.
Neat - paraglider here, but I know zero things about skydiving. It does seem to be common though, from talking to PG instructors, that skydivers learning PG tend to be very heavy handed with the controls. Just remember smooth and light if you ever try it out. :)
Depending on the size of the canopy, there can be a fair amount of pressure required to pull a toggle. Tandem rigs, which have 500ft^2 mains are somewhat difficult to guide by one person. Most TM’s that I know require their passenger to help out. Not that they cannot be flown by one person, just that doing that 10 times a day wears a person out.
My personal mains: PD Spectre 150 and 135, and Sharp Chuter (used for demo jumping) all had very different toggle pressures. The Sharp Chuter being the heaviest. It was also 90ft^2 larger (240ft^2) than my Spectre 150. My 135 had almost negligible toggle pressure. The smallest canopy I’ve ever jumped was a Velocity 103 and that thing has almost no toggle pressure what so ever. Plus with such high wing loading made it down right twitchy. Personally I was never one for ultra high wing loadings. Having 40mph approach speeds to landing was never appealing even when I was young.
Also skydiving canopies are a LOT more square than a paraglider. While I could not explain the physics there, it seems to me that a thin wing would have lighter toggle pressures. Canopies that I’ve jumped that were more tapered seemed to have a lighter toggle pressure of equally sized non-tapered canopies. A paraglider canopy is extremely tapered compared to a skydiving chute.
Also, don’t you folks have 6 risers? While there have been 6 riser skydiving rigs, they are very uncommon. So each riser requires a lot more pressure to pull… I’m assuming paraglides do riser turns and other maneuvers with them.
There is a Paragliding club here where I live. Even met one when he landed at a local park when I was out walking. I currently have one kid in college and another going to be there in a couple of years, so it’s not going to be anytime soon, but I would love to try it out. I’d love to get back into the air. Skydiving is pretty much out, as I have a back injury that could be made really bad with a hard opening.
To make a short story long… Yeah, I can see a skydiver being ham fisted with a paraglider. A jumper with a lot of experience with very high wing loading (over 2.0 to 1) might not, but me? Yeah, I’d probably ham it up for the first few hours. It would be interesting to learn just how much skydiving canopy experience would translate. I’m sure some would, but definitely not all.
Cool - thanks for the details about your gear. Fun to learn about the other adjacent disciplines.
