Random Talk

[Kevtones]

Hopefully, I will be visiting LA. this summer I haven't been back since 2004. I miss having all the activities in one place, especially after living here in Mayberry with a population of 1011.

I have a friend out there, and I'll have to convince her to do all the dumb touristy stuff I didn't get to do when I lived there. I was there for a year and didn't even swim in the Pacific. All the locals told me most the stuff wasn't worth it, but almost 25 years later, I still wish I'd seen and done all that stupid stuff.  

Like, my co worker said the Tar Pits are for school kids but I've seen vids now and wish I didn't listen to that guy.

I did do a lot of hiking around Mt Baldy and Timber Mt. tho. (where Julian Sands died )  I didn't go in the winter like he did. But I did make a rookie mistake. One time I was going to push myself and decided to summit two different mountains in one day. (they were close together so not that big of a deal) but I was behind schedule and decided I would still go for it. It gets dark real quick, real soon when the sun goes behind a mountain. I thought I'd have a little more daylight but didn't account for the other giant mountain West of me. And no flashlight cuz of course I planned everything correctly. Except for that mountain and my vehicle being in a valley. Once I found a decent trail I made it back to my Jeep.

Anywho, I'm taking ideas on what to do in Southern California and I thought I would take pictures of those things that I do and post them here. So I'm taking suggestions. 

I don't have any real schedule so it doesn't matter where it is, really. As long as it's interesting. Even anything on the way cuz I'm driving out there from Wisconsin. Being disabled with no job and no family. I'm starting to go a little nuts and I thought this would give me something to do.

I lived all over LA for 15 years up until 2022 and fuck yeah on the Mt. Baldy mention. Have done that about a dozen times and it's my absolute favorite hike. Love the mix of terrains, view types and uniqueness of each section of the mountain. 

Anyway, one caveat is my suggestions are post-LA fires so hopefully I don't give you obsolete suggestions:

- Museum of Jurassic Technology is novel and unlike any other museum. 
- Dodger games are a blast. There's a small part of me that wants to be that 82-year old guy at baseball games holding up the pitch speed gun.
- UCB on Sunset or Franklin are great improv nightly. They also have rando (funny) celebs pop in all the time. Usually a bit less esoteric than 2nd City.
- Best beach is a bit tricky without Malibu but I lean Manhattan Beach (the South Bay in general). Best sand, dolphins and it's pretty laid back. 
- Food: I could go for days on this. Depends on where you're staying but FUCK do I miss the food of LA.
- Griffith Park is a usual but I think it's worth doing every time you're in LA. Now is probably way interesting to people that knew what LA looked like pre fires.
- Huntington Museum and the Norton-Simon are my two favorite conventional museums.
- One of the last things I did before moving away was go on a Mulholland Drive tour. It was both hilarious and informative, also great for fans.

[DavidCroquet]

Hey nerds. Do any of ya'll have advice on how to clean up an audio file to make speech more clearly audible?

We're not talking about a professional recording here, we're talking about a shitty iPhone recording with environmental background noise. Any recommendations?

[Besticus Maximus]

You could use true audio on chatgpt maybe, play the file into it and ask it nicely

[Nintex]

Hey nerds. Do any of ya'll have advice on how to clean up an audio file to make speech more clearly audible?

We're not talking about a professional recording here, we're talking about a shitty iPhone recording with environmental background noise. Any recommendations?

The new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra does this really well. Not sure what AI model they're using though.

[Nintex]

New Tinder like: 32F. Looks decent enough, accepted. She works as a shoe buyer or whatever, this one is even more dry and serious than the last 32F though. Not sure if I can get this one to date.

I may have found the secret ingredient for the bio to increase the matches. Which is to add the dating age range, which I've set to 20 - 40.

Apparently a lot of 'red pilled' men have 'written off' 30+ or even 25+ women in general and I've seen that sentiment online too. So if they think you're one of 'those guys' they just won't bother liking.

I see 40 year olds that look hot and 26 year olds that look rough.

My Tinder is stuck on 35 though and if 32F is nothing special I'll just reset it so it shows I'm 36. Otherwise I don't see the girls looking for 35+ daddies and I don't see the 36 - 40 year olds as much either. At 35 you're kind of in the worst spot in the 23 - 35 dating pool. You're basically the oldest guy in the list even though I look younger and it's all the types looking for travel buddies. Not to mention all other men are hunting in that range. In the 36 - 40 pool I'll stand out way more and there is less competition.

[Nintex]

Hot damn, now this is what I want. She liked me. Hopefully she responds to my opener

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Her entire profile reads: I just wanna fuck around and find out

Me too gurl

Maybe she trolled me but I expect an LMAO in the morning. And if she did troll me, good on her, keep trolling queen.

Woah she is just 5"4 compared to my 6"1. I thought she was using a fisheye lens or whatever but she's really smol 

[DavidCroquet]

You could use true audio on chatgpt maybe, play the file into it and ask it nicely

Can you explain this more?

I just went to ChatGPT and asked about true audio, and it seems confused...like "you might be referring to..." and then a bunch of stuff that seems greek to me.