Tired of dated recessed lighting in your modern home? Trimless is the answer!
For truly seamless, architecturally-pure spaces free of visual clutter, designers are ditching dated recessed trims in favor of trimless fixtures that virtually disappear into the ceiling:
• Square or round trimless openings maintain uninterrupted ceiling planes
• Tailored optics deliver crisp uniform output without hotspots
• Advanced LED sources crank out high lumen output from compact apertures
• Smart dimming from 100% to 1% or lower blackout with the right controls
• Efficient low-wattage illumination slashing energy costs
Trimless recessed lighting does require additional labor but it's well worth it if your space is in dire need of a design overhaul.
Standard builder-grade recessed housings were never intended for refined, elevated illumination. If old halogen (or heaven forbid fluorescent) yellowing or boxy trims cheapen your modern composition, it's time to upgrade.
#ArchitecturalLighting #LightingDesign #RecessedLighting #ModernDesign #InteriorDesign
It's a conspiracy by Big Pepper to neuter our jalapenos!
https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-peppers-less-spicy-blame-aggies/
Ha!
A great excerpt from Philip L. Carret, one of Warren Buffett’s hero’s, explaining why inflation is “very bad” and how we’d been better off sticking with a gold backed currency.
From the book “The Mutual Fund Masters”. Phil was 97 years old at the time of the interview. 
Great video on what it’s like living in Cuba today, how broken the Cuban peso is, and the challenges of trying to use better money.
Touché. Do you think AI would break encryption or just drain hot wallets?
This guy I can hang with. nostr:note19t5rnfwzl87xrmf96yxtxhwxrsq69xqcylqt23eyt72k95lkdgpq3jdtr0
Don’t get your retinas scanned. $50 isn’t worth it. No amount of money of worth it. Refuse #Worldcoin
Ever notice everyone’s full of shit? Politicians? Economists? Theologian’s? Everyone that thinks they are a guru? Everyone?
No one knows anything.
Buy #Bitcoin
Ted Lasso 👍
I'm through with standing in line to clubs I'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth, and I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be
(Tell me what you want)
Never seen a TV as full of software bugs as the #TCL #roku 65R625. It's about 2 years old and crashes/restarts occur every few days since day 1. Even coming out of a screensaver will crash an app.
Own a few TCL #rokutv's and they also crash but the 65R625 is particularly bad.
TCL tv's in general have poor quality. I guess you get what you pay for. Older plasma Panasonic and even Toshiba are still going strong.
Aside the software issues, which I attribute to Roku OS, the TCL's have had LED backlights go out, power issues, and failed components.
When they work, they are great but having owned 5 TCL's over 8 years I can say that 2 of them have had hardware issues (1 was total loss) and all of them have suffered software issues like app crashes, slow interface on Roku, and random restarts.
#beware #PSA
All great! Ænima came to mind first as I listened to it so much. Would be challenging to compare each album song vs song.
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms deserved to be on my list too.
There’s a few albums I listened to nonstop back in the day but now barely do. Funny how that works.
Some big media account on Twitter asked people what they think the best music album ever was, front to back.
While some albums are more iconic than others, the fascinating thing about the question is how it tends to be a sign of what era someone came of age in (i.e. which decade they grew up as a teenager), and what cultural part of that era they were more in line with. Sure, some people go back and find older iconic music and appreciate it the most, the absolute greats of the past, but the more typical outcome is that someone finds music from their coming-of-age years to be what somehow sticks out.
For me it was rock in the 2000s, and my mental answer to the question of "best album?" was Meteora by Linkin Park.
While it was a very popular album and also well-remembered, it doesn't generally go down on the ageless list of greats. In other words, it's always kind of a top two or three genre item. I could argue why other more iconic albums are better, and why they "should" be my answer. For example I could go a little bit before my time, but still close enough, and say Nirvana's Nevermind was better. That would poll better.
But basically, as a product of my time, Meteora is just the one that struck the right chords at the right time when I was a teenager. It's the one that spoke to me. I would listen to it casually, and then also listen to certain songs in it before martial arts tournaments to get myself in the combat zone. Even as my musical tastes changed over time, that's the album I listened to the most of all time, and so when I hear it in the present day, I still appreciate it a ton.
The fact that they crossed genres appealed to me a lot. Their main vocalist, Bennington, struck their melodic and emotional aspect. The other vocalist, Shinoda, was their hip-hop guy, with a rougher or more practical aspect. Mr. Hahn brought an electronic aspect, and Delson brought the rock guitar aspect. Some of their stylization was anime-aligned, and I was into anime at the time. Basically whatever vibes I might be feeling as a teenager at the time, there was something in Linkin Park that spoke to it, with Meteora being among their best and which came out at the right time when I was 15. It's like Bennington would speak to my emo aspect and help me acknowledge it, while Shinoda and the others would pump me back up, and tell me to not fuck around and get back out there, and boost my confidence. Yin and Yang.
Another reason I thought of this is that here in 2023, Linkin Park released a 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which included a couple songs like "Lost" that didn't make it into the original. It all hits a bit harder for us fans based on the fact that the lead singer, Chester Bennington, is no longer with us. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY&ab_channel=LinkinPark
Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the second one.
Conclusion: Sometimes what hits harder subjectively is worth appreciating, rather than just whatever can be argued to be the best objective answer. Somewhere on that border between "objectively good" and "came out at the right time and hit the spot for you and imprinted itself" is your answer that is worth exploring and sharing.
What's your answer?
Probably a tie between:
Live - Throwing Copper
Counting Crows - August and Everything After and
Tool - Ænema
I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.
So this week we had…
- A witness testify to non-human bodies recovered from a ufo. Very sus.
- A startup officially launched an orb to scan your retina and ID. Profile pic now sports dark shades.
- Twitter is now X. Smh.
No thanks to all! Though aliens might be cool if true.
I think the idea is you pay (or deposit) the equivalent of $20 to verify and if the account spams, the payment/deposit is forfeited causing an actual financial loss. The spammer would have to spin up a new account and deposit and risk losing the deposit again making it financially difficult to continue to do so.
I do think POW is another great idea but might be less financially impactful. I also like that POW doesn’t rely on 3rd party deciding if you are/aren’t a scammer.
At least there are some options to consider.
FYI here are two tweets that may better explain the orange check:
https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1478124645563916288?s=46&t=c0PpAMz1vsG-WbE67v9haw
https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1526281351628050432?s=46&t=c0PpAMz1vsG-WbE67v9haw
Just realized Prince, Sinead O’Connor, and Chris Cornell all sang and recorded Nothing Compares 2 U and are now dead. I’m not singing that song again, just in case…