Oh, and I just read your username. We’ve played the White Oak Music Hall if your name is a reference to Houston. Used to play Acadia back when it was open.

Oh trivia is great as well! There are a few other things depending on inclination. Some of the local joints here do paint and sip, line dancing, salsa dancing, wine pairing potlucks, and a bunch of other activities. If you add in breweries or distilleries you can find even more stuff.

But I say that knowing bars aren’t for everyone for a variety of reasons. Not every area has breweries and distilleries.

And yeah, karaoke is a different level of outgoing. I enjoy it in small doses and will fill in as the KDJ if someone needs me to, but doing that every week (or 3 times a week like some of these folks) is a bit much for me, and that’s coming from a dude who has a hobby of playing music in bars.

I do like local live music shows for that if you’re into local music, especially if you hit up the same venue every week for a bit. You’ll meet the other regulars.

A buddy of mine goes to karaoke every week, rain or shine. He moved to a new place a few years ago and within a couple of months he already had a group that he could hang out with elsewhere.

A big city not in the South. Houston and Dallas are #4 and #9. There’s public transit but it fucking sucks both places.

My childhood buddy lost half his teeth that way.

Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?

If it’s not for you then you won’t get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.

I can’t speak to crocodile, but I have eaten a lot of gator. If it’s not prepared properly it goes from tasting like water chicken to tasting like swamp thang.

Yeah, I’m not even hearing the idiot in the next neighborhood shoot his gun at the sky.

By the end it’s large.

Peppa isn’t as bad as shit like Caillou, but Bluey is the best one by a mile.

Case in point: the downvotes are from people who don’t know or care about the difference.

Depends on what you’re calling AI. LLMs (and generative AI in general) are garbage for all those things, and most things in general (all things if you take their cost into account). Machine Learning and expert systems can do at least some of that.

I absolutely hate that generative AI is being marketed as though it’s deep learning instead of a fancy Markov chain. But I think I’ve lost the battle over that nomenclature.

But he had paper he printed out!

A moderate amount. I was in high school band so I got taught a little. I dove into it as one of my (too many) hobbies for a while. I can tell what a piece is doing and understand scales (major, minor, pentatonic, and blues), key signature, modes, harmony, chord progression, arrangement, rhythm, meter, chord inversions, and probably a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting. I pick it up from time to time to learn more.

However, I’m a barely competent player of a handful of brass instruments, guitar, and bass. I’m embarrassingly bad on all but the simplest of percussion. I have a hard time dialing in tone so I just try a bunch of shit and take pictures of whatever sounds fine.

Like many of my other pursuits, I know many things and never really take the time to develop the practical skills to go along with it.

It does and it’s pretty awesome! I’ve taken my niece and nephews there on more than one occasion and we’ve road tripped with friends who have kids with ASD.

They could pull a Dragon Age: The Veilguard and change directions 6 times during development.

If you’re feeling down try sertraline

You’ll feel less depressed than you have been

Disclaimer: Not all people will feel less depressed on sertraline. Avoid taking sertraline if you are allergic to sertraline. Some users report diarrhea, constipation, vomiting blood, kidney failure, dropping property values, itchy feet, or spontaneous suicide. Less than 1% of users report developing a condition known as “wandering eyeball”.

Ask your doctor if sertraline is right for you.

(This was not intended to poke fun at people taking SSRIs. It’s just the first generic name that came to mind. Keep taking your meds if they’re helping and hold your head high, friend!)

Music project 6 (final) (actual final) (for real this time) (demo).wav

I am and same colors here.