Yeah, they “say” that in Cancun… “they” being the hotel chains who do everything they can to keep you on property and spend all your $$ on property. Including winding half mile long driveways that, as the crow flies, merely take tou 150ft to the road. Resorts are built as traps for a reason LOL… I am NOT a resort person, prefer stay with a friend, get the local flavor, or have my own house as I did in Utila…
I do find US State Department warnings are greatly exaggerated at times. They will warn about travelling to places “for higher crime rates” when in reality, NYC, Chicago, Miami, LA, Houston all have higher numbers. San Pedro Sula was the murder capital of the world when I was there (had 12 hours to kill waiting for a flight, toured the city), and its a beautiful city. Trouble is where you look for it. Worst types I gotta deal with are the people I gotta score some smoke from. Otherwise, if you’re smart, nothing to worry about IMHO.
Its funny, but I have talked with a few attractive women who would NEVER go to Utila alone because “Oh, I would be a prime rape target, no way would I do that alone”. And literally I just wanna be like “Bitch PLEASE… You are avg at best on that island, and hundreds of more attractive do the backtracker trail yearly with no issues”. (utila has more beautiful girls per square mile than anywhere I know, and they are all tourists)…
Wouldn’t those higher numbers be due to the per capita ratio?
Let me rephrase that lol I would think the higher numbers would be that way due to there being a lot more folks in those cities?
Also, lol I’ve lived/been in all of the ones you called out… in the ‘rougher’ sections at that lol I was always able to hold my own and thrive.
What I’ve seen, yes, but thats still a percentage…
like in 6 months on coz, not one murder. Coz is 100,000 people… NYC might be a million, but theres alot more than 10 murders in NYC in that time…
Of course more people = more potential crimes. But if ya wanna break it down further, NYC has the 5 boroughs. Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island, Northern Manhattan is Harlem, southern is the business district the world knows. I would be willing to bet higher crime rates in the Bronx, and in Harlem, than in Queens for example. But they are ALL lumped as NYC. So… Same thing for most tourist spots. Cancun is hot, Cozumel, not so much, certain areas attract criminals just for the sheer opportunities that abound.
I think safety is really about your own actions 99% of the time. Go looking for trouble, you’re gonna find it. Worked in all 5 boroughs of NYC in construction, and if you can survive there, you can handle most third world countries with a little smarts if you ask me…
MC is rough even for MEXICANS… Biggest city in the world. I know Mexicans who hate having to travel to MC!
Morning Johnny, looks like you and @Nagel420 been chopping it up for a while! Sorry to hear you’re feeling rough today man, hope it passes fast and you’re back to feeling good again
lol well that makes 2 of us cuz
i got too much to do with trimming in 2 places for awhile now… the indoor grow/barn and the stuff from outdoors I hung in the house lol
NOTHING is done by machines here. I find machine trimmed bud all looks so generic, the same. I grew up doing it by hand, and that’s how it gets done to this day here.
On a good day I can knock out a lot, lol on a bad day, not so much
I usually have the wife or son, or both lol doing the pre-trim for me… I sit there while they bring the plants to me, or one or both cut off all the fan leaves, then hand em to me
The getting up and down is what kills me more than anything. So as long as I can just sit, I can get a good bit done, even on a bad day usually. lol
ive got a few more years to get to you but i tell you what getting old is not for the weak.
i feel my body aches and hurts all the time and the cracking and snapping is no fun either, so i know @JohnnyPotseed your old bones be hurting too.
it is all part of it i guess and i hope your day gets better with little to no movement, sit in your chair my fine friend, trim if you want but take care of you
@Slick1 this is due to the high refresh rate and I hate it too…
In north america we are used to the 29.97fps (30 frames per second non drop frame) at 60hz for our standard for video, or 24 frames per second for motion picture film. This rate of motion is a sweet spot where our brain sees still images as motion, and our natural ability to perceive motion blur is in play.
When we increase a frame-rate AND play it back at the same increased rate; OR we do the same with video such as in 120hz televisions the issue is that our brains are now forced to process twice the amount of information in the same time-frame; which thus removes our need to fill in the space that grants us motion blur. This basically renders a moving image as “hyper real” or “plastic” or “dead”; because so many people forget that it’s motion blur that allows us to maintain suspention of disbelief.
The 1st of the Gods awful Hobbit films was recorded at 48fps and played in theaters at 48fps and FAILED HORRIBLY. Without motion blur: sets looked like sets; actors make-up awful, and all the CGI stood apart from the practicals in a very, VERY unsettling way. They scrapped the idea and went back to 24fps for the other 2 films and it’s been dropped all together.
The human eye only sees focus in about a silver dollar size space directly in the center of our field of view; everything else is our meat computers calculating in that motion blur. Smoke some laced shit and you may get “the strobes”; this is when you look left to right and it’s all choppy because you’re brain is fucked and can’t blend everything together anymore!
The 1981 movie “Dragonslayer” broke new ground with stop-motion animation with their dragon effects. They did this by making the dragon move in real time with air pistons. The dragon would move in reality really fast but when you filmed in at high-speed, and then slowed this footage back down to playback speed the effect looked like a real behemoth moving around a lake of fire… BECAUSE THEY HAD RECORDED MOTION BLUR.
As amazing as Ray Harryhausen is… all his work is to clean to NOT feel fake regardless of taking a story to the next level. So this was a game changer and became a new standard for miniatures UNTIL: Jurassic parks T-rex… (which almost destroyed the practical effects industry and brought us cannot be unseen horror shows of CGI like the Scopion King or Spawns “Malbosia”)
High FPS has its place in media like video games. Growing up with NTSC games it blows my mind at some of the FPS gamers aim for with their playback. Knowing the science I’d aim for 60-120fps MAX, and prob aim for 60FPS because in this context is DOES LEND to better game play and a more immersive experience; I also refuse to spend to much money of GPU’s when Im not a gamer!
I’m so saturated in this shit I can tell if a digital projector has a colour wheel or independent sensors due to aberrations you can see if you know how to look /
Aka: I can see rainbows; and in Toronto seeing rainbows is normal unless it’s a fucked up projected image
Damn… Thats impressive at 7k RPM. I worked for PLUS for a few years in the late 90s, we made digital projectors for everybody (OEM jobs). They sent me to Japan to learn to repair them (UP800 and UP1100 at the time). Color wheels where we had a white frame between each color to “brighten” the image, that technology was insane to learn with DLP chips…
Man you’d have fun stitching spherical video, I can see it now
'sorry for the rant. This is one close to the 
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