Getting closer to deciding on a 9mm pistol. Got to try a few out at the range yesterday but thought I'd write up the selection process thus far as a long-form nostr note. Notes from the range will go in a Part Two.

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9mm Pistol Shopping: Initial Search Criteria - Keith Mukai

Any 9mm pistol aficionados here? I'm trying to narrow down my options for a home defense pistol. * CZ P10 F (optics ready) is my top candidate * S&W M&P M2.0 full size (optics ready) in the mix * Walther PDP fading but still on the list I haven't shot any of them yet, so it's all subject to change. Anyone have any experience with any of the above? Why no Glock? The chunky grip is a non-starter for me; just always feels a bit too big for me to secure a solid grip on. I'm not a super-experienced shooter so I need to feel confident that I can control it. I'm prioritizing grip fit / ergonomics and recoil / muzzle flip control (thus the CZ and not so much the PDP, or so I'm told). Why full size? I'm not in a carry state. Main use case is home defense and just overall pistol training / skill building. #guns #gunstr

A/V nerd posts will continue until man cave audio/video quality improves!!

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A/V Nerds: 4k UHD Blu-Ray Player Options - Keith Mukai

Review of "The Fifth Element" on 4k blu-ray! Spent a little more time on this one to include some screenshots to help illustrate why this 4k transfer looks SO AWFUL!!

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A/V Nerds: "The Fifth Element" on 4k UHD Blu-Ray - Keith Mukai

#videophile #audiophile #review #4k #uhd #bluray

Boom! Number Stay Steady or Slightly Down! Flipped my noon-6pm intermittent fasting eating window to more like 10am-3pm* and that finally got me back into a solid keto groove. Short-term I want to see what ~11% body fat feels like, but 12% is probably a more realistic longer term goal. Always end up incorporating some carb-cycling phases, too. --- *(why shift the eating window? Supposedly most of the intermittent fasting benefits are when you eat earlier, fast later. 🤷‍♂️ If nothing else, sometimes keto just needs a change to get out of a rut)

Okay, holy shit I've been doing life wrong all this time. Results were AMAZING!! Best steak I've ever cooked. By far. Props to @Michael Matulef and @Shinobi for scolding me / coaching me to do better. The better quality (thicker, fresher) steak plus the reverse-sear technique made for a killer upgrade combo (duh! But still... wow). I had been buying prepackaged 1" steaks and freezing them. This time it was a ~1.5" thick ribeye directly from the meat counter (but tradeoff: those aren't grass fed). Previous attempts were all on just cast iron or backyard grill. First time reverse-searing. 200° to an internal temp target of 120°. Had not incorporated finishing with butter much before, first time using thyme. Garlic in there, too. My steaks had been fairly dry (even when not overcooked), unpleasantly tough, and mostly weirdly flavorless. This one was incredibly juicy, tender, so much flavor! The difference was like spending $6 at Denny's vs $80 at a steakhouse. NO JOKE. I have one prepackaged 1" steak left in the freezer; will try reverse-searing it and see how much the cooking technique alone can improve upon my prior results. I expect disappointment, but worth running the experiment! View quoted note →

Once more unto the breach, dear friends! But this time with a much better, fresher, thicker cut of meat -- AND -- a proper leave-in meat thermometer. View quoted note →

Flashback to summer 2022. Family doggos jumping in slo-mo! @npub1kuma...z2v7 and her two cousins. #dogs #dogstr #pupstr

I'm good at a lot of things, but cooking steak is not one of them. Okay, could have turned out worse, but still overshot the target.

I fully confess that bitcoin's fiat price is really fun to watch. But I'm less productive when it's really pumping (I'm too distracted). And Bitcoin is designed to pump forever. Therefore... will I ever accomplish anything ever again...?

Me: Bitcoin is pumping, Kuma!! @npub1kuma...z2v7: "I feel nothing"

TIL that "luminance" (aka brightness) for RGB #pixels isn't just a simple average. Yes, (255, 255, 255) is max white, brightest possible (8-bit) value. But colors are tricksy. example: Bitcoin orange is (255, 153, 0). If we naively calculate its brightness, we'd get: (255+153+0)/3 = 136 But notice that the naive calculation would give us the same brightness for (153, 0, 255): My eye easily says that the purple is darker overall than the orange. So instead the calculation is: Orange: 0.2125*255 + 0.7154*153 + 0.0721*0 = 163.6 Purple: 0.2125*153 + 0.7154*0 + 0.0721*255 = 50.9 Orange is CLEARLY brighter (aka higher luminance)! #nerd #videophile #graphics