waz

One of my favorite sketches. Thanks for reminding me of it. I'm going to go watch it now.

Personally, as with a lot of the comments, I'm in the food-prep and make it yourself crowd.

I found a book that dives into the details of when it is and isn't worth making things from scratch.

It's called Make the Bread, Buy the Butter.

Honestly, I haven't read it yet. I bought it and let my mom borrow it immediately, but when I get it back I think it will an interesting read.

As someone who has watched less than an hour of anything on twitch, I guess I'm going to change my avoidance of the site from passive to active.

Fairly consistently: 3D printing, wood working, amateur radio, RC cars, and cooking.

Also playing with: sewing, tablet weaving, lifting weights, and guitar.

I was with you up until big thighs. ...though I will say I don't mind them, I wouldn't call it a hobby.

Toats down with brewing, baking and 3d printing fo sho though.

I think the "This is Water" speech from David Foster Wallace gives a great perspective that feels relevant to this situation. There was a month or two where I listened to it every day on my way to work. It helped me through some shit.

Link for convenience: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

As a subset of this, the fact that carburators worked as well as they did, until we had the technology to invent the simpler fuel injector, I think is pretty cool.

I expect he is a slow reader. He may not have gotten to that part of the book yet.

"previously owned"

Geoff?

I wonder if this is his response to having his events called boring. Is he just thinking "people won't leave if I start playing groovy music".

I don't have any good ideas, but I have some bad ones.

Just looking through Amazon for replacement paddles for various bread machines. Many, but not all have a picture with some dimensions on it. If you can get some calipers or something to measure yours, perhaps you find something that way.

If you've friends with bread machines, ask them if you can try out their paddles to see if they fit.

Your idea of an electronics recycling center could be good too. I honestly haven't been to one, so I don't really know what you should expect there.

Good luck