Pretty much all of these comments are accurate and it's hard to go wrong.
Go to any of the larger parks in Seattle and the surrounding area and you will see some big trees. Some bigger than others.
Outside of Seattle, some of the biggest ones you can see are in the Olympic National Park. While it's a 4ish hour drive I strongly recommend Hoh Rainforrest and the nearby beaches..
The beaches specifically because of the HUGE dead logs that roll up on them. When then trees are standing it's hard to comprehend just how big they are. When they are dead logs washed up on the beach that you can climb on you truly get an idea of how massive they are and how powerful the ocean is for moving something so massive like it's a mere twig.
Looking forward to yet another awesome year!
I apologize. I deleted my comment. I'm in a bitchy mood today for reasons, not you, and some of that frustration was directed at you. You didn't deserve that.
That was actually intentional because I have not found a single resource that I considered so good that I bookmarked it. This is in part because there is no ATS format standard and there is a lot of different perspectives, "solutions" and services available..
Perhaps someone has better resources than I do and they can share them. I don't have anything better.
It's not just one company. It's a culture that a lot of aggressively growing companies share.
I don't know what their interview structure was like, but I've had a handful of 6-8 hour interviews where they were broken into 50 minute timeslots with different interviewers. They are exhausting, to put it mildly.
What surprises me more than simply holding such an interview, is actually getting an offer from one.
Since then I've learned that placed that hold such interviews are often environments that expect higher performance standards. (hint: they have a burnout culture). They pay really well, but rarely do you find anyone at the company who has been there more than 3-4 years.
I SMS'd replied to them the same day they asked me to apply to say that I had applied. Having worked together before I suspected they were simply busy had not had the time to interview anyone so did not follow up.
At the time I was employed somewhere else, so wasn't in a hurry, either.
I went through a similar-ish experience. I applied to a job I was referred to, interviewed all day, felt it went GREAT, then crickets. Messaged the recruiters multiple times without a reply.
A month after the interviews the manager called me to ask "Why didn't you accept our offer?
"Uh? I didn't receive an offer. I have not received a reply from your HR since interviewing."
Long story short, the hiring team loved me and told HR to hire me. HR dropped the ball and never contacted me. As if that wasn't bad enough the same thing happened to someone else who interviewed for another role on the same team - only they received a rejection letter! In both cases the manager thought the candidate rejected the offer.
In hind site I knew who the manager was and should have followed up with them directly, but I was also much younger and have learned a lot since then.
Have you considered that your application is being filtered out automatically before a human ever sees it?
One thing I did not see in the comments that is absolutely a factor is Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) that companies use to manage applicants and resumes.
Many ATS can automatically parse a resume and extract data from it. But if a resume is not formatted in a way the ATS recognizes, it will miss valuable data. You may have seen then when you apply to a job and it asks you to upload a resume, then it parses it into experience, etc. The less you see from your resume parsed in to those fields, the less ATS friendly your resume is.
Now imagine how many application systems merely take your resume and don't let you fill out those annoying fields to correct any potential parsing errors.
To make matters worse, there is no defined unified standard that all ATS follow. What may work for one ATS may not work 100% for another. Making it more vague is some newer ones claim to have AI assisted parsers.
As if that's not bad enough newer ATS include automated filters to reduce the candidate pool - some claim to be AI based as well.
Mix all of that together, in many cases the hiring manager never sees resumes.
I found this out after a hiring manager, a former colleague from multiple previous roles, asked me to apply to a role they had open. I applied that day. Weeks went by and they reached out to me and said if I did not apply they would be forced to hire someone else. I told them I did apply. The ATS filtered my resume out for not matching the experience requirements. THE HIRING MANAGER NEVER RECEIVED MY RESUME even when they thought I was the best candidate for the role.
Among all the other good advice in this thread, I recommend ensuring your resume is, as best possible, formatted for ATS systems.
All that said, ATS is not the sole problem. Overall this is a complicated issue, and so many other comments here nailed aspects of it that are also true.
I am sorry for your frustration and can assure you that are you are not alone in feeling it!
Good luck!
America, investing in the future of the country one budget cut at a time.
Most professional audio engineers use DAWs other than bitwig. Popular examples are Protools or Reaper. You are far more likely to find mixing and mastering tutorials for them.
There is good news though! The techniques used in mixing and mastering are easily portable across all DAW. It's more about the techniques, workflow, and discipline than the technology. I recommend just looking up the tutorials and guides for other DAW then seperately look up any tools you are not sure how to reproduce in bitwig.
As an aside, something that will help with the learning process: For professionals, mixing and mastering are completely separate steps with very different focus. Putting it simply:
- Mixing focuses on making an individual track sounding good and consistent. You will be working with all of your tracks/stems independently until it sounds good.
- Mastering focuses on the album level and trying to make sure all of your tracks share a similar loudness, dynamic range and more so when the songs are played together they flow smoothly and cohere to each other. Ideally you will be working with 2-track audio rendered from the mix.
I recommend starting with a focus on mixing. Mastering is like icing on the cake. If the layers on the cake suck, icing isn't going to help it make them any better.
I can't speak for other's observations but considering they seem to be estatic munching on my lawn all day, I suspect if it is a factor, it's a small one.
That is a thought. I wonder how many of the local coyotes are tagged and tracked.
That's a good question. My knowledge of such things only dates back 20 years for this region and it's been pretty consistent for me though some neighborhoods have a lot more than others.
Is it possible you simply did not notice because you were more focused on other things?
I am curious now, as well.
I don't know if you heard, but there is this saying about rabbits fornicating a lot.
That's where they come from.
Seriously though, they pretty much continuously reproduce spring to fall, and have large litters. They use numbers to survive. Many will literally be scared to death (stroke out when scared); many more will get eaten or run over. This leaves only a few to do what rabbit do best...
Every year I see the same pattern. Lots of rabbits. Then Coyotes show up and then eagles, and the numbers dwindle. Then the predators go away and the numbers rebound. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Wow I didn't realize how complicated my feels were for Brouwers until seeing this.
I frequented them for about 2 years right after they opened, but stopped in favor of other beer bars.
So many times I went there I felt like I was experiencing a monty python spam skit, but for beer. "We have Eggs, IPA, IPA, IPA, IPA, hashbrowns, IPA, more IPA with a side of IPA and IPA on top." Multiple times I didn't want an such opinionated beer and would ask for something like a kolsch, amber, pilsener, lager and I received a literal eye-roll from the bartender. So I stopped going.
I was also younger and hotter-headed at the time, so it's likely some or most of that experience was me. Regardless, never got back again to see, and never will.
They were part of Seattle, and will be mourned. I know so many people who loved them.
I am an introvert with social anxiety. These may or may not work for you, but they worked for me.
- Find activities I was passionate about and find groups who also did them.
- Find things I was interested in learning about that had groups who did it
In my case I found non-profit organizations that shared my interests, and I volunteered for them. This was not only a good way to meet others, but a nice way to also serve the community as a whole.
I also found myself meeting people through community-offered classes I took. Bicycle repair, cycling, hiking/backpacking, cooking, fermenting, and a lot more.
But the common theme for both of them was doing the things I loved to do not only for the sake of doing them but also to share the joy with others.
In terms of my being introverted and socially awkward they both give me reason and purpose to talk to people. The more I talked to people in specific groups the easier it became to socialize with those groups.
Not every group I volunteered for or learned from fostered the same amount of friends, but over the years I have met a lot of people and made a lot of friends. The best friends I have made did overlap across multiple communities too, so we had a lot more in common.
A related thought to that is that we are a big enough city that we often have groups and organizations that serve similar purposes for different reasons. Some have completely different people, some overlap with people. In many cases I found that a group did not align with my interests, but another similar group did - from the outside they did not seem all that different but I was happy to learn by trying they were very different. Along those same lines the groups that felt the most welcoming were usually the ones who acknowledged the other groups and embraced them - groups who had an "us vs them" mentality most frequently felt isolating and toxic.
Regardless if this was helpful or not, good luck finding your way!
I used one of their suspension corrected forks to retrofit a late-90's mountainbike to change it into a commuter hybrid for a friend. The original suspension forks were damaged beyond repair.
They were good quality. I'd buy again. They did have more rake than the forks I replaced. I can't remember the specific amount, but it was like 1-3mm. Not substantial, but worth noting because subtle changes in bike geometry can and do affect how a bike feels to ride. In this case it was a positive effect for a road focused commuter.
Where they lacked was lack of accessory mounts with exception to the eyelets by the axle. For my use this was not a problem, but for some it may be an issue.
It's on their twitter too: https://twitter.com/endlesssfm?lang=en
It appears others have received the email as well: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/60923/endlesss-ceasing-operations-may-31
It's also on their facebook: https://www.facebook.com/endlesssfm/posts/pfbid0a1hvGv8k7gPuFZSSXS1udqhftu8aL2oZbGJfJ6mLU7db4yQ6FZZc967CFguhJmQNl
These are all the Hawaiian restaurants in Seattle that google thinks have Oxtail soup.
I hope this was somewhat helpful. Now I'm craving this myself!
I'm pretty sure the only spider I have not seen on this list in Washington was the garden spider.
https://spiderid.com/locations/united-states/washington/
They are all mostly harmless, and none are invasive. House spiders can be annoying because most of the others will avoid areas commonly traveled by humans but house spiders do not. As such they are observed a lot more.
More common venomous spiders prefer warmer climates than we currently have in the PNW. That may change with climate change, however.
Oxtail is the tail of a cow and it's often used to make broth which among other things is used in soup in a wide range of cuisines. Without providing more specifics you are basically asking where you can find beef soup of which there are a lot of varieties.
Can you be more specific as to what you are looking for?
None the less, there are a lot of options available in Seattle.
If I recall correctly after 5 years normal wear and tear cannot be counted against the security deposit nor is the financial responsibility of the former tenant. This would be stuff like painting, floor finishing, carpet cleaning, and more - I believe this would include power washing.
You can find out more here:
landlord wants to send cleaning invoice above and beyond security deposit
Seattle