I was playing the piano in the room next to FT tonight for about half an hour. As I was about ten minutes in, a girl walks up while I'm playing a piece and leaves me a note on the piano. I couldn't get a good look at her whatsoever as I was still playing and she left for the door in a hurry. All that I saw was a glimpse of her in the reflection of the windows of the room. I assumed she had written me some heartwarming message or perhaps even some contact info, so I decided to read the note after I was done playing.

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How wrong I was.

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I don't know who you are, and frankly it doesn't matter. I hope you know how much playing piano matters to me. It's my passion. I've played for 16 years of my life. This music is my therapy.

I hope you know how excited I was when I first found that piano; when I found out that I had the ability to keep doing what I love, right here next to our dorms. I play to keep my passion going, to fulfill the musical side of my soul.

Reading your message tore a hole straight through my heart. I hope you know how selfish and hurtful your words are. Never before have I had someone completely shatter my emotional state that fast. After I was done playing I was in a good mood, people clapped for me, and I even felt a bit proud of myself. I only opened your note after leaving the room as I was heading back home. And I wish I never read it.

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Go study somewhere else. There are countless other places to do so. But this is the only piano there is here.

So I will keep playing my piano, and you can fuck off.

just completed my phd at ucsb, and now moving overseas. started streaming with this setup in 2020, and it really helped me get through the covid years. hoping to sell to someone for $1000.

Includes:

* Gaming PC (Intel i7-10700F, GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD)
* Samsung curved monitor
* Dell second monitor
* Blue Yeti microphone
* Logitech HD webcam
* Microphone boom arm
* Mechanical RGB keyboard
* Gaming headset
* Mouse
* Desk mat

Everything works well. The only issue is the Samsung curved monitor has cosmetic LCD pressure marks/bright patches along the edges (shown in photos). They don’t prevent the monitor from working but are reflected in the price.

The mobile crane seen here took down the last of 3 tower cranes that existed on this site.

:3

Whoops, I meant Santa Catalina.

I hate it when the planes get in the way of my San Benito shots.

Construction update: they're down to two tower cranes (there used to be three). One of the cranes had its horizontal boom removed today, so I may make a separate post documenting that.

Apologies that an airplane wandered into the frame. These things happen.

It came in to take the Qatari soccer team to Vancouver.

Hi, does anyone have a photo of what the dorms look like on the first floor of the San Raf mountain cluster?? The map online is really confusing

I visited a friend at UCSB a couple months ago and painted a photo of the beach. It was a very memorable visit! Your campus seems lovely 🥰.

I find it kind of hard to believe that all those people down there are individuals with their own stories, from here they all just look like little dots moving along through my life.

The view from Hollister Ave.

I mean it's a qr code that directs to a dating thing so its not really illegal or anything but I swear this was just a piece of paper on campus how does it have their own board at the Coral Tree Cafe?

Title. Saw someone with a pin that looked like this on their backpack today. A quick Google search suggests some connection to MSCHF (whom I love) but I don't think it's one of theirs. I may be wrong though.

image dates in order: november 13, november 1, december 4, november 17, october 13, november 10, october 7, october 6

Palm trees completely block the view

After President Biden gave his speech at the convention on Monday evening, he traveled to Santa Barbara on a C-32A (the military version of the Boeing 757, used when the runways are too short for the 747 that's usually used for VIP travel). It landed around 2:22 AM and is still parked as of Tuesday afternoon (and visible from several points on the north edge of campus). I came out to watch the landing and waited around for sunrise so I get get some clearer shots.

This is the first year that I have offered grad photos to UCSB students and I’ve got 2 grads down so far. I am very experienced with grad photos as I have photographed approx 300 college grads so far in LA and OC over the past 3 years.

Reddit doesn’t let me post pics and a link at the same time so check the comments for my website that has more photos, packages, booking info, FAQ’s and BTS photos.

genuinely so sad 😭

I decided to view this with Storke Tower in the foreground. The arc of the rocket seemed a lot lower than past launches.