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- HijoDMaite2
@imbecile posted these pics earlier and i sent the comparison to my dad. In the 70s he was state champion and an olympic hopeful for Mexico.
This used to be his world, so seeing the new technology in today's bikes is just unreal for him.
- My bike looks like the one on top...
I guess I'm a hipster...pango - With the gear switch on the frame and all...pango
- http://www.qbn.com/r…imbecile
- My father was country champion too, a strong rider. Looking the evolution of the bikes he rided (he still rides everyday) is fabulous...OBBTKN
- < my Peugeot is same vintage 69 - 71,Gnash
- My bike looks like the one on top...
- imbecile0
miss you guys, working a job i love tho... so yeah, ya know
- HijoDMaite9
update on my dad:
It has been a totally surreal experience for me, but nothing compared to what he must be going through. There are about 10 family members that are with him right now including my brother and sister. My sister was telling me that he is a little overwhelmed/scared by being outside on the street. Mexico City is a massive metropolis and he doesn't know it that well, he is from the north.
They were shopping this evening because he really doesn't have a wardrobe at all. He has been wearing Beige for at least 25 years. No other color but Beige! So today he was wearing a bright red flannel in the last picture i saw. I'm sure he will never touch another beige piece of clothing again.
today they also visited his apartment in the city where he will live and make his studio. it has great light and is in a good neighborhood too.
- Wonderful! Sounds like he'll have a life filled w/loved-ones regardless of how difficult a transition... happy for you, dad and the family, man :)PonyBoy
- his mind is going to be blown and he will need a serious support network to deal with all the changes.Hayoth
- Hijo... Va a ser como volver a nacer para tu padre. Disfrutad de todo lo que habiais perdido, un abrazo!OBBTKN
- I'm happy you're happy!pango
- Mobile phone is probably gonna hell lot confusing. Why is everyone staring it it all the time!!!!pango
- Hijo, I was wondering what the happiness was about. So happy for you and your family. For a minute I thought you were prego! :Dsea_sea
- What a fascinating person to sit down and talk to your father must be. Hope he has a smooth transition into his new life. Felicidades!sea_sea
- Send us link to some of his work when he starts painting again, im sure some of us would love to grab a piece or two :)_niko
- Must be so intense. Its great that he has you and your family to support him. He must feeling very fortunate to have you. Best of luck to you guys :)sofakingback
- This is a great story, all the best for the future!emphor
- ^ what niko said.VectorMasked
- I wish you/fam all the best! life is short my friend! Get it while you can.sureshot
- Espero que puedan compartir como si tuvieras 10 años de nuevo :)Maaku
- OBBTKN0
In the market for a new machine for next year:
- A powerfull PC, with ssd+32gb ram + gpu.
- A mac mini i7 + 16gb ram + ssd
- Or the new Surface Studio.I've got a ultrasharp big ass monitor now, and i don't like this all in one concept in Surface machines. Prob. I prefer the machine + monitor + Cintiq combo...
Your thougs?
* i am running a pair of apps that only works on pc, whereby i am in doubt in the mac thing.
- Surfaceutopian
- once you go mac...mono will lay on his back.utopian
- ?monospaced
- If you're already a PC, then the first option, no? I'd leave Surface until other manufacturers replicate it, or it's on V.2detritus
- Yes nairn, the surface looks promising, but it'll be half price in a pair of years, and more powerfull if, for example, dell replicates it... 1st option winsOBBTKN
- yurimon-7
So, I'm trying to decide where to live in Vancouver
Fave so far is Hastings Sunrise
parts of Gastown
parts of Yaletownwhat are your thoughts?, those who live or lived there.
- kitsilanoGnash
- Hasting and main.pango
- Thanks gnash, i saw it on the map but didnt have time to see it.
thanks pango. that area reminded me of hoboken njyurimon - kitsilano photos online look tropical. :)yurimon
- welcome. yuri. that place you can buy stuff for real cheapen the street. great for someone who doesn't have a job.pango
- http://www.vancouver…pango
- I know. so hard. i have to walk to Vancouver cause i have no job.yurimon
- just hitch, it's safe once you cross into canadamoldero
- Liar.monospaced
- haha, monos typical response just cracked me up.yurimon
- are you going to get a job as a cable guy up there? maybe hook Pango up with some free cable?moldero
- Buy one of Arthur Erickson's houses over the water.face_melter
- typical response for a typical bullshit cry for attention ... please prove me wrongmonospaced
- HijoDMaite13
Had a nice chat this morning with him. We talked about yesterday and what it was like. He had planned on writing down his experiences because it's just so heavy but he hasn't started yet.
He was fascinated by a liquor box market. He said "I drank a cold quality beer!" I said, "well, you can get alcohol in prison right?" So he tells me that no, you cannot. Beer and booze is completely forbidden. You can score weed and rock and H he said. Those drugs make the inmates calm and stupid. The guards like that. But he said if you allow booze people go fuckin nuts and end up dead or severely fucked up.
It's like those old school AA guys that talk about if they had one drink they would be dead. It's like an allergic reaction for some people. They either stay drinking until blacked out or just get super violent.
We spoke over Facebook chat and part of the conversation he was explaining the nuances of WhatsApp voice calls vs. Facebook Messenger ones. He said he could hear a higher fidelity in the voice on the FB medium. i'm like wtf!? haha!!
He was invited to a movie and he doesn't really feel like sitting in a big enclosed area. Also women. He is seeing dozens and hundreds of women everywhere. Something he is not used to at all.
He tells me he feels like he has been transported to the future!!!
- have a lookHijoDMaite
- https://www.google.c…HijoDMaite
- nothing but huge respect to your old man. he also teaches?sted
- yeah he has been running a school for many years in the prison.HijoDMaite
- he kidnapped murdered and tortured a dea agent?terry_cloth
- jesus fucking christ terrymoldero
- Terry the Troll®utopian
- him and 22 others were all blamed and convicted for it. his boss is blamed for making the order. https://www.youtube.…HijoDMaite
- Your dad was a cop? I've read articles from the link you posted, it's a fascinating story.ORAZAL
- Wow...crazy story. So your dad is somewhat famous for becoming a painter in prison.yuekit
- Thanks for sharing with us javi, I can see the talent runs in the family. Fantasticsea_sea
- fucking terry.pango
- Great story, keep posting!fisheye
- Awesome for keeping us up-to-date.sureshot
- I love seeing this story unfold here on QBN this way. I've been coming here for over 10 years, and this is the best thing I've seen. Love it.elahon
- Stunning work_niko
- Wow, crazy story. The justice system down there seems to be completely compromisedterry_cloth
- it ismoldero
- right, now kindly keep your personal feelings for me out of this, show some respectterry_cloth
- I was agreeing with you Trollmoldero
- holding grudges on the internet is lame as hell, grow up. anyways, congrats hijo, sorry if my question regarding the link you posted offended you and for theterry_cloth
- Terrycloth aka already banned troll http://www.qbn.com/g…
is not that smartmoldero - gaggle of children who follow me around talking shit for no reasonterry_cloth
- lol says the guy who goes around being an ass for no reason.pango
- Do you really have to be vindictive right now pangoterry_cloth
- Did I?
I apologies if I hurt your feeling. Truly sorry. Sincerelypango - Lolpango
- terry the cuntDiIlinger
- Dildoinger say whatterry_cloth
- He said you the cunt.pango
- utopian-2
SCIENTISTS believe that humanity is inching ever closer to total annihilation – as the minutes on the apocalyptic ‘Doomsday Clock’ keep on ticking down.
- https://www.thesun.c…utopian
- Maybe we wont have to vote!BabySnakes
- Take the battery out of the clock. Symbolic clock Problem solvedpango
- timelinedetritus
- lol @pangoyurimon
- yurimon-10
So i dressed up real snazzy to go to a party and forgot about Halloween prob because ive barely seen any decorations this year to drill this in my head.
I could tell that people have this hesitation in trying to guess who im trying to be. lol
- dress up like you have a job and just carry a briefcasemoldero
- are you not tired of that joke? it was funny like months ago. drag...yurimon
- the more you say "you don't like it", well I really need to explain this to you?moldero
- this is QBN man, you need a sense of humor to be here and not go nutsmoldero
- I can tell your a bit overwhelmed with me this morning, I'll chill, enjoy your Sunday :)moldero
- I was expecting some new material. you can only enjoy the same routine variations so many times. just sayin.yurimon
- what am I a comedian? am I here to amuse you? ~ Joe Pesci voicemoldero
- https://media.giphy.…yurimon
- Did you dressed up like someone who has a job?pango
- see moldy somehow pango was able to revive the joke one more time to save it from the drag. dont know why maybe the delivery.yurimon
- your arnold .gif made me bust upmoldero
- pssst... you didn't make a joke, yurimonospaced
- You should have gone as a Sheeplebuster and fashioned a proton pack for ze sheeplesset
- don't lie yuri, nobody's ever invited you to a partyscarabin
- get a jobDiIlinger
- yurimon-10
has anyone ever try this with a real girl and qbn? looks cozy.
- Me and the misses browse the NSFL thread like this every Wednesday eveningset
- pick those records up you animalsFax_Benson
- When my wife is having a bad day, I cheer her up just like this when I show her your blog posts.monospaced
- lol, thats great if true mono.yurimon
- fanni thing is that it's more believable than than anything from yurishitsted
- lol @ monofadein11
- clean up your records, you slobs!scarabin
- haha monomoldero
- it's truemonospaced
- i've browsed VotD with it on the big screen while she watchedscarabin
- pinkfloyd0
I need more excitement in my life. Everything seems so routine and i'm not really exercising any creativity. When I get home, i'm too tired and lazy to work on any personal projects. They've been in the back burner for years. I want to go to parties, drive across the country, visit paris, see more concerts. Bleh, my life is a bore. I'm just not taking any risks.
- only you, can bring back excitement in your life.ApeRobot
- ...we all pass trough less creative period.
It's probably just a phase. Cheer up.ApeRobot - #motivanionalspeecho...ApeRobot
- have two small apartments, when you feel everything seems routine, move to the other place, and after a few months back againdrgs
- I don't have money for two small apartments in NYC?pinkfloyd
- Had to move to an other agency bc of that feeling. But that was even worse, so I went back and it is good now. But I needed the shit to see what I have.Longcopylover
- Let's do a roadtrip, drive to Dallas and we can switch cars here. We'll go west or north.Maaku
- ^axe murdererpinkfloyd
- When I get the feeling you're describing, I've found out that what works for me is not needing a huge drastic change;Krassy
- ... even small changes help -- such as: preparing a completely different meal I usually don't make, or going for a jog (when I usually don't)Krassy
- ...or picking up a book I normally wouldn't touch, or listening to music I normally don't choose, etc.Krassy
- Im in the same boat as you. Really pushing myself to get back into playing guitar and photography.desmo
- use psychedelicsbliznutty
- ..and then become a drag queenbliznutty
- Longcopylover1
I am looking for positive films, musicvideos, e.g. shot in POV or what looks like POV.
NO, not porn. Not "smack my bitch up" by Prodigy. And not Nike "Take it to the next level". But in this style.Anything that pops up in your mind? I need to put it togehter and sell an idea. Thanks in advance.
- https://vimeo.com/65…sted
- https://www.youtube.…moldero
- https://www.youtube.…moldero
- Hardcore Henry was interestingsted
- https://www.youtube.…face_melter
- Thank you, I love you.
I got one great one for you too:
https://vimeo.com/14…Longcopylover - aaha that restroom scene :D fun is that i can't remember a single positive clip shot in pov :)sted
- Biting Elbows - 'Bad Motherfucker' https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- Thanks again everyone. And yes, I found much more drug- and fight-scenes than romantic stuff.Longcopylover
- PonyBoy2
I'm jonesing for a good PSB
- i nominate this gem:
http://i.imgur.com/r…e-pill - or this one:
http://i.imgur.com/a…PonyBoy
- i nominate this gem:
- HijoDMaite25
So I'm back at work since Thursday. I decided to take a couple days off to really digest this new reality. Of course I have been talking with him all weekend. Saturday they spent the day in the city checking out museums, his favorite was the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Art. He mentioned that he had never seen a work of art in person. 30 years he has spent studying the masters and learning from books, but has never actually seen a piece of art up close like that. He was 32 years old when he was arrested. My sister told me that they had lunch in the city and they took him out for hot buffalo wings, something else he had never eaten and now loves. I keep asking my sister how she sees him and how she thinks he is doing. She tells me that he is often confused and tripped out on everyday mundane things. He was tripped out when they were in a parking lot and approached one of those parking ticket dispensers. Swiping a credit card and pushing a few buttons and having the ticket come out was something he had never seen and had never thought about, little things like that. She tells me he is totally spaced out sometimes like he has a thousand different feelings all at once and other times he is like a child discovering new things. Yesterday they drove to the Mexican state of Toluca which is near the capital, but at a higher elevation with snow capped mountains, he loved it. They were there to deliver a painting to a client.
If you were wondering he has made up his mind and is going with the new iPhone instead of Android. lol
As far as posting on here and wondering about his past and his crimes. None of that matters anymore it's all in the past and seriously nothing you guys write is going to offend me, like at all. There is no secrets and there is nothing that the news outlets in Mexico and the U.S. haven't already reported. Our family has gone through years and years of exposure to every type of criticism or praise that you can imagine. We are so happy, I am so happy I don't think anything could get me down anymore, like for the rest of my life!
He has not started painting of course he is setting up his studio right now. I am very interested to see what his new paintings will look like now that he is free. For years his paintings have had a dark side to them or a strong political angle to them. He said he couldn't help it, as much as he tried to make happier art it always turned dark. His painting were also dull at times like void of color. It was difficult for him to access a good amount of quality paints. I would place orders for him through Utrecht.com in NYC because that was the only place he liked to buy paints from if he was not mixing his own paints. But that got to be very expensive. I would often treat him with a tube of white oil paint made from Led or Zinc from the website and just one tube was an easy $150. So he had a limited source of supplies. He would make his own knives and spatulas too. Now he has access to the best tools possible. Maybe a dope set of brushes would be a great Christmas present for him but I also want to get him a MBP like a 15" one he has no idea what those things are capable of doing haha.
Here are a few pics from the weekend.
In the first one he is with his wife checking out some of the Architecture in Toluca.
This is him inside the Rufino Tamayo museum in Mexico City.
This last photo is so powerful and moving to me and my whole family. This is just about an hour after being released. My little sister is holding him. She is 20 and has never known him outside of Prison.
- pretty amazing how life must be so new for him. Glad this is all happening Hijo and that you get to have more years with your pops.capn_ron
- I know he's got a reasonable-enough excuse, but you really need to talk him out of holstering his phone on his belt like that.detritus
- yup :)moldero
- no joke, I got emotional reading this because it's so upliftingmonospaced
- wait how can your sister be 20 when your dad has been in prison for 31 years?mekk
- :)Maaku
- Awesome. Ive always wanted to do a documentary about a person who was in prison for a long time and gets out to a new world. You're doing it through words.ArmandoEstrada
- lol detritus totally!!HijoDMaite
- @mekk conjugal visits.HijoDMaite
- This last photo is touching. Me alegro mucho por vosotros :)OBBTKN
- This a very touching story.yurimon
- Cheers for sharingsureshot
- I wish you'd put this on a site somewhere. It's a great story worthy of more than telling on QBN.mg33
- I'm curious about so many things, especially what prison life was like for him over time.mg33
- Seems like so many countries just have horrible prisons, harsh way of life in them. It's awesome that he was able to paint and do other things.mg33
- So I'm curious about how those opportunities came to be, when, when it felt like there was a consistency to his life there.mg33
- congrats man, i'm sooo stoked for you!scarabin
- @mg33 maybe i should do an AMA lol I'm so happy!!HijoDMaite
- iPhone wins again! Suck it benn!!pango
- lol, pangoGnash
- pinkfloyd1
I signed up for some free product 10 years ago, and that email account has been blasted with spam ever since (50 emails some days). I closed the account for several years, and reopened it this week because I miss that email address. Well, looks like the spam is picking up again on one of my favorite email accounts. What's the easiest way of getting delisted? I already have a spam blocker as I connected the email address to my gmail account, but this is ridiculous.
- gmail? try this:
https://unroll.meGnash - my gmail account is also getting barraged ... up to 30 spam emails per day, all from a .gdn domainmonospaced
- not really a problem though because Google filters them with almost perfect accuracy. unfortunately there's no way to unsubscribemonospaced
- nobody know's how to get off some spam list?pinkfloyd
- i know :) close the account. sorry buddy but your email address is sold like piece of grain in the stock market.sted
- gmail? try this:
- oey2
Was all weekend, actually since Thursday, working in a world music festival...checking QBN properly now since then.
Crazy story HijoDMaite!
Must me so difficult for him and so beautiful at the same time.
So many emotions...cannot imagine a little bit how it can be.Wish you and your Family the best.
Enjoy your time and happy reunion!
- freedom1
If a random client forgot to reimburse you for $10 of a $550 job (just got a check for $540), would you call them out on it or just move on?
I won't work for them again, just because it was a one time thing.
- move on, I supposemonospaced
- Send an email saying thanks for the payment, it was $10 short but not to worry about it. Let them know you noticed.fadein11
- ^ thisGnash
- Send them a dozen black roses and thank them for working with you.utopian
- Rumplestilskin their firstbornPonyBoy
- what fadein said,GeorgesII
- what fadein11 saidKrassy
- What fadein said only if it's an insignificant amount of money...but for $550, I would spam them until I get reimbursed.Maaku
- it's for $10monospaced
- Did you invoice them?bklyndroobeki
- You said reimburse, not pay you. Was there a bill that you footed up front for them? If so fwd them that invoice. Unless it was a verbal, if so let it go.bklyndroobeki
- since19790
Been doing the McCanaughy "Alright Alright Alright" thing. Cannot help myself.
- microkorg0
Having a bit of a clearout and bundled together a pile of old 7 soul n funk 7 inches from when I used to DJ that stuff.
Turns out some are worth a £20-50 each from checking on discogs.com
Win!
- Maaku4
Feedback at 5:00 never fails!
Thank you boss
