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- doggydoggdog-1
At what age did you feel like you "made it" and really got going on your career?
- 28monospaced
- 39bezoar
- 40capn_ron
- 34Al_dizzle
- 50.
and i'm not even 50 yet.pango - Honestly, it's just been the past couple years, and I'm 39.mg33
- 26sted
- LOL.. shit.. still waitingautoflavour
- ^ same my dudesureshot
- My career can eat shit, it does what it does, and it's not important.robthelad
- ^ agreedsureshot
- 37bklyndroobeki
- although it's VERY relative as you can see.bklyndroobeki
- wut pango sedmoldero
- career means that you sold your ass for good? for me it means that I found the stuff what makes me happy, brings professional success and pays the billssted
- doggydoggdog-2
Anyone have years of crappy jobs or business moves that didn't pan out and you wish you could go back and do something else?
- doggydoggdog-1
If you inherited $1,000,000,000, what would you do with your life?
Would you travel and go crazy or would you find some way to help people or both or become an artist?
- a little from column A... and a little from column BAl_dizzle
- how much does it cost to buy a small country?pango
- hookers and blowautoflavour
- Burn it all down.i_monk
- Run for president, regret all of life after I win.shellie
- But really, become a mother and help others. Maybe craft a bit but mostly float through life sprinkling blessings in the form of solid gold nuggets.shellie
- nothing, absolutely nothing.dorf
- all the aboveBrokenHD
- I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.fooler
- I'd probably blow it all on expensive things, and die from overdose a few years later.mekk
- setup my own self sufficient state, become a tax haven, make more money
put a little into asteroid mining maybe then hookers loltrooperbill - buy QBN, set everyone's username to 'omg', sit back and watch the chaos.face_melter
- fooler stole my line.SteveJobs
- Only 2? You gotta think big.
*including big chicks.pango - *Notpango
- buy an island, hire some gene splicing scientists, profitmoldero
- doggydoggdog-1
Anyone ever had an art show?
How much $ did you make?
- had a few.. most was like $800 after costs.autoflavour
- I have been thinking about this a lot. Do you mean host one with multiple artists or have one with your art only?HijoDMaite
- seems like the wrong question to ask. If you're doing it for the sake of making money, there are a million easier ways to do so._niko
- Art shows don't necessarily produce money for you. It would all depend on the gallery and if collectors are showing up.sea_sea
- 3 of us, so not solo.. but not group..autoflavour
- GeorgesII-3
You have to give it to NASA,
discovering 7 new exoplanets and calling that discovery
TRAPPIST......ffs NASA....
TRAPPIST
- upvoted to stop you crying over downvotes againfadein11
- LOL @ fadein11oey
- downvoted because I like to see this burn.face_melter
- *thingsface_melter
- the less I post, the more fadein knows me, I think I'll just goGeorgesII
- monospaced1
Missing a major deliverable deadline because the animator grossly underestimated the encoding time required to output the videos. I feel sick.
- woopssted
- 14-hours per screen, and we have 9 screens synchronized. Ugh.monospaced
- Now we've got 8 different people each running an encode for a separate screen, so we'll make the deadline, barely.monospaced
- that's also a smart move, my idea would be to buy the capacity from some encoding/transcoding service. 14h*9 is almost a weeksted
- Files to Barcelona by tomorrow, so it looks like HDs are getting couriered, or someone's getting on a plane, to deliver these. Total cluster.monospaced
- Good news is we won't miss the deadline. Bad news is that the animator is going to have to do some serious explaining for his misjudgment and process blunders.monospaced
- face_melter2
Slayer are playing Gröna Lund in the summer.
Ya fuckin' dancer!
- oey2
had an important meeting today.
arrived home 16:30.since 18:00 I spent my time eating, sleeping, smoking weed and watched three episodes of lethal weapon.
outside is raining.
- oey1
and, I just farted.
- enjoying (the) lifeoey
- living the dreamautoflavour
- How were the acoustics where you were?HijoDMaite
- awesome! specially cause I have a drum kit in my room and that delivers some extra ressonanceoey
- scarabin0
how important are cover letters to you in your hiring process? i've heard answers ranging from "not at all" to "i won't look at your portfolio unless the cover letter is enticing".
tryin' to improve my cold-emailing freelance hustle.
any tips?
- all the examples i've seen are corny boasting and just restating information in the resumescarabin
- I include a brief 2 paragraph intro within my email in lieu of an attached cover letter...whatthefunk
- look at the cover letters after you pick the best resumes. if writing is part of the job, it can mean a lot.sarahfailin
- I think that the importance of a cover letter is directly proportional to how senior the position is.Gnash
- i'm thinking that may be the best approach, whatthefunk. minimize the amount of clicking/downloading they have to do while having some kind of tailored introscarabin
- you need to show you understand their biz and what kind of asset you'd be for themGnash
- Do you attach cover letters? Just send a nice note praising potential employer and attach your portfolio.freedom
- i don't, but i hear it's a common practice?scarabin
- Test it, send some with and some w/o. Or, add a link to cover in one - see what happens.whatthefunk
- Resume contains details and history. Cover letter explains you understand them, their resource need and how you meet it perfectly. Briefly and concisely.fruitsalad
- Cover letter should briefly explain that you understand their resource requirement (job offer) and that you meet it perfectly because you offer X, Y & Z...fruitsalad
- ... see portfolio and attached resume for confirmation of this.fruitsalad
- And always try to imagine you just walked past a job ad in a shop window. You walk into the shop, they are busy, what do you say to get the job?fruitsalad
- You would concisely explain you see they have a need, and you meet it because you have such experience, such skills, and you offer x price for your services.fruitsalad
- make them an offer they can't refuse.don't negotiate,walk away if you don't like their offer.fruitsalad
- ^ +1Gnash
- so you mention rates up front? interestingscarabin
- autoflavour2
Gah.. macbook pro just turned itself off, even tho it was plugged in.. then proceeded to be dead for the next 10 minutes.. nothing..
now miraculously alive again.
stay together you old bitch.. i cant afford to replace you at the moment by any stretch of the imagination..
- backup now!scarabin
- ^ Seriously, save it before you lose it.garbage
- Is it as old as my mid 2010?HijoDMaite
- check the system log to know what's wrong...probably overheating of something if it came back after cooling downuan
- back up now!monospaced
- Some people might tell you to back up, auto. Were they to do so, I would agree with them.Continuity
- I didn't even notice scarabin had written the same thing.monospaced
- bake up now!sea_sea
- freedom1
What age do you think you became an adult?
- Don't know... i'm 31 and i still don't feel like it.pango
- 27monospaced
- The age you take care of your own shit.eryx
- 5 minutes agoHijoDMaite
- yupmoldero
- tomorrow I promisested
- 27 is the asshole agepinkfloyd
- once you're paying ur own bills without a parental safety net, ur an adult. Once I was 16 my mom has never helped me w/ anything financially. That'll age u up.shellie
- Oh in that case ya 16pango
- Otherwise I'm immature AFpango
- lol @ pinkfloyd, what does that mean?monospaced
- paying my own bills and take responsibility for my actions since 17. but still get at 34 that I'm not an adult :)sted
- HijoDMaite2
Anyone bored and super good at restoring photos in PS?
I'll send you a 16"x 24" print from my print store:
http://www.jarmstrongphoto.com/p…
Old buddy of mine really loves this pic of himself. He fixes up old cars, really nice guy.
anyway just thought I'd throw it out there.
- http://i.imgur.com/d…
like this?uan - ^ ffs!face_melter
- puts in restoration jesus facemoldero
- Ice Cube is your friend?ArmandoEstrada
- But like with real colors or like they did in the 50's?Maaku
- Funny guy!!HijoDMaite
- This might take a lot of time...pango
- post a better scan, that would make it easier. a flat scan with not weird shadows would help.
'cause dealing with the shadows and distortions first is no fun.uan - lol uanfadein11
- HAHAHAHAgarbage
- man this photo is thrashed. Was it out in the rain?dbloc
- Carb cleaner splashed on it he said.HijoDMaite
- I think it look pretty dope as issinjun
- Honestly the face will be the hardest part, but you could probably clone the other sidedbloc
- http://i.imgur.com/d…
- utopian36
Upvote steak. And the steak will find you within 24 hours.
- I can get behind this.Continuity
- lolernexbcn
- nice, but Ive already got shawarma!sureshot
- Cow's only eat grass - how do they get protein? Their stomachs contain bacteria, they eat grass to feed the bacterial, the bacteria is what they actually 'eat'.fruitsalad
- So your grass fed cow steak, should technically be labelled "bacteria" fed. Bacteria protein fed steak. hmm yummy..fruitsalad
- haha, I've been saying as much to people over the past couple of years, fruity :) "Cows are actually gigacidal bastards"detritus
- Only quarter piece of steak. Would not bang.fyoucher1
- lol are you really confused about how the biology allows plants energy to be converted into proteins?monospaced
- Sorry.monospaced
- This looks beautiful.monospaced
- The only thing I would have done is salted that band of fat, so it crisps up nicely. Also, the flames are a bit high.Continuity
- No, monospaced, I think he gets it entirely, which is why he wrote as much and then made a joke about how it should really be named.detritus
- Yes I know. That's why I apologized.monospaced
- -_-set
- Those flames! Please... Raise the steak a bitOBBTKN
- and down voted :)oey
- it's a shit cut of meat, anyway, oeyGnash
- face_melter2
Signed up and paid for my kayak course, which allows me to become a full member of the club. Friend in the office who is also a member gave me the heads-up that they were opening registration - to prevent yuuuuge numbers, they open it for, like, 14 minutes. Jumped on that shit like Trump on his store-bought wife.
- how far to you have to drive for good water?Gnash
- I live in Stockholm - good water is everywhere. The club is almost in the centre of town, on the edge of the main waterway. Takes me 20 mins on the t-bana.face_melter
- sounds cool.shellie
- sweetGnash
- Yep, last time I was in was October. Been itching for it ever since.face_melter
- I've looking at getting this in the spring: http://www.swiftcano…Gnash
- I'm canoe camper generally but I prefer the kayak when solo paddling. the Pack Boat seems like a good hybrid for meGnash
- portaging a kayak is a pain.Gnash
- The one I use is the super skinny, speedy one - as wide as your arse and about 10cm out the water. Turn on a dime and slice through the waves.face_melter
- sounds nice :)Gnash
- pango0
Just found out i kind of knows another old time QBNer from vancouver... lol
I don't know him, but i know who he is. Ran into each other on the street once actually.
you know. the moment when you go "whoa?! that was him?!" kind of fascinating.
- shellie1
dropped my pipe with a freshly packed bowl in high pile carpet. :,(
that's what I get for using an unsecure smoking device. yuge mistake. totally unrecoverable. lock me up.
- Our trick as kids was to put a tissue over the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner so it would suck it all up in to the tissueset
- *salutesDRIFTMONKEY
- in hindsight we ended up smoking all kinds of dust and nastiness as well, but that didn't seem to matter to 15yo's who'd just dropped their last jointset
- 50 lashes with a wet noodle for you!robotron3k
- oey-8
If I may I would like to say that I find that piece of meat burning in the front page sort of offensive.
I don't judge people's diets or choices when it comes to what they eat, I don't preach my choice and try to convert people into vegetarianism, but I find it unnecessary to be confronted with that in this fashion.
Nothing personal utopian.
- need a safe space?monospaced
- plants can think and vegetables have rights you know...robotron3k
- sometimes I do mono, sometimes I do.oey
- you're silly, but were you always a vegetarian? ever miss meat?_niko
- I don't eat meat for 20 years. I'm vegetarian for 4/5 years. I never missed meat. I'm not silly.oey
- no meat for 20. veggie for 5... what did you eat for those 15 years inbetween?Gnash
- what i eat nowadays and ocasionally fish.oey
- being vegetarian is not silly ... being "offended" by an image of grilling meat is though :)monospaced
- :p I'm not offended by the image itself but that it's there bam! I don't mean it should be censored. I'm expressing a feeling. not condamning any action of...oey
- ...individuals in voting or the voting process consequences.oey
- lol ... silly :)monospaced
- kona12
Im signing up for a blacksmith course at this shop near me. It's an actual blacksmith barn built in the 19th century that once stood in wisconsin. the building was disassembled, shipped, and reassembled in my town.
I'm stoked.
- never go full hipster_niko
- wow! have fun!oey
- I've taken a few classes. Loved it but can't afford a space for that hobby :( it's a beautiful skill to learn.Maaku
- Never pick up anything from the floor. Metal can get very hot without turning "red hot" and those burns hurt more.Maaku
- right on! great tip maaku!
lol niko. I just need to build something with my hands and smash something with a hammer.kona - was the "stoked" pun intended? if so, well doneGnash
- Careful, your dominant arm might get huge and then everyone will think you just wank too much.ETM
- Should have said: "Never pick up any metal from the floor with your bare hands"Maaku
- as a teenager i wanked with my non-dominant hand for this exact reason, and it grew into a habit, true storydrgs
- Your first project will probably be a nail :)Maaku
- damn that sounds funscarabin
- join my zombie apocalypse survival team. We'll definitely need a blacksmith.shellie
- lol Gnash. yes, yes it was. There are 3 stages of courses maaku. It doesn't way what we'll build with the first course but we get to keep what we build sokona
- i'm hoping we blacksmith some weaponskona
- ^ we are are still kids at heart. My first grade 7 'shop class' project was ninja stars (along with most of the other boys)Gnash
- There's one of these in my home town, the beginner course starts with you and an instructor, and after a weekend you go home with the knife that you make.BuddhaHat
- and then it ramps up from there... i'm seriously interested in giving it a shot, i'm fascinated by the blacksmithing videos, and making damascus steel.BuddhaHat
- good luck, and post updates!BuddhaHat
- Sounds fun. I wonder if there's one around me. I want to learn how to weld too.dbloc
- Kona what happened to skateboarding?! Have you already given that up? Wait, I know! These classes are just so you can build your own custom trucks, right?nocomply
- why is black smith called black smith?pango
- ^ https://en.wiktionar…Gnash
- Have you ever seen the TV show "Forged in Fire"?dbloc
- but why black?pango
- black is the colour of the oxides that forms on the iron when heated. A smiter of black metalGnash
- smiths who worked with lighter metals, tins, etc. were know as whitesmithsGnash
- lol nocomply. skateboarding was great for a few days while the weather was nice but it's winter here again in chicago. besides,kona
- i bought the boys electric dirt bikes for christmas so we've been beating the hell out of those every chance we get. little suckers are fast!kona
- ahhhhhhhhhh thx ganshpango
- Well fuck me, i had no idea about whitesmiths vs. blacksmiths. Thanks, Gnash! Have fun, Kona. Post pics!detritus
- i_monk3
Trigger warning for oey.
Doing this in the slow cooker tomorrow: chuck short beef ribs, mushrooms, pearl onions, potato, and a saved gravy made from Guinness and lamb shanks. Mushy peas on the side.
- I don't have any problem with it per se. My thing is that I open QBN and the first thing I see is that piece of meat. I know it's how votes work.oey
- why you hating, you a piece of meat too...robotron3k
- damn that looks goodpinkfloyd
- oh sht hate you i'm hungry now.sted
- I'm not hating.oey
- lol robo, good onemonospaced
- yeah robo, very good onepinkfloyd
- okay, whatever.oey
- the fucking lamb shanks from the gravy -- that sounded good, tooGnash
- Lamb shank gravy aside, that sounds wonderful (I don't dig on ovine)detritus