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- PonyBoy2
So... cable guy (Steve) was just here to bump me and mrs pony into the GB-level download tier.
I was sure to clean up / make the modem / cable area 'accessible' so as to make Steve's visit more productive.
Steve needed access to the outside of the wall in which the cable comes into the apartment. I opened the patio and showed him where to access everything...
Mind you our kitties utilize the same patio as their shitter (litter is kept out there). But it's empty / clean as I PREPARED for Steve... so his experience would be ideal for proper cable upgrade / installation.
A few mins went by and Steve informed me he needed to head outside (downstairs) to where the cable comes into the apartment complex. He was gone a good 20 mins and came back up a sweaty mess as the junction box is outdoors and it's over 100° F here in Phoenix at the moment.
So about another 20 mins go by and I head back into the main room to see how Steve's getting along. Holy shit... it's smells of mad cat shit... like... a battalion of kitties shat in my living room.
The patio door is cracked so I step out there to check the smell / see which box has been filled... ... nothing! No fresh cat poop anywhere. I step back inside my living room and WOW... STINKY STINKY CAT POOOOO SMELL FROM HELL!!
I search around the room looking for a kitty accident... NOTHING.
So... I approach sweaty Steve who's in the corner of the room working (and make it look like I'm interested in what he's up to)...
... HOLY FUCK, STEVE... you smell like cat poop.
- did he poop in the cat litter at least?pango
- box was empty... maybe Steve left me gift somewhere?PonyBoy
- rude!pango
- Some people just have horrid BO.BabySnakes
- so steve stood in cat poop and walked it into your house. no your house got cat poop rubbed into it.shapesalad
- hahahahasea_sea
- the 'brown cable' guykingsteven
- docpoz-2
As per Issac Asimov: technology will enslave a major part of humanity and only those too primitive to use technology will be spared.
Those people will be humanity's saviors
- HijoDMaite0
I spent the last day or so explaining to my father what click-bait is. He asked me not to get upset when he posts stupid shit on Facebook because he doesn't understand how something can be published on the internet when it's a total lie. He feels as though he entered a time machine from 1985 to this day, he doesn't quite understand the technology in his hand yet.
I feel bad now, but I think he gets it. We started to dive in to how bot programs work but I reeled it back a bit. He has a lot to learn still. The hardest part was having to speak about this whole subject in Spanish.
I imagine this is how all of our older relatives feel. At least the ones that weren't using computers until Social Media apps came around.
:-(
- okTaschen
- I'm still getting chain email from relatives lol
Forward this mail to 10 people and money snake will reward you with large sum of fortune!pango - I wanted to show my boss your dad's work. link?shellie
- nm found it. - sshellie
- shellie! https://javierarmstr…HijoDMaite
- Compare everything to a car, that's how I explained to my dad. He still calls WiFi Wiffee though...robotron3k
- Lol the story of my life with my mom. I literally have done hand over hand with her so she gets the concept of swiping and selecting things.sea_sea
- My favorite, asking them their email or wifi password, if they remember, it's always the name of the favorite grandkidrobotron3k
- First explain chick-bait, then he might get click-bait.shapesalad
- SimonFFM6
Today, I began signing and wrapping the first copies of my new book. Not sure, if anyone of you is among those, I had a couple of USA addresses in my hand...
I'd be proud and happy if any of you guys would like to get a copy. Currently, the pre-sale is still 5 EUR discounted.
https://www.simonbolz.com/shop/s…
P.S. I met someone today who's wife does not allow him to see my book which I find rather shocking for a grown up man...
- who's > whoseSimonFFM
- Tits!robotron3k
- Noice!BabySnakes
- LOL, yeah maybe if you are a 21 yr old bachelor. Pervy coffee table book don't you say?severian
- I'll reach out on Friday, what's the email?Maaku
- congrats!plash
- ooh that's fundocpoz
- @Maaku Just go on my website, please. https://www.simonbol…SimonFFM
- Your shots are awesome but to be honest I don't think I'd be allowed your book in the house either. Not something to have on the coffee table when you have kidsmicrokorg
- was thinking the same thing...exador1
- Oh okay, thanks!Maaku
- micro that's why you get yourself a gentlemen's lair. Man Caves are so last decade...mg33
- just lost my chubbyutopian
- section_0145
I feel like I'm people's fucking Dad when I nag people about recycling in the office. There's 50 recycling bins in the damn building. They're everywhere. But, I watch my fuck-head co-workers throw their pop can right in the garbage.
I'm gonna start unplugging their monitor every time I see it or something. I mean, wtf, how hard is it?
- Tell me about it. Same thing happens with my neighbors and their dogs. There are pet waste stations everywhere at my complex and they still don't pickup afterMaaku
- Sadly, most people simply don't give a shit. It's infuriating, disheartening and downright fucking irritating, but most people are utterly selfish and lazy.Nairn
- the damn dogs. There's shit all over the place because people are lazy as fuck.Maaku
- I really wish it weren't so, and I really wish my life's experience hadn't taught me as much, but it's the cold hard reality.
Humans are shitheads.Nairn - If it werent for the slim chance of hope that technology offers us, I'd say we'd be totally fucked as a species over the next generation or two.Nairn
- ...and, frankly - we'd deserve it.
it's ok, you and I are better than all those fucks, section_014.
*looks off into middle-distance*Nairn - I came out of waitrose in Russell Square, in front of me an 50+ old couple, just drop their receipts on the floor. So I said "you dropped something"shapesalad
- ...and pointed to their trash. I mean, they had just walked past a bin. They looked like little kids when told off by their mom's. Idiots.shapesalad
- My grandmother used to pick up people's trash and give it back to them, saying "do you drop your rubbish on the floor of your home?"shapesalad
- you should issue fines for any trash not recycled.shapesalad
- Signs you care about the Earth.notype
- pop ... hahamonospaced
- Time to buy a fuckin' NERF gun and teach those cunts in your office a lesson I reckon!microkorg
- Every time I scroll past this quick I misread it as "I feel like i'm fucking people's Dads"Nairn
- NBQ00-4
Does any QBN'r work for Pentagram?
If so do you like it? Well paid?
And if not would you apply there?
- DO big houses pay well? Or do they still employ the ethos of "You should feel honoured to work here! so stop moaning about the pay"?microkorg
- ^ "Look good on your CV/Portfolio"Hayzilla
- the do solid work. not sure why such the hate-on for themGnash
- Im talking about big houses not them specifically.microkorg
- Had a friend who got a position at Attik London back in the day. Ended up walking out after a few days. Everybody was robots working like fuck...microkorg
- ... didnt take lunches or breaks and worked from first thing till late at night every day. He thought "fuck that shit"!microkorg
- microkorg, and Attik probably paid their senior designers & creatives £20K/year?NBQ00
- I would imagine pentagram pays very well - at least their senior people.Gnash
- mg330
We've got a collaborative playlist on Spotify that plays in our office now, and it was going great until some monster snuck in some Santana...
- careful, some big Santana fans on ere :)fadein11
- Early Santana is bestdocpoz
- I prefer raisins to santanas.microkorg
- Before 80s production watered him downdocpoz
- agreed @mg - fing hate Santana!mugwart
- amazing how many people began hating Carlos once he worked w/Rob Thomas...PonyBoy
- Got a black Magic woman!!!HijoDMaite
- it's really amazing how Rob Thomas launched Santana's career. yet he gets the hate.futurefood
- Thoughts and prayersgarbage
- "re"launched, futurefood... relaunched :)PonyBoy
- lol microMrT
- @futurefood
Just like Maroon5 launched the Rolling Stones career.soundofreason - Puff Daddy launched Stings career toodocpoz
- docpoz-10
It's obvious that nostalgia goggles fuck with my logic. I'll tolerate something if it has the familiarity of the past but at what cost to my rationality?
- peteski-5
boomtown
- Bartz, Yorkie, Shultzy, Fisky...DRIFTMONKEY
- MoobtownFax_Benson
- see you in another 10 years?peteski
- this isn't helpfulhans_glib
- dablammit7
Been a minute since I've posted. Seven years or so.
Since then I got married, (wife) had three kids, bought a house in the 'burbs, self-employed or whatever. It's all fine. A little exhausted but no worse for the wear. Stagnating a bit creatively, but not too worried about that long-term.
Anyway, off to watch the latest Castle Rock.
- see you in 7 years then...BusterBoy
- ^ lolKrassy
- Do you really think we give a fuck about your house, wife and kids?soundofreason
- ^ meanie.Gnash
- < well done.Gnash
- ^^^ so edgy.
< Im obsessed with Castle Rock too.DRIFTMONKEY - wtf sound, I was expecting a "JK" comment after that.Maaku
- ^ i have a feeling @soundofreason was speaking tongue-in-cheek ;-)Krassy
- I actually lol'ed but then "signs you're getting old" took over me.Maaku
- @Maaku
If he's been here for more than 7 years of course he knows I was kidding. I've been gone for a few months, this this bar change owners?soundofreason - ;)Gnash
- Sometimes I wish I didn't have to give a fuck about my house/wife/kids. Latest Castle Rock was a bit of a bloodbath, quite a turn from last week.dablammit
- hahahaMaaku
- BabySnakes-1
I got 3 separate inquiries to my availability for web development work today. I had to tell them all i was booked until the of October and they all pretty much were fine with the wait.
Is there really just high demand for development work or just a shortage of quality devs?
Freelance has been blowing up for me in the past 6 months but when i started 3 years ago it was so slow to get rolling.
- end of October*BabySnakes
- If you have a mixed background with design, then yes, there is a shortage of that type of hybrid developerMaaku
- time to brush up my Dev skills...shapesalad
- NBQ00-1
Met with a potential new employer/ agency. They know I'm very skilled and talented... but I'm not sure if they care as much. I sometimes get the feeling big companies & agencies care more about bullshit things than actual work skills & creativity. At least that's the feeling I got from some of the questions they asked.
Time will tell. If they don't take me on then I guess it wasn't meant to be and they didn't deserve me.
- tangoxray3-9
The past was great when you were a kid, but compared to now, it would've been shit as an adult.
Politics notwithstanding.
- tangoxray3-7
The Muppet Show was The Simpsons of its time
- tangoxray3-8
Adults don't need lids on their cups
- mekk-1
- So far mostly more of the same, "Lucky You" is pretty impressive though.dablammit
- sounds like something to easily give you a headache.shapesalad
- 45 years old white rapper with annoying voice.Maaku
- dat plastic surgery thoimbecile
- whos more annoying on voice: eminem or bob dylan?docpoz
- Dylanmonospaced
- Lucky you is the only track I dig so far.HijoDMaite
- This is terrible. LOL! If this wasn't put out by M&M, noone would care at all. LOL!chukkaphob
- dylan mcdermott's last albumfuturefood
- Fuck first track is dope tooHijoDMaite
- reggaeton beats with m's voicehotroddy
- sounds like it was produced in puerto ricohotroddy
- mehKrassy
- License To Ill cover ripcannonball1978
- This cat always sucked, and still sucks.section_014
- I'd argue that's it's vastly different from his previous stuff. At least he's ditched colabs with Shearen and Rhianna.TOMMYxGUNN
- Them beats are atrociousscruffics
- man you guys are a miserable bunch of people :-/mekk
- @mekk nah, we're just no sheeple and know what's good and what's not. That's all.chukkaphob
- Settle down, fanboydocpoz
- Or is it just Stan?docpoz
- freedom-3
What credit card rewards are you getting?
- Debt is my reward...pango
- ^ lol and this ;-(mugwart
- amex cash back 1.25%, paid off card each month = 1.25% extrashapesalad
- AmEx 6% off groceries.monospaced
- 2% back on all purchases.monNom
- docpoz-9
Who's at fault when you get an app invite for an iphone app and you have Android?
The app developer?
Me for not having iphone?
The email sender?F the whole thing, then.