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- i_monk1
I really hate the job search grind...
- colin_s0
for the past four years or so i've been living in a co-op artist/anarchist space that last week was tipped to the fire department (primary suspect is a real estate developer as it's in a great location in portland). they gave us 72 hours to get all evidence of people living there out, and then will follow up with a laundry list of renovations to accomplish. needless to say it's probably a few months until the space goes under.
so i'm turning 36 in a few days and have to fucking move all my shit up into my mom's garage. then i dunno. maybe head to NYC and try and get a real job again.
shitshow holidays.
- imbecile0
Project cars anyone? I remember someone took someone else's Suzuki, a few others tend to older makes of some nicer cars I believe. Anyone take on a project car? Take it apart, repair it, reassemble it? Looking at taking one on for next year. Any words of experience to share?
- 73" Super Beetle is my car.shellie
- I've done this a few times in the past with friends rebuilding old cars. If you don't have the pressure of a timeline, its a great time to bro out.DRIFTMONKEY
- I have enough work to keep my Multipla running. But a friend of mine is restoring an Alfa SZ, such a beautyOBBTKN
- I had the Samurai. I have had a hell of a time getting the paperwork settled with the previous owner. Typo on his name on the title, going through notaries..garbage
- ..to get the forms straightened out. He's really dragging his feet, and the rainy season has started so that project is on hold.garbage
- It's just sitting in front of my apartment and I'm hoping that it doesn't get towed. Project cars are great though, you learn a lot through the frustration.garbage
- OBBTKN, your first comment nails my situation on the head. The same friends have helped me with motorcycles before, so I'm thinking I should do it.imbecile
- Oops, my comment was directed at driftmonkey :)imbecile
- Taking shit apart is fun. Take pics along the way. It'll make it easier to piece back together.DRIFTMONKEY
- I know i was alone in the fiat thing, (goes crying to the corner...)OBBTKN
- My 98 Pathfinder is Def a project from time to timerobotron3k
- 1951 Chevy Bel Air 2-door hard top. Doing it up 60's show car style. https://c1.staticfli…GM278
- ^ 48 Olds front, 52 Caddy Tail lights, spit pontiac bumpers, Corvette 350 motor, Mustang 2 suspension, Suburban rear, stainless exhaust, 56 Bel Air dash...GM278
- that's sick!imbecile
- Thanks. My advice would be Set a realistic goal for yourself. Project cars are money pits. Especially if you're not getting your hands dirtyGM278
- and doing it yourself. Have a budget set aside for it. You dont want to go into the red NOR do you want to be stuck trying to sell some half finished projectGM278
- should you give up on it...of which you'll NEVER see the money you sank into it. You need to commit to the passion project or don't even start it.GM278
- My 51 required a whole second shell to make one solid body because the original was in sad shape and that was before doing any of the fun custom stuff.GM278
- ended up buying a 51 convertible chassis (stronger - has the x-member in it) and built up the whole car off that. Like I said - money pit. :PGM278
- i've done a couple motorcycles, a jeep when i was younger. i understand budget and time will both creep away. our goal is to wrench as much as possible.imbecile
- the plan is to strip, repair, rebuild, then reassemble. paying people for specialty parts or labor we can't do along the way.imbecile
- BMW e30 325i, like 12 years ago. quick fun car but looked like ass and we wrecked it. Worth a small fortune now. Back then the rims were most valuable on it.mekk
- pinkfloyd3
There's a crying baby with the vocal chords of an adult italian male.
- SimonFFM4
I will be on tour again soon and therefore be quiet on QBN for a while. Not that you will care, but as I posted frequently recently, I decided to tell everyone I will sign off for four weeks...
- i_monk9
Interviewing this week, hope I don't suck!
It's a block away too, so that would be amazing.
- good luck!dmay
- And a recruiter just contacted me. Rubbing pango's belly worked!i_monk
- Good luck!GM278
- sucking might help?Fax_Benson
- Pango's belly's too big to suck.Nairn
- sorry. Good luck!Fax_Benson
- Good luck, i_monk!
xNairn - +1Gnash
- Good luck... don't suck!PonyBoy
- Good suck... No luck!OBBTKN
- J/k monk, all the best, go for it amigo!!OBBTKN
- Crush itDRIFTMONKEY
- Lolpango
- Belly rubbing was $50 bucks. I accept PayPal.pango
- nocomply6
Hi friends.
Remember a few months ago I posted that my wife was going to be leaving her job in the world of higher education to come work for my business?
Well, it happened!
We're on day 5 now. We're figuring things out as we go.
We're still working on a new business name and website, but we started a blog here: https://minimalchaos.blog/
- Cool zombie how about Duorobotron3k
- Ignore zombie I fat thumbed itrobotron3k
- best of luck :)Gnash
- congrats!pockets
- great to hear dude. Hope it all goes well!
two heads are better than one :) you two will do great together :)exador1 - Nice. Love the sticker!!mugwart
- great job, cute video! :Dsea_sea
- i don't know you and i don't remember but i wish all the best!sandpipe
- Thanks everyone! Especially the anonymous one of you who emailed me through the contact form!nocomply
- I'll try to post some updates to this QBN blog as well.nocomply
- Make it work! Good stuff!stoplying
- pockets5
so recently my windows machine had a system update and i lost power during the update. Now my cpu boots with repairing HD and gets stuck at 3-9% for the past 4 days, did a few restarts and booted in safe mode etc. still no dice.
i guess the only option is a hd repair disk or a windows repair disk?
- Ya that happened to me once.
End up reinstalling the OS and copy over whatever was on the Harddrive.pango - Back up your bootdrive!pango
- yea i think im just going to pull the hd and xfer it to a external and reformat.. bittercircles
- gpartedmugwart
- https://ubuverse.com…mugwart
- mugwart what do you want with that? :Dsted
- burn it as a iso to a usb - boot it up. try and fix hard drive!mugwart
- pockets: HDD smart detail reports any errors? (if not don't touch the partition) This is a windows update failure and something gets stuck.sted
- can you boot up a restore point or just the safe mode?sted
- 3-9% for how long, if you have tons of files on a big partition it can take up to 40-60 mins to check. can you share a screenshot?sted
- (i know it isn't booting, yes pls with your phone lol)sted
- for future, my IT guy set this up for me at home. best $200 spent
https://www.bhphotov…futurefood - boot it up from another disk and recover current diskmekk
- Ya that happened to me once.
- _me_3
http://www.fallingupwards.com.au…I finally put a collection of some my work together...
- cheers!oey
- Dude, that's some solid work. Both what you have worked on and the agencies you have been involved with/started. Hi-fives.thumb_screws
- ^ thumb_screws > thumb_upoey
- very niceGnash
- Bennn0
Those are the most popular password of 2018. GREAT WORK people!
1. 123456 (Unchanged)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 123456789 (Up 3)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
5. 12345 (Unchanged)
6. 111111 (New)
7. 1234567 (Up 1)
8. sunshine (New)
9. qwerty (Down 5)
10. iloveyou (Unchanged)
11. princess (New)
12. admin (Down 1)
13. welcome (Down 1)
14. 666666 (New)
15. abc123 (Unchanged)
16. football (Down 7)
17. 123123 (Unchanged)
18. monkey (Down 5)
19. 654321 (New)
20. !@#$%^&* (New)
21. charlie (New)
22. aa123456 (New)
23. donald (New)
24. password1 (New)
25. qwerty123 (New)
( More info: https://gizmodo.com/the-25-most-… )
- 'donald'?? yucksarahfailin
- Woohoo! None of mine.i_monk
- well combined and rearranged there's 2/3 of half of my passwordsoey
- like: sunshine@donaldoey
- i_monk0
Interviewing at a place tomorrow, but other than the (award-winning) founder's bio there's almost nothing about the company online. It's been around a few years and he has a history of running places like it, but all the work is a few years old, there's no presence on social media, and I can't find a single other employee online.
How do I ask "wtf?" without sounding like a dick?
- Better ask now...OBBTKN
- i'd love to work with a company that didn't depend on social mediaimbecile
- "this company seems to have no social media presence, or much info about it, how do you secure clients, how do you build a name for the business?"shapesalad
- OBBTKN3
I think I need new friends
- Maybe you just need friends.
- inspirobot.mesoundofreason - I think I need some friendsautoflavour
- Awwww... The sound of reason, nice one mate, nice one, lol!OBBTKN
- I think I need new friesoey
- Maybe you just need friends.
- BattleAxe5
38 and fat, what happens next?
- new friends.renderedred
- eat betterimbecile
- I lost 10 lbs this year just walking 1 hour a day.i_monk
- You buy a Harleypango
- pornautoflavour
- 39 and fat?yuekit
- Just a little water weight, you could lose it if you want.robotron3k
- Mad pussywagshaft
- ^ lolHayoth
- Diabetes.NBQ00
- what happens next depends on you. are you content with how you are? do you want to change?dorf
- moped?
fun to ride but you don't want you friend see you riding one. *winkpango - Get a bike! Changed my routine and now I'm biking to work 3 times out of the weekfuturefood
- change diet (cough plant base), change life styles and outlook on lifemugwart
- "get busy living or get busy dying" - Red
"Do or don't - there is no try" - Yodamugwart - Cough plant sounds awful - no thanks!Nairn
- For me stress was the biggest factor leading to unhealthy habits... sure it's obvious the stuff you SHOULD do. But there was no way I could ever do ityuekit
- back when I was working full time at an agency with constant deadlines and overtime.yuekit
- Now that I have my own business and some good clients, I can actually plan my life to be healthy.yuekit
- Intermittent fasting.section_014
- it`s ok how you are! accept your body. but there is one thing you have to know. if you want to stay how you are now, you have to do so something.api
- what's next? hair loss.chukkaphob
- You become invisible to peoplecannonball1978
- Next is...Giant Grey Hairs in your ears and nose..Experienced both and 38/fat as well.DarkCover
- autoflavour3
that old friend of mine got 24 years for Murder..
game over.
- Sorry to hear that man.PhanLo
- :-( crazyoey
- Is there any ambiguity that he didn't do it? Did someone kill his dog? Otherwise he probably belongs in there.pango
- Sorry it's someone you know...pango
- Damn.robotron3k
- only 24 years for murder? that's cake walkutopian
- game over for who?api
- No, she definitely stabbed the guy.. along with her boyfriend. It’s sad, but yep, it’s where she needs to beautoflavour
- https://www.esperanc…autoflavour
- Damn crazy!shellie
- i_monk1
Well, I don't think I'm getting that job.
- Why not?Nairn
- How was the owner? Just curious... And don't go down, back to street to get another oneOBBTKN
- hm...oey
- sorry to hear.Gnash
- No refund!pango
- how do you feel about it? did you had a good feeling about it or what is more of you needed it and it was in a practical way near by?oey
- He wants to pay jr. rates for all-inclusive brand/id work, and shares the office with a bunch of other companies he runs. Shortest interview I've ever had.i_monk
- The place was quiet as a tomb too, very odd.i_monk
- you're better outOBBTKN
- ^oey
- and there's better for sure. but sorry to hear you still haven't find anything. but that was not meant to be ;-)oey
- Asked our hr for your CV but they said they didn't receive it? Find me on LinkedIn if you're still interested.. Ben motz.ben_
- Also sorry it's been a bit, loads of travel.ben_
- ^ +1oey
- lodef8
made a collection of these little baggies and the graphics on imgur,
https://imgur.com/gallery/2PQxUZ…
- Love this. Thank you for the gift.sublocked
- Too many of these are familiar. Ugh.monospaced
- great collectionbezoar
- The worst was when the ye would get in the grooves of the seal and they would not close.HijoDMaite
- see_thru15
Just picked up a 12 week old Husky / German Shepard cross from the animal rescue folks....super stoked. She's a beauty.
- great!Krassy
- score! the beginning of a beautiful relationship.hotroddy
- wow! have a good time together.api
- Give her the best home you can. We said goodbye to our dog on the weekend. He was a rescue dog and we'd had him for 12 years.wcargill
- pics!Gnash
- friend till the end. never let her down.Bennn
- ^ says the guy who abandoned tigersoey
- congrats you just inherited Satan's spawnHijoDMaite
- i never abandoned tigers oey :PBennn
- shellie9
I was so stressed when my contract ended 11/11. I was like Fack, really? Right before the holidays? No way I'm going to get another gig before Christmas.
After a week and a half I got a contract that was also a $5 an hour raise that would carry me through the end of the year and even longer if I wanted. But, today I received a staff offer at another agency for an amount I was prepared to have to fight for. A slight cut from contract work -- but there is always time in between jobs so my rate over time not worked goes down anyway. But, the benefits! Health, dental, and vision benefits fully paid for by the company as well as life insurance. I haven't had health insurance in over a decade. 401k if I want to participate and profit share deal points that could really give me a nice bump. They want me to start January 4th! I'm so stoked.
I'm mostly looking forward to not having the stress of hunting down my checks which is why I decided, I'm going to hang up full time freelancing for a while and when I return I'll be less of a doer and more of a consultant with more executive cred and probably a hellava lot of certs under my belt.
Meanwhile, I got an email from VICE and they want to interview me. (◎⌑◎) When it rains, it pours. But, their Glassdoor reviews are scary. Anybody here work there before?
- christmas has come early!hans_glib
- Congratulations... Good to be in demand and great time to get good newsdee-dubs
- Amazing time to get good news, break up and all, because I had no idea how I was going to make ends meet alone without a runway.shellie
- congrats!oey
- an employer can pay to remove bad reviews. So the fact they dont speaks a lot. They have been brought out buy so I'd go against this.mugwart
- after a lifetime' in big VFX companies I'd say go with a company that looks after their employees. That means your more a mindset to work on your own projectsmugwart
- You're 100% right mug. I have a handful of personal projects I want to give time to so work/life balance is very important.shellie
- Always up for good news, great to hear!helloeatbreathedrive
- imbecile10
I bought it. It’s a pile of disassembled shit, but I bought it. 1974 American General FJ-8A light duty delivery vehicle.
People usually turn them into ice cream or food trucks. Sasha Baron Cohen drove one in Borat (his was an 80’s reissue).
No fresh pics yet as it’s still dark out and I didn’t get it home until it was dark last night.
It was a tweakers toy for a while I guess. A lot of self-created and unfinished problems they left for me to attend to... put the gas tank back in, look into the carb, a battery and a starter would be nice, rerun some lengths of several spliced wires. The back door is completely missing...
And get this, my insurance said “nope”. The right hand drive / delivery nature of the vehicle will require commercial insurance or a classic policy from a place such as Haggerty’s.
Already a few hurdles, but friends and surprisingly my father are stoked to work on it so all is good.
- haha, great - what's the end intent?Nairn
- Body off / frame up rebuild into a delivery for hire daily driver. I’ve always liked small box vehicles and have owned Am Gen Jeeps in the past.imbecile
- but whydrgs
- hell yeaBonSeff
- get offline and turn some wrenches. good for you.BonSeff
- Cuterobotron3k
- https://i.kinja-img.…microkorg
- tiny home?sarahfailin
- whatthefunk2
Vote on Holland Tunnel Decoration Placement
This week, a NJ man started a petition asking the Port Authority to fix the decorations on the Jersey-side of the Holland Tunnel tolls, because—as you can see above—it looks like a real funky monkey. The tree is over the letter N in the word "Holland" instead of the letter A, which seems like a more natural fit, and the wreath is over the letter U in "Tunnel," making it look like "TONNEL."
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H…
