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- loool11
emotional rollercoaster:
sunday - yesterday: my wife and daughter left for a month on a holiday :`(
monday today: my birthday :) but being without them so i miss them :`(
tonight: i'll get drunk with my friends :) organised a birthday&goodbye party
this week: final week working in place where i worked for the last almost 8 years, kinda :( :)
next week: starting a new job in a new awesome place :)
- LifeBennn
- Oddly, I'm just today back from 2nd weekend visit to my partner and daughter who are away for August. It's good for them, and me, but not ideal.Nairn
- (I mean, good for them to be at home, in the warmth surrounded by family and friends, 'good' for me to be a miserable cunt, working late hours...)Nairn
- Hayzilla-1
I'm fucking furious at Apple for adding the ability to blur 'backgrounds' on peoples photos. It's a non-sensical cluster fuck of optical illusions on social media now.
- Meanwhile.********
- and filters?pango
- Didn't you know...if you can now say the word "bokeh" AND pronounce it properly, you're a fucking cinematographer?BusterBoy
- I'm sorry ... but weren't people saying Apple stole this idea from someone else?monospaced
- social media itself is a non-sensical cluster fuck.MrT
- Meanwhile.
- i_monk1
Is '70s design/typo trending, or am I just noticing it more?
- sarahfailin1
Ugh, explosion of maggots from fruitflies in my garbage can. Crawling all over the lid and shit.
I'm not super susceptible to being grossed out, but this is fucking awful.
- i_monk2
Suddenly I'm in charge of hiring designers. 10% of the way into the applications and they're terrible.
- Hiring a junior?
I'm about to do this and am freaked out over the same judgement(s) you're making.
*sigh*ideaist - When did this skill chart thing start? I saw one candidate rate her skill at being honest as 10/10. That just makes me think you lie a lot.i_monk
- Another top skill: "always punctual".i_monk
- Sadly that's how it goes with talent. You'll be lucky to get 1 in 100 candidates worth interviewing.monNom
- Craigslist!********
- 'That just makes me think you lie a lot.'
hahaha, +manyNairn - These days I give them contract work first to weed out the bullshit.zarkonite
- Throw out the applications that include skill charts or infographics of any sort. Trust me.ben_
- rather, tell your HR dept. not to even forward them to you.ben_
- They're called "junior" for a reason.utopian
- hire 2. and fire one on the first day for saying the wrong thing. 2nd one will forever behave now.pango
- Go on the web, people will work for you from 5 to 20$, that covers creating a logo to building a complex iPhone app.Bennn
- Made in India!Bennn
- Bennnsightful.i_monk
- Serious question, are any of these applicants coming from UX bootcamps or something similar?Maaku
- Two of the 40 I've got through so far have a UI or web coding bootcamp as their most recent education.i_monk
- Great thread. Contest time!Hayoth
- Maaku is now mad you've overlooked his CV.ben_
- So many typos... in portfolios too.i_monk
- lol, I'm not actively looking :)Maaku
- 1 in 5 don't have a link to a portfolio of any sort on their resume.i_monk
- One guy had a portfolio that was almost entirely 8-bit drawings of wrestlers.i_monk
- ^ reply with "GAME OVER"Maaku
- Send some of them my way.ben_
- Hiring a junior?
- MrT4
Doesn’t get much better than this and a fat one.
It’s Friday!!!
- OBBTKN0
Note to self: A dinner of rabbit with snails, tons of red wine and a gin-tonic is not a good idea if you need to sleep well, get up early and work next day.
- fooler5
While taking a crap at work I finish and stand up to pull my pants up and my $120 Kershaw EDC knife slips out of my pocket and falls right into the bowel.
I panic and think to just flush it down but I'm afraid it will clog and overflow. I tried to fish it out of all the paper and turds with the plunger but it just stirred up the poop water! I start to gag but have no other option to put my bare hand in the bowl to retrieve it.
I feel so gross and dirty even know I've watched my hands and pocket knife 10 times already.
I'm gagging just retelling the story! I better go wash my hands another 5 times.- great, now every time i go to shake someones hands in the future, this will be all i'm thinking about.capn_ron
- sell it. You'll never not think about your hand in there every time you look at it.Fax_Benson
- Give it to your best friend's son?Fax_Benson
- https://images.geniu…Fax_Benson
- Meh, you ever try to dump an Winnebago toliet externally and the tube comes unbuckled... Pfft. Gag city.robotron3k
- First world problems thread********
- Ha!Hayoth
- Relax its your own shit, I don't gag about this stuff, man up and move on.********
- At a certain point, and this one of them, $125 isn’t that big of a deal. Not worth plunging your hand in your own shit and piss you sicko.monospaced
- It's a bit of your own piss and shit, so fuck?Nairn
- Tha f*ck you got a knife at work with you for?!microkorg
- You gotta wash your hands, not watch them! Rookie mistake.antonyjwhite
- @microkorg, lots of people have every day carry pocket knives on them, they are a useful tool.BabySnakes
- I take public transit and our office is in an "up and coming" neighborhood (aka sketchy AF!). But mostley to open Amazon Prime packages.fooler
- The lady doth protest too much, methinksautoflavour
- robotron3k-1
I'm bored, shellie are you spinning tonight?
- mg33-1
Anyone else outrageously into this new Post Malone album?
- BusterBoy0
#awkward
An ex of mine has been posting photos of her new cat on Facebook (yes I still follow her). She's given the cat a hyphenated name...and both of them are names she used to call me. Quite unique, so there's no way it's just a coincidence. The messages she posts are quite disturbing...could be restraining order time! :0
- Do we play guess the names in these notes or start a thread?Fax_Benson
- no!BusterBoy
- Lol faxpango
- https://www.qbn.com/…renderedred
- Buster-Boy the cat?fooler
- hugh-jorganBusterBoy
- Maybe she called all her ex's those names.eryx
- Maybe...but one is a derivative of my first name.BusterBoy
- Ex?adrok
- wait.. the cat's called asshole-fuckwit???Projectile
- you want to get a restraining order against the person you're stalking?MrAbominable
- Sausage-Rumpleforesk...
Bum-tickler?
Manroot-Knobgoblin?
Arse-opener?pedromendez - Tiny-Winker?i_monk
- Stop following her, fuck her and her cat.maquito
- https://ih1.redbubbl…renderedred
- What maquito said but in another order, fuck her cat, and her, then stop following.Maaku
- Thanks for the kind suggestions!BusterBoy
- 1. We've followed each other for years. Were friends after we broke up. No big deal.BusterBoy
- 2. Yes, it's an ex. VERY ex.BusterBoy
- 3. I've forgotten.
Carry on.BusterBoy
- _me_-1
why does pinterest never remember your login details and takes, like, 3secs to close a fricken tab....
/end rant
- ********-1
my dog is probably on the level of a human 3 year old and with all my "advanced" cognitive abilities I cannot see the world through his lower cognitive thinking eyes. Such a weirdo sometimes. Are you sharing with me your chewy toy or want me to hide it, or done with it and want me to hide it from others. do you want me to hold it, throw it... probably a parable for even the best and smartest central planners.
- your dog wants a tug of war. This is always the preferred option.
Close second: a chaseProjectile - whats the common intelligent behaviour of a 3 years old human?pango
- How does it feel to have a dog with the same cognitive abilities as a dog?ben_
- https://www.youtube.…ben_
- really blew that one.ben_
- Your dog isn’t even on the level of a 3 month old it sounds like.monospaced
- Although I wouldn’t be surprised if you were that slow as a 3 year old. ;)monospaced
- labradoodles. emo fuckers. cute as hairy nut sacks. ben im glad you got the joke about the level of a dog...********
- ... didnt watch the clip ... 1:10 in this day and age is like an hour and 10 seconds********
- also seems the idea of very smart people that make other look like 3 yr olds still probably cant plan for the 3 yr olds and other ages.********
- besides caging them and putting them on leashes. a bit of a parable********
- What?!monospaced
- lol.ben_
- i stated basic intelligence of a dog. my dog is a weirdo and does shit i cant figure out yet im a much smarter human being. and im tasked to provide for him and********
- only him and still struggle with truely knowing wether its satisfactory. parable of even a smart leader deciding fates of many dumb shits they dont get and********
- decisions not based on a single entity... usually a intelligent person will tell you they cant do the job required, leaving other types. what is intelligence********
- also worth in such situations? i think people can learn a lot about themselves, and place in society by life they take care of.********
- Lolpango
- your dog wants a tug of war. This is always the preferred option.
- dasohr-1
I listened to Doja Cat all weekend. I never even heard of her until Saturday. This is not the kind of music I usually listen too.
- ********0
Went to an "art show" this weekend. Didn't realize people still did bad Shepard Fairey rip-offs, tried to sell splotches of watercolor on paper for $500 and spraypainted corny slogans on canvas.
- Shepard Fairy's are bad ripoffs to begin with. I just can't believe people still pay for them.ben_
- ^ how about lazier versions with bad colors? Shep's at least puts in effort.********
- ********2
Neck and hand tattoos everywhere these days.
- bliznutty3
took a digger on a onewheel the last day of burning man (last sunday) - the onewheel malfunctioned - i was knocked out on the playa for a while - friend thought i was dead. just got my catscan back and results show i have a broken clavicle, torn ligaments/separated shoulder, 4 broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. i'm having surgery next wednesday.
- funthymes. I am in week 12 post ankle surgery from breaking bones in the moshpit. clearly signs of getting old.dasohr
- get well soondasohr
- shit! that is a bad spill. get better bliz. did it at least cap off a good week out there for you?capn_ron
- thanks capn.. no regrets at all! best burn yet. i now get to combine my 2 fav things in world: snowboarding and burning man. of course i'll pay the price!bliznutty
- Shit bud. Get well soon.eryx
- I saw that, thought it was an art performance. No encore so I left.********
- Holy crap. This was on a unicycle?garbage
- you deserve it you fuckin dirty burner hippy! with you non hippy tech gadgets. Fuckin up i80 and shit for locals id vote on this but have no idea which********
- direction has any meaning********
- garbage: onewheel.com (electronic skateboard)bliznutty
- ^ was joke. People ride those things everywhere here. I have seen people walk their dogs with them while using a selfie stick.garbage
- https://media2.giphy…garbage
- But seriously, hope you have a speedy recovery. It sounds like you were flying and it just stopped?garbage
- it malfunctioned and sent me into full-speed while i was in a tail press (brakes) - at least that is last i remember - i came to hours later in bm hospitalbliznutty
- i_monk1
This has bugged me for years:
I'm trying to remember a commercial from the late 90s or very early 2000s. It was for Palm, Motorola, maybe Blackberry, or someone in that area. It featured a woman in a toga or robes, like an Olympic god, and when she used the scroll ball/nub on the phone/PDA the sun rose and set in fast forward. There was a scene in this Olympian setting, but also one on the street of a city (a person reacting to the sun cycling by).
Any of you remember this?
- I remember that! cant remember what it was tho... but i do remember... Would have been in Calgary (canada) at the time.mantrakid
