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- OBBTKN1
I've got a very important meeting tomorrow, to talk about getting funds to publish 2 side projects I'm working at, an illu book and a comic.
But I've been very busy, and I've got time now to show a decent briefing to them.
I'm going to have to use my masculine charms to convince them, lol.
Wish me luck!
- Hayzilla0
Umm how do you do that link to a post thing here? Permalink I think. Has the option disappeared?
- monospaced1
YouTube videos are now auto-playing on QBN when I scroll past them on my phone. This is new.
- Thanks, Google!Nairn
- someone mentioned that at the office the other day. apaz, if you have battery saving mode on then they don't.scruffics
- riveting stuff, i knowscruffics
- fucking google, apple, adobe, facebook, etchans_glib
- https://www.instagra…PeterPancake
- lol i thought i had fat fingers the past couple of days haha_niko
- ideaist0
"Butt of the day" thread trending...
...Works in office with a dozen women...
...Conflicted.
- Hayzilla0
One of the reasons Amazon is such a success to me is half the websites out there look like utter bullshit I don't trust them. Fuck it I'll just get it through Amazon.
- Thank Goodness then, that Amazon is so trustworthy!Nairn
- My friend told me if you a successful vendor, Amazon sees, sources your product, then puts you out of biz. They did to him, that their thing.robotron3k
- ^ I've heard that too. But they do it with everything. They are not blind to things outside their site. They'll do the same to anyone anywhere.Hayzilla
- Nairn0
For the record: I believe a nuke will be used somewhere in the world in the next five years. Ten at a stretch.
- (hopefully QBN will be around in 2029 and I can laugh at how stupid and paranoid I sound)Nairn
- ok boomerrenderedred
- ok boomerKrassy
- ok broomerdorf
- World war 6!nbq
- Okeedokee boomerokeeelahon
- But I agree 100%. If the 2020 election goes the way I fear it will because of $$$ and corruption, nukes may definitely be in our future.elahon
- @elahon LOL you can't be seriousKrassy
- Luckilly, you're a record that skipsBustySaintClaire
- They’re making baby-nukes now so the chances of one being used have just increased by an order of magnitudeGnash
- Alright, alright, alright.utopian
- 'zactly, Gnash.Nairn
- I like turtlesautoflavour
- I don't believe anyone has the motive for this, apart from maybe polar bears who lack the technology.PeterPancake
- are you living in that basement again?sted
- mg331
Hypothetical question that my wife and I could not answer last night. This honestly sounds like something for Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Let's say there's a woman you see regularly at work - not a coworker or anyone you really have a reason to know or talk to other than common courtesy. Let's say she's pregnant and happens to be the type of woman that looks incredibly happy, glowing, beautiful, really looks meant to be a mom and just seems suited to it. You dads know what I mean.
Let's say your impulse as a man is to want to compliment this woman, to say something that speaks to being a parent yourself, remembering how happy and glowing and beautiful your own wife was when she was pregnant.
It's a matter of simply wanting to give a compliment that might be a nice thing for a woman to hear.
In this day and age, is there any possible way to give such a compliment without seeming creepy, or awkward, or like you're hitting on the woman?
We couldn't answer that and couldn't exactly think of the right thing to say under any condition if that person is a stranger.
- there is not enough information
for this decision.sted - I would do:
a, pack that compliment in something nice to keep the proper distance.
b, to persuade someone to make such a comment and watch the results.sted - c, talk my wife into a play where we can find out the answer. ( e: she makes the compliment, what opens an opportunity to be honest with her lol)sted
- These are the wrong times for that kind of crazy talk. Back away slowly. Don’t make eye contactGnash
- @Gnash I don't think that a change like that in your behavior would be a good idea.sted
- do it, then plot twist: she's just a fat chick._niko
- adding the disclaimer, "I'm married and I'm a dad" helps I guessmonospaced
- If your intent is honest and supportive - which it seems it is - why worry. It's nice to be nice. If they takes offence then i suggest they have the problem.Morning_star
- ‘Their’ problem would be fully supported by HR, thoughGnash
- congratulations, you're glowing! so nice to see that.renderedred
- *only if you're sure she's pregs otherwise you fucked ;)renderedred
- risky to ask 'whens the due date?' .. could just be over-weight or something... best to just say 'good morning' or something....exador1
- "your impulse as a man" sounds fun...SimonFFM
- The real question is... Why do you need to do a compliment?OBBTKN
- "not a coworker or anyone you really have a reason to know or talk to other than common courtesy." - okay so knowing that, how personal do you thinkben_
- you can be without overstepping some social boundary? If she's 100% pregnant why not just say "congrats" and if she acknowledges you in a positive way thenben_
- slide in your compliment. But if this is a person you're barely an acquaintance with and you're unsure, then maybe just resist?ben_
- "you remind me of my wife when I got her pregnant"nb
- I think his point is that he’s painfully aware of the social boundary. Explaining it over and over is redundant. The point is that the boundary has shifted.monospaced
- I remember strangers saying similar to my wife when she was pregnant and it was never really creepy. It was clearly meant in earnest kindness.monospaced
- there is not enough information
- PonyBoy0
I'm struggling w/updating my site...
Is it worth taking a website to a more 'experience' level type of site like back in the old days of Flash? It's possible to do some pretty cool shit and I can even translate a lot of it to mobile...
... but is it worth it?
- I think it depends. If you can use cool visual elements that aid in browsing the work and telling your story, can be good.mg33
- If it's just trendy interactions and BS that will annoy people and doesn't enhance anything, not good.mg33
- I obsessively catalog agency inspiration and work and there's a big trend right now towards techniques that I feel confident are just annoying, and will die offmg33
- in about six months.mg33
- There was a time when the energy on the web 'demanded' something new nearly every six months (and this was a good thing)...PonyBoy
- ... however I don't feel like that energy exists anymore. We're more worried about shit working on browsers from 2001 than we are at being inventive. :(PonyBoy
- yupGuyFawkes
- Mine contains my folio and resumee, the portfolio is being very usefull to hunt new clients... But I need to update the resumee side. Don't waste much time mateOBBTKN
- MrT10
MrsT's birthday yesterday and a couple of the neighbours sent her this card...
What you sayin' !?
- you want lemon in yo' tea, sucka?PonyBoy
- Upvote MrTea toreceive ethereal joy through happiness, and $1k in your mail.sted
- ..... lol you're known as Mr.T irl too?pango
- surname T : ) Old gaming-day colleagues thought it was hilarious because "he's black, hard, and cool and you're not."MrT
- I pity your neighborutopian
- flol MrTNairn
- hot!fadein11
- sted-1
In 2008 I had the opportunity to execute my first exhibit designs at a construction trade show for two clients. With one of them, first time showing off the product I re-designed. This included the financial and marketing planning for both clients, and a complex strategy winning my first from the automotive industry :)
Because we couldn't sell them anything new, just show that we can do the standards properly one of the clients was basically used to finance our playground for the other one.
We had some nice ideas but one had a more important purpose than anything else.
I knew that any photo we take can be used for marketing purposes without permission or compensation. The goal was to make as much photos as possible, what we can use in the upcoming campaign for the products.We sold the idea of building miniature houses, with their exact same way made and looking product on the roof, what we will put on RC cars and drive these around the show. With the help of a friend and after 5 days with lots of mistakes on the learning curve, we made 3 awesome rolling houses with 3d bitumen shingles :)
I still remember the suffering and the fucking pain we had by just developing the know-how to apply the pattern on the roof in the first night, and getting back to the office in the morning to copy-paste the brand materials for the other clients design, and mute the phone while i'm yawning. The photographer was a really nice new guy who understood what I want. We agreed on the numbers we're going to buy in raw, and the 3 concepts for the campaign shots.
Everything went amazing.
People could not be scraped off our rolling houses. We made tons of awesome photos. The guy was extra nice and after working 3+3 hours with lots of girls/sales people all around the two places + the walking with the houses and directing people for the photos, he sent me over the low-res previews for 1-2k raw pics every night. And on the third day he made the perfect kitsch photo what I had in my mind, about the popping happy kid with an endless smile touching that rigid dark bitumen roof like he wants it.We won, the new client what meant taking part in the introduction of a large model face-lift campaign. Starting with an exhibition in 60 days. Lots of work on my end, and exactly zero time to care about a campaign what we will execute in 4 months.
I never was be able to get those photos because the guy wasn't paid in full. The financial meltdown just started to emerge in Hungary so my boss used that as an excuse not to pay. And I was told that everything was fine. Later the campaign was called off because he couldn't show the invoices for half of the client's marketing budget after an audit, and I had to give up my first patent contract for the product design to avoid the lawsuit.
- It sucks it didn't pan out, I feel your pain. At least you learned something, you'll be able to use that new knowledge later I'm sure.zarkonite
- mg333
Been working on my site for a new music project on and off for a few months and hit a hurdle with something and felt like scrapping it and starting over. Wouldn't you know... changing a div from relative to absolute was all I needed. Probably fumbled around for 5-6 hours over a few nights trying to figure that out. It's always the stupid simply things, isn't it?
- Fax_Benson5
DKMS help match blood donors for cancer patients who don't have compatible types in their family. You just sign up, get some swabs in the post and send them back.
UK - https://www.dkms.org.uk/en
Germany - https://www.dkms.de/en
- shellie1
I received a job offer yesterday, but I need to negotiate. They're so close but just a little off. I think they're reasonable people. I'm hoping they'll either bump the salary, have the company pay for a handful of things that salary bump would cover, or a combination of both. I definitely want to present a few options that would be easy to swallow. This is the most stressful part of the process.
Has anyone been offered share options? It's included in my offer, but I have no context how much I'm being offered (to buy) relative to how many exist. I'd like to know how much equity in the company I could get my hands on if I wanted.
- Stocks are typically fixed & act as loyalty bait, u may need 4 yrs to be 100% vested. IMO go for better title or wave stocks for more $$$$. But if u interestedrobotron3k
- In just making money off stocks, I would not hang my hat on that. There other factors, size of company, your role, time to be vested, are also in play...robotron3k
- Sound advice this time robo ;)shellie
- take the salary, share options are only that - optionsgrafician
- in 3-4 years you could develop your own startup, take the money in the bag for nowgrafician
- I still need them to come up on the salary. but its not far off.shellie
- Are they "family" shellie?canoe
- Lol canoe, companies love to say that shit.shellie
- whatever shelliecanoe
- Shel many people have asked me for career advice and I honestly LOVE helping people get work. Mono have me a complement about my advice once androbotron3k
- I said to myself if mono says something nice, maybe people may be interested in my experience. And this inspired me to write a book on how to get a job in therobotron3k
- Creative and corporate world. I completed a full draft and hope to self publish in about 8 weeks. So best of luck with your negotiations! U can do it!robotron3k
- Interesting Robo. i'd give that book a college try just to see what you've been getting into.shellie
- Robo's advice on this one is indeed sound. Get the salary bump, if they are share options you should accrue as you gain seniority...ben_
- at most companies it doesn't mean much tbh. Friends (employee #7, and one who had his biz acquired) at shopify are frigging bagillionaires now though.ben_
- Shel I may take you up on that when I tighten up!!!!robotron3k
- Hayzilla0
Do you think this site is real?
https://mainlandskateandsurf.com…Seems okay. But they stock anything that is sold out everywhere else and their FB has absolutely 0 likes or comments.
https://www.facebook.com/mainlan…- Call em?canoe
- Are these them with dif DBA?https://cookiess...robotron3k
- https://cookiessf.co…robotron3k
- ^Thats the site I've bought from before. But they've sold out of everything. Dubious about the stock but this other website.Hayzilla
- I thought about calling them but what do i say? and wouldn't they just say YES we are legit bro.Hayzilla
- drgs3
Stepped in poo today
Discuss
- Life’s shit sometimes.NBQ00
- Your own?Gnash
- I wishdrgs
- @Ganache - ha!canoe
- shit happenspango
- Ganache!MrT
- who's Ganachache?drgs
- https://www.youtube.…ayport
- Did you scrape it off with a stick or spalshed it off in a puddle of water?islandbridge
- I too want to know how you resolved this personal minor crisis.
Deep grass for shit-removal is increasingly hard to come by in N LDNNairn - Threw the shoes away. They were old winter shoes which I only used to walk to the gym, I've had them for 10 yearsdrgs
- drgs-1
Watching the gay version of The Bachelor on TV.
It's now my favorite showDiscuss
- Hayoth-13
America mfs!
You can't hang with patriotism of freedom!
You can't bring us down with your radical agenda!
Kneel down and raise your fist high, you'll never survive!
It's super bowl time!
- such socialism, so wowfadein11
- What the fuck are you even talking about? Football isn’t what you think it is clearly.monospaced
- Just because it has a flag on it doesn't mean it's yourscanoe
- you really need to stop huffing glue.utopian
- America is weirdmaquito
- Real Americans don’t say stupid shit like this.monospaced
- Deciding who is a real american or not is a slippery slope.deadsperm
- It was a joke.monospaced
- Patriotism of freedom? That isn’t a thing. And even if it were, what’s that got to do with the super bowl? And how is the NFL separate from a radical agenda?monospaced
- Once again. Not really things Americans would say if they were real Americans.monospaced
- SimonFFM2
After years, finally I have a fast internet connection here. There was a technician here this morning who installed an amplifier for the cable. And finally, I don't worry about 100mb QBN gifs anymore. Cheers!
- You told him you needed the PornHub-Package?NBQ00
- Believe it or not, I never visited this domain in my life.SimonFFM
- You are so pure, Simon. But then again you see enough tits and pussy.NBQ00
- True. Sometimes it's funny. When my wife walks in and I have a pussy open on my computer zoomed 100% while retouching.SimonFFM
- @Simon You sir, are a gem!grafician
- ApeRobot1
Listening to Elon Musk EDM track on souncloud...it's bad, really bad.
https://soundcloud.com/user-2094…
- i_monk1
The cat (we got a cat) is mesmerized by the mouse cursor on the screen. He sits and watchs, and will rush into the room to stare at the blank screen in anticipation. The screen is covered with little footprints.
- A friend/colleague who I IM with all the time constantly has his communications interrupted by sjkdfhlkasdf asjkdfhkasd which he blames on his new catNairn
- ..personally I think he's suffering strokes or masturbating or something and his 'cat' is just cover. I've seen the fucker - it's too fat to jump up on the deskNairn
- @nairn It's either strokes or stroking.garbage
- 'zactly, garbage!
@i_monk - it's a shame it's not the late 90s and we still have over-sized, animated cursors that were 'so popular' back then :)Nairn