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- ********2
Just got a Canon EOS 700D with a Tamron 18-270 mm, what's the best protection you can get for this ? to go outside and be able to shoot fast ?
- AR-15 maybe?monNom
- For killing Arabs ? yes********
- Just going to get an Eastpak all other stuff is expensive useless shit********
- I've got one of these leather everready cases for a smaller eos-m system. Works great. Flip down the flap, shoot, flap back up, stowed. https://www.megagear…monNom
- I keep a uv filter on lens so I don't need a cap.monNom
- ^that's a pro move bro'grafician
- What kinda protection you talking about? Rubber?pango
- You mean a bag? Find a weatherproof sling. Nothing about that is weather/waterproof.garbage
- https://www.peakdesi…garbage
- Their shit is overpriced, but sleek? Maybe a good starting point. Hiding a Tamron is like hiding a boner in church lol.garbage
- My daily is a rock, so for the past year or so I've just used this: https://www.uniqlo.c…garbage
- And as for filters as protection, I'd say nah to UV and yah to variable ND. You guys bring out the photo dork in me.garbage
- I got a second hand eastpak for 10 euros, I can pad the inside if I want********
- The Tamron and the Canon got it for 240 euros in ebay, in the original box with all accessories plus small SD card and spare batterie.********
- @pango, rubber is gay********
- @garbage, why a UV protection, what's the use of that ?********
- UV filter for preventing accidental scratches to the glass.pango
- that peak design's everyday sling is pretty nice. and yes, cheaper options are out there.pango
- this one is not bad
https://www.lowepro.…pango - Could you point me to a UV filter for the Tamron on ebay for ex. ?********
- well... im not sure what brand you gonna end up with on ebay. just look for 62mm UV filterpango
- okay, thanks********
- Yeah, if it was a prime I'd say a variable ND, but a UV is fine for that lens. And Domke wraps, if you're really heavy on protection.garbage
- https://tiffen.com/p…garbage
- If I'm going one camera, one lens, it goes in the sling with that around it.garbage
- ^ I just use Domke wraps for my cameras, the velcro holds them nice and tight. Wrap them up and throw them in my bag. Doing it for years, no problems.face_melter
- I absolutely hate carrying extra kit, so I have never had a 'proper' camera loadout bag. Just my rucksack and the Domke's.face_melter
- Uv filter so you can just clean your lens with your t-shirt when it gets dirty. Once you've scratched up the filter glass, replace with a new one and repeat.monNom
- @pango, it's 72mm********
- Oh shit you're right.pango
- grafician2
Oh man, the notes I keep typing then deleting 'cuz they'd be too much 'cuz I'm a nice guy...
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- haha. I do that all the time and think 'man who the fuck cares...'inteliboy
- PhanLo0
With all the rain last month, we'd got some floor water come in to the crawlspace under our floorboards. Just some moisture on the surface, but still enough to make the air feel damp.
So we got a dehumidifier to remove it, been enjoying going under the floor to empty the machine 3 times a day and the house is returning to normal.
Thankfully I'd cleared it of all the debris left over nearly 100 years by builders, 150 bricks, copper pipe and cables to make it easier to get around
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- Nairn1
So ..um.. without checking: To you, how big is Iceland?
Answer in the notes in your local terms >
- My answer - and I know what the right answer is, but still - it's 1 Scotland.Nairn
- Actually, slightly smaller, but wer.Nairn
- Iceland is not of this world man, you can't size it...grafician
- One Vancouver Island.monNom
- Maybe as big as Boots or M&S. Chicken nuggets 1 pound.MrT
- Thoughts of Iceland ?********
- 1 Bavariaa_aachen
- Greenland is the mindfuck, Iceland is what I would have expectedGnash
- I know Greenland's huge - I was just surprised by a map the other day that showed Iceland about two or three times as big as I expected.. hahaNairn
- 3 Germany'ssection_014
- One and a half small Canadian province.
Unless you're talking about the other Iceland. In which case, see MrT's reply.Continuity - Its gigantic compared to Andorra!stoplying
- pinkfloyd0
I got a design question. Which label looks better and why?
- left: 80's trading card
right: casino
that's all i havemoldero - another image https://cdn.shopify.…pinkfloyd
- Looks is irrelevant. Which one gives you the info you need to know with the least amount of work.Gnash
- ^lolpinkfloyd
- This is a design question, not uxpinkfloyd
- right looks better as it's designed. left looks un-designed, just done in Word or something - just the top label we're discussing yea?grafician
- yes label onlypinkfloyd
- the PSA ones look like they're output from a labelling machine, while the Beckett ones look designed, what's the issue here?grafician
- there is no issuepinkfloyd
- you're the issue!pinkfloyd
- All design questions are user experience questions. Unless you’re talking about decoration. As far as that goes they both suckGnash
- If the card grade is the most important thing then the right one is better.monospaced
- if you want to profit, ask to design that shitty PSA logo lolgrafician
- I see gnash has really maturedpinkfloyd
- Just asking which one looks better. Keep it simple stupid.pinkfloyd
- left looks more official with that barcode & centered logomoldero
- I'm a f designer pinkfloyd, I already said my opinion, wtf you want from me anymore?! I even destroyed the new intel logo in the Logo of the day thread, what?!grafician
- bored?pinkfloyd
- Left one looks better. Right one look much less betterGnash
- lol you guys are even designers?grafician
- man you guys suckpinkfloyd
- stupid?monospaced
- ?pinkfloyd
- ok, keep doing, what you guys keep doing...pinkfloyd
- freakzpinkfloyd
- rightpango
- Left. Ux. Unless need added info on right********
- left: 80's trading card
- colin_s3
i live in los angeles now in my first apartment in six years. kind of weird.
- Continuity0
nb, just so that we understand each other ...
... I still haven't forgiven you for this:
- you're too civil Continuity, but don't get savage on us rn chill commongrafician
- ffsake now you brought heeey f macarena into my brain again!grafician
- :)Continuity
- ugh i managed to miss this the first timecolin_s
- Heyyyyy moderatah********
- ********3
- OBBTKN11
My cousin died yesterday. She was only 40.
Fuck cancer!!
- :( Sorry to hear.BusterBoy
- Fuck cancer. :(sea_sea
- :(pango
- :(Continuity
- :(PonyBoy
- damn. sad to hear.milfhunter
- Only 40 ! what cancer ?********
- bummerhans_glib
- :-( My condolences...oey_oey
- @i_was, ovarian, later, it expandedOBBTKN
- and thanks all, she was a cool womanOBBTKN
- :(scarabin
- Condolences, man :(jagara
- :( rip********
- So sorry...********
- Fuck man, sorry to hear!! Yeh lost my mom that way, and I can 100% confirm FUCK CANCERProjectile
- Sorry to hear that - too young - feel your pain_me_
- condolencesrenderedred
- Lost some in my fam to the same, fuck cancer.garbage
- my condolences.
I lost my old friend this summer to cancer. She was around that age too. We spent 90s attending raves. :(zaq - Sorry to hear, that's terrible and way too young.ben_
- sorry bro. damnDRIFTMONKEY
- :(Krassy
- sorry :(d_gitale
- sad just sadutopian
- dang. condolences. Sorry for your loss.dibec
- Sorry, man. I’ve lost 2 cousins to cancer last 2 years. It’s a fucking brutal diseaseGnash
- Horrible news. Sorry man.stoplying
- I'm very sorry for your lossMondoMorphic
- sorry to hear man :(moldero
- Just feels so unfair. Sorry.PhanLo
- A huge loss. I'm sorry this is happening to your family. It's hard, I know. But, keep her alive in memory and live a big life in her stead. For her, go big.shellie
- That is devastating. Best to you and your family. I can't imagine I turned 40 this year. Puts life into perspective.eryx
- 40?! reminds me i should work less and life more before leaving heaven. :/ my condolencesapi
- Gardener3
just back from the auction where I had my eye on a lot with 2 boxes of 7"s in, I was happy to go to £125 but the bidding went NUTS! and finished at £340 - OK so there were a few nice bits in there, original Cure, Cramps, Orange Juice and some rare Dundee Indie bands but that was way over the value when commission is added tipping it at over £400, crackers!
- The locals are onto the emergence of a sassenach competitor collector in their midst. You shouldnt've done that radio interview!Nairn
- haha yeah my fail...Gardener
- HahaGnash
- Ha, you outed yourself and no longer have the comfort of shadow.garbage
- I just think there are some old punks here, with moneyGardener
- Old punks with money — not quite sure why this strikes me as an odd phraseGnash
- When they have money they are no longer punks lolgarbage
- I had friends that were pissed when strummer got his teeth fixed. Ridiculous. He was punk af to the end.Gnash
- Dundee has always been pretty vinyl crazy city. Had a strong music scene in the past. BIG northern soul following in the Dee!microkorg
- Gnash0
Did we have an illustrator iPad thread? I thought I saw one...I’m doing beta testing as well and was wondering what others thought of it
- imbecile3
What is the point of a catch and release mousetrap? To treat them like homing pigeons? To more efficiently train cats?
Wondering if the world needs a catch and release roach or mosquito trap.
- Some people don’t like handling dead animalsGnash
- To salve human guilt and immediate responsibility. Catch and release just adds prey to some other environment. It's actually illegal here in the UKNairn
- ..to release rodents you've caught at home.Nairn
- ^ really? Interesting !Gnash
- Yeah, i only realised recently when looking into ways to kill a rat that we had in our garden (Poison, unfortunately. Really, really didn't want to go that way)Nairn
- i wonder if it's the same where i am. never really thought about itGnash
- Found a decomposing mouse under the floor boards the other day, I think it had ate some old poison. Since we got the cat I thought we'd got rid of it all.PhanLo
- Mice are easier to get with traps - they're cheap and you can hide loads of them. Failing that, glue on sheets, hide out and then bash them with a frying panNairn
- Rat traps are more expensive, much more lethal with a kid around, and rats are smarter. Only way is poison. Or a mongoose. Hard to rent tho.Nairn
- One night some years ago I caught a whole family of mice one after the other in traps. Felt bad about it, but they did piss and shit over some of the cupboardsPhanLo
- Glue traps are the only way to effectively get the c*ntsmicrokorg
- My cat is lazy AF. I had to pay a guy 4k to get rid of our rat problem. I used glue traps till one bit me and i ended up in the ER for rat fever. F those shitsscarabin
- I caught a robin in a glue trap and felt awful. Had to drown it in a bucket. And there’s a possum with a missing leg around that i suspect got into somethingscarabin
- Glue traps are evil AF though. I've caught two mice on them and despatched them in what I hope was a fairly short period, but fuck if that's not a bad way to goNairn
- @scar: Robin - Oh Jeez.
We 'stored' our glue strips outside and my biggest worry is that we'd capture a bird by accident. I couldn't even...Nairn - btw, if you need to kill something quick - just get your biggest, heaviest cooking pan. Twat it. Kill it quick. Drowning? Your witch ancestors doth rotate!Nairn
- @scara Holy shit, that's heavy. I was walking my dog once and he did the whole dart and gnab thing. I assumed it was a normal "no street treats" scenario..garbage
- ..so I yanked what I expected to be an old chicken wing out of his mouth. It was a rat. I threw it so fast, and so far.garbage
- BusterBoy3
My daughter saw that shocking suicide on TikTok yesterday. Some cunt created a video with a bunch of cats playing...then BOOM. Fuck some people are sick.
- Nairn0
I'm getting sloppy.
I've just done a few cuts on a fairly expensive bit of material - awards for a design-centric thing. Not my design, but needs to Look Perfec'.
I finish the cuts and notice that a key element isn't centred. I didn't notice in the file, but it's immediately apparent in the real thing. Again, I didn't design these, but I should've noticed prior to committing.
It's not like some artful, considered off-centering either - it's just off.
Nnngh.
- scarabin4
I remember watching “get smart” as a kid and enjoying it, so i downloaded it all to give it a go. I’m finding it unwatchable now that we have mobile phones; i can’t suspend my familiarity with the technology long enough to think a shoe phone is cool.
Same thing happened with knight rider. I can’t watch it now because dude is basically just driving around a tesla. It talks? It has gps? Autopilot? Fucking yawn
- don't be silly, Star Trek isn't un-watchable yet just because we don't have androids like Data running around...grafician
- yet!grafician
- Remember when kirk whipped out his flip phone and just talked to anyone anywhere? And next generation introduced us to the idea of tabletsscarabin
- That shit was cool but now... mehscarabin
- I hope i can say this about transporters some dayscarabin
- ^transporters are important! You called it!grafician
- Holodeckxxx********
- Dude did you expect Get Smart and .... KNIGHT RIDER ?!?! to hold up after 40 years?!?********
- Manimal is the only thing left, hurry thoughmoldero
- Never heard of it! *downloading*
I don’t have a chopper yet so airwolf is still coolscarabin - It's all about the intro themes with those shows.inteliboy
- one word: hoverboards
bttf still holds up in many ways!SteveJobs - Back to the Future was on an entirely different level than those silly tv shows. Bttf was master filmmakers and an amazing script.********
- Same for Star Trek TNG. If you think the were exploring space, you're missing the point.garbage
- Not really the same still********
- Get Smart started 55 years ago. The shoe phone was a joke then. So, I don't think that one applies.CyBrainX
- We should all be impressed how much Star Trek predicted and to some degree influenced the future. Case in point: The Motorola Star Tac.CyBrainX
- As a kid Streeethawk taught me motorbikes went at 600kph. Imagine my disappointment when I jacked my mother's moped.face_melter
- As if the point of Get Smart is the shoephone.i_monk
- Get smart was all about agent 99Gnash
- Back to the Future is DARK too! There's a theory that Marty actually dies many times yet he doesnt know, but Doc does.microkorg
- @micro Marty most definitely dies countless times, probably several times in the tunnel sequence alone.garbage
- Doc was never honest about the sanctity of time travel, but only because he thought he was the only one smart enough to toy with it.garbage
- Nairn0
I've knocked a bunch of money off three small (as in tiny) jobs today because I'd feel guilty charging my typical 'minimum charge'. Each job will take me literally 2 minutes apiece to do, and I can use off-cuts of materials so no cost to me other than a few minutes of my time. They're for regular clients, so goodwill n'all that, but...
...I had a client in earlier who mentioned that one of the companies he'd contacted was busy (as am I) and so was trying to charge 4.5x the quote I'd given. My quote wasn't exactly cheap (fair, but not cheap), but their quote was obscene. It's a 'fuck off rate' as one of my clients puts it - one that if they accept the cost, it's worth the hassle.
Presumably my competitor gets away with that at least occasionally, otherwise they wouldn't try it. I do wonder at the long-term viability of that: What if you put off a potentially great client because they simply assume you're ridiculoexpensive?
Not only that, but apparently I was much friendlier (can you imagine?) and more usefully and comprehensively communicative.
This is why I'm poor.
I need to ether stop over-thinking everything, or just become a bastard.
- But what do you actually do Nairn?!grafician
- ex-and sometime webnik, ex-and sometime 'designer', mostly an abuser of high intensity photon streams for the conversion of matter into things.Nairn
- he has a laser and ain't afraid to use ithans_glib
- get some nice branded wrapping and you can charge what you likehans_glib
- If you have a "lazer beam" Nairn, then why not try to take over the world?grafician
- I actually add 20% on to quotations for clients who spell it with a Z.
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I don't. I wish that I could/should.Nairn - @hans - not going to lie, I'm thinking about buying some branded tape. Just did a load for BDP - nice paper based stuff, one colour. Looks good.Nairn
- 'not going to lie'.
Why would i want to lie about that?
What a stupid use of a turn of phrase.Nairn - Yeah still don't get it why do you have a "freaking lazer" and don't try to take over the world man...beyond megrafician
- All I have access to is cam5. I do dream of turning it sideways and taking over the worldfuturefood
- Although, I would have to convince many to stand single file in front of laser to vaporize.futurefood
- Even then they may feel just a pinchfuturefood
- CO2 laser? Sadly not much use on living flesh - too much water :(
Is it yours, futurefood?Nairn - Yea co2 double tube, I wish it was mine.futurefood
- Ooh, what sort of stuff do you do with it, if I may ask?Nairn
- sarahfailin1
seriously have chest congestion from this smoke in CA. or maybe it's the COVID
o.O
- why not both?imbecile
- ^
:DNairn - use proper masks everywhere,
do a steam bath, try to work up the shit what's in your lungs.
after that lie on your stomachsted - preferably completely horizontally
and take the big breaths you hold in for a few seconds, and cough hard.sted - Two things can be real.DRIFTMONKEY
- last year before this covid crap i had this, and a nurse recommended this method.
bad news is that smell will stay for a long time.sted - You def need an air-purifier in your house, more than A/C at this pointgrafician
- ^I have one. I don't have a car though so when it's smokey I still have to bike to get around. w/ n95 mask these days.sarahfailin
- maquito7
Tomorrow I will have my first job interview in 10 years well spent working for the same company. I usually did great on interviews, and tend to have good conversational skills under pressure, bit this time I’m feeling quite anxious, and the fact of not being in the same room with the interviewer also bothers me.
Any tips from y’all crazy mofos would be much appreciated. Wish me luck! xoxo
- Good luck :)Gnash
- Tequilla shot just before the interview.zarkonite
- T-pose the entire time to establish dominancescarabin
- Mucha suerte, ¡¡Dales duro!! :)OBBTKN
- only T-pose if its a interview at a videogame company :PNutter
- Around this time last year I had my first job interview(s) in 20 years! Took me a few interviews before I got confident in doing them. First few I didnt ...microkorg
- ...struggle through but certainly didnt go as well as could have. Preparation and confidence is the key.microkorg
- Some of my first round interviews were over phone or cam which I found awkward back then. But I guess now after nearly 7 months of ALL work meetings being on ..microkorg
- ..cam I guess it'd feel more natural now. Good luck with the interview! Sit down for a while beforehand and read through all your shit AGAIN!microkorg
- best of luck materenderedred
- Anxious ? get drunk before interview********
- good luck, dude! u got this!Krassy
- Do a practice run with a friend online?Chimp
- good luck!loool
- Microdose ftwscarabin
- Yesterday, after posting this and going to -try- sleep, I even thought about asking a friend for a pinch of blow to spice-up the whole thingmaquito
- Luckily enough, I didn’t have time to get the blow and showed up with just a couple coffees and 0.5mg xanax.maquito
- I feel weird. Like sort of if I was cheating on some girl. Odd. Anxious. Happy.maquito