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- kingsteven4
brushed by a fern
started a chain reaction on the windowsill
a plant fell from the other end
the structural integrity
of this impromptu terrarium
erected by girlfriend
would not be in question
it is, as she often states
the window that gets the light
she has no weed, and i have no fight
so i swoop, and catch it mid-air
but then the pain, the instant regret
it was a cactus, a jaggy bollock
hand full of spines
theres one right up under my fingernail
cunt
- Poems are weird.DRIFTMONKEY
- The Beach Bum was cool...grafician
- Krassy2
Whoa!
Did you know that Frank Zappa has released 116 albums?!
- Yes. There are so many entry points to Zappa. Mine was Freak Out! But once I dug deeper, I am all about the Apostrophe/ Overnight Sensation era.DRIFTMONKEY
- I've pretty much run out the grooves on my live albums from the 70's. Time to re-up.DRIFTMONKEY
- Uncle Meat is my favorite but that lineup from 1969 - mid 70s was fantastic. After that, he tends to ramble on about puerile nonsense incessantly.CyBrainX
- grafician2
Should we start a "Jobs" thread? Is there one?
I see many around here were laid off or looking, recently...
- QBN is "Made with ❤️ by Krop"
https://www.krop.com…Krassy - yeah ikr but we need something more worldwide, Krop is strictly US? I have daily twitter offers standing, not to mention a LOT coming from linkedingrafician
- I wouldn't mind paying $10 for QBN Pro Jobs™grafician
- Not to mention re-doing all Krop's Portfolio themes, I did it recently for Dunked.com I still have about 20-30 folio themes done and ready if you need onegrafician
- Should we start a new thread to discuss whether or not we should start new threads?nb
- we could start a thread to decide.monNom
- we should have Nevada count the yeas and naysKrassy
- QBN is "Made with ❤️ by Krop"
- autoflavour2
feeling so beat down lately.. kitchen renovation is almost done, but its been almost 8 weeks of non-stop working .. everything hurts..
granted we are near the finish line, but still.my current issue is where to put the lighting for the disco ball I installed in the kitchen..
I had thought just on top of the cabinets, but its fucking with the clean aesthetic of the cabinetry ..
and yes, I put a 20inch disco ball in out kitchen.. and Phillips hue strips above the benches.. so when I tell Siri its disco time, lights turn off, disco starts and the benches go red.
currently Le freak, C'est chic plays
- Continuity6
FFS.
Six different interviews with six different people, totalling 6h 45min over the course of three weeks, only to be told they went with another candidate.
Fuck this shit.
- Change name to Mr Another Candidate. When they call, you say thank for going with me.shapesalad
- Say you’re non-binary. They may just need more diversityGnash
- I thought you recently landed a job somewhere?NBQ00
- That's some bullshit.shellie
- Maybe they interviewed the other person for 7 hours?doggydoggdog
- Go freelance, man, I'm not gettin itOBBTKN
- Bill themspunji
- Gnash is onto something.cherub
- Anything above 3 interviews shows problems with the hiring process, the company and internal politics.calculator
- doggydoggdog1
Are you friendly with your local pizza place or taco shop?
There's a burrito spot near me. I go every week or so. They know me, I always order the same thing.
But I never quite know what to talk to them about. I walk in, they say hello, I ask for "the usual" and leave.
I don't know their names or anything.
I go enough that it feels kinda awkward.
Do you chat more with your pizza guy?
- Ask them who they voted for, if it’s awkward enough alreadyzaq
- I chat with my bodega guy. It all started when one time I walked in and he asked me to watch the store because he really had to take a piss.nb
- Had a bistro where I was a regular, ended up convincing the owners to let me work there for a month in the summer just for the experience of it - it was great!grafician
- I always chat up the people at my Pho place. We're all into JDM cars, so it passes the time well.DRIFTMONKEY
- i don't have a regular anything because what i eat is not the same as what "we" eatimbecile
- zarkonite2
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes - 1902-1967Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!- A poet like Langston Hughes
and can't lose
when I cruise
out on the expressway.
Leaving the bodega,
I say SUAVE.stoplying
- A poet like Langston Hughes
- doggydoggdog-1
I know art is subjective and some processes can be interesting, but some artists' work is such bs.
It never ceases to amaze me how a gallery can post a pic of some ugly crayon drawing or "sculpture" made of trash and have people fawn over it.
- The arts community is a self-sustaining ecosystem funded by gov’t grants with almost no oversightGnash
- Rule 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”Hayoth
- Rule 22 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to....Hayoth
- “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”Hayoth
- the concept of "good sculpture" has suppressed the development of this creative field for centuriessted
- the experiments of the last few decades are not yet enough to create creators that are widely recognized and lasting works for generationssted
- You think Damien Hirst, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley (to name a few) will disappear into the ether and be forgotten?Morning_star
- Anish Kapoor, Ron Mueck, Ai Weiwei?Morning_star
- Ummm... Yes!OBBTKN
- Why. Their public artworks are hardly disposable.Morning_star
- Anish Kapoor is a prick, Ron Mueck is a god. their names do not belong in the same sentenceimbecile
- Lots of artists are pricks. Doesn’t make their art any less powerful. What are your feelings about Jeff Koons?Morning_star
- love koons. anish kapoor is an anti-artist. his copyrights are bs. i like cloudgateimbecile
- i said copyright, but i meant trademarkimbecile
- I appreciate old man Hayoths long standing effort to bring up communists in every side note he posts.inteliboy
- PonyBoy3
saw a live shot a couple hours ago of all the alex jones kids a few miles from our home (piled up around the building where they're counting ballots)... one of the clowns had a sign that said 'Justice for Cornpop!'...I'm still gigging. :P
- grafician2
Biden won, helped a few friends along the way this week irl, projects still coming, mom is safe, rent paid, Coltrane bumping in the speakers, will watch the new Mandalorian S02E02 while having some beers, counting the blessings
We're so lucky homies, never forget that!
- scarabin2
I apparently am completely unequipped to deal with the cold. I sat here freezing in my underwear bemoaning my fate all damn day before i tried putting clothes on. Can’t believe i never thought of that.
Also, just finished bingeing breaking bad. What a fuckin’ ride that was. Good stuff
- Also, stickers are all packed and ready to go. Hoping to get those out on wednesdayscarabin
- binged for the first time, or the fourth, like a red-blooded american..?imbecile
- First time! Not sure how or why i avoided it all these years. Is better call saul any good? It’s downloading now.scarabin
- watching the Mandalorian, on all those planets, never complained about the cold, you need some of that armour brografician
- I won’t argue with thatscarabin
- better call saul will give you so much backstory for characters. don't forget to watch el caminoimbecile
- Sweaters are nice.monospaced
- in fact, watch el camino tonight or tomorrow while everything is freshimbecile
- Will do!scarabin
- Breaking Bad was the best thing I've ever seen. Everything else since then pales in comparison. Except Stranger Things.cherub
- BCS is very good, but even more of a slow burn than BB. I found it difficult to actually get into for the first few episodes (not unlike The Expanse, actually)Continuity
- ... but I managed.Continuity
- I tried with expanse but ultimately gave upscarabin
- Continuity1
I mean, look — I know LinkedIn is an absolute shit sandwich, but it really floors me, the number of posts in my feed of a political nature this year, since the start of Covid; whether it's about Covid itself, Trump/US elections, something else.
I was raised to never discuss three things in the workplace/polite company: sex, religion, and politics. Doing so only invites a world of shit.
Doing that on LI ... fuck, nice way to get yourself blackballed in the professional world.
- agree 100%, unusualwhatthefunk
- My last team were daily vocal trump supporters. What a toxic shitshow. I’d almost prefer you put that shit on your resumé so i don’t hire idioitsscarabin
- Yes, that's what Q'BaNon is for!nb
- imbecile1
i hit myself in the face just watching this
https://imgur.com/gallery/fFINZl…
- Nairn0
AAAUGH.
That was the most stressful 6 hours of work I've had in a LONG time.
Most of the stuff I do - if I fuck up, I can spend five minutes swearing at my incompetency, then stick some new material in and start again. I might lose some money and time, but whatever.
Jobs like the one I've just completed however, are the opposite - I have a set number of units - and, if I'm lucky, a spare or two - and I then have to get every one absolutely right.
Trick with this job was that there were some curveballs thrown in that I couldn't account for (someone else made the things I'm working on), and designs changed on the fly which in a way simplifed things, in a way made things more stressful.
The last two things that I did were particularly precarious, so I checked my assumptions, checked again, then went for it. Of course, the substance of the thing I was working on was different from the test medium. I'm guessing the guy who was in control of that bit got his message the wrong way around, so did the exact opposite of what I asked for in order 'to make it safe'. it did the opposite.
I was able to cludge a fix, but fucking hell.
Days like this make me think I'm not going to make it to 50.
- I miss web.
Fuck something up?
Edit and reupload!Nairn - ..except for that time I polluted test content on a Wordpress site, uploaded and published a load of expletives because I forgot to turn off RSS updates.Nairn
- *uploaded to what was supposed to be a hidden test server. Not live.Nairn
- In other related news: haven't used Ai in like a month...slowly need to get back to serious work.grafician
- related because I worked with a small startup a few years back that bought a "laser machine" and I was supposed to create stuff in Ai for them to laser cutgrafician
- I remember all the graphics needed to be very well prepared, no extra points, continuous lines etc. very small margin of error with laser cuttinggrafician
- the 'removing extra points' thing you mention is interesting to me. I get the logic. Personally, I tend to add in points.Nairn
- I miss web.
- imbecile0
members of qbn are some of the best scientists and political analysts to have never existed.
so many users come across like ponces as they deliver a diatribe of conjecture regarding a topic they have absolutely no education in.
carry on, twats.
- sted2
last 4-5 months (and how i gave up in the last 30 days)
- wake up at 4 or 4.30 (4 and stuck in the bed until 5-5.30)
- look at the phone notifications (until 5, my eyes wanna fall out)
- toilet, wash hands, head or take a quick shower (wash hands)
- look at the desktop - emails, notifications, etc qbn (qbn)
- prepare and eat + drink something easy while looking at the desktop and booting up a tablet for the work calendar (qbn)
- walk the dog w/o bike 5.10-5.30 (dogwalrk+qbn)
- look at the desktop - usual news, qbn, yt, discords (just the news)
- 6-6.30am to 7-7.30 go to a bike ride (instead i'm sitting here in front of qbn and all the news sites, chats etc. available)
- 7-7.30 proper day begins with a shower and breakfast (goes back to sleep for an hour or two)complete fuck up, can't get my mind into the work stuff until somebody starts to notice that I'm actually not doing anything hehh.
- Samenb
- +1grafician
- Start reading RNS's or whatever they call it where you live at 7am, pick out standout news (patents gained, profits up, mou's etc).shapesalad
- Make a watchlist of said interesting stocks.shapesalad
- Look at their charts later in the day.... see how the market reacts to news.shapesalad
- Those that react well, research fundamentals and list properties in a google sheet.shapesalad
- Eventually you'll have enough data to be able to understand with a degree of probability how a stock will react to news.shapesalad
- Once you have hard earned money riding on a stock, you will be 110% awake and focused.shapesalad
- Profit and retire early.shapesalad
- So your new schedule = read RNS's 7am. Watchlist and research until 7.50am, decide where to invest. 8am market open pound the buy button.shapesalad
- Sell around 8.30am having gained at least 20% on your investment.shapesalad
- A few weeks ago, by 8:05am on a £7k stake, I'd made £2.3k. Sold, logged off stock app. Spent rest of day on a lovely natural high.shapesalad
- brandonp0
About to pick up some freelance art director work from my old AD agency on top of my current UX/UI gig. I'm hoping working remote will allow me to juggle both without any scheduling conflicts.
The freelance gig is for a big auto brand that I loved doing back in the day but I'm a little nervous of double dipping. Product design moves at a glacial pace compared to retail advertising and I've been super bored lately working remote. I'm hoping this will rekindle the spark I've been yearning for as the pandemic drags on.
- Nairn1
Doing a really tedious repetitive process on the machine, so I've a 21 minute cycle of usefulness for a few minutes whilst I set it up and go again
In the meantime, I've just cleaned my keyboard.
My dear lord, how disgusting this thing had gotten.
.
Also, worrying that I might be developing some kind of low level OCD
- otoh, my keyboard is literally glinting in the shitty low level fluorescent light.Nairn
- "I've a 21 minute cycle of uselessness" goddamnitNairn
- top tips: use a bamboo skewer in a twice-folded baby wipe between the keys. If on Windows, open Notepad and hit F3. You can fuck with most keys without worry.Nairn
- Best baby wipes to use are the non-sensitive kind. You want those chems.Nairn
- sted0
nt mugs on flckr disappeared?
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- ^^ That's One Helluva Sausage Partyutopian
- Sorry if so. I lost the password for that yonks ago. I, janne and at least one other were supposedly admining it :(Nairn
- whatchyou talking about?
https://www.flickr.c…
working here?Nairn - aa here u go :D tysted
- nb0
I don't know who needs to hear this butt