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- scarabin5
Super chuffed about a new paint mixture i’m using that has a base of rubber cement (glad i kept that half gallon from school) with naptha to thin it out for airbrushing, and pigment from oil paints. It dries quickly and stretches with latex instead of cracking like acrylics.
Naptha’s been banned for sale in california though, and the stuff i had on hand was used previously for extracting DMT. It’s just saturated with the stuff. So now my work will be durable, but intensely psychedelic if you ever tried to smoke it and didn’t die from inhaling burning latex first
- Also, i’m essentially aerosolizing lighter fluid so my whole workshop could blow up at any minute. Makes things more excitingscarabin
- Fun!OBBTKN
- Maybe search it out under the name "white gas" used in camp stoves, lanterns. See if REI will ship it to you. https://www.rei.com/…monNom
- Don't oils attack latex?
Also, that sounds like a great way to get brain damage.monNom - I thought that too so have been using a non-pigmented base coat before applying the stuff containing oil paint just in case.
Thanks for the sourcing tip!scarabin - My shop is a converted garage so i just open it all up when i paint. Still have to be careful not to smoke and stuff though. Keeps me on my toesscarabin
- jagara0
Don't tell the uninitiated you make techno. Just tell them "electronic music".
You mean this:
The assume this:
- *theyjagara
- https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- DeepChord in the hizcanoe
- canoe4
For the past 6 weeks I've been working nonstop on Kickstarter campaigns for an agency. The products have been super fun and the work has been challenging (kinda like putting an entire website on one page in a few days). But anyways... the KS world has inspired me to look further into an idea I once had... so my question is,
What lightweight 3D program would be good to use to help create prototypes for a simple kitchen product (no mechanisms, no power)?
- Sketchup might be good?
You might be able to download some pre-made assets too.PhanLo - SketchUp or Fusion 360. Both cost money for pro use. There’s always blender but it’s not really made for precise engineering.monospaced
- @mono - i've no dog in the game, but why do you say that about Blender? I use Illy for all my 'CAD' stuff - but at a 'small' scale. I'd assume it'd be similarNairn
- +1 on sketchup alsoNairn
- Blender is fine. Both it and Sketchup export stl files for manufacturing. Blender has better modelling tools and finer control over geometry. Plus, it doesn't..face_melter
- ...completely fucking mangle the geometry while exporting, like Sketchup does.face_melter
- Blender is great and can be precise, but it isn't geared for precise engineering work in general. More of a free form modeling workflow.monospaced
- I wouldn't even consider SketchUp and Blender in the same category, let alone competitors. Totally different things.monospaced
- SketchUp is more like Illustrator than Blender, in my opinion. Lots of "smart" snapping, precise movements, simple display.monospaced
- Sketchup might be good?
- Nairn8
I've 'shown off' about two things recently and in very quick measure had karma/murphy bite me on the ass. This is why I don't.
On Friday I mentioned here that someone called me a 'laser extraordinaire' or words to that effect (admittedly, I only said this after a couple of troublesome days last week, as mental relief).
Well, today - Monday, was utterly terrible. I seriously fucked up a job last week - I thought I'd completed it with a large margin for error - turns out, I'd interpreted the quantities wrong, so not only had I not finished what was a last-minute job, but my supposed large-margin turned out to be an "oh fuck, do I have enough to even finish this?" very small-margin.
So far, so boring.
Yesterday at a Sunday lunch with a load of friends I'd not seen in a while, when the conversation somehow came around to it, I exclaimed with no small amount of admiration how susprised I was at how quickly my daughter had transitioned from nappies to just pants. Like, two months - no problems! Fuck yeah!
45 minutes later she'd slightly dampened herself. One change of clothes down (in an awkward-for-changing pub in Brixton). About an hour after that, she totally pissed through another set of clothes. Ok. About an hour and a half after that, I had her in my lap dicking around with a piano in the back of the place and... she just totally pissed herself. Sat in my lap. Ffs. Then I had to carry her to get her changed, so had piss all over my shirt too. In public. An hour away from where I live. I didn't bring a change of shirt or shorts. Next time, perhaps.
This morning, I was proud - she woke us at 7am to go pee. She's not done that before. Yaay! After, I put her into my bed and try and get another hour or so of kip and then slept in a bit, after she spent 40 minutes kicking my back. An hour and a half and a sleep-in later little, fucker pissed in our bed too. On my side.
Fuck you, Karma. Go find some other fool, I've had enough.
- "oh fuck, do I have enough *time/material*to even finish this?"
Edit doesn't make this any more interesting, sorry.Nairn - It's near 10pm and I've 75% the fucked job, and am doing the two other jobs I had booked in today, due first thing in the morning. fml. No child piss though.Nairn
- lol@me. Home at 11:40, put bag down took shoes off, heard child on monitor, went in to check, picked her up as wailing, 2 mins her puking over on my shoulder.Nairn
- Never tell Karma to go fuck herself.Nairn
- i read this earlier after exporting 48 pdfs that need to be sent off tomorrow morning and realised at midnight after a bottle of wine that i'd fucked it upkingsteven
- now near 2am and i'm hopefully nearly done, haven't been pissed on yet but the night is young.kingsteven
- I thank God for booze getting me through so many fucked up jobs.Nairn
- there is, of course, the lingering possibility that light background alcoholism led to those jobs being fucked up in the first place, but i'm not going there.Nairn
- "oh fuck, do I have enough *time/material*to even finish this?"
- Gardener4
I'm doing it, will be upstairs apparently, come say hello!
- if i'm around i might well pop along. look out for a tall cunt in hi vis cycling jacket, and run away.hans_glib
- I'll be wearing my new VU T-Shirt, I'm such a fuckin' hipster! https://i.imgur.com/…Gardener
- Fax_Benson2
It's basically dark. It's barely 7.30pm. What the fuck's going on.
I'm not ready.
- sted0
6514651321.5 tabs open 1 is playing a video with sound where is the button that finds that tab?
- Hard to see the speaker icon when its all tabbed in one window. LolAQUTE
- text search with switch to tab works:
https://i.imgur.com/…sted - +1AQUTE
- I don’t allow that many tabs. Ridiculous.monospaced
- I still don't have any difficulties identifying tabs/windows with less information as possible, but like AQUTE said it's hard to spot that tiny speaker icon :)sted
- Latest Mac Os has a play button in the top bar with all the sound sources and you can play/pause from there duhgrafician
- https://www.urbandic…sted
- SimonFFM7
Was looking for a place to get a pedicure. Google recommended a LGBT friendly place close to where I live. I called them up. They asked if I wanted lacquer. I said, no, I am male. They answered: we cannot give you an appointment before October. What?
I went downtown and went to an Asian place. Male friendly people there.
- Pedicure? Simon... you're a really rare bird ;)OBBTKN
- p.s.: me or my wife (rarely) take care of my feet, but paying for it? Sorry, the first guy I know who does it...OBBTKN
- I find pretty hands and feet quite important.SimonFFM
- You didn't want laquer because you are man. In the end went to a male friendly place as opposed to a LGBT friendly place.
Ponder on that a little bit.palimpsest - Started reading this post, when I read 'they asked if i wanted lacquer' I presumed this was a setup line a joke and was waiting for a cracking punchline.microkorg
- Paging Nairn for a rewrite of this.palimpsest
- Probably this was only an unconscious statement of how boring my life still is. Many steps to take until my work life is back to normal.SimonFFM
- pics?drgs
- We should have a thread where we all post pics of our feetdrgs
- @drgs
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - You think they said it's a two week wait because you're a man? Also, pedicures are awesome +1monospaced
- Lots of men get lacquer, not great to imply that the two are mutually exclusive. The receptionist maybe weeded you on a gut reaction. Somewhat reasonable.sarahfailin
- I had called 2 other places before and they both said they make only women. Their decision but it felt like asking for something forbidden. All cool now.SimonFFM
- Lacquer? I only just met 'er!BaskerviIle
- LOL. Good one!palimpsest
- Is that pedicure or "pedicure". My wife gives me a good "pedicure" on our anniversary each year...BusterBoy
- I do very much appreciate men's feet not being rough and mangled especially when yall wanna snuggle. Good hygiene yano?shellie
- the amount even low maintenance women have to do, is it too much to ask that you regularly pumice and occasionally let a pro do it?shellie
- wear socks!pango
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- wait Simon she asked if you want a lacquer and you replied no cause you're a male? LOL! that doesn't matter. LOL!oey_oey
- @Simon nah no worries its a completely fine post :)
@OBBTKN i have a stupid dysfunction since i was a kid: i can't cut the nails on my right hand with the leftsted
- sarahfailin14
"Show 74 more notes"
...nah, I'm good.
- In all cases by note 24 all arguments and counter arguments have already been put forward. After that it just for the lulz.palimpsest
- half of them were just hotroddy rambling.pango
- I know monospaced is there somewhere when I see thisdrgs
- @drgs
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - why do you have that saved? weirdmonospaced
- I don't have it saved and I don't find it weird. I found it relevant to drgs' comment.palimpsest
- My bad. I guess I'm just impressed that you were able to find it. Searching QBN isn't the simplest thing to do :)monospaced
- I have you all on file, it's probably a condition.palimpsest
- that's what I meant by weirdmonospaced
- Fair enough.palimpsest
- In the year 2503 all historians of the world will be studying QBN files saved by palimpsest. The rest of the internet will vanishdrgs
- I give my brain to science. My body is ready.palimpsest
- bro that's hella creepyscarabin
- creepy dude is creepyutopian
- What are we talking about here?
Having good memory is creepy now? Should I check my privilege?palimpsest - Even if you remember this post, it’s creepy that you had it saved, because there is no way you could just find that in a search.monospaced
- tell me how keeping files on individual users of a message forum is not autistic psychopath behaviorscarabin
- I mean if it's in your head, fine, but like profiling individual users is fuckin' weirdscarabin
- I can find the post because I have the tools to find stuff on QBN. I also made the image so it's easy to retrieve the post from my imgur gallery.palimpsest
- Here I am justifying a link to a pertinent post.
And I'm the creepy one.palimpsest - I'm only commenting on "I have you all on file, it's probably a condition". if this is metaphorical or something, disregardscarabin
- I've heard of qbn users doing this in the literal sense though, and that's fuckin' creepyscarabin
- I made Panopticon and gave y'all the tools to use it. But this is QBN so you gotta do what QBNers do.
Live your truths.palimpsest - Pal, make a proper search functiondrgs
- You had to have had a link to the post saved. Searching for it would be impossible. That is creepy.monospaced
- not that hard:
https://www.google.c…sted - i used to search specific post like this.sted
- google only shows posts from the last 1-2 yearsdrgs
- maybe the site search does but here is something that is older than a decade: https://www.google.c…sted
- If you have the url of the jpg file (because you made the jpg) and a database of QBN topics (because you've made one) a CTRL+F is all you need.palimpsest
- It's almost as if I was onto something when making that jpg.
I'm the creepy one, though. That's me!palimpsest - We've gone past the 24 note limit I talked about in my first sidenote. It's all a matter of believing one's truth from here.palimpsest
- I’m sure you’d go to 100 and still never admit you’re wrong.monospaced
- it's not exactly wrong. it's just weird man.pango
- Thanks for your contribution, pango. We are now past the 24 note mark and have established that recalling past QBN posts is creepy and weird.palimpsest
- Your participation is now a matter of record.palimpsest
- Just for kicks, let's take a step back.
This post is about a post with 74+ notes.
drgs makes a comment about mono probably taking part in it...palimpsest - ... so I recall a post I made about mono making 100 sidenotes.
And some of you find this creepy and weird.palimpsest - I guess we do live in different realities, even on this small corner of the internet.
It is a bit sad.palimpsest - not that. but if you do keep files on people, then its creepy.
Hey! i was siding with you! i said you're not wrong! just weird.pango - Let me repeat myself.
I recalled an image I made, I have access to where that image is hosted.palimpsest - I have created a database of QBN posts that I have shared with community.
I used both of these tools to link the post.palimpsest - I do not have a secret journal dedicated to monospaced which I would find weird.
None of the information I'm providing is new.palimpsest - So whatever judgement you initially made is based on information available to all.
Keep bumping. We can make it to 100.palimpsest - bumppango
- If you think me recalling a previous post that is pertinent to the discussion is weird just say so. But don't bring any other bullshit into it.palimpsest
- @palimpsest I hope you see what happened between the lines :)sted
- *notessted
- Bump. So he sees it.pango
- I used the word "wrong" only in reference to the image you made about me, pointing out that you are doing the same thing.monospaced
- We can agree on that. I know exactly what I'm doing.palimpsest
- In the first notes I was genuinely trying to explain my process for retrieving posts. After a certain number of sidenotes we all now the discussion is useless.palimpsest
- If you wanna take this to 100, I'm game.
But we've all already made up our minds at this point.palimpsest - bumppango
- They don't think it be like it is but it do.palimpsest
- yeepango
- so now what?sted
- Now we wait.palimpsest
- There already exist posts with 100 subnotesdrgs
- 114 even
https://www.qbn.com/…drgs - Watch out, drgs! Some might consider that creepy, you're pushing the envelope.palimpsest
- You guys wanna test the limit? Just make it quick, we'll all grow tired of seeing this thread in our feedsdrgs
- bumppango
- bumppalimpsest
- palimpsest1
Teach a man to dig and he'll do his own research. Give him a shovel and he'll dig his own grave.
- oey_oey0
who the fuck is TheClap?
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- Saddam?oey_oey
- https://www.youtube.…GuyFawkes
- bobopango
- Worst superhero ever?sarahfailin
- bobo certified theclap. theclap certified bobo. pretty sure theclap is bobo as well.pango
- drgs-1
Where is NBQ00?
- His last post:
https://www.qbn.com/…
2021-08-04T11:37:58...palimpsest - Covid or Gonorrhea?utopian
- Maybe he got engaged to Nikocado?utopian
- @utopian that isn't funny.
he wasn't himself after the peterpancake wallpaper, maybe losing down the titithreads made him leave.sted - someone set him up the downvote bombGuyFawkes
- LOL oh no not the titithreadspango
- Creepy and weird.palimpsest
- He left because COTD closedi_was
- that sounds like a very sound reason to leave.pango
- His last post:
- nb2
Imagine all your friends and family knowing that you’re also friends with Nikki Minaj’s cousin and now they’re looking at you like ‘sup with yr ballz man
- i_was8
Hey bitches, I'm building an Hackintosh, all this from my Linux computer. Lots of fun.
- Good luck, bitch.DRIFTMONKEY
- You'll shoot your eye out Bitch!utopian
- I broke mine months ago with an update, haven't touched since.
Good luck you supercunt!sted - Keep us posted bitch!GuyFawkes
- Right on bitch, you go gurl.AQUTE
- @utopian, we'll seei_was
- bitch please...oey_oey
- I hope you succeed, assholescruffics
- I've lost patience with this a long time ago... and bought a 2nd hand mac mini for testsOBBTKN
- Enjoy weeks of fun making it work, until updates bricks it.jagara
- I haven't upgraded mine in a year now, its a flying machine but such a pain in the arse compatibility-wise to upgrade. had to buy a new firewire card last timekingsteven
- I built three of them over the years. But, that was only because the price to performance was shit. With the new M1's, I honestly wouldn't bother.section_014
- @everyone talking about things breaking. If you're deliberate with hardware choices, they're rock solid. My actuals Mac's gave me more problems.section_014
- Intel new generation is like M1 architecturei_was
- C Y B E R B I T C Hideaist
- @section very difficult with things like firewire and networking (my TB3 is working fine though :D) waiting for the 16" MBP M1 will be glad to ditch the hackkingsteven
- ^cool, what do you use? tonymac? I'm using Dortania open core requires no Mac machine at all.i_was
- With apple on the path to halting future support in their OS for Intel hardware, I feel like the Hackintosh community will struggle, if not die entirelymonospaced
- Did the build all vanilla before opencore was a thing and I've stuck with that, when I'm not so reliant on it I'll probably rebuild with dortania if I need osxkingsteven
- Set up multiple booting with Linux and win10 so it may go full gaming/media PC when I get my hands on a M1kingsteven
- lol at "you'll shoot your eye out". I've done the opposite, running Windows and Mint sandboxes on an old iMac for years. Fun times await you.garbage
- You can boot windows on an old iMac natively. Same with Linux. But this is about building a hackintosh so not really related in any way.monospaced
- Nairn1
So I fucked up a job, quite badly.
Well, I say I fucked it up - the client gave me an earful (via email) last night when she got home and was clearly annoyed that she'd not received what she expected, so since 10pm last night I've had a tightly-twisted knot in my stomach, because obviously I assume it's my fault.
Checked the emails and the offcut remnants (which I always keep for a while, for exactly this reason) and.. she's clearly agreed to what I've given her. She stated a list, I confirmed it with a visual proof of sorts, and then I've done what she asked.
I've laid this all out in an email to her, but... yeah, I'm thinking this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Ho hum. Still got a knot in my stomach.
- Also, my laptop fucking died last night.
It was a bit of a shit evening.Nairn - :( this bad? https://imgur.com/6s…kingsteven
- Heh, sort of - just a clusterfuck of wrongery.Nairn
- Ouch!! I hate when something goes this wrong... there're people who manages better this situations, but if you're serious with your job... it's a PAIN!!OBBTKN
- Hope things are getting better pal ;) I'd send you a few ciders by airmail, but with this Brexit issue...OBBTKN
- Also, my laptop fucking died last night.
- OBBTKN1
Sunny day here, 24º at the studio, working in shorts and sandals... I've got the garden (and the bbq) close, so I decided to do a paella there while i keep working.
Paella "on fire", using some wooden fruit boxes i keep ;) (signs I'm getting old, LOL).
Pics soon
- shapesalad0
Looked out the window today in LDN and saw at 10.30am a car full of non indigenous looking dudes: scruffy beards, baseball caps, cotton tracksuit slacks, poor taste in music.
They had plastic bottles of coca cola in hand, large smartphones, 200ml bottles of whiskey or rum. They drank said rum/whiskey. They also had a big bag of balloons. As they left they also smoked a joint.
At 10.30am.
As they moved on, they opened their car door a little and just dumped their spent balloons, gas canisters, half drunk coca cola bottles. Even though a bin was 3 metres away from them.
All I could think was "What is benefit to society to have them in it?"
- I mean, fair play, have an all night party, but don't dump your shit outside my window. and you mom said get a shave.shapesalad
- It's a lost battle shape...
Sadly, we've got the same problem here with moroccan and latin "young" "work-force".OBBTKN - If I sound racist, ummm... ok. But it's more than a education, mutual respect and good manners thing, period.OBBTKN
- AGREEshapesalad
- Wtf is “non-indigenous”??monospaced
- Dictionary: "not belonging to or descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a place." If that helps.shapesalad
- What do you mean by it? Honestly. I am not trying to trick you.monospaced
- He means black people, monospaced.Nairn
- He means people who doesn't belong there.sted
- That's modern scumi_was
- non-indigenous=white Brit, in this case chavs.i_was
- @OBBTKN I totally agree, I left the south-east of France because it's full of that scum.i_was
- Oh sorry got it wrong, so again the same fucking scum!i_was
- I mean people that are speaking natively in a foreign language and are clearly not of the local/national culture, though you could argue against that last pointshapesalad
- And yes I heard them firstly, carrying on in some language I'm not familiar with at all = not a west european language. Then I went to look out the window andshapesalad
- saw them partying in the car, only issue was bad loud music. But.. the drug stuff is etc is thrown out and left at my window view, hence bad impression gained.shapesalad
- Non-indigenous people are welcome to create positive impressions in my mind, but so far the negative impressions outweigh positive. Unfortunately.shapesalad
- And I'm sure i-was feels the same where they are when looking at 'brits' as I feel same when i see certain chavs groups, but so far, they are outweighed...shapesalad
- but for how long... the trend in Britain seems downwards in terms of morals and culture.shapesalad
- 2/3 of people are of no benefit to society. 10 years ago I would have proposed to feed them to a bioreactor (biomass to methane), but I've soften my stancedrgs
- What the shit. Do you really say non-indigenous? That sounds so stupid. NO OFFENSE.monospaced
- Are you saying they’re from the Middle East or Asia? Would Eastern European be indigenous or too white? Legit curious. Your answer was bull shutmonospaced
- Oh right. You called black people animals awhile back. You’re that guy. Thanks for reminding me. Yikes.monospaced
- France equally, out-weighted and downwards, it's a fucking mess, you need to find a quiet place.i_was
- @monospaced You should try those black neighborhoods it is said they are quiet nice and peaceful, lol.i_was
- quit nice.i_was
- OBBTKN20
Pics or it did'nt happen. Paella and fresh Basqe cidar. Have a nice weekend locos ;)
- Well doneGnash
- a nap will be had after this feast! looks amazing.capn_ron
- yupGuyFawkes
- want!Fax_Benson
- no nap captain, at work again, but out in an hour :)OBBTKN
- You're gonna take a siesta while sitting on the toilet.utopian
- okay, fine OBBTKN, I'll take a nap for you if you won't! someone has to do it. hahaha.capn_ron
- I would like to recreate thisHijoDMaite
- yeah. recipe or it didn't happenBeeswax
- I've never made, nor eaten Paella. This one looks spectacular.bogue
- Looks amazing!stoplying
- ¡Provecho!palimpsest
- Wow man, tasty.i_was
- o.m.g.... nommmm
<3PonyBoy - Que rico!Chimp
- #wouldAQUTE
- Hi!! if anyone is interested in the recipe, here it is: https://www.qbn.com/…OBBTKN
- Bon apetit!! ;) (I think the ssl config in my site is not working right now, opening the images in another windows, solved the prob. At least on my side)OBBTKN
- Rosemary looks a tad underdone.mort_
- +100garbage
- AQUTE0
Why does Google maps sometimes not show the speed trap button?
- what speed trap button?utopian
- When you are doing an navigation and you hit start while you are driving there is a little plus icon on the bottom right you can add a speed trap or you can addAQUTE
- Google mapsAQUTE
- https://tinyurl.com/…AQUTE
- My high school band was called Speedtrap.mandomafioso
- DopeAQUTE