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- SimonFFM11
Watching "Perfect" tonight. Fun movie for the last day of the year:
(Not really the trailer, but it's a fun compilation).
Happy New Year to all of you!
(Signing off for today)
- OBBTKN6
Happy new year locos!!
Get fun and all of this... Love and peace!
Gora bihotzak!!
Log out ;)
- Feliz año!Chimp
- Urte berri on! (not sure if that's correct)Chimp
- It's correct. Berdin!!OBBTKN
- Happy new year!! *Intentionally sprays champagne all over the ceiling, walls and floor.islandbridge
- Feliz año puto! Zorionak!!!Miesfan
- Bennn34
Happy New Year my fellow QBNers!
Its been 22 years that I joined this community. I learned a lot of thing and had a lot of fun in here. In 2021, for the first time in 22 years, i almost stopped visiting QBN, for different reasons. But iam still here from time to time.
I really wish everyone of you will have a good 2022. We're not getting younger, so I wish good health and lots of cool projects to everyone of you.
- Cheers Bennn, bonne année!_niko
- Happy New Year Benn and to the rest of the QBN community.canoe
- HNY sir...dee-dubs
- Happy New Yeaaaaaaarrzz!PhanLo
- Happy New Year dudes and duderinas, and everyone in between :)rzu-rzu
- Okok... Take care of Yaris ;) hny!!OBBTKN
- Hasta la vista, baby!utopian
- Love ya B!GuyFawkes
- :-)Bennn
- Been here since the start of NT. Funny that I'm back to using Flash again after all this time. Happy New Year all!microkorg
- La mulți ani!pablo28
- Happy new ears everybod.mort_
- HNY!!bezoar
- Amenshapesalad
- good gawd... 22 years....pango
- Happy New Year! Over 22 years for me, too...damn.formed
- You’re a good man, Bennn... happy new year... wishing nothing but the best for you, brother!PonyBoy
- happy new year Bennnfadein11
- thanks guysBennn
- Happynewyeaaar!!milfhunter
- Happy New Year! This’ll be year 20 for me. Sheesh what a trip. It stays.noRGB
- ********8
2022 will be better.
Less internet, more fun.
- doggydoggdog9
When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of “becoming” as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear. You don’t seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don’t demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don’t live up to your expectations.
- +1
Happy new yearmonospaced - Apple ads are getting stranger every yearscarabin
- We demand a Bennnsplanation!.utopian
- what the wut?pango
- psychedelics or what? I get to this state only if I want to, through practice, then the world pulls me back inBeeswax
- Root o’ Daotbgoodwillie
- Never have expectations.thumb_screws
- holy shitcanoe
- I would've liked the other half of the squarecanoe
- PARKLIFE!********
- No no no, I disagreedrgs
- Profound truth. +++mort_
- That Buddha dude was onto sumnjagara
- Obvs********
- This is great after the 20th reading,_niko
- +1 _nikoMrT
- 'IMMANENCE' by DiorNonEntity
- +1
- oey_oey0
have to wait 23:48H for the next WORDLE...noooo!
I guessed it in the third attempt.
- OBBTKN4
A week I left smoking, this time for ever, I hope. Coughing like crazy, but stronger day by day.
Now, I need to buy a second hand frame (the last time I broke the aluminium one that I used on the roller), and start doing cycling again.
Hi Ironman, I'm coming for you!!
Lol
- grafician-2
watching around the world fireworks videos from NYE for the past half hour...
(China probably makes billions for this one night every year)
- I think it was around £1.5 million for our new year celebrations and they usually lasted about 8-10 minutes.PhanLo
- fireworks are a big form of toxic chemical pollution.shapesalad
- Not to mention fucking up the birds and all forms of dogs and other petsgrafician
- Locally here folk seem to have them for any occasion. Lots at xmas and New Year and their kids birthdays. One day a shed is going to explode.PhanLo
- ^same here, while the selling is theoretically banned by law. I wanted to buy some simple sparklers - they offered me practically bazookas for $10
Oh wellgrafician
- scarabin3
I have made literally hundreds of tamales in the last couple days. Pretty sure i have that skill tree mastered. If you’re ever in southern california and want tamales, find someone else. I’m done
- When my aunt made tamales she would round up all the kids and put us in corn grinding duty all morning.palimpsest
- We had to wait for our turn single file, squatting and singing spirituals.palimpsest
- Hayzilla1
What's it called when all your apps zoom off to the edges of your screen and you can only see your desktop. I want to switch it off but can't remember what its called and where I do it.
- MacOS? System Prefs. Then, it might be set in Mission Control, Mouse, or Desktop > Screen Saver > Hot Corners...********
- dock?hans_glib
- Mission Control > Hot Corners Yes nb! Thanks mate. I wasn't even sure how it was happening. Guess my mouse just jumped down there sometimes.Hayzilla
- qbn works!sted
- I love them.maquito
- MacOS? System Prefs. Then, it might be set in Mission Control, Mouse, or Desktop > Screen Saver > Hot Corners...
- PonyBoy13
In the last 2 months since we've moved from Phoenix to New England I've had to come to the reality that my dog walks will no longer be in 60°F weather... more like 10°F (give or take 15-20°). Gotta put on my under layers... not to mention pants. I HATE it... it takes longer to gear up than it does to walk the poor pup at times.
So... My wife's aunt lives next door and knows how much I hate it... she offered a suggestion about a month ago: "Teach your dog to pee and poop on command." LOLOL... right... you can get a dog to do that. Suuuuuure...
**record scratch**
My dog now pees and poops on command, guyz.
It took maybe THREE weeks for her to learn. It's really simple too... wait for her to drop and pee and instantly start saying 'Go pee! Go pee! GOOD PEE!! GooooOOOOOooD PEE!!'. And do the same for when she poops. Do that over and over and even have a treat on hand sometimes (not always though). Then... within a few weeks of doing that I'd begin to say it up front (when we're at a good pooping / peeing spot). While we are walking in the right area I now say 'Go pee! Go Pee!'... and she fucking drops and pees ON COMMAND. I wait a couple minutes and then say 'Go Poop!!'... and BAM... shittin' where she stands. She just drops and goes (if she has to). It's cut the freezing cold walking times down about 15 mins.
Good girl, Ginger!!!
- Pavlov for the business end of the dog!mort_
- username almost checks outKrassy
- Cool pets Kevin!! I'd never heard about the commands thingOBBTKN
- time for some longer walks so its worth gearing up :) mine is getting old for the cold weather so I'm thinking getting clothes for him :)sted
- he only shits with the leash off, i leveraged that to create a shit command.
Every time when i'm in a hurry and pressure him to take pee does the same thing.sted - few drops here and there and the fuck off, goto next tree. like they know they're fucking with our lives :)sted
- This is amazing. My two are polar opposites: the bulldog shits immediately, and the other is very discriminate about the spots he chooses.garbage
- It's the difference between shotgunning a beer, or opening your own brewery, perfecting your formula, then waffling on the branding.garbage
- Ginger is beautiful. Is she a mix?garbage
- we think so, garbage... her papers said 'lab mix' but she's barely 50lbs and resembles a cross between a Shiba Inu and a Carolina Dog (aka — American Dingo)PonyBoy
- Can totally see that. Pretty pup!garbage
- Phoenix to New England is a wonderful move, I hope you are happy. Post some photos of the area if you are comfortable, best of luck!********
- NBQ003
My computer thinks I'm gay
What's the difference anyway
When all the people do all day
Is stare into a phone
- shapesalad2
You ever feel like you can't do your job?
Recently it just feels every project I do, the team just say it's not right. I'm not hitting home runs. And the longer this losing the streak goes on, the worse it's getting as now I'm starting to loose my creative spark and confidence...
I think I'm not in the right job, possibly the right career for me.
Signs you're getting old I guess....
- *loseshapesalad
- How do you personally feel about your ideas or solutions ?spl33nidoru
- My ideas for corporate client stock footage edited videos = god it's killing me, I'm not a film maker or editor.shapesalad
- I really miss Flash recently, the prefect mix of disciplines, coding, motion, type, illustration, animation.shapesalad
- Just a shame it all had to be jammed into 40kb, which was a fun challenge, but ended up looking shit.shapesalad
- Sounds like a mix of ur team being more into this kind of jobs, therefore more confident in their taste + you needing to apply yourself to a field you care forspl33nidoru
- It's hard to do a good job on subjects you don't care for unless you're given enough space to grow into it and see how you can sort of make them yoursspl33nidoru
- exactly that. I don't care about all these cheap corporate graphics that exist for a moment in time, soon are dated and discarded, yet sweated over...shapesalad
- ...with endless amends. Fine China in the british museum has lasted for 3000 years and likely was a joy to make.shapesalad
- I just don't have passion to craft a corporate video that is viewed by a few people who will privately think 'I'm sick of seeing fake diversity'...shapesalad
- 'these people all look like wanna be actors and mail order catalogue models, pointing at fake looking documents - what does this have to do with my business?'shapesalad
- 'oh this music is a bit too upbeat for Clive in Operations to handle, his pacemaker will be giddy'.... no motivation or passion for it...shapesalad
- I feel you, bro. I have the same thing. Hopefully this will go away faster than the job.********
- Yeah we're on the same boat. Don't ditch these jobs if you're decently paid but find something you're excited to get back to on the side.spl33nidoru
- Eventually you'll be able to fully switch from one to the other.spl33nidoru
- To make it worse I have three levels of hierarchy above me all giving feedback amends, counter to each other... it's like death by a 1000 paper cuts.shapesalad
- Awww... All of us are in the same boat. Listen to @spl33... If your work is not passionate, look for a side project, now!OBBTKN
- Yeah I launched a side project, but the work work is eating up too much of my good hours and good energy. It's a slow burner till it gets me out 100%shapesalad
- Agree, when it comes to web it’s become so templated and uninspiring unless you’re building $100k websites. Half the time is spent poring over bullshit stock_niko
- so glad to know it's not just me. I'd rather bartend and end 20+ years as a designer at this point.mapleT
- bartend, nice. I'm think baker, or tea merchant would be a dream... would drive a taxi if it wasn't for uber taking the fun out of that.shapesalad
- my recent gigs are all crap - one is on draft 45 - wtf - high rates make me feel like I'm stealing thoughtimeless
- ********7
Sometimes I feel like I'm not very good at my job but most days I am careful to be grateful for having a very, very, very easy job and cushy life compared to almost everyone else on the planet in all of history.
Office jobs in "the knowledge economy" are so easy--
Sit around, write some emails, draw some boxes, show some people the boxes, roll my eyes at office politics, collect paycheck, yawn.
- My wife has it even easier: she basically writes planning emails & edits PDFs in Acrobat. And makes good money. It's completely nonsense.********
- I know lots that only roll their eyes, and, are getting really big paychecks for it...OBBTKN
- I push pixels all day long, while sitting in cushy chair, meanwhile sipping on coffee with plenty of spare time to daydream...I'm grateful as fuck!utopian
- Haha I feel the same way. Spent most of yesterday playing Halo in between meetings.OP31
- Bad for your T levels though.********
- My wife has it even easier: she basically writes planning emails & edits PDFs in Acrobat. And makes good money. It's completely nonsense.
- Hayoth-10
Elizabeth Holmes convicted and nobody's talking about it
https://mobile.twitter.com/abc7/…The biggest fraud on the planet because she's a white liberal woman people are hushing the story including your favorite techno-fascist Google.
- not to mention Biden fell for it and supported herhotroddy
- nobody's talking about it? then how did you know? i guess someone was talking about it for you to have seen it.pango
- i read it several days on ago on the news. didn't think its dumb enough for you guys to react to.pango
- Pity it’s a young woman. I think her partner needs looking at, that elder Indian man.shapesalad
- what qualifies as everybody's talking about it? is being on the news good enough? or someone has to post it on qbn?pango
- did the investigation not looked into her partner?pango
- Perhaps the fact that super commie Rupert Murdoch also invested massively may explain a lot of the media silence.MrT
- idk i'm read about it in a lot of places.sted
- @hotroddy my mother fell for it, so now what? massive disappointment is what she feels if you're asking.sted
- Your evil Elites are more evil than our evil Elites!GuyFawkes
- Nobody's talking about it:
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - It was front page of the WSJmonospaced
- The news cycle churns fast these days. It's difficult to keep abreast********
- I remember when Joe Rogan was gleefully reporting on this woman as an example of why women are shit at tech and shit at being CEO'sKhurram
- It came on the back of that Google twat who published that memo on why women suck at tech and got fired over it.Khurram
- Rogan had him on his show: "Free speech man! Women suck at programming! Progressives can't face the tooth! Cancel culture gone mad! Look at Elizabeth Holmes!"Khurram
- She was paraded by the Alt-Right as an indictment of all women in tech and an attack on identity politics - especially with the association of Bill Clinton.Khurram
- Before it became obvious she's actually an indictment of the whole Silicon Valley ethos Alt-Right bros love so much and the men behind her who ran the show.Khurram
- So now they're pretty quiet about it... except Hayoth, it seems, who's had his head up his ass this whole time.. MmmmKhurram
- Funny. It's big news in my bubble. Perhaps you should consider why you're not hearing about it, Hayoth?Nairn
- I actually joked at dinner last night that my 3 year old is her, as she was wearing all black, has blond hair like hers and has recently been lying quite a bit.Nairn
- Give him a break. He thinks liberalism is communist fascism.monospaced
- No one is taking about it, LOL.
The story has been published multiple times for the past few days on every single website. Get a job moran!utopian - This is the perfect example of the right thinking everyone has the same sort of obsessive Stockholm syndrome that they drown in.garbage
- Also she was deep in the bed with the DeVos family, but somehow this is a gotcha for liberals? SAD HAYOTH STRIKES AGAIN.garbage
- It was national news here in Denmark. It's all over Youtube. Some people seem to be talking about it.jagara
- im guessing nobody told him about it directly. so in his world, nobody's talking about it.pango
- scarabin8
I miss trip hop
- for real
https://www.youtube.…BuddhaHat - all the old albums are still there.microkorg
- Some of it still holds up very well - I still listen to poetiahead, leftfield.and massive attack fairly regularly. Others.. less so. Hard to appreciate nowadaysNairn
- Maybe have a listen to Lonely Guest, Tricky's new project. It's pretty cool https://open.spotify…Morning_star
- Yeah, maybe i just need to find some modern downtemposcarabin
- some new stuff https://www.youtube.…futurefood
- https://www.youtube.…futurefood
- https://www.youtube.…futurefood
- That last one got at least one idea from Led Zeppelin.CyBrainX
- for real
- Gardener8
my throats a bit sore today but I'll be OK
- RIPmonospaced
- ByeOBBTKN
- Covid Ponyutopian
- do a whisky shot, it goes away the next day. It goes away even without the shot but still makes you feel good that you healed yourselfBeeswax
- Fly, fly Lil' Sebastian.elahon
- throats a bit horse?robotinc
- throats a little horseMHDC
- My girlfriend was achy, had chills, threw up and had a migraine. She feels fine but is sleepy today. We both were tested this morning.CyBrainX
- Thank you elahon for the obligatory Parks N Rec shoutstoplying
- NBNJTRH
No bucket needed, Just the right height.GuyFawkes - Lolscarabin
- Orally raping a shetland pony?********
- HA! Lil' Sebastian!bezoar
- i_monk3
^^ I finally signed up for Spotify yesterday and it prompted me to pick artists to get the algorithm rolling. I drew complete blanks except for Portishead, Massive Attack, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin...
- Signs your getting old.palimpsest
- a little horse********
- It has an amazing suggestion engine once you start using it regularly.mort_
- The suggestions start just being the same over and over and over.inteliboy
- It (the algorithm) is far superior than apples bullshit.monospaced
- Using the "I don't like this song/ band" buttons in the 'Discover weekly' list seemed to give me more gems.koma_
- Spotify suggestions are awful. Just use RateMyMusic.com. The best algo around.noRGB
- ^probably rateyourmusic.com :-)uan