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- Morning_star3
I need to ask something about Ballet. I saw one on Saturday night. My first.
Wife gets us tickets to the world premier of Black Sabbath - The Ballet. Deep in the cultural heart of Birmingham, just opposite Mr Egg. Amongst the hoi palloi we spotted Sharon Osborne, Toni Iomi and Robert Plant plus some other 'regional' celebrities.
Now, here's the rub. I've absolutely no idea if it was any good or not. I thoroughly enjoyed each of the three acts, the orchestra and lighting design were excellent but it all felt like Top Of The Pops in the 80s when the artist couldn't perform so they'd have Legs & Co. dancing instead. The finale featured Tony Iomi playing Iron Man surrounded by the whole cast impressively dancing, gyrating and jumping about. Which in itself was great, however all i could think about was the TV series Fame and the casts impromptu busy-NY-street dancing scenes.
I think it was great.
- did the regional slebs include steve gibbons?hans_glib
- Not even that good. Nick Owen, the news readerMorning_star
- Now this is a ballet I can get behind_niko
- What is the question?palimpsest
- How do I assess the dance/narrative quality of the ballet?Morning_star
- If you liked it that's great. I know I'm elitist when it comes to art. If someone with more knowledge can get more from it than good for them.palimpsest
- But you're also getting something from it that they'll never be able to get again.palimpsest
- so envious.
I'm a huge fan of the band, and had heard about the Ballet, and am SO curious to see it.exador1
- hydro743
Got a rushed project, about 12 days to finalize 'x'. Hired me for 'x' an hour. Averaged around 7-8 hours a day, some going longer, some going lighter, but all around, about 72 hours billable.
Well, they had to call me to tell me this was 'double' what the other designers put in, pretty much saying it made them feel 'icky', 'gross', which pretty reflected on me, thus I'm the gross one, etc.
Hours were solid, I counted for ALL time spent on the project, including research, and the bullshit comps the CD wanted, even though I knew it wouldn't work, but hey, hourly.
Just made me feel like shit, and inferring i was abusing shit and taking advantage. Been doing this for 20 years and tend to not do that because I like return clients, vs one offs. Fucking hell, threw me into a fucking depression since I 'eat, love, pray' this design life.
anyway, joys of being freelance. Guess I just need to get flat rates vs going with what they offer for hourly.
- You’re a master. They don’t deserve you if they are gonna whine about this.monospaced
- would of been different if they said this went beyond the budget, would you be good with this. VS making me feel like shit as if i cheated them.hydro74
- I would find one of those designers.sted
- Definitely go w/the flat rate if you can... sorry you're feeling shit on, man <3PonyBoy
- What I don't get is that why you didn't gave them an offer with a time estimate?sted
- ^^ @sted they offered terms, and the client that was being designed was one I wanted in on.hydro74
- @sted I am down to any of your insight, how to counter. Serious, love to synchydro74
- It was their terms and someone with your credentials shouldn't have to justify the hours. It's their comments that are gross and unnecessary.palimpsest
- Yeah fuck them. I battle with is all the time, I end up feeling guilty when I bill my actual hours and see that it’s a great pay day which is so wrong._niko
- I’m sure the CEO doesn’t feel icky when he looks at his or her pay check every other week. They hired Hydro, they pay for Hydro god dammit_niko
- And the double what the other designers put in comment is pure trash, you’re not digging ditches, you’re creating works or art FFS “be creative faster! Fuck off_niko
- They gambled that they might get it cheaper if they paid hourly instead of paying a fixed price where you assume the performance risk. Doesn’t always work out.monNom
- Do you really want this client if they are going to fix the terms, then whinge when you follow the terms they laid out?monNom
- The ‘other designers’, if they exist, may not have delivered near the quality nor complexity of what you did. Or their style of work may be quicker to produce.monNom
- I can type out a word in some font and call it a logo. I can go through 1,000 iterations of a single idea to find the best one. 2 ‘logos’, 2 different prices.monNom
- And two different standards of when the logo is ‘done’. They sought your work because your standard is high. The time required to achieve that standard is highmonNom
- ..er than a lesser standard.monNom
- Clients like this make me feel 'icky' & 'gross'. Been there.webazoot
- Dude just so you know, I've admired your work for like 20 years now. Don't doubt yourself or let this shit get to you. You are a top notch professional!nocomply
- Thanks for the support. 20+ years in and still trying to pretend I know what I’m doing. Fun to see they axed me from the pitch just because I was honest hourly.hydro74
- ********-2
Serious questine.
Is non-verbal autism a recent thing or on the rise? I swear I never once heard of any kid having this before maybe... 2010? It seems to be common on the internet. You’re always reading some comment about a friend or neighbor having a nonverbal austitic child. But I’ve never heard about a kid with this in real life, ever. Just on the internet. And I know tons of families! Can it really be that I read a story on the internet maybe once a month that references a specific condition and at the same NEVER heard about this condition in 40+ years of life? Seems odd.
- I know 2 with this condition.sted
- they don't use this termsted
- Interesting. Maybe I just live in a weird coincidence********
- It was always a thing. We just wrongly labeled them retards in the 80s and they were in different classes.monospaced
- They just got better at diagnosing. Or big pharma saw the expanding DSM as an opportunity. Depends on the material from which one's hat is constructed.MrT
- @monospaced: that’s an interesting observation. I recall plenty of kids with special needs, one of my schools had an entire class full of them********
- The kids mingled with the rest of the us, obviously they were not the cool kids but I don’t recall meeting anyone that you’d think of as “non-verbal”********
- doggydoggdog5
stopped getting morning wood
- Have you done the string test?palimpsest
- ?doggydoggdog
- I found something even better: a roll of stamps.
https://www.medicaln…palimpsest - Stop wanking for a week, it'll returnjagara
- upvotedpango
- Do you roll out of bed in the morning now?Akagiyama
- how old are u?milfhunter
- signs...YakuZoku
- Tie it with dental floss just before bed.
Works like a charmfuturefood - https://pbs.twimg.co…
1400 medieval lyric "I have a gentil cock"Gnash - “ I have a noble cock
Who crows for me at daybreak.
He rouses me up early
To say my matins”Gnash - lol akagiyamascarabin
- BuddhaHat0
My Raspberry Pi running pihole finally shat itself last week. I did not realise how much garbage it was filtering out of my browsing experience until I went without it for a week.
I just installed pihole on my Synology NAS using docker (which was a fairly simple process) and not only are the ads gone again, but browsing has sped up a little with a faster processing assisting with DNS services. That might be confirmation bias, but who cares, I'm glad all the ads are gone again.
- huh, shit - thanks for making me check - apparently RPi4s are available again - it's been literal years!Nairn
- @Nairn - check the Explaining Computers channel, there are heaps of other SBC options around nowadays too which are as good if not better.BuddhaHat
- @Nairn Pi5 released todayBuddhaHat
- Huh. Well I'm glad I couldn't be bothered to order a pi4 y'day :)Nairn
- OBBTKN4
I've finally finished setting the alarms in the studio, nothing super-sophisticated (door sensors with notifications to my phone and Alexa), but for me, it works.
A side note; My oldest daughter has broken up with her boyfriend. She's fine, which is the only thing that matters to me, really ;)
- PonyBoy4
"You will receive a notification the evening prior with the 2-3 hour delivery window."
Okay... it's the DAY OF... where's that notification, assholes? I've got the room cleaned out... Mom arrives in 4 days... where is her fucking mattress?!!!
3 hours and 2 phone calls later:
"Sir, your mattress is out of stock... we'll give you a 'free upgrade' and get a better quality mattress to you by Friday for the inconvenience."That seemed like a lovely deal... I then get an email describing the swapped mattress w/the upgrade. I pulled up both mattresses online... HOW THE FUCK is this an upgrade when THE PRICE IS CHEAPER?? Ohhhhh... The ORIGINAL PRICE is more expensive but now they're both on sale and my 'upgrade' happens to be a CHEAPER PRICE than what I paid for the original mattress?!! How's that work? You fuck up my delivery date and give me a mattress that is technically 'better' based on the normal price but is actually CHEAPER THAN THE FUCKING MATTRESS you can no longer deliver?? So I'm technically paying MORE... and it's late?
Fucking hate being an adult...
- They should refund the difference as if the order was canceled and instead you ordered the cheaper one. Which is what they did of course.monospaced
- ^haha... I'm sitting on hold waiting to demand just that, mono :)PonyBoy
- Good. Fuck that. We’re to old for this shit.monospaced
- Fuckers, sue them!
Hope your mom is well Kev :)OBBTKN
- imbecile4
still settling into the new place, but what a difference a week makes. wifi in the basement before AT&T fiber
and after
- jagara9
Swimming in the ocean (in Copenhagen) at this time of year, when the water is around 15 C. Stay out for 10-15 minutes, get seriously cooled down. Put on a hooded sweatshirt. Bike home. Feel fantastic for hours afterwards.
I've extended the swimming season to be 6 months of the year, starting in April.
There really is a lot to this cold water trend. It's calming, anti depressive, mood elevating. If I had the room (and the money) I'd get one of those cold plunge pools at home.
- I usually shower with cold water, especially my legs, (after a long bike ride); It works wonders, especially because otherwise I'm a walking cramp, lolOBBTKN
- I have the beaches 20 minutes by car, but, a shame, I am quite water-repellent, I prefer the mountains to the sea. Enjoy!!OBBTKN
- Nice. I've been doing the cold showers since I was a kid. My mom insisted on it for some reason. I couldn't end a shower without cold water :)jagara
- A Swedish friend swears by it, for him it keeps his downward spirals at bay. The best I can manage is a cold shower after a hot ride, I don't reckon I can do itBuddhaHat
- Putting your dick in a mouse trap will have the same effect.palimpsest
- soy sueco – and I concur :D
...not with palimpsest... pls tell us if that works after empiric testingArchitectofFate - I've jumped in 10° water. I'm sure y'alls done worse. I'm not saying it doesn't work all I'm saying that it might not be the temperature.palimpsest
- Any change in your usual conditions will have an effect in your body and psyche. That is why fad diets are all the rage.palimpsest
- Cold water baths, fad diets, chiropractors and mouse traps all look the same to me is all I'm saying.palimpsest
- Hashtag Stay Hardpalimpsest
- Palim spreading the truth ;)dmay
- This is why I don't hate on flat-earthers or astrology. We all believe in something.palimpsest
- Not on a regular, but when I do swim in the Great Lakes, I feel like a lot of aches and pains subside.canoe
- As an ex-runner I'm not saying there's no direct benefit from cold temperatures on muscles for recovery. The cold bath thing just seems like something else.palimpsest
- Years ago, I dove headfirst into a beach in Galicia (where none of the town was in the water) and I immediately realized why...OBBTKN
- My cervical contracture still lasts, and I swear it's true!OBBTKN
- I dove into the Adriatic Sea in early April of this year. It was fun but I can't say I've reached enlightenment.palimpsest
- Who said anything about enlightenment. It just feels good in your body afterwards. And it's really good at lifting a shitty mood.jagara
- sted2
I miss the FMT.
- drgs1
Jean Claude Van Damme movie marathon this weekend
Discuss
- https://25.media.tum…pango
- Pango, you know any karate movesdrgs
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- *adds to the listdrgs
- Totally insuferableOBBTKN
- You dont like Jean Claude Van Damme?drgs
- PonyBoy7
Hope everyone in NYC and surrounding areas are okay... crazy flooding... looks brutal if you're trying to get around town
- The Day After Tomorrowutopian
- Wow. When was it this last bad 2010?canoe
- Nah it’s like this almost every year now, almost once per year********
- My property took on so much rain in so little time the water table rose and my back yard had 4” of water on top of soil.monospaced
- For the first time ever water seeped up into my basement. Town center was totally flooded. Everyone in the area has water ingressmonospaced
- Stay safe, guys!OBBTKN
- I've seen the clips on YT the rain looks crazy, hope all NY QBNers are okBuddhaHat
- I live one building from the FDR and East River but everything was fine in my building. The one closer had to have about an inch of water swept out.CyBrainX
- I live two blocks from that huge whirlpool in the street that y’all saw on the cover of the NYTimes site. Yowza! But that intersection always floods********
- OBBTKN3
F***ing LOL... Film fest in our city, wife taken a photo of me with a famous spanish actor.
His name: Jose Coronado. And after taking the photo, I told him: "I almost called you Resines" (name of another actor).
The guy slapped me a couple of times and entered the bar laughing as crazy.
I love making people laugh.
I'm a fucking genius, that or yesterday's drunkenness still lasts. Hahaha
- Nutter2
switched the network card in my old macbook pro 2015. One of the three connectors were a bit messed up so had to use super glue. So far so good.
- imbecile4
working on a site for breast cancer awareness watching / listening to harley davidson and the marlboro man... they're all so young. mickey rourke looks good. is that tom sizemore? daniel baldwin!?
- Nairn12
At a kid's birthday party today and I'm yakking away with an Italian mum. At some point I notice that my bag has fallen over and out spilled a horsechestnut/conker from a side pocket where I keep them. I pick it up and show it to her enthustiastically before putting it back in my bag "A good one" i suggest. She asks, quite rightly, "What?" and I admit that I've started my annual horsechestnut collecting. "What? Why?" she asks. I'm not entirely sure. I suggest that perhaps I might plant some (I have in the past), but more likely I'll fill a plastic bag with them, put them aside for use and then in four months find the same bag again at the bottom of a mostly unnused shelf, but this time covered in blue mould and swear at myself for squandering such wealth.
I murmur something along the lines of "I dunno, I just collect them, I don't know why".
About a minute later, I look over at some other Dad on another table and see in his hands a couple of conkers, which he seems quite proud of - I prod the Italian mum, "See? He's got some too".
A few minutes after another Dad, a mutual friend of the Italian mum and I sidles up, and what does he have in his hands? Conkers.
Why does he have them? He's not entirely sure either, but he is quite proud of one - a large one, but one that was an equal part of two in the overall nut, so round on the outside, flat on the inside. "These are called cheese graters" he says, knowingly.
I ask what that means and he admits "I have no idea", and we go back to our mutual appreciation of conkers whilst Italian mother is no more enlightened and trys to change conversation.
I don't know what hold conkers have over the average British male, but it is a phenomenon worthy of investigation.
- Too funny I knew instinctively that this was a British story before I even got to the bottom lol_niko
- That's nuts ; )antimotion
- ha haNutter
- the look shiny in the light... always the cheapest and one of the best tricks - properties in aesthetics .. .natural or artificial..neverscared
- I’m amazed the party didn’t become a circle of the men giving tips for techniques that harden the conkers in preparation for battle.Wolfboy
- i have some in my bag right now too. Right little beauties tooIanbolton
- Autumn intensification of the forager instinctdrgs
- @wolfboy - I think it was somewhat similar to nuclear generation where there were just too many foreign mums, acting as neutron dampeners to full bloke fissionNairn
- @ianbolton - we should start a thread!
QBN Conkers 2023Nairn - What is a conker?monospaced
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- if you got a cheesegrater, because of its shape, you always hoped it'd be THE one that split all the others. sadly that never seemed to be the way for me.hans_glib
- Maybe the gathering of conkers is programmed into us from wayback hunter-gatherer times. haha.microkorg
- Qonkers '23imbecile
- I'm 42. I've never heard the word Conkers or Horsechestnut before. I don't care for either of those words.bogue
- lol, alright Dr Seuss :)Nairn
- There’s a world championship. Wild https://youtu.be/VHO…scarabin
- +1 hans, sorry, I forgot to post prior.
I'll relay to him :)Nairn
- drgs-1
No music released after 2020 is worth listening to. Like with movies, everything is a chewed up version of something else.
Just heard on the radio some kind of trance remix of Eddie Murphy's "Party all the time", what the hell is this
Out of curiosity I looked up current top 20 songs
https://www.billboard.com/charts…I could swear its the same artists, and maybe even the same songs, which have been on top 20 for the last 15 years
Discuss
- Everything is a Remixutopian
- You're a remix!
We're all remix!pango - Wtf?? No music released after 1998 is worth listening tofuturefood
- No music released after last Tuesday afternoon is worth listening to.********
- Put somewhat extremely, AI generated music will be the culmination of "everything is a remix". This is the logical end of musicdrgs
- All physical media from the pre-AI era will be collector's items, vinyls will be worth even more than they are todaydrgs
- ephix2
Office is quiet today. It's a public holiday and half the staff get public holidays off and 4 weeks annual leave and the other half don't get public holidays except easter and christmas but 6 weeks annual leave. Most likely will be twiddling my thumbs all day.
- Nairn7
Turns out my daughter can more quickly fall asleep to my [embarrassingly awful] gabba-like vocal beatboxed beats than she can nursery rhymes.
I, for the life of me, couldn't recall the tune to Rock a bye baby as I tried to sing it to her, so did the words and - just to amuse myself slipped into a hardcore gangster rap version, before apropos of nothing transitioning to a deep hardcore drumbeat with an occasional melodic persuasion and what the fuck would you know she was fast asleep in less than two minutes.
She's an 'Ackney girl, so just you wait for 12 years before she's dropping gabba crossover future grimes of london on yo' late middle age asses.
- And here I am singing full sets every night.monospaced
- In a house full of girls, you can imagine the music they play on Alexa... Therefore, I prefer not to take part in these kind of musical-family events.OBBTKN
- I tried changing the repertory at home. Sadly, wheels on the bus is more popular than King Crimson : (maikel
- lol... oddly enough, my kid would only fall asleep if I sang 'witches promise' by Jethro Tull... not quite King Crimson, but close enough lol...exador1
- she's 20 now, and actually DOES love King Crimson these days, especially stuff like 'in the court of the crimson king' and 'thela hun ginjeet'exador1