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- drgs-2
Where is shapesalad?
- Out for beers with grafician.palimpsest
- whilst sharing a spliff!dee-dubs
- Blissfully not here.Continuity
- Shooting up the Vaxx in some alley.utopian
- Beach patrolBluejam
- Rollerblading with super-modelsfuturefood
- shape and graf taking a break while khurram joins from the benchArchitectofFate
- ^ and scoring own goals like it's nobody's businessContinuity
- LOL
By any means necessary.palimpsest - I kinda miss feeling outraged by his stupid posts.Ianbolton
- Just laughing from the sidelines over all the stuff happening around here
No need or want to engage in any way
Cheers!grafician - Alright, so which one of you jokers hacked his account?palimpsest
- 'No need or want to engage in any way'
I think – without anyone telling me — I've entered The Promised Land.Continuity
- Ianbolton28
I'm 47 today. It's cake-central here at the office and I'm sure I'm going to have diabetes by the time I'm 50. Hope we can all enjoy today on my behalf!
- Happy birthday, have a nice day!fadein11
- Happy cake day!palimpsest
- Happy Birthday, I'm defiuniteuly celebrating it !rzu-rzu
- Happy birthday! 4 days off here, will celebrate, be sure. Enjoy!!OBBTKN
- Happy Birfday!Akagiyama
- congrats!Nutter
- Happy Birthday to you.Longcopylover
- Happy Birthday Ian! Get that cake in :-)PhanLo
- Congrats!milfhunter
- Happy b-day, Ian!Continuity
- Happy birthday Ian! Get that cake in yaBuddhaHat
- I just had some celebratory oatmeal. Happy birthdaystoplying
- happy birthday m8ben98
- Happy BIG 47Ramanisky2
- 47 here too. CongratsCalderone2000
- happy birthday IanB!YakuZoku
- 1/2 way to 94!
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; )ideaist - Happy Birthday!. I turned 46 this past Monday. Growing old is a trip!brandonp
- the best !neverscared
- One day closer to death...HBDutopian
- At first I thought you were talking about fat asses.jmckinno
- Happy Birthday young whipper snapper!MrT
- https://www.american…drgs
- For f sakedrgs
- Thanks folks. It's not my birthday anymore so back to work everyone.Ianbolton
- did you try sending me a personalised Michael Bolton tune, drgs? hahaIanbolton
- HBD!~dibec
- drgs-7
Where is barfolomew?
- ********0
SimonFemaleFemaleMale
- FFM is official for Frankfurt/Main, the city where I live, I didn't make it up.SimonFFM
- You're cool, Simon********
- i_monk4
Do any of you tell your design coworkers about this place?
- Hell no, this is my escape, I don't want them hereYakuZoku
- nope nope and nope. This is our thing, everyone else can fuck off._niko
- I tell people about a design forum, but never tell them the site addressPhanLo
- its our dirty little secret.utopian
- No, they are youthful and unjaded.slappy
- don't do it********
- Same as PhanLo, they know there's a site I frequent, I never ever mention the name.BuddhaHat
- Just say I visit a cranky design blog from time to time ; )antimotion
- Yes, but I keep it vague.bezoar
- Yes, like fight club they’re aware I frequent, but I never show them the soap.MrT
- I told a coworker to check this place out once. He said he visited, but everyone was really mean to him... I can see that. But I wouldn’t change a thing.monNom
- Vague if ever even mentionedVandal7
- I've tried to explain, and sometimes my girlfriend comes round and I have QBN on the projector, and she just rolls her eyes!Ianbolton
- Oh, fuck no.Continuity
- A couple of weeks ago an older colleague of my was watching over my shoulder and started laughing and told me he used to visit QBN years ago and was surprised.milfhunter
- haha Ian! My wife used to hear the jingle and say, not that fucking site again!PhanLo
- once because someone posted a coworkers work on here... he came on to answer someone's query about the font and got called a cuntkingsteven
- Nopedmay
- lol kingstevenNairn
- This is the way.palimpsest
- I always hesitated when COTD was around. But I still keep it to myself, hahaelahon
- Who would be interested in the sites you visit?jagara
- I think you kinda had start skulking 10ish years ago – introducing people to qbn without contextArchitectofFate
- Never tell anyone your Gräfenberg.dibec
- I have done. I sometimes tell the design interns and new kids about it. I tell them to look for the 'helpful thread' etc.. there's SO much amazing stuff in it.exador1
- I tell everyone at work about all my daily browsing activities. They love it********
- I often talk to people about my addictions. QBN being one of them. It's great and I'm glad it's so niche nobody bothers to check it out.Ianbolton
- Hahaha PhanLo "not that fucking site again" I've heard that so many times over the yearsIanbolton
- This is the hidden dive bar of pretentious cunts that shall never be named and/or mentioned outside of its 4 walls.ideaist
- I wouldn’t subject them to itscarabin
- QBN really is a speakeasy of sorts isn't it?BuddhaHat
- mg330
anyone play the solitaire cash app?
I’ve never been into gambling but I love solitaire and the game is addicting.
- PonyBoy6
My Mom turns 72 today... on Friday the 13th... and she chose to travel 4700 miles (7600km?) to celebrate it here at my home?! She is pissed about her age... pray for my wife and me? :(
- What are we praying for? Plane crashes not happening in spite of Friday the 13th, or your mom being pissed around you and your wife (on your birthday)? :)jagara
- *her birthdayjagara
- Good luck Kevin ;)OBBTKN
- turn off the lights and pretend you're not in when she arrives.
hilarity ensues.face_melter - lol, put a note on the door saying, not in, all parcels/family members to go to next door neighbour.fadein11
- Know your duties, get her drunk.palimpsest
- It's a beautiful day to travel in the northeast. That's a huge plus. Enjoy!stoplying
- Stoplying... we actually did just that... We hit Mass, NH and VT... heading to the coast in a couple daysPonyBoy
- ^ boo ya!stoplying
- NBQ00-1
Stop the hate, baldie.
Let's be nice to each other.
- No. You're a fucking moron. Fuck off.Continuity
- Come on baldie darling, there's enough hate in the world already.NBQ00
- Haven't you got a colleague to molest again?Continuity
- Molest? I never did such a thing. You and imbecile really want to give me a sex offender image for some reason. Nice smear tactics.NBQ00
- Better idea: go join the IDF. They can always use expendable stooges like you to shove at the front of everyone else.Continuity
- Stop the hate, baldieNBQ00
- No. You're deserving of every gram of it.Continuity
- And you are a fucking sex pest. You don't have any sense of professional boundaries.Continuity
- What do you know about me and my sex/ love life? You're only making false accusations like imbecile, because you have some beef with me.NBQ00
- To quote Putin: "Stop the fighting, baldie"NBQ00
- False accusations, eh? I'll remind you of that the next time you come here to post yet another of your work stories about a woman that makes ...Continuity
- ... her out to be a piece of meat for your pleasure. Like you have done I don't know how many times, now.Continuity
- Piece of meat for my pleasure, what? huh? Geez you have quite a messed up situation in your head.NBQ00
- Be nice, baldie. No need for hate and false accusations.NBQ00
- NBQ00 is garbageimbecile
- I do like that song "I'm only happy when it rains" that I created a while backNBQ00
- *yawnmonospaced
- Mono, go have a rest. You seem sleepy.NBQ00
- imbecile7
evidently, the french door on the back of this house was seized for so long, the previous owners only built steps going down one of the doors.
well, no more.
after excessive lubricant on the slide, removing the hinge pins and top bolt, i rotated the door on that rusted bottom slide bolt until i heard it give, then used a pry bar to get the slide moving up.
now, i get to build stairs wide enough for both doors while I hopefully replace, but more than likely rebuild, the lower slide mechanism.
i can't believe the small molded plastic handle that is supposed to slide that gnarly thing up was somehow already broken. ah, mysteries.
- Damn FrenchGnash
- The pure satisfactionstoplying
- yep. sitting at the kitchen table at 11pm sipping my drink, while looking into the backyard with both doors open after i was done was indeed satisfyingimbecile
- classic gritty donglekingsteven
- Nothin’ like doing someone else’s shitty job properlyscarabin
- sarahfailin0
Annular (partial) solar eclipse happening in North America tomorrow morning! Don't sleep in too late and miss it.
- Make sure you tell your MAGA friends to not listen to the doctors, the deep state doesn't want you looking directly at the sun to see the truthhydro74
- PonyBoy4
I did it again. :/ Or... more appropriately put: I'm a dopey aging stoner who should hire someone to handle billing / accounting cuz I'm just a moron and a half on my own lately.
I found that I've been paying for another client's website for the last TWO FUCKING YEARS... again... they're only $5/month tiny WP instances (Amazon Lightsail)... but that's another $120+ I just gave away and would have kept giving away if my fucking credit card hadn't expired.
I have over 30 sites I've slapped together via Amazon Lightsail the last 5 years... Today I'm going to go through each instance and verify just what a dense fucking moron of a stoner I truly am... I'll keep you all posted!! <3
- inteliboy5
froze on a pitch call with agency/client this week. some kind of weird panic attack. fuckn embarrassing.
- Happens, sometimes it's too much convincing to do, or they give you nothing to connect with or be in the mood for, other times it's simply fatigue. You're fine!spl33nidoru
- Happens to me too. So cringeGnash
- ^ thank you helps relieve the self loathing a little :/inteliboy
- lol that's almost every pitch for me. but if I can get through the first meeting the rest are smooth sailing._niko
- PonyBoy10
oof... took a heavy mental hit today a little after my stoner post below.
One of my all-time favorite clients (goes back more than 20 years) contacted me a couple weeks ago to make some changes to their site... nothing big - address adjustment and to adjust some legal info.
A couple days later his email went down... normally he'd be on the phone in seconds trying to figure out what's up. The only reason I knew there was an issue is I had emailed him to let him know his info changes were complete but his emailed bounced back... so I texted him. He responded immediately and told me he hadn't been aware his email was having issues — He then gave me his login credentials to Gmail and asked me to take a look. Turns out Gmail just wants him to verify his domain name but it had to be done by him responding via his other email to a verification email from Gmail.
I told him "I can't check that email without your credentials... but you don't need to send me those... all you have to do is click the link in the email and simply follow the verification steps".
"Nice! I'll handle it after the game or first thing in the morning."
A week went by and I opt to check in w/ him and see if he's all set. I texted... nothing. I emailed... the email bounced back. :/
The guy runs a fairly lucrative real estate investment setup. He's been the brains behind entire neighborhoods, 30 story apartment buildings and even help finance some massive Vegas stuff over the years. He never lets anything slip... till now. :(
Today I got a text from another client of which was a referral of his (the client I mentioned a couple posts back whose website I've been idiotically financing the last 2 years). She has been a romantic interest of his for years on and off... they're very close.
Anway — Her website was offline... haha... cuz my credit card went defunct. Within minutes I had that all sorted out for her. All done.... almost.
She too then pointed out that her email was also giving her trouble... turns out for the exact same reason as the other guy — domain verification. I laughed out loud and said "How funny... you and XXX are having the exact same issue! Only XXX hasn't fixed his email yet!"
She went a little silent... slight pause... "There's a reason for that. XXX is not well and last Wednesday night was probably his last truly coherent night. I took him to dinner... he was fine but later when we got home he just switched off."
I'm all confused and start asking the standard Q's... what's going on? Is XXX okay???
"This morning his family procured him at-home hospice care."
....
... "HUH?!! :( :( I was just talking with him and joking about how bad our favorite team is this year not even a week ago."
Turns out XXX is literally a 45 minute drive from me over in Vermont. I thought he was still out in Scottsdale etc. Nope... my other client informed today that XXX came home to Vermont last week... to be with his family and pass on.
Poor sweetheart of a human has prostate cancer and it's got him. He's such a kind man that he hasn't told a SOUL w/the exception of family. He doesn't like attention and doesn't want to worry people. :( Last Wednesday was his last good day... He's been damn near unresponsive the last 3 days. My other client (obviously very close to the man) was literally holding his hand while talking to me and giving me the news over the phone... What a shitty Saturday. :/
- Ouch, what a timing, man... So sorry, sure he was a good human being :(OBBTKN
- UghGnash
- That's rough Pony, sorry mate =\
Fuck cancer.BuddhaHat - sorry to hear that PonyNutter
- sad to hear..milfhunter
- drgs-5
- i_monk8
This week we're starting renovations to about a third of the condo. It's something we'd wanted to do 5 years ago—even bought the flooring at the time—but my contract was up and I didn't work for quite a while, then was on contract-to-contract and still digging my way out of debt from that time. It feels good to finally be back in this position.
The renos:
• Flooring in the hall and guest room / my office / lounge
• Pocket door to the above
• Murphy bed in the closet to free up floor space
• New wall unit / storage / built-in desk
• Combining the linen closet with laundry closet
• Pocket/recessing cabinet doors
• Counter and sink, overhead cabinets, tiling
• Slick new wash tower with silly phone app- nice! don't forget the "before" picsSquiddy
- ^ this!Continuity
- Jealous. Ive got a big list of renovations to do. What’s a wash tower?monospaced
- LG Washtower: https://www.lg.com/c…i_monk
- Pro-tip: the city building inspector is your friend. Contact the city building department to inquire if permits are required, or if they have been issued.monNom
- The contractor should be the one signing for the permit, otherwise you might be on the hook for their underperformance.monNom
- Inquire about course of construction insurance as well. Your regular policy may not be in-force during a renovation.monNom
- Final note: all contractors are shady. Conduct yourself accordingly.
Cover you ass(and hire a lawyer for contract review), and things will likely turn out greatmonNom - Yes, contractors love when lawyers get involved before work starts ;)monospaced
- ^ They don't need to know, but you need to know what you are signing. Contract review with a specialist in construction is a modest expense, given the risks.monNom
- Check WCB is paid up as well. If not paid up, WCB can come after you for arrears, as you were the 'employer'.monNom
- https://www.wsib.ca/…monNom
- It's a thing, I got a letter earlier this year from WCB collections inquiring about an arborist I didn't end up hiring. I dodged a bullet, apparently.monNom
- Godspeed brother!ideaist
- No permit is needed except for the plumbing work, and the contractor did my friend's condo so I've seen his work and BTS details.i_monk
- graphic designers are shady. can't trust a single one of them. especially the ones from vancouverimbecile
- PhanLo1
My wife was headed to Liverpool with my son the other day and she'd said there was a diversion from Princes St because there had been an incident overnight.
She'd thought it was a stabbing but I was chatting to my mum this evening and it turned out it was a drunk kid who tried to climb over the fence into Princes St Gardens but slipped on the ornate spiked fence that surrounds it, usually it's claimed a few feet, but the boy slipped and it went through his chin and into his skull then he bled to death.
Mad that a moment of drunken fun ended his life so instantly.
Not that long ago my mates son and his pals had done the same jumping the fence for a laugh, but one of the guys punctured his foot and luckily wasn't that badly injured after a trip to A&E.- Kids are kids, and they need to have these "experiences"... Now, we're in the parenting side, and it's a daily suffering. Very sorry for this kid's family :(OBBTKN
- Oh fuck. BrutalGnash
- Poor kid :( I ripped my hand open on a spike like that when I was 15, almost lost a pinkie. Just looking at those fences gives me the heebie jeebies now.BuddhaHat
- yep Buddha, done similar too on those 3 spike fence on the railways. One slip and I'd have had a comedy guts spill. too old to be doing that now, hehe.PhanLo
- _niko5
Hey PonyBoy don't feel so bad, at least you're not me when it comes to paying for shit necessarily.
Just realized yesterday that I was paying $32/month for my/my son's Adobe Subscription by using my son's student ID.
But I was also paying $72/month for the same subscription also under his name but a non-student version.
Then I was also paying $24/month for After effects even though I had it with both of those services.
This was going on for over a year.
And I'm afraid to look at my Godaddy account to see how many clients I'm paying services for and not billing.
Oh and countless Wordpress plugins that are being used by random clients that I'm paying for and forgotten about.
FML