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- i_monk0
I thought the Antikythera mechanism was still a mystery, with the general idea that it was a calculator of some kind, but I guess they solved it a few years ago.
- Gardener0
A fresh Skylarking mix coming soon to taktentradio.com
- zaq0
Happy Mother's Day!
Don't forget to call/visit her today.
Remember when your whole world was Mom? Teens (13–17) trade those hours for friends. At 18, college cuts it in half. In your 20s, work and relationships take over. After 30 it’s down to an hour a month. When’s the last time you reached out to her?
- man this is depressingautoflavour
- better never show that to my wifeautoflavour
- OBBTKN6
Our youngest daughter turns 20 today. It's incredible how time flies...
Zorionak, Maitia!
- canoe11
finding myself a bit thirsty, so i may go and get some carrot juice
- jagara0
Exactly how many seconds would it take to make QBN capable of displaying webp?
- Why would you want that?monNom
- Tree giddy.palimpsest
- Could we get rid of webp instead?i_monk
- @monNom because i wouldn't have to convert webp to jpg to post it here.jagara
- While we’re at it, we also need DiVX avi supportprophetone
- all the secondspango
- Isn't webp about to be the dominant web image format?jagara
- seems like every damn image in image searches are webpjagara
- shellie29
Just became a TV Academy voting member (based on my commercial work) which is a nice life development. After focusing on digital for most of my career, I finally have enough broadcast commercial work to join in the club.
But my career transformation is not yet compete. Finished my second comedy half hour pilot, submitting to a big writer’s fellowship. Part of me is scared I won't get in. The other part — afraid I will.
- you go gurl!hans_glib
- respect!renderedred
- propsprophetone
- Amazing, Shellie <3PonyBoy
- Good luck, no fear!!OBBTKN
- bravo!Beeswax
- That's so awesome Shellie!
My son is in university for screenwriting and directing... any advice??exador1 - D
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Nice hustle @shellie!ideaist - Exador - happy to speak with him. Hmu - Shellie @ royalfalconfilms .comshellie
- ur a badass, congrats!!!!mantrakid
- Hell yeah!bezoar
- impressive as hell. but not as impressive as the fact that you still visit QBN with us idiots :)_niko
- Congrats!!maquito
- That’s awesome, congrats!instrmntl
- Do your thing!ArmandoEstrada
- Very cool. hoping for the best!Squiddy
- abizzyman9
Finally got to see Les Claypool play live last night... somehow missed ever see him play at festivals / shows over the last 35+ years
- Annnddd, how was it?ideaist
- It was a blast of course :)
(sorry for posting as 'abizzyman'... I was on my phone) <3PonyBoy - lol I was wondering who tf this was.Continuity
- was he slappin da bass mon?jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.youtube.…jonny_quest_lives
- I saw him live at Ozzfest in Erie PA about 25 years ago. He had Buckethead on guitar. Unbelievable performance.curiouscat
- I saw primus play and he stopped the show at one point to riff some ministry "thieves" on the bass.cherub
- Primus sucksKrassy
- mg331
I can't believe it was only today that I realized you can assign an F key as a shortcut for a screenshot on Mac OS.
I've always used a screenshot plugin called MonoSnap, but I can't install that at work, so I have to use the default controls. It's so annoying to do Shift Cmd Control 4 to take a screenshot to the clipboard. All good now with a simply click of F6.
- *Aptly called Monday Snappalimpsest
- Fucking autocorrect!
*Aptly called MonoSnap.palimpsest - Wait until you find out you can have it save screenshots anywhere you want other than the desktop. It’ll blow your mind.monospaced
- I just looked at my F6 for the first time. Moon = Do Not Disturb!i_monk
- maquito6
Stoked for a festival that will take place tomorrow in Barna:
Madball - Pennywise - Propagandhi - Comeback Kid
And I have a tickettt!
- OBBTKN0
These past few months, I've discovered what it's like to live with pain (I've been dealing with shoulder tendonitis for months and a severe crash to my ribs a month ago), and I think I know what aging is, and I'm not enjoying it!!
And the lack of sun and the eternal humidity of my country aren't helping matters.
Time to think of an escape plan to the south?
- bummer dude. i dislocated my shoulder a few years ago and know only too well how good the shoulder is at distributing pain around the body.hans_glib
- Ouch Hans, get well yo... and yes, I have a doctor's appointment today and we'll see if we can resolve this. I don't sleep well even on my back, argh!!OBBTKN
- exercises are the key to recovery, for the shoulder anyway. resting your arm on a firm pillow to support the damaged shoulder helps sleep a bit.hans_glib
- ribs i guess heal with time?hans_glib
- microkorg0
Still on the jobhunt.
This week has felt a bit better as had two interviews and another potentially next week.
Today I had a call with a talent recruiter from a top bank that I'd applied to but not got the position. He was giving me feedback on why I wasn't chosen. CV, folio, skillset etc all on point. Only thing I lacked was native app experience.I'd like my next role to be fintech/crypto related and most require native app experience.
Without getting a job for the next few years working on an app platform to get the experience, do you think like doing the kind of case studies where you fix a problem in a current app you use and having that in my folio would cut it?
I'm kinda thinking they are moreso looking for the real world experience, knowing about restrictions, native UI's etc.
But aren't these skills pretty transferrable?I spent the last 5 years as lead UX product designer with no prior 'product' experience, but 20 years experience in agencies doing web/digital across many sectors/industries to call on so I could hit the ground running.
Good to hear thoughts from native app designers.
- Should I have posted that in the Gen X Career Meltdown thread? ;)microkorg
- If you need "native app experience" go with iOS, much easier to stick to the guidelines.
Android is a mess rn design wise...grafician - Do you think doing some homegrown projects and having them in my portfolio would be enough? Or u think they are looking for actual experiencemicrokorg
- working on native apps, with devs etc and to restrictions/guideli...microkorg
- Usually they mean exactly that - real work experience - but having self-promo projects is very good (for direct clients)grafician
- But getting feedback from talent recruiters is fuck'all
Try to apply directly to companies, not go through middlegrafician - Problem these days is they are getting back to office or hybrid work, fully remote jobs are scarce againgrafician
- Graf, the guy was in-house talent recruiter, not a third party one.
Need to get me some native app experience.microkorg - You mean HR?
Sorry but unless you deliver fully developed apps you aren't getting those kind of jobs
Which is bs
But hey good luckgrafician - Cheers mate. I agree. Designers skills are 100% transferrable. And you could learn any systems/software with a heads-down for a few weeks in a job.microkorg
- Sure, we can manage faster than the HR can vet the CVs
For some companies it's like 5-6 rounds of interviews and months of time wastedgrafician
- OBBTKN2
Following Hijo's inspiration post... Time was, 30 kms near town, I'm tired, way to siesta
- Get a new kit or piece of gear for bike. Watch tons of cycling vids. Anything to motivate you!HijoDMaite
- Yeah, motivation is not the problem, too busy this last years and a couple of injuries have kept me off the bike. But thanks ;)OBBTKN
- And noooo... I don't need more gears, I've got 3 bikes and a ton of accessories!OBBTKN
- Lol get better soon then bro!HijoDMaite
- NBQ00-6
Are tattoos still cool?
They seem tacky to me now.
- afraid of what women will think of your C18 ink?face_melter
- I am doing an app for tattoo studios
The market is boominggrafician - Ah then it must be cool :)NBQ00
- Don't get me wrong, most tattoos are crap, but in volume, the entire market is booming!grafician
- you could get HATE ISLAM across your knuckles. That would be cool NBQIanbolton
- haha maybeNBQ00
- OBBTKN33
I'm 53 today. No "big plans" maybe a few beers with friends, but I'll be home soon. I have a special dinner with my daughters and my wife, my treasures ;)
Take care of the people you love, guys and girls, love and peace!
- All the best!grafician
- Thanks graf <3OBBTKN
- feliz cumple!maquito
- felix cumple! ;Pmaquito
- I'll be raising my glass to you later this evening, Felix <3 ...here's to another 53+ years :)PonyBoy
- Here's to more laps 'round the sun!stoplying
- HBOBBTKNmort_
- Congrats you old fuck :)utopian
- congrats dude :) I celebrated 53 earlier in the month in almost the exact same way :) dinner out with my wife and the kids :)exador1
- Happy birthday!Akagiyama
- happy b daymilfhunter
- 1/2 way to 106 boy!!!
XOideaist - old fogeybezoar
- wholesome ! HBD!Krassy
- Felicidades Félix!!! Zorionak!Miesfan
- Congrats and no plans are the best plans.Longcopylover
- what's a special dinner?robthelad
- A dap and a hug! A congrats and a cheers too!canoe
- Can we get to 53 upvotes people!?canoe
- Thanks all!.. We're not 53 active canoe :)OBBTKN
- Congrats. I'll be 50 this year :-)Calderone2000
- Salarrue23
Health issues in a family is a huge burden... Please hug your close ones and enjoy every moment you have with them, don't engage in petty ego discussions, life is so fucking short.
- DaveO18
Really getting back into dance music. Fucking love it.
I started going to Nowadays in Queens on Sunday mornings for the early sessions. I get up at 6am, in the club by 7am, a little smoke, a little weirdness for a few hours and back home.
I'm 43 and really am comfortable being the older guy in the club – more than i thought. Its funny how even after 30 years of going to raves, it still has the same appeal. Nowadays has a no phone policy which is amazing and actually makes the place feel timeless. The BPMs are faster than they used to be, and there are more trans folks around than there were in the north of England in the late 90s but on the whole, its comforting to know that people are still dancing in dark rooms to pounding dance music.
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- 6am getting up to dance... Woah!!OBBTKN
- https://nowadays.nyc… ?
Sweet.
You go girl / boy.ideaist - Respect._me_
- *high five*Akagiyama
- My daughter has started going to raves (doofs now) and is really into EDM. The stuff they listen to is pretty dope, producers like Restricted and Schrotthagen.slappy
- love thiscanoe
- This actually makes me want to try going to a club at 7am.fattymcgrizzle
- Are you going sober? Or wake and bake and shake?_niko
- That's great. There's been a big daytime rave / over 30s rave thing here in Ireland for the last couple of years.mort_
- Back to the old skool with no phones in the air, just dancing and enjoying the music.microkorg
- The DJ HELL and Sandwell District morning sets at Nowadays a few months back were absolutely epic!moogchild
- daytime dancing? shit yeah! go git 'embezoar
- I've got friends that go to day raves. Specifically targetted at the old skool crowdmicrokorg
- Old people day rave sounds awesome! Party before sunset, and still in bed by 9pm? Fuck yeah.Akagiyama
- Straight edge partying intrigues me...ideaist
- that little smoke takes off the edge...or gives u the edge...neverscared
- as long as u stay in the groove both works...neverscared
- Wake and bake and then zero alcohol athletic beers! Enough to be 'in the spirit', not too much to feel it for days afterwards.DaveO
- I must stress that this is not a 'brunch rave' or 'sober clubbing' – its just a 24 hour venue where I go in the morning! Like Panorama or Berghain in essenceDaveO
- true u have to stress.... day raves are not the edge...neverscared
- everything about this post is amazing, you've even rumbled some alts.garbage
- Heard people still get mad out of it at day raves lol.mort_
