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- monospaced29
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Two years ago today was my last day of work at PwC, where after 16 years I was a victim of mass layoffs. 6 months later, my wife was also let go (fuck you, Trump), leaving us without health insurance or a sense of stability. By late 2025, PwC had completely dissolved the remaining US Creative team.
I was luck enough to land a contract position at Edward Jones six months out, and for the last 18 months I held that position, built a team from the ground up and set some pretty high standards. I became quite attached to the team and the designers I had hired and trained.
Unfortunately, the nature of a contract role is that there are no benefits, and this one was also a significant pay cut from PwC. Don't ask how much health premiums are for a family of four in New York unless you want to punch a wall. Needless to say, I never stopped applying for jobs, randomly clicking through some corporate Workday site for the thousandth time, sending my shitty resume out into the ether, not expecting a response.
Well shit. I start a new job on Wednesday. Full salary and benefits. I'm back baby!
- Nice! Congrats! You just described my near exact situation (and I'm still looking)...
You guys hiring? (lol)PonyBoy - Congrats. Clientsside or agency?Longcopylover
- That's great news!canoe
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- woot wootpango
- Excellent news. Good work.Morning_star
- good stuff. I too worked in corporate before doing my own stuff. But my own stuff has gone pretty slow recently. Trying to get more happening. It's tough!sab
- Congrats, fellow Triton!Krassy
- Congrats!BonSeff
- In house for life :) remote with some occassional manhattan days I supposemonospaced
- It was hard breaking the news to my team and discuss for and plan for 2 weeks how on earth they’ll actually fill in for me. They do need designers though.monospaced
- sucks they didnt see your value to convert you from contract. But good on you to keep your eye out.BonSeff
- Nice mono! fuck yeah.bezoar
- Yeah it sucks. I talked to the ECD about it a couple of times and they honestly wanted to. But it just isn’t that simple.monospaced
- Congrats!!!instrmntl
- Nice work, you made it happen!!spot13
- Congratulations! You must feel like a zillion, right now!Squiddy
- Yes! Congrats mono, you deserve it, good luck in the new adventure ;)OBBTKN
- Excellent news. Congrats!mort_
- Thanks all! I start tomorrow. Eek!monospaced
- so incredibly happy for you Mono!!!!!!exador1
- good luck manrenderedred
- Great news - It's terrific to hear a positive employment story these days. Best of luck!stoplying
- Hell yes mono, happy for ya.garbage
- Yeeah man!! Great stuff mono. That's a tough time you've been through so glad you found something.Ianbolton
- Graf would be so proud of you too haha ;-)Ianbolton
- Nice! Congrats! You just described my near exact situation (and I'm still looking)...
- HAL90010
My 9 Albums
absolutly impossible to pick only 9 albums for me, so i'll be that guy who can't follow rules and post more than one selection, sorry
- if i had to pick one band that made me it would totally be the Smashing Pumpkins, no question.HAL9001
- The first five here are indisputable.CyBrainX
- At first, I didn't realize you made 5.These are all great. I'll be seeing Animal Collective on Thursday in Brooklyn.CyBrainX
- cheaterPonyBoy
- +100 for The Thermals!fooler
- HAL9001: My900Albumsfuturefood
- not for favourites, it's 9 that made YouGardener
- Gabriel8
Show some recent work
makeIcon 3.0 out now.
It lets you organize your macOS folders by giving each one a custom icon made from any picture — or just a color — in a few clicks.
- cool!PonyBoy
- +1utopian
- For QBN'rs user code FRIENDGIFTGabriel
- Cool, Any plans to develop this for Windows?CyBrainX
- Niceset
- @CyBrainX → I could try ;)Gabriel
- @cybrain https://github.com/p…set
- Apple could not verify “makeIcon” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.colab
- Sorry. That's the warning it gives me with "move to trash" as the only option. I tried right click+open.colab
- It's not signed because I'm not paying the apple developer.Gabriel
- 1. Open makeIcon. When the warning appears, click Done (not "Move to Trash").
2. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security.
3. Scroll to the bottom. Next to "mGabriel - akeIcon" was blocked to protect your Mac, click Open Anyway.
4. Open makeIcon again, click Open Anyway and enter your password.Gabriel
- futurefood2
- Star Trek:TNG - The Inner Light. nice surprize cuz I didn't know he was in it just knew him from Office SpaceSquiddy
- oh no milton!trooperbill
- Not Milton, but one of the Bobs.
Top right is Man From Earth, great filmfuturefood - Stephen Root was Milty and he's alive and well.CyBrainX
- still gettin' paidAQUTE
- :(
https://www.amazon.c…PonyBoy
- Continuity4
- +1 for Floodlandfooler
- Are you a fan of KMFDM?palimpsest
- Might be!Continuity
- Ohhh, KMFDM, love those guys, haven't listened to them in years!!elahon
- I love you, but we have absolutely no shared commonality in music, brother
hahaNairn - Kill Mother Fuckin Depeche Mode?stoplying
- I LOVE that Front 242 album. Most people gravitate to Front by Front because it has Headhunter.CyBrainX
- @CyBrainX: yup, exactly. This one is fucking chef's kiss.Continuity
- @Nairn, I'm afraid I have to disappoint you even more. I love green bell pepper, mushrooms, and black olives on my pizza.Continuity
- Hey now, hey now now!canoe
- Awesome.. if i had to guess it would've been shibuya-kei lol. KMFDM MONEY is a great. Even got the glittered tshirtSquiddy
- lol @ Squiddy ... you're not too far off, though. For the last couple of years I've been all about all-woman J-metal/J-rock bands, like BAND-MAID.Continuity
- Longcopylover4
- That was trickier than i thought...Longcopylover
- That Trainspotting got a lot of rotation over here... never bought the second album thoughcanoe
- I've been thinking that Trainspotting would have it hit my nine. So to speak.
It's fundamental.Nairn - La Haine tho.. literally referenced that soundtrack yesterday in a insta postautoflavour
- hammerhart!neverscared
- Yeah, the different Trainspotting tracks were perfect for so many occasions: Breakups, Parties, Skating...Longcopylover
- Squiddy21
- Curb Crawlingutopian
- +++renderedred
- beautifulBabySnakes
- this is what we needautoflavour
- elahon4
- That's a great set. That Jimmy Cliff album is gold.Morning_star
- Caution!!! can't understand!BabySnakes
- I second that - Jimmy Cliff!canoe
- yesss finally, RIBBEDfuturefood
- +1 to jimmy cliff, Fugazi and psalm 69cannonball1978
- palimpsest5
- +1 Faith in Strangers - surprised to see that on our list, Pal! xNairn
- Also, Nosaj Thing. I didn't realise you leant that way!Nairn
- Andy Stott!CyBrainX
- Violence!!!!palimpsest
- Soda Stereo, my mancanoe
- Ianbolton2
My 9 Films
I'm doing a horror october thing with a missus. Does anyone fancy doing a 9 horror film list?
- with 'a' missus. Fuck. I meant the. I'm fucked if she sees thisIanbolton
- Hey Missus of Ianbolton, don't worry, he only has us.Longcopylover
- FLOL, you're in shit now, boyo!Nairn
- First horror movie: The security camera footage of Ian explaining who 'a missus' is to THE missus!Akagiyama
- haha, this horror movie i'm in is brutal.Ianbolton
- I liked backrooms and obsession.monospaced
- renderedred4
- in november the film will be posted for free on the guardian website.renderedred
- Akagiyama0
- hahaha, great list. What about 12 years a slave?Ianbolton
- + Irreversible, Memento, Se7enNairn
- shit man, irreversible is fucked up. Also, ThreadsIanbolton
- + the original Ring. By fuck.Continuity
- I got completely wasted at a friend's house a few years back and ended up 'watching' Requiem for a Dream like 4 times back to back. Still can't recall it... .Nairn
- I don't think RFAD belongs here because it's a *tough* movie to watch but because it hasn't aged well, I saw it a month ago. It did it it's thing in its era.palimpsest
- I did Requiem for a Dream then Bjork’s Dancer in the Dark on a Sunday come down. Fuck me, I was crying my little eyes. Like everything was awful forever nowIanbolton
- Hahahaha, brilliant.
Yeah, not a good idea, lol.Nairn - This could be 20 movies or more if I had room lolAkagiyama
- a_aachen5
- <3 La haine... as actual as ever.Longcopylover
- Victoria is a great callGardener
- yes that one really blew me away.a_aachen
- jagara3
The Useful Thread
Thought slappy's Turbotest site belongs here :)
(peripheral test, keybords, mice etc.)
https://turbotest.io/
- kingsteven2
- Oh damn I love this one. I haven't seen too many of these with Captain Beefheart, Can or Stereolab. I don't know Paperclip People but the rest are ace.CyBrainX
- hah, surprisingly easy to put together all in constant rotation for nearly 30 years :) hardest was deciding between safe as milk and clear spotkingsteven
- Homogenic was the last great (even, good) Bjork album. Christ, I miss early Bjork.Nairn
- I love the album about mushrooms with the bass clarinet octet.CyBrainX
- For me, if you're going to listen to Capt. Beefheart, go full crazy with Trout Mask Replica.CyBrainX
- Yeah, homogenic is perfection, turns me in to an emotional mess. she leant a bit too hard in to concept albums after - you may enjoy this concept though @Nairnkingsteven
- https://www.youtube.…
playlist of all 20 Mark Bell produced tracks after homogenic.kingsteven - @CyBrain, dipped my toe and ended up deep in Zoot Horn Rollo skronk analysis while cross referencing 3 biographies, but these are the two I play in company lolkingsteven
- +1 Stereolab
+1 Canoey_oey - Dots and Loops stays in rotation over here. Great workin and driving music.shellie
- Don't pass up the chance to see Stereolab live if you can. I saw them about a year ago and was blown away.CyBrainX
- yeah incredible, when dots and loops came out they were already one of my favorite bands alongside mouse on mars and tortoise. so an album featuring all 3 thatkingsteven
- lives up to the expectations of what that could be, my lord. - then arguably just continued to get better but dots and loops always the one i reach for.kingsteven
- @Nairn I was with her until Médulla.jagara
- neverscared7
- lolGardener
- Police Academy 1-4 are awesome._me_
- lol very thin blue linepango
- Mmmm Callahanprophetone
- Might I suggest Night Patrol? It stars the girl from the Exorcist, Pat Morita and the Unknown Comic. (This is not a bit)garbage
- The Blue Oysterfooler
- At some point there's a cock-fighting scene, and it's two naked dudes fighting with their dicks in an alley. Revel at the cover art:garbage
- https://i.haasie.com…garbage
- I used to host shitty movie parties, and two movies made people tap out: "Night Patrol" and "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom".garbage
- Night Patrol lol I have that on VHS... ‘ got an infection on my thumb. My doctor told me to keep it warm.’ Lolprophetone
- Christopher Nolan wishes he could put a scene together better than this https://youtu.be/4gE…prophetone
- ‘Cream’a washroom...’ lolprophetone
- Blue Oyster LOL!canoe
- @prophy Same, I got mine at a junk store strickly for the "more consistently amusing than 'Police Academy'" tagline.garbage
- For the unitiated, Pat Morita is officially credited as "Rape Victim", and his lines are dubbed over by a woman. Movie makes Porky's look like Citizen Kane.garbage
- PonyBoy3
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All this time I thought a traditional chicago style hotdog had ketchup on it... nope.
- Those sport peppers are the shitmonospaced
- love 'em!PonyBoy
- No ketchup!utopian
- Gardener7
- This had to be a challenge for you.utopian
- it was but the remit is 'Sounds That Made Me', so it's not just 9 of my favourite albumsGardener
- GBV! GBV!fooler
- I was late to the GBV party so this was the first one I heard, it blew me away when I saw them live - I got Robert to sign a poster of this sleeve art tooGardener
- I had GBV sign a record and Robert's pen exploded - so the record is mostly gold blob with a barely legible "SORRY ABOUT ALL THE GOLD" also in gold.kingsteven
- piccy?Gardener
- i believe an ex housemate has it. will try and recover - i am a tree 7"kingsteven
- god yesGardener
- OBBTKN12
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My father had a stroke on Friday; I called an ambulance, which arrived in 5 minutes, and now he’ll have to spend a week under observation—just a couple of weeks after turning 82.
There don’t seem to be any lasting effects, aside from a bit of mental fog, but I think he’ll recover soon.
I really hope they don’t forbid him from riding his bike, because if they do, his decline will be drastic.
- All the best, man!jagara
- Nothing but love to you and your Dad, Felix.PonyBoy
- Godspeed, OB's Dad.
xNairn - Xmort_
- I just got back from the hospital; he’s doing okay—a bit freaked out, but hopefully in a couple of days they’ll figure out the source of the blood clot...OBBTKN
- Thanks a lot guys!OBBTKN
- Indarra eta besarkada bat!Miesfan
- Eskerrik asko!!OBBTKN
- all the best materenderedred
- Sorry to hear - hope no lasting damage for your Dad.stoplying
- All the best!oey_oey
- Get well soon OBBTKN Senior.Longcopylover
- :-(canoe
- Hoping for the best!Squiddy
- Best wishes to your father!utopian
