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- bklyndroobeki1
I want to have one get away this weekend before it gets full on Fall in NY. It was a rough summer for me, things are calming down now... time to head to Appalachia
- pango2
Ohhhhhhh yeahhhh~~~~ cheques just keeps coming in last couple days. Some late but whatever. They all paid!!!!
Gonna go buy my self a happy meal!
- d_gitale4
some pics from last night's typhoon aftermath:
- Hou lee shie!pango
- yupmoldero
- less strong than in taiwan, but still...d_gitale
- looks post apocalyptic!trooperbill
- wow. looks terrifying but the shots are great. got anymore?dorf
- i am at the airport now... getting here was like driving through a disaster zone... well, i guess it is one.d_gitale
- dude that's a lot of windows down.HijoDMaite
- How are they gon collect ferrari monies?cannonball1978
- North Korea?utopian
- ********1
What do you do as a designer when the client's requests are completely against your design sensibilities.
1) Do you recommend a better solution?
2) Do you do it anyways and collect the check?
I eventually got tired of #1 and just went to #2 with my latest freelance. Client is happy, I think it's repulsive.
- you are just vehicle in which the clients wishes are for filled. as long they are happy and you are paid. only other thing i can think of if you are notyurimon
- desperate for $ to try to qualify your clients more. effectively find you market niche with your style. but that can have disadvantages also. type casting.yurimon
- as far as being a vehicle things went well. im just going to forget it and move on. needed that check********
- i still feel like i failed as a designer********
- For the most part when a client requests something. i try to offer my opinion. at that point you become like a sales person and have to resell to the client whyyurimon
- its in his best interest. you also have to be aware of your clients personality type. if he is strong and opinionated your approach will change. sometimes thereyurimon
- #2 for life.section_014
- parts of a project that are important to them in appearance, logo placement is prob most common. like anything else it has a success rate. sometimes they areyurimon
- with changes you hate. those projects do tend to fall into the i just did it for money category. i know the temptation is there to not do the convincing. but ityurimon
- is a skill, or type of leadership development based in sales. may people in practice hate it. its something i always try to work on non stop. i know i blow whenyurimon
- im on qbn.yurimon
- lolmonospaced
- yurimon4
So I dreampt there was an edit/delete button on QBN,
I went to town on it. only other thing i remember, it was designed badly with an early internet serif font using an early internet gradation. also they couldnt fit edit/delete on one button.
it read edit-del and the world delete came up in its entirety only on over mouse over. thats when my dream started to feet bad.
i think its time to call it a day.
- <wordyurimon
- see, i need to edit this now.yurimon
- Laterzfadein11
- it was horrible fadein. it had the old internet flicker when the gif mouseover mismatched in file size pushing content over when mouseoveredyurimon
- it means you subconsciously know your posts need to be edited or deleted entirelyscarabin
- lol, good one.yurimon
- and then you failed at a design task. this dream is telling you reams of informationscarabin
- i didnt design. just dreamyurimon
- oh. thought "going to town on it" might have been constructive. now i see you just complained about it. should have known betterscarabin
- you had a very busy day on QBN today, yurimonospaced
- What the hell is Dreampt?pango
- what the hell is feet bad?monospaced
- mugwart6
Beat the crazy bitch (landlord) in mediation! Now to get paid and get my stuff back.
Hate how petty people can drag you down.
- pinkfloyd2
- sadly, probably ismonospaced
- Graph does share the wealth of the top 1%.utopian
- The top 1% now owns half the world's wealth
http://fortune.com/2…utopian
- Maaku3
Coming in to the office this morning, like I love my job...
- kona3
Thinking of where I can buy a mannequin for halloween? Ideas?
- http://petapixel.com…utopian
- http://www.paper-kit…utopian
- haha. No, I need a real head to toe mannequin for a halloween display.kona
- paging yurimonfadein11
- Yurimon should have quite a few in his basement.pango
- I dont have industrial strength cleaning supplies for thosekona
- ? https://www.mannequi…jaylarson
- OH Yeah!!kona
- pinkfloyd0
What's the deal with a bunch of gay men marrying straight women and ruining their lives? Seems so fucked up.
- <-- I read that in Seinfeld voicehellrod
- what is going on?pinkfloyd
- this is a thing?monospaced
- just be their guy on the side. NBD.scarabin
- wtf********
- it happens a lotpinkfloyd
- Wasn't this what gay men used to have to do? Sort of hoped this didnt happen anymoremugwart
- #karmapinkfloyd
- Those women didn't know their hubby's gay?pango
- karma?!monospaced
- Yeah, they don't know. They sometimes find out later.pinkfloyd
- Don't blame them for trying to conform to the relentless pressure to be straight.i_monk
- Good point i_monk, it must be really hard when gay people still face discrimination today, and fear the rejection from their own familypinkfloyd
- Social pressure? Moms dying wish to see them married with a women? Gold digger? Could be any of those!! O_Opango
- what if the chick is kinky and likes 2 for 1s?********
- mg331
Already posted in Punches For, but going to have to find a new web host after 12 years with a company who utterly shit the bed today.
They sent out an email saying I'd been migrated to a new and improved server. Went to check out my sites, all of the are down and are listing the basic hosting setup with a single cgi bin folder per domain. They said it would be a couple hours and I'm still waiting. So utterly frustrating.
- whatthefunk0
Watching Jets vs Bills on Twitter right now https://twitter.com/nyjets/statu…
- mg331
I am so fucking pissed about this hosting mess. I'm ripping this host apart once my sites are back up and I've downloaded all my data. I'm just not doing anything before then, because if I said what I want to say, they'd probably kill my data and I'd never get any of back.
It's not so much the downtime that bothers me. It's that they have not sent a single message proactively about it. They have not posted anything about the outage on their server status page. They basically botched a server transfer and are having to run a synchronization check for God knows how many hundreds of hosting accounts on that server. That's what pisses me off.
- Bennn-4
We're running on fossil fuel.
Fossil fuel is made in large parts of death dinausaurs, plants and animals.
Those plants and animals were killed in mass instinction cataclysm that eradicated large part of living being from surface of the Earth.
We're running on death, and we're killing ourselves from it.
- HijoDMaite3
Mi esposa y yo nos vamos a tomar un vinito esta noche para la patria. Le voy a platicar sobre la historia de Mexico y cuando se duerman las niñas vamos a salir afuera a dar el grito de independencia. Ojala no venga la policia.
#vivamexico #independenceday
- ¡¡Viva México cabrones!!OBBTKN
- Make New Mexico Mexico Again!********
- orale!sureshot
- dios miopinkfloyd
- Build this wall, before it's too late.ApeRobot
- Blood in Blood out II ?sureshot
- ok i didn't make it to midnight. how was it?HijoDMaite
- Bring Mexico to America! Long live corruption!Hayoth
- I am never able to remember this date.VectorMasked
- puro parisofakingback
- sureshot2
I feel like writing history.
- you caught the writing bug too.yurimon
- show us something you've written, yuriscarabin
- soonyurimon
- how soon?scarabin
- sometimes i make headway sometimes i fall behind. right now im behind.yurimon
- what's it about?scarabin
- its scifi. the struggle so far is trying to get out of the nihilistic culture stuff without losing appeal.yurimon
- most stories are the heros journey template.yurimon
- lol @ "without losing appeal"monospaced
- bliznutty2
help me i'm totally 100% addicted to marijuana and don't know how to quit. my daily lifestyle and environment are the main source - i really don't know how to stop - my body demands it. my behavior is drawn to its rituals,
i know you're all laughing but its not funny
- http://180degreeheal…********
- you ever suck dick for weed?!!sarahfailin
- ^ & ^^ how insensitivepinkfloyd
- damn. if you work at a corp or company most will have a hotline for help. they might be able to get you in to talk to someone about it.kona
- getting personal for a moment. 2015 was the worst and i reached the absolute lowest point in my life. i reached out for help and it was the best thingkona
- i could have done for myself. some things, you can't tackle alone.kona
- If you are: stop fucking waking and baking - no good EVER comes of that. Try and spend time somewhere you cliterally just can't smoke, or buy any.detritus
- thanks konabliznutty
- hehe 'cliterally'.detritus
- yeah.. been a few days without it after near constant for a while.. its hard.. aint going to lie..autoflavour
- I gave up on Monday. Got a kid coming in 5 weeks. I found it surprisingly easy after day 3. But you sound like you got it bad so maybe seek professional help.HAYZ1LLLA
- For me pot is just one of those things that's a bastard for three or four days and then - Poof! - the benefit of clarity becomes a buzz of its own.detritus
- All I read was "Cliterlly"...pango
- Word of the day!!!pango
- I'm not laughing. I've been there, and I'm sure you're a functional stoner. I find that actual activities on schedule help keep you from craving it.monospaced
- yea, when you're on a streak of smoking everyday, is hard to stop, the first days you get some nausea, but then you feel strongfeel
- try smoking all you have, do a all weed day, until you can't get it anymore, and then spend some days without it, try doing 3 months w no weed, you'll feel finefeel
- I used to be a chronic everyday smoker in my 20's. Once I turned 30, started having kids a house more responsibilities I quit.fooler
- I'll smoke very occasionally now and have a 1 plant growing in my back yard but I find myself drinking a hell of a lot more.fooler
- If you are serious check out this subreddit: r/leavesHijoDMaite
- Being broke is the best way to quit a habit.Hayoth
- thanks hijoDbliznutty
- just exercise. its all chemical. replace one habit with another. shellie will atest********
- find a good or a bad substitute for it.
bad substitute: alcohol, nicotine
good substitute: girl who doesn't smoke, but likes sexuan - I am celiac and had to give up most/all my dietary. Its not the same as you but I can help how to change habits. Start off small and dont try to shock body normugwart
- mind. Try to make this an adventure. Explore new things and try not to think about it. look into all the things you want to do and slowly get into that.mugwart
- not easy and you'll get withdrawals but after a month of hard work you'll feel better.
Good luckmugwart - thanks mugwart! i'm going to try your approachbliznutty
- go cold turkey for 1 year. no excuses.********
- environment is your big issue... if it's the folks you hang with... you may want to give a bit of space to them and set out on your own a bit...exador1
- just drop it, bet so tired by moving your ass that you can't smoke. the first week will be shit, but survive that and you're good.sted
- God damn it, now I want to give it a try. I smoke pot pretty much everyday as well but I think I should stop even if I'm productive under the influence.Maaku
- bet->get. stop smoking at the morning.
and change your rituals (it doesn't matters to what).sted - i've built it into my life - everything i do contributes to it. live in CO, WFH software engineer, snowboarder, hippie/burner, I grow it, my friends grow/smokebliznutty
- i've also been doing it for most my life. and with dabs its like even worse. most days i will do a dozen or more dabs and 1/2 dozen bowls or morebliznutty
- i'm turning 40 next year. it would be a real treat for me to try life without it for awhilebliznutty
- i'm fine the days i don't look at it. but when i do is when i feel powerless and it hurts. its a big mindfuck for me. i usually don't deal with it and just livebliznutty
- like me, If you have a stash, you're gonna smoke it, just get rid of it, give it to someone elsefeel
- trust me it's not an addiction if you aren't smoking one for the morning coffee, and sweat for no reason after not smoking for 2 days... xsted
- if simply want to put down you have to change your habits. that's inevitable. or pick up a sectarian girl and dedicate your addiction to Jesus. ehhsted
- hang in there dude. some folks are lucky and can walk away cold turkey. with others it takes time and a conscious effort to find other, healthier rituals.ronburgundy
- Post here if you want more suggest/advice. Its not easy but if you make it an adventure its a lot of fun (not easy). Shit I lost 50kgs in 3 months and ...mugwart
- ... ended up with the most incredible woman imaginable. Just don't make giving up a mental downermugwart
- weed is a tricky bitch and lots of people like to downplay or deny its negative effects. props for deciding to get a handle on it!scarabin
- I thought I was addicted...but turns out I'm not that addicted. thing is where I live now weed and hash are hard to get.********
- but I was way more productive and active when I was living in Amsterdam and smoking everyday...now I can not focus and my work got worst.********
- back to you...hang tough, good advice from kona. it's good that you open yourself. I don't think anyone's laughing.********
- you took one step. it'll be one at a time. 1/4 of my closest friends used to be heroin addicts. most of the ones that didn't die kicked it away from their lives********
- if you feel that's what you really need and want you will be able to do it. good luck. stay strong.********
- http://www.mountneve…scarabin
- i am the partybreaker. do what you wanna do man. wanna quit? man up and quit. wanna do more? do more.renderedred
- This is easy to cut down, just start going to the gym, 5 days a week. That will be the first step, the second step you will already cut back. Then keep going!robotron3k
- If you are really smoking hard, then work out 7 days a week, this will beat back your desires very quickly...robotron3k
- Yeah and maybe downgrade from dabbing... :)detritus
- Move to Dubai. You can even say the word weed.Raybandana
- *can'tRaybandana
- there's people on online chats that can help https://www.marijuan…sea_sea
- I'm still chuckling at "cliterally". How could that have been an honest mistake?CyBrainX
- https://s-media-cach…********
- https://s-media-cach…********
- just stop smoking the shit, there are no withdrawals, this is cliterally ridiculous, 40 years old and 'addicted' to pot? wtf is going on in here********
- That's your advice terry? Your poor gf/bfsea_sea
- Your feigned concern for my personal life is adorable. No need to worry sweetheart. Yea, my advice is to put on your big boy pants and exhibit some self control********
- Don't flatter yourself, no fucks given here about you.sea_sea
- reading comprehension isn't your strong suit huh, or do you not know what the word 'feigned' means********
- http://180degreeheal…
- maquito2
Crazy week at the studio; two huge presentations, 2 days working till 11pm... 100+ pages in PPT for each, plus renders, mockups, rationals and budgets. My back hurts, my neck feels like someone is standing over my head, and probably I got one or two birds living in my eye-bags. Can't wait to get home and have a cold beer, or 6. Happy friday sheeples!
- section_0141
A website project fell into my lap, and I'm not sure if I want to take it. Someone close asked me to look over a quote from a firm for a pretty basic ass website. I said this was too high, and they asked if I would give a counter proposal. 95% sure I'll get it, but don't really want to.
On one hand, the budget is very nice (non-profit kinda thing), and I could use a canned CMS solution to sort it out. Although, I'd use something relatively bare bones, most likely.
On the other hand, I really don't want to spend my downtime on this. Literally just finished up a side project with hopes of dedicating my time to personal projects. It's hard to turn down relatively easy money, though. So, I'm not sure what I want to do.
- Summer's gone, take the money and prepare for winter.detritus
- you have any trustworthy friends you could have do it and you just collect a small percentage? The work goes through you, but you don't have to do it.capn_ron
- Agree with the capn, farm it out, take a cut.eryx
- i try to not say no to work, but that doesn't mean i always do it. I will just help art direct and communicate with the client.capn_ron
- front-end dev here. Currently freelancing.BabySnakes
- I charge in Canadian. I could charge you your budget amount and you'd still make almost 30% on top, lol!ETM
- 1st world problems thread?fadein11
- Do it.Hayoth
- futuremongolian2
Biznutty:
I was the same way with coke for a couple years - just doing way too much but my environment (work and friends) promoted it heavily. I met a girl who doesn't do drugs but loves to fuck. Solved all my drug issues immediately. Now I rarely touch the stuff.
- Sex is the cure for drugs....
ya.... I have a close friend who keeps relapsing. No family and also rough time for her :/pango - good for you because sex and drugs is a potent combo********
- especially with coke hmm :D
strange but i rarely do anything when I have someone.sted - Lol.Hayoth
- just remember everytime you want to smoke nancy reagan dares you to be better and quit that shit. so fuckin simple. duh********
- don't fuck nancy!!!!********
- Sex is the cure for drugs....
