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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    The Curry of Doom Complaint Thread

    :)

    brr brr shivrin as if it's 40Fs and the window es open

    typed out zzzzz

    buona sera

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited October 2014

    TroutFace said:
    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.


    32 years with the same company in the city of my birth before retirement 4 years ago.
    What can I say, I've seen other parts of the country, but I prefer Home. :)

    There's a lot to be said for having home turf, to know stability and not see every dawn in a different place. :coolsmile:

    Alas, my Dad was a field engineer, before I moved out the longest we lived anywhere was 3 years. Dad and Mom loved to travel, and I got to come along. :blank: :blank: It ruined me for "settling down", it appears that the wanderlust my parents had ended up in me as well. :down: I was six months old when we first moved, and it didn't end until I moved out in Virginia to move in with my gf Michelle.

    I think it was a miracle I was able to settle down for the 10 years I was married and living in Maryland, before I pulled us up and moved to California. Things went downhill from there as my ex-wife really wasn't a nomad.

    This is why I'm leery of close real-life relationships, I know for a fact I'm going to feel nailed down and unfree, so I have a natural resistance to any situation that might restrict my freedom. This is not a place you want to try to forge an LTR from, let me tell you.

    Probably TMI.

    ...I hate moving, I hate the disruption to my life it causes.

    I've been in the same place now for nearly sixteen years and thoroughly enjoy it. I like stability, which I didn't have much of most of my life. In some ways I'm like a hobbit, I like a cozy place that feels "lived in". I don't feel relaxed at all in most hotels (unless it is an old one) or those new slapped together hipster apartment blocks like have been springing up all over town here, for they just feel too..."sterile" and "lifeless". I'm rather content to stay in my "hobbit hole" (which is is what I call my place) even given the climate and joint/bone issues I deal with for it is the one place I feel the most comfortable.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.


    32 years with the same company in the city of my birth before retirement 4 years ago.
    What can I say, I've seen other parts of the country, but I prefer Home. :)

    I had 19 jobs so far this calender year I think, 20th coming up next week :lol: is about right, something new every coupke of weeks or so. :lol: Maybe that was 17 ? *thinks* Gets to be a bit of a blur....

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.


    32 years with the same company in the city of my birth before retirement 4 years ago.
    What can I say, I've seen other parts of the country, but I prefer Home. :)

    There's a lot to be said for having home turf, to know stability and not see every dawn in a different place. :coolsmile:

    Alas, my Dad was a field engineer, before I moved out the longest we lived anywhere was 3 years. Dad and Mom loved to travel, and I got to come along. :blank: :blank: It ruined me for "settling down", it appears that the wanderlust my parents had ended up in me as well. :down: I was six months old when we first moved, and it didn't end until I moved out in Virginia to move in with my gf Michelle.

    I think it was a miracle I was able to settle down for the 10 years I was married and living in Maryland, before I pulled us up and moved to California. Things went downhill from there as my ex-wife really wasn't a nomad.

    This is why I'm leery of close real-life relationships, I know for a fact I'm going to feel nailed down and unfree, so I have a natural resistance to any situation that might restrict my freedom. This is not a place you want to try to forge an LTR from, let me tell you.

    Probably TMI.

    ...I hate moving, I hate the disruption to my life it causes.

    I've been in the same place now for nearly sixteen years and thoroughly enjoy it. I like stability, which I didn't have much of most of my life. In some ways I'm like a hobbit, I like a cozy place that feels "lived in". I don't feel relaxed at all in most hotels (unless it is an old one) or those new slapped together hipster apartment blocks like have been springing up all over town here, for they just feel too..."sterile" and "lifeless". I'm rather content to stay in my "hobbit hole" (which is is what I call my place) even given the climate and joint/bone issues I deal with for it is the one place I feel the most comfortable.

    Yes I don't mind freelancing but somewhere to call home keeps me sane, we moved to our place in 1996 and probably won't move again.

  • bwaomegabwaomega Posts: 220
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.

    What kind of tablet?

    Asus MEMOpad 8. 8 inch screen, Android 4.(not sure), 10GB onboard left, microSD card slot. white case, orange/green Neoprene cover to keep it safe in my backpack. It's nothing to write home about, but it's quite capable for email Web surfing, Kindle reading, and some video watching. Crap for 3D games.

    Hmm... my laptop just got busted up in a fall on the bus. Might be interested if shipping could be figured out.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ...was over on Turbosquid looking for freebies when I checked their offerings for fish. Not a very impressive selection. The only Loaches I found were 30$.

    Guess there's no such thing as a "Free Loach" ;-)


    ...on that note better head off to bed before someone smacks me with a 10 kilo king salmon.

    Nite all...

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262
    edited December 1969

    My computer has no internet and my tablet is acting up with the forum. Just wrote a lengthy post and it vanished without being posted.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    My computer has no internet and my tablet is acting up with the forum. Just wrote a lengthy post and it vanished without being posted.

    socks tend to vanish as well, especially in the morning :lol:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...was over on Turbosquid looking for freebies when I checked their offerings for fish. Not a very impressive selection. The only Loaches I found were 30$.

    Guess there's no such thing as a "Free Loach" ;-)


    ...on that note better head off to bed before someone smacks me with a 10 kilo king salmon.

    Nite all...

    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    :lol: :lol: :lol:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.

    What kind of tablet?

    Asus MEMOpad 8. 8 inch screen, Android 4.(not sure), 10GB onboard left, microSD card slot. white case, orange/green Neoprene cover to keep it safe in my backpack. It's nothing to write home about, but it's quite capable for email Web surfing, Kindle reading, and some video watching. Crap for 3D games.

    Hmm... my laptop just got busted up in a fall on the bus. Might be interested if shipping could be figured out.

    Since I don't have the original box or manual, it's not heavy, but getting it to a post office out here could be an issue. It's really not a laptop replacement, either..

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Ugh, overslept and missed the early bus. Boss doesn't care, but I do.. have to walk up to the transit center now. :shut:

    BUT - I got paid, and I have enough time to make a cup of coffee and drink it! :cheese:

    Oww my neck hurts oww oww slept in a bad position...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    it's morning. it's raining.

    was coming outta starbucs this morning, a really good looking dude with long hair was walking in. he said 'good mornin'
    fantasies raced through my mind, i mighta stared at him longer than polite. :lol: ffweww

    starbucks is right at the airport entrance, might have been a once in life time encounter.

    one week to hallowee'en. rotka extended their render contest. still have time to render something

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262
    edited December 1969

    I have this interview in half an hour but I am uncertain if I will do well. Right now I am afraid that I won't get the job and I will never get a job. I wish I was confident this morning but I am not. Still going to the interview but I have my doubts.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Just bought a Hario slim mini hand-cranked coffee grinder and some Velton's Treehouse Blend whole bean coffee! :coolsmile:

    Once they arrive I can use whole beans, no more not being able to try some coffee that is whole bean only. :)

    Even better, the whole coffee-making system will fit into one corner of my rolling duffel bag, so easy to move, and anywhere I can get hot water, I can make coffee! :cheese: :cheese:

    Thanks again KK... I think! %-P

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    The Sleepless in Tulsa Complaint Thread
    The My Coffee Beaned Me Complaint Thread
    The I got Ground This Morning Complaint Thread

    %-P :P

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited October 2014

    complaint: Genesis 2's skin shader bug strikes again. Now I need to close Daz Studio 4, run the program again and load the scene again. Then I need to wait for tdlmake to finish optimizing images.

    eh.. this is the open GL preview. wrong image. lol

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  • bwaomegabwaomega Posts: 220
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    Felix magical bag. :)

    settled down - does not compute.

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.


    (del a bunch of depressing thoughts on stability)

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:

    Just figured out how to get a microSD card into the phone, I'm going to pop the microSD out of the Android tablet and steal the earphones (lol)! "Music on-the-go now, great for sitting on the bus or at a coffee shop and a LOT easier than towing the Asus MEMOPad 8in. tablet all over. :blank:

    Then I'm going to clear and factory-reset the tablet and sell it on Craigslist for around $75, that's about what the thing is worth now. :long: Or donate it to a school or charity, it's not like $75 is a make-or-break for me.

    What kind of tablet?

    Asus MEMOpad 8. 8 inch screen, Android 4.(not sure), 10GB onboard left, microSD card slot. white case, orange/green Neoprene cover to keep it safe in my backpack. It's nothing to write home about, but it's quite capable for email Web surfing, Kindle reading, and some video watching. Crap for 3D games.

    Hmm... my laptop just got busted up in a fall on the bus. Might be interested if shipping could be figured out.

    Since I don't have the original box or manual, it's not heavy, but getting it to a post office out here could be an issue. It's really not a laptop replacement, either..

    I'm aware of that, but it does give internet access that isn't limited to 90 minutes per day (local library limit on using their computers, you can use their wireless from about 30 minutes before they open to about 30 after they close). But if shipping's a pain, no problem.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    @Bwaomega - where are you located? There aren't any export restrictions on my end, if you're outside the US there might be issues with customs, though.. :down:

  • bwaomegabwaomega Posts: 220
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    @Bwaomega - where are you located? There aren't any export restrictions on my end, if you're outside the US there might be issues with customs, though.. :down:

    Seattle

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    bwaomega said:
    TroutFace said:
    @Bwaomega - where are you located? There aren't any export restrictions on my end, if you're outside the US there might be issues with customs, though.. :down:

    Seattle

    Ok, that'd be easy! I found a FedEx and a UPS office on the bus route, so it wouldn't be too hard to get it to you. Wish they had a Post Awful close, I could ship it ground for cheap.

    If you want it, let me find a box and some bubble wrap. You can have it for just the cost of shipping. :coolsmile:

    I'll PM you when I have shipping supplies!

  • arcadyarcady Posts: 340
    edited October 2014

    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:


    32 years with the same company in the city of my birth before retirement 4 years ago.
    What can I say, I've seen other parts of the country, but I prefer Home. :)
    Longest run I ever did was the military - just shy of 4 years because I got an offer for a tech job - and there was some reg that if you get a civilian offer that's many times more than you make in the service, you get a sort of conflict-of-interest early out. If its too much, they force you out, or so I was told - but I wasn't that high. I got an early out 3 months prior to what would have been my normal out... as my job offer was not willing to wait.

    I work in a profession now where, if you've been somewhere more than 3 years - people begin wondering if you have a problem with learning / keeping up... And that often includes the blokes who started the company...

    Company I went to after the military - went belly up not long after when Samsung chose our competition for its semiconductor plant, but that happened at the same time as the web took off.

    Fortunately for me, it seems like 90% of the web jobs, globally, all exist within 50 miles of San Francisco. So its just a question of which bridge one will be driving over this or that year. Because oddly - the profession best suited for 'telecommuting' out of possibly anything one could do in life... has almost no jobs that allow such.

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    arcady said:
    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:

    been in this temp job 12 years, only one of the original guys is still here from when i started.

    Wow, 12 years! :bug: :bug: :bug: Longest job I had was 9 years (contractor to the USPS), second was 6 years (Philips Semiconductor), then anything from 6 months to 3 years. :blank: I've been all over the U.S. :bug:


    32 years with the same company in the city of my birth before retirement 4 years ago.
    What can I say, I've seen other parts of the country, but I prefer Home. :)
    Longest run I ever did was the military - just shy of 4 years because I got an offer for a tech job - and there was some reg that if you get a civilian offer that's many times more than you make in the service, you get a sort of conflict-of-interest early out. If its too much, they force you out, or so I was told - but I wasn't that high. I got an early out 3 months prior to what would have been my normal out... as my job offer was not willing to wait.

    I work in a profession now where, if you've been somewhere more than 3 years - people begin wondering if you have a problem with learning / keeping up... And that often includes the blokes who started the company...

    Company I went to after the military - went belly up not long after when Samsung chose our competition for its semiconductor plant, but that happened at the same time as the web took off.

    Fortunately for me, it seems like 90% of the web jobs, globally, all exist within 50 miles of San Francisco. So its just a question of which bridge one will be driving over this or that year. Because oddly - the profession best suited for 'telecommuting' out of possibly anything one could do in life... has almost no jobs that allow such.

    When I lived in Silicon Valley, I was contracting - sometimes back to the same place 2-3 times! :bug: Lived in Fairfax, San Bruno, and Sunnyvale.

    Past crazy times.. far slower here in Tulsa, perfect for an ancient engineer like me! %-P

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited October 2014

    Fairfax is a neighborhood in Los Angeles and a county in Virginia. I wonder if they are named after the same person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairfax,_6th_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron">Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

    Post edited by starionwolf on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Fairfax is a neighborhood in Los Angeles and a county in Virginia. I wonder if they are named after the same person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairfax,_6th_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron

    I've lived in Fairfax County in VA., in Fairfax, CA., and Fairfax (city), VA. - went to Oakton High School.

    Dunno about if they're all named after the same person, I can believe the two in Virginia are...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited October 2014

    ohhh they kept me busy and on my feet most of the day. work tickets. packing equipment.
    didn't get a chance to do my grocery order before the 3pm deadline, won't be delivered tomorrow.


    started the new manpower/experis time entry system today. it didn't give me a confirmation # my submitted hours went through. no way to know if the paycheck will be on time next week. :exasperates:


    Commander Craigles :lol:

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    complaint: Genesis 2's skin shader bug strikes again. Now I need to close Daz Studio 4, run the program again and load the scene again. Then I need to wait for tdlmake to finish optimizing images.

    eh.. this is the open GL preview. wrong image. lol


    there was a way to skip the optimizer, jaderail explained it once, :down:
    was the 4.62.118 days

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited October 2014

    i want to go to bestbuy on the way home and look at things i can't buy.
    this morning got a megamillion quickpick lotto ticket. 224 millions would come in handy. would be too tired to jump for joy, would prolly just sigh in relief if i won :)

    is clouds and dirty clouds and more clouds outside. stopped raining looks like


    weekend starts in 16 minutes.
    laundry mat blehhhh

    need to sort out medusan snakelet fusses
    softly feminine vicki luv interest
    2nd to last final draft of swamp chapter
    signs for steampunk streets
    still haz to try the growing up on g2m.
    wanna look for a free javascript scrolling banner


    retired old bryce cover. :)

    hmmm does dragon3 work in bryce?
    sunsets in bryce skies, imo, look the best

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262
    edited December 1969

    notepad++ is not the the notebook++ but I found it anyway.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Time to head home! Go home, drink beer, and the boss brought in the last of his wife's lasagna so it's a lasagna weekend, wheeeeeeeeee!~

    Must render and compose and write this weekend! :coolsmile:

    Coffee supplies ready to ship, should be in before next Friday, so it's freshly ground coffee next weekend! Double happiness!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    i want to go to bestbuy on the way home and look at things i can't buy.
    this morning got a megamillion quickpick lotto ticket. 224 millions would come in handy. would be too tired to jump for joy, would prolly just sigh in relief if i won :)

    is clouds and dirty clouds and more clouds outside. stopped raining looks like


    weekend starts in 16 minutes.
    laundry mat blehhhh

    need to sort out medusan snakelet fusses
    softly feminine vicki luv interest
    2nd to last final draft of swamp chapter
    signs for steampunk streets
    still haz to try the growing up on g2m.
    wanna look for a free javascript scrolling banner


    retired old bryce cover. :)

    hmmm does dragon3 work in bryce?
    sunsets in bryce skies, imo, look the best


    ...uh oh, ya got's competition as on a lark, I bought a ticket the the MM$ as well.

    ...have to get back to my now "epic" RRRR challenge scene.

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