minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Cerveza mas fina]

So hard not to correct people sometimes and tell them they are wrong.

Not talking about opinions here just facts like dates, names, percentages, numbers. And people just quoting anecdotal BS as counter points.

Just letting the ignorance wash over me while biting my lip.

[Rufus]

Fucking kill me.

[Madrun Badrun]

I generally charge $5000 but for a fellow Borean?  $6000

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I generally charge $5000 but for a fellow Borean?  $6000

Do you except €'s?

[Madrun Badrun]

Here we go.  bragging about your wealth again.  So rich you can have people killed.


And yes. 

[Rufus]

[Takuan]

It's lunch time, but I'm not hungry because I had a croissant sandwich and donut not too long ago.

I'm debating what to eat, but there's nothing particularly appealing in the area. 

[Mupepe]

Rear brake pedal was vibrating and making noises on my way home. So I pulled the brake and two pistons are frozen out and won't compress. I foresee my weekend consisting of draining the rear brake system and installing a new caliper. Those fuckers are really stuck and they don't make rebuild kits for these stupid Brembo OEM brakes.

[Mupepe]

brakes are a lot easier to fix on bicycles... just sayin'

Yeah but then I'd have die because no one respects bicycle riders.

Ended up fixing it.

[studyguy]

I need to get a new mattress, but in the future of every marketing campaign throwing some bullshit at you, it all looks too similar and overpriced. I'm gonna just order two giant pieces of foam from China, staple them together and sleep on them.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Holy fuck. I always say that the week around my birthday is "hell week" because luck goes bad then but this whole fucking August has been awful.

- Had to get a new car to replace the old
- Phone died had to get a new phone
- Wife's got a bladder infection AND a kidney stone to boot
- Company lost 3 RFPs
- Got stuck in L.A.
- Then just tonight my water heater leaked. Not only is it likely dead, there is water EVERYWHERE. There's certainly going to be water damage

I can't wait for this month to end.

[Atramental]

Accidently sent a friend request to someone (who shares a bunch of mutual friends with me but I've never met before) due to my fat thumbs and my tiny phone screen. 

And I only became aware of this when I got a notification on my phone that this person accepted it and I was all "OH FUCK!  "

Told her what happened, she understood, and I peaced out.



Now I'm all anxious as fuck. Fuck social media.    

[chronovore]

Accidently sent a friend request to someone (who shares a bunch of mutual friends with me but I've never met before) due to my fat thumbs and my tiny phone screen. 

And I only became aware of this when I got a notification on my phone that this person accepted it and I was all "OH FUCK!  "

Told her what happened, she understood, and I peaced out.



Now I'm all anxious as fuck. Fuck social media.    

Fat thumbs: Another reason to stick to your diet.

Edit: shit, sorry, that sounds mean. I just meant... oh, nevermind. PEACE OUT.

[Mupepe]

Why would you even say anything?

[Atramental]

Rational thought leaves my body in these scenarios. Also, I've been drinking tonight.

Also, people talk and I don't want people assuming things without my side of the story.

Plausible deniability and what not.

[El Babua]

Is there something you're not telling us, or is just adding some chick randomly on Facebook haram in your part of South Cac Lac?

[Atramental]

Nah to both. I'm just being a neurotic spastic.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I will say this. The guy they sent over to remove the water came with his around 13-14 year old daughter on a Friday night around 11:30pm.
Sorta puts things into perspective. I might bitch about all this shit, but at least I don't have to tote my daughter around late Friday nights and have her see me try to earn a living.

[Atramental]

Uh-huh. Yeah. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A FACEBOOK! 

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Or friends...

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Okay. That was mean. I'm sorry.

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[I'm a Puppy!]

Holy fuck. I always say that the week around my birthday is "hell week" because luck goes bad then but this whole fucking August has been awful.

- Had to get a new car to replace the old
- Phone died had to get a new phone
- Wife's got a bladder infection AND a kidney stone to boot
- Company lost 3 RFPs
- Got stuck in L.A.
- Then just tonight my water heater leaked. Not only is it likely dead, there is water EVERYWHERE. There's certainly going to be water damage

I can't wait for this month to end.

LOL, now wife's phone died too.  Fuck August.

[jakefromstatefarm]

Glance down at a book on my mom's coffee table

Is written by David Brooks

[chronovore]

Had a shitload of work to get through this morning. Woke up with the side edge of a passing typhoon giving me the worst headache in years. It was making me nauseous, it was so intense. Fucked around here and on FB. Finally when it started raining I started being able to process information again. Now I'm working on the stuff I planned to have out at noon. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Hang in there Chrono.

My boss will be in the office for two days, I don't think I have any sales lined up shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. 

Shouldn't worry too much as as soon as the appartment is sold I'll have to quit this job as we'll move 500km away from here.

Unless they allow me to work from home for a while. But then I need to sell shit.

So maybe I do need some sales lined up on his visit.

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Had a shitload of work to get through this morning. Woke up with the side edge of a passing typhoon giving me the worst headache in years. It was making me nauseous, it was so intense. Fucked around here and on FB. Finally when it started raining I started being able to process information again. Now I'm working on the stuff I planned to have out at noon. 

Nauseated Chrono. Nauseous means you make people feel sick. Nauseated means you feel sick /kara

[Madrun Badrun]

except that is not common usage and kara knows a thing or two about common usage in the commune. 

[toku]

I excitedly made a new emote but I barely get to use it cuz ya'll are so negative

the struggle is real brehs(Image removed from quote.)

bless up

[chronovore]

Had a shitload of work to get through this morning. Woke up with the side edge of a passing typhoon giving me the worst headache in years. It was making me nauseous, it was so intense. Fucked around here and on FB. Finally when it started raining I started being able to process information again. Now I'm working on the stuff I planned to have out at noon. 

Nauseated Chrono. Nauseous means you make people feel sick. Nauseated means you feel sick /kara

[bork]

We have a vacation booked at a nice little condo down in St. Simon's Island, GA, for this weekend.  Now they're issuing a tropical storm/hurricane warning with possible evacuations in the area...so there goes that trip.     LOL if the owner gives me any shit for trying to cancel the vacation for this reason.

[Huff]

It's not even a hurricane. A little rain never hurt anyone

[chronovore]

Fucking Unity.

Trying to add an iOS deployment license to my existing Pro account has eaten 2 hours of my day. Wait, no: 3 now. Their authoring tool has a button to add it, which launches store.unity.com with NO INSTRUCTIONS on it, nor even a mention of iOS or adding licenses or anything. Unity ID, manage seats, add licenses... NONE of it leads anywhere useful. I'm in the support queue now, and on Unity Answers, and even fucking tweeted about it, which got a defensive but useful response from a Unity coder last time I did it.

Anyway, I'm as mad as a junebug in July. 

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[Cerveza mas fina]

I wish I could post this as an LinkedIN update 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Found myself saying, "They call THIS a pumpkin spice mocha?" I had to go in the corner and cry a little for the creature I've become.

[Brehvolution]

All this pumpkin flavored shit comes sooner and sooner every year. 

[Tasty]

All this pumpkin flavored shit comes sooner and sooner every year. 

Wish it was year round tbh

[I'm a Puppy!]

I can't go into details about one of my new projects of course. But while everything is absolutely legal, it's very morally grey at best in that it seeks to completely exploit the consumer base. There was a time when I was just out of college that I probably would've been so uncomfortable with the premise that I would've said no to doing it. But now? I've gotten so jaded by working with so many companies and watching them do so many morally reprehensible things that I'm just like "eh, this isn't even in the top 10 worst things I've helped companies do. If we don't do it someone else will and besides the tech is really cool. Not only will we do it, we're going to knock this out of the park!"

[bork]

We have a vacation booked at a nice little condo down in St. Simon's Island, GA, for this weekend.  Now they're issuing a tropical storm/hurricane warning with possible evacuations in the area...so there goes that trip.     LOL if the owner gives me any shit for trying to cancel the vacation for this reason.

Weather was better, so we decided to drive down.  We left much later than I wanted to and ended up arriving at 1:30 am.  It was at this point that I noticed that the address provided to this place was for a huge complex and didn't list the condo unit number.  I managed to find it after a review noted that the owner also owned the unit across from it and listed that number.  The key to get in was in a lockbox and didn't work.


So I called the owner, who fortunately picked up and gave me the right code.  She sounded pissed...not my fault you didn't give me the right info, lady.


Them she sends this big, long.email with the unit number and other stuff I could have used before coming here.  There's an attached pdf with the code.  Still the wrong one. 

[VomKriege]

I can't go into details about one of my new projects of course. But while everything is absolutely legal, it's very morally grey at best in that it seeks to completely exploit the consumer base. There was a time when I was just out of college that I probably would've been so uncomfortable with the premise that I would've said no to doing it. But now? I've gotten so jaded by working with so many companies and watching them do so many morally reprehensible things that I'm just like "eh, this isn't even in the top 10 worst things I've helped companies do. If we don't do it someone else will and besides the tech is really cool. Not only will we do it, we're going to knock this out of the park!"

Workspace apathy is the ultimate Corrupter. Health and safety hazards ? Pollution ? Well yeah. But gotta make a living...

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The second tech bubble's greatest successes are businesses that break the already broken working class.  Now we have "the gig economy" that ensure that once you fall into the pit you can never get out.

That's why the worship of Silicon Valley is pretty repulsive.  Same goes for the Tim Ferriss mentality where you peak at 24 and if you turn 25 and weren't a part of a revolutionary startup, your life is already over.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Even if you are it doesn't matter. I've been in interviews with people that were part of some startup when they were in their early twenties they made a bunch of money, then tried again and again to capture that lightning again and never got it so they went back and when they touted their work for the start up I heard an executive say, "So what? You want a job because you were lucky? We're all clever here. We all work hard here. You think really think that being involved in a startup qualifies you for anything other than press interviews."




Silicon Valley is completely toxic.

[Phoenix Dark]

A family friend of ours was involved in a startup and made some good money through it. His entire family was always Cosby tier insufferable black elitists, and while his parents were disappointed in his career choice initially they became fans when he struck success. Last time I saw his dad at a social event he asked me "accounting still huh. I always felt like that's glorified secretary work, no offense." He's a pharmacist.

Anyway within the last two years the startup went belly up big time, including some fraud charges. And their son got divorced. He's now doing desk work at an insurance company. Can't wait see his dad again. We've reached a level of contempt where I don't have to say anything, the minute he sees me he'll quietly take his L, shake my hand, and go back to discussing why black people don't work hard enough and why racism is a crutch.

Delight in the failure of your enemy's children brehs

[chronovore]

Bad tech week, boritos:

• My phone's dying. LEDs stuttering. Something is leaked behind the screen, making the infected part unusually bright. Phone also appears to be load-choking, stuttering on app start up
• PS3 has been having playback problems from its DVR application (Torne)
• PS3 wants to rebuild its HDD database every time it starts
• Had to turn off auto-updates because it was just starting the PS3 and leaving it on, inside a closed cabinet, never progressing or actually updating
• Wife's PC is starting to hang inexplicably
• Unity iOS license addition is still in limbo; no responses to Unity Answers thread, Unity Support ticket, or even an Oscar-the-Grouch-signal-boosted Twitter request for clarity
• Fixing Unity back to our project's agreed-to version will lose Retina support again
• Back to using FTP apps for deliverables. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Time to upgrade to PS FOUR

A family friend of ours was involved in a startup and made some good money through it. His entire family was always Cosby tier insufferable black elitists, and while his parents were disappointed in his career choice initially they became fans when he struck success. Last time I saw his dad at a social event he asked me "accounting still huh. I always felt like that's glorified secretary work, no offense." He's a pharmacist.

Anyway within the last two years the startup went belly up big time, including some fraud charges. And their son got divorced. He's now doing desk work at an insurance company. Can't wait see his dad again. We've reached a level of contempt where I don't have to say anything, the minute he sees me he'll quietly take his L, shake my hand, and go back to discussing why black people don't work hard enough and why racism is a crutch.

Delight in the failure of your enemy's children brehs

Logged in to like this

[Rufus]

Mosquitos ate me alive last night. Five bites on my right foot alone. Two on my ring finger, one of which is right at the joint.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think I've been wearing these socks backwards for 3 years

[Samson Manhug]

I usually change my socks more often than that.

[Madrun Badrun]

I don't like air touching my feet. 

[brawndolicious]

Pm me where to buy it

[bluemax]

Fucking Unity.

Trying to add an iOS deployment license to my existing Pro account has eaten 2 hours of my day. Wait, no: 3 now. Their authoring tool has a button to add it, which launches store.unity.com with NO INSTRUCTIONS on it, nor even a mention of iOS or adding licenses or anything. Unity ID, manage seats, add licenses... NONE of it leads anywhere useful. I'm in the support queue now, and on Unity Answers, and even fucking tweeted about it, which got a defensive but useful response from a Unity coder last time I did it.

Anyway, I'm as mad as a junebug in July. 

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It's sad that complaining on Twitter is the only way to get attention of companies sometimes. I bitched about some bug and had some Unity guy immediately asking me to submit a bug report and crash logs.

I can't go into details about one of my new projects of course. But while everything is absolutely legal, it's very morally grey at best in that it seeks to completely exploit the consumer base. There was a time when I was just out of college that I probably would've been so uncomfortable with the premise that I would've said no to doing it. But now? I've gotten so jaded by working with so many companies and watching them do so many morally reprehensible things that I'm just like "eh, this isn't even in the top 10 worst things I've helped companies do. If we don't do it someone else will and besides the tech is really cool. Not only will we do it, we're going to knock this out of the park!"

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At my last job we were making a heart rate app and as I was doing research on the APIs and similar products I started reading about Theranos and Fitbit and the rise health and fitness tech startups that were totally not qualified to be telling people things about their health. I remember looking at some competing company and seeing that they had a ton of doctor's and lawyers on their board while our calculations were based on some back of the envelope math I did after 10 minutes on google.

While the product wasn't really morally reprehensible the combination of the tech not being good enough to do with what they wanted and us not being suited to tell people anything from the data we were gathering didn't really sit well with me.

Its five months after the fact and the product hasn't come out so maybe they scrapped it. There was at least one similar app that beat it to market as well so maybe they just decided it wasn't worth the money, shrug.

As it is I don't really like the moral greyness of F2P games, so I'm not really sure I could ever do something any more sinister.

[brawndolicious]

A lot of the brochures you see in doctors offices were written by some pre-med intern copying from Wikipedia. That's worse when you're talking about new drugs versus measuring optimal heart rate.

[chronovore]

It's sad that complaining on Twitter is the only way to get attention of companies sometimes. I bitched about some bug and had some Unity guy immediately asking me to submit a bug report and crash logs.

It's been a week-and-a-half since I submitted my request to Unity support. I've also re-submitted to Technical Assistance in addition to my initial Sales category. Not a fucking thing. Just tweeted a very accusatorial question at them. Bet I get a response by tomorrow morning.

[Madrun Badrun]

Got $21,000 CAD in my checking account, is this what it feels like to be rich?

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half that goes to tuition in a few months and the rest goes to rent and food   Gradschool

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[chronovore]

It's sad that complaining on Twitter is the only way to get attention of companies sometimes. I bitched about some bug and had some Unity guy immediately asking me to submit a bug report and crash logs.

It's been a week-and-a-half since I submitted my request to Unity support. I've also re-submitted to Technical Assistance in addition to my initial Sales category. Not a fucking thing. Just tweeted a very accusatorial question at them. Bet I get a response by tomorrow morning.

https://twitter.com/unity3d/status/775288389964800000

[I'm a Puppy!]

It's sad that complaining on Twitter is the only way to get attention of companies sometimes. I bitched about some bug and had some Unity guy immediately asking me to submit a bug report and crash logs.

It's been a week-and-a-half since I submitted my request to Unity support. I've also re-submitted to Technical Assistance in addition to my initial Sales category. Not a fucking thing. Just tweeted a very accusatorial question at them. Bet I get a response by tomorrow morning.

Oh I don't fuck around with calling anymore. I tweet first. They'll call me. Feel bad for anyone following me on twitter, all I really use it for it to get a company's attention when they fuck up so they'll be in touch with me quickly.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Have to rebook New England trip that was booked for next month, with us trying to sell a house and trying to buy one there isn't enough cash I think to go on a big trip like that now. If we have to make an offer and a downpayment this month I don't want us to deplete savings.

Rebooking fee is 150 pounds and all the accomodation we booked can be cancelled still

Kind of a bummer as we were so excited about fall in New England, and we cant rebook for next October since you can't book that far ahead, plus our baby will be over two so the cost of the trip will go up by a lot.

[chronovore]

Tweeted Unity about their lack of response, they immediately responded. After taking the conversation to DMs, they're again unresponsive. (In truth, it's only been a day, but after getting Twitter responses in hours, it feels like they're ignoring the problem again.) Unity's posted phone number goes to reception, and then to receptions voicemail. The place is a clown circus.

Have to rebook New England trip that was booked for next month, with us trying to sell a house and trying to buy one there isn't enough cash I think to go on a big trip like that now. If we have to make an offer and a downpayment this month I don't want us to deplete savings.

Rebooking fee is 150 pounds and all the accomodation we booked can be cancelled still

Kind of a bummer as we were so excited about fall in New England, and we cant rebook for next October since you can't book that far ahead, plus our baby will be over two so the cost of the trip will go up by a lot.

Sounds like you made the responsible decision. Congratulations again on the house sale.

[Tasty]

Autumn in New England really is the best shit ever. Sorry to hear you're not coming Lager. :'(

Still looking forward to whenever you do. 

[Bebpo]

Life 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Sounds like you made the responsible decision. Congratulations again on the house sale.

Too early on that yet, had one offer within the first week so far, bit too low to go for it just yet.

Congratulate me when the ink is dry 

[BrokenVerses]

 I ate at McDonald's and now feel worryingly nauseous.

[Bebpo]

Life 

Turns out it was just food poisoning.  Back to normal today.