....ummmm.
It's...along those lines? But in my defense, I didn't even know that was a thing until a friend told me.
Also, I'm kinda proud of idea for the panel layouts and I think the comedic timing will work well.
It's...along those lines? But in my defense, I didn't even know that was a thing until a friend told me.
Also, I'm kinda proud of idea for the panel layouts and I think the comedic timing will work well.
I already paid the artist.
I try not looking at it like that. Your idea might have been similar, but your TAKE on it might be entirely different.
Just got the first rough sketch for the comic. I'm telling you guys, this'll be funny.
Dave
Staff member
Oh no, my plot was eerily similar even though I had never read the book. I would have been sued. Hell, I'd have sued myself. Yeah, where it went was different but the beginning and middle was almost the same plot.
edit: And I trust you about how funny it is. I was telling my story because I didn't want you to think we thought you were plagiarizing or stealing ideas. Sometimes the joke or story is right in front of you and it's surprising that nobody had said it first.
edit: And I trust you about how funny it is. I was telling my story because I didn't want you to think we thought you were plagiarizing or stealing ideas. Sometimes the joke or story is right in front of you and it's surprising that nobody had said it first.
dude when the stan lee camo opening thing came on for captain marvel my friend started tearing up, i looked her in the eye and went "heroes can die, but legends, they live forever" turns out its from the god damn sandlot! @_@
Falafel for me 
Welp, here we go. My first comic collaboration. (cross-posting this with the MCU thread).
Zappit
Staff member
Very excellent April Fool’s Day. I had an entire classroom of students legitimately believing today was March 32nd. I had a “history” article on the 32nd on their desks first thing, and I wrote the hell out of that piece of satire. I told them in 1969 Nixon got Whoopi-cushioned by his chief of staff and signed an executive order changing April 1st to March 32nd every year that ends in a nine. I explained that Congress wouldn’t sign a law supporting it, but most schools and businesses observed it to preserve productivity. It was also why the calendars still read April 1st. It wasn’t an official holiday. They were skeptical at first, but it was juuuust plausible enough to be believable.
Then I gave them a quiz on it. I had them after that.
I had every other teacher they encountered that day in on it. They eventually started dating their papers 3/32/19, including disciplinary forms.
At the very end of the day, I gave them their quizzes back. I walked around, placed them face-down on their desks, and just kept going. There was no grade - just the words, “April Fools!” Written in big red letters. It took a few seconds before the realization hit them that they had been had, and would have no opportunity to retaliate. My God, it was glorious. I had nixed April Fool’s pranks in my room for the entire day.
Then I gave them a quiz on it. I had them after that.
I had every other teacher they encountered that day in on it. They eventually started dating their papers 3/32/19, including disciplinary forms.
At the very end of the day, I gave them their quizzes back. I walked around, placed them face-down on their desks, and just kept going. There was no grade - just the words, “April Fools!” Written in big red letters. It took a few seconds before the realization hit them that they had been had, and would have no opportunity to retaliate. My God, it was glorious. I had nixed April Fool’s pranks in my room for the entire day.
GasBandit
Staff member
This morning, I asked a neighbor "Oh by the way, what'd you put in the water to make the pool turn that color?"
"What? I didn't... what color is it?!"
"Kinda purple."
"Oh no, I didn't put anything in it! I need to go check my pool..."
"You also need to check your calendar." *wink* *fingerguns*
*realization dawned*
Gottem good, and no harm done.
"What? I didn't... what color is it?!"
"Kinda purple."
"Oh no, I didn't put anything in it! I need to go check my pool..."
"You also need to check your calendar." *wink* *fingerguns*
*realization dawned*
Gottem good, and no harm done.
After 20 years, I finally own an O'Riordan pennywhistle. I've been on pins and needles waiting for it to wind its way through the postal system.
O'Riordans are the whistles favored by one of my favorite artists, Joanie Madden. I've been wanting an O'Riordan whistle for close to 20 years. When I was younger, I didn't want to get put on a waiting list (because Pat O'Riordan always had a long waiting list), and I preferred to make 'instant gratification' purchases of whistles that I could get immediately used or from makers without a wait.
Later in life, he had stopped making whistles due to age and health, but they occasionally, if rarely, came up for sale now and again on the used market, so I figured I still had a shot.
Pat O'Riordan passed away in March of this year, rest his soul. And I feared I'd never get the chance to get one of his whistles. They were already high-dollar items on the used market, and with his passing, I was sure the prices would go up or that people who had one would choose to hold onto it.
This set came up on Ebay last week, and I managed to sneak in the winning bid. It arrived in excellent condition, with the original care and playing instructions from 1985.
As it so happens, this set was originally owned by Bill Ochs, the man who wrote the tinwhistle tutorial book and cassette set that I used to learn to play the tinwhistle. Bill also passed away relatively recently, unfortunately, and this D/C set was among the whistles that his widow was selling. I'm lucky to have gotten my hands on it.
O'Riordans are the whistles favored by one of my favorite artists, Joanie Madden. I've been wanting an O'Riordan whistle for close to 20 years. When I was younger, I didn't want to get put on a waiting list (because Pat O'Riordan always had a long waiting list), and I preferred to make 'instant gratification' purchases of whistles that I could get immediately used or from makers without a wait.
Later in life, he had stopped making whistles due to age and health, but they occasionally, if rarely, came up for sale now and again on the used market, so I figured I still had a shot.
Pat O'Riordan passed away in March of this year, rest his soul. And I feared I'd never get the chance to get one of his whistles. They were already high-dollar items on the used market, and with his passing, I was sure the prices would go up or that people who had one would choose to hold onto it.
This set came up on Ebay last week, and I managed to sneak in the winning bid. It arrived in excellent condition, with the original care and playing instructions from 1985.
As it so happens, this set was originally owned by Bill Ochs, the man who wrote the tinwhistle tutorial book and cassette set that I used to learn to play the tinwhistle. Bill also passed away relatively recently, unfortunately, and this D/C set was among the whistles that his widow was selling. I'm lucky to have gotten my hands on it.
Thought I'd whip off a quick recording of the new whistle
ive never actually heard you play, thats both beautiful and kind of haunting. like im walking through the fields and forests? maybe a little fantasy, a little the old ways/old days?
Thanks for the kind words
I'm playing two tunes here, a lament and a jig.The first tune was Eanach Dhúin, from a song of the same name. It's a lament about a boating accident
that happened as a group of people traveled by ferry from Annaghdown to Galway nearly 200 years ago. The boat sprung a leak, sank, and 19 people drowned, and one more drowned trying to save them.
The second was a jig named O'Gallagher's Frolics, published in 1883.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah, I'll be taking Legion home tonight.
... did I ever tell you the server's name was Legion? My server's named Legion.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, I don't "have" to give any, but 2 weeks is considered standard. I plan to tell my General Manager today, even though I don't have an official last day yet, so that he can start
Honestly? I'd just walk in, tell them you are taking a position elsewhere, there is nothing they can do to change your mind, get your stuff, and leave. No two weeks notice. They have taken advantage of you more than enough for you to owe them ANYTHING.
Because seriously? Fuck'em. They treated you like shit for years.
GasBandit
Staff member
My beef is with the owner, but the General Manager has been in my corner since day one (he started here 2 weeks after I did, and worked his way up from sales). I don't want to fuck him over, no matter what I feel about the owner. So I'm going to do all I can to make this easier for him.
You'll have to forgive me, but I can't remember a time Gas has said sometihng nice about his coworkers... ever. I'm surprised he liked any of them.
There was the one with red hair...
GasBandit
Staff member
I like the engineer and the General Manager, and the new PD of the Country station is a good guy. But yeah, mostly when I come here, and talk about my job, it's to bitch
But honestly, I didn't hate working here - at least not since I got my big promotion a couple years ago. Since then, I mostly managed to reshape my "domain" into something more along the lines of what I thought it should be. There's always bullshit in every job, and salespeople are always the worst... but if the place wasn't doomed (along with its entire industry), I think I could have been content working here to retirement. Except, I think I've gone about as far up the chain as I can go here, so further raises might be tricky to get without threatening to quit over and over again. So, this is still the right move to make, career-wise, even if I was perfectly happy here.Alas, Underling 3! What might have been...
Hey you've been keeping the rubber bands changed and wound tight there for a long time now, so you can't be blamed. I mentioned Michael Barnett in Discord, he's the ex-military fella who blogged from downtown New Orleans about his ordeal keeping his employer online during hurricane Katrina (successfully), and once the disaster was over he started looking for another job, too. And probably not because he was tired of working for Directnic, but because he realized the ordeal made him more marketable.
Curious what an A/V programmer does, though. Automate editing footage? Design plug-ins? DSP stuff?
I'm sure his coworkers feel the same way about us, the way he must talk to them about the board.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
The main bread and butter of this place I'm going to work is setting up presentation stuff in conference rooms and auditoriums. They use a lot of crestron stuff. The sound system, projector and screeen or monitors, even the lights and window shades all get fitted with automation and linked together to a central control unit, and every room is a custom job, and we have to program the UI and whatnot and get stuff to reconfigure the room at the push of the button. Sometimes stuff retracts up into the ceiling when not in use, etc.
GasBandit
Staff member
Hell no, I never mention this place
I try to keep my online and real life separate. Though, a couple of my friends know about Halforums (they watch my youtube videos) but they aren't really interested in becoming part of it.