DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 4 hours ago:
OH! This is why it was busier than usual this morning. I wondered why. I usually shop Sunday morning because people are in church, and the grocery store is empty.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 4 hours ago:
I came across something about it this morning, and thought, ‘Oh, is that today?’ Then I forgot about it again until this post.
I’ve never cared about sportsball, but I’ve learned enough about football to follow a game. I couldn’t avoid it. Same for other sports, like baseball, golf, tennis, and even bowling.
I’m old and mostly alone now, I feel no desire to pretend to be interested anymore. Y’all have fun.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 9 hours ago:
If they don’t have the money, they borrow it against the collateral of the business. It’s the same way everything in business is funded to start. Get the contract signed, take a loan to buy the materials, build the thing, get paid, and pay back the loan. In this case, they pay back the loan by not paying the workers more, not giving raises for a few years or whatever, and not hiring new employees for a while.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 9 hours ago:
I dunno, can’t parents just keep their kids in a box till they’re 18 and can become productive, compliant wage slaves, like everyone else.
/s
- Comment on Conservatives ordering at the drive through now getting scammed on drinks because theyre too scared to ask for no ice. T Chads, meanwhile, been saying it for years now and just expanded the definition 3 days ago:
Conservatives ordering at the drive through now getting scammed on drinks because theyre too scared to ask for no ice.
Every day I lose more ability to spot satire. I seriously can’t tell in this case. It could be true. It really could.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 3 days ago:
I managed to come up with a clever and innovative solution to the problem though; I gave up and worked on something else.
There ya go.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 4 days ago:
My not-a-good joke that I’ll say anyway is, when someone asks my age, I’ll say something obviously too young, like 25. They’ll smirk or roll their eyes, and I’ll continue, “I am twenty-five years old, but I’m also sixty.”
No one has ever laughed. And, that’s why I keep saying it. Someday, someone will laugh, I just know it!
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 4 days ago:
Onion on a grilled cheese? Yes, please. And, some green olives, too.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 4 days ago:
Love them. I’d prefer they didn’t have runny yolks, but I will eat them that way, and any other way.
I could eat a dozen hard-boiled eggs a day, except that would make me sick. I tried to use eggs to up my protein intake several years ago, I was eating four a day, but that upset my tummy. I can have one a day, but usually I only have about three a week, because I don’t really need them, I just like them, so I spend my food budget elsewhere.
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 5 days ago:
So, what were the plans for entertaining the co-worker?
- Comment on lightbulbs 5 days ago:
Warm in living room, bedroom, and hallway.
Cold everywhere else. So, bathroom, kitchen, garage, and closet.
Warm where you want cozy. Cold where you want honesty.
- Comment on Interesting 6 days ago:
Nice car. All electric, I see. So, do you, uh, have a girlfriend?
- Comment on So disappointing 1 week ago:
Once cracked, a glow stick only lasts a short time.
I’d suggest that you wouldn’t want that, but… who knows? It would be interesting if we glowed brightly in the visible light spectrum (to short circuit the “well, ackshully” comments), just before we passed on.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 1 week ago:
Garbage in, garbage out, it’s the same old story.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
“Fading”, more like jumped off a cliff.
There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink.
Everyone is broke.
They watched their parents make asses of themselves while drunk, and today everyone has a video camera in their hand.
- Comment on Clothes too dirty for the closest but too clean for the laundry 1 week ago:
After the divorce, those clothes occupy the vacated half of the bed.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In typesetting, numbers ten and under are always spelled out, and also numbers at the start of a sentence of any size. Numbers one, through ninety-nine are hyphenated if spelled out, ninety-nine percent of typesetters agree. Also, the “and” is frowned upon. It should be “three hundred and twenty-seven”, if quoting, if that is what was said, but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise.
However, numerals in text is fine, outside of the limitations above, and there are lowercase numerals in many classic typefaces that are less jarring to the eye in body type than the uppercase numerals.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 week ago:
The most interesting thing to come out of all that was to discover what an absolute fucking moron he is. Room temp IQ.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 1 week ago:
Illustrator was first, and, like all Adobe products, it has kept a lot of quirks from its past. They have worked to bring them closer, but there are fundamental differences between editing vector and editing pixel images. If you use both tools daily, the quirks they’ve kept sort of make sense.
Adobe didn’t have a page layout program till they bought Aldus Pagemaker, which they kept going until they developed InDesign. They left Pagemaker to rot while they pushed InDesign. So InDesign was made with a similar interface to Photoshop. Same for the others–they came after Photoshop gained traction, so they all have a similar UI.
As a graphic designer, starting in '92, I used QuarkExpress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw, and even Corel PhotoPaint. I also used Blender. I knew what each could do better than the other, and used the right tool for the job. Out of all of them CorelDraw was the most complete and broadly competent–it’s Illustrator and InDesign combined. I used Corel Draw and Photoshop 80% of the time.
I don’t know if it’s still true, but for many years, Illustrator only had marquee select by touching, and didn’t have marquee select by enclosing. Corel Draw has both, with enclosing being the default. With marquee select by enclosing, the need for layers is far less. Layers in Illustrator are needed primarily to ease selecting of multiple objects. If you wanted to select that collection of small circles that was totally enclosed by that translucent box in front of it, and they weren’t on separate layers, you had a bad time.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 1 week ago:
I’m not ashamed to admit I have nearly 6700 hours in Fallout 4. I like what I like. I play it like Sims with shooting.
Well, I might be a little ashamed.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 week ago:
“So, you’re saying if you put a slice of bread between two slices of bread, then that’s a bread sandwich?”
“Well, yes, technically. But, you wouldn’t eat it that way.”
- Comment on Gail the snail? 1 week ago:
My now-ex-wife used to let our young son climb into my half of the bed right after school. I’d come home to sand in my bed. It took me a while to figure out she was doing it on purpose. A few years later, I discovered she was cheating on me. Now, I happily sleep alone in a sand-free bed.
- Comment on gotta try it sometime 1 week ago:
Ah, I remember this. Has it really been two years since the tongue-lympics were held in Japan?
- Comment on Who lives in a plastic bin under the sink 1 week ago:
Unbob Nopants!
- Comment on I liek tudles 1 week ago:
Sounds more like they were her pets.
- Comment on ex-kakapo 2 weeks ago:
After reading the descriptions here, how DO they survive? I’m assuming on some island where they have no significant predators?
- Comment on stelth 2 weeks ago:
As your non-smoking co-worker, please skip the beans. I don’t care that you’re getting high at work, and pot smoke doesn’t bother me.
- Comment on Itchy 2 weeks ago:
I’m still eating them.
- Comment on I feel like I'm being watched 2 weeks ago:
I’m checking my closet.
- Comment on Real and True 2 weeks ago:
16, but the top monitor is a 55" TV mounted to the wall for watching movies.
