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snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

limr said:
This was the scarf I wore today. I've got a lot of scarves. I have warmer ones for winter and nice light cotton ones for summer.
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I like this one, too.

astroNikon · Oct 28, 2014

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

limr said:
But did you see the second one? Gary likes it better than my avatar. I told him you also don't like my avatar.

Your avatar does not do you justice. Just sayin;.

limr · Oct 28, 2014

I love Michigan J. Frog.

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

sm4him said:
Sean believed in eating as a full-contact sport.

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Oh, I thought he was trying to be a clown.

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

sm4him said:
Earlier this year, back in the spring, I applied for acceptance into a very well-known craft guild here. The only reason I cared about getting in was that they have great name recognition, and so it could boost your standing as a local artist to say you are in that organization.
After applying, I found out some things that made me not really want to be in it after all (one of the primary things being that the guy who is currently heading it is a b*tthead and it's all very political). I didn't get in--not because my work wasn't good enough, but basically because I don't do my own printing. They tried to pretty that up, but that was the upshot. Well, I thanked them and silently thanked God for NOT letting me get in their organization.

Yesterday, I got a letter from them--it included two free tickets to their craft show in November and one tremendous insult.
It said they were offering these tickets so that those who didn't make it in this year might still come and meet the members and "be inspired to take your work to the next level."

I am horribly tempted to write them a snarky reply and return the tickets.
"Thank you so much for the tickets. Oh, and also: Scr*w off. My work is already AT the next level. Perhaps your selection committee should attend a plumber's convention, where they might be inspired to get their heads out of their posteriors and decide to select work on the basis of its quality rather than on the basis of whether the artist has the right "connections."

Will they have free food? If so, donate them to the local crack house.

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

snowbear said:
sm4him said:

Earlier this year, back in the spring, I applied for acceptance into a very well-known craft guild here. The only reason I cared about getting in was that they have great name recognition, and so it could boost your standing as a local artist to say you are in that organization.
After applying, I found out some things that made me not really want to be in it after all (one of the primary things being that the guy who is currently heading it is a b*tthead and it's all very political). I didn't get in--not because my work wasn't good enough, but basically because I don't do my own printing. They tried to pretty that up, but that was the upshot. Well, I thanked them and silently thanked God for NOT letting me get in their organization.

Yesterday, I got a letter from them--it included two free tickets to their craft show in November and one tremendous insult.
It said they were offering these tickets so that those who didn't make it in this year might still come and meet the members and "be inspired to take your work to the next level."

I am horribly tempted to write them a snarky reply and return the tickets.
"Thank you so much for the tickets. Oh, and also: Scr*w off. My work is already AT the next level. Perhaps your selection committee should attend a plumber's convention, where they might be inspired to get their heads out of their posteriors and decide to select work on the basis of its quality rather than on the basis of whether the artist has the right "connections."

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Will they have free food? If so, donate them to the local crack house.

Even if they aren't having free food, donate them to the local crack house and say that there's free food. And each ticket is good for three of four people. And that B5 is giving them the tickets.
:biglaugh:

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

Oh, by the way, I'm home from work -- earlier than expected.

limr · Oct 28, 2014

Why early?

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

sm4him said:
I wish there was an easy way to tell how many posts we have in just this thread.

Or maybe I don't wish that at all.

You can limit a search to just your screen name and just this thread. Theoretically, it will list all of your posts in this thread. The problem is, it maxes out at 200 so you'd have to play with date ranges.

or SWAG it.

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

limr said:
Why early?

My lovely wife wanted to get home and start making the cinnamon rolls. She didn't have time, yesterday, and has promised people she'd bring them some.

We ride together since we are in the same building (she on 4th floor, me on 2nd.)

limr · Oct 28, 2014

Mmm, cinnamon rolls. That's a good reason to leave work!

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

I have a new mini-project, well a re-visited project. It will take a couple of days, at the most.

snowbear · Oct 28, 2014

The geographic database for the new 9-1-1 system will need road elevations so routing can be implemented. The current road file does not have elevations EXCEPT for the one that I built, which is part of a larger (about 15 counties/cities in DC, MD & VA) regional road network that I built. Since my requirements did not include a particular field that the road file has, we cant just pull our county's roads, so . . .I'm going to enter the elevations on the newer road file.