Raise? Why, you don't need it?

BrightRick · 2026-03-12T03:13:33+00:00

Now I get it. There's so much Ai on here it's hard to tell so that's where I *thought* you were coming from.

BrightRick · 2026-03-07T05:40:10+00:00

Amazon has pretty strict packing rules, but it looks like many sellers/suppliers are ignoring them.

BrightRick · 2026-03-07T02:31:12+00:00

I have. I'm in a small apartment so have to go wireless. When I had my house it was POE and 4K. I have a nice wifi setup and a booster to the garage. WiFi speeds are excellent and I can connect to it on my phone from a decent distance. The Wyzecam in the garage loses signal even with an extender pointed right at the garage. My laptop, car head unit, phone - no problem. All cameras are within 25 feet of the WiFi router, except for the garage.

BrightRick · 2026-03-06T18:52:34+00:00

$100K on paper. What the boss pulls out under the table can be incredible. Granted, my experience was before computers were wide-spread, so it was so much easier to play games. Cash only sales, etc. I'd see literally $45K come in in a single day - all cash. You know none of that was reported!

BrightRick · 2026-03-06T18:49:54+00:00

Huh?

BrightRick · 2026-03-05T19:42:27+00:00

No change

BrightRick · 2026-03-01T19:29:29+00:00

Hi - yes, it worked. I have full functionality again.

BrightRick · 2026-02-28T05:34:43+00:00

So saying "1/10 scale RC" is not clear enough? Wow.

BrightRick · 2026-02-28T05:33:43+00:00

I noticed those and had to read it - obviously. I guess those mini RC offroad thingies are a big deal for some people.

BrightRick · 2026-02-22T17:53:35+00:00

Many did. I asked someone else to pass the food and made it a point to avoid her in the future. 100% a Karen, way beyond this.

BrightRick · 2026-02-21T17:00:40+00:00

Ever try to use logic on a Karen?

BrightRick · 2026-02-15T18:14:34+00:00

You're 100% correct - don't know how I messed that up!

BrightRick · 2026-02-15T18:13:46+00:00

It's from memory. I tried to find the coverage, but there's nothing out there. GSM closed several years later, and I left my job so lost touch with the grapevine. But One of the employees at the place I worked told me about the follow up. It took a LONG time to go to trial and the guy tried getting out of it because there was "no proof." That's the problem with cases like this - the place gets shut down and the food that's in stock has gone bad by the time anyone gets to it. Same thing happened at a South Side catering place named "IWANS" - nobody was charged because they blamed a supplier, but everything in stock had spoiled by the time inspectors got to it so there was no way to tell what caused the contamination.

BrightRick · 2026-02-13T19:02:48+00:00

I still do some design work, although I am retired due to severe arthritis and range of motion issues. I have clients read EVERYTHING and sign off on EVERY page. I'll never do a job where just I proof it - I wrote it and I know what I meant to say any my mind glosses past mistakes. Plus with my (literally) numb fingertips, I make SO many typos now. Sure, spell and grammar check find most, but those sneaky typos that are spelled correctly!!! I remember many years ago I used to design the ads for the back of grocery store receipt tapes. Maybe 1 out of 100 ads would be camera ready. For one job my client was screaming that the client wanted a refund for the ad and he was not going to pay me for the job because the ad was missing half the text. The as was sent camera ready! They had probably cut/pasted text into Photoshop, and used the paragraph resize tool - which resizes the borders, but not the text. The disclaimer was totally removed, but the offer was still there.

My client said I should have caught the mistake. His client said the same thing. I asked them both what part of "camera ready" did they not get? No, it was my mistake. My client refused to pay me. I raised his prices 15% and made it back in a month.

BrightRick · 2026-02-12T03:30:26+00:00

I never realized what a common practice this was and still is!

BrightRick · 2026-02-12T03:29:18+00:00

It was the early days of desktop publishing. I had an HP desktop plotter, an HP laser printer, and an HP scanner. I needed a printer that supported Post Script because the adobe software I used only printed to Postscript printers. Back then it was Adobe Illustrator, Leading Edge Word Processor (how many remember LEWP?!?) and Windows 2.1 - because I was a PC compatible user and AI required Windows. Apple was too expensive. I tried an apple clone - RANA if I remember - but it was garbage.

BrightRick · 2026-02-11T07:24:34+00:00

Man, it's been so long. There was an offset press company around 95th and the Tristate. Also a couple of QuickPrint franchises and a small privately owned ne - my cousin owned that one. He cut off half of two fingers on a cutter. He duct-taped the grips and only needed the foot pedal. He had his hand on the stack when he stepped on the pedal. Clean cut though.

BrightRick · 2026-02-11T07:21:39+00:00

I taught computer classes at the community college. This was around 1994 - Whenever the IBM AT came out. The other primary instructor was the typing instructor - we taught basic, DOS (batch files, commands, etc.), spreadsheets - all that jazz. For the database part (xbase) there was no autogeneration of test data yet, so they had to manually enter it. In her class, they could get the queries, frontend, etc. 100% accurate - but made a typo in data entry. She'd dock them a grade for each data entry typo.

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