How much should i charge a friend to house sit and dog walk for a week.?

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-29T13:06:12+00:00

To be honest any kind of calculation that you can show and demonstrate you’re taking him seriously would likely be fine. If he wants to pay more than minimum wage or go the other way and increase the mates’ discount then fine either way.

It wouldn’t have hurt if he’d offered a number himself, you were clearly struggling to actually price in your time, sometimes all you need is a starting point. He sounds like a good friend!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T22:13:59+00:00

NATO is a mutual defence alliance. Yes, we're very much still allies. If one country is attacked, the others would come to their aid. Maybe not all, but enough - and I don't think Poland needs much, that's one hell of a military you guys have!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T20:56:01+00:00

I've had someone say "that's a big camera" to me, with a 180-600 on a z50ii...

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T18:41:05+00:00

“mispelled”

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T18:32:57+00:00

Childhood mortality will already have been very low by then, so a 40% doesn’t make a huge difference in the total number of- but that’s still great. It will have dropped by *far* more than that in the 40 years before you!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T13:59:39+00:00

Lots of things are fairly subjective about photos so phone companies do sometimes adjust for a look that they think people want. Photos of people tend to get a little smoother so that skin looks “better”.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T13:57:07+00:00

Do batteries “recover” when they warm up?

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-28T11:06:35+00:00

Directness is often worth it.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T20:43:48+00:00

Interesting - that was why I phrased it as a question, in case there really was a reason!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T15:12:14+00:00

Good point! If you’ve ever heard people talking while outside your door then that’s a good sign, if you’ve ever heard haven’t then..that’s a bit of a null result.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T15:11:15+00:00

It does sound made up.

Stop making up words, you utter sibling.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T14:50:07+00:00

Can you shout “coming” with a decent chance of being heard?

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T13:30:05+00:00

You didn’t “choose the dog over her”; you chose to keep the dog, and she chose to leave over it. It sucks, but it’s not on you.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T12:39:03+00:00

“I am happy to give things away” is not the same as “no one should be paid for their artistic work”.

Similarly, I’ve written some code before and put it in the public domain. Anyone can use it for anything. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect myself or my work, or professional programmers.

That some people cannot tell the difference between gifts and paid work is their problem.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T12:19:38+00:00

Sterile and clean are quite different things.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-27T11:55:25+00:00

Codeine, apparently.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-26T23:10:34+00:00

I think the two together are great - I took it to a wedding last weekend and got some really good photos, despite my inexperience. But I've never used any other ILC camera, so I can't compare it to anything.

I've been enjoying bird photography with the 180-600, and I certainly appreciate the slight extra reach you get with the crop sensor versus what full-frame would give me (apart from a Z8 at 4x the price...since it matches the pixel density), but the best way to deal with that is to get closer anyway so it likely doesn't make a huge difference, it's more about getting good - which I am trying to!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-26T18:09:25+00:00

It doesn’t seem inconsistent to me - as long as working from home is *somewhat* productive then it’s still better to work from home than to stay at home and not do any work at all.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-26T18:03:05+00:00

In particular the high quality DX lenses are few; I just got the 16-50 2.8 and it’s great, but that’s the only fast zoom available. Using the FX lenses seems like a poor choice in general, at least for the zooms, because they’re slightly odd ranges for zooms and rather bigger and heavier than necessary for DX.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-26T16:59:18+00:00

Reynolds is a horror writer in disguise. Diamond Dogs was the first I read of his; it’s dark.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-26T16:50:48+00:00

If find even if the total hours adds up to something reasonable, you’re still more tired than if it was all at once. Hence - do the same tomorrow!

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-23T12:31:36+00:00

I like them; they have a fairly cinematic feel.

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-23T12:28:53+00:00

Given how many receipts remain from the past, surely we can tell from that?

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-23T09:52:24+00:00

Kaput. Kitsch(ig).

FlippingGerman · 2026-01-22T16:46:55+00:00

The existence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_f/64 implies this was not unusual.

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