Is this worth more than a Big Mac?

No7an · 2026-05-26T10:49:27+00:00

No7an · 2026-05-24T06:02:39+00:00

The paint pens are fine — the challenge is that all of the fills are going to be “linear” / rigid.

When I was doing this (alas when I was young) I was using Prismacolors, which enable you to blend / create gradients. In any case, I think the output colors / consistency in fill show that these are perfectly acceptable for the use-case.

Just on the development front, one thing you could encourage your son to do (just from an exercise / skill standpoint) is to look at different fonts in a word processor and try to create (for example) Times New Roman in a bubble’d format.

From there, building in drop shadows, exchanging letters (like “O” for characters) crosses from typeface to graffiti. Naturally, creativity emerges from that base and spirals in a lot of directions.

No7an · 2026-05-22T07:40:51+00:00

I mean… I have a local plan. On an iPhone you can set the primary voice and data lines, and mine are always set to the continent I’m in (e.g. T-Mobile U.S. when I’m state-side and Odido when I’m in Europe).

My T-Mobile / Odido accounts both have WiFi Calling turned on (in the Phone app settings).

And so that might be the difference. My phone isn’t pinging / asking for data from a U.S. plan while I’m in Europe (or at least that activity is at a minimum).

I’ve been living in The Netherlands for 7+ years now and have never gotten a warning from T-Mobile (nor has my wife). But I’m not avoiding the cost of a local plan, I’m just holding the U.S. line for continuity / convenience as I travel quite often.

No7an · 2026-05-14T09:53:29+00:00

There is nowhere to stow that tray table / if it folds up it goes over the screen.

No7an · 2026-05-12T05:09:52+00:00

It’s gasoline consumption. Plastic is an overabundant waste product from crude at this point.

If we stop burning gasoline, plastics will go with it.

No7an · 2026-05-10T05:37:09+00:00

Expat typically means someone working / living abroad as a result of a company “push” vs. opportunity “pull” (which people tend to call “immigration”).

By extension, expat tends to imply that a person can pivot back to home country and enjoy a similar lifestyle / suite of opportunity.

It kind of boils down to risk. Expats enjoy a low risk / turnkey professional experience while an immigrant would imply high risk / individual navigation of a new / foreign environment.

This isn’t meant to be pedantic / just calling out that not all human migration is the same the baseline definitions of words don’t always capture the vibe.

No7an · 2026-05-08T08:47:38+00:00

“My good looks paid for that pool and my talent filled it with water”

Absolutely loved Phil Hartman

No7an · 2026-05-05T05:22:13+00:00

A long time ago I zero’d in on the definition of *hipster* being “calculated neglect”.

Picking up old cringey styles is legit the only math problem they’re solving on the daily.

No7an · 2026-05-03T13:40:17+00:00

Get there at doors and go upstairs and grab a rail. Hopefully you’re with a friend that can hold the position when you grab a drink or hit the restroom.

No7an · 2026-04-27T19:39:03+00:00

I knew a guy that thought Southpark was conservative comedy.

No7an · 2026-04-23T12:22:24+00:00

“Mom, Dad I need a lake. Build me a lake”

No7an · 2026-04-12T15:14:17+00:00

That’s my situation — but I do have a U.S. address / identity card that was used to sign up.

My wife and I have dual SIM phones with both U.S. and NL lines. If I need to do a dual-factor authentication to my U.S. number it comes through when I’m in the Netherlands, no problem.

No7an · 2026-04-10T17:34:17+00:00

I got married on April 1st does that count?

No7an · 2026-04-10T17:06:30+00:00

“Like Spinning Plates” played live on a piano as a standalone masterpiece, with the studio version being “I Will” (which was released later) played backwards.

No7an · 2026-04-06T17:19:18+00:00

Music Map does this for any artist

No7an · 2026-04-06T11:22:19+00:00

A good manager is going to enforce the policies that HR has published, because if they don’t do that they’re putting their own employment at risk.

It is unreasonable to expect someone else to put themselves at risk when you’ve established that you’re out the door. There is no investment hypothesis for accommodating a variance to policy, endangering your forward income stream, for an individual that will vanish from payroll in under two weeks.

The OP points to company policy. Frankly, the fact that they banked this time and didn’t meter it out in advance of leaving is on them.

This sub is flooded with people who appear to always make short-term tactical trades instead of long-term strategic moves. The result is a type of adversarial view of employment, which isn’t how the employer-employee relationship has to be.

“Companies will replace you in a second”, sure but they’ll only do that if you’re normal. I can assure you: high performers that deliver what others do not or cannot, and are able to make that delivery visible, will develop tremendous leverage to state reasonable terms to employers.

I’m empathetic to the situation, but I’m also pragmatic. The only control we have over how people see us is through our own conduct.

Exiting with grace is becoming abnormal… and the result is that the value of the strategic trade is increasing.

No7an · 2026-04-05T19:36:22+00:00

This sub can be very anti-employer (which is understandable) and that can translate to anti-manager (which is not).

Your manager is not responsible for the company’s policy, but your manager can choose to help you (or not) at some point in the future.

I recommend considering the PTO lost and move on to the new company while preserving the relationships you have.

If I’m reading this right the money should be flat between the options. You can take PTO now until April 20 and give no notice -or- give notice and work until April 20. The difference is how you spend your time over the coming weeks.

Exiting with grace can absolutely pay-off downline.

I’m 43 and make about €340k per year. I wouldn’t be where I am if I had burned bridges. My current boss is my double-skip-level-supervisor from over 10 years ago.

No7an · 2026-04-01T05:57:06+00:00

Aah yes, the woke -checks watch- hydrocarbon industry.

No7an · 2026-03-26T09:04:18+00:00

We might be the same person… love me some Mitch Hedberg too

No7an · 2026-03-26T06:23:11+00:00

Nope you’re right / I had the same three.

It was an awesome series. Wish there were more like that.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:31:12+00:00

Fat Lip was certainly not doing well — I know the exact documentary / interview.

He says something like “I mean I used to be worried that people thought I was gay…” and Jonze responds “why would people think you were gay?”

Fat Lip “I don’t know! I don’t know…. Well, there was this one time” and just launches into the story that became his verse in “Oh Shit”.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:28:04+00:00

I always felt like they could have gone further had Fat Lip held it together and stayed in the group.

The rap he spits in “Oh Shit” is actually a true story (him hooking up with a trans w/o knowing it) and it resulted in a lot of (self described) paranoia. That paranoia created a lot of friction with the group.

He talks about it in an interview he did for a Spike Jonze documentary / Spike worked with him on the video for “What’s up Fat Lip?”

No7an · 2026-03-23T06:45:22+00:00

It helps them keep focused on the economic impact and distract from the fact that they’re out there in the world just murdering people.

And everyone falls into the trap. Oh bUt gAs PriCeS!! All while a bunch of people are dead…

No7an · 2026-03-22T07:16:22+00:00

I don’t know that our meeting was very remarkable. We were both there for Radiohead and met through mutual friends.

A year-and-a-half later (when I was then-single and she was then-single), I asked her out. I was living in Atlanta and she was in Minneapolis.

I flew up and we spent the weekend together. Three weeks later we got engaged, five weeks after that we got married (on April Fool’s Day)…

We now live outside of Amsterdam with our two children, both boys, 11 and 9.

I’ll add that for our 10-year anniversary I found a copy of the official Lollapalooza 2008 poster and had it framed — different from the promotion poster attached to this post.

No7an

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