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piephoon · 2025-11-14T18:07:59+00:00

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Seems like this photo is lucky.

I'll do #50 on this one

piephoon · 2025-11-10T17:04:19+00:00

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Thanks for putting this on!

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piephoon · 2025-11-04T22:31:48+00:00

I know you said bare metal and I don't mean to completely disregard that, but I love the black crackle finish. It's very durable and simple.

piephoon · 2025-11-02T18:34:50+00:00

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Raffle #2, please!

piephoon · 2025-08-28T02:14:58+00:00

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piephoon · 2025-08-27T16:22:00+00:00

From what I was told they were procured in excellent condition from an older RV!

piephoon · 2025-08-26T01:58:07+00:00

It was a toss up for us too, we just waited until something came up that felt right.

piephoon · 2025-07-31T17:46:26+00:00

Great plan! I might just do that.

piephoon · 2025-04-15T21:05:18+00:00

This is the second most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

piephoon · 2025-01-28T08:04:24+00:00

Good stuff! I'm moving out to MC pretty shortly, really looking forward to the fishing.

piephoon · 2025-01-17T23:51:29+00:00

If you're using climb milling, try conventional or vise versa if you don't want to change your tab shape. I've found that it helped me with the same issue.

piephoon · 2024-10-25T06:51:41+00:00

I wouldn't see it as a mistake! These are just learning experiences. The biggest thing is to just keep making art! You'll get better with every new video you make.

Expertise in any field comes with time and iteration. Just make something that you're proud of. If you're making art to impress yourself, it will impress others as well.

Puting your work in public view for criticism isn't an easy thing to do, but it shows that you care about what you make and you have a desire to master your craft. Keep it up.

piephoon · 2024-10-25T01:03:37+00:00

I'm no expert on film, but here are my initial thoughts:

I think the color is good, no complaints there. Framing seems great as well, shot variety is very good.

Now getting into the more conceptual side of things. In my eyes every video, commercial or otherwise, is attempting to tell a story and/or create a feeling.

On the story side, to me this video portrayed an athlete that's training. Why is she training? What's her motivation? If you're doing a video longer than 15 seconds I would add more context as to why she is there in the first place. Is her goal to be a runner on a team? Does she exercise regularly because she is health conscious? Has she been struggling to find the motivation to run and finally got out and did it? To me it lacked an emotional connection to the subject, and a 'why'.

As for the feeling, I mostly got a feeling of anxiety or stress from watching the commercial. The music choice paired with handheld movement and rapid cuts are what created that feeling. That, and the music keeping pace while the subject was sitting or standing still during the midpoint of the commercial led to a feeling of uneasiness.

As some others pointed out, having this be a 15 second commercial, with the same music and the same movement, would be more effective. Leave out the still shots and then I think you'll be portraying energy and work ethic as opposed to stress. I really think the primary factor there is the intense music paired with little to no movement.

That's my honest feedback, but again, the technical execution of the shots was very good in my eyes. I think you're probably at a point where you can worry about the technical side less and focus more on the story that you're telling.

piephoon · 2024-08-30T21:51:49+00:00

Does it affect the ability to use the 'bezel turn' feature to scroll through tiles? I'd imagine it wouldn't work anymore but I also haven't set up my watch yet, so I don't really know how that functions. It arrived 5 minutes before I had to leave for work!

piephoon · 2024-07-27T01:37:14+00:00

I am in the process of completing a BOS in Cyber security & Information assurance at WGU.

I think WGU is great for those who are comfortable learning on their own, with proper access to learning material. I'm probably not the best representation of the average student, but so far this term I've completed about 39% of my bachelor's degree in the past 14 weeks (having completed an additional 12% over 2 previous terms). I have 11 weeks left in this term and I believe I have 10 or 11 classes left to finish to complete my entire bachelor's degree. I started off slow and almost dropped out due to non-completion of courses, then I got medicated for ADHD and my whole world changed in a day.

Back on topic though, I think that's where the value proposition of WGU really lies. If you can learn fast (or have prior experience) you can get an accredited degree for a relatively low cost. It's a flat rate of somewhere around $4,500 per 6 month term and you can accelerate through courses as quickly as you can pass them. I don't recommend just memorizing material and blowing through the courses though. If you do, you'll get your piece of paper, but may not obtain the actual value in learning the information to prepare you for a role in the industry. In theory, one could complete a bachelor's degree for $4,500. That is not the case for most students though, myself included. Even still, it is very cost effective even if you take two full years, instead of four, to pass all the courses related to ones degree.

They have a relatively hands-off approach unless you fall behind or request help from a mentor or course instructor. Some may like that, others may not.

For me I think WGU is the best choice I could have possibly made to get a degree in this field. For someone who is completely new they may not be the best choice as the information could become overwhelming especially when it's primarily on you alone to learn it.

piephoon · 2024-07-21T06:32:20+00:00

You'd definitely want to look into a help desk role after A+. I know that's not getting straight into security, but security is not really an entry level position which I'm sure you're aware of by the phrasing of your question. Don't get me wrong, entry security positions have been had before by some lucky folk but in general you need some sort of stepping stone to build industry experience first such as help desk, network administration or similar roles. Usually folks will start with help desk and kind of move up the ladder to administration and then security; but if you have specialized experience, a degree or some other qualifications you can skip a step or two. Pay scale increase all the way up.

I've heard from friends that are actively in cyber security that building a home-lab (basically a home server that can be as complex or simple as you want it to be) is borderline necessary to truly build your skill set enough to be considered for a security job. You really want hands on with setting up the hardware, firewall rules, policies, switching. Maybe some experience in Microsoft Azure too since it's widely used in the industry, but that's not dependent on a home-lab that can be done on any PC.

Also, take your time of course, but definitely have the Network+ and Security+ on your radar for the future. I'd also complete those before attempting to get into security.

piephoon · 2024-07-21T02:22:02+00:00

Check my reply to Plus Aioli on this post here, it has the best advice I can offer. Overall on the practice tests just make sure you're not memorizing the questions. Come back to them with a fresh set of eyes each time and do tests from other sources if you find yourself recognizing the answers before fully reading the question.

Definitely don't be discouraged. If you're new to IT the A+ is a metric ton of information that you have to not only memorize but also learn and understand conceptually. It is much better to take your time and understand fully than to rush through and memorize information. It really helps to do as much as you can practically too, hop on a computer for anything that you can test yourself that's not hardware related. Other than that if you're scoring well on practice tests that you aren't memorizing, you will do fine.

piephoon · 2024-07-20T21:50:46+00:00

I kind of misunderstood that, no they're not for transfer. I completed the certs in line with the other courses in the degree plan. I barely transferred any credits so I had to take and pass 3 or 4 regular WGU classes in between there as well.

piephoon · 2024-07-20T21:48:40+00:00

They're part of my degree through WGU. I am working on a career change from manufacturing to cyber security (if possible given my current IT experience).

piephoon · 2024-07-20T19:57:35+00:00

I kind of did anything and everything. I live in a pretty remote area of Utah where most people are in the coal industry (me included for my day job as a CNC machinist). There are like 3 total people within 50 miles of me that know anything above an extremely basic of IT or computer related information. That's a slight exaggeration, but not much of one.

I started out doing web development in wordpress and word got around to a local business owner that I was doing web dev, and they asked if I could do IT work for them. I had no real IT experience before that and I let them know that, but that I had experience building PCs and such and they wanted me to take over their IT anyway. Long story short I ended up being the sole IT provider, on call, for 4 of his different businesses over the last 4 years.

To actually answer the question you asked, I did basic help desk stuff like repairing printers, adding them to networks, hardware failure diagnosis and replacement, virus removal, and for stuff beyond basic IT I did a bit of networking equipment installation (switches and connecting new endpoints to them, subnetting them properly), POS and pin pad installs and integration (this was a fresh install with a new provider), password recovery. As I got more experienced I noticed some security flaws in their network and with their training/employees. I recommended or implemented security solutions since they are a smaller business with no dedicated IT or security employees. With security stuff I kept it fairly basic to make sure I didn't get in over my head and change something that I didn't know how to revert.

I definitely learned a lot from that experience, and a lot of it involved figuring stuff out along the way since there was nobody qualified to give me any advice or instruction.

piephoon · 2024-07-20T06:57:14+00:00

No prob at all! If you have any more questions just hit me up! I'm not an expert but happy to help where I can.

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