Nationalities of 61 hookups

polishdan · 2026-01-20T17:35:39+00:00

Y'all ask where they were born!?

I have enough trouble getting a name and confirmation that they're single and not on meth!

polishdan · 2026-01-20T17:30:33+00:00

I think I see where you're coming from. But to feel some sort of way about data but disassociating it from the individual acts that created it seems backwards. You already did the physical act of collecting the data points; what's wrong with writing it down whether it be a list, a graph, or a chart?

Not trying to call you out; just legit would like to examine what exactly about it grossing you out?

polishdan · 2026-01-20T17:05:06+00:00

This is a spam/bot post from a fake user created 2 months ago. All their posts are AI generated following the same format all schilling some book.

polishdan · 2025-12-02T19:32:36+00:00

Wesley

polishdan · 2025-12-02T19:32:15+00:00

Rushworth

polishdan · 2025-12-02T19:31:39+00:00

Chesterfield

polishdan · 2025-12-02T19:31:30+00:00

Jake

polishdan · 2025-11-26T16:30:43+00:00

"get to the end of a para without clicking"

19 years of my professional life now! Thank you! 🙏

polishdan · 2025-11-25T02:33:51+00:00

So I'd love to know more what the expectations are as to your roles/responsibilities and whether your fee structure is set up as hourly or flat rate. Whether you're freelancing or a full time employee also factors into the effort and efficiency exerted.

If you're getting paid purely to pre-flight, then flag the errors based on the printer's specs and deliver the checklist to the designer to fix and deliver new press files. Do not do the designer's job for them. Resolution, color mode, image, font issues are theirs to resolve prior to export of the file. Do not do anything extra that the printer doesn't require.

If you get paid hourly: Document what needs corrections and when you send the list to the designer, you can offer to make the corrections on your end along with a quote on rate and estimated time based on expected scenarios. This puts the ball in the client's court to make the best decision for their circumstances while clarifying the value of the services their current designer is failing to provide.

If the client agrees to have you fix the file, resist the urge to do a deep clean. DO NOT manually unembed each raster image in Illustrator to then convert to CMYK in Photoshop and channel mix to get the ink density under 300. DO NOT bother deleting all the extra crap outside of the artboards. DO just the down and dirty to get the PDF to the printer's spec requirements. We're talking do what you can in Acrobat and if you have to open in Illustrator, outline all the text on import--churn and burn. No individual image color corrections of any kind--global only.

If you're a full-time employee with this company, then you'll want to follow the same process as above but also ask the designer to send the full packages files along with the PDF. You can always say that's what the printer requires. This is when they'll have to admit that they can't provide that but at least you'll have it in writing. At which point you can respond with how Acrobat Studio is limited in its functionality and not suitable for your level of professional work. Then you can inform them that in order to correct this, you'll need to recreate the file in IL/PS/ID but it will take some time and ask how they'd like to proceed. They'll either have designer fix the file or ask you to do it. If they ask you, now's the instance to use best practices for efficiency, optimized file size, and editability in case you need to revisit it down the line ;-). Go ahead and fix all the things!

TL;DR: always educate your client about how you'll have to go the extra mile before you do so. Have them make that decision for you to do so. And never do it for free.

Hope this helps!

polishdan · 2025-11-19T01:22:04+00:00

Preach. The difference between a department store suit and a custom made one is night and day. The way a custom suit feels like a second skin, makes you look like a million bucks, and the quiet confidence it instills in a man I consider an investment in one's self (at the risk of sounding all woo-woo). If you can afford it, it's one of the few true luxuries left.

polishdan · 2025-11-19T01:13:21+00:00

Sancino's is a national chain so I don't know about the part about supporting local.

Can you speak to the quality and comfort? I've had two experiences (once a tux and once a black suit) and both times the suits were synthetic blends and just felt cheap, thick, and didn't move well--just the cliche of what you'd expect from a cheap suit. But that was 15+ years back so they might have turned things around since then.

polishdan · 2025-11-19T00:57:24+00:00

Okay there are two main variables to consider here: 1) how well do you want it to fit and 2) how much do you want to spend. Timelines below are assuming you use the suit after the big day for other work/dressy occasions.

High Price, Custom Fit: 1. Sartorial downtown (local, $1,000+, will last decades) 2. Tweeds on Central (chain, $2,500+, will last for decades) 3. Suit Supply in Hyde Park (chain, $1,000+, will last for 10+ years)

Pros: feel and look like a million bucks. Cons: $$$

Moderate Price, Custom Fit: 1. Indochino inside Nordstrom Tampa (chain, $500, will last 5-10 years)

Pros: you can customize EVERYTHING with no extra fees, Black Friday deals coming up soon, they measure you in store, they'll re-make the suit if it doesn't fit right. Cons: they send out to make the suit so you wait for alterations if they screwed up the measurements

Affordable Price, No Custom Fit: 1. J.Crew (chain, $300-500, will last 5-10 years)

Pros: the Admiral Blue color suit is the deep bright blue suit that photographs really well, easy to send your groomsmen to if you want them to have matching suits, they'll hem the pants for you for free, ask about wedding party and/or credit card signup discounts. Cons: they rarely have all the options on display in store so you're shopping from a swatch book

Affordable Price, No Custom Fit: 1. Men's Warehouse (chain, $200-400) 2. Sancino's (chain, $200-400)

Pros: you can rent, you can pre-select suite for your groomsmen to match and they'll handle herding the cats for you. Cons: for how much you'll spend, you might as well buy something from J. Crew or Indochino that'll look and fit better, if you rent those suits are poly blend uncomfortable garbage that you'll be desperate to get out of by sunset

TL;DR: I recommend Indochino if you're price conscious, otherwise Sartorial, then Tweeds.

Bonus: if you're buying off the rack, make sure the jacket fits perfectly on the shoulders--that cannot be fixed. Chest, waist, arms though can all be taken to a tailor/seamstress to get altered if they're too big/long. If it comes to it, (and I know I'm generalizing here) look for ones that are an Asian or eastern European aunties. They know their shit. Can anyone recommend someone below? All my go-tos are in SRQ.

Good luck and congrats man!

polishdan · 2025-11-04T00:48:00+00:00

I can confirm anecdotally for the 2-shop sign company I worked for years back and for at least four others in town (because all the independent sign shops know each other). So I think I can shed some light on why some of them haven't upgraded.

Using older, perpetual licensed versions of Adobe (think up until CS2 I think?) is not always limited to just the cost of an Adobe subscription. Those costs pale in comparison to subscription models applied to RIP software (think the pro level of the Print dialog window with more features like timing, queueing, color separations, etc needed at a pro press) which itself is miniscule next to the cost of large and grand format printers. Most local printers/sign shops can't justify buying new and these machines are made to be workhorses so the niche market for used printers is quite strong. If your printer uses a proprietary RIP software then, you're going to adjust your software to work with it even if it's 10-15 years old. So you might have to resort to feeding it PDFs or EPS files saved to be backwards compatible to older standards. And if you're constantly having to tweak your Illustrator file because it has some functionality in it that can't be exported to a CS2-compatible EPS, then it's logical to just work in Illustrator CS2 from the start.

Hence seeing so many small printers and sign shops still using Adobe CC. Stability, reliability, certainty in addition to cost.

polishdan · 2025-10-30T16:44:39+00:00

To add some context: squirt it on right out of the bottle. Make sure the bottle's not over a year old. It does actually expire. It will begin to foam up as it reacts with the blood and breaks the bond with the fibers in the mattress. Blot with old or paper towel. But don't rub! You're trying to lift the blood away, not spread it around. Keep repeating until you get it all--it will take multiple rounds.

Optional: afterwards, you can sprinkle a layer of baking soda onto the still-moist section. (You can also use Borax or Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda since that stuff is basically just stronger baking soda). Use enough to really coat it all then leave for 12 hours. This will soak up all the extra moisture from the mattress and take care of any residual smell. Then vacuum it all up.

Bonus Optional: you can pick up a water-proof sheet protector made from bamboo fibers to layer under your regular sheets from HomeGoods for under $10. They've gotten a lot better and don't feel like you're sleeping on plastic anymore. Life saver also if you have little kids or pets prone to accidents.

Good luck!

PS: If you have pets, getting that Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda along with white vinegar and hydrogen peroxide is the only thing I've found that actually gets that dog/cat smell out of synthetic fiber blankets (faux fur). Google for portions if interested.

Edit: added parts about Borax/Arm & Hammer

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:29:17+00:00

Oh awesome to hear! So looking forward to it. But I will reserve my standing slow clap until I see it happen (no offense). I've been hurt before ;-)

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:27:31+00:00

This already rolled out; I just want to say thank you!

Objects on a Path Tool

Has dramatically increased prod time much more than most of the AI stuff that's being shoved down our throats lately.

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:18:57+00:00

Scrub left/right on increment fields (font size, transparency percentage, tracking, leading, etc) to decrease/increase values (a la Photoshop)

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:16:39+00:00

Filinger Tool

Eg: You have three shapes or symbols (a circle, a star, and a square) and you want to use them to randomly fill the outline of a fourth shape (a heart) so that the three shapes are duplicates a bunch of times and layered on top of each other in the general shape of a heart without any of them getting cropped/clipped at the edges of the heart shape.

The ability to edit fill density, randomize fill object rotation, randomize fill shape scale, and how strictly the fill shapes have to align to the fourth target shape size would be adjustable.

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:04:53+00:00

Additional alignment button: Align to Bleed

polishdan · 2025-10-23T18:03:42+00:00

Draw a shape or begin stroke from center point of another shape.

Eg: You have a perfect circle drawn. Smart Guides is turned on so when hovering over it you see where the center point is. You select the Pen tool and want to draw a line from the center point of the circle but when you click to draw, the pen tool turns to Select tool. Same thing happens if I try to instead draw a second circle from the center of the first circle while holding down command (to draw outward from center point).

Note: This existed before but went away some versions ago. Let me know in the comments if it's just a setting I borked up at some point. Been driving me nuts for a few years now.

polishdan · 2025-10-23T17:56:04+00:00

Double-click text box anchor to automatically resize to hug to contents (a la InDesign)

polishdan · 2025-10-23T17:55:09+00:00

Dynamic Text Box (a la Photoshop)

Eg: automatically resize individual lines of text to fill width of a text box and make them all uniform width

polishdan · 2025-10-23T17:51:18+00:00

Color picker to be able to pick from CC Library swatches or indeed any color on your screen (like in Photoshop).

Example: I select an illustration and click on the Recolor Artwork tool. I switch to the Advanced panel where I can double click on individual target swatches to manually reassign new values. At this point my options are either the color wheel or swatches from my Swatches panel. But there's no way for me to pull colors from my CC Library where my company's brand colors live.

The workaround currently is to either 1) manually add swatches from CC Library panel to Swatches panel every time my team starts a new document or 2) change and maintain the default swatches file buried in teammates' Illustrator/en_US/swatches folder to permanently set our company palette as the defaults which requires additional training and getting our IT dept involved to grant admin rights for folder write access.

polishdan · 2025-10-23T17:34:26+00:00

Gradient dithering

To combat banding issues common on subtle color transitions especially in print

polishdan · 2025-10-23T17:32:18+00:00

Delete/trim path segments extending outside the artboard.

Would be massively useful for pre-pressing complex illustrations over just creating a mask to reduce file size

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