I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.
Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like “How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?”
I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.
Advantages:
- Remains flexible and removable forever.
- Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.
Where I get off making this recommendation:
I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.
It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.
My two cents. I love DIY stuff!
Fair comment. I used gaffer tape a lot at the beginning of my journey because it was convenient and available, but everything I built fell apart eventually, so I started using cloth duct tape. I recently discovered aluminium duct tape which is genuinely amazing. It’s like regular cloth duct tape, but it can be shaped really precisely, and it holds it’s shape even if everything else falls apart around it.
Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.
Resentment in others.
maybe systems. my work tends to be getting one or more systems to do something a business wants.
Free RPG content, which I’d be happy to share with you:
Currently? Walnut ink.
That sounds interesting. What’s the process for making it? What colour does it come out?
It’s a byproduct of our society to ask what value your work does rather than you as a person. A better question would be “what stuff are you interested in?” I bet taking that spin will actually make people stop and think a second not only because it’s not the normal question, but people have lots of interests and now they’ll have to pick one that they want to share.
Your work is what survives after you pass. Your interests don’t.
That’s not a byproduct of contemporary society, always has been.
I had a professor whose ice breaker question was some version of, “what book do you want to write/planning to write?” Everyone seems to have one.
Might not be as relevant today after blogs perhaps cleared that out of peoples’ systems.
As for me, I cycle through mostly craft-based hobbies. Embroidery, leather work, candle making, 3D printing. I can make candles much faster than I can burn them, so that’s self-limiting. 3D printing is great to have the materials and skills for, and I’m slowly learning to design in Blender. But at the moment I only use it when I suddenly need to have a thing-a-ma-widget and remember: “hey! I’ve got a 3D printer. Of course I can make a valve stem cover!”
I’ll probably be back to leather crafts as we head into the fall and winter.
Ive always hated that question. Its usually asked to determine social status.
People in manufacturing and r&d quite like the question, I’d reckon. I wouldn’t relate it to social status.
If you are from the same industry then yes.
Same industry as what?
Disagree. Or at least, that’s just a side effect. I like talking to people about their expertise.
I definitely didn’t read it that way from the post. I thought it was about your hobbies and creative interests. I guess you could infer social strata by whether the answerer has time and disposable income for hobbies. Some don’t require much investment, but it’s usually more than none.
I’m working on an audiobook of a novel I wrote. I have another recording session today with voice actors who play my characters!
Is this an already published book? Or are you releasing it concurrently with the audiobook?
I’m releasing it concurrently with the book. I’ve still got a lot to do before I can release anything however so I’m just doing the chapters that I know are 100% done
That sounds even more stressful. Good luck!
You have no idea…anyways, thanks!
Oh, that must be exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time, seeing your characters come to life. How do you convey what you imagine the characters to sound and act like?
Oh yeah, its amazing to hear the voices for these people but, as you say, it’s scary. Since I’m the director and creator it all falls to me to decide everything. I mean EVERYTHING from inflictions in their voices, how a line is delivered, scheduling, payment etc. Of course, I give my actors freedom to interpret how they see the characters. You have to have a fine balance between making decisions but also letting them be creative with what they do during directing sessions.
Tools that are used to create human misery on a mass scale.
MS office software engineer?
Nope. I’m going to stay vague so I won’t DOX myself, but the only stable job I could find in years is for an organization that doesn’t have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough) and actively hurts people.
I was in the same boat. When I couldn’t take it anymore I quit. I have been unemployed for just under two years now. Whatever you end up doing, stay strong.
doesn’t have the best intentions for humanity (or profit strangely enough)
Reverse filantropy. Quite remarkable indeed!
Carbon dioxide. A metric [emphasis]-ton of dust. Other waste.
Sometimes I write small Perl programs or Bash scripts, but that’s rare, and it’s mostly for my own benefit or amusement; even more rarely do I share them.
Sometimes despair. Sometimes happiness. Hopefully a sense of being informed and/or entertained if not also a (weak?) sense of camaraderie by means of weird little text interactions with people online.
Shout out from a fellow (<=>) enthusiast
A mess
Legos
programs, music and baby
Cortisol
