otherbarry

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[–] otherbarry 9 points 9 months ago

For bonus points watch the last episode of Doom Patrol. Also featuring Brendan Fraser! (well, at least his voice)

[–] otherbarry 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use a sea salt grinder to lightly salt things when cooking. Can't afford to eat out too often so cooking is my normal routine.

Other people, especially older people, do pour salt on pretty much all meals. Especially with older people who tend to be able to taste things less strongly so their normal response is to add even more salt. And then they wonder why they have high blood pressure, etc.

You mentioned iodine but that's usually an additive in table salt, not sure how many people eat table salt vs other types of salt... me personally I've been using sea salt for years & that type usually does not have iodine.

[–] otherbarry 9 points 9 months ago

A lot of people's dogs are trained to wait inside at the door for their paws to get wiped down before walking into the house/apartment/whatever.

But sure, if the dog did go walk outside with boots/shoes then yeah their owner would obviously take them off once they were back inside.

[–] otherbarry 6 points 9 months ago

Have everything except university and sports arena. But for me it makes sense being in the NJ/NYC metro area.

Bar should be way higher on that list. Seems a lot of people haven't experienced the freedom of being able to walk home drunk from a bar, or at least take a subway/bus, without worrying about dealing with a car. Or worse relying on the friend who had a few beers but is still "good" to drive.

[–] otherbarry 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A quick google search seems to indicate that being mold/mildew. You should really check the humidity in your room/building and correct that, offhand it seems to be high if you repeatedly see mold growing there.

[–] otherbarry 10 points 9 months ago

I liked it enough that I'd watch the 2nd season. One thing about the first season is that it starts out slow and really doesn't pick up until mid/late season.

So yeah I totally get it, if you only watched the first episode you're going to be thinking this thing is just barely watchable, LOL.

[–] otherbarry 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe once in the last 5-10 years to look up something specific... so basically never.

[–] otherbarry 6 points 10 months ago

LOL it almost sounds like they did that on purpose, that light could be configured to stay on longer but someone at your office doesn't want that.

[–] otherbarry 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The one I was at just gathered everyone together to let them know layoffs were coming. I was also part of the tech support for the office so I stayed a bit longer to help them wind down systems, wipe hard drives, that sort of thing. The owners were pretty nice/upfront about the whole thing, basically gave everyone something like 2-3 month's pay upfront & told everyone the business is winding down.

The owners did try to find a buyer for the tech & maybe break even or recoup some losses but that didn't pan out. AFAIK the investors just took it as a loss, it's a startup and sometimes startups fail.

We weren't in fancy offices or anything like you see in movies & whatnot, it was more like working in an industrial warehouse converted for office use. Like the kind of building that doesn't provide hot water unless you install water heaters yourself, no central AC, that sort of thing. We had one final party & trashed the space on the way out LOL. I think they just walked away from the lease, it's not like there was any $$ coming in to pay it anymore.

In the last few months after moving out a few remaining people (the owners, tech support, etc.) worked from within the investment group's own offices (they gave us a spare room to work in). Mostly to deal with the old systems/hard drives & prep the existing data in case the owners found a buyer.

[–] otherbarry 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean like a random person at your previous job? Why wouldn't you get a reference from a coworker/manager/boss that you were friendly with during that employment? Lets be honest, if everyone at that place hated you & you have no one friendly there to give you references then you probably should avoid using anyone there as a reference.

It's also possible I'm overthinking this, right now I work at a small business whose owner is very spiteful & always talking badly about people he dislikes (employees & otherwise). That would absolutely be the last person I would use for a professional reference if/when I leave the job, LOL. Luckily all my coworkers get along great so I'd have plenty of other references to use there.

[–] otherbarry 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

How much money are you bringing with you? There are countries that offer golden visa programs to the wealthy. Some of them may still have residency requirements (e.g. live there for x years) but otherwise it would basically allow anyone with money to become a citizen, or at the bare minimum obtain a visa to live there.

https://www.investopedia.com/golden-visa-program-7975290

[–] otherbarry 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting & somewhat surprising, we are currently testing a Canon MAXIFY GX5020 and everyone in the office hates its color output. It's in the same MegaTank family that your Canon is in.

I'm trying to figure out if maybe Canon sent us a bad printer or if these Canons just don't do colors that well. If you have a chance can you do these two color test prints & let me know how yours does?

https://cmyktool.com/cmyk-test-print/ (download the PDF and print it)

https://printtester.com/#print-color-test-page (download the Color Test Page PDF and print it, the one with the color wheel)

What I've found is that our Canon does fine with the CMYK Test Print but doesn't do as well on the Color Test. For us in the color wheel when the colors blend from Blue into Red (e.g. the dark blue / purple / dark red) the mixed colors look sort of dull and generally off. So any images with purple or around that color come out sort of darker/dull compared to our old color laser printer. I can't really explain colors that well but you get the gist :D

When we first received the printer magenta was barely printing so all the colors were especially bad, after doing the printer maintenance functions that color at least started printing but I wonder if the printer heads are just screwed up on this one, hmm.

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