What's annoying you today?

[creep]

Jesus. I assume you're ok though? No nasty no-streering related accidents?

Luckily I was going slow when it happened.

[nausearockpig]

Jesus. I assume you're ok though? No nasty no-streering related accidents?

Luckily I was going slow when it happened.

cool

[Hype]

I enjoy that you took that photo in HDR mode with a fingertip in front of the lens. It's such a crisp shot of the underside of the vehicle, otherwise.

[creep]

Well... I have no idea what HDR mode is. Most my pics feature my finger.

[Hype]

Well... I have no idea what HDR mode is. Most my pics feature my finger.

The only reason I noticed is that attachments on the board show the filename: "IMG_20170502_135853350_HDR.jpg"

I don't think I totally understand it myself, but I think it takes three (or some number of) separate shots and averages them somehow to make a better photo.


It's also the new ripoff gimmick for 2017 TVs, replacing "3D" and "curved screens" as the thing that justifies releasing new models so they can keep charging higher than necessary prices while the tech gets cheaper: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/ ... -explained

[Artemis]

Glad you're okay, creep. Hopefully, the repairs don't cost and arm and a leg.

[creep]

Glad you're okay, creep. Hopefully, the repairs don't cost and arm and a leg.

It's a company truck so it doesn't really affect me. Two weeks ago all the ball joints and tie rods were replaced and it cost $2600. Luckily I was able to take it to the same company that did the work and they fixed it for free.

[chaos]

Driving down the road today my ball joint decided to come out making me unable to steer.

Do you get anxiety now when you are driving on the highway?!?

Glad you are okay. (And always wear your seatbelt )

[Larry B.]

Take care, Creep. Do you anyone who might've been interested in killing you?

[Matz]

HIM are breaking up. I'm not a huge fan of everything they've done, but some of their songs are pretty fuckin cool. I guess I'm the only one here who thinks so or is brave enough to admit it

[perkana]

Fuck, I'm too old to even know anything about HIM
Ok, just googled them, I must have known them, but I've never been into goth music...

[Matz]

Lots of people that normally aren't into goth are nevertheless into HIm. Take his Wicked game cover for instance, pretty fuckin cool. I love their guitar player, awesome talent.

[perkana]

Nice cover, I only listened to the small clip on their wiki page (join me in death). And sorry, but

[Matz]

really?` well, to each his or her own, you know...

[Larry B.]

Annoying me today: a friend of mine, someone with whom I shared a band, at some point in March when we hung out together, either wrote down or took a picture of my credit card and spent around 120 bucks between March and May 2nd.

I'm "confronting" him in almost exactly 1:30 hours.

So I'm down a friend, down 120 bucks (I'll tell him that he has to pay me, of course - and the bank might reimburse me) and I'll lose about 2:30 hours of working time in a week that's been very intensive.

Very annoying.

[kv]

Honestly dude it is worth the 120 bucks to know he's not your friend

[Larry B.]

Honestly dude it is worth the 120 bucks to know he's not your friend

I don't understand that...

... he told me "I didn't take your card, it was just somehow linked to my Facebook account and I didn't know."

Me: "What?"

"I wanted to set up an ad campaign, I selected my ad, then set up the rate and I clicked OK. I never knew who was being charged for that, and I was meaning to find out."

"So you thought... wait... how were you going to find out whose card it was?"

"I don't know."

When I asked for my money, he said "I can't right now, I have other things to do."

After a brief back and forth, I said "I'll give you until tomorrow at noon, otherwise it's going to get uglier for you." About 35 minutes after I left his flat he had transferred me the money.

As I was walking back to my place, I called a mutual friend who works with him, to try to make sense of this situation. He told me, as I suspected, that this guy had been having some money problems. Basically, this guy is about 2 years older than me and his parents still pay for everything. This mutual friend also told me that he had asked him, explicitely, how he was paying for the ad campaign and that he had answered "I don't know, there was this credit card linked to my account." My friend asked him "Is it Larry's?", to which he answered "I don't know." So 'meaning to find out', bollocks.

As I also suspected, this mutual friend is sort of trying to vouche for him, saying that he most likely didn't take my card and all that. But man, even if he didn't, even if SOMEHOW my credit card was linked to his account (???), nothing makes sense here. What kind of a person does that? "Oh I'll just take this money, I'm sure I'll pay the owner someday, when he realizes he doesn't have that money he used to have."

He actually had the nerve to use the expression (in Spanish) "... so I just powered through and ran the ad campaign". I said "powered through?! What the hell are you talking about? Powered through what?!"

He also said something about his and mine being different common senses, and later on asked me for the receipt of the charges, because it was 8 dollars higher than he had estimated.

Man alive.

[Hype]

If you're both administrators for a public Facebook Page, and you put in your credit card info while signed in as the "Page", it seems possible that it could have saved the info and he was able to access it that way, but that would be horrifically bad security, and I can't imagine that FB would do that. Your ex-friend seems not only pathetic, but pretty stupid and not worth keeping around.

[intertwoven]

Nice mother's day weekend trip ended badly with totalling our car on the way home. Me and my dog are fine. My wife, who was driving (wasn't her fault, brakes failed on the wet bridge grating and couldn't stop from hitting the car in front of us who had hit a car, who had also hit a car, who had hit a car that drove off. Luckily no one was close behind us, so we weren't rear-ended), she has a pretty nasty bruise on her arm, but is ok otherwise. The city of Portland gets an assist for this one, for closing the I-5 which forced us into this route in the first place, and for the shitty grating on the bridge that the cop who helped use acknowledged leads to things like this. So now we get the headache of dealing with the insurance and probably buying a new car. But yeah, at least we're all ok.

[SR]

Glad all are ok.

[kv]

Air bags for the win... I'm sure the insurance will be questioning "safe speed for conditions" so be ready for that...glad all is ok

[Artemis]

OMG! Just seeing this now. Good to hear there are no serious injuries.

[Matz]

wtf isn't Mourning Son on Itunes in Europe? "Meet the film makers" is there.. ..fuck, I'll never get to watch the fuckin thing, cause it doesnt seem there's going to be a dvd at some point. I'm gonna have to move then I guess

[SR]

I think I saw it here.....for $3.99. Maybe the youtube link doesn't work in Europe as well?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ocumentary

[wally]

Nicky Hayden, an American motorcycle racer was critically injured today while riding his bicycle in Italy.
He has severe head and chest injuries and is now in a medically induced coma.
fuck, he's one of my favorite racers. Had an opportunity to meet him a couple times, really a genuinely nice guy.

get well soon Champ!