The Ink Spot

it's great that you are asking questions

I promised myself to come up with some new ones as well, but failed

well I tried.. oh well.. Ill still be in chat. So did Scott and I accidentally ruin season 5 for you?

nope

2:49 AM

oh also forgot to tell ya I got a meeting with buddy about him doing the backend side and I do the design side

oh cool!! when?

looks like this sat.

funny enough he even lives in the same area I was planning to move to which would be a real big trip

Hize

i can't

catch you up, guys,

so i decide to leave now.

later

hm, ok..

sorry!

Hize

2:52 AM

bye

see ya

@Matt_2.0 you probably dont have to go that much, though, you might be able to work online

ya

3:11 AM

so my daughter got my a bobble head for my car.. best bday gift ever

havent named him yet.. but he swings to the beat.

hehehe

pics!!

its the one on the right

I call him my chum

awwwwwww

they are so damn cute!!!

so the blue shirt one?

ya

what's the thing in the bottom?

3:16 AM

(designer in me) looks good with the silver car and black interior

solar power

so he goes dancing all day long

ohh awesome!

when was your bday??

monday

ohhh happy bday!!!!!

I missed it

its cool

no wait it was Tuesday..

did you have a good time?

haha

3:18 AM

because I drank that night

didnt really do anything but go to a local restaurant we go to every week and support it because its local and not a chain

plus the food is good and service is good

sounds good

I'm not going to ask what number were you celebrating ;)

what did you drink?

american crap

bud light.

2 - 1 so couldnt really argue for 4 bucks a beer

haha

well, this is your year Matt

so wait.. how old do you think I am?

no idea, you only posted a pic once and changed it a week later

30-something?

3:22 AM

Im not as old, 65, like scott, lol..

close

early 30s?

ya

33?

nope 31

did you have a big 30th bday last year?

(I dread that day, and it's coming soon)

3:23 AM

no because I quit counting after 25

haha

I have to ask my wife how old I will be

I should do that too ;)

I dont think it will matter till I hit 40

age is just in our minds

that's what I keep telling myself

3:24 AM

ya after 25, lol.. and my insurance has gone down

do you walk everywhere?

I try, but it's always f raining here

I wanted to get a job a year back at the local paper, still might, but I could take the bus and its like 1.25 a day all day pass. WAY cheaper than driving

I never had a car, too expensive. I bus or walk everywhere

advantage of bus is you can read while doing it

and of walking, health I guess

it's 6 km to work, so I try to do that at least twice a week

ya when we went to switzerland I had a convo with a guy on the bus we were on and he told me the costs and they were nuts

so one site is officially designed.. all pages are done =)

yay!!!

3:30 AM

I used all Illustrator too

big fan of the artboard settings

I will have to redo my server and filing system if I stay with Illustrator

never used it, I'm not much of an Ill person

should probably give it more time

so when is it going live?

all my sites wont be going live till early spring

I dont want to adjust my mental state of design right now. I will at the end of this month migrate over to starting to mentally go to code. Since it is also the start of my busy season and I will be doing a lot more 60 hour weeks

ohh ok

anyway, well done on finishing the design

I'm having a super busy + super lazy week

I can't sit down and work when I get home, I'm quite drained

ya ive been getting there

what music you listen to?

I found myself listening to a lot of classical when I am at a road block

John made obsessed with Daft Punk

I love classical too!

while at work, it's usually something more entertaining, like punk or rock

at home, it varies depending on the mood (classical, brazilian, even musicals)

do you use spotify?

3:37 AM

love spot

never heard of brazilian

bossa nova, it's so cool

maybe I can send you my list

daft punk is great andmakes the day go by quicker because the songs are longer

spotify:user:114743069:playlist:3KWxYSuQm9Ic2O7Ct440My

can you see it with that?

skype it to me

done

that's my bossa nova list

3:41 AM

I find pandora plays better classical but rock is better with spot

same goes with comedy

Pandora is quite nice

I have a gazillion lists in Spotify so until I move out of NZ I only use that

I blacklisted pandora when they started going towards hour restrictions

the offline lists are especially good

they lost a lot of members

oh

I didnt know that

3:43 AM

ya for awhile there you were only allowed 40 hours

MONTH

where do you add the playlist?

hmm no idea

in the search box I htink

did you publish your list?

yeah

doesn't let you see it?

not even with the http link?

nope

boooo

I wonder why, cause I have random people following my lists

so they ARE public

3:53 AM

noob error

then replace with: youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc

ha

Ill skype you some guys from high school that sound pretty good.

my first bass was a Nashville, so I always think of it when I read the name

bass?

lot of good hole in the wall places here that play live bands

sounds good

a bit reggae

4:08 AM

ya.. they have some better songs

playing this weekend actually

are you going?

um no... re-live high school.. thats what a reunion is for ;)

if you love music so much you should come here for bonaroo

you have a reunion??

ya every 10 years

cooooool

are you excited?

4:14 AM

I see them all on facebook now mostly, lol. Some I will go and play poker with and some I say hey every now and then

I have only seen one friend from school

it wasn't the most... friendly class

wow.. explain?

there were very closed groups (lots of rich kids in that school)

me and my closest friends were kind of the underdogs, and when we finished school everyone went in a different direction

I'm not very interested in seeing those other kids

4:36 AM

I know what you mean

kinda weird when you go to the parenting board and read a grown man answer a female type question.

I don't know if I want to know what "a female type question" is

examples

wow... um I didnt realize questions like these were in scope with parenting

do I have to?

lol

wow and weird

you should participate in parenting!

I have

great title

isn't DA01 a mod there?

or at least a user with lots of rep I think

4:42 AM

man that guy is a beast

@Matt_2.0 haha

he has massive rep everywhere!

I asked this question and look at DA's rep count..

the man surely is a walking library

haha

ha ha this is a great title on Home Improvement

surely it will get deleted

oh. my. god.

xD

1:27 PM

ola

Kurt

2:41 PM

This "answer" has only an link to an web site; it smells for spam for me. Do you agree?

graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/5779

2:55 PM

@Kurt wheres the question.

it appears to be a legit answer but at the request of SO we are not supposed to accept links to tutorials because in a year that tutorial may be taken offline. It is asked to suggest to the answeree that something similar to the tutorial be added.

Ryan

4:31 PM

Hey all, anyone know of tutorials on manually adjusting lettering in illustrator? Not kerning and type on path stuff but detail work like thickening a bar or shortening the serif without messing up everything else

7:10 PM

@Ryan you wont' find any. Outlined type is merely shapes. Adjusting the paths and anchors of a shape is the same regardless of what that shape represents.

sup scott!

hey matt... you lurking? :)

what ever do you mean?

yeah.. uh-huh... suuuuure

I know where the "view transcript" button is too ya know :)

no Im a baller and just leave it open on a monitor.. lol

7:18 PM

So.. I've got to have a conversation with a guy I subcontract for. He seems to think my payment is dependent upon him getting payment from his client. That's not how subcontracting works. At least not to me.

oh been there

depends how it is written in the contract ;)

I'm amazed that an design "agency" doesn't get that.

yeah contract states payment on delivery

save money when they can

I guess. Or worried about shelling out money with it not already in their hands.

just be happy they didnt want to give you a PO number

7:20 PM

I always pay subcontractors when they finish.. then it's my responsibility to recoup the cost from the client

oh I don't do that

I understand from both areas but either way its a PITA

way too much paperwork and red tape for my little one man op

actually.. I should hire an accountant.. but that just bothers me.

as Yisela tells me.. You must trust others to be able to improve.

true... but giving someone full access to my finances is just.. well... not what I'd prefer to do. If I were married, the wife could do it :)

ha ha I can imagine the ad

wanted.. wife as accountant, secretary, and anything in between

7:24 PM

hmm... russian mail order mathematician wife....

off to register that domain!

:)

Kelly Bundy, "hey that's a stereo system!" :)

no.. they have better math classes in bejing

so what you working on today?

Map of Richmond

well just a portion of Richmond really.

interesting..

You?

sharepoint

7:31 PM

ahh.. I dislike the IT stuff :)

no more like site building with bull explicit crap

ah

so.. I bought like 6 little things on Amazon from the same company. I receive the order and it's missing an item. I send email to the seller via Amazon. Seller replies with "Was the package opened or damaged?" No problem. Expected that. Then "We video tape all our packaging, I'll review the tapes. Please ensure the items wasn't merely overlooked." Errr... okay.... go ahead and look at the video (if you actually have one)... I found that so hilarious. As if I was trying to scam them out of $15.

ya but I could see them doing that as a loss prevention thing, too.

Wouldnt' I jsut claim the entire package never arrived?

maybe insurance requires it

7:37 PM

Not that 1 item out of 6 was missing?

could be. Just found it funny

well that too

but after so many a detective with UPS will watch you.

yeah I get that. And I do try and look at it from their point of view. Still stuck me funny though.

I was pissed when a neighbor saw another neighbors crackhead friend still my package off my front porch.. but then that was also UPS fault to leave the package at the edge and not to the side.

UPS is hilarious. I've had them make me sign for a $20 item, then leave a $4000 computer just sitting on my doorstep. I realize the signature is sometimes sender driven.. but really.

I know that drives me up a wall

7:41 PM

I big 4ft box with Apple logos all over it shoudl NEVER simply be left on a doorstep.

I had 6 4Us delivered from a company going on clearance and they just stacked them high on my front porch.. it was like.. oh hey look at me.

I'm lucky my neighbors are decent.

Hey you aren't using an 4k monitors are you?

no 4U server cases

yeah i got that :) jsut wondering if you have a 4k monitor as well

they go on clearance every year at the same time and I can order them for 50 bucks with free shipping compared to 139 throughout the year.

7:43 PM

I tend to stock up around cyber Monday :)

Stuff I think I might need.

no Ive got four Antec 23s right now.. been happy with them. Like to get some new ones but dont see a reason so think ill go with color calibration

i buy all my xmas online now on black friday and cyber monday

buying a new 64gb motherboard amd, new SSD, and might go with a new ati GPU

already started buying for my daughter for xmas

yeah that's when I tend to shop as well unless there's some immediate need.

So... Apple users are going to start losing fingers this coming year

hacked off in order to unlock stolen iPhones :)

you read the funny article how Google is laughing at Apple

no. I've been laughing too hard at Apple :)

I love Apple.. but man, they've screwed the pooch here

no more jobs

7:47 PM

yeah. It's 1986 all over

always wondered how their stock went after steve passed

They have NO CLUE how to drive innovation the way Jobs did

Stock's been fine. But this past 6 months has been interesting. The new redesigned MacPro sneek peek and now the missed iPhone opportunity. It won't be as strong in 3 months.

i dont see how google will not dominate over apple in 3 yrs the way apple is heading

They will sell a ton fo iPhone 5Cs though.. they are cheap

Google could. Right now... the entire smart phone/tablet market is open again. Apple may be on top but without innovation, they won't hold it.

apple isnt on top

7:49 PM

iOS7 simply can NOT be that good

google is

well it fluctuates depending on what you read

the only thing everyone agrees on is that RIm is 3rd :)

id have to disagree with that based on what is being discussed on release by google the past year

but thats just my feeling on it

Things are heavily biased though. Apple zealots paint Apple in a better light. Apple haters paint Google in a better light. The thing about Apple is there are so many people that just buy into the "hate this company" with no real reason as to why.

I've lost track of the poepl who tell me "I Hate Apple" and I ask.. ever used a Mac? only to hear "uhm, No. Why would I?/ I hate Apple."

I see that but like here.. apple is targeting the everywhere factor and not the innovative factor

7:53 PM

yeah. They are going after the lower markets they've priced themselves out of previously. That may work briefly, but it won't last.

@Scott ya that is just stupid people and their non-sense mentality.. you should have a better reason to dislike something other than just because.

I'm amazed there's no Near Field or pressure support or SOMETHING new abotu teh iPhone 5s other than a faster processor more storage and a fingerprint reader

World is full of stupid people with blogs that can sway public opinion.

Like Fox News :)

ha ha

Well.. I'm sticking with my iPhone 5... I can do without the "c" or "s" in the name :)

still on the 4

thinking of the galaxy