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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 31, 2019 20:07:32 GMT -5
So, I still enjoy printing out and sending my goofy movie fanzine every so many months. However, printer inks were becoming downright exorbitant. Then, WM stopped carrying the color inks needed for my old copier. That was worrisome, but I've started just purchasing inks through their website now and can get the same inks for a fraction of the cost. I hope it isn't some great sell-off before they stop carrying them at all, but for now it's certainly much more cost-effective to indulge in this absurd hobby. Or not. My printer just gave up the ghost. :yikes: Printer brand and type? |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 1, 2019 0:14:32 GMT -5
It's a Canon Pixma MG5320. The heartbreaker is how much extra ink I have laying around for it. I mentioned it in passing to the guru earlier and it sounds like there are some things I haven't tried that might work. If not, it served admirably for almost four years, at times doing some fairly rigorous printings.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Nov 1, 2019 23:00:22 GMT -5
It's a Canon Pixma MG5320. The heartbreaker is how much extra ink I have laying around for it. I mentioned it in passing to the guru earlier and it sounds like there are some things I haven't tried that might work. If not, it served admirably for almost four years, at times doing some fairly rigorous printings. With luck, one of those tricks will work. If not, I can keep an eye on University surplus --probably can't get you the same model, but color inkjets come up for super-inexpensive. Depending on the department's hardware refresh schedule, some of them are only a couple of years old and in decent shape. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 2, 2019 10:45:29 GMT -5
It's a Canon Pixma MG5320. The heartbreaker is how much extra ink I have laying around for it. I mentioned it in passing to the guru earlier and it sounds like there are some things I haven't tried that might work. If not, it served admirably for almost four years, at times doing some fairly rigorous printings. With luck, one of those tricks will work. If not, I can keep an eye on University surplus --probably can't get you the same model, but color inkjets come up for super-inexpensive. Depending on the department's hardware refresh schedule, some of them are only a couple of years old and in decent shape. Oh Lord yes. I think in the long run I'll need a new one. You know, due to parts like rubber rollers wearing out and whatnot. But if I could at least burn through some of these excess inks I am hoarding, that'd be marvelous! |
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Nov 10, 2019 19:34:42 GMT -5
Pleased that my new bob left me looking more like Louise Brooks and less like Dora the Explorer.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 10, 2019 22:49:45 GMT -5
Pleased that my new bob left me looking more like Louise Brooks and less like Dora the Explorer. Dignity is good when you can find it... |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 18, 2019 19:34:35 GMT -5
Great news!!! I was at Target seeking a sponge mop for the ceiling and stumbled across a foot-tall white posable Squidmas tree, like a miniature of my prelighted floor model minus the blue lightbulbs. So I bedecked it with jingle squids and I finally have a Squidmas tree for my work cubicle.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 20, 2019 15:13:18 GMT -5
There's this one guy we all work with at my agency who I have never disliked, but who excites a lot of negative comment around here. At a Halloween coaching session he drove a co-worker out of the room in tears, for instance. But today I went to a client's home and that client's previous counselor was this same guy, whom he totally hated. Mom told me today that when her son used to come out of a session with the other therapist, he would heap scorn on her for wasting his time and telling her how much he hated the guy. Now, after a session with me, I have just learned he is calm and compliant afterwards -- a first. At my meeting last night he put off eating dinner to talk to me first, and just now mom astounded me by saying that HE HADN'T EATEN FOR ALMOST 24 HOURS. He was that hungry. That is a pretty good sign of good therapeutic engagement.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 23, 2019 15:27:57 GMT -5
I watched a pseudo doc on the hippies called "Like It Is" last night. The reason I'm mentioning it here is because one of my favorite hobbies anymore is to check against those lists people post up to the IMDb to see how many of the films I can locate through the newsgroups. So, for instance, someone posted a huge list of 120 films that qualify (to them) as 'psychedelic' movies. I went through it and located probably 20 or 30 that sounded interesting to me. Did I find everything I'd hoped to? No, but still, it's like 20 or 30 new movies to see in a half hour or so! Whoever it was did a great job, but I could add to their list. I'd like a gander at that list myself. Psychedelic movies are not that easy to come by as the Trump Administration sinks in the west... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 24, 2019 0:19:07 GMT -5
I watched a pseudo doc on the hippies called "Like It Is" last night. The reason I'm mentioning it here is because one of my favorite hobbies anymore is to check against those lists people post up to the IMDb to see how many of the films I can locate through the newsgroups. So, for instance, someone posted a huge list of 120 films that qualify (to them) as 'psychedelic' movies. I went through it and located probably 20 or 30 that sounded interesting to me. Did I find everything I'd hoped to? No, but still, it's like 20 or 30 new movies to see in a half hour or so! Whoever it was did a great job, but I could add to their list. I'd like a gander at that list myself. Psychedelic movies are not that easy to come by as the Trump Administration sinks in the west... I also have a documentary on the British psychedelic era that's worth a look. It subsequently sent me off looking for (and locating) a great black & white BBC-TV version of "Alice in Wonderland" from 1966 that was worth the hunt.
But yeah, "Like It Is" the hippie doc from 1968 is worth a watch.
Actually, I watched a relic from that era just last night. A French flick from 1973 called "The Year '01". In it, half the world just up and decides to stop working anymore. Whole nations grind to a halt, and people all just quit watching TV or listening to radios and join each other in the streets all smiling and happy. At one point, keys are raining down on the streets below as everybody decides to just be nice and share things, so no more locks on doors. The do go into how things might proceed from there a little bit, but honestly, in this godforsaken day and age, from my USA perspective, the naivety of the whole notion was kind of galling. But that probably speaks more to me being a douche-bag than anything else.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 24, 2019 0:25:13 GMT -5
I'd like a gander at that list myself. Psychedelic movies are not that easy to come by as the Trump Administration sinks in the west... I also have a documentary on the British psychedelic era that's worth a look. It subsequently sent me off looking for (and locating) a great black & white BBC-TV version of "Alice in Wonderland" from 1966 that was worth the hunt.
But yeah, "Like It Is" the hippie doc from 1968 is worth a watch.
Actually, I watched a relic from that era just last night. A French flick from 1973 called "The Year '01". In it, half the world just up and decides to stop working anymore. Whole nations grind to a halt, and people all just quit watching TV or listening to radios and join each other in the streets all smiling and happy. At one point, keys are raining down on the streets below as everybody decides to just be nice and share things, so no more locks on doors. The do go into how things might proceed from there a little bit, but honestly, in this godforsaken day and age, from my USA perspective, the naivety of the whole notion was kind of galling. But that probably speaks more to me being a douche-bag than anything else.
So this was speculation about 2001? When high schoolers were still being strip-searched daily after Columbine, Y2K panic-mongers were trying to find ways to unload all the Spam and bottled water they'd accrued for the collapse of civilization a few months before, and bin Laden's henchmen were taking flying lessons? |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 24, 2019 0:37:48 GMT -5
I also have a documentary on the British psychedelic era that's worth a look. It subsequently sent me off looking for (and locating) a great black & white BBC-TV version of "Alice in Wonderland" from 1966 that was worth the hunt.
But yeah, "Like It Is" the hippie doc from 1968 is worth a watch.
Actually, I watched a relic from that era just last night. A French flick from 1973 called "The Year '01". In it, half the world just up and decides to stop working anymore. Whole nations grind to a halt, and people all just quit watching TV or listening to radios and join each other in the streets all smiling and happy. At one point, keys are raining down on the streets below as everybody decides to just be nice and share things, so no more locks on doors. The do go into how things might proceed from there a little bit, but honestly, in this godforsaken day and age, from my USA perspective, the naivety of the whole notion was kind of galling. But that probably speaks more to me being a douche-bag than anything else.
So this was speculation about 2001? When high schoolers were still being strip-searched daily after Columbine, Y2K panic-mongers were trying to find ways to unload all the Spam and bottled water they'd accrued for the collapse of civilization a few months before, and bin Laden's henchmen were taking flying lessons?
Exactly. Just no frame-of-reference here at all. It was kind of an interesting view for how the notion of just up and quitting everything spread spread in a viral fashion; but beyond that I just couldn't jibe with the almost childlike utopian vision they put forth. Then again, there might have been a tiny voice inside me the whole watch screaming "I WANT THAT!"
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 24, 2019 8:59:41 GMT -5
Well didn't we all! But grimmer realities stepped in...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 2, 2019 12:41:33 GMT -5
Yay! I lost sleep last night and had the leg cramps!  So, why so happy? Well, almost all of November I had this crud that totally drained me of any desire to do more than sleep (and for some weird reason, I didn't have issues with leg cramps the entire time I had it).
While not the worst cold bug I've ever had, I'm glad that shit seems to be behind me. |
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Dec 13, 2019 0:20:37 GMT -5
Well, this is more of a mixed happiness. If all goes well, the closing on my house will be done tomorrow (yep, Friday the 13th). It's going for far less than I wanted, and it turns out the buyers are house flippers rather than actual prospective homeowners, and my poor little house doesn't deserve to be treated like that. But I'm already at the point where I just want it all over and done with, mostly for tax reasons and because my insurance policy on the house will lapse in January and my current insurer won't cover an unoccupied house.
The itty bitty hummingbird-sized nest egg I'm getting out of this is will hopefully remain out of the hands of whatever collection agency is handling my private student loan. But with my luck, I doubt it.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 13, 2019 9:19:28 GMT -5
Well, this is more of a mixed happiness. If all goes well, the closing on my house will be done tomorrow (yep, Friday the 13th). It's going for far less than I wanted, and it turns out the buyers are house flippers rather than actual prospective homeowners, and my poor little house doesn't deserve to be treated like that. But I'm already at the point where I just want it all over and done with, mostly for tax reasons and because my insurance policy on the house will lapse in January and my current insurer won't cover an unoccupied house. The itty bitty hummingbird-sized nest egg I'm getting out of this is will hopefully remain out of the hands of whatever collection agency is handling my private student loan. But with my luck, I doubt it. Sounds...moderately helpful. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Dec 23, 2019 6:12:18 GMT -5
I got some pretty ginchy happiness that I think that Kobb will appreciate in particular. (Hopefully cheering him up a little bit.)
Don't you just love it when one of your persistent flaws ends up reaping a benefit? I've been engaging in way too much stasis this year, for assorted reasons, meaning I haven't been getting to galleries nearly as much as I'd like. As a result, I've let some interesting exhibits pass me by, and I came close to forgetting about one in particular that was being held at the same gallery that I had a piece shown in a little while back. But I remembered just in the nick of time on the last day and hied myself down there about an hour and a half before the place was supposed to close.
At first, I thought I was out of luck, because there was a black curtain drawn across the entrance to the gallery proper, but a guy at the desk saw me and paid me no heed, so I went through, and the very first thing I saw in the middle of the room was the artist himself, unmistakably. I had had no idea that he was going to be there. I started circulating the room, looking at the pieces, knowing that I will hate my ass forever if I don't at least shake his hand or something. So, as things are starting to wind down and I hear him say he's getting his coat, I wait for him to come back from getting the coat and plunge. I ended up talking to him for about four or so minutes. He did shake my hand, in fact, he shook it four times, he kept re-offering, so I kept accepting. He even introduced me to his wife, who has appeared in a number of his major works. He seemed really cool and somewhat genteel, which is not something one would necessarily expect, given the majority of his work. I didn't bring up that I was an artist, which may have been a missed opportunity, but it felt tacky and didn't seem like a good use of the limited time I had to engage with him. I was walking on air all the way back home. So, yep...
...I FUCKING MET JOE COLEMAN. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 24, 2019 0:00:23 GMT -5
Ha! Congrats, Marxo. He is a true original. As you might imagine, all the galleries down here on the Florida Panhandle only have "safe" art. Seashores and such. Which to me, in this day and age, isn't even true "art".
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Post by Deeky on Dec 26, 2019 0:17:28 GMT -5
Did some nice Christmas night buttfucking with a very dear friend. Joy to the world!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 26, 2019 12:46:16 GMT -5
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