klondike_klive

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by klondike_klive 2mo ago
Specifically a child molester.
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by klondike_klive 2mo ago
One of my first ever gigs was writing comedy sketches for a BBC digital channel using MS Comic Chat, which they filmed as if it were a super low frame rate cartoon. The most incredibly cheap TV. I think we (my writing/performing partne
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by klondike_klive 2mo ago
By coincidence it's flying ant evening in my part of the world. One of them just flew into my mouth and I said HDJWNSK three times in a row.
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
Its still one of the summer jobs I look back on with a wistful what-if. I worked in a small (10ish employees) factory in the 1990s. I selected, bent and inserted resistors into fire alarm PCBs. If I'd been there longer than 6 weeks I t
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
I would for sure be that rookie who is paralysed with indecision over whether to read "clean" as an adjective or an imperative. Is it telling me that it's clean or that it needs cleaning?
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
Pipe smoking has always seemed a bit more acceptable than other methods. The smell of pipe tobacco burning is much more fragrant than that of cigarettes or cigars. It also has a kind of nostalgic charm. I made a herbal smoking mixture recen
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
It's taken me reaching my fifties and entering an entirely new career to realise this. That arrogance and ambition of youth, the hard-line unwillingness to compromise and study other people's work really held me back!
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
I had the same experience when I ran into him at a bar backstage at a Blur gig in the mid 90s. My dad was friends with his dad in 1960s Sheffield, but since the bloke walked out on his family when Jarvis was 7, it wouldn't have been mu
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
I use an Xppen 24" Pro display tablet. I enjoy using it but my Linux mint machine simply won't boot with it plugged in. I haven't figured out a workaround beyond physically disconnecting both cables every time. And when I boo
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
I made a hat - an old one was getting threadbare so I used a seam ripper to take it apart, drew around the parts onto new fabric, and sewed the parts together. The brim was a bit tricky and the stitching isn't super straight because of
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
Tech specs for specs tech!
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
I just knew who this was going to be before I even opened the link. One of the few accounts I miss from having deleted Instagram from my phone!
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by klondike_klive 3mo ago
Animators (and storyboarders, layout artists, illustrators etc) are still taught to prioritise the clarity and readability of the character's silhouette, although they're usually working with a three quarter view (between side pro
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by klondike_klive 4mo ago
Reminds me of getting a new pen and notebook for Christmas and all I could think of to write was "this is my new pen"
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by klondike_klive 4mo ago
My mother lost her sense of smell after surgery for nasal polyps in her teens. She was mortally afraid of fire breaking out in the night and not being able to smell it.
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by klondike_klive 4mo ago
I've been asked to come give a talk about my career(s) at a school where a friend of mine works. Thinking about it is turning into a bit of an existential audit. Even though I've been the recipient of a big nationally-recognised a
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by klondike_klive 4mo ago
Not a recommendation per se but I used to use Amphetype on Gutenberg texts to practise touch-typing. There's something about writing out a book that hits differently to reading it. You skip less, odd parts stick with you. I think the l
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by klondike_klive 4mo ago
"Here's the nap room. Don't be seen using it."
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by klondike_klive 5mo ago
I've been resisting this for various reasons. Parking apps, maps, camera, podcast app, many many timers, and banking apps are all phone functions I use quite often and I can't see obvious ways around them which don't involve
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by klondike_klive 5mo ago
Yes, it does help. But it's too easily switched off. I basically have to be my own worst enemy I have to order to prevent myself from being my own worst enemy!
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by klondike_klive 5mo ago
That's just what I've been doing after deleting Instagram from my. phone. I can't trust my evening dopamine-seeking behaviour with the phone app, but there's much much less stickiness in the browser.
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by klondike_klive 5mo ago
A while ago when I got Resident Evil on the Wii. I found myself really fed up and depressed with the pee and poo coloured levels and relentless misery (maybe I should have known better than to rent Resident Evil!) I had the idea of taking c
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
Have you listened to his "business funk" mixes? Too stimulating for work (for me) but so much fun. In my head it's the soundtrack to me striding through an open plan office barking nonsense business jargon.
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
that is beautiful. and inspirational. although I know that I don't have anywhere near enough energy to carry through on this kind of thing!
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
What's the betting that it's (somehow, eventually) the taxpayers?
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
Surely the American way of saying "REN-uh-saunce" is further from the French than the British pronunciation?
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
It's a mess. Do I look in the list of frequently-selected countries and hope to find that we're still in there? Or look for UK? United Kingdom? Great Britain? I've been foxed before in American forms where I'm forced to
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
Animation is having it's best year yet, apparently. And yet nearly all of my peers (in our late 40s,early 50s now) who worked on world famous shows, are having terrible trouble getting a job and are pivoting to literally anything else.
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by klondike_klive 6mo ago
Can you post a link or maybe just the name? I'm curious!
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by klondike_klive 7mo ago
I really like the doppler effect (?) of the sound as the tape gets longer.

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