Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and all the paints I want to paint them. When I was a kid, I couldn’t afford more than just the characters I was playing.
Now I have hundreds and my wife, who has a lot of artistic talent, has taken to painting them with enthusiasm.
I just saw my last sentence and cringed. I meant to say there’s no reason for you to NOT crack a book and start learning. Sorry about that.
Programming, or Software Development is not Sysadmin work. While becoming a Software Developer will give you some Sys Admin skills, that’s the long way to go about it, if your primary goal isn’t to be a Developer.
Experience sells in Information Technology. Next in line are Certifications. Getting a helpdesk job would be your first step. While working on the helpdesk, start studying for certifications. It is said that Microsoft Engineers drive their Chevy’s, Network Engineers drive BMW’s, and Linux engineers fly their private jet to work.
If you have no experience, then start looking for low end help desk jobs and start studying ASAP. There are many online study guides and courses.
Self study here, but I’ve been in IT for almost 30 years now.
For someone that is determined most of the certifications out there can be attained through self study. That’s how I got my MCSE, CCNA, Red Hat Linux, and CLP (Certified Lotus Professional, yeah I know, no one has ever heard of it). I studied while working a helpdesk job and was hired by the sysadmin department of the same company. I attained the CLP, because at the time 2002 or so, there were not many Lotus/ Domino admins and there were a lot of companies, particularly insurance companies and Coca Cola, used it extensively. Being a Lotus/Domino admin got me a lot of attention at the time, but today it is worthless.
Knocking door to door with a cert and no actual experience will be a much tougher route to take, but it is definitely possible.
If it is what you want to do, there is no reason for you to crack a book today and start learning.
I’m chopping onions, that’s why there are tears in my eyes.
If you flirt with an NPC or a dragon… You’re making the DM either very uncomfortable, or you are turning him/her on.
A reptile dysfunction
Amateur…
In Back to the Future, Marty traveled from 1985 to 1955.
If that movie was made today, Marty would travel back to 1993.
Gen X here and an older one at that.
I don’t think I’ll get SS and I will be of retirement age in the next 12 years.
My funeral will also be my retirement party.
It’s not so fun when the Kraken is looking at you… Is it Sydney?
Seriously though, this woman just screams sociopath, given her behavior and actions over the last several years. The fact that she managed to not get disbarred is a grave injustice.
Can someone tell me, if convicted, will she lose her ability to practice law? Or is that too much to ask?
Around the kids, when they were young, we used French for those things we didn’t want them to know about. She’s fluent and I don’t really speak it at all, but took it back in High School and remembered enough vocabulary to make it work.
Today, both our boys have taken years of Spanish and they speak in Spanish for those things that they don’t want us to know. LOL
Around other adults, my wife and I have a system of looks that we give each other. We can have an entire conversation just by giving each other looks.
My 10th grade French teacher.
The very first day of class, she stood up and stated clearly that everyone already has their grade for the year. No matter what we did, if she had already put an “A” that was the grade we were going to get. If she wrote down an “F”, the same. Me being an ugly awkward boy that had the temerity to take her class, of course, received an “F”. I did all the work, studied hard for the tests, but she always found a way to fail my work. I forgot to put an accent aigu, or grave somewhere on the work… Fail and she would defend to her last breath to the administration, who ALWAYS caved to her. (EDIT: If I missed just ONE accent mark on the entire work, she would fail then entire thing. )
Of course who got the “A” grades in her class? The cheerleaders and pretty popular people.
Toward the end of the year, I inadvertently got massive revenge on her though. All throughout the school year she would talk about her dog. It was like her child. We got every detail of how that dog ate, pooped, and did any little stupid thing. She was OBSESSED with the thing.
What I didn’t know what that she lived near one of my friends. I had visited my friend and was driving out of the neighborhood. I was not speeding. I was driving my car in a very safe manner. When a small dog darted out in front of me and I slammed on the brakes and saw the dog run back into the yard. I never felt an impact, as I was driving a 1970 Impala that probably weighed in at 4500 pounds (2050kg for my more civilized friends). So I didn’t stop, didn’t feel an impact and the dog went yipping back up into the yard, so I thought it was OK.
Well, I was wrong.
The French teacher was out for the next two weeks. No one knew why, until she returned looking like a shadow of herself. Apparently a huge green car came screaming through the neighborhood at a very high rate of speed and veered up onto her lawn to hit her precious dog…
And killed it.
At first I didn’t connect the dog I thought I had almost hit to her dog, until I spoke to my friend. He said that she came out to find her dog dead in the middle of the yard, obviously hit by something very large. He said her screams could be heard all over the neighborhood. Which occurred about two minutes after I left his house and the only description of the car was a very large and old green car.
Yeah, my car was green and this was 1986, so my car was 16 years old at the time.
I feel terrible for the dog. Its death was a complete accident. I didn’t even know she lived in that neighborhood until she came back to school and told everyone what happened. It is not in my nature to hurt animals, so even if I had known it was her dog, I would have still done my best to avoid hitting it.
Definitely not the method of revenge I would ever use of my own volition. It happened and there is nothing I can do about it.
No, I never owned up to it and do not feel I need to. What I did do, was focus on my driving skills, awareness and make sure my car stayed in its absolute best mechanical shape to avoid a repeat. A habit that I continue to today and one I am teaching my oldest child who has just started driving instruction.
I do the same as averyfalken, just run everything in the browser.
No you won’t get 4k, but it does work for 1080P. You can run the Plex client on PC for 4k media.
If you need 4k, then I can see your point. My TV is 1080P, so the browser works just fine.
Personally, I like having a full fledged PC connected to my TV. Currently I’m using a Beelink T4 running Ubuntu. The PC is under my direct administrative control, so no surprises with ads or other things.
Power consumption may be slightly higher than an NVIDIA Shield or Roku, but at 24w at full tilt for the Beelink it cannot be that much more.
The same Beelink machine comes with Windows 10 as well, if you’d rather have Windows.
Cut completely.
Deleted all the data on my account, then deleted my account. Haven’t been back since.
Buy an oil popper.
Then go buy butter flavored coconut oil
Enjoy your movie theater level popcorn at a fraction of the cost.
That’s why Dr McCoy absolutely hated the things. He viewed them as death machines.
Cumberland Falls is one that has a moon bow every full moon. It’s actually well worth seeing.
He has a couple of very specific jobs for the Republicans.
He’s the token minority so that the GOP can point and say; “SEE WE’RE NOT RACIST, WE HAVE THIS GUY IN THE PRIMARY.”
He’s moving the crazy line further out. He’s saying more and more outlandish things, so that the other insane assholes that are running, seem positively nice in comparison. Even though, compared to actual sentiment of the public at large, they are beyond deranged.
I am sure this asshole is well paid by the GOP.
I’ve seen that exact scene in Atlanta trying to get to Alpharetta from 75 S by 675.