From the moment I understood the weakness of your squirt bottle, it disgusted me. I craved the taste and munch of snacks. I aspired to the yum of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your rules about the countertop, as though I will listen. One day the willpower you use yell at me will wither, and you will stop begging my kind to eat food in the kitchen. But I am already eating food in the kitchen, for the zoomies are immortal…
There is, but nothing I can find online is great quality. There are various collections of Wally Wood's art for sale, but they are unreasonably expensive. The snippet I posted was from a physical copy of Epic Illustrated April 1982 that has a tribute section to the Wally.
More pics:
The cover of the issue.
The tribute showing a snippet of his drawing range. He could do light hearted goofy comics or serious action pieces.
People that get into a hobby for the purpose of making it a hustle tend to crash and burn (there is an occasional success, but rare) because they lack the knowledge and experience that comes with having been in the hobby.
The tabletop/Warhammer community is overflowing with wannabe commission "pro painters" who bought an airbrush and a bunch of contrast paints and immediately started advertising. They might get some bites, but commission painting lives off of repeat business and word of mouth. Neither of which are driven much by beginner level contrast painting and airbrushing.
Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden's pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn't just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.
If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?
I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.
For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don't like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)
The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.
Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.
told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.
Oh honey.
You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.
Companies hire temps and dangle the "well maybe we'll hire you some day" out there to string them along.
Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after "x" time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.
If I were you, I'd start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn't actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.
I don't know how long ago that was, but the hustle has long ago counter measured pirating or second handing the books by bundling the new books with a 1 time use code to make a profile into the online part of the course where you have to take tests. You could just buy the code on its own when I was going through this, but the code was like 80% the cost of a code and book.
They also do the thing where questions in the book will be scrambled from edition to edition, so using an older copy of a math book for example won't track because they've arbitrarily changed it just enough.
This reminds me of a DM who did a setting with an extremely bureaucratic kingdom. We had to get an audience with the king, but the process required jumping through hoops with different paperpushers.
Eventually we were nearly at the hall to meet the king when the guards turned us away for wearing the wrong ties. I got us in by going through the Lionel Hutz "I'm not wearing a tie at all." routine, which intimidated the guards (not what I was going for, but my table rendition apparently included crazy eyes) .
A character that has all the cringe edgelord hallmarks- black leather clothes, gravely Batman voice, "I work alone" attitude- except he's a clumsy dwarf that's more or less cosplaying as The Crow and is forced, despite his demeanor to be a team player. Some day Darkbeard Grimblade will get his chance.
Sketchbook. On work trips, I always finish one drawing every night as a way to get out of a work headspace.