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Foggy wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:26 pm
I've kept track of the hours, and will turn them in this Friday. This will be my first part time timesheet.
By the way, bill_g, you definitely need to stop doing time sheets and instead offer them a consulting contract. If you haven't already done this, which I dunno. :shrug:

There are people here with experience. ;)
Nah. I'm PT hourly, but I got a 35% kick because I'm not getting paid benefits. It pencils out to being a consultant on demand.
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As a kid I loved the Beatles. My parents were totally into country. My music grated on them. Out of that I got introduced to Peter Max and became a big fan of his work. I got very good at making art that looked like his work.
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I loved drawing pictures of wildlife, and took it to a new level even in high school.
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I sold the hell out of this one at local arts and crafts sales. I'd draw the original, Xerox a bunch, color some, leave some B&W, matte them, rack them in boxes like records, and people would thumb through until they found a version they liked for $5. Cheap art for the crib. Who knows if any of it is still around.
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I loved me some lines, geometric figures, and exploding stars too.
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And of course living in the Florida Panhandle, we knew us all about the church. So, I made a comic book as an English class original fiction assignment, not art class. I got some hate for this, but not from my parents. They were all for it.
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I have a scadillion more, but you get it - I'm all over the place with style. Many influences, but none cemented in place.

Oh, self portrait. Gotta have one of those. Everybody needs one.
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This is as close as you will get to my drawings of Mrs.
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pipistrelle wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:39 pm Was checking out an article and got an ad for these shirts.
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:daydreaming: Got any more? Love these, mr bill.

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bill_g wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:08 am I'm not that bad, but I did have two non-fucntioning Compaq 286 PC's, a box of 386, 486SX, and 486DX motherboards, modems, and enough serial cables to encircle the house (if not the planet). Those were probably stowed by wishful thoughts of resurrection that were long forgotten. Now they are bound for the ewaste pile at work.
Last month I sent to the council ewaste dump:

=> 35 power cables (I kept 4)
=> about 20 cat 5 ethernet cables with broken connectors (maybe 100 meters all up). Yes, I could have replaced the connectors, but I have a 150 meter roll of cat 6 cable that is sitting there unused.
=> 2 old pentium motherboards mounted in decrepit cases.
=> 20 serial cables
=> 10 parallel printer cables
=> several KVM boxes
=> 15 poor quality RCA audio/visual cables
=> 6 SCART cables

I've been thinking that there was a lot of copper in them cables and maybe I could have sold it for scrap, but nah.

I've still got 4 sets of really crappy computer speakers, several dead mouses, and a bunch of wallwarts that I don't know what they go with (but they probably go to those old, slow ethernet hubs and switches that are staring at me waiting to be thrown out). And a bunch of token ring and ethernet cards that need to be dispensed with. A couple of floppy drives that didn't get thrown out with the pentium boxes, and a CD reader or two. And I haven't even started to sort through all the bits and pieces left over after building computer boxes over the years.

Amazing all the crap one accumulates over time. I think I've already collected another couple of power cords since I threw out all the other ones.
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As a retired IT (was data processing when I started) “techie” I can only remember coming across a couple who were artistically gifted. (How many strings does your bow have?). Love the drawings.
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Your art is awesome, bill_g.

:notworthy:

Sometimes I can but gape in wonder at the collective brains and talent on this website. The people here are so amazing that amazing is too mild a word to describe it.
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Wow!! Incredible stuff.

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Phoenix520 wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 12:53 am :daydreaming: Got any more? Love these, mr bill.

The Mrs.- legs for miles and miles.
Thank you. I only have a whole carton more. The mice were kind to most. There seems to be whole years missing. So, I must have/had another cache.
keith wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 1:11 am
Last month I sent to the council ewaste dump:
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Amazing all the crap one accumulates over time. I think I've already collected another couple of power cords since I threw out all the other ones.
There's almost enough there for a Christmas song. Being a pack rat at heart, and sensing the value of something, I have accumulated far too much many times, and have had frequent purges once things are no longer as sexy as I imagined at the time. And at the speed of tech, five years can be an eternity of advances that make things a child's age unnecessary. If it's for sale, it's already obsolete.
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As a retired IT (was data processing when I started) “techie” I can only remember coming across a couple who were artistically gifted. (How many strings does your bow have?). Love the drawings.
Thank you. I figured out long ago I am a pragmatic artistic scientist. I'm not Da Vinci, but I am along those lines of being a Renaissance Man like my parents. All my siblings are afflicted similarly, and we each have an area of peak performance that gave us successful careers. I understood electronics well enough to feed my family. But, I could catch, grow, or cook the meal too. I could build my home. I could fix the car, or the outboard motor, or patch the roof, or stop the leak, tend a wound, change a diaper, help a neighbor, draw a picture, and tell a tale. These are all things we should explore, appreciate, experience the beauty, and succumb to the joy of.
Foggy wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:04 am Your art is awesome, bill_g.
Thank you. It's so awesome that we could starve off of it! I really didn't want to wait around until I was dead before I became famous. So, I got a job. (sigh) It's a choice we all had to make at some point. Hopefully you all found work you loved, enjoyed, and fulfilled you.

Everyone needs work that was their playtime when they were eight, in that brief period when you are a little adult. You're not a baby anymore. You have thoughts of your own, and are drawing conclusions by the minute. But, you're less than ten, unspoiled by the fog of puberty that will stay with you for the next fifty years.

At eight, you are your peak self. This is your moment of independence. Though limited in experience and skill, your latent interests and abilities are making themselves known to you. This is when you choose your direction, and as with all things, having a diverse selection is a good thing. Most people are taught to know their limits. We were taught, and tried to pass along, to know our unlimits.

It's fine to know you are terrible at some things, but at least attempt them. For example, I am not coordinated enough to be an athlete. A swing and a miss is the best you'll get. I will lose the race. I will drop the ball. But, I'll still play in the park with friends and the kids because it's more than about me.
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Know what you mean about sports. I was a mediocre athlete, but I played touch football, softball, and basketball into my 40s, just because of love of the games. 'Course, I am paying the price today for all those collisions with other large mammals. :blackeye:
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Slim Cognito wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:47 am Wow!! Incredible stuff.

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Thank you. It's cheap too. A handful of markers and a pack of paper is all that is needed. We drew our own coloring books not so much out of necessity, but to stay within the spirit of the moment. A child's interest moves quickly. Having them draw the alphabet and numbers locked in mortal battle to save the princess taught many things at once. Good fun.
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Foggy wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:08 am Know what you mean about sports. I was a mediocre athlete, but I played touch football, softball, and basketball into my 40s, just because of love of the games. 'Course, I am paying the price today for all those collisions with other large mammals. :blackeye:
Mine was motorcycles and getting into fights. Both brought injuries and loss of teeth. The motorcycles turned into a money maker in Winter when I could and would snowmobile to a remote site when no one else would. The fighting never paid off. Happily so. I do not miss those days of manhood contests. They did not stop my opponents from spouting crap, but they always did it from waaaay over there afterwards. Once I understood that, I knew who really prevailed, and wasn't concerned with them anymore.
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bill_g's art - just WOW!!!!!!!!!! :clap: I especially like your self portrait.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:51 am bill_g's art - just WOW!!!!!!!!!! :clap: I especially like your self portrait.
Thank you. My hair and beard were never that brown. It's salt-n-pepper (mostly salt) now. But, in the day it was more a dark auburn - black at first glance until the sun hit it and then you could see the dark red. And it was never wavy. Greek blood lets it grow straight for the first four inches that breaks into a curl aka loose fro. The beard is even tighter. It's not as thick on top anymore either. I've had a helo pad for a long time, but it is slowly becoming a full deck carrier. The bright spot on the forehead is diminishing too. I get dumber by the day.

But otherwise, I still look the same.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 12:53 am :daydreaming: Got any more? Love these, mr bill.

The Mrs.- legs for miles and miles.
I had a green angel period for some reason. They just kept popping into my head. They didn't sell well, but put together as a montage, they kind of made sense.

I also did greeting cards for a bit. The mice loved them. They turned that envelope into a nursery.
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Slim Cognito wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:47 am Wow!! Incredible stuff.

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Volkonski wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:05 am
Slim Cognito wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:47 am Wow!! Incredible stuff.

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Thanks Mr. V. the closest I got to artsy fartsy at work was designing the GUI desktop for user control interfaces. They were classics based on the Atari School of Fine Art - geometric figures in primary colors on a black background. Super sexy work. High contrast was the key.
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