How was your day?

[Jon]

Took me like 5 hours and 20 bucks to learn how to use a sewing machine and alter my own shirts. Absolutely worth the effort, now I can buy random pomegranate and have it fit!

teach me pls. ;-;




Working and having an active social life?

feels like...

[Sn1perJohnE]

Got an interview for the other position I mentioned in my last post, which ironically came the same day I got employee of the month for the month of July at Michaels (finally, but still too late). Just have to edit some photos in Photoshop for the interview and cross my fingers!

Also, speaking of Michael's, we currently only have 1 working cash register, and this has been the case for about a week now. IT services for Michael's is utter pomegranate it seems.

[chrome]

teach me pls. ;-;




Working and having an active social life?

feels like...

A Singer would probably be the best machine, but I got this thing for 20 bucks and it works okay, only it can only do one stitch and I can only manual reverse stitch.

Everything else, look on YouTube. It took me like 4 out of those 5 hours to figure out how to work the thing, then after that I tried altering and old t-shirt and it sucked. I tried 3 more times before I did a good job, and just now I altered two more shirts to fit perfectly. Basically you pull at both sides to your desired fit, measure how much you pulled. Then measure your arm and forearm, both relaxed. Mark the shirt accordingly at the forearm, arm, armpit, and torso, connect the dots, sew. After practicing a few times you'll be able to do it easily.

EDIT: I followed this video along with some written guide on r/malefashionadvice to learn:

written steps

1. Wear shirt, pull both sides at the seams until the fit looks good, then measure how much you pulled (fold it over to make it easier if possible)
2. Measure your arm and forearm, both relaxed
3. Turn the shirt inside out. Lay the sleeves flat, seams at either edge, and measure the width at the arm/forearm. If the sleeves already fit, that's good.
4. If not, take half of your arm measurements, add half an inch, then mark appropriate points at the sleeves.
5. Lay the torso flat (seam at the edge), mark your initial torso measurement.
6. Take the average of your upper arm/torso measurement, mark that at the armpits. If your sleeves already fit, you'll be tapering the new seam back into the existing seam at the sleeve.
7. Very important: All of your measurements are from the seam.
8. Also important: If your shirt has a seam with any kind of width and you're marking from opposite sides of the shirt, then the markings on the back should be measured from the outside end of the seam, and those on the front should be from the inside end. Opposite if your sewing machine is left-handed.
9. Connect the markings, proceed to ruin your shirt.

GLHF

[Words]

Being in school is cool but sometimes things get so weird. I'm on a 20-30 people group chat and an argument started like 2 hours ago over the most inane mixup. Both sides are wrong, they know it but for some reason they keep going and going... One of the teachers who's also there sent the correct information, everyone saw it and yet these people keep going. I don't think my phone has seen this much activity ever.

EDIT: Hahaha, teachers had to send an email stating the same again. It's so sad yet the "flames/insults" are hilarious, I kinda wish I didn't spend so much time on reddit and other mostly English speaking websites so I could see more people arguing in Spanish.

[Jon]

op delivered

Wow, thank u @Benchrome;. I might actually try this.

[DeanNim]

2 weeks confinement in the military done. Few more weeks of physical training before we move on to basic military training. everything sucks and im just a nerd trying to keep up tbh.

EDIT: also, i can do CPR and use the AED now!! I am a trained military personnel now!!!! Let me crack your rib cage!!!!!!

[holycow]

2 weeks confinement in the military done. Few more weeks of physical training before we move on to basic military training. everything sucks and im just a nerd trying to keep up tbh.

EDIT: also, i can do CPR and use the AED now!! I am a trained military personnel now!!!! Let me crack your rib cage!!!!!!

Which company are you in and also, ptp?

[Kobe]

First football game in our stadium since 2 years ago happened last night, they really over did it by hiring skydivers to come in tho like chill its a high school football game

[chrome]

As of today I can add "performed every position at Chipotle successfully" to my resume. Too bad my last day is next Sunday...it was a good run I guess.

[DeanNim]

Which company are you in and also, ptp?

Wolf coy! And yeap, I purposely didnt take NAPFA cause I was damn sure I was going to fail anyway so here I am.

[holycow]

Wolf coy! And yeap, I purposely didnt take NAPFA cause I was damn sure I was going to fail anyway so here I am.

Ah I see. Not sure how it's like there.. only had 1 friend from wolf coy hahahaha ptp should be okay I suppose... unlike ulysses nearby you

[Grey]

Haven't posted here in a little while.

I've been settling into work pretty well, doing more interesting projects. I feel like a for real programmer now, which is great and all, but I think of myself more as a computer scientist. I've also applied to Google, so fingers crossed for that, and sent my CV to a friend at Facebook. Paid rent for the first time on my new place. Feeling completely and utterly devastated now that school is starting and I can't attend (I keep getting emails, like all my friends are grad students). I asked a prof if I could sit in on her grad seminar and she agreed, but I haven't checked if it's okay with work, hopefully that works out. Applied as a special student for the winter, I'd be able to take two classes, so I've been thinking maybe Advanced Theory of Computation and Information Structures 1. Dunno if I'd be able to get in next year. I feel like not much has changed, and at McGill, at least, my adviser is heading on a year and a half sabbatical. Hopefully having an absent adviser doesn't kill my chances, lol.

Oh! And the new Nintendo 3DS is coming out in the states, finally! I'm so glad I waited, but at the same time, I am not amused by this clear attempt to unload Happy Home Designer on people who want n3DSes. I didn't get the XL because it wasn't what I wanted, and this one isn't the color I want and it comes with a game I don't really want (nor do I want to buy it such that Nintendo might think it was a success) so I'm torn between settling for it (because I've waited so damn long) or continuing not to buy things that aren't exactly what I want. There's always the chance they'll release them standalone for the holidays, but... I feel like that's less likely if this bundle doesn't sell well, and then people can use this as evidence that no one wants the n3DS here rather than no one wants the n3DS packaged with Happy Home Designer here.

My general thoughts on life at the moment are, "Wow, I'm actually like, a responsible adult now. Weird."

[KhainiWest]

My general thoughts on life at the moment are, "Wow, I'm actually like, a responsible adult now. Weird."

>Plays maplestory

NO, YOURE A MAN CHILD

[Kurtle]

>Plays maplestory

NO, YOURE A MAN CHILD

people on this site still play maplestory?

I need to get paid so bad so so so bad

[KhainiWest]

people on this site still play maplestory?

I need to get paid so bad so so so bad

Some do, I'm just being facetious towards him

[DeanNim]

Ah I see. Not sure how it's like there.. only had 1 friend from wolf coy hahahaha ptp should be okay I suppose... unlike ulysses nearby you

Wolf quite xiong also leh ;-; Scorpion and Viper like super chill compared to us

[Grey]

>Plays maplestory

NO, YOURE A MAN CHILD

Why do you keep attacking me, mysterious stranger? That is so not fetch.

[holycow]

Wolf quite xiong also leh ;-; Scorpion and Viper like super chill compared to us

viper is like.. the ultimate welfare coy lol no idea about wolf =x

but oh well, you'll get through it lol

[Sn1perJohnE]

Finished the first week of my new job (oh BT dubs, I got a new job!) First day we had a power outage and got sent home early. Still got paid for a full 8 hours too. October is going to be crazy, the hours change to 6 am to 3 PM, or 3 PM to midnight. Nice thing though, is I just have to sit and look at pictures all day and make small edits haha.

[PoetryIsFail]

After getting almost academically R I P'd in my first semester at uni I am now so on track for this sem.

Just gotta prove it for real in the upcoming exams