#Tech for Seniors

[antisocialxconstruct]

been a while since I added a new dog to the collection but just LOOK at the condition of this dalmatian

no scuffed paint, barely yellowed, and not a hint of damage to the battery compartment. I have to assume it must have been tucked away in someone's basement or something for the last 17 years. Also my favorite detail specifically of the pink dalmatian....

little butt spots :]

here it is being warmly welcomed by my rainbow (who I only just realized seems to only have one working ear)

[nika6q]

Tech

[extreme-technicality]

Are you okay? You rebloged, "something good has to happen" from me 6 times.

SCREAMS I FORGOT ABOUT NOTIFICATIONS….

Short answer no not really, this year has been p consistently shitty since February

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

oh nothing just trying to figure out how popular fake Christmas trees were in the early 90s because all I know is my family didn't have one so idk how good they actually looked or how common it was for them to be prelit yes this is for a fanfic I am posting for free and will never make a cent off why do you ask

[court-jesterr]

Bruh's Masterlist

At the current moment I don't have nearly as many fics posted as I have actually written haha but I'll be updating this as I write/post more!

Request are currently closed! If you have anything you'd like to send in, prompt or ideas are always welcome!

Clone Force 99-

Tech- Uncommon Reaction Lovestruck Hunter- Echo- He's More Than That*** Crosshair- Jealous Much?

Clone Troopers-

Howzer- The Downpour

Thrawn-

Series- If Not Him, Perhaps Me (Thrawn x Reader x Luke Skywalker) Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4

One Shots- The Dance We Share Things That Can't Be Undone It's Nice to Meet You

Luke Skywalker-

Series- If Not Him, Perhaps Me (Thrawn x Reader x Luke Skywalker) Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4

[docglitch]

There is apparently a curse in my theater company

During the musical, one of the lighting techs are gonna get injured

How do I know this?

It’s me, hi, I’m the lighting techie

Love this for myself

[etherealvoidechoes]

Think I'm going to make a prosthesis branch for the MEC program. Makes sense that would be an option for my AUverse.

Save the "total conversion" for mech bodies for the most critically injured (and agreed beforehand) or disabled soldiers XCOM started pulling for the invasion who are happy to defend the world and get a second chance at life.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

A little win... yesterday was my last day at the zoo. I had to give a half-hour presentation (to a much larger group than I'd anticipated), and I was extremely anxious about what I'd prepared. But it went very well, and several people told me afterwards how informative it was! Which I really needed to hear after struggling so much with my confidence this past month.

[gamora-borealis]

as someone who had a rejection sensitivity panic attack because of a shitty theatre teacher in high school that was so bad that my mom sent me to a psychiatrist, I would like to thank Chappell Roan for dedicating "my kink is karma" to the theatre teacher who kicked her out of drama club in highschool at acl tonight 💖

[random2908]

I had a weirdly good performance review today!

I mean, I was expecting it to be good, I know I'm doing a good job at work. But, like, first of all.

My review ended up being fairly late in the week, so a lot of people went before me. Last year, I was asked in my performance review which junior employees I wanted to praise to the CEO. This year I guess the CEO did the opposite? Or--actually I don't even know what he asked, maybe what were some of the things they liked about the company? But whatever the question was, apparently I was named by more than one junior member of the tech staff as their favorite senior member of the tech staff, in large part because I'm enthusiastic about answering questions.

But the other thing is, I got a completely ridiculous cost-of-living raise. Like, they wanted to give me a performance raise, but they could barely give me anything because the cost-of-living raise was so high. "You won the lottery," the CEO said.

He uses a salary aggregation service's calculator to determine cost-of-living adjustments, and he said this year, for job levels below mine, the calculator spit out negative cost-of-living adjustments. (He didn't actually follow that, that would be cruel.) Presumably due to the mass layoffs at Google and other places flooding the market with tech workers. But then for my job title, the calculator suggested a +15% cost-of-living adjustment. He said that was ridiculous and probably wrong, but he always follows the calculator, because he knows a lot of other companies use it, and he doesn't want his employees to be poached by a company that just follows it without paying attention and ends up offering 15% more. So I got my 15%, plus a small nominal performance raise!

The CEO said his best guess for why the numbers were so weird for my job level is because I'm probably at the lowest level that was mostly immune to the mass tech layoffs. I'm at the highest level of technical staff before the manager/fellow bifurcation that many tech companies have. So it makes a certain amount of sense--people at my experience level don't usually get laid off unless whole departments are being closed down, which is mostly not what's going on with the mass layoffs right now, but which is also not inconceivable in this economy. So when people saw their more junior colleagues laid off over the last several months, they worried that they were next, and clung to their jobs rather than looking for other opportunities. So supply of applicants at my level has completely collapsed, which has caused salaries to shoot up. That's the hypothesis, anyway. That, or it was a lucky glitch in the salary aggregator's algorithm.

[lesbianboyfriend]

my biggest regret is not learning tech in high school because i miss being involved with theatre productions so bad but i literally have zero skills to offer so

[despazito]

epilogue from les mis fucks me up every time..

[doberbutts]

I did eventually fix my Mac copy of AssCreed and it was a problem of needing a file to go in a folder it wasn't in for whatever reason, and like two lines of code had to be added, and don't get me wrong I have a degree in programming so I know how to do that. HOWEVER I think it's ridiculous to charge someone 60 dollars for a completely broken copy of the game and even more ridiculous to tell someone to get fucked when they're mad their 60 dollar purchase doesn't work and when the fix took maybe 30 seconds once I figured out what was wrong.

Like. Yeah I knew how to fix it. But also you shouldn't need a literal degree in programming in order to boot up a game in this day and age. It should be as simple as clicking a button.

[glimpseinto]

Have you ever browsed through an old vintage store and come across a cardboard box brimming with random photos? Opening the box you uncover holiday celebrations, family days out, corners of living rooms and beautiful hilltops... Have you ever looked at these photos and felt connected to the people, or curious as to who they were and how they ended up there?

If you understand these feelings, then this blog is for you.

Photo: Alicia the day after senior prom (2002) by Katie McCain on Flickr.

My name is Jess, and I’m a photographer who is really passionate about finding photos that make you feel - especially, unintentionally. In today's vast sea of digital content, it's a treasure to discover pockets of nostalgia, warmth, and even a strange sense of familiarity. I especially look for this in amateur photography that probably wasn't intended to be seen.

So that’s what I created this blog for - looking at life through photography found and credited on sites like Flickr, Pinterest, and other internet archives.

So, just as some ground rules:

- Photographs will be credited to a source. The internet makes this hard (especially Pinterest), but I will try my best.

- You can reach out and ask me to take any photo down any time, I will happily comply no questions asked. A lot of things on Flickr from ten+ years ago are publicly posted - but that does not mean they were intended to be shared outside of friends and family.

- For the reason above and my own personal opinion on the matter, photos of children will not be shared.

I hope this finds some people who enjoy the project as much as I do, and we get to share somebody's life for a moment.

[etherealvoidechoes]

With the gardening I’ve been doing(great stress relief), I can say with Memento at the helm, the Avenger crew would not be hurting on fresh greens, herbs, and more.

I currently have spinach leaves the size of my palm and they have been great in my salads, smoothies, and eggs.

[montygatorguy]

some of my favorite moments from high school theatre in my first year

fall (we did the crucible)

- when our run crew chief licked an old dry erase marker he found backstage

- having to stand behind the set and make stair noises in the first scene

- eating a bag of goldfish for dinner in the chorus room

- taking naps on the benches during the courtroom scene and getting up to watch the ending

- our stage manager watching us from the furniture mez and coming down to say hello

- watching the guy who played john hale do a silly little dance backstage after leaving the courtroom scene

spring (we just finished this up! we did curtains)

- having the target from one of our set pieces fall on my wrist like 3 times in a row

- dancing to thataway backstage with the actors

- getting a shout out from one of the seniors i made friends with during my circle and absolutely crying my eyes out

- one of the run crew guys on my side bringing this little hippo plush and having him backstage

- cioffi having his mic bug out and watching our run crew chief go out ON STAGE to fix it

- cheering so loud after each show and just jumping up and down and having a great time

- watching my friends bring a boat on stage