Blazor

[Blazor]

I grew in my father's print shop, just as he grew up in his.  In the late 80s, I was with a suburban newsgroup that put out five daily newspapers.  I was very proud of creating the very first digitally created color weather map that ran on the back page of the A section across all five papers.  I think that was the year I got a beta version of Photoshop 1 to play with.

I lived with my great grandparents til I was 5, my great grandpa had a printing press in the basement and printed for the church mostly. He had a line-o-type, so he used the lead type. I really miss the way that type of printing feels on the paper, it indents it.

Digital wise, I got in during Creative Suite 2 in 2004. But I also had a lot of art experience from school, but it wasn't digital.

[Reggie Essent]

Nah, they don't have a clue about margins and bleeds and crop marks and shit. 100s upon 100s of times I've explained it to these noobs, and most will keep coming back still frickin' clueless! Like "wheres the bleed bitch! I've told you and told you!" lol.

They don't know web is RGB and 72dpi, while newspaper is usually grayscale and 150 dpi, and magazine and such is CMYK and 300 dpi. Most are designing in web mode.

I worked at a print shop, I know all about CMYK plates for the press. There at the end, we were going towards digital printing, which is pretty much just big ass copiers.

I plan on learning more fiddle tunes over the Winter, that's what I lack, a good amount of tunes I can jus kick off. I know several, and can play along a bunch with other folks, I need to learn more I can do solo. Btw, I've been gifted a mandolin, and inherited a banjo too. The mandolin I've fixed up, its good to go, but the banjo needs a lot of work before its playable.

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

[Lab Flaker]

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

My wife used to work for Roland. Apparently they have one of the best printers in the world. About seven years ago a group of bikers bought a printing machine for just over 100K...cash. And then bought another one about a month later with counterfeit $50.00 notes...lol. They went on to buy another machine with more counterfeit money printed off the machine, but they were declined. Federal police were involved in the whole scam. There's still the odd note that one sees still to this day.

It was the colour tints and the plastic material purchased that tipped off the feds.

[Blazor]

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

Banjos ain't cheap btw lol. But you should go for it!

[Blazor]

My wife used to work for Roland. Apparently they have one of the best printers in the world. About seven years ago a group of bikers bought a printing machine for just over 100K...cash. And then bought another one about a month later with counterfeit $50.00 notes...lol. They went on to buy another machine with more counterfeit money printed off the machine, but they were declined. Federal police were involved in the whole scam. There's still the odd note that one sees still to this day.

It was the colour tints and the plastic material purchased that tipped off the feds.

Lol, the digital press's today wont allow counterfeit lol, it prints a yellow dot pattern that is naked to the eye, but shows up when they use that marker at the store.

[Lab Flaker]

Lol, the digital press's today wont allow counterfeit lol, it prints a yellow dot pattern that is naked to the eye, but shows up when they use that marker at the store.

Did you hear of that counterfeit story though? If you rubbed the note hard, the colour would come off.

[Blazor]

Did you hear of that counterfeit story though? If you rubbed the note hard, the colour would come off.

Nah didn't hear it. Believe it though.

[Lab Flaker]

Nah didn't hear it. Believe it though.

We have these biker gangs that do stupid shit. A lot of Lebanese involved.