September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
11 posts
July 2010
6 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I want you to add these animated gifs to the website. They will look great.”
Me: You do know that this is bad for your reputation?”
Client: “Add them, now. Our website must look ‘alive’.”
“Music is the space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play; it’s the...”
– Miles Davis (via Timing it – Bobulate) (via minimalmac)
clientsfromhell:
Me: “Did you get the files I sent you?”
Client: “Yes, but they were huge!”
Me: “The files I sent you were well under the limit of something you could email.”
Client: “They were 122 mega bitmaps each.”
Me: ”They were both a little over 1MB, which is a fairly small file.”
Client: “I don’t care how many megabytes they were. It’s all those bitmaps that are bringing my computer...
June 2010
3 posts
May 2010
18 posts
“Most things are great so far. The reward we’ve reaped as a society for shoving...”
– Mike Industries: A good problem to have (via marco)
April 2010
26 posts
New Bullshit Hope Economy Drinking Game:
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
One drink for every wind turbine and fledgling cake business you see in a credit card and car commercial. Two drinks for every redheaded kid in a commercial selling environmentally-friendly cleaning products or biodegradable snack bags.
“The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so...”
– Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown) (via marco) I fervently believe the telephone to be the single worst thing we’ve done to ourselves. Horribly invasive, patently unnatural. Email and speaking in person are how I prefer to communicate. People think I’m weird, but the written word and...
Clients From Hell: Client: ”We like your proposal... →
Client: ”We like your proposal and enthusiam, but we really can’t afford you. How much would you charge to rent out your computer?”
Me: ”Excuse me?”
Client: ”Our Sales Manager is pretty creative. We could just have him come to your office on a Saturday or something and knock this thing out.”
