Thank you. I really appreciate the input. I'm not taking any of the CompTIA exams for certifications' sake. They're part of the college courses I'm taking though. I'm back in school to obtain a BS in cybersecurity, and I chose a track focused on Cisco. The other options were Microsoft, Network Security and Digital Forensics. While yes, ultimately I went the Cisco track for employability, I'm going to stay in school for a Masters in Cybersecurity Mgmt and Policy. I figure I'd pull cable and configure layer 2 and 3 switches in the meantime.blundercrush wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 12:53 pm Enoch if you pay more than $1 to actually take the comptia tests, you are getting ripped off. I get that you are learning backend stuff, and in a classroom setting, that's fine, but those tests and certifications are utter shit. As someone who has a lot of experience both working with, and hiring people who try and just take those tests (and having taken the Network+ about 8 years ago) they do not prepare you in any way/shape/form for actual work. I am sorry if you already gave them your money. Taking the networking series of Management Information Systems (MIS) courses (probably offered at a local community college) would be MUCH more beneficial.
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:32 pm So I've been a frontend web designer for the past 12-15 years and a couple months ago I decided to changeup my career from right to left brain by enrolling at UMUC to embark on a BS in Computer Networks & Cybersecurity degree. I aced the first three classes in the first semester, and this semester the classes involve taking CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA 901 and 902 exams (mind you, sans certification, because the exams aren't proctored). The classes are both largely project-oriented, and that's good because holy shit - I sat for two of the 3 cert exams' (ungraded, but meant to judge where you're lacking in knowledge), and good grief. I'm scoring in the 50s. Of course, being a web designer means I have fucking zero practical experience in these courses (back-end, server, networks, cabling, etc etc). I don't see how the course materials will get me up to the passing grade required for certification in any of these exams. I'll likely get As and Bs in these classes, because I'll put in the work and find the right answers etc. But yeah, without being able to apply what I'm learning so that I can recall it during a sit down, proctored exam? Fuck no. I know they say don't bother trying for some of these certifications without ample, on-the-job experience, but holy shit was that humbling.
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I've never heard "Old Town Road".
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I learned how to play it on ukulele last week. Mountains, FTW!
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Now you’ve got me curious. Off to the YouTube‘s to hear it.
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Just listened. It's...fine but not sure why the fuck it's been #1 for 18 straight weeks. Not sure what I'm missing.
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Partially (mostly?) because they have rigged the system with remixes that are similar enough to the original that every play for any of the remixes counts as a play for the original. By bringing in so many different collaborators on remixes they've reached a lot of different audiences.
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Same here, save for maybe the first ten seconds. Won't click on the link to the video Johnnie posted.
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Fuck you guys for ingraining that fucking song in my head. With two young teenage girls, I get to hear all of the current "pop music". This song just won't leave my brain for days. UGH!
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I've never heard of this song. Am I #winning?
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Well yea. Little is right there in the name.
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It's actually not bad the first 500 times you hear it, then it starts to grate on you.
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This is the best version yet.The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:55 pmIt's actually not bad the first 500 times you hear it, then it starts to grate on you.
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I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
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Generation has totally gone too far. Maybe this crisis pulls some of that back.Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:55 pm I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
I have total 2 pictures of me before the age of one.
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How many do your parents have?degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:00 pmGeneration has totally gone too far. Maybe this crisis pulls some of that back.Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:55 pm I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
I have total 2 pictures of me before the age of one.
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A married woman who is secretly pregnant with another mans baby asked me if i wanted to go with her to the abortion to mine the situation for comedy material. Fans are fucking weird.
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None, I have the only two in existence.bfj wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:05 pmHow many do your parents have?degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:00 pmGeneration has totally gone too far. Maybe this crisis pulls some of that back.Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:55 pm I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
I have total 2 pictures of me before the age of one.
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I would venture to say that isn’t typical. I have boxes of pictures of my children. Not to mention multiple folders of digital pics.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:18 pmNone, I have the only two in existence.bfj wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:05 pmHow many do your parents have?degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:00 pmGeneration has totally gone too far. Maybe this crisis pulls some of that back.Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:55 pm I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
I have total 2 pictures of me before the age of one.
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Sometimes it depends on where you are in the birth order. There were three of us and I’m the eldest. My mum had many of pictures of me as a baby/toddler. My brother who was the youngest would grouse about how few there were of him at the same age. I guess the novelty had worn off.
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Guarantee if she has a second kid, she will barely even mention she is pregnant.Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:55 pm I find women who are pregnant or who just had a kid and plaster it all over social media with absurd walls of text to be the most insufferable people.
I had to unfollow a friend of mine because she had to catalogue every week, with comparisons, and seemingly every moment of her "journey." And once the kid was born? A weekly photo of the new baby's outfit in the same pattern with the age and everything else in it. And the child was fucking ugly.
I get that it's a fulfilling experience and gratifying to become a mom, but every girl who gets pregnant seems to act like she's the only girl who has ever gotten pregnant.
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My cousin just got a dog, I've already seen five set of pictures on Facebook.
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It’s called the Unfollow Button. It’s FB’s best invention ever.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:17 pm My cousin just got a dog, I've already seen five set of pictures on Facebook.
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I've found that this person is exactly like the mother who cannot stop gushing about her child and her pregnancy.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:17 pm My cousin just got a dog, I've already seen five set of pictures on Facebook.
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If everyone solely used FB to post too many pictures of their kids or dogs the world would be a much better place. You guys are weird sometimes.
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Aye. I would 10 out of 10 want a facebook feed with nothing but dogs pics, nature pics, and kid pics over anything else.
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Word. And as I may have mentioned, I’m not a dog/cat lover. I’ve never decided I can’t stand someone because of a picture of a kid or pet.
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This is my Instagram. Now that's a company I trust.tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:10 amAye. I would 10 out of 10 want a facebook feed with nothing but dogs pics, nature pics, and kid pics over anything else.
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Some people (OK, 99 out of 100 times it's a woman) take it a bit too far on the kid pics, but yeah..all things considered it's a speeding ticket relative to other internet crimes.
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i find this hurtful to my FB comedy.tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:10 amAye. I would 10 out of 10 want a facebook feed with nothing but dogs pics, nature pics, and kid pics over anything else.
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It's all a different guise of the same look at me disease and we all do it. I just like it even less than the baseline of not liking it when it's the 185th picture in the last month of your kid doing something innocuous. Oh look! Timmy grabbed his foot again! Better get some likes!
It's self serving, as all social media is. The vast majority of us, myself included, are guilty of it.
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My wife and I were so high that we watched the first hour of the wrong version of The Lighthouse a couple of weeks ago. Of the two of us, mine was the more egregious fuck up, because I actually knew who the lead actors were supposed to be...
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While on the shitter just now I not only spent time trying to adapt/borrow a Family Guy joke, I actually posted it!
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The rest of the weekend can't live up to that.
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This thread was cooler when there were more sexy stories and less Family Guy shitter jokes.
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My Nike slides are wearing down and I'm considering buying some Crocs to replace them...
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I only wear adidas slides anymore. ANd not the ones with those weird bubble soles.
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