Brisbane POTN Coffee Club (3) - Everything From Shutters to Cuppas

::John:: wrote in post #4989284
lol - comments like that and I hope all they have available is Decaff Blend 43




Onto serious things - looks like I'll be up in Brisbane next week. Anyone up for an evening or real early morning shoot?

what dates? and how long you here for? where you staying?

-Pleiades- wrote in post #4986432
For sure!

Gee, more coffee talk!

I think we should have a separate thread for all this coffee talk.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #4989091
I reckon, personally, the rest of Oz should revert back to normal time. All this mucking around with clocks is just playing silly buggers.


And since we're on a vaguely farm-like topic (hey, David mentioned cows...!), here's a couple of horses I shot this arvo.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #4989195
Well they are meant to be tasty, at least I've heard them being eaten elsewhere in the world...

:p

They are damm tasty mmm I could go some horse sausages about now.

willstar wrote in post #4982959
Monet??

Ohh these are so pretty. and all the ones that you all posted. Looks like you all had fun in the park

::John:: wrote in post #4989284
Onto serious things - looks like I'll be up in Brisbane next week. Anyone up for an evening or real early morning shoot?

Depending on your days - yup!!

wakko wrote in post #4989289
what dates? and how long you here for? where you staying?

Dunno, dunno and dunno

At this point I have said Wednesday through Friday - but to meet a commitment in Newcastle on the Saturday that means I would have to drive through the night on Friday - so I may move it to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

I don't know where 'exactly' I'll be yet - some power company, I believe.

I'll stay wherever they put me - that's the current stumbling block - they want 3 days but are baulking at my daily rate with travel and hotels on top. I pointed out that I usually only do 2 days a week on average and am breaking a 'rule' for them and there is no discount on daily rate - so we'll see what happens.

Well i was about to complain that you guys posted a lot today, but then i saw it was mostly coffee discussion so you are off the hook :p

-Pleiades- wrote in post #4988984
heeey, the girl who was supposed to ring me about the job this morning didn't

Should I wait until tomorrow morning and try giving her a call, or send her an e-mail or just leave it one more day? What would be the right thing to do in a situation like this?

willstar wrote in post #4988998
Be proactive, call today. Better than an email, IMO.

What he said

OK, bottle of wine in fridge cooling down for me and a few guiness doing the same for the other creature

Oh and i noticed i had an unread flickr mail when i got home. Turns out i was banned from a group i cant remember joining, let alone having anything to do with lately

just out of curiosity, what do you do John?

leitch wrote in post #4989276
This is horrible. Back at uni and I have spent $11.25 on crummy coffee (sure, it's Merlo, but these people really seem to have trouble making a decent coffee!) this arvo, and I've still got one lecture left (6-8pm). This learnin' business is no fun.

-spam- wrote in post #4989314
Oh and i noticed i had an unread flickr mail when i got home. Turns out i was banned from a group i cant remember joining, let alone having anything to do with lately

So boys, apart from being ripped off with coffee and being banned from spurious groups how was your first day @ our institutions of higher learning??

::John:: wrote in post #4989284
Onto serious things - looks like I'll be up in Brisbane next week. Anyone up for an evening or real early morning shoot?

Depending on day and location, yeah I could be up for that.

There's a dawn shoot being organised for Shorncliffe this Sat. (combined RedBubble / Brisbane Meetup flickr group), but apart from that, I'm open.

-Pleiades- wrote in post #4989323
just out of curiosity, what do you do John?

Usually, as little as possible. I have managed to succeed at it since being in Canberra

My current title is Technical IT Consultant to Federal Government but, when I really get motivated, I sell myself to private companies too.

The Brissy trip is to audit a systems security levels and propose any changes.

Many years ago I looked at the security audits I was doing and how labour intensive it all was - so I decided to create a workflow to minimise the work.

So - for an audit, for example, I will go onto a site - download specific table contents from their database (it will be either Oracle, MS-SQL or DB2) and load the contents into an Access database I have developed. All the queries run and hey, presto, bing - in a few seconds I can report all their security problems - but I tend to let them sweat for a billable day or two before sending the news - that way I can recover some of the investment I put into the Access database tools.

Easy peasy stuff - but I don't only do audits. I install, upgrade and advise departments when they hire someone else to install or upgrade...

And if I can keep it to 2 days a week or less, I am well pleased.

Trumples wrote in post #4989328
So boys, apart from being ripped off with coffee and being banned from spurious groups how was your first day @ our institutions of higher learning??

Wasnt too bad. Met some pretty cool people and found out we get little RF swipe cards that get us into places the other students cant go.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #4989339
There's a dawn shoot being organised for Shorncliffe this Sat. (combined RedBubble / Brisbane Meetup flickr group), but apart from that, I'm open.

Saturday eh? For some reason it rings a bell, but again, i cant think of anything on this saturday.

::John:: wrote in post #4989284
Onto serious things - looks like I'll be up in Brisbane next week. Anyone up for an evening or real early morning shoot?

Sounds good to me

I'm keen if it's the right morning.