Some more progress on the hotel. Holiday visiting has been nice. But it was 50°F here on Christmas, which was a bit of a bummer. I love winter, and I love the snow. I love going outside when my tauntaun will freeze before I reach the first marker. Things continue to move forward with the new venture, and this next year looks like it will be full of changes. I am ready for that.
Did you get any of the snow on Monday? Southern Wisconsin had a mild Christmas, too, but we got several inches of snow Monday. The temperatures have stayed down, and it's fairly white here now.
Year end pubski. I'm 180% to goal at my new job, that's pretty bad-ass. I'm #2 out of over 60 people and I started 4 months ago. -not too shabby. My wife and I have decided to stay in NC. We were considering moving back to MI but over the holiday decided we want to raise our kids here. The climate, the amenities and the opportunities outweighed the advantages of MI. If the weather weren't so damn crummy there and the roads weren't full of holes and the sides of the freeways littered with trash and dead animal carcasses, we might reconsider. Northern MI is lovely but SE Michigan really isn't. But friends and family are very important, but in the end we can fly back often to visit and hopefull they can visit us too. We are speaking to an architect today about a home renovation/addition. This is pretty exciting. I'm trying to figure out the best way to finance this. It will be a large undertaking. Best part, I will have a detached music studio!!!! Speaking of music, I wrote and recorded two new tracks this week. It was fun. Plus, I have a new #meethubski to post tomorrow! Happy new year all. I'll make a year end post shortly and I'm sure mk will post the annual state of Hubski tomorrow. Have a great day!
Made our fifth meal for ten last night. Two of which are gluten-free, five of which are vegetarian, two of which fear spice, none of which overlap. My nephews only tried to steal my daughter's legos twice and limited their breakage to horrible things I was going to have to regift anyway. All in all, total success. The house is warm, the floor is clean - oh wait, my daughter just spilled beads all over but she's on it - and my desire for a wood chipper inspired my mother-in-law to go halfsies on one that I'm going to use to clean out my in-law's place and hopefully reduce them a number or two on the hoarder scale. Actually looking forward to that. Asked my wife for a honey-do list and have so far knocked out more than half of it. The drain clog was at least 12 feet down but as I now have reason to own things like drain augers again, I own a drain auger again and the drain clog is past tense. On the minus side, my sister called this morning because apparently my father doesn't feel like talking on the phone to tell me that my cousin is going into hospice, so that's nice. I'm also finding out second-hand that his big move, from Hoarder Heaven to The House That Hasn't Been Touched Since Three Relatives Died In A Week In 2011, the move that he "needs all the help he can get", has been carefully selected to overlap the one gig I can't pass up, whose schedule has been iron-clad since 2007. My sister is fond of saying "(kleinbl00) loves us all very much, he just doesn't like us." I've started muttering "maybe if you didn't make it such a pain in the ass things would be different." Happy New Year, Hubski. Keep your friends close and your family as close as you can stand.
That honey-do list idea is just the sweetest thing. I can't wait to worship my other half in thoughtful ways. I just broke up with my girlfriend. Life is split wide open. Plans asunder. It's ok. I "know" I'll be ok. Just on shakey and sad ground again. But it's heartening to hear lovely things going on on the other side of the world. I wish your family and extended family the best for 2016.
Consider yourself lucky. Two weeks ago the kitchen sink plugged. The Drain King opened it, but two days later is clogged again. I had a 15' augur. No dice, and subsequent excessive use of the Drain King led to the old copper pipe springing a leak down in my basement. I went to Lowes and got a 50' augur. Still, no dice. I ended up cutting out about 8' of 2" copper pipe and replacing it with PVC. The clog was about 54' from the drain, and about 2' from the floor.The drain clog was at least 12 feet down but as I now have reason to own things like drain augers again, I own a drain auger again and the drain clog is past tense.
If the market does become a giant turd again, I know that'll drop house prices. Will that make it harder or easier to get a house? If I remember correctly, the first time around, banks suddenly became a lot more strict as to who they lended loans out to. Not that I think the wife and I wouldn't qualify, just that I worry about how much harder it'd end up being.
If you can afford a house, you should buy a house. If you can only afford to buy a house because the banks are making money off of giving you a shitty loan they actually expect you to default on, you shouldn't buy a house. If you can afford to buy a house, you can afford to wait until houses are cheaper. The arithmetic is not sophisticated on this one.
Assuming you're in the US and haven't already bought a first home, the First Time Homebuyer Act and other similar smaller (state level) programs generally combine to make it stupid easy for you to get a loan. However, just cuz it's easy, doesn't mean you should. If house prices go down it'll become (more of) a buyer's market. The banks only became more strict about lending standards after the housing crisis and the issues with their lending practices became apparent - I don't think it was so much due to the housing prices going down as much as both of those 2 events happening concurrently as a result of the bigger issues going on in the economy at the time. Honestly, if housing prices go down, it should be easier to get a loan because you'd need a smaller one.
You want a buyer's market - more houses than prospective home buyers to force sellers into more competitive pricing. Is it selfish to desire favorable market conditions for major purchases, especially if we are talking about the potential biggest purchase of your life? I don't think so, I think it's smart.
Harder or easier depends on the reason for the downturn. There were at least two significant factors that made home buying so difficult last time. First, the credit crisis made borrowing of any kind (e.g. mortgage, business investment, bank to bank, etc) difficult. Second, the extreme number of foreclosures that resulted from so many people not having any equity stake in their own home made lenders too skeptical about who could afford a house. I got a mortgage in 2011. It took four months for me to get $116,000 on a house I had a 20% down payment for. Insanity. That won't happen again. For starters most people have an equity cushion now, so even when prices inevitably come down there will be far fewer people who have zero or negative equity to give them an incentive to leave. From my experience, which is only with buying two places, I would highly recommend not buying without a significant down payment. PMI is a scam. Avoid it if at all possible. Also, obviously, you get a better rate the more equity you're supplying. The same house can cost you thousands more per year if you go in with minimal down payment. Personally, I like owning my home. It's a nice feeling to be able to do what you want with the place, and serves as a de facto savings program (houses are great stores of wealth, but historically not great creators of wealth--don't forget that; it's a hugely important distinction). Good luck if you decide to buy. Remember that a home is more than just finance--it's where you live.
Yeah. Part of what is taking us so long is that I insist we save as much as possible for a down payment. The idea that we'll be paying about 50% of what the house is worth in interest alone sounds retarded and I don't really know a way around that problem other than "throw money at it." I'm trying to play it safe. I'm not a huge risk taker. Buying a house? It's an intimidating thought.From my experience, which is only with buying two places, I would highly recommend not buying without a significant down payment. PMI is a scam. Avoid it if at all possible. Also, obviously, you get a better rate the more equity you're supplying. The same house can cost you thousands more per year if you go in with minimal down payment.
I asked for a raise yesterday. A significant one. It was a little nerve racking, as I've never actually done that before, but it went well. I'm set for an increase next month and will have an opportunity for another increase within the next few months. Christmas still isn't over, although I'm ready for it to be. I still have a small road trip ahead of me to meet up with family to exchange gifts. Also, today is haircut day, and watch The Force Awakens for the 3rd time day.
Just got back to the west coast. Back east I ate a ton of Christmas cookies, saw some friends, and got broken up with. Which is weird because the now ex and I are still talking regularly and it doesn't feel like much has changed. Going to have to have another talk with her since I might see her this weekend. 2016 is going to be important, because a decision will have to be made as to if I stay out west, or if I make a move back east. There are a lot of people and places with meaning to me that I miss, and I'm realizing my current company and job is not a long term solution. Part of it is I realized being 3,000 miles from family is maybe farther than I want to be, they're all getting older and in need of more help these days. Plus, I just really like New England in particular. Not to see anything bad about the Northwest, but I can't maintain having vested interests in two corners of the country for too long.
Thanks lil. There are a lot of thoughts running through my head right now. Fortunately there are other friends out this way who have already opened their beers and couches at any point in time. That part is helping to somewhat offset some of these feelings.
Got a free shirt! Last time I donated blood, it wasn't fun. This time it was touch-and-go for a while, but I managed to hold on to my senses, keeping myself distracted with a great story. One of the reasons I donate (along with, hopefully, helping people stay alive) is to try and get over this weird hospital phobia that sometimes freaks me out. I've been fortunate in that my hospital visits are always for other people, but one day it will be my turn. I also wanted to take advantage of the free shirt promotion. Not because I need the shirt (ended up with an extra large, anyway), but I want to support the idea of providing positive incentive to donors beyond appealing to the goodness of their hearts. The goodness of hearts is great and all, but money talks, and if the goal is to collect blood, we should consider what works. In this story about management problems at the American Red Cross, there was a linked article that described a surplus in blood inventories, largely due to improving surgery techniques that reduce blood loss. It mentioned the amount that hospitals pay for blood: If there were a shortage of willing donors, offering them a small portion of that payment would go a long way toward increasing supply. Of course, it would encourage people who shouldn't donate, but blood of volunteer donors has to be tested for safety anyway, so I don't know if payment would increase hazard. Probably the bigger objection would be philosophical. Is it ethical to pay people to donate parts of their body? Should kidney donors be paid? I think there is a strong argument that they should be. For now, it's free shirts and cookies. Team Hubski could use some help!
Nonprofit organizations collect whole blood from unpaid donors, but hospitals may pay $225 to $240 a unit, according to executives in the business, which covers a variety of costs, including testing.
Dan Ariely dedicates an entire chapter in Predictably Irrational on when payment is and isn't appropriate and the chaos that happens when you screw up. It's worth a read. The short version is this: let's say you pay a token amount. All of a sudden, the people for whom that token is inconsequential take it as an insult. "Sitting there for half an hour literally giving you blood is only worth $10 to you? Piss off!" So let's say you instead give a healthy percentage: at $100 per unit, all of a sudden you're filling your halls with addicts and derelicts that are doing everything they can to fake a blood test which drives away the people you want to donate. Meanwhile, you're taking a "favor" transaction and turning it into a "business" transaction which sets the value for both parties at whatever you arrive at: "We're paying you $20, we don't have to treat you nicely." "Screw this, it's not worth putting up with this bullshit for $20." If you instead leave it as an intangible, both parties get to set their price in "warm fuzzies" - "I helped save a life and got all the juice and cookies I wanted." "The world is full of generous people who give of their own bodies for free." The California Bar Association saw their volunteer enrollment jump a thousand percent when they dropped their recommended fees from "25% of your hourly rate" to "nothing." As it turns out, people who get a free lawyer tend to treat them with respect, while people who get a lawyer for 75% off tend to treat them as if they got them full price. Meanwhile, lawyers who work for free feel like they're doing good, while lawyers who work for 75% off feel like they're getting ripped off.
I read the free chapter and had some issues with it -- I think I vented to _refugee_ about it -- but it was interesting and I would like to read the rest. Non-financial incentives are important too. Here's the Freakonomics example: ...Uri ran an experiment: Out of 10 daycare centers across Haifa, they randomly chose six and introduced a small fine for parents who showed up more than 10 minutes late in each of them. In day cares where the fine was introduced, parents immediately started showing up late, with tardiness levels eventually leveling out at about twice the pre-fine level. That is, introducing a fine caused twice as many parents to show up late. What about the remaining four day care centers that remained fine-free? Tardiness didn’t change at all. The picture that emerged from this experiment, co-authored with Aldo Rustichini, was that parents had a whole set of non-financial incentives for being on time – incentives that were completely incompatible with money. Like, for example, avoiding the guilt of inconveniencing the day care workers. As soon as parents had the option to pay a small fine and avoid that guilt, they took it en masse. The current arrangement seems to be working out with blood; it doesn't sound like there is a shortage. (Though distribution appears to be very much market-based once it is collected, and judging from the effort the Red Cross makes to guilt me into keeping them out of the red, they are well-motivated.) The argument for a kidney market is stronger. In fact, it's a slam dunk. I've been wanting to post about it, and will probably get around to it next year.In Haifa, day care centers almost uniformly closed at 4pm, and simply depended on the good intentions of parents to pick up their kids on time. Somehow, this worked: parents picked up their children on time and rarely, if ever, came after 4:30pm.
And I have issues with Freakonomics: they excel at doing a surface-level read of research, finding something to pick at, blow it completely out of proportion and sit back feeling clever about themselves. They're asses. That study, for example: Daycare cost: $380/mo = 8.5h/day x 5 days x 4 weeks = 170hrs = $2.23/hr Fine: $2.71 per child for any infraction over 10 minutes See, and none of that comes up when the Freakonomics guys bring it up. They just say "a small fine." They don't say "more than the hourly rate if you're 11 minutes late." It's like the serfs in the middle ages who went on pillaging sprees as soon as they were guilty of a nominal crime: if you're going to be executed anyway, might as well make it worth it. Know how many times I've been 11 minutes late to pick up my daughter? If you're going to hit me with the hourly for 11 minutes but nothing more for an hour or two, I'm getting some errands done. After all, I'm paying for it. These are the sorts of things Kahneman and Ariely study, but the Freakonomics guys just go "herp derp academics are stupid just look at this double-digit n study done out of that bastion of behavioral economics, UC San Diego!"
I think your concern about Levitt and Dubner is legitimate, though it would be more so if they published in Nature rather than blogging to Paul Krugman's audience. The authors of the daycare study described the fine as "relatively small but not insignificant." Whatever the size of the fine, it still prompts the question of why customers consume more of a service when the price changes from zero to something positive. The answer seems to be that a monetary incentive drowns out non-monetary incentives, like guilt. As Dan Ariely puts it in Chapter 5: I give Freakonomics credit for tricking people like me into realizing that economics is pretty interesting. Sumo wrestlers cheat, prostitutes use pricing strategies, drug empires operate like corporate empires. The ideas that incentives matter and unintended consequences are ubiquitous are important and ought to be popularized. And Iran is, therefore, the case study. Apparently at one point there was a waiting list for kidneys in Iran: the donors had to wait for a ready recipient.the theory of demand is a solid one—except when we're dealing with the price of zero. Whenever the price is not part of the exchange, social norms become entangled.
Kidney sales are legal in Iran.
Making you realize that economics is interesting is fine. They stop the minute they've built up a shaky case that they have the answers, though. "There is no Kitty Genovese effect." "Global warming is solved." "The possession effect doesn't exist." They're asses.
My life is boring. I am broke and my brother is getting on my nerves in a major way. I have not been doing much writing but hope to in the New Year. I think it is OK to take some time off. I have been living at my apartment alone for 2 weeks now and I love it, it's awesome. I'm keeping the place spotless, at least for now. We will see if it turns out I have some natural predeliction towards messiness. I have a friend who lived alone and when he did, I would come over and there would be piles of dirty laundry in various places in all rooms of the house. He likes to telling me living alone will be good for me, that it will tell me lots of things about myself, that it will show me how disgusting I can sometimes be. He is speaking from experience, of course. I do not think I will find myself disgusting. Compulsively cleaning, sure. I have always tended more towards that side of the spectrum, though. Not towards laziness and filth. I got "control" and "freak" tattooed on my wrists earlier this year. I have always tended towards that. I do not think control freaks are ever very messy people, unless they have given up. I kind of enjoy some elements of being - ah, shall we say, slightly type A? : sure, I have probably cleaned for about an hour every day for at least the past 4 days (in an apartment I just moved into, so it wasn't dirty) but the place is wonderful, and clean, and I kind of enjoy cleaning. You make clear and visible progress very quickly, and it feels so rewarding to have a clean house when you are done. As someone said to me earlier today, - here's to a sweet '16!
I'm taking a break from job hunting this morning. I'm so burned out from work. I'm burned out from job hunting. I just don't feel like I'm in the right place mentally. I think I'm going to take the morning for myself, relax a bit, and hopefully this afternoon I'll be in a good state of mind to e-mail some resumes out. There's a frame shop about three towns over. I'm thinking about going out there with some of my antique car ads and consult with them on options for wood, prices, etc. I have quite a few that need to be framed and some posters that I want re-framed, so I'm hoping to maybe talk them into a bulk deal. While I'm there, I might even ask whoever I'm talking to how they got into the business, just because it seems like a halfway fun job and I'd love to learn more about it. Maybe it's something I could see myself doing down the road. I think either yellowoftops or tacocat on here recently mentioned working in a frame shop. If I'm remembering right, and it is one of you two and you feel like it, feel free to share a bit about it with me. I'd love to hear about it.
I do indeed work in a frame shop. I wouldn't recommend it as a hobby but maybe you're thinking about doing it as work. As a hobby it'd be expensive as hell. There's way too much specialized equipment. If you wanted to buy mostly everything and assemble it yourself I'd say the return on in vestment and results would be better just to pay to have it done. As a job it's repetitive as hell. I can just about do it in my sleep but I'm above average intelligence and good with my hands. Some days I don't want to be there. That said, it beats working in an office. I did that a couple times and was bored out of my mind. I'm moving all day if not making any decisions with a high degree of intellectual difficultly, I still mostly like it. I make like super high retail money which is still poor but not far from the average of someone with a fine arts degree. I got into it because I have a fine arts degree. My boss who's the owner of our shop got into through family. Even for him it's not a high paying field. He seems solidly upper middle class. Just ask and I answer any questions not covered by my interpretation of your comment. It's not that interesting though: cut glass, blow off mats, staple in pictures, eight hours a day.
Yeah, I'm mostly looking into it as a job possibility. I like working with my hands and don't mind repetitive work, so I was just kind of curious as to how you like it, the pay, how long you've been doing it, etc. The lady at the frame shop was super nice. She got into it similarly apparently, going to school for design. It was something she did to pay her way through school and she liked it so much, she just never stopped. She seemed both super relaxed and enthusiastic about her job at the same time, which I thought was great.
It's a very relaxed environment. Some of my gripes come from depression and a bad attitude that I suppress well for the most part. I'm sorry rinx I'm just an asshole sometimes. I make $15 an hour and have been doing it for about three years at different businesses. No health insurance for some reason related to the ACA that I don't understand in a state with no Medicare expansion. Paid holidays and vacation time. I like working with my hands too and cutting a freehand mostly straight line with a glass cutter is incredibly satisfying. Before this stint in retail I worked at a commercial mirror glazier and it was kind of a shit show. Some business men got together and decided making frames isn't that hard and decided to sell framed mirrors to construction companies. I'd show up hours late but never got fired because I was one of two people qualified to work there. The other qualified guy sometimes came in drunk and got sent home.
No need to apologize! Sometimes text is tough to accurately convey meaning. I tend to not hold internet grudges, and it sounds like your kinda going through a lot right now. I don't write very well and I can come off a lot meaner online if I'm not careful.
That was tacocat. Would you consider framing those ads yourself? The frame shop about three towns over has wood, mats, glass, tools, know-how, and a little drawer for your money. If you have time, you can get all the materials, and tacocat and YouTube might provide a lot of the know-how. You won't do as good a job as they would on your first try, but you'll get better. And you'll spend the money on tools you can keep and reuse. Become a framing master and you'll never have to shop for a gift again.
I would, if I had the place for the tools at the moment. Unfortunately I'm short on space. That said, the shop is giving me a heck of a deal. I'm getting 4 ads framed (2 in a single frame cause they're so small) for about $150. Granted, that's over ten times what I paid for the ads themselves, but you know, antique collecting can be a weird hobby. I'm reminded why the wife and I don't really do any serious antique hunting any more.
So, it's limbo time again. That time from Christmas until the New Year. Everything slows down around here. As for the music business, the year ended in November. Looking forward to some releases in January (Garbage, Megadeth, Foxes, Gorillaz, Testament, XX and Soundgarden. I don't believe in Metallica releasing something next year. It'd be cool, but I'm not counting on that). Spent some more time doing nothing, having energy spikes, going to bed earlier than usual out of the blue, playing video games a lot, binging on books, waking up earlier than normal, playing the guitar and reached album no. 700 in my list. \o/ Today, I feel light and happy about the new year. Really looking forward to it. Having a year off opened up my mind, even though there were turbulences along the way. This year, I want to have a great view of the fireworks. Just me on an open field, lying down on the ground, gazing at the stars... away from all the noise in town... Here's to 2k16. Happy New Year, people!
I'm keeping things intentionally vague but, I'm most successful when I get out of my own damn way. If it's not already painfully obvious I have a bad habit (That I'm slowly de-conditioning) of over thinking every possible permutation and variation of events standing between me and some sort of goal, which is useful in small doses, but paralytic in volume. BUT Made a plan on Monday for Tuesday evening. Managed to stay out of my head (Mostly) and out of my own way and had a really good time with a new friend. Stayed up too late, drank a bit too much, went in to work with a bit of a hangover, and it was worth it. I'm trying to really internalize the feeling of 'Things went okay and I didn't have to drown myself in hypotheticals for that to happen.' Which is harder than it sounds. Vaguely related, have an appointment with my counselor tonight. I think he'll be happy to hear of my growing ability to stay out of my own way. I still struggle with perspective a lot, but I suspect that's something that comes with age and experience, more than as a result of direct effort.
Over the years I've given myself three rules to follow. Number 2 is "stop thinking about it and just do it." My logic is if I've been thinking about it this long and haven't come up with a reason not to, the risk is reasonably low, and I just need to go for it. Nice work overcoming yourself to have a good time.
The first is "don't get hurt." It started when I started running again, taking the time to slow down and practice good form and worry less about how fast I was running. That made a big difference, and my early years of joint pain are gone. It's become even more important as I venture into backcountry hiking. It reminds me to take the time to do it right. And when done right, I can do the things I dream of. Number three is a bit more lighthearted: "always go see Broken Social Scene in Toronto." I know you aren't as into live music, but I've seen BSS in Toronto four times, and all four were superb. It's a great time and a good city, and the band always nails the hometown shows. If you're ever looking for an excuse to travel there, seeing an increasingly rare BSS show there is a good reason.
Do you know how tempting it is to make a post with this headline and article link? The fact that I'm not doing so proves just how much I respect this website.
Sentiment understood :). Sometime between when I made the comment you replied to and now, they have apparently disabled the link to the article's comment section, where Yahoo users called out Yahoo.com for being full of bullshit. Yikes!
I just bought a Line 6 DL4 Delay/loop pedal I'm so damn excited.
Bought a domain, working on setting up a website for my future travel blog/vlog. I'm under no illusion that 4 months of traveling is nowhere near enough time for this kind of project to gain any traction but i do want an excuse to travel without looking like a lazy bum. And I've learned a ton already! I'm still figuring out my frontpage design but it's a bit hard since I don't know how to code and all the video modules in my theme and video widgets look like shit :( In the end, the hardest part is to figure out what I want tho.
I opted for elizabethtravels.com. The handles were taken for most social media, but whatever. I figured I better get started on building something asap so I kicked myself to chose something even if it's not the "perfect" name :) It's a bit unoriginal but it gets the message across! Pubski is great, it's sort of a weekly accountability check. It feels crappy to have no progress to report so it helps me from getting stuck on less significant details.
The starter copters are all infrared. You can get them with cameras. I'll bet the first hit on Amazon will do fine. Yup. First two hits are Syma and they're under $50. Now - a quad that will take a gopro is a whole 'nuther animal. That pretty much puts you in DJI territory. Worthy of note - if you want to fly around and take pretty pictures, you don't need a gopro hauler. If you want to fly around and get actual cinema moves (pan, tilt, zoom as you fly), you're not only into 2-person operation, you're kind of on beyond zebra as far as size and expense. The "I want to slap my existing gopro into an existing quad" market segment is kind of the worst spot in all of quadcopterdom. Get a shitty one to crash into walls, and if you love it, get a real one that won't haul a gopro and learn to fly. I recommend blade because pretty much every local hobby shop will have parts.
http://us.360.tv/en/ I'm waiting to get one of these (if the kickstarter ever comes through) and want to get some pictures over the canyons and in caves around where I am, thus the want for the quadcopter. Though, it sounds like it's not really something you can just pick up and fly, so I might just default back to my old idea of a big helium balloon. Quick edit: do those base model like the blade come with a controller?
http://shop.gopro.com/drones/karma/2016.html Take it from me - without altitude control, balloons rarely go where you want them to.
I wonder why that is. My guess is that most amateur filmmakers would jump on exactly this kind of drone. Are there technical limitations that make a cheap(ish) version of that impossible? I don't know much about this, is adding a 150g gopro to a quad too heavy? Sure, you won't get any camera movement but you got more control than taping your gopro to a kite... Honestly tho, I watch a lot of youtube and 10 minutes drone videos are incredibly boring. I've never made it to the end of a single one. Maybe a 3h compilation over a good playlist to put on at a party would be a different story.The "I want to slap my existing gopro into an existing quad" market segment is kind of the worst spot in all of quadcopterdom.
Because if you have the first inkling of what you're doing, you recognize that a quadcopter gives you x,y,z... and for cinematography, you need x,y,z,P,T,Z,F (pan, tilt, zoom, focus). And if you don't care, you'll still recognize that more than 3/4ths of the weight of a GoPro is in its survivability. You can simplify the hell out of things by going with a lightweight camera built into the drone itself. The majority of the commercial drone work being done right now is realtor shots.
It is very close to the end of the semester, but I'm also very close to having everything done on time. Haven't lost hope yet. Wish me luck.
Anyone ever painted tile? Does it look like shit? Our kitchen tile looks like a McDonald's service floor, and the grout has stains that nothing can defeat. I am looking at options that are short of breaking it out and tiling. I've done it, but would like to avoid it for at least a few years. Pergo and laminate might be the best option for now.