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volster60 karma

I'm sad to say i saw the film before reading the book as a child, and that it also scared the bejeezus out of me. For me, the issue wasn't so much the blood, but rather you're sat in the cinema, it's dark and you're effectively trapped in your seat by all the other people around you WHEN SUDDENLY this giant flying bunny of death appears and is coming right at you.

It took me quite a while to get over my aversion to death-bunny's, but a few years later i read the book and i still consider it one of my all-time favorites.

volster7 karma

Sadly i'm too dim-witted to come up with a question for you guys, but i just wanted to say that i love the show. The gaming addiction episode in particular struck a nerve with me, and i've had to dissuade myself from sending you a sperg filled email about it on more than one occasion.

Anyway, thanks for all you do. It's great to hear you're embarking on some more extra-history. ...i suppose it's only fair that i scurry off and stick in a pledge

volster3 karma

Out of curiosity have you had any experience with quickbooks? if you have would you mind sharing your opinion on how freshbooks compares?

I've looked at it a few times, and on face value it all looks very slick, but it comes across as really just handling billing rather than being a full blown accounts package.

We're still grimly clinging on to the desktop version of quickbooks dispute intuits best efforts to shift us over to their online one (the conversation basically goes "looks great, is it feature complete with the desktop version? and is there any way to migrate back if we decide we don't like it? No to both? ... we'll pass thanks")

volster2 karma

.... urgh, i can't count the number of times i ended up spraying my hands with lpg.

There's two kinds of pump-fitting you commonly see in the uk. One kind has a rotating collar with a trigger, the other has a leaver which you rotate then pull back.

I found the trigger grip kind an absolute bitch to use, to the point where i was surprised if it didn't gas me.

volster2 karma

What I really bemoan is a proper universal 'invoice' file format that's always issued as standard. There's still a manual process to copy data from invoices into something more machine handleable, be it a spreadsheet or dedicated bookkeeping software.

.... There's a killing to be made if you can figure out a sane way to do it.

Nominally there's EDI, but it's from the era of fax machines and is generally evil and crap. We're forced to use it because we deal with supermarkets and all it actually means is you get to pay a subscription fee for the privilege of being able to bill them, and then have to go type all the details into their system rather than just sending them the damn invoice.