I search the sci-fi genre at the library and get a lot of post apocolyptic, distopian utopia, and black mirror-esque results. Where's the space exploration?
bonus points if romance is not in the description
context: early 1900 earth-like world, steampunk tech. scene is the middle of a sahara-type desert. no 911, hospitals, or waiting for rescue. there is a licensed doctor in the group who has experience as a field medic for a nomadic group with a history of clashing with violent gangs.
situation: Local Dumbass consumes a stash of raw opium to ignore pain and hulk smash their way through a fight. leads to overdose respiratory arrest (not breathing).
Simply having narcan on hand feels like a deus ex machina even if it somewhat fits the time period. I thought of going full drama and doing intubation (as risky as it is) but realize it's probably worthless without a proper ventilator (and MacGyver-ing one will likely break suspension of disbelief).
I think I'm left with a manual bag-valve-mask and a team of volunteers operating it in shifts (and the dangers THAT entails) until Local Dumbass starts breathing on their own again - a time window I'm unclear on. A dose of morphine lasts roughly 5 hours. I can't find how long overdose recovery takes without narcan but was thinking in the 12-24hr range (person is also beat to hell, just need to figure when automatic breathing would resume).
Would love to hear thoughts or alternative solutions.
To clarify, I legitimately liked the tap water where I used to live. To the point I preferred sink water to bottled water. After relocating, there is a definite taste difference to the city tap water. It's not localized to single houses either. It's the difference in city water, and I don't like the city water of where I'm currently at.
In school version control was hammered in for good reason. Now, all employers I have worked for - especially ones that provide design services - specifically dont keep early design iterations, even if the proof hasnt been approved. Then, of course, once the job is done, everything but the final design is permanently deleted.
It kind of drives me insane.
And dont get me started on layer management - or I should say complete lack there of.
Snorkles are only useful at the water surface. Divers specifically are going deeper than that. Snorkle seems like decoration at this point.
Disclaimer: I often struggle with determining if a planning phase an attempt at organization, or actually a procrastination tactic.
Do you/what is your planning/organizing process for design projects? I mainly mean in this in terms of personal projects or portfolio fodder. Things where you don't have a client or manager outlining things for you. Do you more commonly just jump in while jotting down notes here and there? Do you fill out your own creative brief beforehand? Somewhere in the middle?
Projects that you can sit and hammer out in a couple hours are fine enough, but I can't find a satisfactory/reliable way to break down larger concepts - especially things that I'll have to start and stop several times over the course of several days, or larger ideas with many little assets. How do you tackle coming back to a project after several days and going "wait, where was I?"
I want to freelance book design, which will be an online only service done through a company website. I can't figure out who to go through, and my head spins every time i try to pick one. The shoestring budget doesn't help either.
I am tech savvy and a designer, but not a web developer. I can figure out builders. I get snagged on things like CRMs, invoice and contract management, payment systems, etc.
Places like Wix, Squarespace, Odoo love to claim you can run your entire business through the dashboard. Is that worth doing?
Wordpress is cheap but I have heard non-devs can quickly create a disaster without help. I have looked at Hostinger but also dont really understand what they're offering.
I know my actual needs boil down to a site that can funnel clients through a form, meeting scheduling, reliable way to send and track contracts and invoices, and file sharing. I dont need a store for products, or a physical POS system.
Im scared of wasting the little money I have, but am also trapped by decision paralysis. Is there such thing as a bad option or just services that dont align with my specific needs?