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Yooper posted:Depends where you are. California, yah, property is ridiculous. In my area you can get a lot in a small town for a couple of grand. Though you can't legally put up a trailer house anymore, zoning did away with it. You can put one up in a specially zoned trailer park. Isn't that the house with the rolling chain pull garage bedroom doors?
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Jaded Burnout posted:https://twitter.com/BoldlyBuilding2/status/1198001407107960834 Same here. amethystdragon posted:If memory serves you want to make sure to own the land rather then rent because land owners can charge more rent and have renters over the barrel if they cannot afford to move. A friend of mine was in that situation before I met him. Local trailer park was sold to a large corporation who started raising the rent and changing rules. He eventually bought a cheap house (which has since proved to be something of a money pit, thanks to additions made by a Handy-Andy previous owner.) Since his mobile home was a cheap piece of crap, he basically couldn't sell it, and moving costs were expensive, so he literally disassembled it on-site over the course of a couple months after moving to his house. Renting dumpsters and paying the disposal fees was cheaper than moving the thing, and he was able to get some crap value for appliances, frame, axles, etc. Kind of fascinating. Only reason I would voluntarily live in a mobile is a temporary situation, like say when building a house on new property. Some of the newer manufactured housing is pretty well build, and really only designed to be moved once or twice, but the traditional cheap mobile homes are just that: cheap. ...Why? I mean, if you want it grounded, there's a giant metal grid right there (I know that's not the right answer, but it would be more useful than a small pile of dirt.) Megillah Gorilla posted:I thought they were big boxes, it's just an empty card catalogue like you used to see at libraries. Yep. Index card file. That wasn't clear in the initial photos.
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Nov 26, 2019 17:44
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Darchangel posted:...Why? It's a joke, you robot.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Isn't that the house with the rolling chain pull garage bedroom doors? I'm not sure tbh, the photos seem to show boring doors. The shower has a prison vibe. 
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Darchangel posted:Some of the newer manufactured housing is pretty well build, and really only designed to be moved once or twice, but the traditional cheap mobile homes are just that: cheap. Once. You can't insure them if you move them again. Which means they aren't worth poo poo as soon as they are put on site. This is good if you're looking for a quick hunting cabin to put on your land. A little patience and you can pick one up for basically the cost of moving it.
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Darchangel posted:...Why? It's a  generator, so it needs to be earthed, not grounded.
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Darchangel posted:...Why? It's from ISS, the only way for grounding they have. They swap the dirt when a supply ship visits the station.
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Nenonen posted:It's from ISS, the only way for grounding they have. They swap the dirt when a supply ship visits the station. Well you gotta get rid of those leftover electrons somehow.
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Yooper posted:I'm not sure tbh, the photos seem to show boring doors. God, I wonder how much that dude spent to achieve the serial killer vibe
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Nov 26, 2019 20:14
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Proteus Jones posted:It's a joke, you robot. That's not a given in this forum/thread. Nevets posted:It's a Nice. Nenonen posted:It's from ISS, the only way for grounding they have. They swap the dirt when a supply ship visits the station. Even better.
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Nenonen posted:It's from ISS, the only way for grounding they have. They swap the dirt when a supply ship visits the station. Shovel it into the boiler for the ion drive.
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Nov 26, 2019 20:33
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Darchangel posted:...Why?
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if the power is coming in through the green powerstrip it could have a breaker but I am guessing the power is coming in from the brown plug and the greem powerstrip plug is pluged into another distirbution power strip. (In a coffee can for safety)
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Elephanthead posted:(In a coffee can for safety) That's junction can to you
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Yooper posted:Depends where you are. California, yah, property is ridiculous. In my area you can get a lot in a small town for a couple of grand. Though you can't legally put up a trailer house anymore, zoning did away with it. You can put one up in a specially zoned trailer park. I love living in Silent Hill. It’s the greatest town on earth.
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canyoneer posted:That's junction can to you 
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I'm betting that that Romex used to be white & someone switched to burning the stuff rather than sucking on it.
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm betting that that Romex used to be white & someone switched to burning the stuff rather than sucking on it.
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When I turned the "shop" area of my basement into my home office, I had to remove the old canning cupboard, since it took up a lot of space and was too small to be useful for storage. It was also the only part of the entire house that was insulated. With sawdust. The light fixture(bare bulb in a ceramic base) had a coffee can for an electrical box, that was completely surrounded in saw dust. Worked well enough I guess, seeing as the house was built in the late 20's and I removed it in 2018. I also found a page from a newspaper inside the wall cavity that my wife ended up having framed. One side was the sports page, but the other was random want ads, including things like someone offering their home phone number as a sort of answering service for fisherman who didn't have a permanent house. The funny thing was, the newspaper wasn't used to hold in the sawdust, there was a layer of brown butchers paper for that. Someone had just stapled it up for some reason. We also found a time capsule of sorts from one of the old owners. It had his fishing license from the 50's along with a bunch of letters his wife had sent him while he was out working on fishing boats in Alaska, that are written in old Norwegian, which apparently barely anyone knows anymore. We actually reached out to the Nordic heritage museum to see about getting them translated, but we still need to follow up and take them in. There were also cans of chewing tabacco, one unopened and one that was still mostly full. Tried to get some of the construction guys to try someone, but no one would.
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Dienes posted:I bet they'd be great for storing Magic cards. That's totally a thing people do  
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Why hideous fluorescent tape, they have little name card holders ffs.
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Arrath posted:Why hideous fluorescent tape, they have little name card holders ffs. B-b-but  ..!
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Nov 27, 2019 09:46
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Go through the effort of getting a nice storage rack and organize them all then halfass the final step.
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Arrath posted:Why hideous fluorescent tape, they have little name card holders ffs. It could have looked quite classy had they done that and kept the top clear.
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Shut up Meg posted:It could have looked quite classy had they done that and kept the top clear. Clear for some "The Joker" Funky Poops! e: Business idea: Funwaa Pops! Nerds are going to go wild for those rare Chintus.
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slurry_curry posted:We also found a time capsule of sorts from one of the old owners. It had his fishing license from the 50's along with a bunch of letters his wife had sent him while he was out working on fishing boats in Alaska, that are written in old Norwegian, which apparently barely anyone knows anymore. We actually reached out to the Nordic heritage museum to see about getting them translated, but we still need to follow up and take them in. There were also cans of chewing tabacco, one unopened and one that was still mostly full. Tried to get some of the construction guys to try someone, but no one would. While turn of the (last) century Norwegian is further removed from current-day Norwegian than is the case with English, it's readable enough - but I bet he had some godawful (but neat) German-inspired handwriting.  If you post an image I can take a shot, but I'm not great at dechiffering old cursive - and there's always the chance he wrote in some obscure dialect from his old two-sheep village in outer nowhere. On the off chance anyone cares, there is a good historical reason that the language changed as much as it did: Norwegian and Danish are mutually intelligible, but inherit from different dialects of old Norse. Norway was under Danish rule 1397-1814, and when we got around to public schools and the like, pure Danish became the official language. This thoroughly shaped Norwegian (especially the city dialects), but when we dropped out of the Union there was still a strong mismatch between the spoken and written language that took about a century to work out. The period from, say, 1850-1930 was rather ... innovative, spelling-wise, and that worked it's way backward into the spoken language as well, when un-Danish phrasings crept back into polite usage. (There was also a secondary weaker Swedish influence 1814-1905; we left the union with Denmark directly into one with Sweden as a war price. Swedish is also mutually intelligible with Norwegian, but a bit further from Danish.) Which makes Danish rap super funny to us, because it's like hearing Dickens trying to be gangsta. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Computer viking posted:Which makes Danish rap super funny to us, because it's like hearing Dickens trying to be gangsta. Danish rap sounds like a breakfast sandwich.
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Or a dog, but I can absolutely imagine it on a Guardian UK recipe page.
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MC Einar!
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Arrath posted:Why hideous fluorescent tape, they have little name card holders ffs. Yeah, the tape make me kind of angry TBH.
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I could see doing the tape thing as a temporary measure while trying to figure out exactly which drawers would wind up holding what, but... like, maybe don't take the photo until you're done and have the nice labels in place
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There is nothing about that setup that indicates the person gives a single gently caress about aesthetics. They scored that incredibly piece of furniture entirely for it's function and will slap tape on it for the entirety of it's service.
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Yeah, I'd use whatever tape I had laying around, too. That it apparently annoys the gently caress of some people is a bonus.
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Granted, my M:tG collection was never anywhere NEAR as massive as that, but is it a common organizing technique to sort cards by FUNCTION (i.e. counterspell, steal/swap, give flying) as that fellow has done? I guess if you needed to construct a new deck to serve XYZ purpose, I can see it helping since it's unlikely you' have literally EVERY card name+function/text memorized. So you want a counterspell deck, well there you go, there's all your counterspell cards. But on the other hand, not every card fits neatly into a category, so if you're, say, using an online deck builder and it says to get the card that both counterspells AND draws cards, what category is it in? Though even that guys collection doesn't look so big that it would take an inordinate amount of time to look in the 2 or 3 spots it might be, so I guess whatever way you want is fine?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Granted, my M:tG collection was never anywhere NEAR as massive as that, but is it a common organizing technique to sort cards by FUNCTION (i.e. counterspell, steal/swap, give flying) as that fellow has done?  What you do is set up a location code for each drawer, with arbitrarily coded subdividers (say every 15 or 20 cards). Then you have a spreadsheet/database that tracks each card's location and has indexable keywords and descriptions.
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Proteus Jones posted:
or, or, and bear with me here, maybe what you do is get out the trusty old typewriter, and create indexes of where the cards are, organized by some type of numbering system. and then of course, you'd need some sort of drawer thingy to store your index cards in... the real answer is to sort them alphabetically by card name, and then use software or apps to look up cards that do what you want, and that app tells you the name of the card and then you just go find it by name, and this system is the best for managing an expanding/shrinking collection without going insane, too
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Leperflesh posted:the real answer is to sort them alphabetically by card name, and then use software or apps to look up cards that do what you want, and that app tells you the name of the card and then you just go find it by name, and this system is the best for managing an expanding/shrinking collection without going insane, too If my fabric collection is anything to go by, this does not allow for wasting a whole afternoon reorganizing everything into a different system that you think will work better every couple of months.
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there wolf posted:If my fabric collection is anything to go by, this does not allow for wasting a whole afternoon reorganizing everything into a different system that you think will work better every couple of months. I used to reorganise my DVDs for fun, which I assume is some symptom of a spectrum disorder.
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drgitlin posted:MC Einar! That's a reference and a half. 
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Jaded Burnout posted:I used to reorganise my DVDs for fun, which I assume is some symptom of a spectrum disorder. How come the people who enjoy sorting stuff have a mental condition and the people who think fifty two pickup is a fun joke are just classified as assholes?
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