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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:You know what wakes you up right quick? Sweet free NOS patch panel for the civic.
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Viggen posted:"Alone in the Dark" was pretty awesome and glitchy as gently caress in 1992. 
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:My nigga have you tried lsd Nah mang. He aint hip to none that. ..was just playing some 90s videyagames in mah head an his, ya see.. Also, listening on a lovely CD player to lovely music. T'is all.
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Viggen posted:This never works. I have a 3/4 ton Chevy, and a 1/2 ton Ford sitting in the back yard, now. They work perfectly well. Waiting to cherrypick, or get another car to fix. Hahaha I want something to be able to haul cars from the surrounding areas but everyone wants too much for diesels around here. This truck has depreciated so much that the only way it'll go lower requires a ditch, a pole, or catastrophic engine failure.
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mafoose posted:Hahaha I want something to be able to haul cars from the surrounding areas but everyone wants too much for diesels around here. This truck has depreciated so much that the only way it'll go lower requires a ditch, a pole, or catastrophic engine failure. So.. you want a Chevy, then?
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mafoose posted:Hahaha I want something to be able to haul cars from the surrounding areas but everyone wants too much for diesels around here. This truck has depreciated so much that the only way it'll go lower requires a ditch, a pole, or catastrophic engine failure. This is what I found too, so I bought a new one for not much more than a 7 year old one with 200k.
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Not enough exercise makes me one "ready to stick a knife in someone" rear end in a top hat. gently caress the world, no specific reason. I really want to just escape the rat race and just wander off on the bike. No destination, just ride.
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Crap. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/psa-your-fancy-pants-recaro-seat-may-no-longer-be-lega-1669502408
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Fucknag posted:Man, that Mad Max trailer had the Interceptor in it for all of a tenth of a second and I still grinned like an idiot when I saw it. I love the technical run down. "Twin overhead cams" on a Cleveland? Filmed in the University of Melbourne underground carpark (which still exists)
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Finally got a studfinder today. Tried holding it up to my stepdad, it didn't beep, he was more amused than I expected. But I got the TV mounted properly, instead of a ~30 pound TV attached to drywall. It's not centered the way I wanted, but without going to a much larger mounting bracket, this is the best I can do. Wires will eventually go through a small hole in the wall and drop into the closet, then come out of the wall by the receiver (on the desk next to the closet). This all got mounted today, I'm aware everything isn't perfectly level. The bed is across the room in the corner, so it's really easy to watch movies/etc from bed. I have an IR receiver mounted to the PC (which is on the desk on the same wall) and the A/V receiver on the desk turned so that it's easy to hit with a remote, and the bed is in the corner (hell I could just bounce the IR signal off the ceiling anyway), so it's lined up pretty well for chilling in bed or sitting on the bed/leaning on the headboard for movies, tv, etc. I have a second set of speakers hooked up to the "B" output on the receiver, that are on my desk that will be used when I'm watching TV on the 2nd monitor or gaming. The receiver shuts off the subwoofer and surround whenever they're on, but they're some decent Infinity bookshelf speakers that actually crank out some decent bass (the PC monitors are sitting on top of them). The satellites are also Infinity, sub is the lovely Onkyo sub that came with the receiver.  CornHolio posted:I thought I was having a goddamn heart attack last night. I've gone to the doctor a number of times for chest pains and bad heartburn, and it's always something to do with acid reflux (something about proton inhibiters, I dunno, I've been on prevacid for years and it's helped but it's never gone away... I know when I miss a dose). I'm not usually one to suggest medications, but a mild SSRI (at the lowest dose) does wonders for both stress and a bit of depression. I'm on a low dose of Celexa for both. Though I've found anything more than 10mg (the lowest dose) makes my sex drive completely disappear. It's not like I'm getting any that often, but it's depressing not even being able to crank out knuckle babies. I'm also the brokest I've been in years - when my old store got a new GM, the new boss cut my hours down to as low as 6 hours one week (all scheduled outside of my availability), usually averaging 10 hours a week (refused to let me transfer, saying he didn't have enough drivers, but all the other drivers had 30+ hours a week?). I'm broke enough that I had to ask the finance company to let me skip a payment on my car loan for this month, but I'm slowly catching up on bills. The kicker is my Verizon FiOS balance is sitting north of $450 right now - I'm (baaaaarely) current on everything else, though one of my CCs is way over the limit. I've made payment arrangements to get Verizon paid off by the end of January, but I'll still have another $150 bill due by then. I'm just hoping I get a decent tax refund; I think my gross income will be slightly higher than what I guessed when I signed up for my insurance (affordable care act), so I'll probably lose a little bit of the refund to make up for the difference in subsidies. Not a big difference, the income might be a couple of thousand higher, so I might lose $100-200 out of my refund. Entire refund is going to bills - probably to pay off both credit cards. If there's anything left, the PC is getting a bit more storage (all 3.6TB is crammed full). Slow is Fast posted:I've got most christmas gifts locked down, but I need to figure out something for my mother. I hate gift shopping I honestly can't afford gifts for anyone this year - the only gift I bought for anyone was a $25 grocery store gift card for a friend who's been out of work for several years (she's bi-polar, had med issues that led to losing a very good job with Microsoft, and lives in a group home these days). I'm lucky I was even able to do cards. Mom and stepdad are in the same shape as me; mom filed bankruptcy recently and still can't get around so well thanks to hip surgery (and her BK was recent enough that she can't have anything show up in her bank accounts for another 2 months), stepdad is making less than 1/2 of what he was making 2 years ago. He at least has some money in savings and in his 401k, but touching those are his last resort. For the first time in my life, I both have the newest/lowest mileage car in the house, and the most debt. My student loans are in hardship deferment for now. I think mom's gift will probably be getting her car detailed for her - I'm friends with a manager at a full service car wash and get some decent discounts. I can't really think of anything else to get her. Headlights on her car are also yellowed to poo poo, I was going to polish them for her. The only other things I can really think of are a few pieces of cookware - she has a few nice pans that have either been warped by a certain stepparent taking them straight from the stove and trying to wash them, and/or the nonstick coating being damaged by the same person using metal spatulas. Fo3 posted:I don't eat during the day, quick and simple foods often brings on instant reflux. Not an option for me anymore. If I skip any kind of breakfast - even just some toast or cereal - my blood sugar plummets around lunch. And I can't take the Paula Deen meds without food, otherwise the same thing happens, but even worse (I've had my blood sugar wind up so low that it was half of what it should be, and I was still functioning.. somewhat, just felt drunk as poo poo and looked like I had Parkinsons). I have to eat at least two small to medium sized meals a day. Otherwise the beetus says "oh hai" and either sends my blood sugar sky high, or sends it so low than I start seeing double. I've had one meal today, and the blood sugar is sky loving high right now. Though the cookie snacks probably haven't helped...  It's also been a lazy day with about zero exercise (aside from mounting a TV and 5 speakers to the walls, and running wires).Rhyno posted:Just scored a practically new Nordic Elliptical for $100. Still has the plastic film on the screen. I have no excuse to be fat now. You stole that thing. My steppops just picked up a pretty drat nice stationary bike. The kind with a heart rate monitor built in (built into the grips anyway), with programmed workouts (including the "cardio" and "fat burner" workouts that rely solely on your heart rate to adjust intensity). It's a high end consumer model, one step below gym quality (the gym version would work with my heart rate monitor wirelessly, instead of having to hold the grips) I have no excuse either. I've been trying to hit it a couple of times a week. I forget the brand, but it's one of the ones you see in gyms. It's currently in the "study" (aka mom's office), I'm half tempted to move our 1970s Sansui receiver in there (it's currently the garage stereo, with some lovely surround speakers my Onkyo stereo came with for rear fill), find some ancient tower speakers with huge woofers, and plug my Bluetooth adapter into the receiver... and rattle the whole house while I try to pedal furiously across town and can't figure out why I'm not getting anywhere.  It's either super loud headphones (and my phone really won't push headphones very loud) or super loud music to motivate me like that.I would love to get a good treadmill and put it in the garage. A high end one that works with ANT+/Bluetooth heart rate monitors - I have a Sigma R1 that works with most modern gym-class cardio equipment (it even works with the stuff in the city rec centers). I have a portable a/c out there (used to be in my room, but portable a/cs are piles of poo poo on the best of days), and in the winter it's cold enough out there that a hoodie and shorts will be plenty once I get moving. An elliptical has me wanting to die of a heart attack within 5 minutes. With medication, my blood pressure is reasonable, but I have zero stamina unless it's walking/jogging. I can walk all loving day (and regularly log 7+ miles of walking just keeping my phone in my pocket with Google Fit running); if I'm jogging I alternate between jogging and walking. A flat out run will have me face down within a couple of minutes. CommieGIR posted:Having an APC UPS kick itself off because of a bad battery while running a backbone router is always fun. I want to dropkick my APC UPS so loving bad. It's had a bad battery for about a month, and every now and then, it still randomly powers off.  And if the PC is plugged in when I turn it back on, it powers on for about 5 seconds, then shuts back off.I ordered an 8mAh battery for it on the 3rd (stock is 7, but same form factor). Ordered by "expedited shipping". Checked the tracking today, since it was supposed to have been here a couple of days ago, as Amazon emailed me saying it was shipped on the 4th. Shipping label generated on the 4th, which is right... but it didn't actually get dropped off at the post office until the 10th. It's being shipped by priority mail, but won't be here until Saturday. I wouldn't have paid the extra $10 for "expedited shipping" if I knew they'd sit around with their thumb up their rear end. Especially on an $18 battery; it's $35 to replace locally, had I known this seller would sit around so long before shipping it I would have spent the extra cash on a new battery locally. Stupid UPS powers off at random, and often happens to do so in a way that leaves the PC in a way that's a bitch to boot back up easily. Actually plugging the USB cable into the UPS causes the PC to power down immediately once the OS loads at this point. I'm just hoping it's only the UPS; I swapped the battery from mom's UPS into mine (different revision, but same model - both APC BackUPS 550VA units) and it worked fine, and hers started doing the same poo poo, so I'm pretty sure it's just the ~6 year old battery. Otherwise, it gets dropkicked across the city (with steel toed boots, this bastard is heavy). I even tried a burglar alarm battery in it, knowing the battery isn't anywhere near the same output in terms of mAh, but hoping it would shut it up since it's the same voltage (just discharged). They're both 12V SLA batteries, but it wasn't happy with that either. I'll probably try sticking that battery into the Verizon FiOS UPS, since it's been bitching about a bad battery for nearly a year.. and I don't want to pay Verizon $50 for a new battery. leica posted:Just dropped $250 on a new longboard for him, he's gonna poo poo with excitement when he sees it *I* would poo poo myself if someone bought me a longboard. They look fun as hell, and I'm no longer coordinated enough for a normal skateboard. Siochain posted:We had a problem where for probably 2-3 months the cats were pissing on a corner of the carpet in the basement. We don't spend a lot of time there, and we'd had some minor flooding earlier that year so we figured it was some mold/mildew. Then we caught the cat peeing there. Then we tried cleaning it. Now its worse, and we just need to rip the loving carpet out. But, well, we'll replace it with something non-porous, and that's gotta wait for the $$$'s. So, cats, gently caress you. I love you, but gently caress you. Our dog considers the dining room and front living room as his personal piss/poo poo zone. We've had him 7 years. I have no idea why we can't break him of this - we take him outside multiple times per day, but if we don't block off the hall to the front rooms, even for an hour or two, we always wake up to poo poo/piss. Tonight is no exception - I just walked outside to get something from the car, and stepped in a big puddle of piss. At least he used the carpet (this time) instead of the hardwood floor. He's also incredibly  - he has to have the lowest IQ of any dog I've ever met that wasn't physically damaged. He's incredibly sweet, and loves to play rough (which is how I like my dogs; he knows the difference between "play bite" and "gently caress you bite"), and does incredibly well with cats and most dogs.... but we got him at 6 months old and have never managed to completely housebreak him. Even when you do take him outside, half the time he shits/pisses on the patio with one paw in the grass. If you toss him a treat, he's madly snapping at the air before you've even let go of it, then looks confused when it bounces off of his nose. Pretty sure he may have some vision issues based on that, but drat, he's really not smart, and if there's a bad storm, he'll stand in front of the (wall) oven and stare/bark at himself in the reflection and eventually curl up in front of it; I assume thinking it's another dog. I'm half tempted to put a mirror on the floor and see what he does.I love the dude, but he's really... special. Cakefool posted:Fixed the oven the other day, replacement freezer drawer installed today, just waiting for the washer door seal to turn up so I can cut the poo poo out of my hands replacing that. White goods are terrible. On the upside, the basic, non-fancy ones break so rarely that you only have to pay any attention to them every 5-10 years. Our clothes washer/dryer were purchased in 1997. In that time, the dryer has required a new blower wheel (the shaft opening rounded out on it; it's driven by a D-shaped shaft from the drum motor, so it rattled like crazy and barely moved any air - $25 or so and a couple of hours since I also spent a lot of time vacuuming out all of the lint and just cleaning it up), and the washer has required a new timer (found a NOS Maytag timer for around $130 - took about 15 minutes to swap). Our oven is a lower end Bosch double oven. It's been through 3 convection heater coils (the 3rd has also burned out - we gave up replacing them since they usually tripped the main breaker for the house when they went), new coils cost almost as much as a basic replacement oven, generally trip the oven breaker (if not house) and fill the oven/kitchen with electrical smoke when they fail, and require ripping it out of the wall and tearing the whole thing apart), has a couple of dead buttons on the control panel, and the display barely lights up. The light bulbs are also unicorn bulbs; if you touch the burned out one just right it trips the breaker (240A 30A or 50A breaker; a typical US circuit is 120V 15A or 20A), but the bulbs are stupid expensive for what they are. It takes 30-45 minutes to heat the top one to 350F, 20-40 minutes for the smaller bottom one. The dishwasher is also a Bosch. It's started smoking once, and had 3 recalls performed on it, all related to "yeah it might start a fire". Thankfully, our local electrical code requires that there be a counter switch for the dishwasher (odd thing in the code, it's next to the switch for the sink disposal and lights above the sink, but whatever), so we just keep the switch off when it's not being used. The upside is it's so quiet than if you don't look at the lights on the front, you literally have no idea it's running. And it has a built-in water heater - it's across the house from the (attic mounted) water heater; if you use the sink to get hot water, it takes several minutes. This actually heats the water while it's running. It's old enough that the next time it breaks, it'll likely get replaced with something a bit more pedestrian, as most parts are no longer available. Our GE gas range has only had issues when a certain person in the family hoses it down with cleaner and it gets down into the knobs - which causes the ignitor to run nonstop. Unplugging it and spraying WD40 or electronics cleaner into the switches usually fixes it. And frankly, even if the ignitor does crap out... it's gas, just grab a match! It even had a full schematic of both electrical and gas parts taped to the inside when I took it apart. The only issue we ever had with our fridge was... well, the compressor started locking up. Noticed milk started spoiling a lot earlier, threw my Kill-A-Watt on it, noticed it was pulling as much as 30 amps for a few seconds when the compressor would try to start (label showed 12 amps max, 2-3 running), then the compressor's overload would kick in, rinse and repeat at least 5-10 times. Temp sensor showed it would range from 30-60F inside. It was about 10 years old, which IMO is a very short life for a fridge. Voltage posted:Wow gently caress driving in NYC forever. It usually takes me about 35-45 mins to drive to work and 15 minutes to find a parking spot - hour or so total time, sucks but not the worst. Today I drove in circles for an hour and fifteen minutes, and got in to a blind screaming rage alone in my car and eventually just paid for a $30 garage parking spot for the day. Going to loving ride my motorcycle every time now even if it snows. Just those numbers alone are close to what I make a month in wages.
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Finally got a studfinder today. Tried holding it up to my stepdad, it didn't beep, he was more amused than I expected. But I got the TV mounted properly, instead of a ~30 pound TV attached to drywall. It's not centered the way I wanted, but without going to a much larger mounting bracket, this is the best I can do. Wires will eventually go through a small hole in the wall and drop into the closet, then come out of the wall by the receiver (on the desk next to the closet). This all got mounted today, I'm aware everything isn't perfectly level. The bed is across the room in the corner, so it's really easy to watch movies/etc from bed. I have an IR receiver mounted to the PC (which is on the desk on the same wall) and the A/V receiver on the desk turned so that it's easy to hit with a remote, and the bed is in the corner (hell I could just bounce the IR signal off the ceiling anyway), so it's lined up pretty well for chilling in bed or sitting on the bed/leaning on the headboard for movies, tv, etc. I have a second set of speakers hooked up to the "B" output on the receiver, that are on my desk that will be used when I'm watching TV on the 2nd monitor or gaming. The receiver shuts off the subwoofer and surround whenever they're on, but they're some decent Infinity bookshelf speakers that actually crank out some decent bass (the PC monitors are sitting on top of them). The satellites are also Infinity, sub is the lovely Onkyo sub that came with the receiver. CornHolio posted:I thought I was having a goddamn heart attack last night. I've gone to the doctor a number of times for chest pains and bad heartburn, and it's always something to do with acid reflux (something about proton inhibiters, I dunno, I've been on prevacid for years and it's helped but it's never gone away... I know when I miss a dose). I'm not usually one to suggest medications, but a mild SSRI (at the lowest dose) does wonders for both stress and a bit of depression. I'm on a low dose of Celexa for both. Though I've found anything more than 10mg (the lowest dose) makes my sex drive completely disappear. It's not like I'm getting any that often, but it's depressing not even being able to crank out knuckle babies. I'm also the brokest I've been in years - when my old store got a new GM, the new boss cut my hours down to as low as 6 hours one week (all scheduled outside of my availability), usually averaging 10 hours a week (refused to let me transfer, saying he didn't have enough drivers, but all the other drivers had 30+ hours a week?). I'm broke enough that I had to ask the finance company to let me skip a payment on my car loan for this month, but I'm slowly catching up on bills. The kicker is my Verizon FiOS balance is sitting north of $450 right now - I'm (baaaaarely) current on everything else, though one of my CCs is way over the limit. I've made payment arrangements to get Verizon paid off by the end of January, but I'll still have another $150 bill due by then. I'm just hoping I get a decent tax refund; I think my gross income will be slightly higher than what I guessed when I signed up for my insurance (affordable care act), so I'll probably lose a little bit of the refund to make up for the difference in subsidies. Not a big difference, the income might be a couple of thousand higher, so I might lose $100-200 out of my refund. Entire refund is going to bills - probably to pay off both credit cards. If there's anything left, the PC is getting a bit more storage (all 3.6TB is crammed full). Slow is Fast posted:I've got most christmas gifts locked down, but I need to figure out something for my mother. I hate gift shopping I honestly can't afford gifts for anyone this year - the only gift I bought for anyone was a $25 grocery store gift card for a friend who's been out of work for several years (she's bi-polar, had med issues that led to losing a very good job with Microsoft, and lives in a group home these days). I'm lucky I was even able to do cards. Mom and stepdad are in the same shape as me; mom filed bankruptcy recently and still can't get around so well thanks to hip surgery (and her BK was recent enough that she can't have anything show up in her bank accounts for another 2 months), stepdad is making less than 1/2 of what he was making 2 years ago. He at least has some money in savings and in his 401k, but touching those are his last resort. For the first time in my life, I both have the newest/lowest mileage car in the house, and the most debt. My student loans are in hardship deferment for now. I think mom's gift will probably be getting her car detailed for her - I'm friends with a manager at a full service car wash and get some decent discounts. I can't really think of anything else to get her. Headlights on her car are also yellowed to poo poo, I was going to polish them for her. The only other things I can really think of are a few pieces of cookware - she has a few nice pans that have either been warped by a certain stepparent taking them straight from the stove and trying to wash them, and/or the nonstick coating being damaged by the same person using metal spatulas. Fo3 posted:I don't eat during the day, quick and simple foods often brings on instant reflux. Not an option for me anymore. If I skip any kind of breakfast - even just some toast or cereal - my blood sugar plummets around lunch. And I can't take the Paula Deen meds without food, otherwise the same thing happens, but even worse (I've had my blood sugar wind up so low that it was half of what it should be, and I was still functioning.. somewhat, just felt drunk as poo poo and looked like I had Parkinsons). I have to eat at least two small to medium sized meals a day. Otherwise the beetus says "oh hai" and either sends my blood sugar sky high, or sends it so low than I start seeing double. I've had one meal today, and the blood sugar is sky loving high right now. Though the cookie snacks probably haven't helped... It's also been a lazy day with about zero exercise (aside from mounting a TV and 5 speakers to the walls, and running wires).Rhyno posted:Just scored a practically new Nordic Elliptical for $100. Still has the plastic film on the screen. I have no excuse to be fat now. You stole that thing. My steppops just picked up a pretty drat nice stationary bike. The kind with a heart rate monitor built in (built into the grips anyway), with programmed workouts (including the "cardio" and "fat burner" workouts that rely solely on your heart rate to adjust intensity). It's a high end consumer model, one step below gym quality (the gym version would work with my heart rate monitor wirelessly, instead of having to hold the grips) I have no excuse either. I've been trying to hit it a couple of times a week. I forget the brand, but it's one of the ones you see in gyms. It's currently in the "study" (aka mom's office), I'm half tempted to move our 1970s Sansui receiver in there (it's currently the garage stereo, with some lovely surround speakers my Onkyo stereo came with for rear fill), find some ancient tower speakers with huge woofers, and plug my Bluetooth adapter into the receiver... and rattle the whole house while I try to pedal furiously across town and can't figure out why I'm not getting anywhere. It's either super loud headphones (and my phone really won't push headphones very loud) or super loud music to motivate me like that.I would love to get a good treadmill and put it in the garage. A high end one that works with ANT+/Bluetooth heart rate monitors - I have a Sigma R1 that works with most modern gym-class cardio equipment (it even works with the stuff in the city rec centers). I have a portable a/c out there (used to be in my room, but portable a/cs are piles of poo poo on the best of days), and in the winter it's cold enough out there that a hoodie and shorts will be plenty once I get moving. An elliptical has me wanting to die of a heart attack within 5 minutes. With medication, my blood pressure is reasonable, but I have zero stamina unless it's walking/jogging. I can walk all loving day (and regularly log 7+ miles of walking just keeping my phone in my pocket with Google Fit running); if I'm jogging I alternate between jogging and walking. A flat out run will have me face down within a couple of minutes. CommieGIR posted:Having an APC UPS kick itself off because of a bad battery while running a backbone router is always fun. I want to dropkick my APC UPS so loving bad. It's had a bad battery for about a month, and every now and then, it still randomly powers off. And if the PC is plugged in when I turn it back on, it powers on for about 5 seconds, then shuts back off.I ordered an 8mAh battery for it on the 3rd (stock is 7, but same form factor). Ordered by "expedited shipping". Checked the tracking today, since it was supposed to have been here a couple of days ago, as Amazon emailed me saying it was shipped on the 4th. Shipping label generated on the 4th, which is right... but it didn't actually get dropped off at the post office until the 10th. It's being shipped by priority mail, but won't be here until Saturday. I wouldn't have paid the extra $10 for "expedited shipping" if I knew they'd sit around with their thumb up their rear end. Especially on an $18 battery; it's $35 to replace locally, had I known this seller would sit around so long before shipping it I would have spent the extra cash on a new battery locally. Stupid UPS powers off at random, and often happens to do so in a way that leaves the PC in a way that's a bitch to boot back up easily. Actually plugging the USB cable into the UPS causes the PC to power down immediately once the OS loads at this point. I'm just hoping it's only the UPS; I swapped the battery from mom's UPS into mine (different revision, but same model - both APC BackUPS 550VA units) and it worked fine, and hers started doing the same poo poo, so I'm pretty sure it's just the ~6 year old battery. Otherwise, it gets dropkicked across the city (with steel toed boots, this bastard is heavy). I even tried a burglar alarm battery in it, knowing the battery isn't anywhere near the same output in terms of mAh, but hoping it would shut it up since it's the same voltage (just discharged). They're both 12V SLA batteries, but it wasn't happy with that either. I'll probably try sticking that battery into the Verizon FiOS UPS, since it's been bitching about a bad battery for nearly a year.. and I don't want to pay Verizon $50 for a new battery. leica posted:Just dropped $250 on a new longboard for him, he's gonna poo poo with excitement when he sees it *I* would poo poo myself if someone bought me a longboard. They look fun as hell, and I'm no longer coordinated enough for a normal skateboard. Siochain posted:We had a problem where for probably 2-3 months the cats were pissing on a corner of the carpet in the basement. We don't spend a lot of time there, and we'd had some minor flooding earlier that year so we figured it was some mold/mildew. Then we caught the cat peeing there. Then we tried cleaning it. Now its worse, and we just need to rip the loving carpet out. But, well, we'll replace it with something non-porous, and that's gotta wait for the $$$'s. So, cats, gently caress you. I love you, but gently caress you. Our dog considers the dining room and front living room as his personal piss/poo poo zone. We've had him 7 years. I have no idea why we can't break him of this - we take him outside multiple times per day, but if we don't block off the hall to the front rooms, even for an hour or two, we always wake up to poo poo/piss. Tonight is no exception - I just walked outside to get something from the car, and stepped in a big puddle of piss. At least he used the carpet (this time) instead of the hardwood floor. He's also incredibly - he has to have the lowest IQ of any dog I've ever met that wasn't physically damaged. He's incredibly sweet, and loves to play rough (which is how I like my dogs; he knows the difference between "play bite" and "gently caress you bite"), and does incredibly well with cats and most dogs.... but we got him at 6 months old and have never managed to completely housebreak him. Even when you do take him outside, half the time he shits/pisses on the patio with one paw in the grass. If you toss him a treat, he's madly snapping at the air before you've even let go of it, then looks confused when it bounces off of his nose. Pretty sure he may have some vision issues based on that, but drat, he's really not smart, and if there's a bad storm, he'll stand in front of the (wall) oven and stare/bark at himself in the reflection and eventually curl up in front of it; I assume thinking it's another dog. I'm half tempted to put a mirror on the floor and see what he does.I love the dude, but he's really... special. Cakefool posted:Fixed the oven the other day, replacement freezer drawer installed today, just waiting for the washer door seal to turn up so I can cut the poo poo out of my hands replacing that. White goods are terrible. On the upside, the basic, non-fancy ones break so rarely that you only have to pay any attention to them every 5-10 years. Our clothes washer/dryer were purchased in 1997. In that time, the dryer has required a new blower wheel (the shaft opening rounded out on it; it's driven by a D-shaped shaft from the drum motor, so it rattled like crazy and barely moved any air - $25 or so and a couple of hours since I also spent a lot of time vacuuming out all of the lint and just cleaning it up), and the washer has required a new timer (found a NOS Maytag timer for around $130 - took about 15 minutes to swap). Our oven is a lower end Bosch double oven. It's been through 3 convection heater coils (the 3rd has also burned out - we gave up replacing them since they usually tripped the main breaker for the house when they went), new coils cost almost as much as a basic replacement oven, generally trip the oven breaker (if not house) and fill the oven/kitchen with electrical smoke when they fail, and require ripping it out of the wall and tearing the whole thing apart), has a couple of dead buttons on the control panel, and the display barely lights up. The light bulbs are also unicorn bulbs; if you touch the burned out one just right it trips the breaker (240A 30A or 50A breaker; a typical US circuit is 120V 15A or 20A), but the bulbs are stupid expensive for what they are. It takes 30-45 minutes to heat the top one to 350F, 20-40 minutes for the smaller bottom one. The dishwasher is also a Bosch. It's started smoking once, and had 3 recalls performed on it, all related to "yeah it might start a fire". Thankfully, our local electrical code requires that there be a counter switch for the dishwasher (odd thing in the code, it's next to the switch for the sink disposal and lights above the sink, but whatever), so we just keep the switch off when it's not being used. The upside is it's so quiet than if you don't look at the lights on the front, you literally have no idea it's running. And it has a built-in water heater - it's across the house from the (attic mounted) water heater; if you use the sink to get hot water, it takes several minutes. This actually heats the water while it's running. It's old enough that the next time it breaks, it'll likely get replaced with something a bit more pedestrian, as most parts are no longer available. Our GE gas range has only had issues when a certain person in the family hoses it down with cleaner and it gets down into the knobs - which causes the ignitor to run nonstop. Unplugging it and spraying WD40 or electronics cleaner into the switches usually fixes it. And frankly, even if the ignitor does crap out... it's gas, just grab a match! It even had a full schematic of both electrical and gas parts taped to the inside when I took it apart. The only issue we ever had with our fridge was... well, the compressor started locking up. Noticed milk started spoiling a lot earlier, threw my Kill-A-Watt on it, noticed it was pulling as much as 30 amps for a few seconds when the compressor would try to start (label showed 12 amps max, 2-3 running), then the compressor's overload would kick in, rinse and repeat at least 5-10 times. Temp sensor showed it would range from 30-60F inside. It was about 10 years old, which IMO is a very short life for a fridge. Voltage posted:Wow gently caress driving in NYC forever. It usually takes me about 35-45 mins to drive to work and 15 minutes to find a parking spot - hour or so total time, sucks but not the worst. Today I drove in circles for an hour and fifteen minutes, and got in to a blind screaming rage alone in my car and eventually just paid for a $30 garage parking spot for the day. Going to loving ride my motorcycle every time now even if it snows. Just those numbers alone are close to what I make a month in wages.
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gently caress this gay earth.
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Nothing like a 2hr drive to work to start my day. At least I'm riding shotgun this time, my PM finally got his license back yesterday.
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Dec 11, 2014 12:24
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meatpimp posted:gently caress this gay earth. It's probably a Fiero
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My car got a remark on its biennial inspection because the left parking light and one of the number plate lights were blown. Who even uses the drat parking lights? Still, the inspectors have to check them and tell me to fix it. So armed with $5 worth of W5W bulbs, this is the procedure to change a parking light bulb in a Peugeot 406: Since the bulb is located right between the low and high beam reflectors, you'd it was located in the small middle compartment with the white bit on top, right?  Haha wrong, you have to open the high beam compartment. Can you see what to do now?  Obviously, you flip the white lever upwards and pull the whole thing out of a hole that's only ~1% larger than the thing you have to remove.  Best of all, when you have to replace it, you have to crouch down in front of the car and carefully maneuver the whole thing back in, mostly by feel before you can see the bulb through the hole and reinsert the socket. 
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some texas redneck posted:Appliances I used to work in white goods testing so I didn't pay for any for like 8 years, it's only recently I ran out of stock and started buying appliances and parts. The ovens and hob we have now are very fancy but we don't use many of the functions and they're a bitch to clean. Kitchen on the new house will have 2 very basic electric ovens and we're thinking of placing a couple of twin burner domino gas hobs along the worktop end to end rather than side by side so we have a line of 3 or 4 burners with space in front and behind, rather than cram everything into an awkward little square. Funnilly enough since leaving the white goods job I haven't bought an appliance made by that company
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KozmoNaut posted:Obviously, you flip the white lever upwards and pull the whole thing out of a hole that's only ~1% larger than the thing you have to remove. This is actually brilliant. When I had to replace a turn signal bulb on my old Cavalier the FSM said "drop the bumper." I managed to reach in through the fender well, worm my way past the crash structure, loosen the light harness with just my finger tips, pull the entire harness through the crash structure, put the bulb in it and reverse the entire operation. Also it was -30'C out with the windchill at 3am. I would have been overjoyed to have a little pull handle to tug it out on.
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the spyder posted:Crap. Just read this when I got into the office. As someone who likes Momo and Racetech seats, I can only offer this as sympathies: lololol lololol.
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Dec 11, 2014 15:52
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meatpimp posted:gently caress this gay earth. I saw a legit one of those on the road the other day. I had to do a double take.
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meatpimp posted:gently caress this gay earth. The giant bald eagle lawn ornament is a nice touch.
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Brigdh posted:I saw a legit one of those on the road the other day. I had to do a double take. I loved the write-up Car and Driver did on the Testarossa a few months back. It was in their "what you can get for $xxxxx" article where they compared a new, modern car to something higher-end but older for the same purchase price. This comparison I believe was a C7 Vette vs a Testarossa. The review on the Ferrari was really funny. They basically said it's a pain in the rear end to drive, it's not comfortable, but you feel like Don Goddamn Johnson so let's celebrate with some cocaine.
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This is the proper Don Johnson Ferrari: Yeah I know it was really a Corvette copy but I don't care, so were some of the Testarossas.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:19
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Dude check out what I just coughed up.
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What the gently caress have you been eating? Balut? Shes going under the knife in under 3 hours. I was less nervous for my own surgeries.. and I don't usually sleep for at least a day before. 
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Dec 11, 2014 18:45
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Get some saltines and you got yourself a PB&J cracker going.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:46
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 OH MAN THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING THING ANYONE HAS EVER SHOWED ME! IS THAT THE VROOM VROOM BOX?!
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Man todays already just one of those days that was a complete and total wash before I even get to work. Nothing particularly dangerous or lethal but just enough times saying are you loving kidding me before ten am.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
It seems Macklemore is moonlighting as a mechanic, and he can't believe how excited this dork is over the sight of a Civic engine.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Man todays already just one of those days that was a complete and total wash before I even get to work. I swear to god every single roundabout I've come to today somebody has pulled out in front of me and made me hit the brakes. I drive a big, slow car, it's not like I can gun it out onto the roundabout and take everybody by suprise. Pretty sure christmas makes everyone retarded.
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430 smoke cooper cobras in the snow all morning. Sometimes bring unemployed ain't bad.
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So its like after the mystery screen and puddle dunk yesterday, i woke up with what i'm hoping is auditory hallucinations from some minor detoxing. Day two of no booze again, thouht my neighbor was blasting music while I got ready for work till I jumped inthe shower and realised that my showerhead doesnt usually play the Residents for me. Then I had one guy who took my safe followi g distance in the wet to dive right in and slam on their brakes to make a turn causing me to have as about a legit panick stop test as one can get. Glad I did my tires and brakes. Then, the guy behind me who watched the entire incident thought it looked fun AND PULLED THE SAME poo poo AT THE NEXT loving LIGHT. Then the freeway was a mess so I jumped on 3rd to head to work to wind up doing 15mph the entire way behind some double trailer constrion truck rig. Oh then after that by the goodwill there was a guy across the street who looked like he was going to try to run across. I played it safe and he literally made eye contact with me the entire time up until he started sprinting across after I had already obtained a firing solution should our paths cross. Oh and I caught my nuts in my clippers. Really loving bad too, not just a nick.
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Inexplicably feel like poo poo today. Nearly lost the ability to walk and not throw up. But I have a lot of seized bolts on this truck so I've been alternating between heating them with the torch, and huffing pure o2 from it so that's got me feeling somewhat stable now. Tbh it feels like a still-drunk hangover but without as much dehydration.
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Dec 11, 2014 20:22
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So I guess we can add 'thought i saw steam coming off my jacket and shoulders while indoors at the safeway' so theres a chance for today to get rather interesting.
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Dec 11, 2014 21:13
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can you get your hands on some benzos or something to knock that poo poo out because the DTs don't sound like much fun
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Dec 11, 2014 21:15
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Got my butt death sauce from The Royal Nonesuch. IT IS AWESOME.
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Pham Nuwen posted:It seems Macklemore is moonlighting as a mechanic, and he can't believe how excited this dork is over the sight of a Civic engine. gently caress you. K motors are rad as hell.
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