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keyboard vomit posted:Why do nerds want a chunk of metal to sit on their desk quote:Many years ago, my father melted down a ½ pound spool of leftover copper wire. For no particular reason other than it seemed like a really cool thing to do. I remember thinking how attractive the resulting ball of copper was. I was drawn to it. It was particularly satisfying to roll it around on my hands. Maybe I had a copper deficiency and my body was trying to absorb it? lmao
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I just eat pennies
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Apr 27, 2016 21:16
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Oh yeh gurl, roll that copper.
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keyboard vomit posted:Why do nerds want a chunk of metal to sit on their desk sometimes real engineers that build something real will take a little trimming of an I-beam or a spare bolt from a bridge or building they help design, and turn it into a desk ornament or paperweight. this is cargo culting of that
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Apr 27, 2016 21:19
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Jonny 290 posted:sometimes real engineers that build something real will take a little trimming of an I-beam or a spare bolt from a bridge or building they help design, and turn it into a desk ornament or paperweight. with a healthy dose of i loving love science mysticism
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Apr 27, 2016 21:40
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plus when they bring girls over they can show them all their cool toys
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Apr 27, 2016 21:49
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*tosses fedora on rack, missing it* this, m'lady, is my every day carry top
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Apr 27, 2016 21:50
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Kickstarter idea: mix water and cornstarch and food coloring and put it in little tiny jars for your desk that I charge 15 bucks a pop for as a "self contained non Newtonian fluid for your desk at home or at work." just gotta come up with a catchy name
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Apr 27, 2016 22:01
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:plus when they bring girls over they can show them all their cool toys hey there baby, wanna see my balls of steel
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:*tosses fedora on rack, missing it* the more horrible realization is that i think that some of them carry it as a nod to Inception like its EDCing a blue and red pill
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Jonny 290 posted:sometimes real engineers that build something real will take a little trimming of an I-beam or a spare bolt from a bridge or building they help design, and turn it into a desk ornament or paperweight. Not just engineers, I see woodworkers and machinists and mechanics and pretty much everyone who works on things have some sort of weird desk ornament from either scrap or some really crazy thing they ran into. It's like the people buying that wan't to come across as having some sort of skill and pretend they made this machined paperweight without actually having to take the effort to learn to make those 'well machined objects of art' or whatever the new phrase is.
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Apr 27, 2016 23:00
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movie EDCs: my watch and my grandfather's watch (worn internally)
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keyboard vomit posted:I just eat pennies https://vimeo.com/108626411
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venture bros or rear end pennies? e: rear end pennies
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quote:Maybe I had a copper deficiency and my body was trying to absorb it? lol @ this, aren't copper compounds generally horribly toxic like iron deficiency is a real thing but copper I think not so much
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Apr 27, 2016 23:56
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hangin' with mr. copper
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no slippery dick, voted 1
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Trig Discipline posted:no slippery dick, voted 1 turn ur monitor off!!!
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I honestly thought this was a joke Kickstarter - "I would like a dude's dick to rub on my lips pls." it sounds like an its always sunny episode like 'dennis and mac blow it' and the punchline is someone beats them to market with the dude stick as a male lip enhancer frank beats them to market after mocking them repeatedly and waddling out of the bar
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Noria is a small window aircon unit that for some reason has started hitting advertising already. Seems kinda neat, it is small and quiet, however as the comments proceed the model only works in horizontal installations.
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Apr 28, 2016 01:08
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it seems to cost as much as an air conditioner that actually works though
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what i don't hear from a billion startup kids and people in older dwellings: "Man i want a god drat smart air conditioner with an app" What i do hear from them: "i want an air conditioner that works with a casement window"
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Would be nice if you had multiple window aircon units for them to integrate into Nest. I have a hunch that Nest being Nest you would need a dedicated Nest for each aircon.
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Jonny 290 posted:what i don't hear from a billion startup kids and people in older dwellings: "Man i want a god drat smart air conditioner with an app" When I lived in a basement apartment I just took the entire window out and tapped up cardboard from an old coke box #lifehack
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maniacdevnull posted:When I lived in a basement apartment I just took the entire window out and tapped up cardboard from an old coke box #lifehack i just built a thing like this, 1/4" ply. i put it in the emergency egress window in the back of the bus and used vatozone hood pins to keep a quick release thing in case of fire 
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Jonny 290 posted:i just built a thing like this, 1/4" ply. i put it in the emergency egress window in the back of the bus and used vatozone hood pins to keep a quick release thing in case of fire didn't realize the bus could get cooler, thank you
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BobHoward posted:lol @ this, aren't copper compounds generally horribly toxic
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Jonny 290 posted:sometimes real engineers that build something real will take a little trimming of an I-beam or a spare bolt from a bridge or building they help design, and turn it into a desk ornament or paperweight. see: mechanical keyboard thread
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evilcat posted:Not just engineers, I see woodworkers and machinists and mechanics and pretty much everyone who works on things have some sort of weird desk ornament from either scrap or some really crazy thing they ran into. my dad has some drill bits from some of the research cruises he's done fuckers are really heavy
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i got this thing today: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tio/tio-save-the-world-twice-a-day?ref=nav_search seemed pretty cool when i ordered it but then i realized you can just get wooden toothbrushes that use zero plastic. anyway it was 7 euros iirc if i know one thing from Consumer Reports buyers guides, its that air conditioners need a bunch of space to be good. maybe they've cracked the problem, but maybe they've also just made a small air conditioner with poor output.
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PleasureKevin posted:i got this thing today: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tio/tio-save-the-world-twice-a-day?ref=nav_search Nah they'll just stick some lox canisters in there And since it's oxygen it will help clean the air or something
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Apr 28, 2016 14:40
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keyboard vomit posted:Nah they'll just stick some lox canisters in there i never would've guessed preserved salmon cleans air, thanks i'll be microwaving some at your office shortly
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Cocoa Crispies posted:i never would've guessed preserved salmon cleans air, thanks lox is not a joking matter
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gotta get this fish microwaved supervisor'll have my rear end!
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JawnV6 posted:gotta get this fish microwaved
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MrMoo posted:Noria is a small window aircon unit that for some reason has started hitting advertising already. Seems kinda neat, it is small and quiet, however as the comments proceed the model only works in horizontal installations. At $400 it doesn't seem too out there if the specs are honest, as a comparable unit for $140 does 150 instead of 160 sq ft, 4.8A instead of 4A, 5000BTU vs 5000BTU, 39 lbs vs 30 lbs and a few other details. It seems off somehow, but possibly the change in refrigerant and a probable change in compressor and all other parts might drop off 9lbs and .8A draw and still keep the same specs at a smaller size, but all modern small aircons use the same refrigerant they are using. Smaller unit means smaller evap and condenser too, so it seems like it either will have to somehow move a lot of air to make up for that and do it quietly, or they are exaggerating their specs. Only major thing they didn't seem to address is the fact it seems to lack a drain hose or spot for one and will just dribble water down the outside of your house, but they don't seem to have exaggerated anything too crazily, even if it's a lot for a bottom end performance window aircon. At their price, a ductless unit may just be better, even if they did make the improvements they claim, they may have priced themselves out of their market.
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evilcat posted:, or they are exaggerating their specs. DING DING DING
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supervisor'll have my bass
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no cock grunter? http://www.fishbase.org/summary/5517
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maniacdevnull posted:When I lived in a basement apartment I just took the entire window out and tapped up cardboard from an old coke box #lifehack in my early 20s share house summer days (drifting away) we would take off the inner laundry door, put a window rattler into the void, then placed a giant door-size piece of wood around the void to be able to cool the house down one day my idiot housemate left the laundry outer door closed while running it and almost burnt down the house
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