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Rhyno posted:My girlfriend learned how to change a tire by watching me do it one loving time. She asked no questions, I didn't even know she was paying attention. She just silently took stock of what I was doing and has since changed tires of a half dozen of her useless friends who all wanted to call their boyfriends or AAA or just sit and wait for someone to help them. My wife knew how to change a tire before I met her. She had to stnad on the wrench to loosen the lugs, but got it done. Her best freind not only knows how to change tires, but did it to switch to autocross tires.  Shortly after I met her, my wife helped me pull a rearend out of a G-body Malibu wagon to put into my Regal (better gears.) I knew then that if she was not THE One, she was in the running. The Wonder Weapon posted:
Cleaning is not that bad. Simple Green and a bit of scrubbing, then Brake Clean, to get any oils off. I usually use brush on kits, but the spray works fine with a little masking. Either way, the last few I've done, I pull the caliper off of the mount, and set it on a stand made from a vertical 2x4 screwed to a 2x6 base. I can leave the hose connected that way, remove the pads, and the stand helps mask the piston area. I'd point you at some pictures, but my Gallery installation ceased to function when my hosting upgraded PHP and MySQL. Safety Dance posted:That's boy racer as gently caress, but whatever floats your boat. Just mask off the brake line and the rotor, spray the caliper down with brake cleaner, then go nuts with high temp red paint. No need to even pull the thing off the car, really. Beats rust. All my cars are old enough that they didn't get the nice silver coating that newer cars get, so: rust. Rhyno posted:... I've been tempted to get those plastic "Brembo" covers just to troll. Kind of like the Big Red cans I used as exhaust tip covers on my (red) RX-7. InitialDave posted:I'm right there with you, buddy. Down to 308 currently. 290 currently. At least I'm 6'2" so I don't look like a beach ball or something. Really, really need to get motivated. Apparently the fact that I already have low-level beetus isn't enough to kick my rear end into gear. If only food wasn't so very tasty...
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Oh hey dude that stole $10k in cash, jewlery and electronics from me several years ago, just come into my store and hang out for 30 minutes while trying to avoid my gaze while the dude you are with talks to his room mate who works here. Its coo'. I'm not bothered at all. I'm certainly not thinking lovingly of the 20 inch breaker bar hanging from the rack on the tool aisle.  Edit: gently caress this month in general, its sucked. Come on april, I've got some low rear end expectations and you can totally exceed them by not making GBS threads on me constantly like march has! Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Literally wrapping up a 10hr shift abd we got an emergency call for a fiber outage. Guess I won't be going home tonight.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Literally wrapping up a 10hr shift abd we got an emergency call for a fiber outage. Guess I won't be going home tonight. OT = Best T
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Literally wrapping up a 10hr shift abd we got an emergency call for a fiber outage. Guess I won't be going home tonight. Two weeks after starting his  dream job and he's already bitching about it.
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yeah it's hilarious when you want something for a while and it finally happens and then poo poo starts going downhill hope that never happens to me
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Anecdotally speaking, something like half the engineers I know find out they don't like doing it after a couple years and end up doing something else. Sample size: 2
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wait poo poo did i just sympathize with SAC wtf
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Enourmo posted:wait poo poo did i just sympathize with SAC wtf You and SAC have been the AI punching bags lately so it was really inevitable.
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Mar 30, 2016 22:27
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meatpimp posted:Two weeks after starting his probation and you're already bitching about someone else.
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Elmnt80 posted:Oh hey dude that stole $10k in cash, jewlery and electronics from me several years ago, just come into my store and hang out for 30 minutes while trying to avoid my gaze while the dude you are with talks to his room mate who works here. Its coo'. I'm not bothered at all. I'm certainly not thinking lovingly of the 20 inch breaker bar hanging from the rack on the tool aisle. I feel you're going to need to share the story here. Story time!
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gently caress me. Came home from a beautiful vacation to see my Jeep jacked up by its pumpkin and hole punched in my fuel tank. Anyone know of a good sealer for a plastic tank, or barring that somewhere I can get a replacement? Rock auto doesn't have one and so far my Google fu is bringing up no '97 tanks only up to 96. I know 97 was a weird year for the electrics but would a 96 tank fit? Quite A Tool fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Cage posted:Two days after That's a complete non sequitur, but if it makes you feel better, have at it.
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Quite A Tool posted:gently caress me. Came home from a beautiful vacation to see my Jeep jacked up by its pumpkin and hole punched in my fuel tank.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:54
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Someone siphoned the gas out of my car recently so maybe someone didn't want gas in their mouth?
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I'm not bitching, I am just talking. You loving robots. Some chud cut through a wrong fiber cable and took out the cable and internet to 3 towns he got fired and the news is here. 
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Cage posted:I feel like we're missing part of the story... I was pretty low on gas when I parked it so maybe they tried siphoning, didn't get much and drilled the tank to get more? I grabbed a tank seal kit from O'Reilly's hopefully that does it. They left some trash scissor jack so I didn't even get a consolation prize. Quite A Tool fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Mar 31, 2016 01:25
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Why are people stealing gas when it's like $0.80 a gallon right now? (Thanks Obama)
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I need more time in the week, I'm so loving close to done with this engine swap....
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Safety Dance posted:About two years and eight months ago, I told my then-girlfriend to spend $175 or so on the three year next business day on site repair Lenovo extended warranty. Since then, it's replaced almost every part in that laptop but the keyboard and screen at least once. 45 days of warranty left, and the lappy needs a new battery. I called them this evening, and I expect the problem will be solved by Thursday. AppleCare will do the same thing, even including covering some really stupidity damage at times - but you really shouldn't be buying Lenovos anymore if they need that much goddamn work. I just got handed yet another one that has a keyboard dock error. They've really gone to poo poo for quality.
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Motronic posted:AppleCare will do the same thing, even including covering some really stupidity damage at times - but you really shouldn't be buying Lenovos anymore if they need that much goddamn work. I just got handed yet another one that has a keyboard dock error. What's the go to for well built highish end laptops these days? Thinkpads were my go to, though I haven't bought one in like 6 years (which shows how long this one has lasted but it won't last forever).
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literally a fish posted:marty and moog can help you out (from way back in season one!) This is pretty good information. I can't tell what looks like more of a recipe for disaster though; trying to tape off a caliper still connected to the car or disconnecting the brake lines. I'm wondering if the easiest way would be to unbolt the caliper but not disconnect the brake line. Prop up the caliper, remove the pads, and then paint the whole thing. If I went that route, would I be running the chance of painting something I shouldn't be?
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nm posted:What's the go to for well built highish end laptops these days? Thinkpads were my go to, though I haven't bought one in like 6 years (which shows how long this one has lasted but it won't last forever). You can pick up a Dell Precision M4600 for cheap, its increadibly modularized, everything is user replaceable and can carry up to 32GB of DDR3 in 4 slots, and 3 hard disks (2 HDDs and 1 mSATA SSD). Its not supper modern, but its a great machine if you want something you can maintain.
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Tim's coffee is apparently serious business. http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/03/30/apparent-stabbing-at-lag-drive-thru 
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I said it in the AB thread and I'll say it again here.Seat Safety Switch posted:It floors me whenever I visit Red Deer and witness the disparity between Tim Hortons and the Donut Mill.
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CommieGIR posted:You can pick up a Dell Precision M4600 for cheap, its increadibly modularized, everything is user replaceable and can carry up to 32GB of DDR3 in 4 slots, and 3 hard disks (2 HDDs and 1 mSATA SSD). One of my bosses has the M6600 and it took all of 10 minutes to swap out the GPU board.
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Tusen Takk posted:tbf i look way less goofy as a baldy now though Bald headed dude club  . Check out one punch man if you're an animu nerd. I haven't been posting much lately, but I feel like I need to share/vent. Today I interviewed for a Manager position (I'm currently a supervisor) and holy smokes they treated it like I was applying to be CIO (real talk though, I'd like to be CIO). Four IT directors, Four senior analysts, one CMIO, one Periop director and one Surgery VP... It was easily the most intense interview I've ever been through. I didn't do as well as I'd have liked, just 'ok', but I think I still have a decent shot at it. Here's hoping! I hope you're all doing well!
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Extra posted:One of my bosses has the M6600 and it took all of 10 minutes to swap out the GPU board. Yeah, I think the M6600 supports MXM III Type B, the M4700 only takes the MXM III Type A which is smaller. I upgraded my GPU from a AMD FirePro M5950 (Radeon 5000) to an AMD FirePro M5100 (Radeon R9 M200x)
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Business class laptops seem like the way to go these days. They seem like they're the only ones that you have user replaceable anything.
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Quite A Tool posted:gently caress me. Came home from a beautiful vacation to see my Jeep jacked up by its pumpkin and hole punched in my fuel tank. That blows dude. XJ? I assume you checked craigslist? I see lots of tanks for cheap on there, but I do live an hour from the 909/lots of jeep customizers. If you're super desperate you might contact Inland Jeep in Rialto CA and see about shipping, that dude parts out a lot of XJs. I have a friend who punctured a plastic tank on a rental car deep in Mexico backcountry - he found a local rancher who performed a highly technical olfactory test of ambient gas fumes before melting the hole shut with a welding torch, so there's always that Good excuse to buy a tank skidplate imo.
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CommieGIR posted:You can pick up a Dell Precision M4600 for cheap, its increadibly modularized, everything is user replaceable and can carry up to 32GB of DDR3 in 4 slots, and 3 hard disks (2 HDDs and 1 mSATA SSD). Are dell laptops (the enterprise ones) generally decent? The m4600 is a bit bigger and heavier than I'd like, but something that is modular and iser servicable is right up my alley. I'd be replacing a t410s, for reference.
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My Latitude E6400 that I got in 2009 is still kicking. It can't play games or anything but considering all I have done to is it replace the keyboard and charger and up the RAM from 2GB to 4GB, I can't complain. Also, holy loving 16 hours at work. Finally finished up and am heading back to the shop. Gotta get up in 6 hours to do it again. Looks like they will be giving us Friday off so gently caress it.
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nm posted:Are dell laptops (the enterprise ones) generally decent? The m4600 is a bit bigger and heavier than I'd like, but something that is modular and iser servicable is right up my alley. The mid-high end ones are. Stick with the business models like the Precision and Latitude. The M4700 isn't terribly heavy, its a 15.5" machine with a lot packed in. Dell even provides a 'Owners Manual' that guides you on taking it apart from top to bottom. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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I personally have a 2014 Macbook Pro and a Lenovo T530 at work. They're both great machines. All of the T/Wx40 Lenovos I've seen just suck compared to the earlier ones. Issues with docks, display output weirdness, they're a huge pain. I don't have much experience with Dell professional line stuff but I've heard good things. Mac Pros are solid but you have to deal with OSX bullshit sometimes, especially regarding window positioning. If you use Windows/SMB networking their stack is total loving subpar dogshit. NFS works fine, so I'm 97% sure they're doing it on purpose because they're assholes. Wrar fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Just got pulled over going 55 in a 40 and as soon as I told him I just fixed the outage he let me go without a warning. Guess they couldn't even get 911 calls during the outage.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Why are people stealing gas when it's like $0.80 a gallon right now? (Thanks Obama) nm posted:Are dell laptops (the enterprise ones) generally decent? The m4600 is a bit bigger and heavier than I'd like, but something that is modular and iser servicable is right up my alley. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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88h88 posted:I feel you're going to need to share the story here. Story time! Ok I guess. [E/N]Lets call dude who showed up N, the other dude who was involved in the robbery T and my co-worker J. So about 4 years ago iirc, N and T were living at my house on and off and were some damned good friends. Like they got a gun pulled on them for telling off some dude in a parking lot after he was being a complete jackass to me for driving too close to him and they didn't care, would do it again. I genuinely believed this and still think they would have before the robbery. Anyways, me, T and N got into some hard drugs and other poo poo after a while and it kinda started to break our friendship apart. I found they had been taking my card while I was asleep and pulling money out to get drugs for two weeks just before christmas. When I confronted them about it, they denied it then waited until I was at a concert and broke into my house. They stole a laptop, 4k in jewlery and a few other things including a stuffed animal head off my wall that I got from my grandfather. They got caught, N got 2 years, but was released early, T got 3 years and served the entirety of it. Since then, N has been generally keeping clean, trying to get his poo poo together and I've been happy to hear it. It still doesn't mean I was happy to find out he's hanging out at one of my co-worker's houses and now that co-worker knows way more abput me than I'm really comfortable with. And doesn't mean that upon seeing him that I didn't have a voice in my head screaming to grab a breaker bar and play baseball with his skull.[E/N] Its not a period of my life I'm proud of, its not something I'm comfortable with people I work with knowing about and I'm mostly annoyed I can't do anything about this. It was just a big kick in the nuts at the end of a lovely month.
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Motronic posted:AppleCare will do the same thing, even including covering some really stupidity damage at times - but you really shouldn't be buying Lenovos anymore if they need that much goddamn work. I just got handed yet another one that has a keyboard dock error. It's one of those laptops that flips over into a tablet. My wife wanted that feature because she figured she'd use it all the time. At least one of those service calls was from a lovely third party charger that could be plugged in with the polarity reversed; the battery charging circuit didn't like that. For what it is, and for how my wife treats it, it's held up remarkably well. ilkhan posted:Still $2.45 for me in CA. The important lesson here is "gently caress Cali". You fun-ruiners imposed your emissions laws on the rest of the country.
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