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I need a replacement ski jacket. My initial looking around is sort of discouraging. Do they still make things similar to like the race jackets from the 90s? I have an old Spyder and like stuff like the tall, large diameter (so you can wear a hat and facewarmer or whatever) collar, removable or at least separate from the collar hood, the double zipper and almost knee-length so I can unzip the bottom to sit down, the billion pockets, and some zippered venting. I know this is sort of specific, but looking around I don't really see any of these features, never mind all of them. Do they make poo poo like this any more or has outerwear moved on without me along with ski shapes? RIP my 205's 
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Jewce posted:In the last thread someone suggested a wallet that I really liked, but I can't track down the brand anymore. Wallets are asked about often so it's hard to search through the old thread, so I'm hoping someone here knows what I'm lookin gfor. When I google titanium wallet I get a lot of pictures of titanium/aluminum frames/plates with bands wrapping around them. Would you recognize it by sight or do you need one from another thread by name? I even see one opening a bottle.
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m.hache posted:I'm looking for an electric heating blanket for my Fiance who is perpetually cold. I have no idea if they exist but are there any that can charge up and be used wireless? It'd be great to have the blanket charge up during the day at work so she could start it up when she get's home and get toasty. I don't think there are battery operated blankets, but I got my wife (who is perpetually cold) a hoodie from this line and it's like the best gift I ever gave her.
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Lava Lamp Goddess posted:My boyfriend is really hard to shop for, so I'm asking this thread for Christmas ideas. Looking for unique or interesting things that aren't over $100. His likes include: Thermapen makes a great meat thermometer.
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Doghouse posted:I'm looking for a good pillow and am willing to spend $ to get a good one. I sleep on my side and often use two pillows. I guess I like medium hard/softness. I once used a pillow that had some kind of microbeads and it was amazing but any kind is ok. Considering the goon community, I can't believe I'm the first to mention this, but have you considered pillow mods? Forget about those expensive, off-the-shelf premium pillows and build your own pillow rigs that have the qualities that you desire. Heck, some of those fancy commercial pillows should be avoided for their outright theft of components and ideas that were developed in the pillmod community. Notably, Serta's FaceHugger line was recalled entirely after they realized the looming PR disaster that a bunch of sleep nerds would incite. I've been into pillow modding for a few years now and have managed to improve my sleep efficiency index from 0.69 to 0.85 (I'm a class 4b sleeper). You can build a full-featured pillmod for less than $100. Hell, I've made a half-dozen models and not spent more than $200. Before you start modding, you should heed the standard warning and check if you have sleep apnea or anything medically obstructive. Sure, your vanilla pillows are probably annoying to sleep on, but sleep apnea could be compounding the issue by permitting minor annoyances, like pillow temperature, to wake you easily. More importantly, a few people with pillmods have died while sleeping. Although many of us doubt the involvement of their mods (people who enter the community are prone to sleep issues in the first place), it's still good advice to follow. If you do have sleep apnea, then pillmods should be hugely advantageous. In fact, the pillmod community began around sleep apnea machines (CPAPs) and their inconveniences, especially for those whose preferred sleep postures are obstructed by CPAP facepieces. The earliest mods involved simply cutting channels into memory foam pillows, and then using freezer gel inserts to cool the pillow. They would also have to reinforce the channel so that the weight of a person's head wouldn't crush the air tubes. But now, especially with the availability of Arduino kits and cooling systems intended for electronics, there are hundreds of pillmods that you could complete in a few hours. It seems like most people are drawn to do PCS projects for their first mods. That's fine, but be aware that the better PCS (Pillow Coolant Systems) typically are of moderate difficulty or higher. They are also costly and time-consuming, relative to other mods you could start with such as glowmods, larms, and just simply modding a pillow's material and shape to your headspace. Here's my first glowmod larm, for example:  This is a good starter mod combination because people like it for light therapy and smooth awakenings. The pillow gradually gets brighter until your wake-up time. You can also set it to gradually get darker at night. It's the adult version of those Glow-Worms that infants love. But if you are dead-set on a PCS mod, I suggest strongly that you forget about those flashy, complex pillmods that involve watercooled networks of capillaries or, even worse, active heat sinks (such as piezoelectric heat transfer plates). Instead, opt for something silent, passive, and/or battery-based. For example, I have build a mod called "The Vulcan Nerve Pinch" that will get you about 20 degrees F in cooling delta on soft air ducting alone. Yeah, that's not much, but don't be the guy who blows $300 on his first project and builds a pillow that gives his face hypothermia on the first test run. Once you get some basic know-how, and you're beyond the flashy mods and ready for something purely functional, check out shape or volume mods. These will actively keep your head at the perfect elevation. JB_Artgow is well known for his expertise in this area. I'm using his Face-Lover v3 mod (Affectionately also known as "Face-Fucker v3") every night. That's where Serta hijacked their FaceHugger brand name from. Allegedly. The Face-Fucker involves inflation and deflation of semi-rigid water bladders to redistribute the pow's volume. It sounds complex, but it's easy if you buy a parts kit. It uses a silent pump and osmotic gradients to work. You can calibrate it based on both your head's weight and angle. Unlike many other volume mods, this is one-mod-fits-all, so you don't have to design around your giant noggin. Artgow also has a ebook on Amazon (It's only $2), with instructions for something like 100 mods. He doesn't make money on the book, but he does make a few pennies if you buy parts kits from him directly. This beats the poo poo out of finding a Radio Shack that still stocks diodes and capacitors. Now I'd like to brag for a bit and talk about some of the more exciting, extreme pillmod possibilities, some of which I just warned you against doing. I'm in the middle of building a custom, arduino-controlled pow with about 12 different mods. Although piezoelectric coolers are all the rage right now, I'm sticking to good old fashioned microducting for cooling. However, I'm using infrared LEDs for heating. The latter are normally expensive, but Dealextreme sells them in bulk for cheap. I think they're sold out recently thanks to jerks like me, however. I don't like a warm face. The heating mod is just for camping in the cold or when I want to use the pillow as a heating pad for sore muscles. Also: sheer awesomeness. Here's a schematic (not mine):  As for straight-up ducted cooling, the next image is my take on how one spiderwebs their coolant ducts. You have to be careful here not to bend the tiny tubes more than about 60 degrees or put them in a position where your noggin might bend them. That might look complex, but I used only 4 channels with a coolant turnover (in this case, just water) of 2 seconds for the entire surface to cycle.  By the way, medical tubing works just fine, but make sure that it's both flexible and a directional heat conductor, like Vekspan, which is used for anastomosis. If you buy non-direction stuff, hose down the pow-side with some plastidip from your hardware store, or just throw down a layer of aluminized cloth. The lovely crinkly stuff costs a whopping $1 at Dollar Tree, labeled as an "emergency blanket." You can pilfer the softer stuff from a BBQ apron. Once this thing is done, I intend to stress test it by running both the heating and cooling systems and letting them fight it out to the death. Of course, in a battle of the PCS vs PHS, I suspect the PHS will win and then torch my pillow. This pillow is directional, obviously. Because I can't flip it over, I've build the base and core layers from flexible expanded polystyrene and ceramic fibers, which will probably give me mesothelioma eventually, but drat if I won't be well rested at least. I was inspired by a dude who made a low-rent version of aerogel so that he could win an award for "Lightest Pillow" at Pillowcon 2010. My pow, without the mod gear, weighs 2 ounces.  Now, uniquely for me, because my bed is up against a brick wall, I need a pillow that can deal with a little bit of moisture. I like the brick wall for it being a huge heat sink, but it causes moisture to condense on pillows, especially fancy modded ones. This problem is solved by the combination of my core layers and a rechargeable dessicant. During the day, the dessicant tumbler is turned and heated, thus expelling moisture. It's so powerful that it'll suck the sweat right out of my massive head, but at least I'll never again have sweaty pillows. Speaking of which, at Pillcon 2011, I was the massive fucker who won the door prize of John Cezrik's faux rabbit fur surface:  You'd think that such fur would be irritating against your face after a half-hour or so, but Cezrik's material has microcapillaries built to certain OCT ranges (OCT is optimal cheek temperature). It's like sleeping on a cloud of baby buttcheeks. Speaking of babies, I actually enjoy the sound of water pumping through the coolant tubes right next to my ears. It's very soothing. Babies, apparently, are calmed by the sound of water swishing in your mouth right next to their ears, and that's what this is like. Also being built into this pillow o' mine will be some alarm aromatics. Not only can I wake up to a gradually-brightening, sunny pow, but the aroma of my choice (Bacon) can also waft out. And if the gentle sound of the water pumping isn't soothing enough, I've got three speakers and the Arduino can easily generate some white noise or play sounds of various environments like the motherfucking ocean. I prefer low-range, soft brown noise. I'll have none of that hissy poo poo that store-bought machines put out. The nice thing about having noise generated in your pillow is that the sound doesn't permeate the rest of the room. So if your significant other likes a dead quiet room and you need some noise, this is a fine solution. Of course, all those mods result in an awful lot of wiring:   That's enough pillmod talk, I suppose. gently caress it bitches, let's glow this joint:  If this kind of thing appeals to you, there's also the blanketmod community. However, I tend to stay away from them due to it being populated by perverts who essentially make sex toys out of their comforters, which they call, obviously, "cumforters." Pillmodders are, in essence, nerds who are poor sleepers. Blanketmodders, in contrast, cut dick-sized holes in blankets with anime patterns on them and think they're engineers. There is, however, a clever mod that came out of that community that involves a mere $30 in parts and makes your bed vibrate like the "magic fingers" machines found in crappy motels. It's really just a few off-balance weights powered by scrap motors, but entertaining. e: this was a post made by Noni, I couldn't quote it because archives. uwaeve has a new favorite as of 13:54 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Any recommendations on garage wall storage/track systems? I don't immediately see a lot of reviews, nothing on sweethome that I could find.
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Kaizoku posted:If money means nothing to you, the elfa stuff from container store is fantastic and incredibly easy to self-install (which saves a boatload, considering a 2-car with installation can exceed $1k a lot quicker than you'd hope). It also goes on sale often enough that if you can avoid it, don't pay full price. Thanks, I'll check it out.
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As with anything, check thesweethome.com for recommendations. For example, they have a long article specifically about choosing a robovac, even highlighting situations where the runner-up might be better. I've been looking at these things for a while and just last week pulled the trigger on the Roomba 650, happy with it so far.
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Every time phone holders come up i jump in to say proclipusa.com makes amazing stuff. Expensive as hell but rock solid. They also have a sale every month so you can get 20% off during some events, though it's usually 10 or 15%.
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Every time phone holders come up here I gush about proclipusa.com. They're spendy as gently caress but also rock solid for years of phone in and out multiple times a day. They also run a sale every month, randomly between 5% and 20%. They also make the mounts for the car (the rock solid part), and they make it for any car. We actually had one in a RAV4 that has the same panel as a few posts above, worked great.
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Julet Esqu posted:I recently got one of these things for my cats (and a dog) and I like it a lot. I specifically wanted one that wasn't made of plastic (unhygienic), but that was still had a decent capacity. This was about all I found that fit that description. Some people had issues with the pump and filter, but this Amazon reviewer dude Wolf Blitzer did a mod that seems relatively simple and that he claims solved all his problems. I haven't tried it yet since I still have a ton of filters. Maybe some day. They go on sale once a month or so, and unless they are changing how they operate, they are due for a 15 or 20% off sale, cause looking at my email, they e been running 10% off for like eight months straight. You can prob sign up for the email alerts then unsubscribe after you buy.
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Pick posted:I am already dying of cold this winter. Please recommend me products that will help keep me warmer. Are any of the battery socks any good? I do have clothes with good insulation, like Pendleton scarves, but I really need things that make the heat for me. https://www.milwaukeetool.com/heated-gear
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Cross posting from deals subforum because I love these phone mounts so much. 20% off expensive but great phone mounts, customized for different car models so they hook into panel seams, making them rock solid. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3799438
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What're the couple of goon-approved underwear brands? Need good boxer briefs, feel like it's come up in this thread but can't find it immediately.
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Great, thanks! e: Dick Trauma posted:MeUndies. After years of Jockey and Hanes brand boxer briefs I'm never going back. I'm not going to ask how you got your username, but I am taking your underwear recommendations extremely seriously. uwaeve has a new favorite as of 18:38 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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bongwizzard posted:Assuming there is no baseboard molding to make it standoff and that the wall and the floor are reasonably perpendicular to each other, what you can do is push it as close as you can, pull some measurements for what you need to close the gap, and find print shop I can color match and print to a hard substrate like Sintra, or another type of plastic board. Then you can just get some good double face VHB tape and secure it neatly around the sides of the enclosure like a little trim piece. I would absolutely leave the top open of course to let heat vent. And the bottom.
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Humerus posted:Recommendations for a cell phone holder that mounts into your CD slot? I just bought a regular suction cup/adhesive cell phone holder for my car but it didn't fit where I wanted it to go so I'm thinking the kind that slide into the CD player might be better. There's a ton of options on Amazon and I just want one that will fit my phone, hold it securely, and not destroy the CD player. I have a Nexus 6P which is basically the same size as the Plus sized iPhones, for reference. Get a proclipusa.com mount. Pricy but awesome, get the springloaded one. The whole store goes on sale monthly for anything from 5 to 20% off if you're willing to wait.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:I also need one of these but for an iPhone 6 Plus with the Otter Box. Although it sounds like whatever works for the Nexus 6P will fit. This is the one I have. I'd go through the site to pick the vehicle mount etc. Looks like the top spring one I linked may not take an otter box, hopefully they will have something that works. The top hook is spring loaded so you place the top of the phone in it, push up slightly until the port on the bottom of the phone clears the connector, then you push the phone back slightly so the connector lines up with the port and lower the phone onto the connector. Combined with the rock solid vehicle mounts it's one of my favorite products ever and I come in here to shill for them all the time. I'd sign up for their email newsletter, the next 10% + sale will probably be in a week or two, the last one was July 4th.
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Niemat posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for a good pillow? I'm a side and back sleeper (if that matters), and I've traditionally stacked two pillows on top of each other to accommodate side sleeping. My pillows are flat again, and it's time to upgrade. This is not mine, but I believe the original requires archives.
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The tools thread has people ask these questions a lot. Read maybe the last 3 pages or so, I feel like it’s just gone through a round of recommendations.
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the black husserl posted:What makes them stand out from any other bluetooth headphones? They are tiny, light, integrate well with all the Apple stuff (AppleTV in bed lol), have great battery life, have the same charging connector as my phone, idk. I’m sure there are other good ones but they all sort of fall flat in one way or another, the AirPods are just an all-around great product, especially for the money. I take teleconference calls on them all the time as well, not a differentiator but for something I thought I’d rarely use they are like indispensable now. Oh they are also so small they fit under ear protection for yardwork etc. I have whatever ear shape they fall out of but got some foam donut EarPod covers off amazon, change them when they get gross, they still fit in the case and are rock solid in my ears.
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I think there’s a 14 day return policy at Apple stores. Kind of gross to take back ear canal stuff but it’s one of those things you have to try to see if it fits. These are the donuts I use, little bit of a pain to get them on but they stick great in my ears. Others have stippled them with some sugu poo poo, or taken sandpaper to them to roughen them up so they’re not as slippery. I recommend the foam things especially if you’re just giving em a try.
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obi_ant posted:Anyone have suggestions for a cooling pillow? My pillow runs a bit hot and with summer coming I don't want to die. "Noni” posted:
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New backpack time, office, commute, travel. Requirements are: Has to be at least a bit subdued/office worthy. MacBook Pro 15” padded compartment, highly prefer being able to yank it out without putting the bag down (currently have a side zip one that I just drop to my hand, unzip, pull laptop out) Vented back or whatever would be nice Looking at something like the Osprey Pandion Probably 20-30 liter. Will pay for durability/quality/usability.
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Inzombiac posted:Mission Workshop. I'll check em out, thanks!
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Leavemywife posted:Anybody got a line on an inexpensive, but still good, bathrobe? I want to surprise my wife with one, but I don't know bathrobes from buttholes. Im not an expert or anything but my wife didn’t leave me when I gave her one of these: https://turkishtowelcompany.com/product/kimono-peshterry/
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