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Rhyno posted:Drywall work is complete! We're ready to sand the rough spots and start cleaning so we can prime. Basics are to knock the gloss off, if glossy. You can sand, or there are liquid products that will do it. Gotta give the paint something to bite into. If it's just unpainted wood (sorry, haven't watched the whole video tour), you're probably ready to go as is.
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everdave posted:And also this car looks pretty ok: Nice Volkswagen. meltie posted:Serious talk: this is a good opportunity to use an eyepatch for a few days! Seriously considering it.
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MomJeans420 posted:I hate the American work culture of showing up to work even if you're super sick, to show you're such a dedicated and tough worker. We need to shun and mock those who show up and become the office typhoid mary. There's no way it helps productivity / profitability to get everyone else sick. I get paid hourly with no PTO. I can't afford to miss work, so fukc 'em - I'm going to get everyone *else* sick. slidebite posted:The only thing I hate even more are policies where employers demand doctors notes and have minimal paid sick days which force people to come to work sick. Hi there! Only replace "minimal" with "no". Gingerbread House Music posted:You literally only have to deal with the clunky interface once... I don't deal with it at all. Literally every network-capable printer I've worked with since 2000 (admittedly, this would be mostly HP printers) have a built in webserver. They're set to DHCP out of the box. Let it acquire an IP, then print out the configuration page to get that IP. Go to that IP from a browser on a PC on the same network and set up everything else there, including a static IP. Printers still suck, which is amazing in TYOOL 2018. edit: goddammit. I forgot to get my leftovers from our team lunch today before they cleaned out the fridge. This included a full piece of eggnog cheesecake, as well as the remainder of the salmon and rice I had. Nuts. I mean, I didn't pay for it, but I hate wasting good food, and it was good. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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Rhyno posted:In early 1996, I was a very small guy. 5'1" and maybe 125lbs. I'd also recently changed schools and didn't have many friends. So I was a target and dude nearly twice my size beat the unholy gently caress out of me. Like, beat me so bad I got knocked out. And after all the hoopla he got a single day of suspension because basketball is more important than an child's safety. Living well is the best revenge. Illigetimi non carborundum - "Don't let the bastards grind you down." Applebees Appetizer posted:Tbh dude, everyone is different when it comes to that, I like a heavy cover but my wife hates it because she runs hotter than i do. One time she brought home a paper thin quilt and I was like no way that's gonna work for me, and of course she got mad for a minute but whatever, I like to be warm when I sleep. So I use my nice heavy quilt and she uses the loving sheet Yeah, I just use my own additional blanket as needed, and my wife will kick off the comforter as needed. It shouldn't be complicated. Olympic Mathlete posted:*edit: related, I finally got around to readjusting the speaker setup in the workshop. Oh, my. Currently, I've got a PC power supply powering an old Pioneer CD car deck (with bad CD, but has AUX in) pushing two 10" no-name home stereo speakers up on the walls, and a pair of Boss 6x9s mounted in the eaves outside the garage door. I should at least get a wall plate for the leads to the 6x9s. Currently the wires just go through a hole in the drywall. When I rebuild my workbenches and shelving, I'm going to pop one of my old audio-only home receivers out there. I have several that are perfectly good, but no longer up to home theater duty due to lack of video switching or inputs. Wish I'd kept the 8" home towers I used to have. They were better than these cheap-os, though realistically, what I have now is fine for the garage. Olympic Mathlete posted:The rack that powers the setup is only 1000w total, it's just that the speaker designs are super efficient so don't need much pushing. The db meter on the kit only goes to 120db and it pegs that with relative ease, it's rarely above 100db though generally. I think I've just decide to use Fitzmaurice's "Auto Tuba" horn-loaded design in my Crown Vic rather than adding another sealed-box 10" to the current one I have. And maybe a pair of "Davids" for the house.
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InitialDave posted:Could be worse. Fuckin hell that's a lot of bikes.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
Gonna. Assuming his graph of the Tuba's output with an 8" vs a sealed 12" is accurate, that's what I'm looking for. More oomph, without filling up the trunk. I've got that area over the axle to play with, if you're familiar with late Panther chassis cars, which should be big enough for the design. I need to measure to be sure, though. I knew folded horns were more efficient, but I've never really seen a design for cars.
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Powershift posted:They added stubby bob to GTA online, so i made a john player special liveried stubby bob because i am a baaaaaaaad maaaaaaaan Does it do wheelies? Olympic Mathlete posted:In my old house I had a Table Tuba laying behind the sofa running an 8" JBL GTO804 driver, the amp was a cheap 100w plate amp turned up to about 3 and the thing slammed. It was awesome, the full cinema experience for about £120 in bits and wood. You should be pretty happy with an autotuba if like you say you have the space for it. I'd consider a Tuba for the house as well, but honestly, the single 12" ported sub we have on the home theater doesn't even get a workout. If I had a soundproofed theater room or something, maybe. My wife and I sleep at different times, and pretty much don't watch the same movies, so, meh. I put a big-rear end TV in the bedroom for her to use, but she still just takes over the living room, since she gets home from work before I do.
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Powershift posted:yyyyyyyyyup Welp, time to fire GTA up again. They even got the hitch receiver in there. Gingerbread House Music posted:I just painted our living and dining areas. gently caress. PAINTING. At least I won't have to gently caress with that when we do ours. My wife works at a paint and drywall company. The guys do side jobs - but only painting. I still have to do the drywall myself. And with how many cracks mine has, it may just be easier to pull it all down and start over.
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Fermented Tinal posted:Finally got the estimate for the damage to the Forte yesterday, almost a month after the accident. I bitched about it in Slack, but for the rest of you here's what's up. So, OK, I'm having trouble parsing this. Are you saying that the appraiser inflated the value of the car, presumably to make it more difficult to total, despite the high cost of repairing it? That's hosed, and you can fight back on that, basically like property tax valuations. Ask them to show you where the numbers came from. Also, claim the front bumper on the insurance and make *them* argue with the body shop. Not your job. Oh, and gently caress your boss for that ultimatum. He can't demand that. My answer will always be "I'll find a new job, dickbag". Or better still, demand that he either pay you more to compensate for the commute, or move the company, or you'll make him find a new employee.
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I forgot to note that I had a '79 or '80 RX-7 pull up to me at a stop sign in my neighborhood this morning. Now I need to walk or bike around to figure out where my rotary buddy lives and introduce myself. It appeared to be stock, aside from the cheap muffler-shop muffler (that was probably strangling the poor thing.)
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Suburban Dad posted:
Titanium, at least the one I have, scratches easily, which surprised the heck out of me. I’m wearing tungsten carbide now, but thinking about a silicone one. Normally, I just take the ring off when working in the garage or whatever. My dad has kept his gold ring on his keychain for as long as I can remember.
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Good opportunity to get a silicone one now. I kind of wish I had done that in the first place after seeing so many mechanics at work with them. Pretty smart and easily replaced if it gets cut or whatever.
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Queen Combat posted:Almost as good as Stormageddon. Wasn't that the baby in Doctor Who season... 7 or 8? edit: season 6. "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. That's what he calls himself." Darchangel fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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ilkhan posted:My ring is simple steel. WTF are you guys doing with expensive wedding rings? Tungsten Carbide rings are cheap. edit: titanium, too.
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Queen Combat posted:TEACH ME YOUR WAYS I have to admit that made me laugh. Somewhat Heroic posted:Hey guys happy Friday what is going on in Yeah, that went off the rails quick. Not as bad as some, but definitely uncomfortable.
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Because of course they're not. Why would health issues be covered by health insurance. Ask me about the insurance industry's recognition of the psoriatic arthritis that my wife has versus osteoarthritis none.
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Geoj posted:Genius move on the cops' part - lets set up a spike strip in the middle of a bunch of parked cars in a residential area. What's the worst that could happen? Pretty sure all those folks were stopped there because the cops made them due to a lunatic approaching. Not sure who thought that was the best option.
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Mr-Spain posted:So I don't think I need an excuse to go to a car show, but I'm trying to get some buds to go to Radwood in Austin next February the 23rd. As far as I know it's at Driveway Austin Motorsports as far as I can tell right now. So anyone in Austin or around there (I'm going from Houston) we can meet up for 80's-90's car whatnot. Entrance is ten bucks, to show a car (1980-1999) is $30. Kids 12 and under free. I may need to plan a trip to Austin (from Dallas) just for the hell of it.
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I have a 2000s K-Mart MTB. It makes me stronk, because it weighs 500 pounds. Or it would if I rode it. edit: or tried to move it.
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Wrench is on Steam Early Access, if you want to work on a race car virtually. https://store.steampowered.com/app/936720/Wrench/
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Is losing the 10mm socket an achievement I don't know, but it should be. ExplodingSims posted:Holy gently caress why does everything HVAC related on cars have to be so impossibly difficult? Because, cars. At least you don't have to climb on the roof, or go in the basement. Javid posted:loving RockAuto. I've done this a number of times. Due to their shipping fuckery, Rock Auto is becoming less of a deal, especially up against Amazon. As STR has noted before, I use RA to look up the part numbers, then use those on Amazon, since Amazon's "what fits" database is suspect. cakesmith handyman posted:The way Amazon is going I feel you're more likely to get counterfeit parts from Amazon these days. This is real problem, particularly with electronic, and Amazon needs to tackle it before it's big enough that people stop using them. Someone posted a podcast a while back that talked about it, and why it started happening. Basic reason is: third party stores. Phone posted:asmasm's game is out in early access! Please do the needful and check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/936720/Wrench/ I'm sad and disappointed that you don't read my posts: Darchangel posted:Wrench is on Steam Early Access, if you want to work on a race car virtually. (I'm kidding. I get that people sometimes skim.)
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Same here. Gotta look at those listings carefully, especially the “sold by” or “fulfilled by” part of the listing.
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Suburban Dad posted:They need their own drones to fight them battlebots style. I want that to happen. Or maybe focused EMP projectors or something. InitialDave posted:We make them watch Hot Fuzz and Dredd at the start of every shift to get them in the right frame of mind. Sounds good to me. Just don't mess up and use the Stallone Judge Dredd.
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ExplodingSims posted:https://twitter.com/damianpaletta/status/1076315598618013696?s=19 gently caress that guy and gently caress his stupid-rear end wall. It’s literally cheaper to let the illegals come in. We can’t afford an actually effective wall. Never mind that most illegals are overstayed visas. I hope this poo poo get cleared up before it fucks up QC’s schooling. Nice work on the class notes - for something that costs as much as it does, it’s remarkably lovely how the school is cheating out on that. At the very least, when I was in college (in ancient times) if a professor had notes like that, they made them available at the campus copy center for the cost of printing and binding like you did. Usually pretty cheap.
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STR posted:That's nearly $200 more than the one I'm looking at once you get a battery and charger. Want to guess who owns Milwaukee Tools? Want to guess who owns Ryobi? Same company: Techtronic Industries. They also own Homelite, Hoover, OReck, and Dirt Devil, among others. And yes, they are a Chinese company.
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Yeah, that’s pretty much how I knew that. In other news, it’s currently raining buckets here in Dallas. Pretty impressive from the 15th floor of a building.
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DJ Commie posted:Took my sweet B6T swapped 323 Wagon to the smog referee and passed all the emissions tests, except the ECU is from a 49 State/Federal spec car, so now I have to find a 1991-1994 California Spec ECU. Smog ref was cool guy and did everything he possibly could do to make it pass, but the state requires the correct ECU part number* I love the fact that, in California, despite the car passing all actual emissions tests, it still fails, because gently caress you, that's a different part. I know the RX-7 guys catch hell if the replace the three lovely '80s catalytic converters with one better, modern converter. Forest-for-the-trees, penny wise - pund foolish bureaucratic nonsense.
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