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Only good thing about December is the days start getting longer in 3 weeks. From the last thread talking about Laptops/tablets, quote:Also not reparable at all, and you won't be able to clean the fans in these (unless they dramatically changed something from the 3/4), if that matters to you. I've enjoyed my SP3 a ton, but I would never buy one again. Point still absolutely stands though that opening up for repair is difficult at best, but they are extremely reliable and great units. i5 w/8GB is the sweet spot for value, IMHO. You can always stick in a big MicroSD card for bulk storage.
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Galler posted:The most reliable stud finder I've used has been half a dozen neodymium magnets. I just wave some around on the wall until they stick to something and then repeat above and below the one that stuck. It doesn't take very long to create a line of magnets showing where the drywall got nailed or screwed to the stud. I never thought of doing that. I presume you just put a cloth between it and the drywall as your moving the magnet?
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Galler posted:I drag the heel of my hand across the wall while holding the end off the magnet the tiniest bit off the surface off the wall and when I feel a tug I gently let them stick. I've never marked up the wall doing that. They're strong enough that I can easily feel them pulling towards nails and screws and they firmly hold on through any compound and paint but they don't dig in at all. They're 1/4" x 1/4" x 1" bar magnets (supposedly n48 but they were from amazon so who knows) that I bought for general magnet based fuckery but somehow I ended up using them as a stud finder when I got pissed at my 'real' stud finder. The size works out well as there's a lot of magnet to hold onto but the narrow end is just about the same size as the head of drywall nail or screw. The really small disk magnets would probably be difficult to get back off the wall without leaving a mark. Belt test for Taekwondo today. Pretty sure I did OK because my instructor came up to me afterwards and told me I did good (though it's not for her to judge, it's the masters), but the coolest part was we did blackbelt testing today as well which only happens 2x per year, and one was a "mature" woman, I'd say 50-ish, going for her 3rd dan/degree. She's been 2nd for many years, probably 10+, but decided to do it several months back and trained drat hard. There is something cool as hell seeing a ~50ish woman breaking multiple boards with knife hand and kicks, and then fighting off a 2 on 1 of 3rd dan blackbelts in sparring coming after her. She was getting exhausted, being constantly chased down by them and after about 3 minutes of SOLID hard core sparring (which is god drat exhausting even if it doesn't sound like much) the master said "score one more point and we'll call it" the crowd went full in cheering her on and about 15 seconds after she did an awesome high section punch on one of them, a 21 year old dude, and just landed it perfect. Snapped the guys head back and surprised him. The crowd of about 75-100 people, plus us students went nuts. Was fantastic to watch something like that with a woman old enough to be a grandma to kick rear end.
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She's happily married and one of her daughters is 2nd dan as well so your odds are probably pretty slim with mom... but pretty sure the daughter is single so that might be a possibility? and if she isn't receptive she would probably beat the poo poo out of you if she thought you had a thing for mom Seriously though, it really was cool. Most people in the martial arts are younger, but our club has a healthy population of 30+ of various belts so it's a ton of fun and we're pretty tight. Today for my test I was partnered with a 16-17 year old which is close to my height (although I probably outweigh him by 75+lbs) and to be fair he got a really good kick in on me in sparring because he's fast which got a good reaction from the crowd, but after that I was after him, blocking the hell out of him and then he was defensive but fun as hell.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:My greatest hope is that they used an SA gift card to do this. I used to actually be anti giftcard (although maybe not quite as rabid) as I thought they reeked of pure laziness, but I've mellowed a lot. As I've become older I know that I've become impossible to buy for so I typically get gift cards and I'm appreciative of it for many of the reasons stated earlier. I far, far prefer that over some tacky poo poo I'll end up throwing away, donating or just re-gifting to someone and cash would just go straight into my wallet into general cash. Also, they are a godsend for people with addiction issues that can't be trusted with straight cash.
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Dealer installed option is my guess
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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.
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Rhyno posted:Somebody helped themselves to several boxes of the flooring me that had been set aside for us. Looking to be about 200 sq ft short now of doing the entire second floor in a unified color and pattern. In other  news, my back pain is not going away.Physiotherapist believes she narrowed it down to psoas and QL so we've been working on that with her and my massage therapist. Still, my martial arts seem to make me feel better as I stretch/exercise so I'm keeping on that.... and got my results from testing last week so I got a belt promotion  The getting older bullshit and just having general body problems suck. E: removed a bunch of poo poo nobody cares about slidebite fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 9, 2018 |
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I like watching the Leno videos when he is talking to someone about their car, and he's just dragging his hands all over on it and the owners are standing right there, probably screaming inside.
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everdave posted:What insurance offers and what you accept are two totally different things. They assume most people will just say OK. Be the greasy wheel. Squeaky wheel. Be the squeaky wheel. Don't take a lowball offer. Insurance companies are famous for that. They have literally nothing to lose on their side by throwing lowballs out. I would eat a bullet if I had to drive anything near a 100 miles for a commute.  Jesus15 minutes on a bad day. At home eating lunch right now. As an employer, I really don't give a poo poo how far away you live as long as you get to work on time and doesn't impact your job. If you are continually late though, please have the courtesy of leaving home a little earlier to rectify it though - but that's common sense. I'd far rather you are at work 10 minutes early than 10 minutes late every day, hell, you could probably leave early 9 times out of 10 to make it work out.
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Suburban Dad posted:How do you folks need so much hard drive space? I try not be be a physical or digital hoarder. I think I have maybe 2tb all told, and 1tb is a backup external. Hey man, 4K Is there a primer on NAS and how they work? I have an 8tb USB3.0 drive attached to my main PC but I think it would be handy to share to all my devices in the house. Goober Peas posted:I didn't pay attention to utilities the last time I was in AUS - are those propane tanks? I'm guessing you guys use those like we do Natural Gas?
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Hey look what I found in my garage Powered it up for first time in probably 20 years.  I am 1000% positive that the memory of the old flight sims is better than actually playing the old flight sims 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If it still has a black brick power supply, they tend to drift over time and fry chips from overvoltage. The supplies aren't repairable. The old 1702 still holds its own though, decent CRT. You Am I posted:Nice setup there with the 1702  My last Commodore PC (well, other than this thing) was an Amiga 500 w/1084S. I loved that thing. But also probably a lot of whole lot of rose colored glasses going on with that too.
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Hey, totally OT question here but I know we've got a good cross section of people here so hoped someone might be able to help me. It's a MS Outlook question that's been bothering me for years. You know how you start a new email and type in the "TO:" address field, outlook goes through your contacts and gives you auto fill options? For some reason, Outlook mysteriously drops autofilling some names periodically for no reason that I can tell. Even if it's a contact I use with some regularity. I search through the contacts and the contact name is still there, so I am either forced to manually start a new email from the contact page or just find a previous email and do it from there. Any ideas wtf is happening? Drives me up the wall. I believe it's Office 2013.
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Well, that makes sense. I wish it was smart enough to just delete the addresses which have only been used once instead of ones used multiple times. I'll clean them out and start just adding new ones as I use them. Should keep me safe for a couple years. Thanks for that - I haven't found that all the times I checked.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Also, Outlook 2013 and newer uses an AutoCompleteStream file and not the old style .nk2 file, but I think you can still use nk2 edit to see the entries in that file. You can get it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html Thanks, I think it is 2013. It is my work PC however that the IT group keeps them pretty locked down so I might not be able to run an .exe on it. Worst case, I'll try to flush it with the link spog gave and just start from scratch.
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Saw Solo. Didn't expect much, wasn't disappointed. Didn't hate it as much as some of the nerd rage I've heard, but I certainly didn't like it. It wasn't until I saw Clint Howard that I realized Ron Howard directed it.
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There are few things as good and comfy as warm banana bread and a big smear of butter
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the spyder posted:What recipe do you use? It's a simple, basic family recipe that's nothing fancy at all. MOst measurements are "ish" but as long as you don't go crazy off it'll still be good. 6-8 bananas (frozen OK if thawed and drain off excess water) 2 eggs 2/3 cup white sugar 1/3 cup butter (cool is OK, cut into small pieces if so) 1 healthy tbsp-ish of REAL vanilla extract I add in about 2 or so tbsp of honey as well. blend above all together Afterwards, add in: 1/2 tsp salt 1/4-1/2 tsp baking soda 2 tsp baking powder 1-3/4 cups white flour mix all together really well, about 5 minutes straight. Let sit for approx 15-20 min Pour into well greased (either butter or spray) loaf pan. Here I will usually drizzle a nice bead of honey along the center which is wear it breaks open in the oven. Bake @ 350. It takes me about 1:15 where I live. Test with toothpick starting around 1hr to narrow it down baking time. e: It's a good base recipe to experiment with too. I've tried adding cocoa, molasses, etc, with varying levels of success. slidebite fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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I like the floor. Why didn't you tape/mask the trim? Or did you and that paint is just on the tape? What are you using for an underlay?
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Rhyno posted:I pulled all the trim so I could patch, sand, prime and paint all of it at once. I will reinstall it so it rests directly on the flooring and it should look pretty good. This room is the priority since it's where we'll be sleeping but I'm on track and should be able to knock out a could rooms by friday. I mean around the windows and door. Are you doing something different there? Also, you probably know this already, but make sure when you lay it that the floor isn't tight against the wall, there should be a bit of a gap there. The baseboards will hide it. That built-on underlay isn't great but it's better than nothing. You might want to get a piece of thin underlay and try the floor with/without it and see if you prefer it with. A flooring store might give you a few sq/ft to try, or even if not buy some. It can make a pretty big difference. e: It also helps if your subfloor isn't perfect slidebite fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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hay wanna play with my legos?
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As a non bike guy, is it reasonable possible to build a bike from scratch just picking components? Or do you have to buy a quality bike in the first place and upgrade everything?
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Carl Sagan passed away 22 years ago today. One of those people that I heard of at the time, but for me it took me a few more years after his death to really appreciate him.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I now this I *have* to check out Only the finest Chinese tools made by slave labor are able to display the mighty POWER-FIST logo. https://www.google.com/search?q=pri...b-S3TXxt4VNElM:
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Is this from a Japanese game show or something?  https://twitter.com/i/status/1077159034258636800
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I'll admit, I chuckled at the fat Megan bit, but yeah that's pretty much grade school name calling. It doesn't matter if you understand why it bothers her or not, it does, at least enough for her to say something to ask for it to stop. And yeah I have to agree, calling someone "fat" to their face, even jokingly, especially to someone who you suspect has esteem issues, isn't exactly showcasing maturity.
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meatpimp posted:When has "showcasing maturity" EVER been one of our goals?
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That's lovely In other news, just hooked up my new PS4 pro and realized how much faster my internet connection is vs installing a game (rdr2) directly from the BluRay. The future is now.
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