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DJ Commie posted:Anyone buying stuff for the closing RadioShack stores? I spent close to $500 the last two days at local stores closing down, mostly on SeeedStudio and Adafruit stuff. And LEDs. one receipt was 4.5 feet long, and the one today is around 7.5feet. All of ours in Canada turned into cellphone stores like a decade ago. I'm sort of sad that I can't get in on this rich bounty. Princess Auto has been picking up a bunch of surplus stuff that the Radio Shack warehouse has been clearing out, but it's mostly like Arduino shields and ludicrously priced resistor assortment kits. Seeed stuff would be amazing.
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I paid $17 for a Seeed GRPS Shield and $6 each for two Seeed Ethernet Shields. I don't even have an Arduino. I bought a BASIC Stamp II, the original version blinked many an LED when I was a kid. I think I have enough LEDs to blow one up a day for at least a year. They want too much for the component cabinets though, $300 for each 7 drawer unit. They're nice, but I don't want to spend $900 for enough drawers of bitter nostalgia. I wonder if I should buy the rest of the half dozen GPRS shields they have... DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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mariooncrack posted:The Regals don't look too bad. Not gonna lie, I love the new regal wagon.. I also owned a Saab 95 wagon, so you probably shouldn't listen to me since I obviously love to make bad decisions.
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CornHolio posted:I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I'm 25 minutes from home, I feel my job is safe and it pays well. There's a lot of bullshit to put up with but I think you'll have that anywhere. If the commute time is the big problem, find a way to minimize it. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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4x10s will come back to bite u in the arse when they start asking you to come in for a half day froday
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keykey posted:Not gonna lie, I love the new regal wagon.. I also owned a Saab 95 wagon, so you probably shouldn't listen to me since I obviously love to make bad decisions. 9-5 wagon owns though. I loved needing to pull the engine out of mine. It was great.
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slothrop posted:Thanks, now I'm starving and theres drool all over my keyboard We went to Highlanders Bar and had a nice chat and more than a few beers with Julian, the owner. Fun guy, great taste in beer ![]()
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after a 4 day weekend ive been at work for less then an hour and im already bored to tears
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"Oh FFS" say British goons.
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What's the point of an election now? May stays in power and gets five years of peace and quiet to execute Brexit?
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"Now that you're locked into receiving a good loving, vote for me because I have better lube than they do"
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bolind posted:What's the point of an election now? May stays in power and gets five years of peace and quiet to
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Corbyn is going to doom the UK to a decade of Tories singlehanded. Anyone even slightly competent should have May on toast with all the BS. Otherise I've had so many things gently caress up lately and to top it off tomorrow is an anniversary of something I *really* didnt need reminding of. Axe Murderer is about the best description of how pissed at life I am right now
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ill be a homeowner soon so tory ftw i guess??
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fridge corn posted:ill be a homeowner soon so tory ftw i guess?? Nobody wins. (Except racist old people with massive pensions) I would like to thank my American friends for allowing me to think 'well, it could be worse'
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I dunno, perhaps our economy will survive the trumpocalypse. Can't say I'm optimistic about the post-brexit £.
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Someone who sits near me has a fidget cube. Taking bets now on whether I destroy the cube or punch the person sooner.
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May is such a cynical poo poo. Start the leaving process then call an election as even if she loses the likelihood of getting the Article 50 letter just cancelled will not happen since the EU are rightly pissed off. Of course who will she lose to? Labour are too busy making GBS threads in their own bed then smearing it over themselves and the libdems don't really exist anymore. Hopefully The Raving Monster Loony Party will be on my expat postal ballot.
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DJ Commie posted:Anyone buying stuff for the closing RadioShack stores? I spent close to $500 the last two days at local stores closing down, mostly on SeeedStudio and Adafruit stuff. And LEDs. one receipt was 4.5 feet long, and the one today is around 7.5feet. I stopped going when I found Microcenter.
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InitialDave posted:"Oh FFS" say British goons. Aren't the Tories still under investigation from the last election? Sure hope Britain has a local rope factory that can still provide after Brexit.
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Your political parties have really cute names.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Goddamnit. Just realized I threw away a winning scratchoff ticket. 1) How do you realize you threw away a winning scratch-off? "Sweet, I won $2!" [30 minutes later] "Let me just throw this out, as I clearly don't need it." [30 minutes later] "Whoops!" 2) Scratch-offs and lotteries are a poor tax, don't waste your money on that crap.
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The Midniter posted:
100% true. Funny how many people already have extensive plans about what they would do with their lottery winnings, despite how few people actually win.
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The Midniter posted:2) Scratch-offs and lotteries are a poor tax, don't waste your money on that crap. 100%, but it's a way to scratch the gambling itch some people have that's relatively safe. Dropping a buck on a scratch off every now and then is a lot easier to not go overboard with than say Texas hold-em.
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Liquid Communism posted:100%, but it's a way to scratch the gambling itch some people have that's relatively safe. Dropping a buck on a scratch off every now and then is a lot easier to not go overboard with than say Texas hold-em. Agreed, one of my buddies does the scratchies and if he didn't have those he'd probably be at the Tampa casino every weekend losing a hell of a lot more. [e] went to the orthodontist to have my complication checked out, turns out it's my jaw poking through so he just hacked away at it with giant nail clippers, good times ![]() Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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mariooncrack posted:
All I can think of is "a brand that would be dead if it weren't for rich fucks in China, and baby boomers who listen to sport celebrity advertisers when car shopping". Then I think about Chinese government/cultural practises and the general shittiness of the boomers and I decide I probably don't ever want to buy from a company that would cater to those quality demographics.
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Buick would be completely dead if it wasn't for Opel. And since GM just sold off Opel, well...
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Applebees Appetizer posted:[e] went to the orthodontist to have my complication checked out, turns out it's my jaw poking through so he just hacked away at it with giant nail clippers, good times bloody hell!
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My class is about to have a guest lecture by the dude who invented the little solar cell on calculators. Be jealous ![]()
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Adiabatic posted:My class is about to have a guest lecture by the dude who invented the little solar cell on calculators. Be jealous Did he invent the solar cell period, or did he just get it cheap enough to fart it into every dollar-store calculator?
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Until I put a new engine in my Baja, my current daily is my grandmother's 2005 Le Sabre. It's definitely the kind of car you feel like should come with a captain's hat but it has a decent amount of power and it's very comfortable. I took it from MT to OR in January and it just ate up the miles. I have a soft spot for big, yacht-like GM cars though. I drove an Olds 88 for a while in high school.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Did he invent the solar cell period, or did he just get it cheap enough to fart it into every dollar-store calculator? Dude's name is David Carlson. Wikipedia says he and Christopher Wronski created the first amorphous silicon Photovoltaic solar cell in 1976, so thin-film?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Someone who sits near me has a fidget cube. Taking bets now on whether I destroy the cube or punch the person sooner. The wife just bought me one of those and I love it. Granted I work from home, so I just have to make sure I don't mess with it while I am on a conference call and there is no one to annoy but myself.
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mariooncrack posted:I think all of the Radioshacks closed near me when they declared bankruptcy a few years ago. Yeah, the Radio Shacks here in TX (Where Tandy Corp is headquartered!) closed up like last year, maybe 2015. I barely paid attention, because they were mostly a store for cell phones and electronics that I could get cheaper elsewhere. At least they still had a component corner. Just had a job interview with the parent company of Funimation, the anime guys. Pay is a bit less than I make now (if I still actually have a job when their done "reviewing"), but same as what I was making 7 months ago, so not end of the world, and since it's a relatively small company, IT actually sounds interesting there. The do Macs and Windows, some VMs, and the IT department currently consists of 3 guys, so would be doing everything from PC janitor up to servers and networking, including cable monkey duties. Even security cameras. I'm OK with this. It would play well with my borderline ADHD. I actually hope I get it. Sounds like somewhere I would actually want to go on a daily basis.
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Thanks to this thread and talking about asbestos, I looked into my garage floor situation. There's 9" tiles (which I'm told always contain asbestos, they switched to 12" afterwards as a way to distinguish it) that are coated with epoxy. Dude who sold the house coated the floor just before he left, now I'm seeing the checkerboard cracking pattern/broken rear end floor wherever I use a jack and have to pay to fix it. ![]() But hopefully I'll have a nice floor and garage afterwards. ![]()
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P71 GET
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Enourmo posted:P71 GET ![]()
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Enourmo posted:P71 GET Yaaaaas
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My room mate an I keep talking about what a wonderfully dumb thing a P71 with a mustang 5 speed or 6 speed, junk yard turbo, and cheapest limited slip rear end we could find would be. All i really want in life is a dumb turbo v8 rwd car that skids all the places. Also has to sound like a jet plane.
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