Vanity at it's worst : What's YOUR latest "aquisition" ? thread
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22. March 2007 @ 15:55 |
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@ireland
Not a problem...coming right up.
@saugmon
Talk to Dan about the beer...It's on him and Neph
@Dan
I prefer Newcastle..but will settle for a Dos Equis with plenty of lime.
@Gwen
Keep at it, it gets better.
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23. March 2007 @ 04:37 |
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Quote: Hold the mayo?
Hey!! I resemble that remark LMAO :-)
I need to get a grill for my new house, hmmmmm Maybe that will be my next me thing to purchase, in fact i think I will be picking one up today after work! LOCOENG thanks for the reminding me about the grill :-)
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DanyTaner
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23. March 2007 @ 09:59 |
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man, wish i was getting a grill. i just signed my new apartment this morning so thats my aquisition, but no room for the grill...
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gerry1
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23. March 2007 @ 10:09 |
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@DanyTaner...welcome to afterdawn guy! I live in an apartment too and use one of those smokeless grills. Not as good as wood or coal but still a lot better than frying or broiling those foods you usually grill.
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23. March 2007 @ 10:10 |
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3 bottles of red wine, and an amazing hangover all for myself (I'm so lucky)
And a corsair 512 flashdrive.. the modern age strikes..
Somebody gave me a compaq presario 486 dx2 with a lovely fully working windows95, all licensed with the full office suite and publisher 2.. with the memory upgrade I shoved in it last night it's blazingly fast. Windows95 with the mobo limit of 99ram is gobsmacking
I would love to use it as a printer server, but it's one of the monsters with the system partition, so maybe some fun cloning that partition onto a bigger drive is in order..and just keeping this old drive in a box.
Just had a look at the label, it's only 420Mb.. that's an antique...
Oh and it has a real soundblaster 16 fitted, not a clone.. Time for all those old games.
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23. March 2007 @ 10:53 |
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A grill is one of the first things I'm getting when I move. I got this little dinky grill that takes the little bottles of propane,but the management of my complex said we weren't allowed to use them anymore-insurance purposes, LOL
A chest freezer is the 2nd thing to pick up.. I'm tired of this little dinky freezer above my fridge.
I also have to get a gas stove for the house,lawnmower,garage,air compressor. I've got all my wood and power tools in storage.
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23. March 2007 @ 12:55 |
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@saugmon...Lucky You...food in the freezer! All I have is a couple of ice trays and the refrigerator has a gallon of milk and six or seven little containers of leftovers which have been there forever which I'll throw out container and all because I don't know what I'll find if I open them! The cupboard contains only detergent and plates but no food. I just ordered enough chinese delivery to feed me for three days. Time to do some marketing!
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23. March 2007 @ 13:02 |
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I've got over 100 saugeye fillets frozen in my dad's freezer. Mine will only hold a couple bags,with a few other items in it-frozen pizza,burritos,chicken nuggets, LOL.
I'll have to cook some up tomorrow!!!!
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gerry1
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23. March 2007 @ 13:52 |
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Hmmmm...As a social worker, I've seen attractions of various sorts but this devotion to a particular species of fishy is, well, fishy LOL!
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23. March 2007 @ 14:18 |
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Quote: LOCOENG thanks for the reminding me about the grill :-)
Glad I could be of some inspiration.
BTW...the burgers were delicious.
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23. March 2007 @ 14:21 |
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Quote: There was an Indian Chief, and he had three squaws, and kept them in three teepees. When he would come home late from hunting, he would not know which teepee contained which squaw, being dark and all. He went hunting one day, and killed a hippopotamus, a bear, and a buffalo. He put the a hide from each animal into a different teepee, so that when he came home late, he could feel inside the teepee and he would know which squaw was inside.
Well after about a year, all three squaws had children. The squaw on the bear had a baby boy, the squaw on the buffalo hide had a baby girl. But the squaw on the hippopotamus had a girl and a boy. So what is the moral of the story?
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The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides.
Quote: TOP TEN EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING THE MATH HOMEWORK
1. I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
2. Isaac Newton's birthday.
3. I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.
4. I have the proof, but there isn't room to write it in this margin.
5. I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove that it converged.
6. I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
7. I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it.
8. I couldn't figure out whether i am the square of negative one or i is the square root of negative one.
9. I took time out to snack a doughnut and a cup of coffee. I spent the rest of the night trying to figure which one to dunk.
10. I could have sworn I put the homework inside a Klein bottle, but this morning I couldn't find it.
Quote: A somewhat advanced society has figured how to package basic knowledge in pill form.
A student, needing some learning, goes to the pharmacy and asks what kind of knowledge pills are available. The pharmacist says, "Here's a pill for English literature." The student takes the pill and swallows it and has new knowledge about English literature!
"What else do you have?" asks the student.
"Well, I have pills for art history, biology, and world history," replies the pharmacist.
The student asks for these, and swallows them and has new knowledge about those subjects.
Then the student asks, "Do you have a pill for math?"
The pharmacist says, "Wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a whopper of a pill and plunks it on the counter.
"I have to take that huge pill for math?" inquires the student.
The pharmacist replied, "Well, you know math always was a little hard to swallow."
Quote: Q. What does a mathematician do when he's constipated?
A. He works it out with a pencil.
Quote: Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.
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25. March 2007 @ 20:49 |
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FartDude
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25. March 2007 @ 21:03 |
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My latest and greatest , A Sata II 7200 rpm 16mb cache 500 gig western digital hdd , abit overkill for what i do with a pc nowadays :P
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26. March 2007 @ 05:38 |
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The last thing I bought would have to be some jeans and a jacket from TopMan.. Lol.
Last techy thing I bought is my 320GB Maztor External HDD. Tis great for my music etc.
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janrocks
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26. March 2007 @ 10:34 |
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Arrrr ^^^ do I detect the great grin of pirates??... arrrrr maybe I does. Maybe I don't. Big drives are great.
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26. March 2007 @ 10:39 |
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Haha, I think "music etc" must have given me away ;-P
Yep, big drives are great - specially as they're portable :D
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The_Fiend
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26. March 2007 @ 13:18 |
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Latest aqcuisitions : 2 500 GB seagate SATAII drives for my backup/storage server, a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
*that's a noise gate, for all you guitar playing cats out there ;-)*
that will be coming in tomorrow afternoon, some extra thick, shielded guitar cables, and 2 EMG 81 pickups.
*ordered all this tonight, will have it delivered @ work tomorrow, so i can install the pickups there, saves me some mess @ home*
I spoil myself too much.
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Wanna tell me off, go ahead.
I dare ya !
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26. March 2007 @ 15:42 |
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well, my Uncle and I just finished a 68' corvette GTO. Runs awesomely but feels like crap. Due to the fact that in 68 they had no clue on how to make a stable sports car. But hey, awesome accelaration but no fu**ing way we can get over 150, if we did the bolts and screws would probably come ratlin' out, like in the movies. Still awesome though, hope I don't loose my temps because of it though XD Can't fricken wait to see how far I can take it on Friday's spring break.
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This is pretty much it:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/3000/68seb86.jpg
Only ours is darker, deep maroon shiney! :)
But with a car like this (crappy) you might as well have a convertible. It's about $27,000 but soon we'll be doing a couple $120,000's pretty soon. Roushe engines and all... (leading off topic now, yay for me!)
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26. March 2007 @ 16:03 |
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A playpen and a car seat from Wal-Mart, for my daughter kinzie!!
As usual,daddy got hosed again, LOL
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27. March 2007 @ 06:06 |
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i havent bought anything recently, but hopefully in a few months ill be getting the parts i need to build my desktop. either that or im gonna upgrade my system in my car, its pretty good now, but it could be better. but i havent decide which one i want to do yet.
sig made by me, i think.
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gerry1
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27. March 2007 @ 06:51 |
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@Nicht...
Quote: ...in 68 they had no clue on how to make a stable sports car.
I don't think that's true; I think American car companies didn't know how to make a sports car but the Europeans did. Years ago, I had a 1966 TR-6 which was awesome ... it drove like a true british sports car; it really hugged the road even at high speeds and with a large 6 with large single barrel carbs, the thing could fly! One thing about them though was that some were really tough and never broke down or they were lemons and broke down once a week. There seemed to be nothing in between. My brother in law had a vet in the 70s; it was very powerful and could really haul but it didn't handle back roads or winding roads very well ... handled more like a big sedan on such roads.
Edit: I can't type worth a crap!
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27. March 2007 @ 07:03 |
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I JUST GOT THIS HP Photosmart this morning as a back to my back up printer.D7360 $149.00 at office max...
If printers were evaluated by first impressions, the HP Photosmart D7360 would be flying off the shelves. The D7360 is impressive: it's well designed, easy to use, fast, and has an adjustable 3.4-inch touchscreen LCD -- that's right, touchscreen.
Thanks to this touchscreen, the D7360 printer has very few of the buttons that typically clutter the front of many photo printers. That doesn't meant that it's stripped, though. In fact, it's chock full of features -- they're just behind that screen. Even better, the D7360 is priced quite reasonably at $199.
The Photosmart D7360 uses six separate color ink cartridges to produce quality photos. Plenty of memory card slots, PictBridge printing, and an optional USB Bluetooth adapter means you can print without the help of a computer.
What's more, the name Photosmart fits. We immediately loaded the printer with inks and paper without reading the manual. The inks were extremely easy to load. Same with the paper -- except for one minor detail, we loaded the paper (Advanced Photo Paper) upside down. The printer spitted it out and told us to reload correctly. Now that's smart. Like the HP Photosmart 8250 (see our review), the D7360 uses "Auto Sense" technology to detect HP paper size and type (including the newly formulated Advanced Photo paper - built for faster printing and drying).
MORE INFO HERE
http://www.printerspot.com/reviews/hp/photosmart_d7360-review/
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gerry1
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27. March 2007 @ 09:41 |
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Quite a coincidence....I was looking at one at lunchtime! I keep thinking of buying a new one; mine is older than god!
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27. March 2007 @ 15:31 |
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I know that alot of you are going to freak when I tell you this but... it is just a personal opinion.
15 Inch MACBOOK PRO 2.33GHz
* 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1440 x 900 pixels
* 2GB memory
* 250GB hard drive @ 5400 RPM
* 8x double-layer SuperDrive
* ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM
It comes next week!
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27. March 2007 @ 16:10 |
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Quote: I know that alot of you are going to freak when I tell you this but... it is just a personal opinion.
We won't judge you ....mac lover.
10 bags of shock for the pool.
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