I make my own bags. I make them out of sturdy upholstery fabric that I find in the remnants section of fabric stores. That fabric is extremely durable. And if its from remnants, it is about 1/4 the price, if not cheaper.
$10.00 of fabric from remnants is more than enough to put together a very sturdy lined bag.
I still have one of the bags that I made about five years ago. I use it to carry up to about 50 pounds of stuff. It does not show any wear at all.
I wonder how long a Gucci would last hauling 50 pounds of groceries, tools, etc.
I am the one who uses lynx (linux text mode browser) that does not bother with pop ups. I get the text of the article without the pop overs. Therefore I do not see about 80 percent of the ads on sites.
Retired from Portland, Oregon (which itself is going crazy) to Bellingham, Washington. Since I was renting in Portland, I could not afford to retire there and besides, like the bay area, it's growing fast (both in terms of prices, rents, population, and traffic) I decided to try for Bellingham, Washington.
House I am in now (Columbia neighbourhood in Bellingham) I bought for $225000 in September, 2015. It's two bedroom 900 square feet with 400 square feet shop/garage on 7800 square foot lot on main bus line into town and 10 minute flat bicycle ride to downtown or the water.
This same house right now is Zillow estimated to be about $280000.
However, I have ten to fifteen minute bicycle access to downtown, the waterfront, bicycling on rural roads, and even a park with a waterfall in it. I can ride my bicycle to downtown on a weekday morning and pass / get passed by maybe 20 or 30 cars if its' busy. Sometimes only 10 cars or so. Sunday evening, I rode home from downtown and perhaps maybe two cars passed me the entire two miles distance home from downtown.
I enjoyed the eclipse from my kayak on Bellingham bay and there were only two other boats that I saw with people in them.
No, I have no strange UFO spaceship from planet Apple, but I have everything I need here in a town where a two million dollar house is a mansion overlooking the water on a large multi acre lot and not just a subdivision house.
Real estate and rents are going up here, but I am not seeing the rocket-ship like raises that Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and Portland, let alone places like Coopertino are experiencing.
Yep, yur heard it. I would buy it. Then lose it within one week. Then talk about it. Then go back to my Western Electric black 1960's dial phone, which I cannot seem to lose.
I am already doing this. It is now June 2017. I have not flown anywhere since April, 2015. That flight was for my mother's funeral. Both of my parents are now passed away, so no more funeral flights until both my sibs and myself get of that age.
I am retired in Bellingham, Washington, which has everything I need and I have absolutely no desire to go anywhere which I cannot get to via AmQuack (Amtrak) or my bicycle. It's a one day bicycle ride to either Seattle or Vancouver from here.
I have given up on flying long before Trump. It's just too darn miserable. Not because of laptops. I very rarely use my laptop on the plane. In fact, I checked it once just because I did not want to lug it.
It's the airports. The people. The horrible food. The nasty energy surrounding everything. Now add the TSA and Trump.
My life has plenty to offer without going anywhere near and airport of plane.
Walk or ride your bike. If you live in a small town and your library does not have it, there is interlibrary loan. I borrowed a book here in Bellingham, Washington that was interlibrary loaned from somewhere in Ohio.
As my father told me when I was a little boy. . . .
Stop complaining and do something!!
In my case, I wanted to get dressed in lighted clear plastic clothing. I could complain up the flag pole all about it and nothing would happen. So I did something about it.
I took the time and effort to make my own. It was a lot of work and very rewarding. You can see the results here: My web site at www.clearplastic.com.
So, please remove yourself from that chair and get to work!!!!!!
Hold on!!!! You might be correct with some connectors. But you forgot about static sensitivity and power supply voltages.
In the old days, TTL logic was 5 volts and components were larger and more robust.
Now, I understand that some components are either 3 volt or even 1/5 volt logic. You put 5 volt logic into a 3 or 1.5 volt logic device and you have just lost the device. This has happened to me.
Try using the Raspberry PI with some 5 volt components. You just lost the GPIO of the Raspberry if not the entire Raspberry device.
With many devices, you must wear the static electricity handcuff. If you don't, and if you are careless on a carpeted floor, you can kiss the device good bye.
I do agree that devices are less likely to kill you. Lethal voltages (anything over 12 volts) are mostly gone from newer devices.
I hail from the vacuum tube days where you quickly learn to keep one hand in your pocket and do not work in a damp basement with a concrete floor. In fact, I am still practicing those procedures at the Spark Museum while working on their vintage radios and electronics!
I agree Comcast Business has been good to me. Now, of course, much of my downloaded is source code from the Kernel (www.kernel.org), which I believe is smaller than video and streaming.
I have heard that they kicked out many struggling artists and craft people from their merchant roles and favor those who are resellers.
Apparently Etsy has been inconsistent in enforcing their terms of service and end up kicking out small artists and letting the larger sellers get away with rule violations.
Some friends later tell me that being kicked out of Etsy has been the best thing that has happened to them because they were forced to go out on their own. Going out on their own ended up saving them the 10 to 12 percent commission that Etsy charges and freeing them from Etsy's capricious rule enforcement habits.
If you are an Etsy merchant, get your own setup going - get yourself a merchant account so that you can accept plastic on your own. Get your own website. Learn to market using social media on your own. Then if Etsy kicks you out, you have nothing to lose.
It would be interesting to find out if those being laid off are the ones that are capriciously enforcing the rules and randomly kicking out artists.
I went further. I built an oscilloscope from the parts of an old tv for my science fair project which showed what sound waves look like when you speak into a microphone.
This friend speaks my words! I have had the same IPhone for 4 years now. During those 4 years, I have accumulated the following private information:
1. Seven photographs of some artwork at a museum in Portland, Oregon
2. Seventy phone numbers of family, friends, my drycleaners, my welding supply places, my jewelry wholsaler, my doctor, my dentist, my eyedoctor, my friends (none foreign), my church, my electronics parts wholsaler, my sewing machine repairman, seventeen fabric stores between Portland, Oregon and Bellingham, Washington, a few scrap metal distributiers, my washing machine repairman, my electrician, the local movie theater's movie times phone, LedSupply in Vermont, and other such phones
3. Nothing on the calendar except a dentist appointment two years ago for a crown replacement
4. One google maps location for a Mill End Fabrics in Portland, Oregon
5. One google maps location for the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Washington
6. A few text messages from my bank indicating Debit Card withdrawals taken at the Community Food Coop here in Bellingham, Washington.
7. Browser history consisting mostly of weather forecasts for both Bellingham, Washington and Portland, Oregon as well as flight times for a round trip from Portland, Oregon to Newark, New Jersey to go to mom's memorial service
And that's about it. If customs/ICE/FBI/NSA/FCC/IRS/FDA/DHS/HEW/OSS or whatever knows that I patronise Whole 9 Yards Fabrics in Portland, Oregon or volunteer at the Spark Museum in Bellingham, Washington, or have my washing machine fixed by Bodie Appliance in Belingham, Washington or I had 10,000 dollars of electrical work done by Eric Benson Electrical Service in Bellingham, Washington, or bought 700 dollars of upholstery fabric from Mill End Store in Portland Oregon to make my home made clothing that you all can see on www.allyn.com; or that I call my sister in Belmont, Massachusetts at 9 AM on Christmas morning, then fine. I don't think I should care.
That makes sense if you really look closely at it. If the house does not win, it does not exist. If the games were exactly even (house wins preciesly 50 percent of the time) then the Strip cannot exist. By losing more than winning, us players are the ones that are building and rebuilding and upgrading the strip and it's ever more and more glitzy casinos.
I went to LV once for CES (I was part of Intel's Keynote). I won by not touching any of the gambling stuff and leaving my hand out of my pocket unless I am paying for a meal.
You forgot. San Francisco is the gayest city in the country (if not the planet). So, this has to have a gay theme as well. There is lots of material to draw from. You can do many episodes on Harvey Milk alone. And that is not even touching what the AIDS crisis has done. Take the move We Were There. That would fit in nice with this offering.
For music, we don't have to go further than the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus and their long history with the city.
If Apple can play their cards right and plan accordingly, this can be a wonderful asset (and beacon) for the worldwide GLBTQ community.
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I make my own bags. I make them out of sturdy upholstery fabric that I find in the remnants section of fabric stores. That fabric is extremely durable. And if its from remnants, it is about 1/4 the price, if not cheaper.
$10.00 of fabric from remnants is more than enough to put together a very sturdy lined bag.
I still have one of the bags that I made about five years ago. I use it to carry up to about 50 pounds of stuff. It does not show any wear at all.
I wonder how long a Gucci would last hauling 50 pounds of groceries, tools, etc.
I am one of those who ads do not do any good.
I am the one who uses lynx (linux text mode browser) that does not bother with pop ups. I get the text of the article without the pop overs. Therefore I do not see about 80 percent of the ads on sites.
And I cannot be the only one doing this. . . .
Retired from Portland, Oregon (which itself is going crazy) to Bellingham, Washington. Since I was renting in Portland, I could not afford to retire there and besides, like the bay area, it's growing fast (both in terms of prices, rents, population, and traffic) I decided to try for Bellingham, Washington.
House I am in now (Columbia neighbourhood in Bellingham) I bought for $225000 in September, 2015. It's two bedroom 900 square feet with 400 square feet shop/garage on 7800 square foot lot on main bus line into town and 10 minute flat bicycle ride to downtown or the water.
This same house right now is Zillow estimated to be about $280000.
However, I have ten to fifteen minute bicycle access to downtown, the waterfront, bicycling on rural roads, and even a park with a waterfall in it. I can ride my bicycle to downtown on a weekday morning and pass / get passed by maybe 20 or 30 cars if its' busy. Sometimes only 10 cars or so. Sunday evening, I rode home from downtown and perhaps maybe two cars passed me the entire two miles distance home from downtown.
I enjoyed the eclipse from my kayak on Bellingham bay and there were only two other boats that I saw with people in them.
No, I have no strange UFO spaceship from planet Apple, but I have everything I need here in a town where a two million dollar house is a mansion overlooking the water on a large multi acre lot and not just a subdivision house.
Real estate and rents are going up here, but I am not seeing the rocket-ship like raises that Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and Portland, let alone places like Coopertino are experiencing.
Hygene.
Simple. They forget to take a shower for three weeks prior to the code review meeting with management and program management.
The managers will keep that meeting very short and won't bother to ask the important questions.
Yep, yur heard it. I would buy it. Then lose it within one week. Then talk about it. Then go back to my Western Electric black 1960's dial phone, which I cannot seem to lose.
I really enjoy working with the PI. It's one of the easiest and most powerful platforms that I have used! I am so glad of this news!!!!
I am retired in Bellingham, Washington, which has everything I need and I have absolutely no desire to go anywhere which I cannot get to via AmQuack (Amtrak) or my bicycle. It's a one day bicycle ride to either Seattle or Vancouver from here.
I have given up on flying long before Trump. It's just too darn miserable. Not because of laptops. I very rarely use my laptop on the plane. In fact, I checked it once just because I did not want to lug it.
It's the airports. The people. The horrible food. The nasty energy surrounding everything. Now add the TSA and Trump.
My life has plenty to offer without going anywhere near and airport of plane.
That is especially true for Maine. That state has perhaps the most stringent vehicle inspection program.
You think I should not write for the WSJ?
Walk or ride your bike. If you live in a small town and your library does not have it, there is interlibrary loan. I borrowed a book here in Bellingham, Washington that was interlibrary loaned from somewhere in Ohio.
Do I see you volunteering to create WET???
As my father told me when I was a little boy. . . .
Stop complaining and do something!!
In my case, I wanted to get dressed in lighted clear plastic clothing. I could complain up the flag pole all about it and nothing would happen. So I did something about it.
I took the time and effort to make my own. It was a lot of work and very rewarding. You can see the results here: My web site at www.clearplastic.com.
So, please remove yourself from that chair and get to work!!!!!!
In the old days, TTL logic was 5 volts and components were larger and more robust.
Now, I understand that some components are either 3 volt or even 1/5 volt logic. You put 5 volt logic into a 3 or 1.5 volt logic device and you have just lost the device. This has happened to me.
Try using the Raspberry PI with some 5 volt components. You just lost the GPIO of the Raspberry if not the entire Raspberry device.
With many devices, you must wear the static electricity handcuff. If you don't, and if you are careless on a carpeted floor, you can kiss the device good bye.
I do agree that devices are less likely to kill you. Lethal voltages (anything over 12 volts) are mostly gone from newer devices.
I hail from the vacuum tube days where you quickly learn to keep one hand in your pocket and do not work in a damp basement with a concrete floor. In fact, I am still practicing those procedures at the Spark Museum while working on their vintage radios and electronics!
Or go to a place like Free Geek in Portland, Oregon and get a used laptop. I got one there at about Auguse of 2018 and it's still going strong!
I agree Comcast Business has been good to me. Now, of course, much of my downloaded is source code from the Kernel (www.kernel.org), which I believe is smaller than video and streaming.
You make me laugh so hard that my neighbours complained of the noise!!! I love you!
I have heard that they kicked out many struggling artists and craft people from their merchant roles and favor those who are resellers.
Apparently Etsy has been inconsistent in enforcing their terms of service and end up kicking out small artists and letting the larger sellers get away with rule violations.
Some friends later tell me that being kicked out of Etsy has been the best thing that has happened to them because they were forced to go out on their own. Going out on their own ended up saving them the 10 to 12 percent commission that Etsy charges and freeing them from Etsy's capricious rule enforcement habits.
If you are an Etsy merchant, get your own setup going - get yourself a merchant account so that you can accept plastic on your own. Get your own website. Learn to market using social media on your own. Then if Etsy kicks you out, you have nothing to lose.
It would be interesting to find out if those being laid off are the ones that are capriciously enforcing the rules and randomly kicking out artists.
I went further. I built an oscilloscope from the parts of an old tv for my science fair project which showed what sound waves look like when you speak into a microphone.
+5000
It's the seat on my bicycle.
And I enjoyed every bit of it! I call it Bicycle Class!
Thank you. I have chosen option 3. The last time I flew anywhere was April, 2015. Almost two years ago.
I am not in the market for a new phone.
If my phone still works and I can still call gramma every sunday after church, then I am happy.
1. Seven photographs of some artwork at a museum in Portland, Oregon
2. Seventy phone numbers of family, friends, my drycleaners, my welding supply places, my jewelry wholsaler, my doctor, my dentist, my eyedoctor, my friends (none foreign), my church, my electronics parts wholsaler, my sewing machine repairman, seventeen fabric stores between Portland, Oregon and Bellingham, Washington, a few scrap metal distributiers, my washing machine repairman, my electrician, the local movie theater's movie times phone, LedSupply in Vermont, and other such phones
3. Nothing on the calendar except a dentist appointment two years ago for a crown replacement
4. One google maps location for a Mill End Fabrics in Portland, Oregon
5. One google maps location for the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Washington
6. A few text messages from my bank indicating Debit Card withdrawals taken at the Community Food Coop here in Bellingham, Washington.
7. Browser history consisting mostly of weather forecasts for both Bellingham, Washington and Portland, Oregon as well as flight times for a round trip from Portland, Oregon to Newark, New Jersey to go to mom's memorial service
And that's about it. If customs/ICE/FBI/NSA/FCC/IRS/FDA/DHS/HEW/OSS or whatever knows that I patronise Whole 9 Yards Fabrics in Portland, Oregon or volunteer at the Spark Museum in Bellingham, Washington, or have my washing machine fixed by Bodie Appliance in Belingham, Washington or I had 10,000 dollars of electrical work done by Eric Benson Electrical Service in Bellingham, Washington, or bought 700 dollars of upholstery fabric from Mill End Store in Portland Oregon to make my home made clothing that you all can see on www.allyn.com; or that I call my sister in Belmont, Massachusetts at 9 AM on Christmas morning, then fine. I don't think I should care.
But only at the store in the Kendal Square T Station, adjacent to MIT.
I went to LV once for CES (I was part of Intel's Keynote). I won by not touching any of the gambling stuff and leaving my hand out of my pocket unless I am paying for a meal.
For music, we don't have to go further than the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus and their long history with the city.
If Apple can play their cards right and plan accordingly, this can be a wonderful asset (and beacon) for the worldwide GLBTQ community.