The scissors on my micra stopped working properly because the spring got gummed-up (not because the blades dulled - they didn't)
Anyway, I discovered a trick for cleaning out all the gunk. It fixed the scissors, and made the micra look like new. Soak the thing in bleach for about an hour.
Also, advice to potential micra buyers - only buy the steel colored ones. the other colors are painted on, and that paint chips off, leaving you with a shitty looking micra.
It's a nice mix of technical and not-technical. about 1/3rd of the stuff I saw looked like stuff I would have loved to have played with as a kid (i.e. if you're technical enough to handle model rocketry), and another 1/3rd is moderately technical. Another 1/3rd is product reviews and recommendations - like an explosive drain clog remover that uses CO2 cartriges.
The actual projects have step-by-step instructions, so I assume you wouldn't need to be technical at all to do them. The list of items for some of them is pretty intense though, like the kite photography howto, makes me wish they offered kits.
Overall I think it's an awesome magazine and I hope it lasts.
I'm compulsive too, and I discovered this place called "a store". All you have to do is drive there, and you get your stuff immediately, not in 2 days. Shipping is free.
Nintendo *is* for kids, man. Even the controller seems designed for kids, it's small, and shaped wrong. The games are all Mario this and that, and Donkey Kong, and Super Monkey Balls, with the dumb monkeys in the balls looking for bananas. Compare that to Halo and Grand Theft Auto and Mercenaries. I own all three consoles, and I've sold all my Gamecube games on eBay, because they were all for kids and not for me.
Maybe you should also invest in Kmart, Sears, JDS Uniphase, and Lucent.
Most "beleaguered" companies never fully recover. Just because scrappy underdogs always win in sports movies doesn't mean you should invest in shit stocks.
I spent Christmas with my girlfriend and her family a few years ago, and her older brother's gift to her younger brother was CDs full of pirated software. Probably a few thousand dollars worth. It was a seriously surreal moment, their mom made the usual noises, "oh, now isn't that a nice gift, be sure to say thank you", and the boy's face lit up with excitement as he read the titles that had been written on the CDs with a permanent marker.
Isn't anyone going to RTFA? for the NEXT GENERATION consoles, they will jump back up to $50 per game. For current generation games they will almost certainly stay at $20.
I think it does a lot of damage to equate the real serious problems in China with minor hiccups in the U.S. Our government is not corrupt. We do not abuse our citizens, control what they hear and see. There are people out there who don't have the freedoms that we take for granted and that's a real tragedy. Bush might be an idiot, some fishy things might have happened with Halliburton, and the Patriot Act is a travesty, but don't pretend this is even within an order of magnitude of what goes on in China.
Allow me to state what should be obvious: in the U.S. we don't ban games/books/movies that depict the Confederacy. Can you understand why that is significant?
because there are a lot of fat people in the aisles. Sometimes two fat people aren't able to get by each other. Ever start down an aisle just to get to the far side and realize that it's clogged with fat people and you won't be able to get through? Happens to me all the time.
But there's a difference between lots of fat people in walmart, and all of the people in walmart being fat. Walmart has a wide demographic. I see BMW's and Mercedes in my Walmart, parked right next to Ford Rangers and Toyota Tercels.
In my country, _____, we don't have to pay for ______, [because we have very high taxes/oppressive beauracracy/pseudo-socialism] why is America such a backwater hicksville?
Either that or it doesn't work with Mozilla. How much do you want to bet that they already set the "gave him his free credit report" bit in their database for my SSN?
>I never understood why peons sitting at a desk all day feel superior to people doing physical or skilled work.
I can explain this for you. Everyone feels that whatever sort of work they do is superior to the type of work everyone else does. White collar people feel superior to blue collar people because they are rough and uneducated, blue collar people feel superior to white collar people because they are soft and lazy and don't know how to change their own oil or catch fish. And sociologists feel superior to of all of them, because they think they are the only ones who understand the whole thing. And me, I chuckle at the inferiority of all of you with your week minds and simple thoughts.
Man, I am so sick of that "challenge everything" at the beginning of Burnout 3 too. Challenge Everything? By making a racing game? Challenge everything is a motto more worthy of Google or Mozilla.
Also, while we're talking about Burnout 3, awesome game, but doesn't it feel like it could have used about an extra week of polishing? There's just all these tiny annoyances in how you select courses, etc, that drive me nuts. At least they let you play music you've ripped to your Xbox, unlike SSX3.
Oh please, you know what he meant. It's like this Palm Pilot I just bought - comes with a really shitty cover because they want you to pay $40 for the hard-shell case. They could have included a decent cover with the thing. And they don't need to charge $40 for what is basically a $3 hard-shell case. But they decided to be dicks about it.
That kind of nonsense is annoying. So if MS does go through with this multi-tiered approach, let's hope they're not dicks about it.
You're missing the point. Have you noticed that many (most?) gamecube games have extra features for people who own a GBA and GBA link cord? It will be the same with XBox2 games. if you have the hard drive, you can listen to your custom sound track, if you don't, you can't. If you have the hard drive, your Xbox2 can download extra levels from Live.
What I'm curious about is if they'll offer a hard-drive upgrade kit. Seems to me they'll have to.
Okay, I'll have to remember that. No reason you can't say you want them and then change your mind at the checkout counter.
"Sure, I'd love some monster cables. Also, do you sell a monster cable replacement for the XBox power cord, maybe it'll run faster if it can get more power!"
Heh heh, monster cables crack me up. Almost every time I go to Best Buy I'll check out the monster cable section just for chuckles. The prices are actually so high that I sometimes come close to laughing out loud.
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The scissors on my micra stopped working properly because the spring got gummed-up (not because the blades dulled - they didn't)
Anyway, I discovered a trick for cleaning out all the gunk. It fixed the scissors, and made the micra look like new. Soak the thing in bleach for about an hour.
Also, advice to potential micra buyers - only buy the steel colored ones. the other colors are painted on, and that paint chips off, leaving you with a shitty looking micra.
Can we therefore assume that he only needs to measure things that are 4 inches or shorter?
http://www.maxpedition.com/product/versipack/0408_ fatboy_stype/0408g_03.jpg
that is one seriously dorky looking bag.
I got mine in the mail yesterday...
It's a nice mix of technical and not-technical. about 1/3rd of the stuff I saw looked like stuff I would have loved to have played with as a kid (i.e. if you're technical enough to handle model rocketry), and another 1/3rd is moderately technical. Another 1/3rd is product reviews and recommendations - like an explosive drain clog remover that uses CO2 cartriges.
The actual projects have step-by-step instructions, so I assume you wouldn't need to be technical at all to do them. The list of items for some of them is pretty intense though, like the kite photography howto, makes me wish they offered kits.
Overall I think it's an awesome magazine and I hope it lasts.
I'm compulsive too, and I discovered this place called "a store". All you have to do is drive there, and you get your stuff immediately, not in 2 days. Shipping is free.
This word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.
You keep saying "fiance" but I think you mean fiancee.
Sorry for nitpicking, I'm sure she'll make a lovely husband.
Checkout? Haven't you heard about 1-Click?
Nintendo *is* for kids, man. Even the controller seems designed for kids, it's small, and shaped wrong. The games are all Mario this and that, and Donkey Kong, and Super Monkey Balls, with the dumb monkeys in the balls looking for bananas. Compare that to Halo and Grand Theft Auto and Mercenaries. I own all three consoles, and I've sold all my Gamecube games on eBay, because they were all for kids and not for me.
Maybe you should also invest in Kmart, Sears, JDS Uniphase, and Lucent.
Most "beleaguered" companies never fully recover. Just because scrappy underdogs always win in sports movies doesn't mean you should invest in shit stocks.
But it's your money...
I humbly suggest combining the two.
moderately related story:
I spent Christmas with my girlfriend and her family a few years ago, and her older brother's gift to her younger brother was CDs full of pirated software. Probably a few thousand dollars worth. It was a seriously surreal moment, their mom made the usual noises, "oh, now isn't that a nice gift, be sure to say thank you", and the boy's face lit up with excitement as he read the titles that had been written on the CDs with a permanent marker.
Generosity like that brings tears to my eyes...
Isn't anyone going to RTFA? for the NEXT GENERATION consoles, they will jump back up to $50 per game. For current generation games they will almost certainly stay at $20.
I admit this is an unfair thing to say, but I can't help myself:
Maybe all of the American employees of Wal-mart should transfer to China so they can take advantage of the wonderful benefits of being in a union.
I think it does a lot of damage to equate the real serious problems in China with minor hiccups in the U.S. Our government is not corrupt. We do not abuse our citizens, control what they hear and see. There are people out there who don't have the freedoms that we take for granted and that's a real tragedy. Bush might be an idiot, some fishy things might have happened with Halliburton, and the Patriot Act is a travesty, but don't pretend this is even within an order of magnitude of what goes on in China.
Allow me to state what should be obvious: in the U.S. we don't ban games/books/movies that depict the Confederacy. Can you understand why that is significant?
because there are a lot of fat people in the aisles. Sometimes two fat people aren't able to get by each other. Ever start down an aisle just to get to the far side and realize that it's clogged with fat people and you won't be able to get through? Happens to me all the time.
But there's a difference between lots of fat people in walmart, and all of the people in walmart being fat. Walmart has a wide demographic. I see BMW's and Mercedes in my Walmart, parked right next to Ford Rangers and Toyota Tercels.
In my country, _____, we don't have to pay for ______, [because we have very high taxes/oppressive beauracracy/pseudo-socialism] why is America such a backwater hicksville?
I just tried to do the Equifax one and their website burped right when it was supposed to give me the credit report:
t : /templates/main_template.jsp
An unhandled error has occured:
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppErrorRepor
Either that or it doesn't work with Mozilla. How much do you want to bet that they already set the "gave him his free credit report" bit in their database for my SSN?
>I never understood why peons sitting at a desk all day feel superior to people doing physical or skilled work.
I can explain this for you. Everyone feels that whatever sort of work they do is superior to the type of work everyone else does. White collar people feel superior to blue collar people because they are rough and uneducated, blue collar people feel superior to white collar people because they are soft and lazy and don't know how to change their own oil or catch fish. And sociologists feel superior to of all of them, because they think they are the only ones who understand the whole thing. And me, I chuckle at the inferiority of all of you with your week minds and simple thoughts.
Man, I am so sick of that "challenge everything" at the beginning of Burnout 3 too. Challenge Everything? By making a racing game? Challenge everything is a motto more worthy of Google or Mozilla.
Also, while we're talking about Burnout 3, awesome game, but doesn't it feel like it could have used about an extra week of polishing? There's just all these tiny annoyances in how you select courses, etc, that drive me nuts. At least they let you play music you've ripped to your Xbox, unlike SSX3.
Oh please, you know what he meant. It's like this Palm Pilot I just bought - comes with a really shitty cover because they want you to pay $40 for the hard-shell case. They could have included a decent cover with the thing. And they don't need to charge $40 for what is basically a $3 hard-shell case. But they decided to be dicks about it.
That kind of nonsense is annoying. So if MS does go through with this multi-tiered approach, let's hope they're not dicks about it.
You're missing the point. Have you noticed that many (most?) gamecube games have extra features for people who own a GBA and GBA link cord? It will be the same with XBox2 games. if you have the hard drive, you can listen to your custom sound track, if you don't, you can't. If you have the hard drive, your Xbox2 can download extra levels from Live.
What I'm curious about is if they'll offer a hard-drive upgrade kit. Seems to me they'll have to.
"Sure, I'd love some monster cables. Also, do you sell a monster cable replacement for the XBox power cord, maybe it'll run faster if it can get more power!"
Heh heh, monster cables crack me up. Almost every time I go to Best Buy I'll check out the monster cable section just for chuckles. The prices are actually so high that I sometimes come close to laughing out loud.
For grins:
$50 - 2 meter S-video cable
$60 - 4 meter RCA cable
$100 - Monster cable surge protector
I could swear they used to sell some phenomenally expensive modem cables too, which were just really really thick telephone cords.
Amen.
People should think of it this way:
when you get an oil change, do you show your car insurance card so that you'll only have to pay a $10 co-pay?
When you fail to get proper maintenace on your car and have to have the break rotors replaced, does your car insurance kick in and cover that?
Car insurance would cost a fortune if it covered all this stuff. So is it any surprise that health insurance costs are out of control?
I don't know about your definition of rich but being in the "top 5% of earners" certainly isn't rich to me.
Not to mention that your definition of rich ought to judge based on how much money you *have* not how much money you earned last year.