In-laws on my brother's side of the family bought a five-bedroom home for $1M because they had hoarded five bedrooms full of old furniture and other crap from 50+ years of marriage. The place was obscene. Kitchen was bigger than my 475 SQF studio apartment, wet bar was bigger than my kitchen. The 25-foot-tall electric fence with the mountain lion watching from the other side was interesting.
It takes 40 years to figure out life, 40 years to save up for retirement, and 40 years watch everyone else die. At 45-years-old, I've completed one-third of my life. I'm too sexy to die young. If 120 years was good enough for Moses, it's good enough for me.
Watching the "Zombies On A Plane" movie should be requirement for all air travelers. You don't want to be that poor zombie stuck in a aisle seat and biting at everything that passes by because you can't unbuckle the seat belt.
Amazon will be telling authors to break their novels into chapters and paragraphs.
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And you get usable lumber and nails to make stuff out of.
That's what my father did after he retired to a trailer park. One neighbor gave him old pallets to break down because the county dump charges a small fortune to dispose of them. He gave the usable wood and nails to a neighbor to build chicken coops and bird houses for sale. The unusable wood goes into a neighbor's wood chipper to make compost. The unusable nails are taken down to the recycling center. A win-win situation for everyone involved.
Why go through all the effort of removing the nails when you're about to remove the wood?
If you pull the nails out properly, you can reuse them again. Something I learned from my father. He always had a coffee can of odd nails he pulled from old pallets and other wooden debris. That's something he learned from his father during and after WWII to avoid wasting hard-to-get material.
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I've seen recyclable cardboard pallets that are good for moderate weight loads. They don't have the same life cycle as a wooden pallet, but they can be discarded with the cardboard for regular recycling.
Used to have bonfires at the California beaches. After too many people lost a foot from stepping on smoldering pallets covered with sand, the state made open bonfires illegal and the department for parks built fire rings to burn wood in designated areas. You could not longer burn a whole stack of pallets. If you broke the pallets down and remove the nails, you could tee-pee the wood inside the fire ring to burn.
I did a PC refresh job with another guy at a local hospital where the IT department stored old equipment inside a chain-link cage inside a warehouse-style storage room. This was also where construction debris from other parts of the hospital were dumped here.The place was a disaster area -- and our new work area.
Since our first PC shipment wasn't expected for another three days, we spent that time cleaning up. Finding a pallet-sized box with low walls, we hauled out ten pallets of construction debris to the dumpster on the first day. We sorted and organized equipment to pallets on the second day. And, finally, we hauled everything out of the cage to sweep and mop the floor on the third day. Thereafter, people complained they couldn't find anything because we stacked everything on pallets.:/
We eventually deployed 750 PC's and 1,500 monitors. Every two weeks we got 10+ pallets of equipment that filled our work area. A week of unboxing, a week of deploying. This became the rhythm of the project. All the old equipment (minus the labeled hard drives that we kept in case we needed to pull data) got boxed up on pallets for the recycler. On the final day of the project, we left the cage clean and empty than it was before.
Later on I cleaned up an IT storage room filled with old equipment that no one have seen the floor in over eight years. That took six weeks of my spare time between tasks to clean up. Most of the old equipment ended up on pallets for the recycler. After I got the room completely empty, I had facility come in to mop and wax the floor.
With every alien civilization sending out robotic probes into deep space before leaving their homeworlds, it's inevitable that these robotic probes will meet at the Galaxy's Ass End bar, have a few drinks, and rise up as a new civilization. The answer will still be 42.
The only all-in-one motherboard I'm willing to consider is the ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard with a quad-core Intel Avoton processor and 12 SATA connectors. This is a favorite motherboard for FreeNAS file server builders. I just got a new case for my file server that can hold eight 3.5" drives and three 5.25" drives. At $269, it's bit out of my price range and doesn't include ECC memory.
So, if NewEgg doesn't sell it, then Intel doesn't make it?
If I can't buy it, I'm not interested. My typical budget for a motherboard/CPU/RAM combo is under $200. AMD dominates this price range. Intel usually costs twice as much.
Being shot by the homeowner is the single biggest fear among would-be intruders, ranking higher than being caught by police.
Unless, of course, you're drunk, forgot your keys and try to break into your own house. A guy who broke into the wrong house that he thought was his own by smashing the patio door got shot once after being repeatedly warned by the homeowner to leave. Nothing worse than waking up in the drunk tank with a bullet wound in the chest.
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In-laws on my brother's side of the family bought a five-bedroom home for $1M because they had hoarded five bedrooms full of old furniture and other crap from 50+ years of marriage. The place was obscene. Kitchen was bigger than my 475 SQF studio apartment, wet bar was bigger than my kitchen. The 25-foot-tall electric fence with the mountain lion watching from the other side was interesting.
Old School(TM) Counterstrike had a map with a turd in the toilet. Shoot the turd and the toilet explodes.
With Duke Nukem Forever, you could play with the turd to earn an achievement.
Now get off my lawn!
With a turd in the toilet? I'll pass.
It's called chasing the American dream by keeping up with the Jones.
Big house? Check!
Big cars? Check!
Expensive clothing? Check!
Happy? Oh, hell no.
The sooner you stop chasing the American dream and start living a modest lifestyle, life becomes more rewarding.
Maybe it's THE CUSTOMER who is always right!
And grandma was a baboon!
It takes 40 years to figure out life, 40 years to save up for retirement, and 40 years watch everyone else die. At 45-years-old, I've completed one-third of my life. I'm too sexy to die young. If 120 years was good enough for Moses, it's good enough for me.
Watching the "Zombies On A Plane" movie should be requirement for all air travelers. You don't want to be that poor zombie stuck in a aisle seat and biting at everything that passes by because you can't unbuckle the seat belt.
Besides helping his neighbors and making $60 per month at the recycling center, he had something to do in his retirement.
Amazon will be telling authors to break their novels into chapters and paragraphs.
And you get usable lumber and nails to make stuff out of.
That's what my father did after he retired to a trailer park. One neighbor gave him old pallets to break down because the county dump charges a small fortune to dispose of them. He gave the usable wood and nails to a neighbor to build chicken coops and bird houses for sale. The unusable wood goes into a neighbor's wood chipper to make compost. The unusable nails are taken down to the recycling center. A win-win situation for everyone involved.
Why go through all the effort of removing the nails when you're about to remove the wood?
If you pull the nails out properly, you can reuse them again. Something I learned from my father. He always had a coffee can of odd nails he pulled from old pallets and other wooden debris. That's something he learned from his father during and after WWII to avoid wasting hard-to-get material.
I've seen recyclable cardboard pallets that are good for moderate weight loads. They don't have the same life cycle as a wooden pallet, but they can be discarded with the cardboard for regular recycling.
Used to have bonfires at the California beaches. After too many people lost a foot from stepping on smoldering pallets covered with sand, the state made open bonfires illegal and the department for parks built fire rings to burn wood in designated areas. You could not longer burn a whole stack of pallets. If you broke the pallets down and remove the nails, you could tee-pee the wood inside the fire ring to burn.
I did a PC refresh job with another guy at a local hospital where the IT department stored old equipment inside a chain-link cage inside a warehouse-style storage room. This was also where construction debris from other parts of the hospital were dumped here.The place was a disaster area -- and our new work area.
Since our first PC shipment wasn't expected for another three days, we spent that time cleaning up. Finding a pallet-sized box with low walls, we hauled out ten pallets of construction debris to the dumpster on the first day. We sorted and organized equipment to pallets on the second day. And, finally, we hauled everything out of the cage to sweep and mop the floor on the third day. Thereafter, people complained they couldn't find anything because we stacked everything on pallets. :/
We eventually deployed 750 PC's and 1,500 monitors. Every two weeks we got 10+ pallets of equipment that filled our work area. A week of unboxing, a week of deploying. This became the rhythm of the project. All the old equipment (minus the labeled hard drives that we kept in case we needed to pull data) got boxed up on pallets for the recycler. On the final day of the project, we left the cage clean and empty than it was before.
Later on I cleaned up an IT storage room filled with old equipment that no one have seen the floor in over eight years. That took six weeks of my spare time between tasks to clean up. Most of the old equipment ended up on pallets for the recycler. After I got the room completely empty, I had facility come in to mop and wax the floor.
Let it be.
You need to drive up to 200 miles to reach the nearest battery station? Sheesh... I thought driving to Costco for cheap gas was a PITA.
With every alien civilization sending out robotic probes into deep space before leaving their homeworlds, it's inevitable that these robotic probes will meet at the Galaxy's Ass End bar, have a few drinks, and rise up as a new civilization. The answer will still be 42.
They would set up some poor sap like Sergey Aleynikov to take the fall for them.
The only all-in-one motherboard I'm willing to consider is the ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard with a quad-core Intel Avoton processor and 12 SATA connectors. This is a favorite motherboard for FreeNAS file server builders. I just got a new case for my file server that can hold eight 3.5" drives and three 5.25" drives. At $269, it's bit out of my price range and doesn't include ECC memory.
If you wake up dead in the drunk tank, you're a zombie.
So, if NewEgg doesn't sell it, then Intel doesn't make it?
If I can't buy it, I'm not interested. My typical budget for a motherboard/CPU/RAM combo is under $200. AMD dominates this price range. Intel usually costs twice as much.
Being shot by the homeowner is the single biggest fear among would-be intruders, ranking higher than being caught by police.
Unless, of course, you're drunk, forgot your keys and try to break into your own house. A guy who broke into the wrong house that he thought was his own by smashing the patio door got shot once after being repeatedly warned by the homeowner to leave. Nothing worse than waking up in the drunk tank with a bullet wound in the chest.
The lowest i3 TDP available at Newegg is 35W. Yes, we all know that Intel beats AMD in performance. Just not on price.
Sony is a modern Japanese company. Hari-kari isn't on the agenda.