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lxskllr said:
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I saw it at GroceryOutlet, picked it up to inspect it, put it back, picked it up again, put it back, then said to myself "Quit being a dumbass. It's fucking $1.50. If it sucks, you aren't gonna starve without the money".

So that's what I did, Just had some on cheese/crackers. It's interesting. Definitely tastes Italian. The chili has a very dry heat, which I like. It also tastes like tomato, which I don't so much. What's weird about that is there's no tomato in it. I guess it's the citrus fiber(whatever the fuck that is)? It only has four ingredients.

I think I'll get more when I go back. It's a little different, and cheap enough. The tube's also kind of cool. Works great for cheese/crackers. Putting food in tubes is weird. Seems to popular in Germany too. Would be fun giving it to your illiterate kid for toothpaste :^D
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If you could manage to relabel that so it looks like Polysporin, could have lot of fun with that. 😛
 
Well I just ordered some candy for Halloween from Amazon, along with one of their key lime pies and a pack of cherry creme Pepsi. I wish there was an easy way to share a cart/order, like just a link. Like with PCpartpicker.
 
2 used HGST Ultrastar 14TB HDD. Cost 50% more than the 12tbs I got a year ago 🙁


Oh and a bunch of ESP32-CAM

Edit. Got my ESP32-CAMs. Ordered on 21st, arrived today. Not bad for free shipping from HK.
 
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Bought a bag of halloween candy. $9.99 for the mix bite size candies. Was going to just buy a candy bar but damn, $2.49? Wasn't even the king size. Bought the bag and will leave it in the office for staff.
 
thestrangebrew1 said:
Bought a bag of halloween candy. $9.99 for the mix bite size candies. Was going to just buy a candy bar but damn, $2.49? Wasn't even the king size. Bought the bag and will leave it in the office for staff.
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We (as in not me) prepare loot bags, put them on the porch with a sign that says please help yourself to a bag.
 
I'm actually not a big fan of throwing plastic all over the place, but I've been breaking/losing bolts at an alarming rate. I'm hoping the colored plastic will be easier to find, and the mono construction holds up better. I may still make my own bolts out of wood & feather, but this will buy me some time til I have to commit. I also have 6 broadhead bolts. I'm saving those for an as yet undefined special occasion.

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Oh, and this is my bolt container...

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It's my old water bottle I used to take ww canoeing. It's been beat to shit, but held up just as well as nalgene at a fraction of the price. Even came with free gatorade!
 
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36 aluminum bolts, and 60 plastic.

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A short review of the plastic bolts if anyone cares...

I got to spend some time with these today. It was windy out, and I think that affected the flight, but I also think these are less accurate than aluminum bolts. They're very light. They hold up pretty well. Shooting into cardboard, they come out in one piece. I took a couple shots at a dead pine stem @ 60'. The bolts buried into the wood 15mm, and the plastic bodies popped off. I had to use pliers to extract the tips, and was able to put them back together. Lost 2 bolts when then buried into the ground at a shallow angle. Even the bright colors aren't enough for some things.

For screwing around plinking, these are a pretty good deal, but I wouldn't adjust the sights using these bolts. They're very cheap, and pretty durable. For srs bsns, stick to aluminum. It flies straighter, and has more weight behind it for a harder punch.
 
I guess this is in between "I just made" and "I just bought". Designed some PCBs and submitted my gerber files. Now I wait and hope I didn't mess anything up. My first time doing this.

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The design:

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If all measurements are right, 3 of these boards should fit in this enclosure:

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There's also different versions of that enclosure, one that will fit 1, 2 and 4 boards. I will order them at some point so I can test fit the boards, hopefully they all fit. THe price difference between ordering 3 boards and 30 was so small I just ordered 30 as I figure that's more than enough for my needs. Whatever I don't use I will throw on ebay to see if they sell, if I feel it's something I could actually profit from I'll make more.

Long term I want to put an ethernet port on them and microcontroller and they would be a standalone PoE network device that's controlled with basic telnet commands.
 
I just bought a couple of Type O Negative vinyl albums: October Rust and Bloody Kisses (includes the Suspended in Dusk track, and removes a couple of others that don't really fit in that well).

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October Rust (Rocktober Exclusive)

Full Length Vinyl 1 Side A 01 Bad Ground 02 (No Title) 'October Rust' Track 2 [Spoken Word Intro] 03 Love You to Death 04 Be My Druidess 05 Green Man Side B 01 Red Water (Christmas Mourning) 02 My Girlfriend's Girlfriend 03 Die...
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Bloody Kisses - Suspended in Dusk (2LP)

The 2LP "Suspended In Dusk" edition is the first time this unique sequence and alternate artwork is available on vinyl. Pressed on 140g green and black mixed vinyl.
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lxskllr said:
I'm actually not a big fan of throwing plastic all over the place, but I've been breaking/losing bolts at an alarming rate. I'm hoping the colored plastic will be easier to find, and the mono construction holds up better. I may still make my own bolts out of wood & feather, but this will buy me some time til I have to commit. I also have 6 broadhead bolts. I'm saving those for an as yet undefined special occasion.

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for old school indoor archery home build ranges, the advice i got was find some clearance discount or leftover scraps of carpet and hang it over a rope or some sort of frame/bar/stick. arrows or bolts wont make it through the carpet and the loose hanging aspect means it absorbs the momentum for less damage to the arrow. 2 layers will stop field tips, dont know about those broadheads.
 
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