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Stopsignhank

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Mar 1, 2014
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I'm taking the eight hour HAZWOPER refresher online. For this class the instructor decided to tape it as a conversation with a second person in the studio. The second person will occasionally ask a scripted question. The person has the trapped coyote look. "Eight hours, I can do this. Only 7:50 to go. Oh god! I could strangle myself with the mic cord. I could strangle him with the mic cord. 7:48 to go."
Consider yourself lucky, I have to take the 40 hour class again. Yuck!
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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Bought a $30 DrillMaster trim router at Harbor Freight then found the higher-spec 2HP Harbor Freight DrillMaster router at Goodwill before I even took the original out of the shopping bag... also $30. Had to return it and ended up wasting my 20% off coupon. Is "lost my coupon due to good fortune and abundance" a FWP? Yeah, I think that qualifies. ;)

Speaking of good fortune, I got the router(s) for fixing up someone's custom arcade cabinet that was also found at Goodwill for only $20. It was gutted but it has what I now believe are genuine Suzo-Happ controls though the workmanship was EXTREMELY bad. I get the impression that it was an abandoned project that was never finished but the stuff that was done was shockingly bad... like, nailed-in marque, a tape-on-Lexan bezel, and T-Molding that was installed without routing a slot... by cutting off the rib and then nailing/gluing it on. WTF?!


I already had a couple arcade PCBs, a Neo Geo MVS MV-1FZ and a Neo Geo MVS MV-1C which I just traded my Neo Geo MVS MV-1 (original single-slot) for. I also already had a JAMMA wire harness, an arcade PSU, and even a Gonbes GBS-8200 (JAMMA to VGA adapter). That's everything missing, really, so I could've had this thing running in minutes. I just don't think it's worth it without refurbishing and that's going to take effort. In particular, air think a widescreen LCD is an abomination for an arcade cabinet so I ordered some new Makvision tri-sync arcade CRTs. The 38" is WAY too large to fit (bench monitor for now) and the 29" is going to take some effort since I only have 24" between the side panels and it's just barely over 24" wide at the mounts.
 
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Ajay

Lifer
Jan 8, 2001
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So, taking a few boxes out to the recycling container. Go to open the top and...instantly piss of a yellow jacket. Zooms towards my face, so I smack him with my hand hard as I can. Comes back so I whack him with one of the boxes. Comes back again and gets a hold of my right pinky finger and goes to work on it. I grab him and crush him with my right hand...then another shows up and I book ass.

I had allergy meds in me so no big worries, but 2 hours later the damn thing still hurts. There's a small red mark that looks like I got stuck with a hypodermic needle. Asshole.
Lucky I don't have god like powers, all yellow jackets in the whole world would have instantly died.
 

Charmonium

Lifer
May 15, 2015
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What is the universe trying to tell you when you have a 1 Tb porn collection and you know most of it by heart?
 

Charmonium

Lifer
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yeah but at 4k thats only a couple hours.
Good point. But I think it's going to be a while before we see 4k porn. The reason I say that is that a lot of the stuff I download is still very low resolution. A lot of it is still 240p. That's just crazy.

But that may be because I only download stuff that's free. If you're willing to pay though, maybe things are different.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Good point. But I think it's going to be a while before we see 4k porn. The reason I say that is that a lot of the stuff I download is still very low resolution. A lot of it is still 240p. That's just crazy.

But that may be because I only download stuff that's free. If you're willing to pay though, maybe things are different.


You are behind the times...
 

Charmonium

Lifer
May 15, 2015
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You are behind the times...
Hey, it's not like any of this is my fault. Tell that to porn hub, XNXX, xHamster, etc.

I hadn't really thought much about this but I can think of a couple of reasons why very low resolutions are still around.

First, there's a lot of really, really old shit on the free porn sites. So if something was originally recorded at 240p, there's not much you can do about that unless you want spend a shit load of money trying to scale them up.

Second, bandwidth costs money. If you can get away with giving the free customers shit that's so low res, then the leachers don't cost you as much.

Finally, most normal people can't afford really high quality smart phones. I know people that still use ancient flip phones. So you're not going to have the kind of unlimited storage you need to shoot hundreds of hi res pics and video.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Good point. But I think it's going to be a while before we see 4k porn.


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sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Hey, it's not like any of this is my fault. Tell that to porn hub, XNXX, xHamster, etc.

I hadn't really thought much about this but I can think of a couple of reasons why very low resolutions are still around.

First, there's a lot of really, really old shit on the free porn sites. So if something was originally recorded at 240p, there's not much you can do about that unless you want spend a shit load of money trying to scale them up.

Second, bandwidth costs money. If you can get away with giving the free customers shit that's so low res, then the leachers don't cost you as much.

Finally, most normal people can't afford really high quality smart phones. I know people that still use ancient flip phones. So you're not going to have the kind of unlimited storage you need to shoot hundreds of hi res pics and video.
Like I said you are a few years behind the time.
 

Svnla

Lifer
Nov 10, 2003
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One of my reward checking account's interest rate is down to 2% from 4% so my interest earning is down to about $60 this month instead of $120 or so like last month and many months before. <Sad Panda>
 

Zanovar

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Jan 21, 2011
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Just opened a tub of allmax creatine and its a huge block.solid.Moisture must of got in at there end?, assholes.Not short of creatine in its various forms
 

Zanovar

Diamond Member
Jan 21, 2011
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My gf was having a shit,and i had a full bladder.i started pissing in her wine glasses and pouring them into the sink.Im guessing her shit must of stopped abruptly(never heard her come in)She caught me cock in hand pissing in her treasured wine glass.Something was lost in that moment never to be regained.
 

Zanovar

Diamond Member
Jan 21, 2011
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Watched a doc recently and amazon workers were drop kicking parcels.bastards.Apparently a great form of fun.fuckers