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Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
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What is this?

It is a gold chain that goes around the waist. Looks good with crop tops or bikinis. I also made one that attaches to a necklace making a chain around her waist that goes up between the breasts to the neck in silver.


Cliff Notes:
Some weird food called nigori

Nigori is unfiltered sake. It is a drink.


Plant bed next to pool

Not a plant bed, and actual bed. Think a wide bench with a headrest for sunbathing. It will use outdoor fabric over foam.

I've always got a couple of projects in the works. Pretty much If I'm not at work (sometimes even when I am) I am working on a project.
 

bfun_x1

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Photography, model railroading, and whiskey tasting. I've been slacking on the first two but the last one still keeps me busy.
 

greed

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https://spinthebottle.co

Worked on it for 20-30 hours a week in my spare time with another developer and another business guy for like a year. We're having trouble getting a lot of users on it but we just got someone on board who knows how to market so we hope that helps. I haven't done much dev on it in some time though since it's out in prod and working and pretty good quality, now we just need to get a lot of users on it to get real stress testing on it and see if it can hold up.

Other than that, I have some other mobile apps I've worked on that are in the app stores too, more guides to fighting video games, but I kind of stopped doing that since other people make ones that look better than mine and put them out for free. It's just not worth the time.

looks very polised and great concept. did it cost money to get on that times sq display?
 

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Made me tired just reading all of that.
No shit. Dude needs to chill out and stare at a wall for awhile. That's my biggest hobby. I didn't list it cause it's not that interesting. Low interest, but highly satisfying :^D
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
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I want to fly my RC gliders in the mountains again.

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But first I have to get it out of that damn tree.

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Thebobo

Lifer
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I used to paddle whitewater canoe, and I really miss it, but I can't trust my back on remote trips anymore :^(

You talkin closed canoes? Like a kayak? Never did that but use to have a Mad River 16' shallow V went use to load up on beer and take couple day trips down the Shenandoah.
 
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Thebobo

Lifer
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I am scanning a room full of boxes of slide carousels filled with my grandfather's old slides. Here is one, it's a pelican:

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Using a nikon coolscan III picked up used with SCSI card and lovingly re-oiled and freed of dust and completely refurbished, works great.

This pelican tried to eat my grandfather's camera in the 60's in St. Petersburg Florida.

Been looking for a good slide scanner but damn that one is $$.
 
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lxskllr

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You talkin closed canoes? Like a kayak? Never did that but use to have a Mad River 16' shallow V went use to load up on beer and take couple day trips down the Shenandoah.
Open canoe. I'm too tall for a C-1(aka pain boat), but that would be a blast if I were a bit smaller. I have a Mohawk Probe 12. I got the adjustable twarts so I could make it pretty skinny. It was setup similar to the Viper, but less 'edgy'. I think Mohawk went out of business. Their thing was selling direct to the consumer. You could get a fully outfitted boat for the cost of a shell from other companies.
 

thedarkwolf

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Biking mainly mountain biking but I also do a bit of road. Need to do some work on my three current mtn bikes to get two of them ready to sell since I just ordered a fourth lol.
 
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Bardock

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Been looking for a good slide scanner but damn that one is $$.

It is but you get what you pay for. I wanted the pics to look good and the machine to last. I think mine was about $250 but it's SCSI not USB. I haven't used any other scanner but seen slides scanned with them, not impressed.


It's taking forever. I've scanned about 500 pictures and it's not even one box and I have a room of them. The photos are 1950's to the 1990's.

I highly recommend the Nikon, it's worth it to me.
 
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adairusmc

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Jul 24, 2006
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Been playing around with my mavic pro and goggles, which is fun.

Also trying to do some load development for a new rifle I bought before elk season gets here. Trying to find the most accurate .300 win mag load using Barnes 200g lrx bullets and h1000 powder. Once I get a load dialed in I am hoping I can kill an elk with it in October.
 

Paladin3

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Fishing, lots and lots of fishing. Mostly targeting bass, which is kinda new for me. We've had a nice run of smallmouth bass at the lake where I work, with a smattering of pike and walleye in the last few weeks. Lots of crappie, perch, bluegill and assorted trout as well. Normally I bait fish a fair amount for trout I eat, but it's all been catch and release lure fishing this year so far. Catching a big smallmouth on an ultralight pole with 4lb test line is a trip, way more fun than towing in trout.
 

Naer

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trying to dominate the world of course. leaving a Genghis khan type legacy
 
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Red Squirrel

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Been playing a bit with component level electronics latetly. I'd like to get mostly into power electronics. Build power supplies and stuff. I don't really have any major projects on the go yet though. Also been kinda interested in getting into ham radio.

More long term projects include various programming projects such as my game server, and also working on my house. The basement has been ongoing for a while on and off. I finished insulating the main part recently: Kinda a mess in that pic since I had to move everything to the middle.



Will probably do crawlspace in fall/winter. Then after that it will be drywall.

Another project I want to start soon though is to build a shed, I need to do that so I can move everything out of the garage into it, then I want to finish/insulate the garage so I can use it as a shop and condition it so I can actually work in it. At that point I might get more into wood working and such.

Oh and I also kinda got intersted into drones/RC but probably won't get too far into that. I consider that more an extension of my electronics hobby, once I get more into it I might look at building my own drones and such. Did get a Phantom 3 recently though but it was a super good deal.

I have a bad habbit of getting really interested in something, spending lot of money on it, then moving on to something else. :p Been trying to avoid that so told myself I should concentrate mostly on electronics for now. I still need to look at buying more books or even taking some online courses just so I can learn more about it. I'm kinda just teaching myself right now through experimentation and youtube/google etc. But that's when the garage comes in, when I can finish that I want to build myself a proper lab desk and also some storage boxes so I can organize my components better. Being more organized and having a proper work area makes things so much easier. I'm not that well setup right now.
 
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Loop2kil

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Mountain Biking(well, it's middle Georgia so it's really just riding in the woods) - I like the climbs and pain associated with that so the constant up/downs here are awesome to feed my 'Pain=Pleasure' fetish I've developed over the last year and half.
I also love playing Table Tennis but the clubs are far away and I don't get to play as often as I would like.
I enjoy actively listening to music (Jazz, Rock, Metal, Blues)
 

bbhaag

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I don't have very many hobbies but I do like vintage computing and brewing beer. I'm also into gardening both flower and vegetable.

This pic is one of my vintage rigs. It's a DEC Venturis486. I've upgraded the ram to 32mb, upgraded the Vram to 2mb, and installed a POD83(Pentium Overdrive 83mhz)cpu. As you can see it plays Duke Nukem3D nicely.
I also installed a 3COM network card so I can access the internet with it.
This is the pride of my vintage rigs but I also have others in somewhat working order. haha
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This is a pic of me brewing on the patio. Nothing fancy but done right the beer turns out nice. I'd like to get a wort chiller to help with getting the temps down but for now an ice bath does the trick pretty good.
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highland145

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Mountain Biking(well, it's middle Georgia so it's really just riding in the woods) - I like the climbs and pain associated with that so the constant up/downs here are awesome to feed my 'Pain=Pleasure' fetish I've developed over the last year and half.
+1

MTB until you hit your head a couple of times.


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