Most expensive toy of yours?

[shortylickens]

Probably my knife collection, at least $30K worth.


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Do you buy from those fancy sites or is it always in person with the craftsman?

 

[Evadman]

WANT

 

[highland145]

WANT

Maybe if you slip down to the basement more often.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Do you buy from those fancy sites or is it always in person with the craftsman?

Both, probably about 50/50

 

[Oyeve]

My 10000+ comic collection. I stopped buying in the late 90s because the stories just really became stupid. But I started collecting in the 70s. So yeah, my most expensive hobby.

I guess my most expensive toy is the PC in my sig, it aint much but 3+ years ago it was a very expensive toy. More recently would be the POS3 I bought a little over a year ago and turn on may 5 times in its life and my Asus transformer which i got a coupla months ago.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What exactly are you serving up? Do you have your own website or something? Do you lease time?

Mostly hobby stuff. I don't have good bandwidth to actually serve anything. The top server is my firewall, then there's just a bunch of consumer grade router/switches in the back (I have two networks) and there's also a patch panel. When I work on people's PCs or visit comes over, they go on the "public" network while my own stuff is on the private network.

The server in the middle is pretty much my main server, it houses all my VMs. For my Ultima Online server, I have a VM for dev and test as well as one for the DB. I have a p2p VM and a VPN server VM (I sometimes come in from work to check up on stuff) and I have other random misc VMs. The host part of the server also does my spam filtering, web (dev/test environment for all my sites, mostly, as well as some web based tools), DNS etc... but basically it's all internal stuff.

Now the stuff at the bottom I got for free except for that mini 1U server which I bought. It's an old IBM SAN. It's not really versatile because I can't even use my own hard drives in it, but it looks cool, and it was free, so why not. The fiber switch I don't even use, it's not even connected to anything. I might sell it.

If I want to run all of that stuff at once it's about 1KW so I just use the top SAN enclosure for a monthly backup of my whole environment then turn it off.

If I had the bandwidth, I'd definitely do some hosting and stuff, I have plenty of disk space, and with the revenue I could buy a bigger SAN that's not so proprietary. The top two enclosures give me about 5TB and the two bottom will give me about 2.5TB, that's with raid 5 and a couple hot spares.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My 10000+ comic collection. I stopped buying in the late 90s because the stories just really became stupid. But I started collecting in the 70s. So yeah, my most expensive hobby.

I guess my most expensive toy is the PC in my sig, it aint much but 3+ years ago it was a very expensive toy. More recently would be the POS3 I bought a little over a year ago and turn on may 5 times in its life and my Asus transformer which i got a coupla months ago.

Hold on to those, some will be worth lot of money, maybe even already are.

My grandpa has a huge collection, like the original spider man still in the plastic and stuff. Not sure how much it's worth now, but I'm sure it will be worth more in years to come.

 

[shortylickens]

Mostly hobby stuff. I don't have good bandwidth to actually serve anything. The top server is my firewall, then there's just a bunch of consumer grade router/switches in the back (I have two networks) and there's also a patch panel. When I work on people's PCs or visit comes over, they go on the "public" network while my own stuff is on the private network.

The server in the middle is pretty much my main server, it houses all my VMs. For my Ultima Online server, I have a VM for dev and test as well as one for the DB. I have a p2p VM and a VPN server VM (I sometimes come in from work to check up on stuff) and I have other random misc VMs. The host part of the server also does my spam filtering, web (dev/test environment for all my sites, mostly, as well as some web based tools), DNS etc... but basically it's all internal stuff.

Now the stuff at the bottom I got for free except for that mini 1U server which I bought. It's an old IBM SAN. It's not really versatile because I can't even use my own hard drives in it, but it looks cool, and it was free, so why not. The fiber switch I don't even use, it's not even connected to anything. I might sell it.

If I want to run all of that stuff at once it's about 1KW so I just use the top SAN enclosure for a monthly backup of my whole environment then turn it off.

If I had the bandwidth, I'd definitely do some hosting and stuff, I have plenty of disk space, and with the revenue I could buy a bigger SAN that's not so proprietary. The top two enclosures give me about 5TB and the two bottom will give me about 2.5TB, that's with raid 5 and a couple hot spares.

I am ashamed to admit I have no fucking clue what you just said.

 

[KeithTalent]

By now it is probably my movie collection. I'm at around 300 Blu-rays and 70 or so DVDs and it's constantly growing.

KT

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I am an attorney. My most expensive toy is my weekend/track/fun car:

 

[highland145]

I am ashamed to admit I have no fucking clue what you just said.

Should have gone with the "tldr". Never admit any ignorance.

 

[Red Squirrel]

He asked.

 

[highland145]

He asked.

True.

 

[sdifox]

What exactly are you serving up? Do you have your own website or something? Do you lease time?

whut? that is just his pron server!

 

[sdifox]

humm, 10k in ht hardware, close to 25k in content, car was 24k or so.

Yeap, wife is the most expensive.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I am ashamed to admit I have no fucking clue what you just said.

Excuse me, but I speak geek.

 

[shortylickens]

Excuse me, but I speak geek.

doo U liek mudkips?

 

[Jeff7]

Mechanical/electricalish engineer.

EP121-1A010M
That's got to be the most expensive thing I've bought since at least 2004, or whenever I bought my 2GHz P4-M laptop. (That laptop is fast enough that it can almost play Youtube videos.)
It's also one of the more expensive single items I've ever bought.

The letdowns:
- No GPS capability, nor the ability to turn it into a Garmin/Tomtom clone with a USB GPS device.
- This LCARS interface has been abandoned by its creator.:'(


But it's still terribly nifty, and an awful lot of computing power in a compact and portable package.


I wish we could use something like that at work. No more need to reprint work orders when the one in the database gets updated. Just one central copy that everyone can use.
Maybe we'll get there once a foldable and networked 11x17" tablet reader/writer is available for $25.

 

[olds]

I am an attorney. My most expensive toy is my weekend/track/fun car:

I had no idea attorneys were required to have a "weekend/track/fun car".
Is that part of passing the Bar?

 

[shortylickens]

I had no idea attorneys were required to have a "weekend/track/fun car".
Is that part of passing the Bar?

Actually yes. I guarantee the only lawyer without an expensive toy is the public defender in Podunk, Missouri.

 

[Slew Foot]

Im pretty cheap all things considered, my most expensive toy is probably my road bike, around 1900 or so about 8 years ago.

 

[KentState]

I have a couple pricey toys. If I include the car as a toy, then it wins by a long shot. Otherwise, probably my drum set or gun collection.

 

[Kaervak]

EMT-Basic for a private ambulance company.

Most expensive toy, collectively all my hand tools. Probably around $3000 worth of stuff the majority of them being my dad's, he passed away last year so I "inherited" them. Three tool chests worth of stuff and the collection keeps growing. Just added a couple torque wrenches, welder, auto dark welding helmet and angle grinder. Next up is probably an air compressor and impact tools.

 

[jupiter57]

Boy, for a forum full of $250K yr. earning, $25K yr. CC rewards card earning, Stock Traders, y'all sure gots some inexpensive toys!

 

[velillen]

Actually yes. I guarantee the only lawyer without an expensive toy is the public defender in Podunk, Missouri.

Meh lawyer my brother used to work with didnt care about money or material objects. Worked at a good firm and still drove a early 90's Camry. Had a simple house in the 200k range,. Didnt own anything randomly expensive or anything. i mean he had a plasma tv and surround setup but nothing i couldnt eaisly afford or anything. He likes to travel so goes on 3-4 day adventures quite a bit though. Fly somewhere thursday night and come back sunday sort of deal. Really down to earth guy and completely not like the rest of the lawyers he works with. This is a Seattle branch of a large firm as well so not a Podunk, Missouri one Just different priorities. Why spend tons of cash on a car when he doesn't drive except to work (bikes elsewhere or takes the bus) and he prefers to be out instead of in watching tv.

Lol, and I just do downhill skiing on groomed slopes. Sounds like you do alot of back country skiing which I have not tried yet. At this point I'm hesitant to go there bc if I like it, well there goes another grand or two that I'll end up spending in backcountry gear!!

The bulk of my purchases have been in clothing. I get cold easily and have invested in battery power boot heaters, arcteryx gear all around(shell pants and jacket) as well as merino wool base layers and other assorted layers. I think I have together quite a winning combo where I chose the right gear that keeps me warm all day and is not ultimately bulky and movement restricting.

haha yeah the backcountry part is expensive at first. I dont use much downhill gear anymore but just use my touring setup in bounds now pretty much all the time. I had the Dukes for inbounds/side country but ive found the dynafits do just great inbounds too and the touring boots are so much more comfortable. Once ya get it it'll last its just the getting it part that sucks.

I'm the same sort of way. i like ot buy the good clothes and pay the bit extra as i know they will last. My pants are ~5 years old (if not older...i think more like 7 or 8 actually) and my lightweight and heavy fleeces are ~4 or 5 years old as well. Its definitely easy to layer up and get your temp right inbounds but man starting to climb in the backcountry youll be taking things off, putting on, taking off the whole time. When i climbed Mt. baker we started at 2am (like 30 degrees out) and it was jacket, fleece, hat, and pants. After 30 minutes it was jsut fleece and hat. Then just fleece. Then we slowed down and the hat went back on. Then the wind picked up so the jacket went on instead of the fleece. Just constantly changing!