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JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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I dropped a 16oz bag of potoatoe chips on the floor.
I'm assuming most of the big chips have now broken into smaller pieces, which I hate. I like the big chips.
tossed the unopened bag in the garbage.

went to buy another bag, this time bbq flavor
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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My dog attacked and killed a rat this morning, I put her (pitbull) on her lead and let her out, she goes around the corner near a downspout just staring at one spot for about 20 seconds, I think nothing of it as she does this when toads, lizards, ect, are around. Then in a quick jab she grabs a medium-sized rat near the downspout and shreds it violently, the rat had time to squeal, once. My wife like to feed the birds bread chunks and I warned her that eventually squirrels, possum, vermin would come around, it's FL, critters are everywhere and abundant..

Take your anti-pitbull politics out of this thread asshat.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Found out my fiancee will be six months pregnant at the Crue concert in October. She is still married and we are in our 40's.
 

Ruptga

Lifer
Aug 3, 2006
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That's right, nobody is allowed to talk about dogs or critters, this thread is about the wacky adventures of Ä.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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Found out my fiancee will be six months pregnant at the Crue concert in October. She is still married and we are in our 40's.
Such a pointlessly proud man.

Poor child.

Edit: "Pointlessly proud" of diddling a married woman (srsly though, congrats on the pregnancy). The first thing you should teach him/her is that apostrophes never pluralize. Once he/she knows that, he/she will have already surpassed your value as a human being. *thumbsup*
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
This. And negative should always be disconnected first. Everything leads to ground, which is why the positive terminal is capped (keep it away from "everything"). This is especially true when removing a battery. Once ground no longer leads to the battery, it's safe to expose the positive terminal.

Also, direct connection is fine at the good battery but negative should go through the frame away from the bad battery due to vented hydrogen.

Yeah avoid sparks near the battery. Always make the final connection away from it.

I have 4 100ah batteries in my home backup system in two groups, I have two cut off switches away from the battery rack and I can isolate 2 batteries if I need to work on them. Also I think if you connect the positive last there is less sparks. Or maybe it's the negative, I can't recall.
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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I spent 7 hours cleaning out my computer case, installing a new fan, and then vacuuming. The cleaning took forever because I hadn't done it thoroughly in 5 years -- and I didn't have canned air or a blower so I mouth-blew and subsequently breathed all the shit in. On the bright side, everything's running a few degrees cooler.

Almost broke a $23 Noctua S12A fan by not realizing I was supposed to take out the plastic guides/mounts in my Antec P183 before installing a front fan. Broke a lot of the plastic at the holes trying to get the screw in... Then I quit while ahead and used the silicone mounts: holy shit, they rock! Thought they'd be hard as hell to use cause of the wire clutter, but apparently, needle-nose pliers were invented for something...

And finally, my effing system is louder now because of the intake fan. Put in the low-noise adapter to go from 1200 rpm to 900 rpm... I can definitely hear it. The Tricool noise in the back has the benefit of being 2 feet further away and having to go through two panels and a mobo.
 

BUTCH1

Lifer
Jul 15, 2000
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Take your anti-pitbull politics out of this thread asshat.

I love my Pit, even at 8.5 yrs old she is amazingly quick and has an extremely good sense of smell, I can tell if anything/anyone has been around just by watching her sniff around. The situation with vermin is exasperated by my wife throwing out the bread and a neighbor who won't cut her yard until the city puts a notice in her door, Hawks and eagles are usually make mice and rats stay hidden but when someone's grass is a foot tall they do not fear attack from above as they know that they are not easily spotted..
 

AMD64Blondie

Golden Member
Apr 20, 2013
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Dealing with the heat and humidity.(Unusual for Oregon).

89 degrees F with a 62 degree F dew point.(The humidity is 40 %).

Not fun at all.I've been hiding in my air-conditioned apartment all afternoon.
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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Forgot this one...

It turns out I have been using a Western Digital Caviar GREEN for 5 almost 5 years. The last few times I went into my case, I only opened the left panel (facing front) and the label is only visible from the right. I've always been under the impression that I had a WD Black.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Such a pointlessly proud man.

Poor child.

Edit: "Pointlessly proud" of diddling a married woman (srsly though, congrats on the pregnancy). The first thing you should teach him/her is that apostrophes never pluralize. Once he/she knows that, he/she will have already surpassed your value as a human being. *thumbsup*

I can't up the anti and do high school girls as an adult.

grat'z
 

BUTCH1

Lifer
Jul 15, 2000
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That's right, nobody is allowed to talk about dogs or critters, this thread is about the wacky adventures of Ä.

A is our own critter in a way, I'd bet he'd be every bit as tough vs a rat as my dog was... :biggrin:
 

Ruptga

Lifer
Aug 3, 2006
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It's Å

Get it right.

Why so serious, Francis? You're the only one around here that takes you seriously.

Oh and back on topic, today I was just relaxing outside after grilling my dinner when I suddenly noticed a cloud of flies descending on my burgers and I had to go inside. However, I don't think that comes anywhere close to unseating our best first world problem yet:

What phone doesn't have a flashlight on it anymore? I had to take a picture of a sheet of paper, and use that as my background to get something like a flashlight :^S
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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Forgot this one...

It turns out I have been using a Western Digital Caviar GREEN for 5 almost 5 years. The last few times I went into my case, I only opened the left panel (facing front) and the label is only visible from the right. I've always been under the impression that I had a WD Black.

I did that intentionally and tried to compensate by having an assload of system RAM for caching. It was still absolutely awful and unusable, but I stuck with it for 2+ years because I was broke.

I don't see how you can be under the impression that it's a "black" drive. Just trying to use it was awful. Windows is constantly trying to index stuff and the drive is always bogging down the whole system. Looking in Performance Monitor or Task Manager, you can always see processes that are stuck waiting while disk activity is maxed out for no goddamn reason.

I feel very sorry for anyone else that had to deal with a WD Green as a boot drive.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Went to fairly new 4.4ft³ refrigerator to get out a steak and cook it.

Steak is frozen solid.:\


It's 2014.
Thermistors are not super-advanced technology anymore. They're even found in cheap consumer devices like thermostats.
But refrigerators still have temperature controls that are "warmer" to "coldest" on a scale of 1-6.

So on the control knob:
5.045 = Everything is frozen solid.
5.042 = Ice cream in the freezer section melts.
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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I did that intentionally and tried to compensate by having an assload of system RAM for caching. It was still absolutely awful and unusable, but I stuck with it for 2+ years because I was broke.

I don't see how you can be under the impression that it's a "black" drive. Just trying to use it was awful. Windows is constantly trying to index stuff and the drive is always bogging down the whole system. Looking in Performance Monitor or Task Manager, you can always see processes that are stuck waiting while disk activity is maxed out for no goddamn reason.

I feel very sorry for anyone else that had to deal with a WD Green as a boot drive.

I've never had a Black and always used pretty crappy systems before I finally got an SSD last year, so it seemed normal to me. I'm waiting for it to die now so I can get a Black -- I don't want two HDDs for some reason.
 

bononos

Diamond Member
Aug 21, 2011
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Adobe flash update could've made the browser less stable.
Have to look for the previous version now.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Went to fairly new 4.4ft³ refrigerator to get out a steak and cook it.

Steak is frozen solid.:\


It's 2014.
Thermistors are not super-advanced technology anymore. They're even found in cheap consumer devices like thermostats.
But refrigerators still have temperature controls that are "warmer" to "coldest" on a scale of 1-6.

So on the control knob:
5.045 = Everything is frozen solid.
5.042 = Ice cream in the freezer section melts.

You should learn the difference between fridge and freezer.
 
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