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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Pro-tip: you can use your leaf blower to speed up laundry drying.
Leaf blower?! I'm shocked you'd think I owned such a ridiculous tool! If the leaves didn't belong where they laid, they wouldn't have fallen there. Gathering leaves is probably dumber than making grass shorter :^D
 
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JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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my monitor stand broke.
attachment piece broke on the stand so monitor has nothing to attach itself to.

a new stand is $45.
a new 21.5" monitor with stand that does portrait/vertical costs $75 on sale.

buying a new monitor is the better bang for the buck choice.
but I hate wasting the old monitor and leaving it in the closet to collect dust
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
96,171
15,776
126
my monitor stand broke.
attachment piece broke on the stand so monitor has nothing to attach itself to.

a new stand is $45.
a new 21.5" monitor with stand that does portrait/vertical costs $75 on sale.

buying a new monitor is the better bang for the buck choice.
but I hate wasting the old monitor and leaving it in the closet to collect dust


No vesa mount on monitor?
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,904
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www.anyf.ca
I shaved 6 hours ago and already have hairs popping out.

what would it cost to electrolysis my face?

Just let it grow, problem solved. That's one thing I like about having a beard is I don't have to shave every day. I shave the neck area every couple days and that's about it. Though I normally go clean shaven in summer... kinda debating what to do this year, I kinda want to just keep it but trim it shorter.

When I go clean shaven I practically have to do it twice a day, like if I have to go out at night I have to do it again.
 

AMD64Blondie

Golden Member
Apr 20, 2013
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My Corsair Void headset partially died.(it's bizzare,the microphone died,but the headphone part still worked.)

Decided to give it to a friend of mine,who needed a spare pair of headphones..then bought a Kingston CloudX Alpha to replace it.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
69,524
27,825
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Another unit in my company recently hired two new employees with the same last name. When IT set up their network accounts, they mixed up the accounts, assigning the wrong account to each employee. One of the two realized the mistake and submitted a help desk ticket. IT was slow to respond. This is when their supervisor stepped in and sent a an email laying out the issue and demanding that the issue be resolved immediately. Naturally, the supervisor sent the email went to all users of a specific system affected instead of the help desk email address.

Then the supervisor doubled down and sent an email to the user group containing a spreadsheet of all his employees login info with the two employees' info highlighted. Real names, login names, and passwords. The other group members are bit higher functioning than the average bear and had resisted kicking off an email storm. However, the email with the login info did get s single response which pointed out the guy's stupidity and raised the simple question as to why the supervisor was collecting his employees' passwords in violation of company policy and saving them electronically, also in violation of company policy. Things have been real quiet since that email went out.
 

Charmonium

Diamond Member
May 15, 2015
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So I almost lit my hair on fire. We normally make fun of people that do this sort of thing but in my defense, it was an accident caused by my lack of awareness. I was trying to heat shrink a sleeve to repair the handle of a small wheel barrow. It's all plastic and made for light duty but the handle had cracked. So I have some large diameter heat shrink tubing that was perfect for this job. But doing heat shrink right is always a challenge.

I decided to use a 3-jet cigar lighter. I figured that would produce plenty of heat. But in direct sunlight, you can't see the flames. And this lighter has a habit of misfiring. So I held it near my ear to see if it was working. I didn't realize I had some stray strands of hair sticking out and those went up in flames immediately.

Fortunately it wasn't enough hair to really get a fire going but it was close. Sign me up for a Darwin award please.
 

FeuerFrei

Diamond Member
Mar 30, 2005
9,152
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126
I brought a trashbag filled with acetylene gas home from the repair shop. I was handling it in the bedroom when it spontaneously exploded ... thanks to static electricity. Broke a pane of glass in the nearby window. Singed hair off my arms.

Wait ... that was a friend, not me. And it wasn't today. Nevermind.
 

dasherHampton

Platinum Member
Jan 19, 2018
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Whoever says house gremlins don't exist is full of crap.

A few weeks ago I bought an Atomic Lighter. It's not super useful but it's kind of a neat toy. Ever since I got it out of the packaging and charged it its been sitting in the exact same place on my kitchen counter. I haven't moved it, and I know for sure it was there 2 days ago.

Now its gone. Nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere around the area, in drawers, on the floor, etc. No sign of it. No one has been in my house (that I know of) since I saw it last.

Where TF did it go?
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
96,171
15,776
126
Whoever says house gremlins don't exist is full of crap.

A few weeks ago I bought an Atomic Lighter. It's not super useful but it's kind of a neat toy. Ever since I got it out of the packaging and charged it its been sitting in the exact same place on my kitchen counter. I haven't moved it, and I know for sure it was there 2 days ago.

Now its gone. Nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere around the area, in drawers, on the floor, etc. No sign of it. No one has been in my house (that I know of) since I saw it last.

Where TF did it go?
Check your butt crack, you might have sat on it and lodged it there.
 
Feb 25, 2011
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After weeks of constant monitoring, many doses of Ammo-lock, and tri-weekly water changes, the ammonia level in our aquarium finally tested lower today than yesterday, which means it's dropping by itself.

Gonna have to buy some nitrite detoxifier just in case.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
33,929
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Also, why is playoff hockey on at the same time as playoff basketball. Let's stretch it out people, we're almost in summer where there's no sports at all.
 
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