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Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:42 am
by DancinJack
Captain Ned wrote:
DancinJack wrote:
BASEBALL IS ALMOST HERE WOOOOOOOO

WHERE ARE IAN AND FUNK

You in the fantasy league?? If not, we've got an open spot. Stickied in TR Sports will be the details.


I was in last year, and I didn't get an invite. At least not that i saw.

Joined.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:39 pm
by BluePanda
doing laundry -- feeling too much like an adult. A round of Mass Effect it in order...

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:15 pm
by DancinJack
Yo JBI, don't you have a Sansa Clip?

I have a phone for most of my portable music needs, but I want something for the gym. I want some small, lightweight, not Apple (I just really don't want to use iTunes if I don't have to), and will play at least a few codecs. Just wondering what you thought of it.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:54 am
by just brew it!
Yup, I have a Clip+. Great sounding little player, and expandable with micro-SD cards. My only complaint is that the clip on the newer Clips could be sturdier; the hinge broke after a few months. Fortunately I don't actually clip my Clip so it didn't really matter to me.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:07 am
by notfred
I got a Clip+ for my wife for Christmas a couple of years ago. It's still working nicely and it works with Linux on the host computer.

[Edit]Fix typo[/edit]

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:27 am
by just brew it!
notfred wrote:
I got a Cpli+ for my wife for Christmas a couple of years ago. It's still working nicely and it works with Linux on the host computer.

Yup. Just make sure you disable Media Transfer Protocol in the settings if there's a chance it might get moved back and forth between Windows and Linux. This will prevent confusion by forcing it to use Mass Storage Protocol regardless of what OS it is talking to.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:38 am
by DancinJack
I ordered one last night. I have a 16GB microSD already so I just got the 4GB version. 4GB should be plenty for what I need anyway.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:08 am
by idchafee
I wasn't going to have a couple fingers of Johnnie Walker. I swore I wasn't, because I knew that I'd have difficulty stopping at a couple fingers and I have to work tomorrow.

I am weak.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:52 pm
by paulWTAMU
finally figured out what's wrong with my lower back; tore the illiac crest and thoracolumar fascia. Thank god for x rays and I wish I'd gone in 2-3 weeks ago.

Meds, meds, and rest :X Oh well.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:23 am
by AMD64Blondie
paulWTAMU wrote:
finally figured out what's wrong with my lower back; tore the illiac crest and thoracolumar fascia. Thank god for x rays and I wish I'd gone in 2-3 weeks ago.

Meds, meds, and rest :X Oh well.


Hope you start feeling better soon,paul.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:25 am
by just brew it!
WTF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible
Wikipedia wrote:
The current organ performance of the piece at St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:17 am
by AMD64Blondie
Things are not going to end well at work today.
(I'm in Portland State University's mail room.)

It's Monday...and it's April Fool's Day. Oh God..not good.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:19 pm
by lonleyppl
Putting serious consideration into buying my first car. There's a 1980 MB 240D on e-Bay, but it's local, so I'm thinking of calling the seller when the auction ends (if it doesn't sell) and seeing it in person this weekend with a mechanic. It's not in the best condition, but it's still pretty, and gets pretty good gas mileage. It's also gorgeous, but might need a bit of work, so I'm not entirely sure.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:42 pm
by JustAnEngineer
Does your maintenance budget match that sort of vehicle, or would you be better off with a more reliable and cheaper to repair make like a Honda or Toyota?

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:52 pm
by lonleyppl
Due to the fairly low price, and the reliability of the W123 body, my budget covers maintenance. Ideally I'd like to do my own repairs, but that is likely a few years out.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:37 am
by bhtooefr
Take your planned maintenance budget.

Multiply it by 10.

Then you'll be within an order of magnitude of what it costs to keep a Mercedes on the road.

The sweet spot of low cost car ownership is pseudo-American cars. You get American car resale value and parts prices, but with Japanese design.

The 1991-1996 Ford Escort with a manual transmission is probably the sweet spot of that. Mazda chassis, with a 1.9 liter Ford engine (they drop valves, though - not nearly as badly as the 2.0s though). Driven easily, you're looking at 40 mpg. And, nobody thinks of it as especially efficient, so they're dirt cheap.

The Geo Prizm is a more reliable bet, but everyone knows it's a Corolla, and asks Corolla money for it.

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:19 am
by ludi
bhtooefr wrote:
The sweet spot of low cost car ownership is pseudo-American cars. You get American car resale value and parts prices, but with Japanese design.

IMO, if you want reliable transportation at an affordable price and don't care about panache, a 1997-2001 4cyl Camry is probably the best bet. All-Japanese design and build quality, low tendency to rust out along the rear sill because of the unusual rear bumper layout, and the used-car market is practically spammed with them, including a fair number at or under the 100k mark due to having been owned by older women. Parts readily available in any junkyard. There's so many of them on the road that Monroe still sells a compatible quick-strut kit (fully-assembled, bolt-in coilover with OE quality dampers and bushings).

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:23 am
by Captain Ned
ludi wrote:
IMO, if you want reliable transportation at an affordable price and don't care about panache, a 1997-2001 4cyl Camry is probably the best bet. All-Japanese design and build quality, low tendency to rust out along the rear sill because of the unusual rear bumper layout, and the used-car market is practically spammed with them, including a fair number at or under the 100k mark due to having been owned by older women. Parts readily available in any junkyard. There's so many of them on the road that Monroe still sells a compatible quick-strut kit (fully-assembled, bolt-in coilover with OE quality dampers and bushings).

QFT. My boss has put over 250k miles on 3 successive Camrys.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:05 pm
by Captain Ned
This shouldn't annoy me as much as it does, but Wikipedia is forcibly closing off all of the skins using Times New Roman fonts as of 4/15/13. None of the allowed options come anywhere close to the legibility of the "Classic" skin and they claim "needed back-end improvements". Bushwa. A font is a font.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:17 am
by lonleyppl
From a site I read pretty regularly: http://jalopnik.com/please-help-me-get- ... -469437544

tl;dr One of the editors had his 1973 Beetle stolen in the LA area. It's bright yellow with a blue racing stripe.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:46 am
by ludi
lonleyppl wrote:
From a site I read pretty regularly: http://jalopnik.com/please-help-me-get- ... -469437544

tl;dr One of the editors had his 1973 Beetle stolen in the LA area. It's bright yellow with a blue racing stripe.

I wish him best of luck. If it wasn't unscrupulously towed (per the comments), then it's probably in Mexico by now.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:47 pm
by Captain Ned
ludi wrote:
I wish him best of luck. If it wasn't unscrupulously towed (per the comments), then it's probably in Mexico by now.

That's why my car (2010 Legacy GT Turbo) will never go to Montréal. When we go, we'll take the wife's car (Forester).

For those not from the Northeast, Montréal is a car theft mecca. With the container port but 2-3 miles away from wherever you parked your desirable car, it's in a container and on a ship before the waitress has brought the first round of drinks or the opening band has left the stage.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:58 pm
by druidcent
My Honda Accord was taken for a joy-ride while I was on vacation (apparently it was stolen the day before I got back, from a gated garage no less) in San Diego..

After joy-riding, they left it the shady part of town where some people started to strip the car... apparently someone came by, because it was abandoned with some parts still there..

The night before the insurance was going to cut a check, the police call and say that the car has been found... Fortunately I knew a good body shop, and they were able to fix everything for just under the value at which the insurance company was going to salvage the car... And then submitted a supplemental bill to them for stuff that the adjuster missed... The car ran better than new until I gave it to my brother... :)

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:59 pm
by ludi
Captain Ned wrote:
For those not from the Northeast, Montréal is a car theft mecca. With the container port but 2-3 miles away from wherever you parked your desirable car, it's in a container and on a ship before the waitress has brought the first round of drinks or the opening band has left the stage.

I seem to remember reading something about that a while back. Something about vehicles tending to end up in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China as gray-market imports.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:01 pm
by Captain Ned
ludi wrote:
Captain Ned wrote:
For those not from the Northeast, Montréal is a car theft mecca. With the container port but 2-3 miles away from wherever you parked your desirable car, it's in a container and on a ship before the waitress has brought the first round of drinks or the opening band has left the stage.
I seem to remember reading something about that a while back. Something about vehicles tending to end up in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China as gray-market imports.

Middle East as well. Parking anything German in Montréal is insurance fraud. Hotel valets make a whole lot more money stealing cars than they do in the day job.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:47 am
by annabel
That's me officially living in New Zealand now! Where do the Kiwi gerbils hide?

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:06 pm
by Captain Ned
Ahh, mud season. Took an adventurous drive today and spent most of it trying to balance on top of foot-deep ruts in quagmire dirt roads. Oh well, it's one of the reasons I drive a Subie. Now off to the car wash to remove the layer of road that's stuck to my underbelly.

Thought the temps had been warm enough long enough to avoid this. I miscalculated.

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:23 pm
by steelcity_ballin
DancinJack wrote:
paulWTAMU wrote:
My bench is holding at 295, OHP is 210, and squats and deads are coming back after an injury (fell of a ladder and did a number on my back) and should be back into the mid 300s/low 400s pretty soon. Bodyweight is stagnant at 265 though, not losing much :( has me frustrated! Hopefully next week I can get 3x5 with 275 on squats and get back to getting stronger vs making up lost ground. Injuries suck.


Isn't your main goal to just be healthy? 295 is a damn good bench. I think you should focus on getting fit more than lifting more, dude. I can't remember how tall you are, but if you're under 6' I think it's time to really focus on getting the diet and cardio stuff going.


For anyone that lifts regularly, lifting is not only cardio, it's better than cardio with respect to fat burn over a 24 hour period. When you're done running you're done burning. Healthy is a relative term really. I like aesthetics, size, and numbers. I want it all :D

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:57 pm
by auxy
steelcity_ballin wrote:
For anyone that lifts regularly, lifting is not only cardio, it's better than cardio with respect to fat burn over a 24 hour period. When you're done running you're done burning. Healthy is a relative term really.
This is a true story.

My biology is weird due to a congenital birth defect (which I don't like talking about in specific terms because people make a lot of wrong assumptions), and one of the results is that, for whatever reason, I'm almost entirely unable to store body fat. I'm not as bad off as Lizzie Velasquez (who is literally unable to store fat) or people with complete lipodystrophy, but my energy level fluctuates heavily and I have to be careful about where, when, and what I eat.

I don't have (and have never had) medical insurance and so I have never had my condition examined too thoroughly, but in an attempt to put some more weight on my skin-and-bones frame, my aunt, who is also my GP, had me begin working out so that I would have some mass to me. The results were immediate and all too effective; I gained 11 pounds in just two weeks and I LOOKED much healthier than before. However, my energy problems became horribly more severe and my appetite, normally ravenous, became literally insatiable; I felt like I was starving all the time until I'd stuffed myself to nausea -- and I was hungry again in just an hour or two. Believe me when I say that between starving due to a lack of food and starving despite an abundance of food, I'd choose the former any day.

I've always been more athletic than I had any right to be given my level of physical activity; some of this is genetics and some of this is simply that being light makes it easier to move (and I love running, jumping, and active play like this), so I quit the weights and went back to gymnastic and more dynamic exercise. I started practicing my TKD again, I found a small group semi-locally (it's a bit of a drive, but not too far) that does parkour on an indoor course, and where I live now we have a decent approximation of a proper gymnasium set up in one of the backyard garages. I've managed to maintain a healthier weight, I don't feel like I'm starving to death, and I don't have to eat like someone four times my size; everything is better. (I just eat like someone twice my size.)

Anyway, this whole personal sharing session was really just to reinforce what steelcity said: if you want to lose weight, lifting is the way to go. That old story about doing cardio to lose weight is just hogwash.

I initially had "that old jag" above, but Google can't verify the existence of this phrase outside of talking about Jaguar sports cars. I changed it, but isn't that a phrase people used to use?

Re: dymt reloaded

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:14 pm
by Captain Ned
auxy wrote:
I initially had "that old jag" above, but Google can't verify the existence of this phrase outside of talking about Jaguar sports cars. I changed it, but isn't that a phrase people used to use?

Outside of the Jaguar reference, a "jag" back in the 1940's meant a booze or drugs bender.