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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Awesome, thanks for the suggestions!

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    of those I'd definitely vouch for the surf shop, it's pretty cool

  • EtheaEthea Registered User regular
    Elaro wrote: »
    I still want to buy a desk

    I got one of these and have really like it. The bottom crossbar can be installed at the back making a nice perfect computer desk. I generally want my desk a couple of inches lower than the standard height, and this solves the problem without serious cost.

    https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Work-Table-in-White-HOLT62XDBJ2/312063243

  • ElaroElaro Apologetic Registered User regular
    edited May 2021
    Ethea wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    I still want to buy a desk

    I got one of these and have really like it. The bottom crossbar can be installed at the back making a nice perfect computer desk. I generally want my desk a couple of inches lower than the standard height, and this solves the problem without serious cost.

    https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Work-Table-in-White-HOLT62XDBJ2/312063243

    Nah, I'm looking for an L-shaped or corner desk. One inner perimeter for computer stuff, one for building miniatures.

    I'm settling on this: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/sauder-august-hill-l-desk-dover-oak-0749034p.html

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  • EtheaEthea Registered User regular
    I miss Canadian Tire

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited May 2021
    That's not a tire.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

    Can Betelgeuse be a tire?

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    I just got the Wildlife house with the Giraffe for my wife. She loved it. (she collects Giraffe stuff).

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

    Can Betelgeuse be a tire?

    tires are a torus

    people are a torus

    shoes with laces are a torus

    tea kettles are a torus

    tl;dr just about anything is in fact a tire and you don't even have to try very hard...

    but I don't think stars can be.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

    Can Betelgeuse be a tire?

    tires are a torus

    people are a torus

    shoes with laces are a torus

    tea kettles are a torus

    tl;dr just about anything is in fact a tire and you don't even have to try very hard...

    but I don't think stars can be.

    I don't think people are a torus. The nose screws it all up.

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  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    ...I ordered Patchwork for myself last weekend. Birthday gift.


    ... ... Last night, I ordered Codenames Duet XXL and Muse: Awakenings. I might keep the latter, but I got the former to leave here when I go.

    Apparently I'm now self soothing with testing boardgames... Did I somehow get Enough Yarn ?!?
    no

    hah

    But ADHD, bebeh, my hobbies go in cycles!
    Half is that I'm trying to get a kid past her dad saddling her with "sore loser."
    Last year, there was a run of Uno over weeks when she didn't win a single round and handled it quietly, but any insult her main caretaker had said is internalized.

    She had a good time with Calico until we tallied points -- I had more cats and still only nine points ahead! Which somehow sounded like taunting.

    From my well-sourced but nonetheless pop psychology readings: y'all, narcissism is a mold -- its creep is way deeper and farther than it looks; don't ignore it!
    Anyway, so, trying to introduce more less-directly competitive or even coop stuff to encourage gracious losing/winning. She liked Codenames Pictures, and Duet should be a bit faster while still letting her give clues.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

    Can Betelgeuse be a tire?

    tires are a torus

    people are a torus

    shoes with laces are a torus

    tea kettles are a torus

    tl;dr just about anything is in fact a tire and you don't even have to try very hard...

    but I don't think stars can be.

    I don't think people are a torus. The nose screws it all up.

    also shunts

  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    pooka wrote: »
    ...I ordered Patchwork for myself last weekend. Birthday gift.


    ... ... Last night, I ordered Codenames Duet XXL and Muse: Awakenings. I might keep the latter, but I got the former to leave here when I go.

    Apparently I'm now self soothing with testing boardgames... Did I somehow get Enough Yarn ?!?
    no

    hah

    But ADHD, bebeh, my hobbies go in cycles!
    Half is that I'm trying to get a kid past her dad saddling her with "sore loser."
    Last year, there was a run of Uno over weeks when she didn't win a single round and handled it quietly, but any insult her main caretaker had said is internalized.

    She had a good time with Calico until we tallied points -- I had more cats and still only nine points ahead! Which somehow sounded like taunting.

    From my well-sourced but nonetheless pop psychology readings: y'all, narcissism is a mold -- its creep is way deeper and farther than it looks; don't ignore it!
    Anyway, so, trying to introduce more less-directly competitive or even coop stuff to encourage gracious losing/winning. She liked Codenames Pictures, and Duet should be a bit faster while still letting her give clues.

    The look of utter consternation on @rhylith 's face when given a particular prompt in Muse at PAX South a few years back is one of my favorite board gaming memories. I'd picked it up on a whim just because it reminded me a bit of other games that I like, and it was a very pleasant surprise how much fun it can be with a good group.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Oh god I wish I remembered the specifics of that moment but I do remember that I enjoyed the hell out of that game.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I figured they were just rubber galoshes so he could just rinse them off.

    I can confirm that white gumboots do end up bloodstained

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    My memory is hazier than I'd like, but I think the team I was on had stuck you with a prompt where you had to get your team to pick the right picture by humming. And our brilliant plan sure looked like it was working when we saw the look on your face, until you started humming the Super Mario Brothers underwater level music and everyone realized there was only one picture that fit that at all.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Ketar wrote: »
    My memory is hazier than I'd like, but I think the team I was on had stuck you with a prompt where you had to get your team to pick the right picture by humming. And our brilliant plan sure looked like it was working when we saw the look on your face, until you started humming the Super Mario Brothers underwater level music and everyone realized there was only one picture that fit that at all.

    That was awesome.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    That's not a tire.

    anything can be a tire if you try hard enough

    Can Betelgeuse be a tire?

    tires are a torus

    people are a torus

    shoes with laces are a torus

    tea kettles are a torus

    tl;dr just about anything is in fact a tire and you don't even have to try very hard...

    but I don't think stars can be.

    I don't think people are a torus. The nose screws it all up.

    Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe talks about this and it's much more elegantly explained than I can possibly manage as a non-scientist and someone who generally has to really grapple with math and physics but my understanding is that a torus does not have to only have one hole, although the traditional topological definition is for one with one hole.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I was almost a torus, but I ended up being a gemini.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I was almost a torus, but then I took an arrow in the knee

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    I'm sorry please shunt me back into 2011 where I belong

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    You fucking wish. We'll just shunt you back to April 2020.

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    2011 sounds like an alright place to be

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I figured they were just rubber galoshes so he could just rinse them off.

    I can confirm that white gumboots do end up bloodstained

    I have questions that I'm not sure I want answers to.

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  • GrudgeGrudge blessed is the mind too small for doubtRegistered User regular
    So, I bought an expensive Italian charcoal barbecue. I could probably got a similar model for half the price from some no-name brand, but this one is really high quality. The metal is really thick and the grills are cast iron, the whole thing weighs 35kg. I'm super happy, it's been great so far, and I expect this one to last many years (unlike my old one, thin metal rusted through after 3 years or so and then one of the legs fell off).

    https://en.boretti.com/collection/outdoor/bbq/boretti-charcoal-barbecue-fratello.html

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    if you treat that thing right, it can last for decades easily

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    https://sashiyoshi.com/works/001/

    I'm obsessed with lacquerwear

    But arguably I do not need a lot more Stuff in my house (it is at a Comfortable Stuff Level right now with a peripheral problem of Where To Put This Goddamn Sports Equipment)

    But also...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSxIFwhhVw

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    If you guys want to into detail about the number of holes in people.

    (It’s also a really good video on topological maths)

    https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    Grudge wrote: »
    So, I bought an expensive Italian charcoal barbecue. I could probably got a similar model for half the price from some no-name brand, but this one is really high quality. The metal is really thick and the grills are cast iron, the whole thing weighs 35kg. I'm super happy, it's been great so far, and I expect this one to last many years (unlike my old one, thin metal rusted through after 3 years or so and then one of the legs fell off).

    https://en.boretti.com/collection/outdoor/bbq/boretti-charcoal-barbecue-fratello.html

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    That's so nice it's making me want to buy one even though we've probably already had the UK's yearly allowance of outdoor cooking days for 2021.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Grudge wrote: »
    So, I bought an expensive Italian charcoal barbecue. I could probably got a similar model for half the price from some no-name brand, but this one is really high quality. The metal is really thick and the grills are cast iron, the whole thing weighs 35kg. I'm super happy, it's been great so far, and I expect this one to last many years (unlike my old one, thin metal rusted through after 3 years or so and then one of the legs fell off).

    https://en.boretti.com/collection/outdoor/bbq/boretti-charcoal-barbecue-fratello.html

    a41eqfnzv7z5.jpeg


    That's so nice it's making me want to buy one even though we've probably already had the UK's yearly allowance of outdoor cooking days for 2021.

    There is a yearly limit to outdoor cooking in the UK?

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    In the sense that it pisses it down half the time

    We've had a really hot, rain free bank holiday weekend, which means that the rest of the year will be cold, grey, wet etc

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    In England you are only allowed to enjoy yourself outside twice a year.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    it's the same around DC, except instead of cold and rainy our summers are stupid hot with 150% humidity. We get about one week each of spring and autumn.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    In England you are only allowed to enjoy yourself outside twice a year.

    This is correct

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I heard once someone found a fifty pound note outside at like four in the afternoon and they didn’t want to pick it up in case it counted as one of their good days outside.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    In all fairness you could use that £50 note to have a banging time inside if you found a publican who'd accept it

    Unless you live in London in which case enjoy your two pints

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Hard to miss. Registered User regular
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    Since I started taking my indoor cat out daily to get him some stimulation, he wants to be outside ALL THE TIME, and it can be frustrating to work from home with a cat who can yell for hours at a time and can't be kept off a desk.

    So this was the solution.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    LEGO Creator Botanical Collection Bird of Paradise available for preorder at Target ($99.99) https://bit.ly/3wPe0jQ #ad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O11ueQgxBZc

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