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Engineer. Retro console modder. Pen and watch enthusiast.

  • Yeah, no problem. I just acquire the media in ways that don't benefit them. Second-hand books, movies, CDs. Perhaps from the seven seas. Turns out Nicki Minaj is a nut. Well, I already owned some of her CDs. She isn't going to know or care if I snap it in half, or pop it in and listen to Bees in the Trap. So, I might as well if I want to. Same thing with Kevin Spacey, L Ron Hubbard, etc.

  • Hah, no problem!

  • This is why I have a user note on you that just says "Sex pervert."

  • I've tried distro hopping occasionally over the last couple years. I keep coming back to Mint. It just fits my tastes and it works.

  • For real? That's nuts! What did he do? My grandpa would have been at Saginaw Steering Gear at the time he would have gotten these. Which was then part of Delphi, then Nexteer. UAW Local 699. Same as I was for a time.

  • Oh yeah? That's fantastic. Not that the barn was dilapidated, but that he was a fellow Hilda enthusiast.

  • Watching my designs come to life from CAD. The tooling I work on has hundreds upon hundreds of parts. I have had bills of materials that are 60 pages long. We have our own CNC machines, and an enormous industrial 3D printer. So, I get to watch my parts grow, and be released from blocks of raw aluminum. Then, slowly over the course of a month, the parts gradually come together to something resembling a machine. When air and power get plugged in for the first time and it comes to life? Magic every time. Those first parts are like newborns to me. Even if they are scrap/ugly. When they finally get tuned in to produce good parts every time, I'm always giddy. I made this. This is my baby.

    I think the craziest tool I have had to design was roughly 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 meter. It made one part at a time. It had 25 "edgefolding" units, 7 slides, retractable skin pins, a retractable skin clamp, suction cups, grippers, two-stage vacuum for the skin, and three forms of heat. Hot air, hot water, and a big IR shuttle that came in and heated both the upper and lower tool and had to retract and close in 2 seconds.

  • I'm the opposite. I mostly like to play by myself. If I'm playing a game that my friends can just join if they see me online, I'll put Steam in Offline mode so nobody bothers me.

  • Well, why would you say something I don't like? DOWNVOTED!

  • I did not get the chicken pox vaccine. My wife, born one year after me, did. I got chicken pox. All I remember was being ready itchy. No scars. A few years ago, got shingles. Noticed it too late to get pre-emptive meds. Stupid chicken pox. I wanted to cut my arm off. There was no relief. Arm and hand scarred. And it took a long time for all the feeling to come back to my fingers.

  • Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club.

  • Lazy Town - Cooking by the Book ft. Lil Jon

  • "Star Trek Robot Tattoo"

    Excuse me?

  • Waterworld is amazing. I ordered the Arrow blu-ray release the day it came out. Having an HD, official release of the Ulysses Cut is pretty cool.

  • I really liked Pandorum. It was weird.

  • Ring-a-ding-ding, baby.

  • Reminds me of TNG s3e14 with Data being judgemental of Picard's painting.

  • Where have I seen this before? Was it Star Trek TNG? Fringe? X-Files? Man, this is really familiar. I seem to remember it not turning out well for the courier.

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  • Probably between 200-300mg. I would never do caffeine pills, as I enjoy my methods of caffeine consumption.

    Typically, I'll either drink a 2-cup moka pot, or some espresso. I never drink drip or French press coffee. Too bland. Turkish coffee is also good, but I don't get that too often.

    If not coffee, it's usually Monster rehabs or Celsius. Tea is more for enjoyment than the caffeine content.