Let's hear it!

[dark_drake]

I was looking for lunch places around my workplace in Austin, and I found Google has labeled a retention pond Lake Fail. It made my day.  ;D

[CrAz3D]

Damn truck.  Tires are wearing poorly (wont align properly anymore).  Tirerods + upper & lower ball joints may be bad.  Rear ujoint is bad, but Ford had a FUCKING retarded design, so I cant nicely spend an hour and $20 to replace it - I have to spend $320 to replace it, or buy a custom built shaft for $350-400 (or a Ford shaft for $800 + labor, but fuck that).

I think some of yall are/will be engineers, so word of advice:  dont fuck it up :)!
Design problem on my truck:  A sanely-designed rear ujoint on a RWD vehicle should have clips that hold the ujoint caps in.  In 2004-05, Ford decided it could save money by staking the caps in (i.e., pinching the caps into place, so they aren't mechanically held in, but are permanently held in).  That staking means a shit ton of obnoxious pounding  and jimmy-rigging the new joint in; whereas a clip just means unclip, pound out the old cap, pound in new, replace clip, done, drink beer.  I'm buying a new drive shaft for $350-400 now (local Ford dealer will replace old ujoint for $320, but then I might encounter this problem in the future), when a new ujoint should be under $50.

FRICK!

That said, a hot chick invited me to a self defense class tomorrow night - we're gonna learn about defending ourselves from knife attacks.  I fully expect my ass to get handed to me and to look like a fool in front of her (she trains LOTS in ju-jitsu [I probably fucked that up]).

[while1]

Washed, waxed, and covered up my bike for the winter.  Sucks that I don't live someplace where the weather is nice enough to ride all year round.  Oh well, I got what I needed out of the bike- experience.  I've clocked ~1300 miles... not that bad consider I haven't ridden it much in the last couple of months and got it in late July.  I'll be selling my bike in the spring and upgrading to something more powerful, a 600cc methinks.

[Hitmen]

Bought a new cheapo laptop, holy shit toshiba I had no idea it was possible to install so much bloatware crap on a computer. I think my dell had a handful of things I got rid of, but there are like ~25 retarded toshiba apps alone, not even counting the bundled garbage trials and such.

[iago]

When I buy laptops now, I don't even boot up the OEM Windows. I immediately install my own.

I'm pretty sure the key they give you with laptops can be used to install a fresh copy now.. never used to be like that. I can give you a .iso of any version of Windows if you need - assuming you own a legit copy, of course. :)

[Chavo]

I picked up an ASUS Transformer tablet on Black Friday and absolutely love it.   I grabbed the external dock/keyboard/extended battery which really makes it perfect.  ASUS did a great job designing this hardware well.  I use it as both a tablet and netbook almost seamlessly.  I could probably rave about it for an hour but I won't bore you and I normally don't rave anyway...so take that for what it is worth!

In other news, I'm a dad!

[deadly7]

Grats chavo! You're the first x86er to have successfully continued his genetic line. How does that make you feel?

[Sidoh]

Congrats, Chavo! I'm excited for you.

I guess it's pretty cool that you had a child too.

[Blaze]

I picked up an ASUS Transformer tablet on Black Friday and absolutely love it.   I grabbed the external dock/keyboard/extended battery which really makes it perfect.  ASUS did a great job designing this hardware well.  I use it as both a tablet and netbook almost seamlessly.  I could probably rave about it for an hour but I won't bore you and I normally don't rave anyway...so take that for what it is worth!

In other news, I'm a dad!

I also have the transformer with dock, and totally agree; it's really great.  ASUS have been supporting their android devices really well (best support from any Android manufacturer so far, anyway), and soon it'll have ICS!  :D

The transformer prime or whatever that's coming out soon is also going to be awesome, and I'm thinking of selling my current one and getting that.]

Oh, and congratulations on being a dad!  Is it a boy or a girl?

[dark_drake]

Congrats, Chavo! Children still frighten me, so it'll be a few more years for me.

[while1]

Congrats! 

Meh, I can't even fathom the idea of children at this time... I'm still at point A trying to get to point B, forget point C.

[Newby]

Congrats! 

Meh, I can't even fathom the idea of children at this time... I'm still at point A trying to get to point B, forget point C.

I can barely fathom the idea of life after undergrad. It's terrifying.

[iago]

Congrats! 

Meh, I can't even fathom the idea of children at this time... I'm still at point A trying to get to point B, forget point C.

I can barely fathom the idea of life after undergrad. It's terrifying.

Agreed. And I've been gradded for like 5 years. :)

[while1]

Meh, I still feel like I'm lost... 2.5 years after graduating.  :(

[while1]

I also have the transformer with dock, and totally agree; it's really great.  ASUS have been supporting their android devices really well (best support from any Android manufacturer so far, anyway), and soon it'll have ICS!  :D

The transformer prime or whatever that's coming out soon is also going to be awesome, and I'm thinking of selling my current one and getting that.]

If you do end up wanting to sell it, I'd be interested if the price is reasonable.  Although, you're in Canada so I'm not sure how shipping/ taxes/ customs factor into such a transaction.