Useless Conversation

[HaemishM]

Storage Wars is one of those things that should not be in the least bit interesting, but it is pretty engrossing to watch.

[ghost]

Here's a video of the Phoenix dust cloud.  Pretty creepy. 

[Paelos]

That reminds me of the movie THE MUMMY

[ghost]

I was thinking along the lines of Stephen King's The Mist.   

[Ingmar]

Clearly it is the Cloud of Hate from the Leiber short story.

[ghost]

Okay.  The internet doesn't do good things for my propensity to spend money.   

[Chimpy]

Anyway, Chimp. Why do you like small tops on table saws? I thought the bigger the better?

I mistyped my reply...brain started typing "with a top at least X size" then decided to edit it to be less specific and did not fix all the letters.

I want a saw where the top is large enough that you can go at least 25" from the max fence distance to the blade or there is no point in owning the damn thing. Must be able to rip a 4' sheet of plywood to any width with 1 cut or the table saw becomes pointless.

[Sky]

I want a saw where the top is large enough that you can go at least 25" from the max fence distance to the blade or there is no point in owning the damn thing. Must be able to rip a 4' sheet of plywood to any width with 1 cut or the table saw becomes pointless.

It does say it can rip 25". Actually one of the first things I'll probably do, rip some plywood to cover the woodpile. I like that a little better than using tarp.

[Chimpy]

I want a saw where the top is large enough that you can go at least 25" from the max fence distance to the blade or there is no point in owning the damn thing. Must be able to rip a 4' sheet of plywood to any width with 1 cut or the table saw becomes pointless.

It does say it can rip 25". Actually one of the first things I'll probably do, rip some plywood to cover the woodpile. I like that a little better than using tarp.

Ahh, I had not looked at the link you posted. That saw is a bit bigger than all the portables I used, it seems like it might actually be closer to the size of most "contractor" saws I have used (though not quite).

[Sky]

Yeah, the portable my contractor uses is smaller, he mostly uses a chop saw, though. He had the bigger dewalt (comparable to the bosch I linked) but didn't like it. I guess I'm pretty much decided but it hurts to spend that much when what I really want is a new damned stoven. At least I'll be able to start banging out shitty furniture, Thor knows I got enough damn practice staining last summer with all that trim work.

[Chimpy]

Make sure you buy a good quality blade. I personally am a big fan of CMT's orange line, though the Diablo line from Freud are good as well.

[Hawkbit]

Because this is useless conversation, I'd like to point out that right now my gmail spam filter has more WoW scam emails than penis enlargement and Nigerian scammer emails combined. 

[Sky]

My gmail spam is all over the place. I didn't realize when I got in early with gmail, using my first initial + irish last name that every dipshit with that first initial and last name in the world, and there are a lot of the drunken bastards and bastettes, would be using it to sign up for all kinds of stupid shit. At one point I got an email (not spam) that let me click directly into a woman's account with an Irish hotel. People...wow. My fiancee's favorite was the confirmation of my sub to Out magazine.

[Salamok]

I want a saw where the top is large enough that you can go at least 25" from the max fence distance to the blade or there is no point in owning the damn thing. Must be able to rip a 4' sheet of plywood to any width with 1 cut or the table saw becomes pointless.

This is pretty much why I returned my portable.  The best part of the whole Home Depot/Lowes experience are their return policies, buy something use it for a month and return it if it isn't working out for you (I think I actually used the table saw for almost 3 months before giving up and returning it).

[Viin]

My gmail spam is all over the place. I didn't realize when I got in early with gmail, using my first initial + irish last name that every dipshit with that first initial and last name in the world, and there are a lot of the drunken bastards and bastettes, would be using it to sign up for all kinds of stupid shit. At one point I got an email (not spam) that let me click directly into a woman's account with an Irish hotel. People...wow. My fiancee's favorite was the confirmation of my sub to Out magazine.

I'm starting to see this more and more, and I used my *whole name*. My last name is common but my first name isn't very - please stop signing up for Redbox and your family newsletters using my email address.

[Salamok]

web developer's Robot Jesus, Is this what the rapture feels like?

[HaemishM]

Heh. I just discovered yesterday that I can tell IE9 not to be a bitch and act like IE8. What the fuck, I mean really? Web standards for browser rendering really aren't that fucking hard to follow you assgoblins.

[Morat20]

I wouldn't recommend Storage Wars, it's very cherry-picked. The only ones working that realistically (and even they up the drama for the camera) is the couple with the used crap store, because most of what you'd get from storage is just used crap.

I watch all those shows though, or at least used to when I had cable  Antiques Roadshow I've loved forever, but it makes me nuts (and now my fiancee) because I keep a perspective through the show "That stupid vase is worth 4 Gibson LPs??" Also, modern art is the greatest con ever and I should really get on that.

Anyway, Chimp. Why do you like small tops on table saws? I thought the bigger the better?

I've liked American Pickers. Then again, those guys are basically outright junk-hunters, and their business method (besides getting massively subsidzed by the cameras following them) is effectively:

"Find old hoarder or barn full of decaying shit. Utilize specialized knowledge to pull out the shit that's potentially worth restoring. Hope to hell hoarder will un-hoard for cash. Pack shit in fan, find a local restorer, sell shit to restorer".

The difference between it and Pawn Stars appears to be entirely that the Pickers guys actually go out and do the work.

The whole "making money off junk" stuff seems to boil down to two factors:
1) Expert knowledge to tell 'real' from 'fake'
2) The ability to do your own proper restorations.

If you've got one, you can make money. So, really it's like anything else in that respect. Expertise and/or skill.

[Paelos]

Friend's band is in a contest here in Georgia. If yall could vote for them on this little poll that would help out.

http://www.georgia-country.com/awards.php

Band is "Runnin' Wild (Aragon)"

You don't have to sign up for anything, just click the link and vote. Thanks!

[Soln]

dentist cleaning and stabbing this morning, followed by Fall level temperatures and more rain in Seattle.  People around here were calling last month, "Junuary".  I can see why some folks choose to live in AZ.

[Merusk]

The windpipe/ Stem Cell thread just reminded me of this.  It's one thing when Star Trek predicts the future and gets it right.  It's quite another when Married With Children does it.

What am I spouting about?  The other day at the gym I saw an episode wherein Al got KO'd and "saw God" or rather, God's shoes.  When he woke-up he proceeded to design and market them with predicatble failure.  The entire central idea behind the shoes was ludicrous and got many laughs because of it.

The idea was individual compartments for each toe.

(This apparently isn't a new thought, since someone else noticed it and posted it to tumbler 2 months ago.  Useless but still scary. http://khalmojo.tumblr.com/post/4605046435/al-bundy-was-a-genius-after-all )

[Paelos]

I should add that the vote thing I posted for the band only has 1,500 votes in it so far, so yall would make a huge difference. This isn't a large contest.

[Sky]

I should add that the vote thing I posted for the band only has 1,500 votes in it so far, so yall would make a huge difference. This isn't a large contest.

Can't vote unless I hear 'em, hoss. Don't want to encourage crappy music (but want to support good music!).

Edit: Despite my loathing of their 2wild4u shitfuckballsackwtf, they're competent enough. I'll throw 'em a vote.

[Paelos]

Glad you approve! 

[ghost]

dentist cleaning and stabbing this morning

 

I should add that the vote thing I posted for the band only has 1,500 votes in it so far, so yall would make a huge difference. This isn't a large contest.

Sounds really, really countrified.   

[Paelos]

It's Georgia. I'm just happy they had the internet when I moved here.

[Morat20]

dentist cleaning and stabbing this morning, followed by Fall level temperatures and more rain in Seattle.  People around here were calling last month, "Junuary".  I can see why some folks choose to live in AZ.

Is that the "shit hygeniest" stabbing or the "My gums are pretty bad so cleaning my teeth and flossing will irritate them and make me bleed" stabbing?

[ghost]

It's Georgia. I'm just happy they had the internet when I moved here.

Yeah, I'm just used to "Texas country" now, which is definitely more guitar/rock based.  There's a lot of rockabilly influence too.  I just never jived very well with main stream country.  Well, except for Eddie Rabbit.   

[Bunk]

My favorite dentist story to tell people is about when I had a front upper tooth extracted. I describe it as me leaned back so that I'm almost upside down, the Dentist with his knee on my chest using what looked like an icepick to grind in to my jawbone as hard as he could. All I could think about as it happened, was that if he slipped that tool was going right through the back of my head.

[Johny Cee]

dentist cleaning and stabbing this morning, followed by Fall level temperatures and more rain in Seattle.  People around here were calling last month, "Junuary".  I can see why some folks choose to live in AZ.

Is that the "shit hygeniest" stabbing or the "My gums are pretty bad so cleaning my teeth and flossing will irritate them and make me bleed" stabbing?

My mother, who is a retired hygienist, often says that most hygienists just don't care if they make you bleed or not...  and she had a very short list of local hygienists that she would trust to clean her teeth.  She literally described most as "butchers".

[Paelos]

My hygenist is a hot lesbian, so I don't mind going to her.

[MuffinMan]

The other day I called the rubber valve thing inside the cap of ketchup bottles a sphincter. I was immediately yelled at by multiple people. What the hell else would you call it?!

[Paelos]

The other day I called the rubber valve thing inside the cap of ketchup bottles a sphincter. I was immediately yelled at by multiple people. What the hell else would you call it?!

Technically, it's called a silicone dome valve.

[Merusk]

Most folks also assume the ass is the only sphincter without knowing there's a bunch in the body, so they thought you were being crude.

Just call it "the squirty valve"

[MuffinMan]

I mean, I definitely said it to be facetious but I really couldn't think of anything else to call it.