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[LeonOfTheDead]

tons of plumbing and the likes, had to update home's sewerage system... what a nice summer break so far.

[wwgkd]

Hey, my brother's 30 and doesn't have one. My advice is to not practice in one car and then take the test in another.

I did all my practicing in my Jeep (3 knobs and the turn signal/wiper stalk is all it has in the way of non driving controls) and then drove my aunts Grand Cherokee (dozens of buttons, knobs and stalks) for the test becuase my Jeep was somewhere else and I didn't want to wait. It did not go well and the examiner was not amused. I still passed, but only by the 1 point I had left after 30 seconds in (hadn't even left the parking lot where we started.)

Went to Jack and the box and splurged on a Big Cheeseburger and a large curly fry for $3.67. Rolling in the dough I am.

[Kitdy]

Is your Jeep a manual?

[wwgkd]

Is your Jeep a manual?

No. Wanted one, but got a really good deal on this one, soo... And really there's not a pressing reason to have a manual. It holds the gear you're in even if you don't manually select first or second gear. If you're offroad you're not going to be wanting a higher gear than that anyways. It's occasionally annoying on this one steep road near my moms house because at the posted speed of 50mph it can't decide what gear it wants when you're going up, so I just go 55 and all's well.

[Cotterik]

Rest of the PC parts ordered. Now just to wait, then BUILD!!!

Antec 900

Intel 930

Asus P6T Deluxe

2 x Sony Optiarc AD-7241S (£16.99)

Corsair H50-1

6gb corsair dominator 1600

2 x 1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black

ATI 1GB XFX 5870

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 7.1

Corsair CMPSU-850HXUK

Logitech g15

Dell SP2309W 23" Monitor

Should last me 3 years..

[Blue Supra]

I also just mega upgraded.

Antec 300

AMD Phenom II 945

4Gb DDR3-1333mhz

Nvidea GTX285 (holy crap this things a BEAST!)

Gigabyte mobo

BenQ 23" LCD

Should also get me a while. Had to get some adaptors for the power supplies for the mobo and GPU but all set now, install Win7 tonight and get crackin!

[DesmoRob]

finally caved and bought one of these. I got the 32G because I needed a ton more space for music. Now I look like an idiot carrying around an iphone and ipod, but at least I don't have to delete music in order to add new stuff on this one. Don't think I'll be maxing it out any time soon.

[Commodore GS/E]

Does anybody know how much you could get if you would sell a Commodore C64 of the first series today, say, via e-bay? Just curious.

[LeonOfTheDead]

On Ebay.de, they are purchased for 20/40 € at best.

[Commodore GS/E]

On Ebay.de, they are purchased for 20/40 € at best.

Good i thought they have become some sort of computer freak collectible over the years. In this case i would have been VERY angry, because i had one and, well... destroyed it a little bit. Unintendedly, of course.

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Yay for future coast haus wetness shenanigans.

[pimento]

Just keep it out of the shower...

[LeonOfTheDead]

Just keep it out of the shower...

I suppose that depends on how is in the shower.

[NSXType-R]

Just keep it out of the shower...

If you can submerge it, it should do fine in the shower. I think it's good up to 10 feet.

[f6fhellcat13]

I don't think water damage is pimento's worry...