BoxOfFeet

joined 2 years ago
[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Lazy Town - Cooking by the Book ft. Lil Jon

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (14 children)

"Star Trek Robot Tattoo"

Excuse me?

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I had to recreate a dream I had in Snagit one time. It was about me, back in college, but I was part of a frat. I had to take care of the house's dog. It was a brown scruffy looking thing, in the dingy basement of the house. He came up to me wanting pets. The whole back half of the dog was missing! Just spine and organs falling out the back. I'm sitting there trying to shove everything back in. He's just happy, enjoying the attention. I was freaking out. Thankfully, I woke up. But the memory of Scruffy still sticks with me.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lucille Bluth should really be nicer to Shrek.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

This is Ziti.

She fell asleep during a game of fetch.

She didn't think we would notice her antics in the mud.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I really liked Pandorum. It was weird.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Another trip to the meme cellar.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Here are a few from my meme cellar. They are of a fine vintage. I have plenty more.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, that sucks. I have not run into any instruction set issues with my Precision, but all I really do with it is stream video and game up to Fallout 4 era. I actually wondered if I would run into problems since the Xeon 5355 is from freaking 2006, but all seems well so far.

 

I found an old, sealed media center remote at a thrift shop. But not all of the keys work out of the box. When I run evtest, it definitely recognizes all of the key presses, and identifies the keys correctly. But how do I assign them to things? Any help would be appreciated.

I am running Mint, by the way.

 

The group is a bit smaller these days, just one buddy. We're doing some XP gaming. I got Battlefield 1942 running here, with the Battlegroup 42 mod. My Dimension E510 can really handle up to BG42 version 1.35b, but apparently they aren't hosting that on ModDB anymore. I had to find it on some shady ancient Russian file hosting site. But I got there in the end.

This is the first time out for my Precision 690, I've been working on it for about a month. I rescued it from a rage room, it was going to get beat to scrap. I asked, and they gave it to me! I swapped the single Xeon 5160 for Xeon 5355's. 2gb of ram for 32gb. The crappy display adapter for a GTX 980TI. It is an XP era powerhouse. I have not gotten XP x64 running on it yet, but it's running Mint 22.1 like a champ. I put an XP theme on it until I can dual boot the real thing. I am super stoked this thing is running. Mint might be the better option for it, actually! Good 32bit compatibility with Wine and Lutris, and full use of the 32gb of ram and 8 cores.

 

I saw the movie in high school, when it came out on VHS, and I loved it. I bought the book, and couldn't put it down. It was perhaps my favorite piece of sci-fi for a while. I thought John Travolta was delightfully hammy, and that the movie was extremely quotable and fun.

A coworker of mine were just talking about musicals this morning, and my strong dislike of Hamilton. For some reason, it popped into my head that I would love a musical of Battlefield Earth, and John Travolta should sing in it. This sentiment was not shared by my coworker. So, yeah, that's it.

 

I really don't know why. I don't take that many notes. When I'm in meetings, I've been telling people I color code my notes. But honestly, I have just been switching pens at random.. I'm never going to use all this ink before they dry up, and it's going to be a pain to clean them all. Normally, I'll only have one or two inked at a time.

 

I got this when he sold his house to move to an assisted living facility. It's just been sitting in my garage for a couple years. Busy with the kid and all that. Well, we just got a little child trailer, and I didn't want to pull it with my mountain bike so figured it would be a good time to clean this guy up. New tires and tubes. Cleaned and lubed. Waxed. I thought it was trying hard to look like an old Schwinn, so I thought some nice shiny fenders would help out with that.

I have so many memories of going on rides with him, and of him taking it camping. I always thought it was a nice looking bike. I'll have to show him a picture of it all cleaned up next time I see him, I don't think he's ridden it in at least a decade.

Next on the agenda is new brake pads, and some retro lights. Any other suggestions? Maybe a white saddle seat, or different handlebars? I'm pretty sure its only value is sentimental, so the best suggestions are cheap suggestions. Thanks!

 

I tried just about every suggestion here, but still couldn't get an airtight print. This is transparent PLA. I'm going to play with my speeds and overlap to try to get it clearer, but it was dimensionally accurate and completely sealed the first try.

Don't look too carefully at the barrel, it's just a hollow test one. I was able to eyedropper fill and test the grip section with it, but the OD is wrong, and there's no real filling mechanism in it. That's phase 2 of this project!

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