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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8250 on: November 20, 2017, 09:29:31 PM »
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A birthday present, my wife collects hats and wears them at school her students love it.  She has more than 50 different ones but no fez
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8251 on: November 20, 2017, 09:36:16 PM »
A   fez

Channeling your inner Matt Smith?

A birthday present, my wife collects hats and wears them at school her students love it.  She has more than 50 different ones but no fez

That's very cool of her.  :2thumbsup: The only hat teacher I can think of is the girl's fourth grade teacher. She had a hat that said, I'm not here, on it. She wore when she was grading papers and the students weren't allowed to acknowledge her existence while she was wearing it.  :lol1:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8252 on: November 21, 2017, 10:49:00 AM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8253 on: November 21, 2017, 11:38:23 AM »
Why on earth would anybody PAY for a videogame these days?

Try u(this is actually the greek letter 'Mu')torrent, for a bittorrent client, of course scan everything for malware with malware scanners (use a separate, specialist malware hunter-killer software package, in addition to regular virus scanner) uTorrent is a really tiny, compact and usually pretty fast and simple to use bittorrent client, AFAIK it can even be run over TOR and/or a VPN if your really concerned about privacy.

Haven't PAID for a game in years and I do not intend to start now :P damn things are SO expensive these days, like £30-40 a piece sometimes, which is just too much.

And for console games, often you can use emulator software (or for old DOS games, DOSbox, works on windows and linux) in order to play fr.ex gameboy etc. and the like. I've been playing one of the pokemon series, after I got into a bit of a retro mood one day recently, downloaded ruby, and its even possible with some emulators to run separate virtualized gameboy games, and that way you can run say, ruby and sapphire editions on separate virtual gameboys and link the two, for those that you can only get via trade, and thus, get fr. ex all three starter pokemon)
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8254 on: November 22, 2017, 10:51:34 PM »
Some people like to give credit (that is, pay) to the people who made the video game.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8255 on: November 23, 2017, 08:52:59 AM »
A  Whitman Sampler it's not a holiday without one.   Sure there are better quality boxes of chocolates but I can't remember a holiday without one and must keep up the tradition
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8256 on: November 23, 2017, 08:58:48 AM »
A  Whitman Sampler it's not a holiday without one.   Sure there are better quality boxes of chocolates but I can't remember a holiday without one and must keep up the tradition
Feel the same way about those inexpensive boxes of chocolate covered cherries. Tend to buy a bunch of them to have some extra wrapped gifts handy to give with a card to people who don't make the shopping list. This year ran across a great deal on boxes of andes mints so bought a couple of dozen. May still buy some cherries though.

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8257 on: November 23, 2017, 09:02:07 AM »
A  Whitman Sampler it's not a holiday without one.   Sure there are better quality boxes of chocolates but I can't remember a holiday without one and must keep up the tradition
Feel the same way about those inexpensive boxes of chocolate covered cherries. Tend to buy a bunch of them to have some extra wrapped gifts handy to give with a card to people who don't make the shopping list. This year ran across a great deal on boxes of andes mints so bought a couple of dozen. May still buy some cherries though.

Change is difficult  I predict you will buy them :2thumbsup:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8258 on: November 23, 2017, 09:02:47 AM »
A  Whitman Sampler it's not a holiday without one.   Sure there are better quality boxes of chocolates but I can't remember a holiday without one and must keep up the tradition
Feel the same way about those inexpensive boxes of chocolate covered cherries. Tend to buy a bunch of them to have some extra wrapped gifts handy to give with a card to people who don't make the shopping list. This year ran across a great deal on boxes of andes mints so bought a couple of dozen. May still buy some cherries though.

Change is difficult  I predict you will buy them :2thumbsup:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8259 on: November 25, 2017, 07:29:40 AM »
Went to Aldi and bought ice cream, cereal, butter, deodorant and a big pack of party pies and sausage rolls.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8260 on: November 27, 2017, 07:01:25 AM »
Clothes.  Every year my office has a different temperature problem and thus far this winter it looks like "too cold" rather than "too hot," so I got a couple extra sweaters, and a couple other things that were on sale and/or that BI've been needing.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8261 on: November 27, 2017, 09:29:56 AM »
Chocolate covered cherries sound absolutely delicious.

I've just got back from co-op, bought 5 family-size trays of tiramisu (meant to be family size anyway, but its vanishingly rare for there to be a single bite left over once i start one), three tubs of dairylea cream cheese, 4-5 cartons of rhubarb&custard flavour milkshake and 2 chocolate flavour ones, the latter for pouring on rice krispies cereal, the thick texture of chocolate milk on the plain ones is nicer than 'coco pops, which is basically chocolate flavour rice krispies, but plain version and choc milkshake is nicer; and better than coco-pops w/ milkshake in lieu of milk too for some spazzy reason too :autism:)

2x2packs of oreo donuts, a tin of 10x 'moments' cigars, 2 big bottles of coke, a loaf of chili pepper and cheddar bread and a bottle of ammonia solution.  Which just reminded me, FUCK fuck FUCK!, I meant to get a bottle of dilute hydrogen peroxide from a pharmacy because I've got a round-bottom flask that needs cleaning, got some nasty ass, really tenaceous stuck on muck on the inside that just won't come off, so drastic measures need to be taken, and I was going to go nuclear on it and use piranha acid (peroxymonosulfuric acid, aka caro's acid), named for its capacity to devour glorp of all manner with extreme prejudice, stuff really doesn't take prisoners, although it MUST be used with the utmost in extreme caution. Its a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, and it'll rip the shit out of anything organic, and for that matter, it'll even oxidize inorganic carbon, it'll burn graphite for example, leaving it to float away as carbon dioxide. Glassware has to be precleaned first though to oxidize as much as possible away to avoid explosion, and particularly ketones like acetone must NEVER be permitted to contact piranha etch because it'll go kaboom almost certainly.

Forgot to get the H2O2 though. So I'll try soaking it in fuming nitric acid first, and if that doesn't render my flask unbeshitten, then I'll go with a chromic acid bath (a solution of sodium or potassium dichromate in 96-98% concentrated sulfuric acid, which has less danger in terms of lacking exploding potential, but is still a real ripper when it comes to exterminating contaminants on glassware, but unlike piranha solution its got hexavalent chromium in it, which is most unpleasant stuff, being mutagenic and carcinogenic, teratogenic (not that I'm too likely ever to get pregnant mind you :P. But still, I don't want to have my DNA mutated and develop cancer), so one can't dispose of it into the environment, not that I planned to, rather I'll distill off the sulfuric acid and then ash the chromium salt content with a blowtorch in a sealed container, then reprocess it to give either chromic anhydride (chromium trioxide), or prepare some other useful chromium salts/oxides, make a chrome plating solution maybe (in particular, the thermocouple probe thats built in to one of my hotplate-magnetic stirrers; which serves to provide temperature feedback to the digital hotplate is just stainless steel, its a vital part of the hotplate, since its a digital one and uses the thermocouple probe to regulate the temperature, so just using a themometer isn't sufficient, the hotplate-stirrer has its own feedback control mechanism built in. And stainless steel isn't resistant enough at all to the sorts of things it gets exposed to. It already needs de-rusting in a bath of acid and going over with a bit of sandpaper to get the oxide crap off the surface thats formed due to contact with some of the chemical mixtures the hotplate has been used to heat, including concentrated acids, strong bases and oxidizing agents. So it needs a surface layer of something very resistant to attack electroplating on to it. Chromium is the cheapest option and I've already got plenty sodium dichromate to make a solution for electroplating. Although most ideal would be iridium, that would be hideously expensive, its one of the platinum group metals and is really pricy, and although I'd recycle almost the entirety of the solution, evaporating it and recovering the iridium content, it'd mean buying enough Ir salts, such as the trichloride or tribromide, in the first place to make up a sufficient volume to immerse a nearly 1 foot long probe in it; which would not come cheaply at all, although it would be resistant, since Ir is attacked by next to nothing, only molten anhydrous caustic alkali metal hydroxides, for the most part, although molten potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide attack it too, possibly hot, concentrated hydrofluoric acid might, although I don't want anything to do with HF, whether hot, concentrated or neither, its fucking well evil stuff; melts glass and does far, far worse things to people. Probably attacked by a few exotic oxidizers like chlorine trifluoride, peroxygen difluoride, chlorine pentafluoride, maybe hot fluorine gas or fluoride ion containing plasma, but again, nothing I want to be within 20 miles of, let alone the same building)

Oh, and got several big pots of fresh, premium quality eggy custard, with madagascan vanilla pod bits liberally scattered throughout in generous quantity. Had it before and its probably the nicest custard I've ever had.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8262 on: November 27, 2017, 12:21:17 PM »
Food and such.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8263 on: November 27, 2017, 01:42:44 PM »
Haven't just yet, since I'm busy watching star trek on TV, but after TOS and voyager, plus tonight's episode of another, rather retro (understatement of the year, it being shown in color part-way through one of the episodes) show called 'lost in space'

But then I'm going to get myself some new Buchner funnels, of the type that have glass frits and vacuum adapters (the ones I have need vacuum flasks, there are two basic types, one that plugs into a flask that has a side-arm to connect to a vacuum source, the other has the vacuum takeoff built in near the top of the neck, above a ground-glass joint which fits to any kind of flask, and a longer hollow glass stem running through the center of the joint.

I fancy getting myself some more of that type, and especially, something I don't have atm, namely really small ones, 5ml, 10ml, 20/50/100ml, even 1ml if I can find one that small for ultra-microscale work.

Got a bit under half a grand, so after buying a range of different sized fritted buchner funnels, methinks I shall go shopping for some other goodies. Could do with some more dichloromethane and methanol, another 10 liters of each, same of methanol. I'm out of ethanol atm, although I only use it where ethanol is specifically needed rather than a general purpose solvent, since its usually more expensive, particularly when it is of drinkable grade (I.e very pure and clean) because its taxed to fuck wherever the govt can get at it first. Although I get mine at about $20 a liter of 95% ethanol, the remainder being only water, imported from russia and needs only drying of that last 5% water, being quite clean, more than sufficiently to be drinkable, and indeed far better, when diluted to a suitable concentration with another potable liquid, than is even quite pricy and well-made vodka, and tax free)

So could do with some more EtOH too, as I do have a few uses that other alcohols are not suitable for. Might see if I can grab some carbon disulfide as well, as far as solvents go, after that, definitely going to pick up some lithium aluminium hydride, some more iodine since I'm down to my last 1/4kg or so, figure I might as well divvy it up into 100g portions, get some n-propyl alcohol as well, and prepare methyl-, ethyl- propan-1-yl and propan-2-yl iodides for use in alkylations (of the I2 I already have I mean) and then buy a fresh kilo of iodine. Maybe a little more, so as  to further my project working on interhalogens and investigating whether interhalogens other than iodine monochloride form the rather perculiar hydrohalic acid which aren't oxyacids, since on hydrolysis with H2O, ICl forms a perculiar hydrohalic acid which contains only hydrogen and three halogen atoms, two of one species and one of the other, I forget which, but either HICl2 or HI2Cl, which is most unusual, since conventional halogens, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine form, not counting their multiple oxyacids, simple binary hydrohalic acids, of the formula HX where X=a single halogen atom [as far as oxyacids go fluorine being slightly different, forming only the very unstable hypofluorous acid, not sure if it exists itself, as such, but hypofluorite esters exist at least, it doesn't form the myriad of different oxyacids the other halogens do), but that unusual phenomenon shown in the case of iodine monochloride forming that funky-ass hydrohalic acid justifies some further study with iodine trichloride, iodine monobromide, bromine chloride...although I'll skip at least the vast majority of the fluorinated interhalogens, since they both hydrolyze giving hydrogen fluoride, lethal stuff at the best of time.  And most of them are even deadlier than fluorine gas, quite capabe of causing concrete to burst into fame on contact with even a low concentration diluted in inert gas. Chlorine trifluoride for example was considered by the axis side during world war II as a chemical weapon but abandoned before it was deployed due to its being too damn dangerous to handle, to the german factory workers meant to produce the stuff and/or store it. It and chlorine pentafluoride are probably the two most dangerous but none of the fluorinated ones are in the least pleasant. Iodine monochloride is, of the interhalogens probably the safest to handle but my first encounter with it left me having to use an inhaler for several days after a chance accident due to a fault in my gas mask that caused a valve to slip and me to get a trace breath, as I noticed a slight change in the smell of the air and ran hell for leather to repair the mask (and stay alive in the process :autism: )

(although ever since then, I've been triply careful in checking, rechecking, adjusting the fit and re-re-checking the fit of my gas mask, and changing the canisters extra-often, way more than required,  every few tens of minutes rather than several hours at worst just to be on the safe side, and the several ounces of iodine monochloride has behaved itself, even during distillation to purify it, and since then bottled up in a chemically-resistant bottle with a fluoropolymer cap, fluoropolymer seal under the cap and a heavy wrapping of teflon tape round the screw thread of the bottle neck, the bottle filled with argon and kept in the fridge unless its needed, and never permitted to contact anything but glass and fluoropolymers, needing all-glass syringes with no plastics or metals in the seals, or no seals at all, not even metal needles for transfers, since it is brutally corrosive stuff, disintegrating any but perfluorinated plastics within a quarter to a half hour or so in many cases, sometimes less, and taking maybe 12 hours to a little longer to eat halfway through a stainless steel keck clip; meaning if I used the usual method of transferring hazardous chemicals, via cannulae, the iodine monochloride would attack the needles and contaminate the reagent at best, or burn through them if they were used too many times.  The fluorinated interhalogens on the other hand are....well they just aren't anywhere nearly like that friendly, not by a long shot.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #8264 on: December 07, 2017, 06:12:20 PM »
A Klein multimeter 
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