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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2820 on: January 27, 2011, 06:34:32 AM »
A coffee and milk
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2821 on: January 27, 2011, 08:36:36 AM »
A cheap router to flash dd-wrt on.   

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2822 on: January 27, 2011, 08:51:07 AM »
three stone ruinations, two cheeseburgers w/ no pickle, and a bag of blueberry goodness.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2823 on: January 27, 2011, 05:27:23 PM »
Gonna buy some canned air. For my net book of course...i'm over the huffing.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2824 on: January 27, 2011, 08:03:21 PM »
"Cosmos" on DVD.


Is that the series with Carl Sagan doing the narrating?   IF so, I have it on VHS from the beginning of VHS, availability.

To my great surprise, after getting my new video receiver up and running, I have found that even playing an ancient video tape, the quality of the reproduction is vastly improved from anything I have ever seen. The receiver de-interlaces, upscales and de-snows the imagery and what is projected is well improved over what the original was capable of producing.

I would love to have it on a proper disc!!

That's the one. All 13 episodes on DVD, with reasonable quality and "science updates" by Sagan form some time before his death.

I love that series. Carl Sagan was instrumental in my decision to study astronomy.


We have just about worn out the tapes I have, with my son watching them so much.

Astronomy just happens to be my sons favorite subject at the moment - screw the dragons and dinosaurs - He is into all that goes on in the universe.

 :lol:

The updates is what intrigues me. That collection would make a perfect birthday present for him, if I can find it.

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2825 on: January 28, 2011, 10:56:37 AM »
It's available on Amazon and through Sagan's son's website.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2826 on: January 28, 2011, 11:38:32 AM »
It's available on Amazon and through Sagan's son's website.

Thanks.

I have almost a month to get it done. I will try the family website, first. Paying full retail is irrelevant, when compared to supporting a true historical icon.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2827 on: January 28, 2011, 12:53:07 PM »
PSK metal building insulation and two cans of spray foam
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2828 on: January 28, 2011, 01:18:02 PM »
Carl Sagan was  :viking: and  :nerd!:

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2829 on: January 28, 2011, 03:34:19 PM »
three stone ruinations

Stone Ruination IPA is  :viking:

It's like the jalapeno pepper of IPA beers. :glug:

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2830 on: January 28, 2011, 07:55:16 PM »
three stone ruinations

Stone Ruination IPA is  :viking:

It's like the jalapeno pepper of IPA beers. :glug:


the only think I understood about that post is "jalapeno pepper"



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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2831 on: January 29, 2011, 06:05:42 PM »
three stone ruinations

Stone Ruination IPA is  :viking:

It's like the jalapeno pepper of IPA beers. :glug:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2832 on: January 31, 2011, 09:43:37 AM »
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2833 on: January 31, 2011, 04:07:25 PM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2834 on: January 31, 2011, 06:49:25 PM »

I still have my trouble avoiding the clearance table at work.

Storage is my downfall.

I got a 2T external (Western Digital, Elite) for sixty five bucks and a 1.5T internal (Seagate Barracuda) for thirty nine bucks.

Do not really need the external, but the internal will be a welcome and usable servant.
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