is subby's mom on the list, or is this one of those situations where you can't go cheaper than free?

/because subby's mom is a used up whore, you see

Given that I've got at least one car rental ahead of me in 2012, it's nice to see prices going down on that. Definitely OK with wine prices dropping.

eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

Supply and demand, man.

wish LED bulbs was on the list
only thing going down this year will be your 401k.

What about Subby's Mo...oh fark it.

eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

I'd be impressed if it wasn't the obvious shiat. All these things are destined to go down, what a waste of bandwidth and brain cells...

Tom_Slick: /damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

It could be worse... Apparently the house we're renting was a 'Project House' built by high schoolers in the mid-90's. OK, I'm fine with that. Radiant heat, which is really cool, but kind of a royal pain to calibrate, we have a series of valves on the wall in the furnace room to adjust the water level to each zone. Once again , no problem. Problem arises when you find that there are a dozen valves, and not all of them are labeled, the ones that ARE labeled is just pencil on the piece of OSB they are mounted on, and it's on the RETURN end, not the supply end, so there is no guarantee that the valve you are adjusting is even for the return line that is by the mark. We're getting it figured out, but the electrical is driving me nuts, and really just in 3 spots:

1. Garage: Only lights are inside the vestibule area, where we have a door to the basement, one to the laundry room, and one to the family room. NO switches in the garage.

2. Vestibule area: Light switch is outside of it in the family room, so when we comer home and it's pitch dark, we have to stumble through this area to turn on some light.

3. Family room: Switch is all the way across the room, by the sliding glass door.

So we come home at night, make our way through the illumination in the garage by the dingle bulb in the opener, not a total mess, go into the pitch black vestibule area, stumble over laundry piles if it's laundry day, reach through the other door, and turn on the light for people coming in, then STILL have to navigate a pitch black stairway to get up to the main floor and turn a light on for everyone coming in the door.

Another one that's not so bad, but would drive me nuts if I owned the house: By the front door is a 4-switch plate. One for the switched outlet in the living room, one for the outside garage lights, one for the front porch, and one mystery switch, but they are in no order that makes sense to anybody. People would expect the outside lights to be near the door, with the farthest ones away all the way to the right, and then the inside ones on the left, they are so randomly spaced that I've been in the house a year, and I only know the two that turn on the out side lights, and not even which is which...

God, I hope the kid who did the electrical flunked... Thank God for the housing market, too, because when we buy, we'll be able to build new, and I am going to walk through every room and figure out where the light switch SHOULD be. If it costs me more, I don't care, it's worth it for people to be able to find the light switch where they naturally would expect it.

This is what happens when a bunch of teenagers build your house I guess...

Mechanical hard drives because the shortages caused by the Thailand flooding will be taken care of. But, I don't know if we'll get back to early September '11 pricing this year or not.

Shazam999: Mikey1969: This is what happens when a bunch of teenagers build your house I guess...

Also there's probably semen all over the place.

Only when the Navy buddies come over...

;-)

Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

It's like the layout is determined by a blindfolded monkey and a dartbaord...

ihatedumbpeople: /not really, go fark your refurbished crap.

I don't see the hate for a refurbished device that is 100% solid state electronics. I understand Apple hate, but not refurbished hate, especially with no moving parts. As long as it has the same warranty, which most respectable companies offer on refurbs, it's a much better deal.

Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

Current Resident: Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

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Yeah buddy, you run around with an electrical device, plugging it in and flipping switches, only to figure out that 3 of the 5 have the top outlet on one switch, one of the remaining two is set up to another switch, and then you have a switch that controls nothing that you can find in the house, and tell us all it isn't frustrating as hell.

BumpInTheNight: Until you find out that say the memory modules can't actually handle the speeds they're asked to run, as an example. That sort of defect may not show up for a while into its usage either, ie beyond the point where the refurb workers have bothered to test it.

I see that point, but usually refurbed means that it's been used somewhere, and alot of times these things DO get picked up, but I see where you're coming from on this.

I just wouldn't buy a fracking iPad... ;-) Problem solved.

stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

Mikey1969: Current Resident: Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

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Yeah buddy, you run around with an electrical device, plugging it in and flipping switches, only to figure out that 3 of the 5 have the top outlet on one switch, one of the remaining two is set up to another switch, and then you have a switch that controls nothing that you can find in the house, and tell us all it isn't frustrating as hell.

Oh, I fully know the pain.

Atomic Spunk: Mikey1969: stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

Anyone who thinks that Glenn Beck has ANY influence over the price of gold is the real idiot. It's a worldwide market, and some of the biggest buyers over the last 2 years are the central banks of China, Russia, India and South Korea. You think these people even know who Glenn Beck is? Do you know how minuscule gold retail sales in the U.S. are compared to sales worldwide? If you knew this, you'd know your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

Oh yeah, the constant 'Buy Gold!!' Buy Gold!!' mantra has done nothing whatsoever... You don't think the speculators are buying based on increased demand in the US, which drives the price higher, and then causes more speculators to buy more gold, which drives the price higher, and so on?

You're not delusional at all, are you?

online gambling fees?

Mikey1969: Another one that's not so bad, but would drive me nuts if I owned the house: By the front door is a 4-switch plate. One for the switched outlet in the living room, one for the outside garage lights, one for the front porch, and one mystery switch, but they are in no order that makes sense to anybody. People would expect the outside lights to be near the door, with the farthest ones away all the way to the right, and then the inside ones on the left, they are so randomly spaced that I've been in the house a year, and I only know the two that turn on the out side lights, and not even which is which...

My house is like that, too. The lights make no sense. We have a switch that seems to do nothing, multiple lights that switch on in different places, and phantom lights that cannot be turned on. The annoying thing is we had these nice outdoor lights in the flower beds that were on when we moved in, but somehow, one day, either they went out or we turned them off with a phantom switch and have never figured it out.

We also have in-wall speakers in the living room, kitchen, and porch, but have NO idea how to use them.

I think the previous owner was working on something very cool and it may well actually BE very cool. I just wish a guide to how the lights/speakers are wired came with the deed to the house.