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viperormiata 04-18-2014 01:10 PM

Just broke up with my gf just before the 3 month mark. A work fling that turned into a fast moving relationship. No bueno.

Nice girl but it really made me realize that I do not want to date a drinker/pot smoker. Nothing like having to constantly take separate cars, be in different rooms during smoke time, be left outside while the party smokes or having to be high before you can do anything. Serious eye opener for me.

Also a stage 5 clinger. Started the I love you after a week. Talked about moving away with me when I left for the army (sorry, but living/moving with someone you hardly know is a huge no-no in my book).

All good though. New it was the right thing to do since I woke up the next day and wasn't even remotely sad.

kenzo42 04-18-2014 06:22 PM

My sister's ex bf back in dental school was Canadian. For 4 years, he received parking ticket after parking ticket in San Francisco with no intention of paying them back since he would be moving back to Canada after graduation. One week before graduation his jeep got towed! He had to pay thousands to get his jeep back.


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1122481)
i hated living in a city and doing that. i got so many tickets, i never paid one. but the worst was they maybe did cleaning once every 3-4 months or so on those days, otherwise it was just a way for the parking meters to collect fees.

I got a parking ticket in Arlington on March 14th, my court date in the end of Sept. I can't wait.

the steps to even get a court date in Arlington is retarded. You have to fill something out online, and about 10 days later you get a form in the mail. the website and form caution you that they'll tack on an extra $60 to your fine if you lose in court; trying to discourage you from doing so. Then in another 10 days or so, after you snail mail your court date request to a different state altogether, they finally give you a court date months in the future. Meanwhile, the city actually sends "bills" in the mail. I think I saved one, I've got two so far. They look like regular like city fees of sorts (like utility or personal property), but it's for your parking ticket.


dieselmiata 04-21-2014 01:50 PM

Plane tickets are purchased, I'll be back in Hiroshima in June for a month or so. Helping the in-laws move back to Fukuoka to be with the rest of the family. Father in law is showing signs of Alzheimers and can't work the farm very well anymore.

On the plus side, there's an upGarage about 3 miles from the brother in laws house. Maybe I can find something "mad JDM yo."

triple88a 04-21-2014 02:06 PM

Drive a nail into that damn arch would ya?

Jeffbucc 04-21-2014 02:28 PM


Originally Posted by dieselmiata (Post 1123735)
On the plus side, there's an upGarage about 3 miles from the brother in laws house. Maybe I can find something "mad JDM yo."

IB4 MT.net....err clubroadster shopping list for rare JDM to bring back with you!:rofl:

TurboTim 04-21-2014 02:37 PM

The world is full of assholes and idiots.

rleete 04-21-2014 04:36 PM


Originally Posted by TurboTim (Post 1123767)
The world is full of assholes and idiots.

Thank you, Capt. Obvious.

sixshooter 04-22-2014 09:03 AM

Grand Prix of Alabama? I didn't know there was one.

Home - Official Site of Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama

Braineack 04-22-2014 09:13 AM


Originally Posted by TurboTim (Post 1123767)
The world is full of assholes and idiots.

correct. all the idiots all have assholes.

TalkingPie 04-24-2014 08:52 PM

I never realized how much disassembly it takes to get to the fan of a laptop. I just spent the better part of the afternoon basically taking apart my whole six year-old HP to replace this $9 part. I think it might literally be the hardest part in the laptop to get to. Wound up with a couple of extra screws when I was done, but everything works again, and for the first time in 5 years my computer no longer sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Should've done this a long time ago.

triple88a 04-24-2014 08:57 PM


Originally Posted by TalkingPie (Post 1125122)
I never realized how much disassembly it takes to get to the fan of a laptop. I just spent the better part of the afternoon basically taking apart my whole six year-old HP to replace this $9 part. I think it might literally be the hardest part in the laptop to get to. Wound up with a couple of extra screws when I was done, but everything works again, and for the first time in 5 years my computer no longer sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Should've done this a long time ago.

I do it in about 20 minutes without a manual :D

(since that's what i do as a job)

TalkingPie 04-24-2014 09:03 PM


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1125125)
I do it in about 20 minutes without a manual :D

(since that's what i do as a job)

I admit, it seems a lot simpler once you see how things go together, but I had literally never seen one apart before. Had it not been for trying to keep track of all the stupid little screws, it would've been easier. Going into it, I was expecting an easy-access panel like you get for the hard drive, and once I realized that wasn't the case, I was into it far enough that looking for a how-to online wasn't practical anymore (because my computer was in pieces). 20 minutes is impressive, though!

triple88a 04-24-2014 10:02 PM

Yeah most u gotta pull the keyboard off first, then the screws for the bottom. Stupid indeed.

Jeffbucc 04-24-2014 11:04 PM

Try replacing the keyboard on a macbook pro; that is a scary evening. You have to pretty much disassemble the entire laptop to get to it since the top half of the shell is what all the components screw into.

Plus, Apple uses the shittiest ribbon connectors in the world and they fall apart if you breathe on them wrong.

TalkingPie 04-24-2014 11:16 PM


Originally Posted by Jeffbucc (Post 1125150)
Try replacing the keyboard on a macbook pro; that is a scary evening. You have to pretty much disassemble the entire laptop to get to it since the top half of the shell is what all the components screw into.

Plus, Apple uses the shittiest ribbon connectors in the world and they fall apart if you breathe on them wrong.

One thing I was impressed with on my HP was the quality of all the connectors. They came on and off easily, I had to do it repeatedly (because noob dis/re-assembly) and they put up with it just fine. For such small, multi-pin connectors, they really work extremely well. And this is on a computer I bought in 2007 and has seen a lot of (ab)use.

olderguy 04-25-2014 10:13 AM

I needed to replace the screen on my Grandsons' Asus. Really impressed with the quality and engineering.

Braineack 04-25-2014 10:45 AM

my Asus laptop is probably the cheapest POS known to man. I'd rather have one made by Fisher Price.

mgeoffriau 04-25-2014 11:08 AM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1125281)
my Asus laptop is probably the cheapest POS known to man. I'd rather have one made by Fisher Price.

Yeah but you hate everything.

Joe Perez 04-25-2014 11:21 AM


Originally Posted by mgeoffriau (Post 1125297)
Yeah but you hate everything.

Quoted because true.

EO2K 04-25-2014 11:48 AM


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1125125)
I do it in about 20 minutes without a manual :D

(since that's what i do as a job)

This is one of my tangential job responsibilities as well. I absolutely love older Thinkpads for their ability to be disassembled and serviced. In fact, everything up to the T430 isn't really that bad to deal with.

The new T440 series are a whole another ball game, god damn thing comes apart like a cell phone and all the clips break unless you are really REALLY careful. I think Lenovo finally stopped using IBM engineering in their design process and everything has gone to shit. We bought a bunch of sexy new Lenovo X1Carbon laptops for our executives and we've have had a 40% failure rate out of the box. Fucking outrageous for a $2500 laptop. I've been sitting on an RMA for 6 weeks now for the last one.

We may jump ship on Lenovo and look at HP or Dell here pretty soon.


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