It's worth it for the food, but traveling super-long (>10 hr) flights has definitely tempered my excitement of going places. The last time I was out of the country was a conference trip to Vancouver. The food was amazing. I ate Asian food the entire time I was there. So good.
GasBandit
Staff member
I left the country 10 or so years ago, my best friend got married on a cruise to Mexico. I'm not one for traveling over open ocean if I can avoid it, but laying on that pristine (private, groomed) mexican beach where a waiter came by every 10 minutes to pour an entire bottle of rum directly into my mouth... that was real fuckin nice.
This bit made me giggle.
Is that what I'm smelling?
You're smelling victory!
I don't think I'm smelling victory.....
Edmontonian who moved to Calgary for work.
Meh. They'll "come around" to the Calgary way of thinking sooner rather than later.
Just kidding around man. Glad you found somebody. I hope the vacation goes well.
Welp, my day is made.
<kermit_yay.gif>
...sorry, I'm on vacation and lazy. Please substitute imagination instead.
--Patrick
Been thinking I should get a full-on server in the house, just so I have something I can play with, maybe train on, learn how to do VMWare or other virtualization stuff, move my Minecraft to it, get a ZFS share going, whatever. Found a deal on a dual 6-core Westmere EP system (2010 Mac Pro), someone selling it for $1050. It even has the upgraded 5870 graphics card which ain't easy to find. This thing was ~$6000 when it was new and used units are actually still going for $2100 or so. I asked* Kati to let me pull the trigger on it and she said she couldn't find a good reason to say no (we just bought her a new laptop and Cary a new computer, I'm the only one who doesn't have anything new).
...and after the time spent researching the capabilities of the unit itself and consulting with Kati, I come back to find that the price on the sale page has actually dropped another $100 to $950 while I was doing the discussion. SOLD!
Please, oh please let there be nothing wrong with it that I can't easily fix I mean it still has a 1yr warranty from the seller but please please please...
[DOUBLEPOST=1502332233,1502331848][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh and it comes on Friday, while I'm still away on vacation.
I hope Cranky doesn't hurt himself (or it!) trying to get it up the stairs.
--Patrick
*begged
...and after the time spent researching the capabilities of the unit itself and consulting with Kati, I come back to find that the price on the sale page has actually dropped another $100 to $950 while I was doing the discussion. SOLD!
Please, oh please let there be nothing wrong with it that I can't easily fix I mean it still has a 1yr warranty from the seller but please please please...
[DOUBLEPOST=1502332233,1502331848][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh and it comes on Friday, while I'm still away on vacation.
I hope Cranky doesn't hurt himself (or it!) trying to get it up the stairs.
--Patrick
*begged
Congratulations!
Passed all testing, appears to be nothing wrong with it aside from missing the main drive tray and most of the memory (previous owner probably kept his drive/data and RAM). Just need to get a tray and some fresh RAM and I should be good to go. Now to find an affordable AHCI SSD for one of the PCIe slots so I can make all 4 HDD banks for storage...
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Nice! After work tomorrow, me too! I'll be driving up through Albuquerque to Colorado to visit family, arriving back the night of the 27th.
They were awesome!
We may need to disown our daughter for giving them a 3/10. WTF??
I have no idea how I can still eat bacon through my whole medical/dietary disaster, but I'm super happy I can.
We may need to disown our daughter for giving them a 3/10. WTF??
I have no idea how I can still eat bacon through my whole medical/dietary disaster, but I'm super happy I can.
This post illustrates to me why @Squidleybits is the photography nut in their household, and not @HCGLNS.
And given that they served those to @Dirona and I at their place, I will attest to their deliciousness.
They tasted so good that I didn't have the heart to comment on the fuzzy picture.
Nom first, pictures second. He had to move quickly or else there wouldn't be any left for him.
Oooh. Can I use it???
To draw Pikachus???
To draw Pikachus???
Well of course you can't.