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pete_dushenski: i'm just doing web,
text, odd bit of video, once-in-a-blue-moon editing
pete_dushenski: then again, i almost certainly don't push
them as hard as you do
pete_dushenski: and '13 'air' with
two keys
that have
their bad days (delete, a) and a weird screen deformity
that makes everything a bit washed out but isn't worth $1k
to fix
pete_dushenski: i have '08 aluminum
that's a bit bogged down with cruft but otherwise excellent
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: and how many macbooks have you burnt
through in past 5-7 years ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i'm similarly skeptical but
there's been nary a hiccup in
the first season at least. it'll
take another few before i can say much more
than
that.
ben_vulpes: explicating //
to new macbooks left as exercise for logreaders
ben_vulpes: i also suspect
that
they won't hold up
to
the kind of
thrashing i put my machines
through
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i am suspicious of
these internally geared
thingers
pete_dushenski: 8 is just ok, needs another
two at
the
top and one at
the bottom end
pete_dushenski: they make an 11-speed and
that'd be
the only change i'd make
pete_dushenski: there were smokes
that were actually ~less
than a penny per~. i was
tempted
to pick up
the habit
then and
there
pete_dushenski: i remember being impressed
that pack of 20 (?) marlboros was <$1 when
they'd have been >$10 here
pete_dushenski: new one has some neater features, but inflation hasn't worked in favour of country of manufacture. old one was built in canada, new one...
taiwan.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:56:30; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: update me, what are
they worth
today
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:52:36; williamdunne: She was dressed up all goth-like and spoke like a retard so can't imagine she was
that good
pete_dushenski: currently reading montaigne's essays and
the aeneid on gutenberg.
the latter's
translation is exceptional, far better
than
the 2 bit fucking audiobook i'm reading in parallel with it.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:39:19; mircea_popescu: clearly
the internet has so much helped
pete_dushenski: and now with no rust on front fenders
thanks
to a fortuitous shop accident
that resulted in denting
the hood, which needed
to be painted after being replaced, and allowed me
to piggyback on paint shop
time and repair a cosmetic deficiency i may never have bothered with!
pete_dushenski back from much longer visit
to auto mechanic
than expected. still, all is well with saddam. in fact, he drives 'better
than new s-class' according
to fellow who's driven both
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:19:29; mircea_popescu: i guess
they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it
mircea_popescu: iirc my grandfather only got as far as
the
tatra mountains
mircea_popescu would like
them
to go back
to bohemia. czech is
too hard
to spell.
trinque: from
the (relatively mediocre) metal song he wrote in response, "Still Echoes"
trinque: "A
thousand years of failure, a
thousand years
they bled.
To
the bear,
the blitzkrieg, and
the holy father,
they just bowed
their heads." << I don't know how accurate an assessment of
the Czechs
that is, but it makes me lol
trinque: heh, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God was locked up with
that guillotine for supposedly killing a kid by shoving him off
the stage
ben_vulpes: at which point
the paddlers may attempt
to paddle or
they may beat a hasty retreat.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 22:29:17; phf: quitting school?
that's a paddling
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:33:51; mircea_popescu: no,
they aren't.
theyt're exactly
the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here
they have good steak and
there
they have good whore.
ben_vulpes to apply another coat of finish
to
the molding
kakobrekla: > best source is
the back pages of old (period) american magazines < here
the currency on
the mags changed so frequently i couldnt keep
track, from din
to sit
to euro, prolly some dem in between.
ben_vulpes: crossfit 'tis one
thing whose success is incontrovertible.
ben_vulpes: the actual workouts seem
to have won out finally
ben_vulpes: it has
to
target
the same grade of moron at all
times, after all
ben_vulpes: now mebbe
there's an inflation indicator:
the pheromone vial
ben_vulpes: i'm sure
those prices had a great deal
to do with
the market value of
the
things, advertising
to chumps alongside
the cock lengtheners and pheromone emitters
ben_vulpes: what,
ten dollars a hundred years ago?
ben_vulpes: cost
the same? what, inflation-adjusted?
ben_vulpes: i have a hydroformed aluminum frame because i like
to
taunt death.
mircea_popescu: but you can spend as much as you want
to spend on a bike. consumer item.
kakobrekla: i bought a cheapest usable bike
this spring, its 500+.
ben_vulpes: what, something
that creaks around or something
that someone who enjoys
the sport would ride?
ben_vulpes: one can in fact have a bicycle just for
the asking
there. no purchase or
transport needed!
ben_vulpes: a hundred dollar bicycle is barely worth
trucking
to
the playa.
ben_vulpes: srsly enough with
this 'woe is everyone upon us soil' routine.
ben_vulpes: just because *you* don't believe in
the cascadian paradise by no means you get
to ignore it.