Post Race!

[Gruff]

I'm an old whiff of gas myself but I wasn't into all things techie back when.
What does/did an N64 do?
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Nitendo?
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RE old games. I was pretty awe-some at Gravitar.

After the antigravity set of planets and the reactor core it looped back to round one.
What a let down.

[dday9]

Yeah Nintendo 64. If was one of the best consoles out there for a while. During the whole Sega Vs. Nintendo war, the N64 was basically the one that put the nail in the coffin.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Having never had a television, I also never had a console system that worked on a television. I did have a Vectrex, though, which was pretty cool tech for its day.

[Gruff]

Don't know if this is illegal or not. Found Gravitar online here.
http://my.ign.com/atari/gravitar

[dday9]

Having never had a television, I also never had a console system that worked on a television. I did have a Vectrex, though, which was pretty cool tech for its day.

You've never had a TV period? I though you just didn't have TV services(cable, rabbit ears, etc.).

[homer13j]

Having never had a television

How do you follow the NFL without a TV? Just from online box scores and recaps?

[dday9]

How do you follow the NFL without a TV?

I prefer to listen to football on the radio. The reactions of commentators are much better than those on TV.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I follow football in a variety of means. Some of it is certainly boxscores and recaps, some of it is streamed radio broadcasts, sometimes I am at a location that offers up football and food. Food has always been a key motivator for me.

I have lived in a house with a TV for only about four years of my life. I've also been in dorms that had common areas with TVs...on a few occasions, though not that many now that I think about it.

[dday9]

Kudos to you.

[homer13j]

The vast majority of TV programming is crap, anyway. If it wasn't for sports I wouldn't own one, either.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The point of TV is to relax and be entertained. We have so many alternative means to do that these days that it's reasonable to believe that TV will slip. I could believe that broadcast TV will go away entirely. The TV will become the means to display whatever media is served up, but that media will be quite a bit different from broadcast shows of the past. Perhaps the TV really will be a home theatre system.

Or perhaps that's not at all what will happen. I have no idea. I just have too many hobbies as it stands.

[dday9]

I just have too many hobbies as it stands.

Me too. My problem is that I have plans to do stuff whenever I get home from work, then I fall into the trap of watching TV mindlessly for the next 3 hours and then I've just wasted my entire night.

[Gruff]

I stopped using my TV when it broke four years ago. I find that flipping on my PC and browsing to Hulu or some other site is easier to turn off. Broadcast or Cable TV keeps going when your program is over. Commercials. Next show, Etc... When a show ends on my PC it just stops. I blink and get up to do other stuff.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Commercials. Next show, Etc... When a show ends on my PC it just stops. I blink, wipe the puddle of drool off the desk, and get up to do other stuff.

Yeah, that's about how it is.

[dday9]

I just finished the series finally of House and I am incredibly disappointed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Did Shaq make an appearance? Did he start prescribing roofies? Did he attach a garage band?

[homer13j]

Someone needs to talk me out of bidding on these microphones...

Collection Of Bullet Harp Mics SHURE/ASTATIC/STROMBERG CARLSON

It's a decent price considering mics with those black label Shure elements (the "Holy Grail" for harmonica players) go for $300-400 each these days. I just can't afford it right now!

[Shaggy Hiker]

The 50's are going to outbid you for those microphones. They want them back.

[dday9]

Do what makes you happy homer, I don't see any value in them but that's because I don't have an interest in microphones.

[Gruff]

I've been looking at "Tiny" houses.
This one screams "Build Me!"
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[dday9]

That looks amazing... and expensive.

[dday9]

I've looked into building a tiny home for a camp, but the moolah is just not there.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That looks like a fire lookout tower, though the location does not look like where a fire lookout tower would be built. If it is not an actual lookout tower, then the design is clearly based on one. I spent an afternoon at Sheep Hill Lookout, which was designed almost exactly like that, though I've been to several others with a similar design. I think Pyramid Peak and Lunch Peak towers look like that.

[Gruff]

Now that you mention it... it does look like one.

Lunch Peak? Good eating there?

[homer13j]

It looks like an old railroad yard tower to me. Some of those look like they'd make a cool house, but they tend to be in crappy industrial neighborhoods.

Do what makes you happy homer

What makes me happy is being able to pay my bills.

[dday9]

What makes me happy is being able to pay my bills.

I'll code it for you:

If bills - microphone < 0 Then
    Console.WriteLine("Don't do it!")
ElseIf bills - microphone < reasonableAmount Then
    Console.WriteLine("You probably shouldn't do it.")
Else
    Console.WriteLine("Go for it!")
End If

[Shaggy Hiker]

Now that you mention it... it does look like one.

Lunch Peak? Good eating there?

Yeah, it was pretty good. The weather was excellent and so was the company.

The point of lookout towers and railroad towers would be to be able to see in all directions from a sufficiently high vantage point. Lookout towers would be built out of stone in the lower section just in case the fire got that close. In the east, they tended to be metal towers on tall legs because the eastern moutains are mostly forested. Western fire towers are generally built on rocky peaks, so they don't need to be as tall.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That, by the way, is more than anybody wanted to know on the subject, but this is post race.

[Gruff]

Dunno. I for one am fascinated. (And easily amused.) Oh look shiny keys. *sigh*

So did you have rocky road for lunch on lunch peak? (Which as a peak I assume was rocky.)

[Gruff]

3:30pm here so work is winding down. One hour to go.

BTW we had snow mixed with rain today.
First snow of the winter months.

Didn't stick thank goodness. I still gotta move on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

[Gruff]

4:30pm. I'm outta here!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't remember much about the peak. I don't remember what I ate, and I do remember that it was rocky. I guess I just took it for granite.

[homer13j]

Just a few flakes of snow here until about 7:30 pm then whump... three inches of snow in an hour. I guess the Mustang is going into hibernation a little early this year.

[homer13j]

I'll simplify it for you

Console.WriteLine("You probably shouldn't do it.")

I'm already in the queue for a custom-built harmonica mic from Blows Me Away Productions that includes the coveted '49-'53 black label element. Follow the link and you'll see it is not cheap.

[dday9]

Just a few flakes of snow here until about 7:30 pm then whump... three inches of snow in an hour. I guess the Mustang is going into hibernation a little early this year.

What year mustang do you have?

[dday9]

I've been looking at "Tiny" houses.
This one screams "Build Me!"

I don't know why I just noticed this, but will that one solar panel light up the house no problem?

[homer13j]

What year mustang do you have?

2014 V6 with the performance package

[Gruff]

What you don't see is the genetically engineered lichen on the lower half. It splits off the hydrogen from the moisture on the stone and wicks it into storage tanks in the basement. (Which you also do not see.)

What I have to keep reminding myself is that besides power tiny homes will require some sort of septic system. (Unless you intend to poop in the woods or nearest the gas station.)

What we need is one of those 'Mr Fusion' generators from 'Back to the future'. Turn waste into power.


Sweet Ride Homer.

[homer13j]

I'm thinking of a four-letter word that starts with the letter S...

[dday9]

2014 V6 with the performance package

I really like these newer generations of mustangs. I personally didn't like the mustangs from '79 up until '05. Especially the Fox body style