My brother has a Honda Navi, which is just kinda like a scooter shaped like a tiny motorcycle. I've ridden it before and it is hilariously fun (You can do wheelies on it, which I was not expecting), I've been tempted to pick one up myself for zipping around town when I'm just a little too lazy to take the full-size bike out. He looks so funny riding it. He has some kind of vintage hard suitcase thing bolted to the back and he does most of his shopping with it lol.
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I have an Ikea Langfjall chair in the high-back model, which doesn't seem to be sold in the USA anymore, at least. (I can find it on the British site though). Not quite head-rest height, but tall enough. It's supremely comfortable in a stiff, regimented posture kind of way, and the Ikea Office stuff is (expensive but) some of the sturdiest and most durable Ikea stuff I've ever owned. I bought it right when it was first released in 2019, it's got a 10 year warranty, I expect it'll last twice that.
My Dell Latitude 7280 has a similar rubbery coating both inside and out, and the keyboard is really nice, similar to Thinkpad keyboards I remember from the past. It's also got a magnesium chassis, and seems to be quite durable.
I read a bit more of your comments before posting and it seems like you're looking for a new, more powerful laptop... At least that exact Latitude model is a few years old, and low-power (and small, only 12" screen), but I'll leave it here as an interesting note. I use it as a field-capture device for my astrophotography camera that can be powered by a big USB C power bank. Works great for that use, and is small thin and light.
I am doing a similar thing with a mid-level build in a Dell Dimension 4600 case for my daily driver, but going full deep-end.
My main hurdle right now is RAM. I'm trying to find a 2x16GB set of green RAM with no heat spreader. I happen to have a stinky-poo-poo set of 2x16Gb Samsung 2133 (unknown CAS, but likely terrible). I'd ideally like to have something typical like 3200CL16, but really the only thing I can currently find are all those CL22 sets by Crucial. Does anyone have any other ideas for RAM? I'm thinking of just picking up one of those Crucial sets, it's probably good enough and certainly better than whatever I've got now, but the fact that I can very easily get gamer-y RAM with lame heat-spreaders in exactly the capacity, speed, and CAS I want, but I can't get it in green... You always want what you can't have!
I have a single 80mm exhaust fan, and I've done some testing, and with the components I have (R5 5500 and RX5700XT), it's actually not as bad as I expected thermally, and suitably quiet. I am waiting for some more Be-quiet 80mm fans to come in to put one in the front, and also possibly on a hole I have yet to drill in the side-panel...
I didn't know what these were until a couple days ago, I saw them posted elsewhere and did a little digging. There must have been some release on Sunday because I went to the mall to meet up with some people before heading elsewhere, and there was an absolutely apocalyptic line with hundreds and hundreds of feet of little rope barriers, armed security guards, people brought chairs to sit in line since god knows when... all in front of a tiny little shop that sells things that all just look like funko-pops to me but are apparently unique and desirable for whatever reason... There were even more people all over the mall with bags from that shop carrying the weird little fuzzy things around.
Ah the good ol' corner-of-a-building shot. I know it well.
I interact with nostalgia by using the actual tools that are the focus of said nostalgia., so like kind of a more difficult round-about way of achieving a similar extreme result... (All of those are SOOC, no editing, from various mid-to-early 90's cameras)
(I also really like your shot of the stick "levitating" over the lake.)
I'm surprised I don't see Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo on here.
My brother and I used to watch it on on-demand when my parents were out of the house in the early 2000's. Absolute insanity. I tried to re-watch it a couple years back for nostalgia, and my more matured brain just couldn't comprehend it... That was before I started smoking weed, maybe I should give it another shot, it might make more sense if I'm zonked out of my gourd.
While doing some research to determine if I hallucinated an Angry Beavers episode, I discovered that that show also features toenail clippings. Season 4 episode 8, Blacktop Beavers... "The beavers race a trucker (who is revealed to be Truckee in the end) to the world's largest pile of toenail clippings."
Just thought this was funny.
Melt Man! With the power to... MELT!
Damn I loved Action League Now.
The opening theme still pops in my head every once in a while.
Like right now.
That one episode where one of their rich cousins or something has a pocket dimension literally in their pocket is the one that always stuck with me. While trying to figure out if I just hallucinated that, I found the list of episodes on Wikipedia, each with a one-line description of the plot, and they are just so funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Angry_Beavers_episodes
"Norb lives his dream of being a Lipizzaner stallion."
I can't find anything similar to what I'm thinking of, so maybe I just hallucinated it?
I'm an odd one out, my all time favorite was probably that racing game Rush 2049. My brother and I put insane hours in. My parents (mostly my mom) were super against video games, thought Pokemon were satanic, any violence would turn our brain to mush, etc... So when we were initially reluctantly given a Dreamcast (after it had already had its run, my mom bought it on clearance at Sears after it was discontinued), we only got "wholesome" games (that my mom could find in the clearance bin) like a surfing game, tennis game, Xtreme sports, and some racing games. Somehow Toy Commander snuck in there with its "violence", but I guess it was ok because it was cute and squishy.
I'd say the top 3 are Rush 2049, Toy Commander, and Vigilante 8 (We eventually bought some games for ourselves with our own money and our own rules, and Vigilante 8 was one that we played a ton. My dad was a big fan of that one, and thought my mom's over zealousness was silly so he "let" us keep it, as long as we let him play too lol)
I never had any of the crazy popular games listed here like Powerstone, Skies of Arcadia, Soul Caliber, etc, but we enjoyed the SHIT out of that Dreamcast. Still have it, I've replaced the dead GDRom drive with a GDemu, and a new modern power supply, and it works great.
I've been getting back in contact with some good friends I haven't talked to since ~2016-2017. Turns out the 2 people I was most interested in reconnecting with out of the 8 or so people I used to hang around with in college are getting married... to each other (They had never dated or shown interest in each other while I was still part of that whole group, so it was a bit of a surprise!). We had a great day on Sunday, if even for just a couple hours. They invited me to their wedding, and the bachelor party :) I'm excited to catch up with everyone else there, too.