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Since classes are over, I'm putting in 8-9 hours per day at work. It's been less than 1 hour and I'm already bored out of my mind, and I'm looking for new ways to entertain myself. I spent the last couple weeks rewatching The Venture Brothers, which was good. I'm thinking about going through Arrested Development again, but I need something to do while I take a break between episodes. I liked Portals but I beat that in a couple days and I'm at a loss as to what I can do.
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There are sites like Hack a Day all over the net that have neat ideas and projects for the average geek to accomplish. I've been really pouring over these sites a lot the past few months. Getting the itch to get my soldering gun and my PC board making applications out.
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I've definitely looked through most, if not all, of Hack a Day, great site. I liked the Disco Floor best.
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If you have spare time, some basic soldering skills, and the will to potentially and permanently blind yourself, build a dangerous laser!
You can use an old DVD drive or DVD player (the players have different voltage, but are more powerful)
Give it a google.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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I saw the video. I do have a flashlight that uses 2 AAA batteries, that I think would work, but I don't have any spare DVD drives lying around. I don't even own a DVD burner. But every time I see a kid holding a balloon I wish I had that laser...
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Baninated
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I've definitely looked through most, if not all, of Hack a Day, great site. I liked the Disco Floor best.
Yeah I saw that.. awesome. I wish I had the time/resources and was a bit younger.
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One thing I have been wanting to try is to pick up a USB fingerprint reader on eBay for like $10-20 and figure out how to combine that with an old 1GHz Dell and a 15amp solenoid (car trunk popper) to make a biometric door lock system.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I saw the video. I do have a flashlight that uses 2 AAA batteries, that I think would work, but I don't have any spare DVD drives lying around. I don't even own a DVD burner. But every time I see a kid holding a balloon I wish I had that laser...
My feeble soldering skills produced mixed results. I've noticed that the instructions for focusing the laser are omitted from all the DIY lasers guides. Except for one - and they want $20 for the plans. :/
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I was at Radio Shack picking up a AA battery holder for a different project I was working on when I spotted a AA-powered soldering iron for $5. It turns out they forgot to take the tags off after Black Friday, so they gave me that price anyway (regular price was $20). It's great-push the button, wait 7 seconds and you can solder. Let off, and the tip's cool almost instantly. Which is good, because our dog has a tendency to lick stuff, I managed to catch her right before she tried the tip of my plugged-in 30 watt iron.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I was at Radio Shack picking up a AA battery holder for a different project I was working on when I spotted a AA-powered soldering iron for $5. It turns out they forgot to take the tags off after Black Friday, so they gave me that price anyway (regular price was $20). It's great-push the button, wait 7 seconds and you can solder. Let off, and the tip's cool almost instantly. Which is good, because our dog has a tendency to lick stuff, I managed to catch her right before she tried the tip of my plugged-in 30 watt iron.
I bought the same iron - it has a little LED on it? I got reamed out of $10 for it though.
It's so convenient, and dog safe!
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Yep, the same one. What do you do to take care of the tip? The tip on my 30 watt is awful, but I've never done anything to keep it nice. I was actually buying a new tip when I saw the iron and ended up buying that instead.
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You have to apply solder to the tip and use something like a heavy cotton rag to tin it. You want a nice clean silver coating on that tip.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Well so far I've kept myself entertained by playing with some pictures in Gimp. Hopefully lunch will kill an hour or so. But I still have to find something to do until 5. Any good Flash games or anything?
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You know what you could do....you could try to figure out what is wrong with my Power Mac G4!
That would be fun, right?
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Since I'm getting my parents a new digital camera for Christmas, we'll have an extra one lying around. It's a 4MP HP camera, and it's awful. The battery life is terrible and the pictures absolutely suck. I was toying around with the possibility of making that into a mini picture frame. The internal memory could hold hundreds of pictures at such a low resolution. I just need to figure out how to get the software side to work.
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I would tell you a hilarious story, but it would probably be deemed inappropriate for MacNN.
So here's a quickie:
A week ago this past Wednesday I consumed far too much vodka than I should have, and about fifteen minutes later, I threw up from it.
On my neighbor's carpet. Not mine. HUMILIATION FTW.
As far as things to do - do you have a Wii? There are a couple Flash game sites designed specifically to be used with the Internet Channel on the Wii - you can play Tetris and various arcade and puzzle games with the Wiimote, both with the pointer and holding it like a regular video game controller. I found it rather addicting, although sometimes the browser runs out of memory and the games freeze.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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Banned
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The secret to getting through the work day is to always get your lunch at a bar, make friends with the bartender, and gets lots of free shots every day. That's what I did when I had an office job anyway.
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I left for "lunch" at 1:30, and I just got back. I ended up going with a couple friends to a deli that's about 2 blocks from my house, so afterwards we decided to go home and see my dog. My roommate was watching a movie so we watched that too. But I'm bored again. I've overplayed the Colin McRae demo already, and I don't know what else to do.
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Get back to work!
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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...give me something to do!
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Originally Posted by Laminar
...give me something to do!
Do your job, its what you get paid for .
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
...give me something to do!
Go judge on OurStage.com.
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Originally Posted by ajprice
Do your job, its what you get paid for .
My job is to fix problems when they arise. Nothing's come up yet.
Where's Dakar to make the obvious joke when it's needed?
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Lol go and break something then .
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You could write my final paper for me. I'm not done with school yet.
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Macbook Pro
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Macintosh S/E 30
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Clinically Insane
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No, I’m not going to be your monkey.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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That's the weird thing. When I had homework to do there was no end of distractions for me. Now that there's no reason to procrastinate, I can't find a thing to do.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Originally Posted by Peter
My copy came in the mail the other day. I'll be reading it while in Santa Fe for Christmas. (Yes, I'm a nerd. Yes, I'll also be using the information in the book to make buttloads of money.)
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I entertained myself today by sleeping in until 11. So far so good.
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one post closer to five stars
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
No, I’m not going to be your monkey.
What's it like to have dinner with you? It must be excruciating.
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I'm bored again. I'm thinking about going home and playing Forza, that I rented last night for free. Family Video had a deal, offering a free rental if you'd cut up your membership card to another video place. I remembered that I had an old Hollywood Video card in my wallet that didn't work anymore. Bam. Free $6 rental.
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I blackmail video store employees to get free rentals.
But they stopped carrying betamax, so I stopped caring about the cinema in general.
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Originally Posted by osiris
I blackmail video store employees to get free rentals.
But they stopped carrying betamax, so I stopped caring about the cinema in general.
Nice to hear your Lair is up to 1983 standards. How have I not eliminated you yet?
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Your henchman's Stanza broke down.
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
Nice to hear your Lair is up to 1983 standards. How have I not eliminated you yet?
'Cause I rock old school style.
Plus the fact that you drive around in a Barbie Dream Girl Corvette doesn't add much to your credibility.
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So I got bored of playing Forza and went back to work. Weird.
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Originally Posted by dav
Enjoyed.
I seem to remember this from 2003 though
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