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Post by drtrey3 on Oct 19, 2020 9:09:10 GMT -5
What a lovely home! God bless all who live and visit there.
Trey
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Post by creimes on Oct 19, 2020 11:27:55 GMT -5
A house. Downsizing and moving from Houston (really Cypress) to Belton, TX in February, 2021. Very nice indeed, that what be a major upsizing for us haha, I have an uncle that has a ranch outside of Trenton, he worked his career at Texas Instruments. Chad
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 15:41:55 GMT -5
Bought this during Amazon Prime Day(s) this week. Since I bought a new 2020 Acura TLX a couple months back, I've realized just how computer/sensor oriented the automotive industry has become, so I figure being the gadget type of person I am, this was an obvious purchase. FOXWELL NT510 Elite OBD2 Code Reader for Honda Acura Automotive Scan Tool All System Bi-Directional Diagnostics Scanner Hahaha! My 1999 Mazda Protege died in May with 350,000 miles, Mazda couldn't get transmission parts, so I bought a new 2020 Mazda. This 1999 was the best car I ever owned. My code reader better have cobwebs on it the next time I ever need it! That is one item I better not need for a long, long time! I do like the 20th century automobiles. My 1986 Corvette is OBD1, with 270,000 miles, it is the third best car I have ever owned. Happy motoring! It's kinda difficult to beat the old tried and true Chevy 350 in the 86 Vette minus the Fuel injection which was rather new by 86. I had a 1985 that was tubed chassis and tubbed that I ran in the NHRA Super Gas class 9.99 seconds 1/4 mile time. Just loved Corvettes for decades upon decades. Enjoy your American heritage in the Corvette! I see the new 2020 mid engines are finally starting to show up on the streets. I once read a book on Zora Arkus-Duntov and his successor David Hill for the Corvette engineering. One of the things that the Corvette designers had placed of most importance was w/ each body change you'd be able to point to the car and say that's a Corvette! Having memorable lines and features to previous years. If interested take a peek at the CERV research and development Corvette. Basically, Chevy/Corvette builds one car that'll expand the course of a decade or more and then trickle down technology into production vehicles when manufacturing etc becomes more affordable. The brand new 2020 Corvette reminds me of so many things that were in the 1990s Cerv III w/ active suspension, mid engine, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Engineering_Research_Vehicle
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Post by Cogito on Oct 19, 2020 20:07:30 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH!
My first computer, a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, with a Zilog Z80 8-bit CPU running at a whopping 1.774 MHz, performed about 475,000 instructions per second. Apple's new 64-bit A14 Bionic chip at 3 GHz cell phone, weighing less than 7 ounces, fitting comfortably in your shirt pocket, performs at 11 TRILLION (11,000,000,000,000) instructions per second! What wondrous technological times we live in.
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Post by knucklehead on Oct 19, 2020 20:11:35 GMT -5
The Amazon Prime sale had something I didn't know I wanted, until I saw it. Had to have it, and at $99.99 it was a steal IMO. I've been a long-time fan of Tolkien. I think I've read the trilogy 7-9 times, as well as the Hobbit, and have watched them 3-4 times now, and the three movies The Hobbit but once. With the cold weather heading inbound and the golfing season coming to a grinding halt I think I'll be able to watch all 6 movies at least twice before spring.
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Post by tchaik on Oct 19, 2020 20:42:53 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH!
My first computer, a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, with a Zilog Z80 8-bit CPU running at a whopping 1.774 MHz, performed about 475,000 instructions per second. Apple's new 64-bit A14 Bionic chip at 3 GHz cell phone, weighing less than 7 ounces, fitting comfortably in your shirt pocket cell phone, performs at 11 TRILLION (11,000,000,000,000) instructions per second! What wondrous technological times we live in.
yeah.... but mine still goes to 11.
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Post by LCSeminole on Oct 19, 2020 21:19:16 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH! I ordered my iPhone 12 Pro about an hour after the pre-ordering started and my order status shows it will be arriving Oct 30 - Nov 3. So my guess is they were expecting a high volume for both the iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro, which is why my ship date is about a week after the actual physical release, even ordering about an hour after it started. Oh yeah, I ordered a "silver" iPhone 12 Pro to match my new "lunar silver metallic" Acura.
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Post by MusicHead on Oct 19, 2020 22:03:30 GMT -5
Canon SL3 (bundled with a bunch of accessories), as the 18th B-day present for my son, this coming Thursday. I am a Nikon guy, but I know he wants something to shoot video too. The Canon Dual Pixel, phase-detection focus system is objectively better with video than the much slower Nikon's contrast-detection system. Too bad we won't be able to share lenses, though.
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Post by mercury on Oct 19, 2020 22:36:14 GMT -5
Just added this to my collection.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 23:51:20 GMT -5
Just curious, does your Olight have a strobe effect? I have one on my 9mm and it has both a laser and flashlight of 1300 lumens w/ strobe effect. The strobe effect is enough to stun anyone: This is the flashlight on w/ green laser designation. Don't know why the light came out green in the picture but it is a bright white light w/ a green dot in middle when both are on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 23:53:22 GMT -5
Canon SL3 (bundled with a bunch of accessories), as the 18th B-day present for my son, this coming Thursday. I am a Nikon guy, but I know he wants something to shoot video too. The Canon Dual Pixel, phase-detection focus system is objectively better with video than the much slower Nikon's contrast-detection system. Too bad we won't be able to share lenses, though. Why Nikon? My last camera was a Canon EOS 40D. Many at that time suggested Canon had better lenses than Nikon? I ended up selling my Canon and haven't replaced it yet. Go figure, the following year after I purchased mine they came out with video!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 23:54:58 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH!
My first computer, a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, with a Zilog Z80 8-bit CPU running at a whopping 1.774 MHz, performed about 475,000 instructions per second. Apple's new 64-bit A14 Bionic chip at 3 GHz cell phone, weighing less than 7 ounces, fitting comfortably in your shirt pocket, performs at 11 TRILLION (11,000,000,000,000) instructions per second! What wondrous technological times we live in.
Tandy Radioshack computers..... you brought back some memories. I remember that as my first computer and sitting in school in Msdos class writing pages of code just to graphically tumble a line down the screen lol.
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Post by cawgijoe on Oct 20, 2020 6:07:06 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH!
My first computer, a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, with a Zilog Z80 8-bit CPU running at a whopping 1.774 MHz, performed about 475,000 instructions per second. Apple's new 64-bit A14 Bionic chip at 3 GHz cell phone, weighing less than 7 ounces, fitting comfortably in your shirt pocket, performs at 11 TRILLION (11,000,000,000,000) instructions per second! What wondrous technological times we live in.
Tandy Radioshack computers..... you brought back some memories. I remember that as my first computer and sitting in school in Msdos class writing pages of code just to graphically tumble a line down the screen lol. My first real job....they had a small computer room with three workstations....all TRS-80's....we were amazed! Had to sign in to use the machines. Times have definitely changed.
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Post by cawgijoe on Oct 20, 2020 6:11:29 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH! I ordered my iPhone 12 Pro about an hour after the pre-ordering started and my order status shows it will be arriving Oct 30 - Nov 3. So my guess is they were expecting a high volume for both the iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro, which is why my ship date is about a week after the actual physical release, even ordering about an hour after it started. Oh yeah, I ordered a "silver" iPhone 12 Pro to match my new "lunar silver metallic" Acura. I'm looking to trade in my iphone 7, but want to do it in the Apple store, or check Costco deals first. The guy at the Costco kiosk told me to pop in this coming Friday to see what the deals might be. I'm with Verizon. I'll probably call the Apple store today because I'm sure I'm going to have to make an appointment due to Covid. Looking at the 12 Pro also in either Graphite or Blue.
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Post by MusicHead on Oct 20, 2020 7:30:39 GMT -5
Canon SL3 (bundled with a bunch of accessories), as the 18th B-day present for my son, this coming Thursday. I am a Nikon guy, but I know he wants something to shoot video too. The Canon Dual Pixel, phase-detection focus system is objectively better with video than the much slower Nikon's contrast-detection system. Too bad we won't be able to share lenses, though. Why Nikon? My last camera was a Canon EOS 40D. Many at that time suggested Canon had better lenses than Nikon? I ended up selling my Canon and haven't replaced it yet. Go figure, the following year after I purchased mine they came out with video! I guess you could say it is one of those Coke vs Pepsi situations. I had a Canon film SLR for many years before switching to digital, and was happy with it. When looking around to buy my first DSLR I tried a few in a store (figure that!) and the Nikon D90 was the one that I liked the most, for its ergonomic, features and low light capability in the price range I had targeted. I had not purchased other lenses for the film Canon, so switching to a different mount system was not an issue. It is also often said that Nikon has a slight edge over Canon in the quality of still pictures. Now, with the surging of mirrorless cameras, it is a race to the top again. Nikon just released their second generation of Z cameras and I am sure Canon has or will soon.
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Post by LCSeminole on Oct 20, 2020 9:58:26 GMT -5
I ordered my iPhone 12 Pro about an hour after the pre-ordering started and my order status shows it will be arriving Oct 30 - Nov 3. So my guess is they were expecting a high volume for both the iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro, which is why my ship date is about a week after the actual physical release, even ordering about an hour after it started. Oh yeah, I ordered a "silver" iPhone 12 Pro to match my new "lunar silver metallic" Acura. I'm looking to trade in my iphone 7, but want to do it in the Apple store, or check Costco deals first. The guy at the Costco kiosk told me to pop in this coming Friday to see what the deals might be. I'm with Verizon. I'll probably call the Apple store today because I'm sure I'm going to have to make an appointment due to Covid. Looking at the 12 Pro also in either Graphite or Blue. You should check the on-line Apple Store, they mention some promotions for AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile.
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Post by cawgijoe on Oct 20, 2020 11:49:29 GMT -5
I'm looking to trade in my iphone 7, but want to do it in the Apple store, or check Costco deals first. The guy at the Costco kiosk told me to pop in this coming Friday to see what the deals might be. I'm with Verizon. I'll probably call the Apple store today because I'm sure I'm going to have to make an appointment due to Covid. Looking at the 12 Pro also in either Graphite or Blue. You should check the on-line Apple Store, they mention some promotions for AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile. I did check. The deals are best for those switching to a new provider. If you stay with Verizon for instance, in order to get a discount you would need to add a new line and move up to a higher tier unlimited service plan. I currently have the bottom line unlimited plan which works fine. So, I don't want to change my number and pay more for service. Apple itself is offering $100 on an iphone 7 tradein. We bought an iphone 11 last year for my wife in store. Went the first Friday they were available and had to wait a couple hours....they let us go to dinner and come back....we would not have done that, but her 6 was dying. The process in the store was painless. The only reason I would be in any hurry is to get the most I can for my 7.
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Post by Cogito on Oct 20, 2020 16:44:25 GMT -5
I ordered my iPhone 12 Pro about an hour after the pre-ordering started and my order status shows it will be arriving Oct 30 - Nov 3. So my guess is they were expecting a high volume for both the iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro, which is why my ship date is about a week after the actual physical release, even ordering about an hour after it started. Oh yeah, I ordered a "silver" iPhone 12 Pro to match my new "lunar silver metallic" Acura. I'm looking to trade in my iphone 7, but want to do it in the Apple store, or check Costco deals first. The guy at the Costco kiosk told me to pop in this coming Friday to see what the deals might be. I'm with Verizon. I'll probably call the Apple store today because I'm sure I'm going to have to make an appointment due to Covid. Looking at the 12 Pro also in either Graphite or Blue. With AT&T, the iPhone 12 is essentially free with a valid trade-in (I traded an iPhone 8) and a 30 month unlimited plan (I was already on the unlimited plan, so no big whoop for me). I went for the PRO model (Better camera, more RAM)for about $6.00 extra a month for 15 Months. Not a bad deal considering it's a $1000 phone.
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Post by Cogito on Oct 20, 2020 17:31:55 GMT -5
Pre-ordered my iPhone 12 Pro yesterday. Not gonna ship until November 16th BLAH! I ordered my iPhone 12 Pro about an hour after the pre-ordering started and my order status shows it will be arriving Oct 30 - Nov 3. So my guess is they were expecting a high volume for both the iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro, which is why my ship date is about a week after the actual physical release, even ordering about an hour after it started. Oh yeah, I ordered a "silver" iPhone 12 Pro to match my new "lunar silver metallic" Acura. Nice! I went with Pacific Blue to match my, umm, err... Eyes! Yeah, that's it.
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Post by LuisV on Oct 20, 2020 20:57:39 GMT -5
GoGo Penguin on Vinyl...
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