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FureverFurry
RIP Daphne: 3/12/05 - 6/19/12
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join:2012-02-20
49xxx
Zoom 5341J
ARRIS WBM760
Vonage VDV-21

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FureverFurry

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It's beginning to look a lot like mischief


Mactron
el Camino Real
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join:2001-12-16
PRK

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Mactron

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Burr it's cold outside...

Burr it's cold outside.

Long nights, cold nights, warm hearts.

Hey its the Holidays ! Be safe all.

FureverFurry
RIP Daphne: 3/12/05 - 6/19/12
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join:2012-02-20
49xxx
Zoom 5341J
ARRIS WBM760
Vonage VDV-21

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FureverFurry

Premium Member

Wrapping Christmas and holiday gifts

HOW TO WRAP GIFTS WITH CATS:
Instructions:
Step 1: Sit on floor in the middle of the room. Remove Cat A from lap.
Step 2: Take out items needed from carrier bag, having previously purchased them that day from the only card shop in your local area amidst a fury of seemingly angry women and their screaming children. Stop Cat B from sniffing the scissors.

Step 3: Cut strips of sticky tape and stick them along the edge of the wooden coffee table to make the wrapping process easier. Stop Cat B from batting at the sticky tape.

Step 4: Remove wrapping paper from clear plastic film. Stop Cat B from attempting to chew this. Remove Cat A from lap.

Step 5. Unroll wrapping paper and attempt to cut out required amount of wrapping paper on the floor. Remove Cat A from the middle of the paper. End up cutting out paper while standing up. Stop Cat B from batting sticky tape.

Step 6: Wrap present while Cat A sticks his nose in the middle of the paper. Avoid accidentally sticking Cat A’s whiskers to the paper when adding sticky tape. Notice that Cat B is shaking her paw furiously and realise that she has got a piece of sticky tape stuck to it. Remove sticky tape from paw. Remove Cat A from lap.

Step 7: Cut ribbon. Stop Cat A and Cat B from playing with the ends of ribbon.

Step 8: Write gift tag. Write another gift tag after Cat B, who is still on a personal mission to play with the ribbon, pounces and nudges the pen, resulting in a line across the original gift tag.

Step 9: Stand up to cut another piece of wrapping paper out. Sit back down and place wrapping paper on floor. Remove Cat A from paper. Stand up to cut another piece of paper after Cat A digs claws into paper during removal process, ripping a hole in the middle of it.

Step 10: Repeat Steps 6 and 7.

Step 11: Remove both cats from room and continue to wrap presents. Listen to Cat B cry loudly for ten minutes.

Step 12: Go upstairs after remembering a forgotten present. Upon your return, remove Cat A from carrier bag.

Step 13: Wrap present surprisingly easily. Spend ten minutes looking for pen to write gift card. Discover Cat B playing with pen on kitchen floor.

Step 14: Return to room to find Cat A chewing on the corner of the ribbon on one of the presents. Remove ribbon from Cat A’s mouth, only to discover a large patch of cat slobber on the corner of the paper. Re-wrap present.

Step 15: Give discarded ribbon to Cat A. Watch as Cat A sniffs it and walks away.

Step 16: Take out some gift bags to put presents in. Start to place presents in first bag. Remove Cat B from second bag. Stop Cat A from chewing on handle of third bag.

Step 17: Place filled bags in wardrobe. Sit on couch to write Christmas cards. Hear a faint cry from upstairs. Remove cat from wardrobe.
-source: internet

YukonHawk
join:2001-01-07
Patterson, NY

6 recommendations

YukonHawk

Member

IT's........

FRIDAY!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOO Have a great weekend everyone!!

xymox1
Premium Member
join:2008-05-20
Phoenix, AZ

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xymox1

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sb6190 jitters

Its so cold my SB6190 is jittering.

chip89
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join:2012-07-05
Columbia Station, OH

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chip89

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:)

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Not done but!
chip89

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chip89

Premium Member

Still...

I'm still riking my leaves and cutting grass in December!
InternetJeff
I'm your huckleberry.
join:2001-09-25
.

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InternetJeff

Member

Strangely Quiet

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Zenit_IIfx
The system is the solution
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join:2012-05-07
Purcellville, VA
·Comcast XFINITY

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Zenit_IIfx

Premium Member

Doing repair work on a Latitude E6420

I am doing some major overhaul on an E6420, it's a pretty nice laptop but it has some glaring flaws. Had to replace the 1600x900 LCD module as something went wrong (blank totally, not cable or back light). This laptop is very nice, sturdy & a slick professional appearance. Honestly, it's nicer than a ThinkPad T420 with regards to looks/material feel. But the cooling system leaves a lot to be desired. The single heatpipe heatsink really struggles with the load of a 2.5ghz Core i5 Sandy + nVidia NVS4200M GPU. To make matters worse, the GPU uses a thermal pad instead of direct contact to the heatsink. Since both the CPU and GPU share the same heatpipe they dump heat onto each other. GPU can hit around 200-220f with a new thermal pad when being stress tested; CPU does better as it has direct contact but has a warm idle of 120-130f.

One of my friends has a ThinkPad T430 which has the NVS5200M, a similar laptop but 1 generation newer. It has a much bigger heatsink with a separate heat pipe for the GPU, no thermal problem.

No clue why Dell cut corners on the Latitude's cooling even after the plague of D630's cooking their nVidia GPU's to death + defective GPU's to begin with. There is room for a 2nd heat pipe, and the quad core CPU version would have come with a dual pipe heatsink. Adding 2 more cores just cooks the 14 inch form factor more though.

IowaCowboy
Lost in the Supermarket
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join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA

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IowaCowboy

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Worked on my display

Hung more lights on my Christmas display. I hung lights from the lower roof. I was able to use my convertible ladder in stepladder mode to get to the eves from the porch and then when I got to the garages I put it extension ladder mode and leaned it against the garages. My house is townhouse style split down the middle and the garages are on either side.

If I were to put lights on the upper roof I'd need a boom lift as I have a two tier roof. Not worth it.