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[W3H5]

How long before you get the team kit?

I looked at the Giant kit that matches my bike (blue & white) in Thailand but had spent all my cash on beer by that point. I've seen them online here for about £20 but prefer my football shirt and a normal pair of shorts so I don't look like a plank when I'm going to work.

 

[McLaren]

4 tickets to watch Mavs take on the Clippers next month.

 

[HumanDestroyah]

Bought these:

To make one of these: (Drug Panga)

Edit: It's an RC boat, nothing illegal here >.<

 

[TB]

(1) 6' Micro HDMI to HDMI cable, (2) 6' Micro USB to USB cables, (1) iPhone4S case, (3) iPhone 4S screen protectors, (1) powered USB hub and (1) GPS mount, with shipping, for $36.70.

 

[Mike Rotch]

New bike mounted tyre pump:

 

[W3H5]

I've got one of those pumps, albeit a different brand, and use to take it with me. After years of riding with it I realised I never found a use for it so now I just leave it at home.

I've found it's very rare for a tyre to lose air during a ride and if I encountered a puncture I wouldn't need it anyway because I'd throw the bike in a taxi and repair the tube at home.

It is useful to have one though, I've just never used mine on the go, as it were.

 

[Mike Rotch]

I've got one of those pumps, albeit a different brand, and use to take it with me. After years of riding with it I realised I never found a use for it so now I just leave it at home.

I've found it's very rare for a tyre to lose air during a ride and if I encountered a puncture I wouldn't need it anyway because I'd throw the bike in a taxi and repair the tube at home.

It is useful to have one though, I've just never used mine on the go, as it were.

It's more for when I haven't ridden for 2 weeks and then have to expend sweat pumping the tyres up again. My current pump is somewhat ineffective at anything that isn't adding the last 5% of pressure to an already inflated tyre.

 

[spunwicked]

For my better half, she's well into Twilight.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

Twilight Pic

For my better half, she's well into Twilight.

Suuurrrrreeeeee thats what you say now.....

 

[Mr. S]

I'm guessing that would be the Paris-Nice.

It is the Paris-Nice race.

Clean forgot about that.

Thanks guys, it's still weird, tho. I'm living a few kilometres south-west of Paris and the natural route towards Nice would be driving southwards.

So, my most recent purchase.

24 cans, 32.40 Euro. Quite a lot but still cheap if you're not ordering it directly from the UK.

 

[CodeRedR51]

You have to import that?

 

[Mr. S]

It's not officially available in France. That's why some supermarkets import them from time to time, especially the ones in rural areas with lots of expats - like the one I'm usually heading to when I feel the need. Yet, if one of you is after US food during a visit in Paris: check the local diner, it's awesome. And they always have Dr. Pepper in stock.

All the cans you can buy are having stickers (because it's required by law that it's listed in French) printed by the market owners themselves on them listing the ingredients. A can goes for 1.35&#8364; (the market I usually go to, 20km drive) there but the big supermarket chain (Auchan, like Tesco I'd say) around 3km from my place is selling them for 2.20&#8364; a can.

 

[F1GTR]

For my better half, she's well into Twilight.

My god that is one of the worst designed covers I have ever seen. Looks like something out of the 90's!

 

[disinfected]

Finally splurged a bit on a new laptop.

Toshiba L755D Satellite Quad Core
AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.40GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 64 Bit
500 GB Hard Drive

 

[Sage]

Jabra Freeway Bluetooth Speakerphone

I went from being unaware of the existence of such things to buying one in about 10 hours, since this one happened to be Amazon&#8217;s deal of the day and so was priced at $75. My car has no aux, no bluetooth, no casette deck, and a blocked antenna, and I never ever bother to pair my bluetooth headset with my phone, so this solves ALL my problems: I&#8217;ll be able to answer calls without fiddling and I&#8217;ll be able to listen to my podcasts regardless of whether the built-in FM transmitter works (and if it does work, even better). I can&#8217;t wait to get it tomorrow.

 

[ghostrider135]

Bikemate Helmet

and Worms Crazy Golf 👍

 

[Crash]

Airplane tickets

Not those exact ones, but I will be flying SEA-LNK via DEN on United, then returning LNK-SEA via MSP on Delta.

 

[spunwicked]

My god that is one of the worst designed covers I have ever seen. Looks like something out of the 90's!

The film's not much better mate, unless you are well into vampire-human weddings and vampire-human pregnancy/birth.

Possibly the only redeeming thing about it is that the werewolves look cool. But even they get a raw deal from the actress that never smiles.

 

[Joey D]

4GB Xbox 360

320GB Xbox HDD with Lego Star Wars III

Premium Spotify

 

[Tom]

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I've got one of those pumps, albeit a different brand, and use to take it with me. After years of riding with it I realised I never found a use for it so now I just leave it at home.

I've found it's very rare for a tyre to lose air during a ride and if I encountered a puncture I wouldn't need it anyway because I'd throw the bike in a taxi and repair the tube at home.

It is useful to have one though, I've just never used mine on the go, as it were.

I would love to have a portable pump. I'm always fiddling with the tyre pressures on my bike in order to reapportion grip, especially off road. No, I don't work for McLaren.

 

[disinfected]

Call me crazy.

 

[TheCracker]

Call me crazy.

You're crazy. Australia is totally flat!

 

[Submerged]

Talking about Australian terrain got me remembering this fact.

Perth is bleeding miles away from Melbourne.

This came to light when I was on the plane that was relatively close to Perth and was flying to Melbourne. I see on the map that we've breached Australian Airspace.

"Good" I think to myself, "Not too long to go!"

Still took FOUR hours to cover the distance to get to Melbourne airport.

I knew Australia was big. Just didn't have anything to tell me HOW BLEEDING BIG it was.

And no, I didn't buy anything today, just thought to add that about Australia.

 

[Daniel]

Bought Journey, the PS3 game. Not able to play it till the weekend though

 

[Northstar]

Canceled my Netflix streaming and got this.

Mainly did it for the shipping, the streaming and free monthly Kindle book are just icing.👍

 

[AOS-]

It was either a cheap drum pedal (to be used like an office toy), or a replacement scooter.

To my luck, it was on sale for $70 and I didn't even know. Replacing the scooter I permanently messed up for the project I handed in last week. First I'm going to swap these with ABEC 7 or 9 bearings, then I'm going to paint this thing: turning the red spokes black so it doesn't look so cheesy, and then maybe do some matte finish on the raw aluminum finish. It might end up sporting the same scheme as the Boss 302 Laguna Seca.

 

[Guml8all]

I finally have pictures of the Beolab 9! They're incredible speakers, far exceeding my expectations. I also added a little test video, but in no way does my measly iPhone microphone capture the potential of these babies:

Here's the video (I guess 1080p might make some improvements? lol):

 

[AOS-]

Is that mesh all around the side?

 

[Guml8all]

Is that mesh all around the side?

Yeah I think so. It's interchangeable (although it's around 500 chf per set), and comes in red, blue, black, and white. We changed it to white considering our living room layout.