What New Stuff Have You Bought? If You Care To Share Thead! :)

[KenM10759]

Opened my mailbox and was greeted with this:



Was fairly easy to extract the package with this handy tool:

the box contained 5 new movies !

I can well-imagine whoever put that box in there HAD TO be chuckling as they pushed it all the way back. Bastids.

 

[MR.MAGOO]

I can well-imagine whoever put that box in there HAD TO be chuckling as they pushed it all the way back. Bastids.

yea, the usual US Postal employee was probably on vacation, she puts packages in the BIG locked bin for that purpose, but this other person was probably too stupid or lazy to do that! Plus my usual flat letter mail was crammed in with this package! I just ordered 3 LP's 12 inch vinyl records, I hope the same mailman does not deliver those, the package will probably get folded just to stuff it in the box.

 

[j_garcia]

I priced 'em at $45.50.
Even the two footers I would need are close to 40.

That is a pair though.

 

[Alex2507]

That is a pair though.

Price shown is for one four-conductor cable

 

[panteragstk]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MV9Z46J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and

https://www.mishimoto.com/infiniti-q50-q60-catch-can-2016.html

Getting ready for an upcoming HPDE and they aren't renting helmets cause Covid, so had to buy my own.

Lots of guys in the diesel world swear by Mishimoto for the radiators, trans coolers, and intercoolers. Coolers. You get it.

Haven't had any of their stuff yet. I went cheap and got an all aluminum radiator off ebay, but it's VERY good for the money.

 

[NINaudio]

Lots of guys in the diesel world swear by Mishimoto for the radiators, trans coolers, and intercoolers. Coolers. You get it.

Haven't had any of their stuff yet. I went cheap and got an all aluminum radiator off ebay, but it's VERY good for the money.

They're working on upgraded intercoolers for my car which has me quite interested to see what they can do.

 

[Audiosaur]

Pleasantly surprised by these wireless, bone conduction headphones

I wanted something for the gym that would stay in place and not be an ear bud design. Buds don't stay in my ears and are uncomfortable. These have pretty good clarity, are secure, and I can carry on conversations without removing them.

 

[3db]

Opened my mailbox and was greeted with this:

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Was fairly easy to extract the package with this handy tool:

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the box contained 5 new movies !

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I hope after all that hard work using the bottle opener to extract the package from the mailbox that you opened a bottle of your favourite beer as a reward for the effort.

 

[3db]

I purchased a SportRack Crest Platform 2-bike Hitch-mounted Rack from Costco. Here are the pics of it attached to my vehicle

 

[slipperybidness]

I purchased a SportRack Crest Platform 2-bike Hitch-mounted Rack from Costco. Here are the pics of it attached to my vehicle

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Word of advice--NEVER let your bikes leave your line of sight! Even if they are locked on that rack, it will take a thief just a couple minutes to be gone with your bike.

Maybe in Canada you won't have to worry about it as much? But, any decent sized American city and a bike will be gone very quickly when it is out of your sight.

 

[Eppie]

I ordered this which will be ready in early spring of 2022. The model is a Checkpoint ALR 5

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Just saw this. Love the disc brakes and the shifters. We're thinking of looking at some Treks as well. Would like to do more of the "rails to trails" trails but both of our bikes have road tires and I can't go wider on my Miele. Would like to go to a hybrid tire that can handle sand and fine gravel better. Sand tends to stop a road bike dead in its tracks.

 

[Eppie]

I purchased a SportRack Crest Platform 2-bike Hitch-mounted Rack from Costco. Here are the pics of it attached to my vehicle

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That's nice and compact when folded up. I like the Thule equipment very much. Have one of their roof racks and also a 4 bike carrier. Needed to fit 4 for when we took the kids camping. We took the bikes with us out east (including our son's -- just found him a nice used Miele) and managed to hit the Cape Breton coastal trail during some nice weather. This was SW of Mabou on Mabou Harbour.

 

[davidscott]

Monoprice Audio/Stereo Cable - 6 Feet - Black | 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Jack, Mp3 Player/Phone Headphone Output to Home Audio System

I'm going to connect my smartphone to my home stereo and see how streaming works. I have a few basic streaming options including Amazon, Spotify, and Pandora. Already using the phones headphone jack to listen.

 

[j_garcia]

Whiteline 22mm front swaybar, endlinks all around and getting the steering rack installed + alignment on the STI today. Waiting to see if he completes it today or not until tomorrow.

 

[Cos]

Bought a QNAP NAS. a TVS-872XT specifically. Got in on the e-fleebay in great condition for 1/2 price.

Additional items were added later:
8x 14TB SATA Hard drives - for storing lots and lots of Linux ISOs
2x Micron M2 800GB NVMe SSDs for caching
2x 32GB memory by Crucial - for VMs and Containers.
1x Emulex 2xSFP+ dual 10gig network card

That is a TON of Storage!

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

That is a TON of Storage!

after raid6, 28TB raw escaped the coop so say, but still nearly 80TB usable isn't too shabby. My goal is to consolidate all of my VMs and containers to a single box and so far it's working pretty well.
Already have replaced my iVideon NVR with QNAP's QVR Pro - pretty decent system, not ideal, but better than its predecessor. Moved Both HomeAssistant (a smart home hub with USB Zigbee/Z-Wave adapter pass-thru) and UniFi (wifi controller) both as containers running qnap. I finished the initial file copy (the big one).
Only a few services remain to be moved over, just a matter of time before I get to decommission what was eating nearly $70 of electricity in my monthly electric bills.

 

[3db]

Bought the following music at the Thrift Shop...

 

[3db]

I ordered this last week. It should be arriving soon

 

[ryanosaur]

Bought the following music at the Thrift Shop...



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Yeah, Robert Cray! I saw him open for Huey Lewis in support of that album. I was pretty young at the time and didn't really like the blues... didn't really get it. That changed as I grew up: a lot of good stuff on Strong Persuader!

 

[afterlife2]

Decided to go to the Thrift store after being shafted at the car repair shop today. Picked these up tonight they are mostly concerts. Made my mood a bit better. I had like four of these before, so great to get them again. Cars 2 is the 3D version, which I've never seen. I also heard the Greatest Showman has great SQ/PQ. Lucky.