Oh, almost forgot. I used to work at a powdered metal manufacturing plant where they make the stainless steel cam in the Zippo hinge. We pumped them out by the millions!
The "WHAT IS IT" Game
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maizeydaze
MemberPosted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberAw, Funkymom & Graylox, sorry you missed the other games. It was fun seeing some of the answers! I had some good sleep and I'm ready to give you another round. Let me have a couple of minutes to put something together.
Goodgotd said that he's going to take some pics & give it a try later today.
Graylox-you are into photography, why don't you think about doing some? We don't need to have prizes to have fun with this game.
Everyone is welcome to post something. One person at a time though. :)
Here is what I do:
1. Either take a photo of something and save to PC or use a photo that I took earlier.
2. Open the photo in any graphics program. (I use PSP 9 or PSE5.)
3. Make a copy of the photo.
4. Crop out an interesting portion of the copy.
5. Change the image size of the cropped picture to about 150% to 200%. (Make sure it's not so large that it becomes totally unrecognizable.)
6. Save the enlarged, cropped picture with a nondescript name to the computer.
7. Upload the cropped to a photo sharing site. (Photobucket)
8. Post the link to the cropped picture in this forum.
7. Upload the original, full picture, into a different folder. (I make this folder "Private" so that someone cannot look in that folder to see the picture.)
8. When someone wins, make the folder containing the full picture "Public".
9. Post the link to the full picture to the forum.Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberAlright! Are you ready? Start guessing what this is a picture of! ;D
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Posted 16 years ago # -
scubaguy (R.I.P.)
Memberadjustment control on an adjustable crescent wrench?
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberWow, Scuba guy, that was good! YOU WIN! I bet you have a few of these laying around.
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Full picture of an ADJUSTABLE WRENCH.
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Here is your lovely PRIZE!
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scubaguy (R.I.P.)
Membermaizeydaze
Thanks ,great prize picture,will use it as a wallpaper.If I'm not at the comp.I'm in the garage my home away from home.That's the only one that was easy for me.
Had no clue at all on the other one's,but was able to see some bluish heat markings on the lighter,just wasn't fast enough.
Great game!!Posted 16 years ago # -
Buckleysmom
MemberThis looks like a fun forum but I missed the whole thing so far. I'll be watching for the next one.
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberI should have said that was an old design zippo- 2001 built, but far older design, as iirc they slimmed the windguard a ways back indeed.
Sintered cams, that makes sense.
one tricky thing for me is my cameras are 1 and 1.3 megapixels. love to get one a decade newer. (2005?)
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberScubaguy - glad you liked the wallpaper. I made them this morning. I just knew you were a tool man! :D
I have more tools, several are quite old. I prefer the older tools over many of the "new & improved" gadgets. I've got a lot of tools that I keep locked in a cabinet so the hubby doesn't walk off with them. I was a operator/mechanic at a light bulb manufacturer for 2 1/4 years until I was laid-off 2 months ago. I already had most of the necessary tools . That's the first manual labor type job I'd had in over 20 years. Prior to that I worked at various powdered metal plants in the the quality assurance field as a technician, a supervisor, an engineer and a SPC coordinator and in IT as the "help desk" for a MRP system. Now, I'm looking for work again but the pickings are getting slim around here.
goodgotd - Don't let those darned megapixels stop you. Most of my wallpapers were made with pictures from a 1.2 megapixel Sony Mavica FD100. I love this big, old clunker, as it takes great macros...and without a tripod. Only bought a new 7.1 MP Canon PowerShot A570IS in December. I like it but I don't think I'll get attached to it like the Sony. A friend says she has a floppy drive Sony, still in the box, that she's going to give to me. I hope it's either the FD100 or FD200. I can't wait!
Buckleysmom - Give me a little time to throw another round together. Hopefully, you'll be around then. :)
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberI'm not letting the lack of pixels stop me, the motive for wanting more for my prosthetic memory is my eyes are getting worse, and I need to zoom in more!
Old tools are a hobby of mine as well- one example is a diesel-power era open-end wrench from the now-gone Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
(all I ever saw were the nuke-powerd los angeles class subs when I was on and off base doing video game repair)
it's a 4-1/8", 3 feet long. :)
Posted 16 years ago # -
bluhoteyes
Memberwell darn i missed the game again :( keep em coming maizeydaze
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberI went to town for supplies today (took the horse & buggy :)). When I got back my Mom & Dad came down for a visit. After they left I tried to get online and I didn't have a connection. So I called my ISP for tech support. Obviously, the support guy, Patrick, was in India. He was very difficult for me to understand and he called me by my first name, which said before each sentence. He had me disconnecting my ethernet cable, wiping the contacts and when that didn't work, connecting a USB cable. Then I had to dig around to find the disk that came with the router so I could load a driver. Turned my PC off and on several times, plugging and unplugging wires. Nothing would work. He told me my ethernet cable was bad and that I should contact my computer manufacturer to tell them that I couldn't load the USB driver and my PC wouldn't communicate via the USB. All of this took about an hour.
I kept bring up the point that everything was working fine a few hours earlier and couldn't it be something else. Finally, very frustrated, I reiterated my feelings about this one more time, almost shouting at him. Then right when I was ready to hang up, he says "There is a mass outage in your area. So I solved your problem, satisfactorily, OK?" I just about lost it on him!
Now I'm back online. Just needed to vent. :)
Posted 16 years ago # -
RunesageMagik
MemberThe tactic of "throwing the kitchen sink at a problem" is part of the outsourcery Paint By Numbers handbook. The staff in Tier 1 tech support (also known as computer illiterate new hires) are trained to open theor diagnostic manuals and sart with the Preface. Even if you tell them what your experience level is and that you have done X, Y and Z, they rarely hear you.
With Florida suffering from a major electrical disruption {NUCLEAR MELTDOWN!?!?! AIEEEEEEE} today and the North suffering from blizzards, the first step when you experience a problem should probably be to ask your ISP for current disruptions in your area. Some ISPs are set up to note where you're calling from and spit out a list of current disruptions in/around ya, but sometimes you have to ask.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberHe told me that he could "see" I had a good signal coming in when I first told him my number. He insisted it was something here. I figured that he would have looked for outages before wasting my time.
It has been snowing and raining all day. Got about 5 inches of snow so far today and expect about 3 more tomorrow.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberHave a new one. I bet you'll get this picture right away. Go ahead, make my day!
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Posted 16 years ago # -
Buckleysmom
Member@maizeydaze.......love that name! Hey I was just reading your post about not being online and dealing with the India tech .....been there/done that :) anyway, you mentioned your router and I was wondering what brand you use and whether you've had any problems. We got one and my hubby's been trying to use it for like 2 months and we just couldn't get us both connected. We'd finally get it working and the next day everything would be down again. We finally gave up on the router and he hardwired himself to modem via eithernet and I'm on the USB which is working fine but my connection is slower at times so I'm not crazy about it. Anyway in the midst of this we had our ISP tech stop by and he was telling us every time he goes out on a job where there's a router issue it's alwsya the brand we have (can't recall the name right now). Doesn't that just figure? Hubby researched it before he bought but sometimes you just don't know till you get something and actually try it. I'd like to discuss cameras with you too, but I'll leave that for another post.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberBuckleysmom - Sorry but my router is a DSL router, not a home networking router. I do have a D-Link home networking router that I don't use now because my other PC is gone. It worked fine though.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Membergoodgotd - Congratulations, YOU WIN! I thought it looked too easy. The hubby didn't know what it was, so I gave it a shot.
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And for the PRIZE. This little fellow is up to his neck in S*#%. :D
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberI'm done being nice! You are going to have to work for this one! I don't care how long it takes. I can't be bribed for hints either ... unless you have something really nice. :)
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Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
Memberheh, while I'm looking, have a gander at my new (old stock) keyboard, sealed against splashes.
http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2550jewishkeyboardcq1.jpg
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberIs it hermetically sealed?
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberWrong 1st guess, goodgotd. I don't even know what you're describing.
Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
Membernot exactly, but look at he other images and you'll see that aside from essential cooling, ports, and cd, the entire laptop is protected.
that's a 1/4" aluminum plate on the back of the lcd- the left hinge plastic failed and shards of plastic sifted in and killed the keyboard.
The plate bolts right through the pivots, so it's fixed forever.
For now food wrap film protects the display, but I'm going to add a sheet of plexiglass for tougher protection.
kinda cool finding a n-o-s english-jewish keyboard, huh?
Posted 16 years ago # -
scubaguy (R.I.P.)
Member@maizeydaze
( I don't even know what you're describing.)
What goodgotd is guessing is a thin cardboard insulating ring placed around coffee cups or hot liquids ,to keep a person from burning their fingers.@goodgotd
Couldn't you use one of those transparent silicone keyboard covers,the type used in workshops or restaurants, although they only protect the key's maybe there is one made for the bottom portion of a laptop.One that covers the entire surface not just the keyboard.Posted 16 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberYeah, the keyboard skins are available on ebay- no seal-the-rest I've found- but they cost serious money on my budget, take forever to ship from hong kong- and if something gets splashed in the kb before it shows up, the kb is toast.
besides, I have the ziplocks handy, and they're cheap to replace when worn out.
looks, once I repaired the display I did (had the aluminum already) aren't a factor, but for a $100 (ebay, delivered- ok, 10 clams for the new kb) laptop, this one does enough more than it's primary purpose (reading ebooks) it's worth protecting as best I can.
I use it for a VoIP phone, browser, digital picture display, jukebox, alarm clock, movie and video player...
when I can scrape up enough, I'm going to replace the 10 gig hdd with an 80 and add a USB 2.0 cardbus adapter, maybe even wireless 802.11g.
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