Random thoughts thread

[monkie]

Originally Posted by monkie

Thanks guys for the "thanks" car is save and sound in the basement

thunder storm came rolling in after we came home to drop off the other car and 86 does not go out in the rain yet.

I will go for a drive tomorrow i will bring the DSLR with a few lenses and the Nikon J1 which films in slow motion with me to get some good shots if i can find a nice location :happy0180:

Crappy weather here today very bad lighting not good for photos

Still drove around though and the wife finally drove even though it was at 10kph and I swear if she was any closer to the wheel she could have licked it

Well only got two shots from in the basement keeping with my Username enjoy

[Calum]

Originally Posted by Dimman

This one?



This is Canadian, and if yours is the same one it always kind of surprises me when Canadian corporations break in to the US.

It's the same. TD has been pretty big in the US for a while now. I just love how they only changed from Toronto Dominion to TD and most Americans have no idea it's actually a Canadian bank.


I'll be honest guys, I didn't read the whole conversation about credit, so sorry if this was already been covered. There's two ways to build credit with a credit card. You can use it for daily purchases and pay it off each month, but this will only get you so far. You will actauly get a better credit rating if you don't pay it off completely, that's where the 10%, 30% etc. etc. comes from. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule to these but what I've found is that if you owe more then 50% of the limit it'll start counting against you more then helping. And of course your paying interest on it. The reason carrying a balance makes you more attractive to a credit company is it shows them they'll make money from you.

Just don't forget to balance this with your income and other bills so that you still have enough money to pay for other purchases.

[IntotheOcean]

Originally Posted by Dimman

This is Canadian, and if yours is the same one it always kind of surprises me when Canadian corporations break in to the US.

Yep that's the one

[Nevermore]

Getting in some Saturday over time at work today. Realized on the drive in that my parking pass at the garage is only good Monday thru Friday, so today is the first day I've parked it in the company lot, out in the middle of nowhere. Not gonna lie, makes me a little nervous.

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by Grishbok

congrats on the credit card, though be careful, 10% is a good rule to live by, you can go up to 30% but thats only in emergency situations, like an ER visit. My ex decided to leave me with 10k in credit card debt as a final F-U to me, as if I deserved that and the wrecked FRS. women are just evil. Luckily im young enough I should be able to recover relatively quick, but its still an unbelievable account of pure female maliciousness.

I've had stuff like this happen to family, so I've learned that lesson. Women can be irrational as fuck when it comes to dealing damage to someone that's pissed them off or "treated them bad"; hell, it doesn't event take that for spending someone else's money. 's why I'm in no hurry to get married or give my girlfriend any access to my funds. If she needs any cash, we have the same bank so I can just transfer some online and she's got it within minutes.

You certainly will recover though, I just hate that it happened to ya.

Not sure if it's just so much evil as it is crazy.

[IntotheOcean]

The prettier they are the more you need to watch out-lol.
Some hot girls are cool tho, just very.... Emotional
My one friend had his wife start crying because he didn't want to watch American Idol so he put his headphones on and went on the pc. She was like 'you never spend time with me anymore' he had to hide behind a pillow because he was laughing. Haha too good

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by IntotheOcean

The prettier they are the more you need to watch out-lol.
Some hot girls are cool tho, just very.... Emotional
My one friend had his wife start crying because he didn't want to watch American Idol so he put his headphones on and went on the pc. She was like 'you never spend time with me anymore' he had to hide behind a pillow because he was laughing. Haha too good

I do this. Good to know it's normal.

[wrxgoose]

sad for 2 reasons: 1, still no news from dealership. 2:

Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

• The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget

[dem00n]

I hate going to the post office. Everyone who works there is always in a shit mood, if you hate your job so much then grow some balls to quit it and find another one.

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by ayau

There are other factors that go into your credit score. Credit rating agencies don't release the formula to the public because people would be able to game the system. While I can't prove that it didn't lower your score, I will say that majority of the people won't hit 30% of their credit line. We're talking about people who have $20-30k credit lines. It's not reasonable for an average person to have $9k in credit card expenses each month. You may say that a person with a 20-30k credit line will an annual income of 100k+, but in reality, a lot of credit card companies don't verify your income and it's completely possible for someone who makes 30k to have a large credit line.

5 points isn't a big deal if you're already above 720. At that range, you should be able to qualify for the lowest interest rates from most financial firms.

I shreaded mine I think it was at 768 or something for Trans--something. And Eq-- something I was lowest. At like... 680-690. :/ The middle one was around 720-730.

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by monkie

Crappy weather here today very bad lighting not good for photos

Still drove around though and the wife finally drove even though it was at 10kph and I swear if she was any closer to the wheel she could have licked it

Well only got two shots from in the basement keeping with my Username enjoy


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Haha. Those monkeys are adorbital! See what I did there?!

[Nevermore]

Car survived her short day parked in the company lot just fine, but now I think she's got the crickets.

[ichitaka05]

Just looked back exactly last year's (01/13/'12) Random post and didn't find any post by me... WTF was I thinking not posting in Random post every single day. LMAO

[Dimman]

This might be old news, but I just found this:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-department/

Free MIT course content.