My 20 year old receiver. Still works and sounds great.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/i...938064d3f7.jpg

My new PC might take this spot with time but the memories...

That is a good idea.

If you get a chance, would you mind giving a review after using it 3-4 times? I'm holding off to see if you still like it before buying.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/20...g?v=1544463329

Super easy/lazy way burn some lbs. I bought it 3 weeks ago to augment my attempts at rowing and lifting at the gym. I'm averaging 150 cal per hour. I am using the tether strap from my chair to the bike since I have slippery floors. The down side is that my chair is locked to my desk. It is great while on the phone or surfing. A little difficult to use and type.

Carrie Underwood uses it as an aid. If that matters.

How much did it run you?

~ $170. Keep in mind they recommend at least 27" vertical clearance. Mine is an enclosed desk that is only 23" clearance. The front of the machine up against the wooden front wall. That puts the front of my chair out 27" thus clears the desk surface. So during the "up" position (27") my knees clear the desk surface. My keyboard slides out, so that helps. Again, it is hard to type and peddle.

They have one that that is a little lower and $10-20 more. They have a stepper as well.

Again, down side, my chair is tethered to my desk.

I am thinking about getting another one for at home.

The longest I have peddled is 1.5 hrs. ~225 cal burnt. After an hour, when I stand up, my legs are a bit wobbly.

I made my third use today and still like it.

One thing hidden in the instruction manual is that it says that it should only be used for a couple of days of growth, because longer hair will clog it up. So the first time I used it, I started out with my normal buzz cut trimmers to get the length down, then followed up with the Pitbull to do the clean shave.

I'm saying this because you need to use the Pitbull every couple of days to keep from having to do a two-step process. But it's easy to use and showerproof, so I just keep it in the shower and buzz it during my morning shower.

The Gold version has a lightup battery indicator, and it looks like I'm good for about 16 shaves before needing to recharge it. If I shave every second day, I'm good for a month.

One thing that I've noticed is that it's kind of hard to shave the mustache area. The blade wheels are big enough that it's weird to jam them between my nose and upper lip. So I've had to do a little augment there with a regular razor, but that's no big dea.

Overall I'm still giving it a Grade of A. Ask me again in a month.

Thank you for the info. Sounds like it is working good, so I'm going to give it a try. Please know that if I don't like it I'm holding you personally responsible. :p

I'll keep my distance from anyone I see with a scraggly half-shaved head.

I decided to order the platinum after your post. I've considered something like this for years but never pulled the trigger. I have terrible male pattern baldness and this'll be my first time shaving my head. I'll probably do it today. Wish me luck!

I got the 3 the day it launched, just traded it in for the new S22+ about a week ago. It's cool to use at home and that huge screen is nice, but its not practical for using at work...at all. I'ts dangerous to keep it open when you're out and about, and closed the outside screen is too damn narrow/small to use effectively. It's also worthless trying to dock for GPS/Maps unless you want to spend a small fortune for a windshield dock that will hold it while it's open. Great idea, but after the novelty of it wore off I wanted to go back to a regular phone.

Just to add, if you have a desk job obviously my comment about not being able to use at work probably doesn't apply...my job I'm driving around all day and in/out of my vehicle a lot.

User tip. The ads imply that you just run the thing over your head once. It doesn't work like that. You have to cruise around your head three to six times to really get it shaved, but it's fast to do that.

I didn't buy them but I did install them and since I primarily empty the dishwasher I love them.

Pull-Out Cabinet Organizer

Just like a Norelco on the whiskers. Also those radial shavers always leave a few flyers that only a blade will nip.

A foil shaver would probably get you one pass results but those foil refills are spendy and fragile.

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I carry this pack pretty much everywhere, allows me to carry my stuff, the 3 year olds stuff, and momma’s stuff when we go places.

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Because.

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My son got this cat liter machine and I think it's cool. No more scooping cat litter with a scoop. Him and his fiance have several cats and this machine just collects the poop and once a day you change out the bag but you don't have a mess and it does all the scooping. Nifty I think.

I've never seen one before.

So the cat shits right in it?

If I was a cat, I would be suspicious. That looks like a cat blender.

:clap:

The cats shit right next too it but an arm comes out with a broom and sweeps up the shit and puts it in the kitty litter then into a bag. Amazing isn't it.

Sorry, still not understanding. So there must be a kitty litter box that's supposed to be right next to it?

The cat shits in the chair right next to it. The arm reaches up and dunks it into the litter and bags it up.

ROFL

My Wolf commercial blender is something of a monster:

https://assets.wsimgs.com/wsimgs/ab/...097/img91o.jpg

I was really just price-enforcing during a charity auction and got the thing for about 1/2 of what it lists for. It's pretty incredible.

I make a potato leak soup where I can just throw the stock/cream in the pot with some potatoes, garlic and leaks that I roast first. Then about 4-5 slices of bacon. I hit the 'soup' switch and it runs it's program for about 5 minutes (speeds up and slows down to pull ingredients down and create a good vortex) and then shuts down. It spins fast enough to heat the soup to right at 200 degrees. Then I throw some chedder in there and pulse until it's melted and toss the other half of the roasted potatoes and some chopped bacon in there.

It completely purees all the leak, potato and bacon I started with so you get that flavor in every bite, but then you also have the texture of the chunks of potatoes and bacon.

I make peanut butter in it, hummus, sorbets, hollandaise sauce, roux, blackberry pancake syrup - all kinds of unique things you can do with it. Obviously stuff like smoothies and cocktails are no problem but I've even made almond milk with it before just to dick around.

Holy shit. That's awesome.

I looked at putting in a Wolf Stove once, and my cheap ass couldn't do it.

If you think there's any chance on this earth I'd pay $700 for a blender, you must think I'm FAR better at my job than I am.

I threw a bid in at like $275 because it's an auction we've gone to every year for a decade or so. A long time ago I got drunk and ended up spending way too much on an autographed jersey (8 Cardinals HoFers, man!) so the organizer of the event knows us pretty well and it's a really good cause for MU Childrens hospital. This was also back before the standard deduction doubled and I drove a lot for work so I itemized and could write most of it off (this was my justification anyway).

So now I'll go out there and just mass bid on shit that looks stalled trying to push the prices up if they seem to low to me. Sometimes I end up with weird crap like a chunk of fender off Jamie McMurray's crashed racecar. But usually it works out pretty well.

I honestly forgot I'd even bid on it until I went to the 'pay for your stuff' line and they gave me the bill. But I ended up getting Tommy Edman autographed cleats and both an Arenado and Molina signed game bat. Got a lot of cool shit and it's my version of Christmas morning - "Hey! Look what I got!"

lol

I was thinking of a cement mixer.

I have 4 indoor/outdoor farm cats. A few years ago, I did a lot of research into those auto cat boxes. The jury is still out. None were purfect. Bottom line was you can't beat this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...webp_QL65_.jpg

and:

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and use this:

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The rug helps quite a bit.

All for $23.

Also a nice tree line to throw the crap out.

Can someone bring in a cat to help train ptlyon?

And your house will still smell like cheap detergent mixed with ammonia and the faint smell of urea! All so a mercurial creature that doesn't even like you can put its butthole on your kitchen table when you're not around.

I do not understand the appeal...

Please! Much needed, I gotta go!

That's where I've landed. The automated stuff sounds good but always is a little iffy. I do like this thing though - reduces the number of trips to the garbage bin.

https://www.amazon.com/Litter-Genie-...dp/B007IRMTXE/

That's cool as shit man.

TECHNICALLY, you aren't supposed to deduct anything in which you got something back, like a $700 blender. The rules say you have to have documentation that says "no goods or services were exchanged..." or some such shit. But hell man, as much tax fraud as there is in the world today, fire away.

FWIW, they added a line last year where you can deduct up to $600 of contributions as an inline deduction outside of the Schedule A. My accountant said you damn well better have documentation on it, but it's a decent little help on people who actually give for the sake of giving.

My wife is a soft hearted creature. LOVES all animals. All of them. But wants no part of a cat. Her roommate in college had one and after that her position was very clearly that she wanted no part of that thing that walks all over where they piss and shit and then jump on your table and counters where my food is.

Good, honey, cosigned.

I don't have the heart to tell her there isn't a huge difference between that and the dog that's in the house, but I don't really want cats inside. Big proponent of farm cats though. I didn't think I was, but if they're not completely worthless, they'll earn their feed back in mouse control.

My sous vide machine. Bought it about 4 years ago and have never ruined a piece of meat or fish since. Makes cheaper cuts of meat more tender and tasty too. We use it to do a standing rib roast every Christmas and it's perfect medium rare throughout.

How do you finish it?

We've tried several approaches - hot wood fire, deep fry, oven.

So far the wood fire yields the best results but you need a big ass outdoor pizza oven to manage it (my FIL has one so we're good there). I guess the right kind of smoker/cooker could manage it but you need really high heat if you do the Sous Vide first. Something like a Traeger just won't get hot enough.

Really, I've thought about getting one of those. So it's worth the price?

I don't really love mine. I mean it's fine, but it's not the world changer I'd hoped it would be.

Best advise I can give you on any mattress purchase is to ignore any reviews - they just don't matter. It's all too subjective.

Go find an authorized dealer for Purple or any of the other 'big' mattress companies and then lay on stuff until you find what you want. And go through a company that offers a return period. The Purple we laid on at the mattress shop was just a tick softer than the one we ended up with. And I confirmed that it was the Purple 3 both times.

Sometimes things are just different in how they're manufactured. I probably should've sent mine back but I was just too lazy. And over the last several years I've gotten used to it and it's fine now.

But mattress purchases are almost 100% user specific.

Agreed.

Although it's tough for me to get to a bunch of these places because BFE.

I ordered one from Casper, and thankfully it's good, because they vacuum seal every molecule of air out of the bag. I'd read some stuff about how there is a liberal return policy, but it's hard to get it repackaged.

But I agree. I read a million reviews and there wasn't anything to discern.

Thanks!

I'll always be a proponent of Sleep Number mattresses. I love being able to adjust how firm it is depending on how I'm feeling, and my wife and I can have different settings as well. They cost a lot, but we're at around 10 years with ours, and no issues at all so far.

Been putting these through their paces, aside from a reputation for marginal battery life per recharge [6hr], they are extraordinary for the price.

Not a lot of boutique features or cutting edge tech, but high-quality build [almost everything is aluminium in a market that's full of plastic] and among the best sound quality I've encountered.

The 'MSRP' of $150 is a tad ambitious, but the current price direct from the manufacturer of $48 is one of the biggest no-brainer bargains out there in this particular niche.

AKGN400NC - noise cancelling earbuds

[AKG owned by Samsung who manufactures these using Harmon Kardon tech, which is another subsidiary of theirs]

https://www.akg.com/dw/image/v2/AAUJ...&sh=680&sm=fit

I’ve flushed an earbud, lost an earbud and a dog ate another one. So I have two lefts and a right from different brands.

May have to give those a look. I won’t spend more than $50 given my track record with them, but that seems like quality tech.

Purchased. Free ground shipping too. Thanks for the heads up!

Just got our first Sleep number last winter. Love it. I'm sleeping better and feeling more rested when I get up.

Only complaints I have....

- Adjustable base. Bought the one you can adjust both feet & head. I thought I'd be using it every night, but I find myself not using it at all. If I bought again I'd skip it.

- Automatic sensing. I found that when it firms/softens based on my movement that I felt like I was sinking into the bed. Ended up turning that off and I've slept more comfortably since.

Neither are really complaints - just features I probably could have done without.

So regarding the earbuds - of my misadventures w/ destroyed or lost earbuds, these are my favorites so far:

https://www.amazon.com/TOZO-Cancelli...cs%2C95&sr=1-5

You can find the reviews for the AKGs on Amazon and they're not as good. Moreover, even the reviews on the manufacturer's website aren't great (and tend to mesh closely with the amazon review, giving both some credence).

I guess I'm kinda curious what makes these better? The Tozo's were very good; sometimes a little battery hungry but that's commonplace for pretty much all noise cancelling earbuds. The active noise cancelling (ANC mode) was outstanding as was the transparent mode that can isolate and amplify sounds when your earbuds are in and you want to be able to hear the surrounding areas.

Just better build quality? The TOZOs are admittedly plastic rather than aluminum. But I don't have apps or firmware or any of that noise I have to dick around with either.

Bosch Dishwasher
 

I have to put my ear up to the door to tell if it is running it is so quiet. Worth every dollar.

Bosch - 800 Series 24" Top Control Built-In Dishwasher with CrystalDry, Stainless Steel Tub, 3rd Rack, 42 dBa - Stainless steel




https://www.bestbuy.com/site/bosch-8...?skuId=6360645

Huh. Interesting. I have a pair of cheap ass otium ones that are apparently not on amazon anymore, but to my knowledge they aren't noise cancelling. Not a bad look there.

Interesting - that's good to know. I'm cheap, so I don't have the adjustable base, and mine came before the automatic sensing. Glad I didn't waste my money. :)

Good on you for finding the right model. Our current house had one - not that model, and it was shit. You could barely fit anything in the damn thing. Replaced it with a GE Profile model and have been happy as a clam.

My buddy got a Bosch unit (probably similar to yours) and it is like a whole different world from the POS that was in my house. Very similar to the GE.

Yea, the base is nearly as much as the mattress so it's definitely wasted money on my part. Unless you want to buy it from me then you'll love it and never regret spending the money on it.

The Salad Mixxxer is a real pleaser

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I too have Bosch 800 Series in my last two homes. They're great.

Do you have to get one of their bases? I'm wondering if you can use a standard bed frame with these mattresses, or are they too heavy? And which models do you guys have?

The base is essentially just a hard surface in the shape of your mattress, and ours sits in a standard, king-size bed frame. I'd think you could use a standard box springs if you really wanted to provided it's pretty firm. (You'd need at least something more than a frame alone because the mattress itself isn't very rigid.)

EDIT: That said, they do recommend you use theirs...for $500. The main thing is that it should be flat and not springy, so I guess it just depends on how hard their sales folks push you to buy theirs.

We actually bought their base as well as one of their frames and headboard. Probably spent to much on it but we didn’t want some cheap headboard shit to go with it.

Which model do you guys have?

Mine's an old version of the C4.

I believe this is ours as well.

It’s just the basic shit. We didn’t need the adjustable base or the cooling technology.

It's all about that base bout that base bout that base

I think I'm going to a Sleep Number store in a bit to check things out. I hope they try to upsell me a $5,000 bed.

Get ready for the "lets have you lay down and find your sleep number" part of the sale. That shit was ****ing awkward.....at least to me.

Did the sales woman lie in the bed with you and make you spoon her like mine did?

My wife didn't talk to me the rest of the day.

Well you didn't have to bang her

That's why I'm wearing assless chaps.

I got the Sleep Number 360 i8 Smart Bed. I'm really happy with it minus wasting the money on the adjustable base that DaFace is going to buy from me for $2,000.

I'll sell you an adjustable base for a good price. :D

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My E-bike...keeps me active at 69years old after 4 back surgeries.

Just pulled the trigger on this model. Really excited about it. That adjustable air technology was wild at the in-store demo. Felt like I could have fallen asleep right then and there, had there not been a weird rando salesperson there watching me.

Thanks for the recommendations, all!

Awesome! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. When you get it all set up and sleep on it for awhile, I'll be curious as to your feelings on the adjustable air technology. I don't use it anymore, but my wife loves it.

Also, when I get your $2,000 in my venmo I'll send you the adjustable base. :P

Corn

lol you got it

Where was this at?....asking for a friend....

Out of curiosity what did you do for the base? Did they let you walk out without one, or did you end up with their version?

I told them I didn't need a base, and they didn't bring it up again. Thought there would be a lot of pushback on that.

Separate note - I'm going to essentially build a bunkie board out of plywood to sit on top of a mattress pad, which will then be on top of two twin box springs (the bed's a king). I think that'll work fine.

ROFLROFL

ROFL. WTF