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  • Mental Mondays #13 – The get on out there edition
  • Milkie
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    Cluthless gear changes… Oh you mean racing gear changes! :mrgreen: :lol:

    Milkie
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    I totally suck at….. Fitness, it’s sooo bad. I’m not a bad rider for the first 30 seconds. :lol:

    Milkie
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    That is an excellent description MaxTorque. I wondered why the Puma backfires after fitting a free flowing exhaust and know I know!

    As long as its not mis-firing, leave it and just rev it at the lights and enjoy the backfiring! :wink:

    Milkie
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    250mb File Size Limit. :wink:

    Milkie
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    RC Buggy, take it to the pump track with your bike… Get bored, use the bike, get tired use the Buggy. :wink:

    1/8th Hyper 8.5 Pro Buggy here.. It flys! 8O

    Milkie
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    GoldenEye on N64… oh they also do it on X360 :wink:

    Milkie
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    Having a look at Twitter is seems it was about Women in Sport and Body Image.

    Milkie
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    Park Patches – Useless for punctures, great for everything else!

    Milkie
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    Bike Park Wale it is then! I’ll have to checkout MAD sometime soon too. :wink:

    Milkie
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    I think, Tolls are slightly higher in a van. I would definitely have European breakdown cover. Get it just before you go and cancel it when you get back. I would also get the Sanef Toll Tag, saved us a few queues and the look on some peoples faces when they are overtaking you for the 3rd/4th time! :wink:

    Milkie
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    Rudimental album is my most played, but Fleetwood Mac – Rumours is getting played nearly as much.

    Milkie
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    I doubt this is viable. A plant may kill 100,000+ birds a week, that means you would have to connect and disconnect that many a week!

    Milkie
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    AS Cougar has said the 30pin connector is a digital connection, so you can use your own choice of DAC hence the better sound quality than the headphone jack.

    Buy a DAB Tuner and iPhone dock? Checkout the Arcam irDock or drDock.

    Milkie
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    Here’s a better photo:

    MT that Seat is absolutely bonkers! I can 100% definitely say that the RS2000 we are modding will be very tame by your standards! Have you finished it and are you planning on rallying it?

    Milkie
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    My friend has an Mk2 RS2000 with Xpack body kit that we took to the Alps last year. Took us a few months to get it ready as it was hidden in a bubble for 10 years. There was so much that we did, it would be quicker to list the bits we didn’t touch! It didn’t miss a beat with the 2,000 miles we did.
    Here’s a pic, points for knowing the Chalet ;-)

    He’s bought another one that needs some TLC, nearly every panel has rust. Once the body is fixed we’ll look at putting an S2000 engine and gearbox in and making it a legal track day car. It’s a few years off yet though!

    Milkie
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    I worked in pubs/clubs for nearly 15 years starting as a glass collector all the way to running my own.

    It’s not a job, its a lifestyle, if you think of it as work you will not last long! I remember adding the hours up and on average it was 70+ hours a week, I got one evening off a month if things were running smoothly.

    It’s a stressful job, staff, hours, targets, probably even worse now most pubs seem to still be closing.

    I think I’d love to quit the day job and do something like this.

    Yes I’ve heard that a lot, the punters who did then decide to give it a go doing a few evenings soon quit. The people who did stick with it only lasted a few years before moving on to something completely different. You can burn out very quickly in this industry.

    I quit just before receiving another promotion and its the best thing I did! I’m now “working in IT” doing CAD and some other IT stuff. :wink:

    Milkie
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    Usually go to the White Room, last year was total amazeballs. Guides were great, Pat sat in dog poo, Alex ripping the trails, Stevo Whooping and a bunch of great Scots.. Also found my love of full on DH riding. Going to be hard to follow that this year… Probably going to hire an RV and hit Utah/Moab.

    Milkie
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    Have you tried the BT Vision box on the same cable? to rule out a dodgy cable.

    Milkie
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    I thought Amazon did a storage plan that was free to upload and you paid to download it when the shit hit the fan.. Can’t find it though, maybe I just made this up! :lol:

    Milkie
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    For intensive CAD work I use a Pen & Tablet. I could not get on with a Trackball.

    Milkie
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    I think Bushwacked has hit the nail on the head, it is all about the interface that is accessing the NAS, if it’s clunky difficult to use, you won’t.

    Bushwacked, the Pi can be as good as you want it, HDMI is digital sound, 3.5mm Jack is terrible. Unlike Sonos Play, with a Pi you can add a USB or I2C soundcard or use the HDMI to transmit it digitally to an amp, it will play 24bit files, FLAC’s, Lossless, etc. But the Sonos interface is very slick, although not as fast as LMS.

    I’m using 4x Raspberry Pi’s, (1x HDMI Audio 24bit, 3x I2C HiFiBerry 24bit Soundcards), with LMS Server on HP Microserver. Synced music around the house. – Poor Mans Sonos that sounds better if you have decent equipment. :wink:

    Milkie
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    I started getting into togging about 10 years ago, I remember it from then.

    If you don’t call it Bokeh, what do you call it? Nice blurry spots from the aperture of your lens?

    Milkie
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    I thought… When parking against someones garden wall where there is a pavement then you have to have the owners permission?

    We have parking problems. We have a bigger/longer wall than most in our street. Due to this neighbours visitors park along it, leaving their neighbours wall free. We have a Navara not a small thing so end up parking against neighbours wall sometimes blocking them in as it over hangs a foot. We even have a neighbour opposite who has 2 spaces and still parks against our wall, we are waiting for him to do it again so we can park our cars in his spaces and ride to work for the week. :lol:

    We wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t possible for them to park there cars against the neighbours wall or even in the spaces for visitors. Or even if they parked to one side of the wall, rather than slap bang in the middle.

    Personally I would never park against someones wall if there were spaces free elsewhere, and if I was asked to move I would. I’ve lived in an area where parking is a nightmare so am very considerate.

    Milkie
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    There are cheaper alternatives to SONOS. I currently use Raspberry Pi’s running PiCorePlayer which is basically squeezebox players. Synced music around the house using the amps/speakers (HDMI or audio jack or HiFiBerry) that are in the rooms already. It can also do internet radio and other musical things. Server runs Logitech Media Server for this.

    SlideShow: I use an Apple TV and have it connected to the iTunes Server on the HP Microserver via HomeSharing. Which means you can have an unlimited number of slideshow photos rather than the limit of 80 via PhotoStream

    Most NAS’s have a DLNA Server, so you need a DLNA client to access it. Most smart TV’s have DLNA clients, you can download apps for your phone to access it too. Alot of Audio Amps now have DLNA clients and Airplay too.

    Milkie
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    I’ve had the ReadyNAS Duo, Synology DS713+ and now currently using a HP N54L Microserver.

    The Synology is easy to use, great interface and does a lot of things, but expensive. The ReadyNAS’s are limited but great if you don’t want it to do much other than storage, DLNA and Bittorrent. The HP Microserver is the cheapest option, but you will have install your own OS and setup your DLNA, iTune servers and is the most flexible. Easy if you have some ‘puter knowledge.

    Milkie
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    Try a program called Scan2CAD, I’ve had mixed results depending how complex and legible the drawings are.

    Milkie
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    I’m loving this at the moment:

    Although I’m not sure if it is a cover.

    Milkie
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    I would replace your Ethernet cable with some outdoor specific cable and seal it where it enters the house.

    Highly recommend DrayTek modems/wifi routers, running faultless here at work for many years, but they are expensive. I can also recommend TP Link, they are cheap but work extremely well.

    I go by the rule if it has an Ethernet port then use it, if it doesn’t then use WiFi.

    Milkie
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    Right now with a 42″ dad sits about 2 foot away to read the subtitles.

    I don’t think a bigger telly will really help, unless it’s a CRT and you are going to a LCD. 2 feet is very close already.

    Milkie
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    … and if you go to your local vets or dog training, they will give you all the help you need, even with toilet training. :wink:

    Milkie
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    Don’t ride with the puppy until at least a year old. Vets usually do a puppy introduction thing, where they get the puppys together so they can socialise. Go to a local dog training classes and get the citizenship awards, don’t give up I’ve seen so many that give up and a year later have problems.

    Search STW, it’s all been said before. :roll:

    Milkie
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    Crackle is on there. You can also download the Samsung Smart View App and watch live TV through your phone, if your TV has a twin tuner you can also view a different channel to whats on the TV.

    Milkie
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    Finished all my work by 9:30am.. Finish work at 5pm. :|

    Back in tomorrow and have no work to do. :evil:

    Milkie
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    I have installed squeezebox clients on the Raspberry Pi’s so I can have synced music around the house. Here’s a link to the Pi Image.

    https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home

    Milkie
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    Over a year we send out 1000’s of parcels. In the last 6 years we have used Fedex, ParcelForce & UPS. Parcelforce were the worst, lost a few big heavy packages. UPS have been great.

    Yodel/MyHermes are the worst, never on time, always someone delivering in a car/unmarked van.

    Milkie
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    If they are that close, they don’t know shit. In that case go for it. :wink:

    But in reality I’d probably freeze. :oops:

    Milkie
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    Ariel direct into the back wont give a signal on setup.

    Send it back. The TV’s Freeview Tuner should give a much better picture than your freeview box with SCART.

    Milkie
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    I found Citalopram didn’t affect my tiredness, but depression did. Once I got out of the depression the tiredness also dissappeared. FWIW I was on 10mg a day and I have some friends who could not use Citalopram due to feeling weird and very tired, but there are loads of alternatives.

    Milkie
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    I have a Samsung SmartTV that is upgradeable when it starts slowing down. It has Netflix and I love it (House of Cards, Hemlock Grove). Soo much more personlised than LoveFilm that just shows me new films rather than the types of films I like.

    I also have Raspberry Pi with XBMC and the SmartTV is leagues ahead in terms of performance and usability. I’ve now turned it into a SqueezeBox for synced/Sonos music around the house. JB’d ATV now only gets used for Airplay and Photostream, doesn’t seem worth it!

    Milkie
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    Samsung Smart TV’s require the HD to be plugged into the TV’s USB socket, or it can connect to a DLNA server across the network.

    The WD My Book Live will do the trick. :wink:

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