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by nightowl
Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: 55 people browsing.. and one member. Me.
Replies: 6
Views: 2664

Need to set maddoc post count into the negatives again!!
by nightowl
Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:31 pm
Forum: General Archive
Topic: R.I.P. Ken
Replies: 23
Views: 17938

Another SG OG :(
by nightowl
Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: What are you paying for gas right now?
Replies: 48
Views: 27159

paying 1.36 to 1.43 a litter. (5.15 per gallon equivalent).... one of the reasons I got rid of my Jeep wrangler I had for a while...
by nightowl
Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: checking in...
Replies: 17
Views: 4292

MadDoctor wrote:Pics????? (Drool)
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by nightowl
Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: checking in...
Replies: 17
Views: 4292

glad to see you guys are doing good! As for my end this year has been busy. My cat passed away after 16 years in January I switched jobs after 14 years (same organization) in march. Wife got a newer 2018 subaru Crosstrek. Had to modify it a bit as the stereo and lights sucked. In May my family and I...
by nightowl
Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: checking in...
Replies: 17
Views: 4292

checking in...

how are all the old timers holding up with this COVID mess going on?
by nightowl
Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:07 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Covid-19
Replies: 139
Views: 23384

been working from home since march. Dont mind it. traffic was bad since Ottawa introduced a unreliable LRT system
by nightowl
Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:02 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: laptop recommendation
Replies: 14
Views: 3639

Lenovo, Dell, ASUS in that order
by nightowl
Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:00 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Masks
Replies: 32
Views: 6030

At the begining of the pandemic, wife made some with her sewing machine and I printed one off using my 3d printer using filament thats injected with copper. Mask: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4258282 Used car door sealer for seal around face: https://www.amazon.ca/Adhesive-Automotive-Weather-We...
by nightowl
Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:09 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Air quality
Replies: 17
Views: 4944

nice!..

smoke even made it to eastern ontario last week. haze over everything. reminded me of what it used to be like during summer in the 90's with the coal power plants going.
by nightowl
Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: What the hell is going on around here?
Replies: 56
Views: 10408

some things never change after 20+ years LOL
by nightowl
Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: I'm turning off the News
Replies: 14
Views: 3499

Im there too. driving me nuts. at least my work has been keeping me busy....
by nightowl
Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: What the hell is going on around here?
Replies: 56
Views: 10408

Still here as well... still remember 911 and the great eastern blackout of 2003 and everybody here checking in....
by nightowl
Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:29 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: What kind of wallet do you use?
Replies: 43
Views: 39012

by nightowl
Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:26 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: RIP creator of the Speedguide logo, Matt Swift aka Omnipressive
Replies: 11
Views: 4069

I remember RIP
by nightowl
Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:21 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: 3D printers ?
Replies: 17
Views: 7029

creality is very good company, I was deciding between creality and anycubic and went with anycubic chiron. Unfortunately Chiron doesn't have the auto leveling feature but the build volume is massive I'm looking now at ...tevo 'little' monster the speed is incredible as is the volume or wanhao dupli...
by nightowl
Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:15 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Hi all, anyone remember me?
Replies: 17
Views: 5826

9mmprincess wrote:it's been like 14 million years, I swear... I was a semi-regular poster back in the day. How is everyone?
I remember ya :)
by nightowl
Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: It has been a while
Replies: 15
Views: 4189

I'll be picking up an ender 3 this month. Want it for smaller prints while my bigger printers are busy with 48+ hour prints. You are going to love octopi. Has made management of the printers so much easier. PM if you every need help or just want to chat. I'm in some cr-10 facebook groups. Mostly co...
by nightowl
Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: 3D printers ?
Replies: 17
Views: 7029

Just got a creality ender 3. Great little 3d printer. The tech is where 2d printers were in the late 80's.
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Happy New Year 2019
Replies: 7
Views: 4266

Philip wrote:Did you know today is the shortest day of the year?
You get up, you have breakfast (maybe water+aspiring for hangover?), and go do bed.
not if your working a 12 hour day shift ( 1.5 pay though).....
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: It has been a while
Replies: 15
Views: 4189

Nice! I have a Cr-10s with some upgrades (bltouch, genuin e3d all metal with a volcano heat block and ruby nozzle, stepper dampeners. Running th3d 1.1.9 with LA) a cr-10s5 (same upgrades except a capacitive probe I steal of the bltouch) and a Anycubic Linear plus Delta. Running all 3 with Octoprint...
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:59 am
Forum: General Broadband Forum
Topic: teksavvy good
Replies: 5
Views: 31527

teksavvy good

had them for over 10 years now. finally upgraded my cable modem last month from a old motorola 4x3 40/4 megabit plan to a HiTron CDA3-35 32x8 channel one with 75/10 plan. No sooner then when I picked up my new mondem from the post office, teksavvy activated my modem an hour later!
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:47 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: mods your slacking!!!!
Replies: 7
Views: 4304

mods your slacking!!!!

maddoc post count is at 12. Never seen it that high in a while :p
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:45 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: SG is 19 yo
Replies: 42
Views: 14085

Just started my colllege computer deploma at 19 years old when this site went live.....
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:41 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: An old forum member passed away, JCOS (Patrick)
Replies: 31
Views: 11229

missed this :( RIP
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:36 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: It has been a while
Replies: 15
Views: 4189

still around... my oldest kid is now 11.5 years old and passed my sholders.... still got the jeep wrangler. great for all this unstable weather we get now up north40 degree summers and -40 winters, even got tornado's in eastern ontario back in september (6 of them total hit EF1 to 3's). Got a new ho...
by nightowl
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:23 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Happy New Year 2019
Replies: 7
Views: 4266

happy new year!
by nightowl
Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Fryatt Valley trip
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

Philip wrote:The lake and that river look amazing, thanks for sharing.. Sounds like you had a great time, other than that thunderstorm.
it wasn't that bad...It was hot up there (30C + during the day) so the rain on the way back was refreshing and pushed us to get back to the parking lot faster.
by nightowl
Sat Aug 11, 2018 2:45 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Fryatt Valley trip
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

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by nightowl
Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:23 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Fryatt Valley trip
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

Fryatt Valley trip

Album is here: https://www.speedguide.net/forums/album.php?albumid=89 Did A bike/hiking trip with my Sister/Brother in law and one of their friends plus 3 dogs. This valley is in the same mountain range as Jasper Alberta canada. It was a 4 day trip. first day was driving up to jasper from calgary (4...
by nightowl
Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Sad News, Roundeye has Passed Away
Replies: 26
Views: 10424

oh crap, not another one :( RIP
by nightowl
Tue Jul 03, 2018 3:23 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Hi!!
Replies: 24
Views: 21316

hello!
by nightowl
Sat May 26, 2018 5:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Happy Birthday Prey521!
Replies: 5
Views: 2951

happy Bday ya old fart (not far behind you eekk)
by nightowl
Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:04 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: so what have I missed in the last 15 years?
Replies: 27
Views: 4554

Brent wrote:I don't think I'm banned?

Nope, I'm not.
Brent!!! what have you been up to? You still doing hardware reviews over at Hard OCP?
by nightowl
Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:41 am
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Are Facebook users that stupid?
Replies: 38
Views: 11326

Easto wrote:I don't think they save audio files shorter than 7 seconds.
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by nightowl
Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: laptop question
Replies: 11
Views: 3713

Just threw away (*er, recycled) an old WD Blue 2.5" drive a couple of days ago, it was a pull from some laptop repair that was readable about 90% of the time, and would just hang at other times. I see no reason to keep spinners in laptops anymore. unless you need the storage. The hybrids are p...
by nightowl
Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: so what have I missed in the last 15 years?
Replies: 27
Views: 4554

Rainbow, good to see you around :) Roy, there should be other promotion opportunities, sounds like a big operation and you have the experience. You can maybe shake things up a bit and make some noise if you are not easily replaceable, you just have to try and be objective and carefully assess your ...
by nightowl
Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Please accept my apologies.
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

from one canadian to another RIP :(
by nightowl
Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: Are Facebook users that stupid?
Replies: 38
Views: 11326

skynet is coming!
by nightowl
Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion Board
Topic: so what have I missed in the last 15 years?
Replies: 27
Views: 4554

Rainbow, good to see you around :) Roy, there should be other promotion opportunities, sounds like a big operation and you have the experience. You can maybe shake things up a bit and make some noise if you are not easily replaceable, you just have to try and be objective and carefully assess your ...