Tickled_Pink

A desk is pretty easy to build.  I built ours out of 2x4 legs, 1x6's, a nice piece of planed pine for the top, etc..  It looks nice and rustic and was only like $80 in materials.  15 years old and still sturdy as hell.  I never did stain it -- just left it natural wood.  It was one of the first projects where I used Torx fasteners.  I didn't have a 1/4 impact driver back then.  I built it using my Craftsman circular saw and my 14.4 volt Craftsman Ni-Cad cordless drill.  Today with my Makita lithium tools like my 1/4 impact, drill, saws, etc.; it'd be even easier.

Just designed mine using 3DS Max. Got the idea to do it from an old 8-bit Guy video. Mine's going to be a little like a cubicle but not as enclosed as his was. One corner's going to have the monitor to I'll risk jig sawing a curved corner. Eventually want to get a 49" curved monitor for it. The idea is to have the section at the back like a mini workshop/workstation. So toying with the idea of getting rid of the leg room and putting drawers there instead. I'll be building it out of 18mm MDF. Haven't worked out the price yet but I think it might take 3 sheets, which currently cost £22 each. There's a pretty cheap hardware store down the road. So, total cost may be under £100. For a desk this size, that's probably as much as a third of what a shop bought desk would cost.

Plus it will be three times as sturdy as a shop-bought desk and more appropriate for your use case scenario.

I feel your pain, my 800XL fell on the floor and now the left corner is chipped and the CAPS key no longer works.

Bad words were indeed said. I'd emptied my office to lay a new carpet. It was sat on top of a cupboard on top of the stairs but clumsy wife knocked it off and sent it flying. She didn't tell me. Saw it lying in pieces at the bottom. The mainboard looks okay but the switchboard is snapped and a couple of the switches have come off. Oh well ... to the spares bin it goes. I have two more in the attic, I think.

@Magmavision2000 - A replacement keyboard should hopefully be all you need. You can probably find someone around here who would be willing to sell you one.

If it was my work laptop I'd be following it with a shot of celebratory whiskey.

What do you have?

Just some 800XLs and a 65XE. First one tested works. None of the others seem to. I'm going to buy or make a composite cable. The picture's pretty terrible.

is it time well spent? ? ?

Eventually. Takes time to reach the other end.

For practical purposes, set all your passwords to 1234567890. It will make them easier to remember.

Use a password manager like 1Password so you don't have to remember passwords, and you can use a long and unique password on every website.

Wow, I wish I could go too.  That sounds amazing.

That sounds pretty sweet!  If ya have the day off and so forth.

How close was it?   Usually I've gone to concerts in Denver,..So I always plan on a 2 hour drive...Often less, sometimes more...

It's not a hideously long distance but too far to justify. There's a show at the arena in Liverpool and another at the Manchester Arena. So, we're talking about a 2 hour drive, depending on traffic.

Norway also beat Armenia on the road 10-0 after a fog break yesterday.

Usually that is a sign of a small sport when a few teams win over the rest 15-0 and only when the top 2-3 teams meet there are even games. I'm not sure if it builds the sport.

OTOH England defeat San Marino 10-0 on the men's side just the other week. We all know that San Marino consists of amateur players and is in the bottom rankings so perhaps the same can be said about the differences in women's football. The only anomalies I have spotted is how the Balkan countries tend to under perform - i.e. Croatia, Serbia, even Bosnia would be expected to do better in women's football given how good they are on the men's side but perhaps that will come over time.

That's the same reason I don't want to score too high in Asteroids!  Haaaa!

RC in min 2 probably didn't help Southampton. Another RC in min 86 even less, though Man Utd already had 6-0 by then.

Edit: Oh yes and Jankewitz who got the first red card is a 19 year old who did his very first game as a starter, a game that lasted him 77 seconds.

I do feel sorry for the kid, but it was a wild challenge. I feel worse for him than I did for Gerrard in his last game against United. ? There's only been three 9-0 scorelines in the history of the Premier League. United or Southampton have been involved in all 3. United 9 Ipswich 0 (1995), Southampton 0 Leicester 9 (last season) and now United 9 Southampton 0.

I still rank the Eagle as my #2 favorite spaceship behind the Constitution class Enterprise. Can't explain it I just do.

It was one of my favourite shows as a kid. Landau actually works because he's not really expected to have a tonne of charisma in his character's position. TBH, none of the other characters are really written well. It hasn't aged well but I tried to watch Blake's 7 the other week and that's aged far worse.

@ClassicGMR - I actually had the toy. There were two or three different versions you could buy. I think I had the one with the detachable cargo bay. The Eagle was one of the most interesting sci-fi ship designs for sure.

Well, maybe you don't buy every single Atlantis cart available for sale...

I often feel the same way. I find nothing at thrifts and it's rarer than a blue moon when a friend or family member brings over the proverbial found games. But we always need to be on the hunt if we're going to find any treasures.

We've had mask orders in stores here for a while, not a big deal at all (for 99% of people, anyways).

On TV there is a local ad here...It says, "It's for NOW, it's not FOREVER".

I tell people the mask is a sign of respect.  It says I won't cough on you and you won't cough on me.

On TV there is a local ad here...It says, "It's for NOW, it's not FOREVER".

We had an editorial columnist in the local newspaper say the very same thing; it's only "temporary" legislation. 

I wrote to bring his attention to the War Measures Income Tax Act of 1917. The (then) Minister of Finance explicitly stated that it was intended as "temporary" legislation for the duration of the War. (It was made permanent in 1949.) A truly shameful ignorance of history!   

Happily elections have not yet been suspended, so the electorate can still show their support (or the absence thereof) for political decisions.  

Lieutenant Kroker!!

That Heavy Sigh sound,  usually after Zap has said something asinine...haha...Cracks me up every time.

Building an R-Pi into a controller housing is not an unpopular way of doing things. X-Arcade sticks are good for this too.