Topic: Calling All Internets (Read 47524 times)

Ziiro · « **Reply #280 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:22:13 PM »

Someone tell me if they know if things like these are available in any store:

http://www.schwans.com/products/productDetail.aspx?id=55358&c1=10433&c2=11493

I have been craving a bagel dog recently but all my normal go-to places stopped carrying them.

I'll buy them from Schwan's as a last resort but goddamn that's expensive just to get over a bagel dog craving.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #281 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:42:29 PM »

Have you stalked the frozen sections of B.Js and Walmart?

Büge · « **Reply #282 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:58:27 PM »

Speaking of elusive foods, I have been questing mightily for years to find this stuff:

I found it once at my local organics grocery, but it's all but disappeared from shelves. According to the website, it's available all over the USA, especially New York, but I haven't been able to find it or any of its brothers around here.

Ziiro · « **Reply #283 on:** July 29, 2010, 01:10:42 PM »

Pack of Six jars on amazon for $22. Spiced Peanut butter? What sort of spices? I have a hard time imagining spicy peanut butter.

Also:
Oh god yes

Quote from: Fowl on July 29, 2010, 12:42:29 PM

Have you stalked the frozen sections of B.Js and Walmart?

There's no BJ's wholesales in my state, sadly. And the nearest Walmart is like 30 minutes away. Guess I'll call them and hope the employees aren't to

to know if they have it or not.

Niku · « **Reply #284 on:** July 29, 2010, 05:20:21 PM »

http://www.viennabeef.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=32&DEPARTMENT_ID=25

HAVE ALL THE BAGEL DOGS YOU CAN HANDLE

Do you have any bagel shops around? We've got a local one that makes absolutely killer bagel dogs with jalapeno sausage, and they're better than any reheated kind you're gonna find anywhere.

Envy · « **Reply #285 on:** August 01, 2010, 10:13:50 PM »

This would be the best place. I'm trying to find a dvd box set of Captain Harlock. My results only turn up what looks to be the later series and not the original 42 episode run.

TA · « **Reply #286 on:** August 03, 2010, 01:54:05 PM »

So, I've got a .mkv video file, video encoded in x264. I want to append a couple minutes of blackness to the front of it, then merge in an audio file. What's a good program for doing this, ideally that doesn't involve having to recompress or convert it?

teg · « **Reply #287 on:** August 04, 2010, 07:00:53 AM »

What are some good (preferably free) audio and video converters?
Specifically, I want to make some FLAC files iPod-compatible and some MKV files PS3-compatible.

TA · « **Reply #288 on:** August 04, 2010, 03:02:35 PM »

If you want to make something iPod compatible, Handbrake is probably your best bet. It's pretty limited in output, but aimed for taking things in good formats and turning them into things Apple products can ready. PS3, dunno.

SCD · « **Reply #289 on:** August 04, 2010, 05:23:44 PM »

Here's one for those who have a tablet (JDigital, R^2 I'm looking at you). I have had a toshiba M750 for a few months with the fullest of love. It's a tablet laptop, with a swivel screen, and a pretty swanky stylus that has an eraser top, a side button and the pencil end.

So far, the only love I'm getting for sketching application (by love, I mean auto-recognition of the stylus) is microsoft OneNote 2007.

Is there any drawing or sketching programs that are better and you would recommend?

Büge · « **Reply #290 on:** August 04, 2010, 06:10:39 PM »

Let me direct your attention to OpenCanvas.

teg · « **Reply #291 on:** August 04, 2010, 06:41:54 PM »

Corel Painter is a classic.

Allow me to add to my earlier request: mkv to something else. avi or mpeg would probably be best.

teg · « **Reply #292 on:** August 05, 2010, 03:11:53 PM »

Does half.com ship to Canada? It's (surprisingly) not mentioned anywhere on their site.

Büge · « **Reply #293 on:** September 10, 2010, 07:47:23 PM »

I'm looking for a particular piece of art. It's got a guy about to smash a suspicious-looking lump in the carpet with a chair. You couldn't miss it. It sort of looks like this:

I know there's a lamp and a dresser in it, and the lighting is all dramatic and stuff. It's black and white.

Brentai · « **Reply #294 on:** September 25, 2010, 01:36:22 PM »

I am using these boards to ask for financial advice. We are now officially old and boring.

Does anybody know if paying off all credit cards in full every week hurts your credit score? Apparently debt that gets charged up and paid off within the month doesn't get hit with interest (what) or reported, so it ends up looking like you're not even using the damn things. TRUE/FALSE?

Joxam · « **Reply #295 on:** September 25, 2010, 01:42:42 PM »

I was told by my bank that I should charge it, get billed and than pay it off. That's pretty much how you have to do it. If you don't wait until you're billed it might not get properly reported?

R^2 · « **Reply #296 on:** September 25, 2010, 02:21:33 PM »

SCD, perhaps you are mistaking me for that other boards-comics-drawing chap, one Disposable C. O'Ninja. My computer hardware is shit, my drawing tool is a mouse, and only recently did I move away from doing comics in MSPaint.

Mongrel · « **Reply #297 on:** September 25, 2010, 02:23:41 PM »

Yeah, you can pay it before interest is due and it should show up as you using credit just fine. So if you ring up something, just pay for it about three weeks later or so and you'll be fine.

Thad · « **Reply #298 on:** September 26, 2010, 10:15:44 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on September 25, 2010, 01:36:22 PM

Does anybody know if paying off all credit cards in full every week hurts your credit score? Apparently debt that gets charged up and paid off within the month doesn't get hit with interest (what) or reported, so it ends up looking like you're not even using the damn things. TRUE/FALSE?

I don't do it as often as every week, but probably every other week, and when I had them turn on my power a year ago, they told me there was no need for a deposit because my credit is excellent.

Mongrel · « **Reply #299 on:** November 09, 2010, 12:59:01 PM »

Question for the vets here (or anyone who has a good answer for that matter).

Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but I've been searching on and off for days.

I'm trying to find out more about the history of pre-industrial military logistics. What was carried, how it was packed, what types of were issued for shorter terms (where more perishable items could be made available) and longer term (where preservation becomes crucial), etc. etc. As for time period, anything from the Napoleonic Wars/war of 1812, endless small and medium wars of the 18th century, War of Independence (though a lot of the Colonial support was purely local), Pike & Shot era, or even the late medieval period would be nice (part of what I'm ignorant about is just how much military supply has changed from say, 1350 to 1850).

Ideally, I'd love to find some detailed primary source manifests/quartermaster lists/whatever, with data from at least two distinct time periods. But at this point I'll take what I can get.

There's some modern information online from WWII, Korea/Vietnam, and more recent wars (the majority of info is about post-1990 logistics & supply), but I can't find anything older. Maybe I just haven't hit the right search term yet, but I haven't found much worth a damn. I know this has little to do with modern regular service (and I doubt any of you actually know the information I'm looking for), but I was wondering if one of the surprisingly large number of vets we have here know a military source I could start looking at. Anything really - just something to give me a starting point.

I imagine I'll actually have to go out and hunt up primary sources at major libraries/Fort York downtown or something, but I thought I'd take a stab in the dark here first as a last-ditch attempt to find online resources.

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