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Still up in the air

Nikon D40x or Canon Digital Rebel XSi (5 days ago)

I lost my 7 year old (3MP) digicam recently. The camera I replace it with must be pocketable (so not an SLR). I did funny things with it (that you typically only do with an SLR, like low-light exposures without a tripod -- fast shutter, &c). ...

Buy an identical one off ebay and Get a new one, despite not having yet found one that isn't horribly noisy or horribly smoothed. (what?) are tied (49 days ago)

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model m keyboard (broke old one)...

buy new old stock, $40 leads over buy new-new from little company in appalachia that bought the rights to the keyboards, $60 (138 days ago)

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My (task) chair's right armrest is rapidly failing. Repairs using hot glue have come apart in a day....

remove the armrest altogether (although it seems a shame to lose the perfectly functional left one) leads over carve a new one out of wood (lot of work to make it comfy and safe) (187 days ago)

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Would you rather your doors drifted towards more (assume "stay where they are" isn't an option)...

open leads over closed (314 days ago)

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Albedic?...

Simply not a word leads over Is a word / I understand what you mean without thinking about it too much (1 year ago)

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Set in stone

3 identically-sized disks, software raid exclusively...

I picked mirror + 1 disk of data i honestly don't care about losing over raid5 (176 days ago)

i already set it up as a mirror and a nonredundant disk. shifting to raid5 would require a 4th disk temporarily... so... laziness. (also, not a modern processor -- 7y.o.)

About to run out of a specific blended tea ('melange de chamonix') from upton (tea importers in greater boston)...

I decided to do Something else rather than Buy more from them (will arrive in a day 'cuz we're both in greater boston) or Find cocoa nibs and make it myself (247 days ago)

Got some from friends who didn't like it. Freaks. ;)

Correct indefinite article before an acronym?...

I picked "an SSE instruction" because it's "ess ess ee" over "a SSE instruction" because it's "streaming SIMD extension" (335 days ago)

But now I'm trying to think of an acronym where you'd expand it when you pronounced it. (i.e. an acronym for which you'd choose the other)

Reflash my Iwill KK266 motherboard's bios to see if I can get this athlon xp (2800+) working in it?...

I picked yes (60% speed increase for no more thermal or electric power) over no (some tiny chance of bricking it, no guarantee it'll work) (349 days ago)

well, i did, and i can clock my memory faster now, but the new cpu still doesn't work.

Two dead ICs. One 20 pin, one 28....

I picked throw 'em away over make 'em into an art project (1 year ago)

I don't really need to make an IC centipede, as cute as it is.

I dual-head, and my (matched, greyscale, fixed frequency) monitors are beginning to get dark....

I picked Wait until these get unusably dim and then buy a matched pair (of higher resolution). It's not like I use them for much beyond text anyway. over Replace one at a time, with 1440x900 LCDs with high contrast ratios, but take a chance of not being able to get a matched set (1 year ago)

for my master's thesis which needs a small low-power inexpensive computer...

I picked buy something else (what?) over use a gumstix with the audio module ($140ish) (349 days ago)

N800s falling from the sky!

Twilight Princess? (graphics are the same)...

I picked GameCube, available now, more authentic (Link is left-handed), minor bug fixes that might also be in a later pressing of the Wii game disc, familiar controls, some people have reported slowdown, ~$50 over Wii when I actually can buy one, widescreen support, wiimote!, more inventory hotkeys, ~$300 (1 year ago)

Not having useful camera control has really frustrated me when I've been playing the Wii version.

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