Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

I've just bought a Altinator, I don't exactly need one but it would be nice to make a wind turbine generator, I've already got a small solar kit and a hand crank generator and Gell Batteries.

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Noga makes the best in terms of holding precision instruments like my dial indicators for metal working. But these are super handy in plenty of non-precision applications. I use it to hold lights, cameras, mics, coolant jets, or really whatever I want. If I can't directly thread it on, I can probably clamp it, and failing that it's made with common cold-shoe adapters an threads I have taps/dies/quick-change gears for cutting if all else fails. My one complaint about this particular one is that the knob is plastic (though well-made plastic). It wasn't worth twice the price when I can order an aluminum knob for like $3-5 on McMasterCarr.
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Noga are amazing, I've got 3 of there stands one in my toolbox, one of my small shop machines and another in my locker. It's one of the few bits of modernity I allow in my toolbox because there locking system is that good, I've used one with a old Febson Test indicator and it got me really really good results.
 
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An Asus Zenbook duo.
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I didn't notice until I turned it on that BOTH screens are touch. That aside, it's great for working once you get used to the somewhat unusual design.
 
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An April Fool's surplus CWC/Kiwi Silver coin. There were only 6 left when I placed my order for it (thought it was far too late for me to get one, so I couldn't resist).

That is a personal record for the most autistic thing I've purchased. 🧩

Also, I now have something to put into my safe.
 
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Just ordered a first edition hardcover of Bryan Burroughs‘ ‘Days of Rage’. It’s all about leftist retards and their bombing campaigns in the 70’s. Also goes into corrupt, black-run, Government-funded acupuncture clinics used by Tupac Shakur’s stepfather to treat drug addiction. I’m not making this up.
For the blog that made me say “WTF I need this book” see here. It’s a wild fucking ride.
 
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Bought a small table-model Internet radio, Ocean Digital, right at $100 on Amazon Prime. Very nice. Doesn't use Sirius, but instead a free service. Many, many stations available, in a bunch of genres. Very easy to set up, was listening to music in just a few minutes after charging the battery. Remote control. Rechargeable battery, comes with USB connecting cord. Can listen to radio while battery charging. Sound pretty good for such a small radio, can also run line out to speakers/stereo. Headphone jack. Works off your home Wi-Fi. Have given a couple as gifts.
 
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A fly fishing rod. An impulse buy at a flea market. Ol Gramps passed away and his kids are selling his gear. 35US for a perfect antique rod and reel.
I know nothing of fly fishing, there are no trout near my location. It was neat, and cheap, so why not. This can't be hard to catch something. I know a thing or two about fishing in streams.
I was wrong. Bad wrong.
The level of autism fly fishing requires make my brain hurt. Numbers, charts, archaic terminology. I can't even cast without getting tangled. Only a matter of time before I put a fly hook in my ear.
 
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JosephStalin said:
Bought a small table-model Internet radio, Ocean Digital, right at $100 on Amazon Prime. Very nice. Doesn't use Sirius, but instead a free service. Many, many stations available, in a bunch of genres. Very easy to set up, was listening to music in just a few minutes after charging the battery. Remote control. Rechargeable battery, comes with USB connecting cord. Can listen to radio while battery charging. Sound pretty good for such a small radio, can also run line out to speakers/stereo. Headphone jack. Works off your home Wi-Fi. Have given a couple as gifts.
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Not really a purchase, but there's an app called Radio Garden where you can just scroll around on a globe. Densely populated areas are so full of the green dots signifying radio stations you have to zoom in to see them. I like finding the most desolate places where you have one green dot surrounded by nothing to see what they listen to there.

I'm listening to a station in Yakutsk, Russia right now, in East Siberia, where apparently there is a Mammoth Museum because it's so perpetually freezing there they can keep millennia-old frozen mammoths in storage for people to view.
 
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AnOminous said:
Not really a purchase, but there's an app called Radio Garden where you can just scroll around on a globe. Densely populated areas are so full of the green dots signifying radio stations you have to zoom in to see them. I like finding the most desolate places where you have one green dot surrounded by nothing to see what they listen to there.

I'm listening to a station in Yakutsk, Russia right now, in East Siberia, where apparently there is a Mammoth Museum because it's so perpetually freezing there they can keep millennia-old frozen mammoths in storage for people to view.
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That's funny, I was watching some videos about life in Yakutia that YouTube thought I needed to watch a couple weeks back. They don't have running water in the villages because it can get down around -100F in winter and they can't keep the pipes from freezing, so they just melt ice blocks. The Siberian cities and towns in Russia are nuts.
 
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Phalanges Mycologist said:
I've just bought a Altinator, I don't exactly need one but it would be nice to make a wind turbine generator, I've already got a small solar kit and a hand crank generator and Gell Batteries.
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You might want to look into low RPM brushless dc motors for model helicopters and such (low RPM so you get decent voltage).
I was planning something similar, but I do not want brushes or anything like that, so I thought BLDC motors would be good.

They are also much lighter and smaller than alternators.
 
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Haint said:
A fly fishing rod. An impulse buy at a flea market. Ol Gramps passed away and his kids are selling his gear. 35US for a perfect antique rod and reel.
I know nothing of fly fishing, there are no trout near my location. It was neat, and cheap, so why not. This can't be hard to catch something. I know a thing or two about fishing in streams.
I was wrong. Bad wrong.
The level of autism fly fishing requires make my brain hurt. Numbers, charts, archaic terminology. I can't even cast without getting tangled. Only a matter of time before I put a fly hook in my ear.
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I've caught nearly every freshwater fish in the UK on Fly, it's not just a game fish meathod.

It is more technical than Lure Fishing in general, you need to be aware of the weight of your main line, the lenght of the leader and the flex of your rod, if your too heavy or to light with your line and the leader to long for your rod and your flicking across the wind or into it you'll have problems.

Also casting technique, your likely using your elbow too much and wrist not enough.

Generic Retard said:
You might want to look into low RPM brushless dc motors for model helicopters and such (low RPM so you get decent voltage).
I was planning something similar, but I do not want brushes or anything like that, so I thought BLDC motors would be good.

They are also much lighter and smaller than alternators.
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I've not thought about looking at that, do you have any recommendations to look at the RC world is a mystery to me.
 
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A Couple Region 7 DVDs.

they're meant only for viewing by Awards Ceremonies; essentially they're the same movie you can buy in the store, but in generic packaging that the studio intended for the viewer to Destroy or Return to the studio after they were done with it.
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