Random Thoughts (post whore thread)

[adc100]

Originally Posted by cden1

I bought my wife a new oven. She actually loves it.

I bought my wife (then my fiance') an electric egg-beater for Christmas. She seemed to like it at the time. She told me many years later that I was lucky she still married me. But in my defence I also bought her a see-thru negligé. Wait..I bought it indirectly for me.

[Shark77]

Originally Posted by adc100

LOL..what a difference a couple years being married makes.
I really just got the wife a nice card. I take her out Thursday for an anniversary dinner...44years.

I wish it was that easy here... If I don't have my dick in a bow and a wallet in my mouth, she's *****'n...

[Raverjames21]

Merry Christmas all!

My car is still fugged up. It has a new clutch now, but still lacks the power it used to have. After data logging, I have narrowed the knock down to the #2 cylinder, which means that piston is likely cracked. Since the dealership and Subaru didn't listen to me, I am just going to keep driving it until the problem becomes severe. It is burning a little oil. It consumed about a half a quart in 1000 miles. This may be the last Subaru I own, which is sad after owning so many.

[adc100]

Originally Posted by Raverjames21

This may be the last Subaru I own, which is sad after owning so many.

Yea..that's too bad. Cant blame you at all.I have mixed feelings about Subaru quality. I think in many ways, their reputation for lasting a long time is not always deserved. I think with some exceptions (yours) the duel cam Turbo engine is pretty solid...overall.

The SOHC N/A engine is hit or miss. Head gaskets before 2004 were almost a certainty to go bad. The problem has not been totally fixed until the FB block came along. But the reliability of the FB Dual cam N/A is not proved. There were problems with the chain tensioner on this one. I suspect that the Turbo is going to eventually be added to the FB engine but who knows.

My Subaru now has 102K miles and I am coming up on the timing belt change. That really requires the tensioner, water pump, seals and idlers. Do I jump into that or keep what I have? If I keep it there is still the head gasket to consider. I think the wife will go along with the manual...but she is not wild about it. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

[Y2K SE]

Since the radio in my Altima won't play lossless audio files and has a USB drive port, I spent a full day writing a script to convert the music files on my server to mp3. It took ~28 hours to run. Then I discovered I set the song title to the album title.

@echo off
rem usage: flac2mp3 >> flac2mp3.log 2>&1
for /r "D:\shares\Music" %%f in (*.flac) do call :flac "%%f"
for /r "D:\shares\Music" %%f in (*.mp3) do call :mp3 "%%f"
goto :eof

:mp3
rem extract artist, album and title from search result
for /f "delims=\ tokens=4-6" %%g in (%1) do (
	set ARTIST=%%g
	set ALBUM=%%h	 
	set TITLE=%%i
)

rem setup source and destination folder locations
set DEST="D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%"
set SOURCE="D:\shares\Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%"

rem see if destination already exists, and if so, compare modified timestamps
if exist %DEST:~0,-1%\%TITLE%" (
	set A=%~t1
	for %%f in (%DEST:~0,-1%\%TITLE%") do call set B=%%~tf
	if "%A%" leq "%B%" exit /b
)

rem do copy operation
echo robocopy %SOURCE% %DEST% "%TITLE%" /r:3 /w:30 /njh /njs /ndl /np
robocopy %SOURCE% %DEST% "%TITLE%" /r:3 /w:30 /njh /njs /ndl /np

exit /b

:flac
rem extract artist, album and title from search result.
rem don't use tags as they may contain invalid file system characters.
for /f "delims=\ tokens=4-6" %%g in (%1) do (
	set ARTIST=%%g
	set ALBUM=%%h
	set TITLE=%%i
)

rem set destination file name as an mp3
set MP3="D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\%TITLE:~0,-5%.mp3"

rem see if destination already exists, and if so, compare modified timestamps
if exist %MP3% (
	set A=%~t1
	for %%f in (%MP3%) do call set B=%%~tf
	if "%A%" leq "%B%" exit /b
)

rem create artist and album subfolders if necessary
if not exist "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\" mkdir "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\"
if not exist "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\" mkdir "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\"

rem extract tag data from source file
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=TITLE') do set TITLE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=ARTIST') do set ARTIST=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=ALBUM') do set ALBUM=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=TRACKNUMBER') do set TRACK=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=DATE') do set DATE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=GENRE') do set GENRE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-channels') do set CHANNELS=%%a

rem set file name for intermediatary WAV file
set WAV=%MP3:~0,-5%.wav"

rem convert flac to wav using standard flac tool (only support 2 channel files), ffmpeg if channels > 2
if /i %CHANNELS% LEQ 2 (
	echo flac -d -o %1 -s %WAV%
	flac -d -o %WAV% -s %1
) else (
	echo ffmpeg -i %1 -ar 44100 -ac 2 %WAV%
	ffmpeg -i %1 -ar 44100 -ac 2 %WAV%
)

rem convert wav to mp3 and apply tags
echo lame --nohist -V0 -o %WAV% %MP3% --tt "%TITLE:~6%" --ta "%ARTIST:~7%" --tl "%ALBUM:~6%" --ty "%DATE:~5%" --tn "%TRACK:~12%" --tg "%GENRE:~6%" --add-id3v2
lame --nohist -V0 -o %WAV% %MP3% --tt "%TITLE:~6%" --ta "%ARTIST:~7%" --tl "%ALBUM:~6%" --ty "%DATE:~5%" --tn "%TRACK:~12%" --tg "%GENRE:~6%" --add-id3v2

rem cleanup
echo del %WAV%
del %WAV%

exit /b

:eof
exit /b

[JP]

Geeks be geekin.

Gavin at Mt. Rushmore.

[truraza]

That SUCKS!

Originally Posted by Y2K SE

Since the radio in my Altima won't play lossless audio files and has a USB drive port, I spent a full day writing a script to convert the music files on my server to mp3. It took ~28 hours to run. Then I discovered I set the song title to the album title.

@echo off
rem usage: flac2mp3 >> flac2mp3.log 2>&1
for /r "D:\shares\Music" %%f in (*.flac) do call :flac "%%f"
for /r "D:\shares\Music" %%f in (*.mp3) do call :mp3 "%%f"
goto :eof

:mp3
rem extract artist, album and title from search result
for /f "delims=\ tokens=4-6" %%g in (%1) do (
	set ARTIST=%%g
	set ALBUM=%%h	 
	set TITLE=%%i
)

rem setup source and destination folder locations
set DEST="D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%"
set SOURCE="D:\shares\Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%"

rem see if destination already exists, and if so, compare modified timestamps
if exist %DEST:~0,-1%\%TITLE%" (
	set A=%~t1
	for %%f in (%DEST:~0,-1%\%TITLE%") do call set B=%%~tf
	if "%A%" leq "%B%" exit /b
)

rem do copy operation
echo robocopy %SOURCE% %DEST% "%TITLE%" /r:3 /w:30 /njh /njs /ndl /np
robocopy %SOURCE% %DEST% "%TITLE%" /r:3 /w:30 /njh /njs /ndl /np

exit /b

:flac
rem extract artist, album and title from search result.
rem don't use tags as they may contain invalid file system characters.
for /f "delims=\ tokens=4-6" %%g in (%1) do (
	set ARTIST=%%g
	set ALBUM=%%h
	set TITLE=%%i
)

rem set destination file name as an mp3
set MP3="D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\%TITLE:~0,-5%.mp3"

rem see if destination already exists, and if so, compare modified timestamps
if exist %MP3% (
	set A=%~t1
	for %%f in (%MP3%) do call set B=%%~tf
	if "%A%" leq "%B%" exit /b
)

rem create artist and album subfolders if necessary
if not exist "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\" mkdir "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\"
if not exist "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\" mkdir "D:\shares\Converted Music\%ARTIST%\%ALBUM%\"

rem extract tag data from source file
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=TITLE') do set TITLE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=ARTIST') do set ARTIST=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=ALBUM') do set ALBUM=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=TRACKNUMBER') do set TRACK=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=DATE') do set DATE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-tag^=GENRE') do set GENRE=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('metaflac %1 --show-channels') do set CHANNELS=%%a

rem set file name for intermediatary WAV file
set WAV=%MP3:~0,-5%.wav"

rem convert flac to wav using standard flac tool (only support 2 channel files), ffmpeg if channels > 2
if /i %CHANNELS% LEQ 2 (
	echo flac -d -o %1 -s %WAV%
	flac -d -o %WAV% -s %1
) else (
	echo ffmpeg -i %1 -ar 44100 -ac 2 %WAV%
	ffmpeg -i %1 -ar 44100 -ac 2 %WAV%
)

rem convert wav to mp3 and apply tags
echo lame --nohist -V0 -o %WAV% %MP3% --tt "%TITLE:~6%" --ta "%ARTIST:~7%" --tl "%ALBUM:~6%" --ty "%DATE:~5%" --tn "%TRACK:~12%" --tg "%GENRE:~6%" --add-id3v2
lame --nohist -V0 -o %WAV% %MP3% --tt "%TITLE:~6%" --ta "%ARTIST:~7%" --tl "%ALBUM:~6%" --ty "%DATE:~5%" --tn "%TRACK:~12%" --tg "%GENRE:~6%" --add-id3v2

rem cleanup
echo del %WAV%
del %WAV%

exit /b

:eof
exit /b

[HeatSeeker]

The wife and I picked this up last week. 2013 V6 w/ Nav and all that other sh1t. Pretty nice SUV for the money. Got the dealer to give us a crapton off MSRP.

[cden1]

There's nothing I hate more than doing my income taxes! If I wasn't so cheap, I'd have someone do it for me! It's getting all the paperwork together that drives me nuts. I have to get more organized during the year rather than throwing everything in a drawer.

[txspeccer]

Originally Posted by cden1

There's nothing I hate more than doing my income taxes! If I wasn't so cheap, I'd have someone do it for me! It's getting all the paperwork together that drives me nuts. I have to get more organized during the year rather than throwing everything in a drawer.

This will be the first time in a decade that I'll have to do our taxes. My dad used to do them for us.

Don't want him wasting any of the limited time he has left fiddling with tax returns.

[cden1]

Originally Posted by txspeccer

This will be the first time in a decade that I'll have to do our taxes. My dad used to do them for us.

Don't want him wasting any of the limited time he has left fiddling with tax returns.

I 've been using taxactonline. Works great. I did my Dad's taxes this weekend. He gets $1,000 from the state for being an OG. I'm still waiting for a load of 1099's before I can do mine. Thank God for the internet. I used to do this by hand.

[txspeccer]

I have rental and Schedule C income. From what I've read, TurboTax is the best for those items (but pricey).

Will be fun.

[adc100]

Mine is now pretty simple since most of my stuff is in 401K. I have gone back to paper.

[cden1]

Did my taxes yesterday. I only owe the Feds $921! I used TaxAct Online. Works great.

[JP]

I've been using turbo tax for 7 or so years.