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QUOTE (lxjenkins @ Jan 15 2008, 09:47 PM) "fancy butt applicator" - those are three words I never thought I'd see together. that phrase made me laugh while smoking and subsequently cough.

To be fair, my bambino was made in china.

as for the Squier/epiphone debate My first guitar was a squier affinity strat, I still play it today. I replaced the bridge pickup with a cheap mini-humbucker I got off of ebay. The guitar sounds great, the stock pickups are a little noisy with high-gain obviously. It plays great, the neck's straight and all that. My 'real' guitar is an ibanez RG that I'm looking to sell because I'm tired of keeping up with the floyd rose because I never use it.

QUOTE (Geiseric @ Jan 8 2008, 06:13 AM) Aye, I've been a musicain for quite some years, dabbling in a pretty wide range of instruments. I do recording sometimes for fun to jam against myself, but I'm really against the whole idea of recording editing, and releasing tracks, I think its lazy and sucks the life and skill out of music. I'm pretty big into bass right now, got a EB3 coming in (hell, yeah) in a few weeks. I'm not really playing with anyone right now, its too much to deal with the drama of a band and deal with work and school at the same time, so I've really just been jamming on my Ibanez Jem every once in a while, and keeping it to that for the most part. Fair enough. I'm still very much in the developmental stage musically. This summer I played bass in a band and it was basically one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. We were playing with some dude's equipment in his tiny basement playing two or three times a week for like 40 minutes at at time. We banged out a song and played it a week and a half later. It was pretty badass. I know that playing with other people helped me more than anything in the world, and I'm having trouble finding people around here to play with.

QUOTE (Raziel510 @ Jan 8 2008, 03:17 AM) In the video, the hookah box has a logo with the site "www.ticker1.com" on it. I translated the site message and from what I can understand, it seems like the site might be up in one week? Here's the message as translated by Google: "In a week go. Be the First. It's worth it! That's what it says. The text under the image doesn't mention any hookah, it goes something like this (off teh top of my head) 'The next step in internet history: Advertising while saving and spending money'

do the landlords think they're your parents or what?

QUOTE (mushrat @ Jan 8 2008, 02:44 AM) The Rabbit Hole. (Down the Rabbit hole) The Looking Glass. Do it up with a mirror theme.

Do we have any musicians here? I've been playing guitar for close to 2 years now and have started writing a lot of music, but it's tough to get much done since I don't have a bass or anyone to record bass parts, and I'd be interested in collaborating with other musicians to get the job done.

SB spearmint. Has anyone else had this flavor and found it to be kind of really low-key?

I think it's important to note that LEDs, being diodes, will only work in one 'direction'. New LEDs will have one lead longer than the other, and I want to say the longer is the anode (being the side you connect to the +) but I could be wrong, so don't take that as gospel. If you're wiring anything up, be sure to try it before you solder. If the LEDs do not light, flip them around. It's also important that you supply sufficient voltage, check the ratings on your LEDs and construct your battery pack accordingly. If you're providing more voltage than they're rated for, be sure to include a current limiting resistor, (whatever you have lying around/can buy at radio shack will be fine) to make sure you don't toast them. They go POP if you overvolt by too much. And if they don't pop, they'll get very hot. If you wire several of them in series, you'll need to add up their voltage drops and provide that much, if you wire them in parallel then just supply the voltage for one LED.

My spent shisha is generally uniformly dry with a little bit of moisture at the bottom, probably because I rarely stretch the bowl as long as I could. There's usually a little stuck to the bottom of the foil, and it's generally turned darker than it was.

QUOTE (JoeLipinski @ Jan 5 2008, 10:05 PM) so I wonder how much heat 1,000 watts would generate? I am sure you could prob either find a 1,000 watt dimmer switch at lowes or home depot... or maybe radio shack or something like that... guess it's time for some experimenting. I also found a few 600 watt dimmers... Since you seem to know more about this than me what would be the best place to position the dimmer? between the dimmer and the wall plug? or between the circuit and the coils? Thanks much . 1000 watts is a LOT of heat. You want your dimmer to have a higher power handling than your load. So, 1000 watt dimmer, 800 watt toaster, or less if you can find it. The best place to put the dimmer is between the wall and the coils. So you'll have a plug going into the dimmer and wires coming from the dimmer into the coils. I've never taken apart a toaster so I don't know how they're wired on the inside, you might be able to get away using 1 set of coils rather than everything inside, which would be best.

Most hair dryers I've seen have only had a couple of heat settings. Honestly, I don't think you should shy away from making your own rheostat. You SHOULD, however, be aware of the fact that taking apart any electrical appliance can kill you. It's all well and good to be enthusiastic, but being careful is far, far more important. If you're not sure about what you're doing, don't do it. You know, come to think of it, depending on the rating of it, you might be able to use a household lighting dimmer. EDIT did some searching, found this: 1000w dimmer this will dim up to 1000w. Toasters can use this much power, however, so it'd be important to find as low-rated one as possible.

The thing about using toaster coils is that you're going to have to put together your own rheostat, so it'll be very important you know the draw of the coils and the power handling of your resistors.

QUOTE (Canon @ Jan 5 2008, 01:47 AM) you could have a tube (the clear tube everyone uses for hoses) running from the bowl to the stem. I don't know how heat-resistant that stuff is, the bowl gets quite hot just using coals. I imagine this method is even hotter overall.