Category: House
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What to do when you buy a Neo-Geo MVS
Unless you have purchased from a fellow enthusiast, there is a good chance that your system has not received the attention that it needs. The most important thing you can do is replace the battery that is on it. After nearly two decades, many of these Ni-Cd batteries are beginning to leak. The consequences? Often
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My Arcade Begins
Ever since I was a kid, I knew I wanted to have arcade games… Maybe even an arcade room in my house. Yesterday, I began fulfilling that dream with the purchase of a Neo-Geo MVS-4-25.3. The Neo-Geo was a system that was far ahead of its time. Even before Super Nintendo and right when Sega
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RIP Sean Taylor
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Sean Taylor was shot at his Miami home early Monday morning and passed early Tuesday morning. It came as quite a shock as I woke today as if you know anything about Sean Taylor, you know that he’s one of the toughest, strongest, hardest hitting, explosive, most
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Finance: Housing As “Forced Savings”
This is a common argument I see from the proponents of purchasing a home. In keeping with the recent trend of home hating, I wanted to share this article. For those of you not looking to read the whole article, I can summarize it in one line: If you live in an area with outrageous
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Green: Programmable Thermostat
Got to it today… twice! Ran to Home Depot this morning, picked up a RiteTemp 8030c, a 7-day programmable, touch-screen jobber for $50. We needed the 7-day since the ladies in the house have odd schedules, putting them at home on certain weekdays. The other 7-day jobber? $100. I arrived home, pulled off the ancient
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Bonds Might Boycott HoF
According to ESPN, Barry Bonds has announced that he’ll boycott the Hall of Fame if the owner of his record breaking home run ball, Marc Ecko, defaces the ball with an asterisk and sends it to be displayed in The Hall. My response… Really? Reaaaally? A guy whose entire CAREER should be marked with an