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[Dr. Kraus]

Nibs? For tablet pen, you mean?

YES.

[Nichi]

Well, I'm once more stuck with the duty of driving my sister around, because her truck is currently dead in the front yard. Hopefully, dad will get it working again soon...

[Chocofreak13]

yeesh. sorry to hear that, man. :[

[Bella]

Went yardsaling today, since there's a townwide yard sale going on.

Got a non-working but intact 1955(?) Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve portable typewriter in case ($1), 1970s Polaroid Land Camera 420 and Kodak Pocket Instamatic 20 in original packaging and an ankh necklace ($6), another vintage camera ($1), two sets of beaded earrings ($1), some beading supplies ($0.50), a C64 joystick ($0.25), vintage postcards from Cape Cod ($2), seven books from various sellers ($2.70) and a stack of Mechanix Illustrated magazines from 1953-55 ($2). Aside from the getting terribly lost in suburban Plymouth and having to navigate through some very hairy driving situations (what with all the pedestrians, lookie-loos and cars darting in and out of driveways and traffic) and my eventual horrible headache, it was a pretty good day; and I met two other collectors of typewriters (including another woman who's hunting for an early Selectric).

Now I have to hide all this booty/make it blend in with the rest of my collection before the family notices it and yells at me for bringing more "junk" home at a time like this. Dx

[Paul]

You've got a Smith Corona Galaxie?!? Here even the non-working ones usually can't be had for at least 150€. Vintage cameras are nice too <3

I just ate pizza and now am continuing my Special Field Paper about a well-known American author (John Irving, if someone's interested). Also I found out that the currently most valuable game for the DS (Electroplankton) is in my possession :3

[Nichi]

@Bella: Very nice. I haven't found anything worthwhile at local garage sales in quite a while, so I've been cutting back to save money

[NejinOniwa]

SPEAKING OF WHICH

This thursday, I returned safely in the hands of my faculty our trophy...

The Canola.
Pretty sure it's a model 130 (v2), ergo the commercial version of the one that was "the first-ever prototype of a ten-key all-transistor electronic calculator" (v1).

And it dates to...

1963.
HERP DERP ;3

[Red-Machine]

Why are there two equals keys and no plus or minus keys?

[Chocofreak13]

that's a doozy. cool paperweight, though, nej. :3

@bells: damn, you cleaned up! 2 vintage typewriters AND a commodore joystick, how cool. ^^ jealous of that ankh, too. >>;

@paul: what the hell is that game about? sounds interesting, to say the least.

went shopping today, and i'm going to soon begin building a model of this out of modeling clay and toothpicks. :\

[Nichi]

@Choco: That sounds hard, but I have a feeling it's going to look awesome when it's done

Well, I did get past the tutorial on Disgaea 4; now finally up to the point where I can make characters...although, it has the same feature Disgaea 3 has; limiting the number of characters I can have until I get further into the game (Unlike the first 2, where I could go overboard as long as I had enough mana). So far, definitely enjoying it

[Chocofreak13]

hope it goes well. but the limiting feature is annoying. :\

[Paul]

Electroplankton is basically a music game. You make music by interacting with different "plankton" (alas touching them on the screen).

[stewartsage]

That sounds strangely amusing.  If I could actually play music of any sort.

[Bella]

I'm completely non-musical (amusical? lol) but i want a theremin. @_____@ They say it's easy to pick up, but really difficult to become competent at playing.

(Plus, it's the only instrument designed by a Soviet spy!)

[Nichi]

I wouldn't mind learning how to play a guitar, although it's one of those things I never really got around to. Besides, I don't have anywhere to safely store a guitar controller for my PS3 at the moment, let alone a real guitar