blaculadave wrote:Barrels of Crud usually take a little longer to leave the warehouse than our typical packages. Expect them to take the full 5 Business Days to get tracking.

Of course...have to give you guys time to recover from your glee-filled malicious random box stuffing spree. It takes time. We get that.

Still no update on shipping, but here's my story for this Barrels of Crud

So, there I was. The Barrels of Crud pops up, and my browser is immediately loading the buy page. Clicked, entered code, and page error. Back a page, click again, error. Lather, rinse, repeat several times. Suddenly, I'm back to the main page again.

So, I start all over. The same routine. Enter code, click, dead. Backspace, click, dead. 5 or 6 times through and I get a notice that I've already purchased this woot.

The moral of this story? Next time I log another browser into my wife's account, and double my odds.

A little higher than I thought.



"I am nerdier than 93% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and talk on the nerd forum!"

I did fib on a couple of the questions below. My first computer did have more than 512KB because I bought the multi-function expansion card so I could have all 640KB. Also I didn't build the PC I'm currently using because it's my work laptop. I did build three of the four PCs at home though (and use KVM switches).



"NerdTests.com says I'm a Cool Nerd King. Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and talk to others on the nerd forum!"

I'm going to use my amazing power of prognostication and state for the record that there wil be a woot off next month

mikebbass wrote:I'm going to use my amazing power of prognostication and state for the record that there wil be a woot off next month

I will add my own conjecture that for one hour during said wootoff, all t-shirts in the reckoning will be on sale for less than $12.01.

tsaot wrote:I will add my own conjecture that for one hour during said wootoff, all t-shirts in the reckoning will be on sale for less than $12.01.

My crystal ball shows there will be a monkey of some sort, possibly of the screaming variety.

All book ended buy undesirable products that some fanboys will purchase out of misguided loyalty to W00T.

God bless them.

With regard to nerdiness...I didn't score very high, but I can say that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 300BAUD modem and I dialed in to BBSs because that's what real nerds do.

Also, I nitpick grammar.

marceepauff wrote:With regard to nerdiness...I didn't score very high

Oh come on, All in or not at all.
I posted my abysmal results.

marceepauff wrote:With regard to nerdiness...I didn't score very high, but I can say that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 300BAUD modem and I dialed in to BBSs because that's what real nerds do.

Also, I nitpick grammar.

Mine was TRS-80 with an audio tape recorder for storage. I miss it.

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

Awesome! Thanks!

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

It's been an honor sir.

No Bag of Cuuuuuute! for me, but I had to do the tests...

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

Sir! Yes Sir!

I can't wait for my bag of carrots! This is my first one! I've been trying for years.

kreegah wrote:Of course...have to give you guys time to recover from your glee-filled malicious random box stuffing spree. It takes time. We get that.

That's what she said.

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

You complete me.

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

So it begins... A small Battalion of Cacti have been sent!

ThunderThighs wrote:And if you called customer service for help with your TRS-80 Model I, you may have talked to me on the phone!

Add me to the pile of TRS-80 users.

CSAVE

*PRESS RECORD*

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

I am duly impressed: my tracking number is in my Woot! account, but not even in FedEx's system yet. I am tentatively extra excited to see what might be coming under the new leadership! Also, this is much faster than recent experience has led me to expect!

Kudos to the Colonel!

Woot!

ThunderThighs wrote:And if you called customer service for help with your TRS-80 Model I, you may have talked to me on the phone!

I longed for a trash-80. However, it was not to be. I also coveted my friend's TI99/4A, but had to be happy with my
Timex Sinclair 1000

Woo Hoo a tracking number!!!!!

A message from my scouts at fedex.com

1 Battalion of Cacti is expected in Charleston, WV 1/31.

Weight 7.8lbs
Dimensions 18 x 15 x 14.2

colonelcrap wrote:Status report: For some of you who won, your Bayonet of Clackers have been deployed. For other, deployment will be tomorrow by 18:00 hours.

As you were.

Like.

So first Bandolier of Carrots on the way any ideas if the ship weight will indicate how crappy the bag is?

marceepauff wrote:With regard to nerdiness...I didn't score very high, but I can say that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 300BAUD modem and I dialed in to BBSs because that's what real nerds do.

Also, I nitpick grammar.

Ditto. Biggest thrills were upgrading to a floppy (in your face Trash-80 folk) and a blazing 1200 baud modem. Oh yeah, also receiving Sysop status everywhere!
That's what real nerds DID.

5.2 lbs/2.4 kg due in San Diego on Jan 28, 2012 :D

Woohoo got my 1 lbs placeholder!

marceepauff wrote:With regard to nerdiness...I didn't score very high, but I can say that my first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 300BAUD modem and I dialed in to BBSs because that's what real nerds do.

Also, I nitpick grammar.

I didn't have a 300 baud modem, but I did have one of these.

I also still have my Quicksoft PC-Write word processor Dot Command and Alt Keypad character code cards (I don't know why).

mikebbass wrote:Mine was TRS-80 with an audio tape recorder for storage. I miss it.

I used these in high school. My junior year we had two Model I's for evaluation and my senior year we had eight for an actual class. One of them actually had a floppy disk drives (TRS-DOS, don'tcha know).

I seem to recall that Model I's could store one program per cassette tape and showed "**" when loading but that some update allowed them to store multiple programs per tape and showed "*A" for the first program, "*B" for the next, etc. I also seem to recall that for a short program you could type it in faster than you could load it from the tape, especially after the third or fourth failed load.

5.9 lbs of Boots On Carnivores left Dallas at 10pm due for a Colorado delivery on the 1st of February

Mine's still only half of a placeholder:

1 lbs / 0,5 kgs
N/A x N/A x N/A
Shipment information sent to FedEx

1.0 lbs/.5 kg n'at

Placeholder for me. Excitement builds.

17.2 in. x 14.2 in. x 10.5 in.
4.9 lbs/ 2.2kg

est. delivery in MD on 1/30/12

^.^

edit: claims to have left fedex location in dallas, but also claims they have only received the shipment info...

Hm... Here's what looks similar to my first computer:



Except it was not this cute black thing, but a handmade clone of such, bought on a computer flea-market... Oh, and it was hooked up to an old black and white TV, because my parents didn't want to buy me a monitor (you don't need colors to practice your BASIC programming or to play those games). And of course games were tape loaded. So yeah:



(ok, I'm surprised I've scored ANY points on sci-fi/comic part, and shocked I scored more on that than on history/literature).... duh...

wallsg wrote:I seem to recall that Model I's could store one program per cassette tape and showed "**" when loading but that some update allowed them to store multiple programs per tape and showed "*A" for the first program, "*B" for the next, etc. I also seem to recall that for a short program you could type it in faster than you could load it from the tape, especially after the third or fourth failed load.

My Sinclair (as pictured above) used a regular tape player for loading, so I could store multiple programs per tape and just start "playing" at the right spot. Programs being mostly games, of course. At certain point I could tell which game it is by the sound it produced, so I could locate the one I wanted to load by quickly winding up the tape and listening in here and there...

Ah... the old days...