Seasons Chuffing - The 2014 Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/Holiday Thread

[Slippyblade]

Got the wife a CriCut Explore. Will use it for arcade vinyl awesomeness I'm sure.

Not a big fan of CriCut due to it's proprietary format and cartridge based design.  Severely limits what you can do with it. 

[Le Chuck]

Got the wife a CriCut Explore. Will use it for arcade vinyl awesomeness I'm sure.

Not a big fan of CriCut due to it's proprietary format and cartridge based design.  Severely limits what you can do with it. 

That's why we went with the Explore.  No cartridges required, reads common raster and vector image files, and can use your system fonts rather than select font packs.  Once we get it working I'll report back on the efficacy for our hobby.  If it sucks we'll return it

[yotsuya]

Got the wife a CriCut Explore. Will use it for arcade vinyl awesomeness I'm sure.

Not a big fan of CriCut due to it's proprietary format and cartridge based design.  Severely limits what you can do with it. 

That's why we went with the Explore.  No cartridges required, reads common raster and vector image files, and can use your system fonts rather than select font packs.  Once we get it working I'll report back on the efficacy for our hobby.  If it sucks we'll return it

If it sucks, she can use it for scrapbooking.

[Slippyblade]

Coolness.  I was looking at vinyl cutters last year and started with the Cricut - moved on with a quickness cause of the issues.  Glad to hear they opened things up a bit.

[yotsuya]

Painted, framed, and ready to hang in the Louvre.

[HaRuMaN]

Got the wife a CriCut Explore. Will use it for arcade vinyl awesomeness I'm sure.

Not a big fan of CriCut due to it's proprietary format and cartridge based design.  Severely limits what you can do with it. 

You can get around that with a software called Sure Cuts a Lot.  It's how I hijacked my wife's Cricut to make my vinyl stickers. 

[dkersten]

Merry Christmas all

A few weeks ago I got myself a little upgrade to my main gaming computer, a top end 256gig ssd to replace my old first gen 64g ssd, and an Acer G-Sync 27" monitor.  I also wiped and installed 8.1, which I am not sure if that is much of a gift.  It allowed me to try the Buckhunter app with my aimtracks though, but in the end even spending hours trying to dial those guns in perfectly I just couldn't reliably aim, not that it mattered because the crosshairs couldn't be removed. 

Being a single dad, I have to do all the shopping for my teenage (and 21 year old) kids, along with all the stocking stuff, wrapping, etc, and I started a little over a week ago and am finally finished.  Well, my girlfriends son surprised us by getting a couple weeks off from the Army and flying up here the other day, so I still have to get some stocking stuffers for him, as well as a gift, but she is mostly handling that.  My ex wife's inability to handle money has left her homeless, so for Christmas my daughters get to move their stuff into my place and are losing their pets.  They live with me 50% of the time now but starting last night I have full custody, and they are a little torn up about their mom's situation.  It is a shame that an adult can't figure out how to live on a budget, but I guess that is why I divorced her, I didn't want her dragging me down to homelessness with her, and that was where we were headed when I finally ended it.  So there is some low points to the holidays for my girls, but I am doing what I can to make it all better, mostly in the form of some really cool gifts and some really good family time.

After today, I am off work until the 5th, and while I would love to start either a woodworking project or another cab, my back has been giving me issues that I have not yet had diagnosed, and it keeps me out of the shop, so I plan to finish the final edit on my book and get it up on Amazon.  I would love to take my kids snowmobiling for a couple days after Christmas, but between my health issues and my son's license being suspended, it just won't work out, but I will figure something out that we can do all together while we are all at home. 

Have a happy holidays everyone, I hope your Christmas is merry and your new year includes a great midnight kiss!

[jdbailey1206]

Painted, framed, and ready to hang in the Louvre.

Pssh. Shoukd have been painted gold....And what in the hell is a Louvre?

[dkersten]

Louvres are the metal slats in the back windows of 70's Camaros and the windows of 70's conversion vans.  I can see this painting hanging in a 70's conversion van... velvet walls and next to this a black light Jesus poster..

Edit, on second thought, this would be the mural airbrushed on the side of the 70's conversion van.. And the black light poster would be elvis, not Jesus..

[Generic Eric]

Painted, framed, and ready to hang in the Louvre.

Pssh. Shoukd have been painted gold....And what in the hell is a Louvre?

A museum. In Paris, France.   I would have thought someone interested in arcade preservation would know that. 

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

Pssh. Shoukd have been painted gold....And what in the hell is a Louvre?

A museum. In Paris, France.   I would have thought someone interested in arcade preservation would know that. 

OH SNAP YOU GOT BURNED BY ERIC!!!


You may have heard of some of the paintings in the Louvre. This broad is in there:

[jdbailey1206]

I can never remember the name of that painting.  But I always remembered that Frida Kahlo was the artist.

[Vigo]

I can never remember the name of that painting.  But I always remembered that Frida Kahlo was the artist.

It's one of her self portraits.

[Malenko]

Legit LOL. 

+1 fake rep to you

[yotsuya]

I can never remember the name of that painting.  But I always remembered that Frida Kahlo was the artist.

It's one of her self portraits.

Needs arrows and/or vaginas to truly be a Kahlo. 

[jdbailey1206]

I can never remember the name of that painting.  But I always remembered that Frida Kahlo was the artist.

It's one of her self portraits.

Needs arrows and/or vaginas to truly be a Kahlo. 

Vaginas?  Thats O'Keefes shtick.   

[yotsuya]

Nothing like standing in line at the grocery store at 9:45 am on Christmas Eve waiting to buy gift cards, amirite?

[Generic Eric]

[yotsuya]

Crossing the streams so nothing gets missed...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,142976.0.html

[Generic Eric]

Also received Settlers of Catan and a crazy magnetic can openers that catches the bottle tops. 

[yotsuya]

That's cool, Eric!

[Generic Eric]

That's cool, Eric!

Also received your package!  2 days early!

[yotsuya]

That's cool, Eric!

Also received your package!  2 days early!

Sweet! I trust everything met your approval?

[Generic Eric]

That's cool, Eric!

Also received your package!  2 days early!

Sweet! I trust everything met your approval?

We unwrap gifts on christmas eve.  TBH I'm about to play Beados with my daughter.  The HOTASS looks good though.  Action is smooth and such.  Merry Crimbo homie!

[yotsuya]

We unwrap gifts on christmas eve.  TBH I'm about to play Beados with my daughter.  The HOTASS looks good though.  Action is smooth and such.  Merry Crimbo homie!

Yeah, it's a nice stick. Screw Elite, hook it up and play Afterburner and G-LOC with it! 

[yotsuya]

I got a Fitbit, some pint glasses, and some shorts. I also got a hand painted jar to hold my tokens. Merry Xmas everyone!

[pbj]

The Romo poster was given to my parents.  It would have been funnier if the Cowboys didn't randomly show up as the best team in the NFL this year.

Got a drill press.  Looking forward to maiming myself with that.

Present to myself should arrive soon.....

 

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

This year was pretty sweet. The little dude hasn't stopped playing with the TMNT Sewer Lair 

We ended up getting our daughter a PSVita and Minecraft. Buuuuut we can't do anything with it for moment because "h4x0r" tools broke Xbox/PSN with DDoS. Fucktards.

My wife got me the 30th Anniversary Lego Ghostbusters set 508 pieces. Completely unexpected. Sometime this weekend, I'm going to get ---smurfy--- and drunk-build the hell out that thing. 

Shoot lots of pics. And vids!

[yotsuya]

I just finished installing the Kenwood car stereo I got my wife for Xmas. After 2 blown fuses and a lot of trial and error (the wiring harness directions were useless), I got it going. 

[05SRT4]

My wife and I finally went out and bought a truck for Christmas. 2011 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD. We are both super excited, I've had my 4-wheeler for over 4 years and only used it 3 times because we didn't have anything to haul it. Now we can go whenever!!!

[Louis Tully]

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