I have a non-functional 17 inch monitor that I would like to throw from something quite high onto a solid (preferably granite) surface. Let's tap the well of local geographic knowledge for some potential suggestions.
Chuck - 4/01/2005 09:57:00 PM
So my monitor stopped working and I have to pay in a ton of money to the IRS. I feel like my dad.
I love you dad!
I can't wait to get that first bonus check (from pharmacist recruitment), that might put me back in the green! With an LCD monitor!
Currently I'm operating on a borrowed monitor that doesn't support my video card. Hello 800x600x16. And I can't play CoH.
Chuck - 4/01/2005 09:59:00 PM
I need a digi-videocam for the drop too.
Brandon - 4/02/2005 12:45:00 AM
Chuck, you're crazy did you know that?
Chuck - 4/02/2005 10:39:00 AM
But think of the mpg! Good to see you around Brandon.
waste not, want not - 4/02/2005 11:30:00 AM
It's so unnecessary to just destroy it.
You should take out the screen, and hang the frame up in a tree for small woodland creatures to live in during the cold, harsh winters.
Then send the rest to Africa where they can break the screen into shards to have make-shift glasses, and use the cords and wires to make basketball hoops and jewelry.
I can't believe you could be so selfish and inconsiderate.
Chuck - 4/04/2005 02:10:00 AM
Let me veto the idea of letting woodland creatures live inside a montior. I happen to know that electronics harbor heavy metals (excellent!) that are dangerous to life forms would chew and eat them in their ignorance. If you want what's best for them, let them figure it out themselves. They're still a part of nature and are therefore subject to "Survival of the Fittest."
I'll also be vetoing the "Send the damn thing to Africa plan." I've priced what it would cost to send the monitor to Pretoria, South Africa via UPS Worldwide Express(SM)
Delivered. It's over $750! For that much they could just buy some glasses... and basketballs.
- 4/05/2005 05:49:00 PM
remember that time...
that we made that really awful looking fake head in your kitchen...and then busted it in the street as your neighbors(who were seemingly experiencing the final stages of tuburculosis) watched? yeah, good times.
i want to be there when the monitor says ,"Goodnight, George".
count me in.
- 4/05/2005 05:57:00 PM
...and might i add,
i suggest we build a catapult
and launch it off that scenic overlook in smithville a few miles from the craft center.
sure, we may never find it...
but thats why we'd attach a note to it for whoever does find it in like 10 years when they (those men who do those things...) finally get around to clearing all those trees off that precious government owned commercial real estate....
or whatever.
Chuck - 4/05/2005 11:23:00 PM
You're in charge of catapult production essay. We've already tossed around the idea of a tresbuchet (or, translated from French, "Very Bucket") launching it from some location.
- 4/06/2005 04:36:00 PM
not much of an essay, but heres my rough plan.
someone should go find that science teacher from the high school that made that catapult a few years ago. im thinking he's the same one that preaches at that church in cookevegas...
i never had him..i dont remember his name...anyway, someone should go find him...ask him if he still has that thing somewhere,or if it has been dismantled....if he still has it, ask to borrow it, he's a nice god-fearing christian, surely he'll want to lend us his catapult so we can "send the damn thing to africa...or as close as we can get with this catapult.."...
and if this device is no more, ask him for blueprints and such....
and we'll build our own. yep.
Chuck - 4/06/2005 10:55:00 PM
If you're all about construction, I can divert a little of my budget in that direction. Must see results!
Plans we can get off the internet. Harding and McCoy are the two that we have links with in the department, is it either of them? Harding is in GA last I heard.
- 4/07/2005 06:58:00 AM
im pretty sure it was harding. he is the one that looks like stephen king, right?
and yes, given the materials and plans for the doomsday device, id be happy to undertake the construction...
myes....
Chuck - 4/08/2005 05:49:00 PM
Get to work then.
Dad - 4/09/2005 01:23:00 PM
I love you too, son. I just wonder about you sometimes.
- 4/10/2005 07:57:00 AM
we could buy materials from the ace hardware in sparta where my mom works, so we'd get her discount....
yeah. cheap is good.
find plans and i'll start pricing materials.
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