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"America's royalty".
The phrase that spurts forth from my heart when I hear that term is "My arse!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The phrase that spurts forth from my heart when I hear that term is "My arse!"
I wonder which orifice that exited your body from 
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Oscars are political. As of now the only prizes worth watching - and it's still half political - IMHO are BAFTA.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Ok, I admit it, I'm a tool junkie. I'm always looking and, now and again, buy tools that I will never use even though I convince myself that I have a need. Anyway, I've always been particularly fond of Snap-on[^] - they are, without question, the finest of tools. Sadly, these are the puppies I just can't afford.
Oh, how I'd love to own one of these... Roll Cab[^].
The problem is, I'm not quite sure where I could keep it in my apt. Plus, think the wife wouldn't be best pleased...
Oh well, a boy can dream... 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: how I'd love to own one of these... Roll Cab[^].
I hope the decimal place is in the wrong place.  I've never even spent that much on a car. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Nope, that's about right for Snap-On!
Good quality kit, but not as good as it was in the old days when "you broke it, we replace it free" was the way they did business.
I do not have one of those cabinets, but I do possess a single, solitary, 10mm Snap-On combination spanner ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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When I were a lad (and a mechanic) I did have a toolbox full of shiny tools (some of which I made as my education included such topics as tool-making, etc.)
You have to buy the Snap-On, not the Blue Point.
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I'd agree - good quality tools pay for themselves, in the long run. In sticking plasters and skinned knuckles, mostly! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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$16020.00 for a workbench! For that it should have a cab, steering wheel and a motor for getting around the estate!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If I had to buy one now I'd probably go for a craftsman (sears) box. About a tenth of the price!
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meh.
I'd make one (in fact I have, several times).
If a workman can't make appropriate storage for his tools, don't give him any of the good jobs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If a workman can't make appropriate storage for his tools, don't give him any of the good jobs.
I'd have to disagree with that. I can and have made plenty of tools (and spare parts) but I never had the time or desire to custom build a roll-cab and top box and I seriously doubt that you have built anything other than a small wooden box though I'm happy for you to prove me wrong.
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The last three houses I've lived in, I built the kitchens from raw materials (any mention of cr@ppy chipboard flatpacks gets growled at).
If I can get the storage good enough for my missus not to complain too much, I can get it absolutely bang-on perfect for anything else.
I'm not allowed to spend time working on my workshop, though; she's always got too many other jobs for me to do first -- e.g. I have to take down/move another wall in this house (the third, so far) when the weather improves.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not Sears for long; they are selling Craftsman to Stanley Black & Decker (which I didn't know had merged!)
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Yes, good point - I am going to buy a few bits before that as it won't be the same after that.
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My toolbox only cost $800.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nothing wrong with that - it is, after all, just a box you keep your tools in.
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16K for something you put tools in!?
Not even if it came filled with all the best tools in the world
Anyway, if you buy this your wife won't be a problem much longer...
Just make sure she doesn't get (half of) the workbench as she leaves you
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Sander Rossel wrote: Not even if it came filled with all the best tools in the world
Oh, you mean this: Complete US Set 6[^]
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People actually buy this!?
Can I interest you in a wrench? For you only €1000,- because we're friends 
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Sander Rossel wrote: People actually buy this!?
I have no idea but I do know that professional mechanics will have toolkits worth many tens of thousands of dollars - it is their livelihood, after all and a really good mechanic can probably earn as much as a pretty good developer.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: a really good mechanic can probably earn as much as a pretty good developer
Maybe, but as developers we don't need a second mortgage on our tools
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I have no idea what it cost him >35 years ago; but my Dad's got a similarly massive toolcart full of Snapon tools from when he worked as a mechanic.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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