Wyzcrak

You can do just that. Also, if money is rare enough, you can wash them out and clean them, but I wouldn't recommend that, as that certainly isn't the lifecycle for which they're designed.

I've owned one of these. We got rid of it because it wasn't practical with 5 cats. But if you have fewer, I would highly recommend it.

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CingularDuality

Bump to recommend Aquafina FlavorSplash water. I hate water, can't stand to drink it... But this stuff is palatable for me, especially the citrus flavor.

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Trooper

George foreman Grill...got one for christmas and i love it. Cooks burgers, frozen, in under 10 minutes. Chicken breast in under 10 also...great piece of machinery for my kitchen

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Switchcraft

Were you like that before the Corps, or did all the forced hydration teach you to hate it?

Also, I haven't seen it recommended elsewhere in this thread, but Tivo. I'm not big on television the way some people are, but being able to record the things you are interested in, with no advertisements, and not being a slave to the time slot, really changes the way you view television.

TychoCelchuuu

There are really only 2 products you need to live a full, healthy life. These two products are Weetabix and Firefly.

Weetabix.

Firefly.

Thank me later.

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DigitalAssassin

Yep, we got one as a gift a year or so ago. Use it all the time and it's great having decent hamburgers in under 10 minutes.

I agree. We have a Time Warner DVR and I watch less then half of the amount of TV I used to watch. I can barely stand live TV anymore where I can't FF through the commericals. You can watch 3 60 minute episodes in 2 hours when you subtract the 20 minutes of advertising during each episode.

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Switchcraft

That's really one of the best things about it. I watch less television, but far better quality.

Apophis

Definitely a good call. I was a pretty early adopter of the TiVo and have a Sony Digital Network Recorder (DNR) with the Series 1 TiVo. I've had the thing for over 6 years now and have become quite dependant on it for the reasons Switchcraft stated above.



I've hacked the thing to high heaven though including an Apache web server that allows me to get on the thing through the web and manage the recording schedules, season passes, and even add new messages to the "mailbox" if desired. My modem fried a couple years back so I hacked in a PCI Ethernet card and get my updates over the net now rather than using dialup.

One advantage of being an early adopter was the $299 lifetime subscription. I paid $299 way back when for the service and haven't paid a dime since.

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Dunno if TiVo is really a good choice. MythTV will get you much better storage at a much better price.

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leejo

I like Fresca. It tastes great with gin, vodka, bourbon, and, in moderation, all by itself.

Trooper

yeah but for 300 bucks never to pay for tivo again, and by the sounds of it he just needs a microwave modded to his box and he would never have to leave the living room

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Switchcraft

The truth is, I should have just said DVRs. I really think they're worth it, whichever brand you end up buying.

Buck Fush

I second the recommendations for Littermaid, the Foreman Grill and Tivo.

When I recommend Tivo a lot of people say, "I don't watch enough TV for a Tivo." I have only a couple shows I like to watch (Scrubs FTW) and actually limit my brain numbing to about an hour a day. This is the very reason I love my Tivo. I can watch an hours worth of TV in 44 minutes. And, I can't stress enough, I recommend ONLY Tivo. I've used a few different DVRs that friends have owned and none of them come close to the DirectTv Dual-Tuner Tivo UI.

Cing, I'm not quite as cheap as you, but I bet I'm much lazier. I did the whole throwing out the Littermaid containers when they got full thing and, even with emptying twice a week, it really wasn't too bad - cost-wise - but I was way too lazy. So I built a platform to put the Littermaid on and then cut the bottom out of a container and attached a 5gal trash bag to it with a rubber band and let it hang. The trash bag would actually take months to fill, but I change it every other week or so just for hygiene reasons.

FWIW: I would seriously avoid MythTV unless you are truly the epitome of Geek. It's just not ready for prime time yet, and I doubt it ever will be. The problem with open source is that it is rarely well-planned or supported. Software developers are not necessarily the best planners and no one wants to work on the boring projects unless forced to do so.

Note the use of the word "rarely". There are some very good quality open source projects out there.

Which reminds me:
I recommend Open Office to anyone that doesn't want to pay outrageous prices for a word processor package.

Beatnik

This is kind of a meta-answer, but Cool Tools is a site run by Kevin Kelly where people submit things they swear by, similar to this thread.

Personally, if you cook at all (or have a loved one that does), good knives are crucial. I use a Global Chef's Knife, (in addition to their Utility and serated knives) and it's a pretty popular brand at the culinary academy where I teach. Wusthof's are supposedly the gold standard, and have a very liberal lifetime replacement policy, but any decent knife will make kitchen work so much less painful. Unless you slip and cut yourself, that is. These knives are very sharp.

Another item I use daily are my Shure E3-c's with my iPod. Super high quality earbuds that are great at sound isolation, even on planes.

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El_Gringo_Grande

SlickRun. The most useful tool I have ever installed on my computer.

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

Basicaly a floating command line bar with lots of other useful things. I swear this thing save me at least 30 minutes a day.