What good things did you get for Xmas ?

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I got a wireless color printer, $$$ money, black shirt.

 

And I built myself a cool new desktop PC. :p

 

 

Cooler Master mid-tower case

750 watt modular Power Supply

Asus Sabertooth 990 FX motherboard

AMD FX 8350 8-core cpu

Radeon graphics card

16 gig Kingston RAM

Windows 10

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Ian S.

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Surface Pro 3, Jamba Juice gift card, my sister got an iPad mini and so did my dad, I got LED programmable strip lights to light my room, and a sleeve for my Surface Pro.

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It's a telescope. But boy, is this thing incredible! I mentioned on Facebook last night that when I was looking at the Moon I could have sworn this thing was powerful enough to see a man walking on it...if we still did moon walks. Also, you might notice the pad on the floor. The telescope can be mounted on to a motor (the silver part of the tripod) which, once calibrated can then target over 42,900 objects in the sky. I managed to set it up last night to track the Moon, and it worked incredibly well!

Sorry, I'm super excited about this gift. :blush:

We haven't opened other gifts yet, so I'll report more a bit later.

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It's a telescope. But boy, is this thing incredible! I mentioned on Facebook last night that when I was looking at the Moon I could have sworn this thing was powerful enough to see a man walking on it...if we still did moon walks. Also, you might notice the pad on the floor. The telescope can be mounted on to a motor (the silver part of the tripod) which, once calibrated can then target over 42,900 objects in the sky. I managed to set it up last night to track the Moon, and it worked incredibly well!

Sorry, I'm super excited about this gift. :blush:

We haven't opened other gifts yet, so I'll report more a bit later.

 

Got a Skywatcher 127 myself, you'll need better power than the battery pack, it eats batteries and an air rifle to shoot out all the light pollution  :D

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Got a Skywatcher 127 myself, you'll need better power than the battery pack, it eats batteries and an air rifle to shoot out all the light pollution  :D

Yeah, we were talking with the guy when we bought it. The battery pack is just a temporary measure, I'll probably pick up a larger (a lot larger) one later on.
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Yeah, we were talking with the guy when we bought it. The battery pack is just a temporary measure, I'll probably pick up a larger (a lot larger) one later on.

 

You'll find the free stellarium software (www.stellarium.org) and a serail cable to SynScan mount off eBay a lot easier than the keypad as well, happy stargazing!

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Even though I am working later today, I bought nobody nothing and I got nothing in return it's an agreement I have in place every year

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  1. La-Z-Boy Nexus fancy office chair
  2. Insignia Flex 8.1 windows 8.1 tablet
  3. Kenmore Elite stainless steel dishwasher
  4. 1500 dollar bathroom remodel (semi self pay for tho)
  5. Booze

 

 

still waiting on the rest

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Arachno 1D

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Even though I am working later today, I bought nobody nothing and I got nothing in return it's an agreement I have in place every year

Just another day in purgatory then :D

I gift you the freedom of independent thought and the foresight to know when and when not to use it.

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simonlang

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Sweet, how many watch faces are available for it?! :D

 

 

 

 

this is a good question i can't answer sadly as it came with only one and i don't even know if i could exchange them.

you probably hinting to one of these modern i-watches where you can exchange faces like others do their shorts right? 

but paying for these i would instead of supporting the us armed forces just a company which explores poor people working under horrible conditions. would that be really worth the trade?  :)

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Surface Pro 3, Jamba Juice gift card, my sister got an iPad mini and so did my dad, I got LED programmable strip lights to light my room, and a sleeve for my Surface Pro.

could you let us know what make and model your programmable strip lights are please.

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