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Didn't go in, obviously, as that involved payment; we just stood near the washing line at the adjacent youth hostel, and craned.
Modified scan from some unknown vintage magazine of two girls with identical hairstyles, but only one of them forked out $15 bucks for a real permanent, and the other cheapskate dropped $2 and did it herself at home.
As you might guess my world as Jojo has moved on a great deal since I started and both me and my sense of style have matured. I had accessed all my earliest photos and to be frank and honest I don't really want to put many of them on here as most are pretty awful one way or another and I have a lot of editing to do first. In my shoots the more I look like a woman the more I look my best and on the rare occasion when I get a bit disheartened it's good to see myself dressed up well and it doesn't get much more classy than wearing a very expensive jacket from Liberty of Regent Street in London. Of course it only cost Jojo a few quid as like most of my clothes apart from undies it came from a charity shop. I might be a cheapskate but I hope you still love me, and besides I have the excuse of not being able to afford to buy them new altogether they would cost a small fortune and a couple of pounds here and there goes to other good causes lol.
Wrongly labeled by Signature as a Chrysler Imperial. This was the year that Chrysler registered the Imperial name as a separate marque. I think Signature has made an impressive job with this model, though I won't pay the £60+ they now want for it. Then I'm a cheapskate! 1/18.
I wanted to use more than the 6 batteries the NXT can carry in order to increase the voltage (makes the motors run faster) so I bodged up a connector.
I can now use an 8 AA cell holder to give me 2 extra cells. If they are fully-charged, the voltage will be about 11.2 v instead of about 8.4 as at present. I have used a bridge rectifier to avoid damage caused by wrong connections and this drops it to about 10.5 v. Still right on the upper limit for the NXT so I have made a fake cell with some dowelling and wire to replace one cell and keep the voltage within acceptable limits. Once the voltage drops it can be replaced with a genuine battery.
Being a cheapskate, I used whatever was lying about to make the bits which fit inside the NXT.
Using 7 charged Ni-MH batteries I get 10v at the power pack and 9.3v at the terminals inside the NXT.
If you want to see how it should be done, visit :- www.philohome.com/nxtsupply/nxtsupply.htm
What, you couldn't spring the guarantee for a Killdozer BBQ/reunion? Cheapskates. That also better say "Nomeansno" on the fold! Best shirt of 2010, hands down...as Live Mike would say "the batmobile of cadillacs".
From the Rear. Dog attacked Kodak disposable film camera before use. I bought this camera in a job lot, that I made a quick profit from by selling one camera (A Konica S3 rangefinder). So, I guess that cost is zero.
(2 Kings 2)
Embroidery by Amazing Designs
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Chariot of Fire Art
Icon Style by Shlomo Katz
www.galerie-lamers.de/shlomo_katz.html
Ajayi Seyi
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Clip Art
Coloring Sheet by Jeannie Dickson
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Clip Art by Sherry Holder Hunt
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Line Drawing by Saint Mary's Press
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Chariots of Fire Film about Eric Liddell
(The Power Comes From Within)
I never get tired of taking these pictures because it's so satisfying when I make Apple Haters insane with rage. Every single day I have at least one Apple Hater or Android Fanboy accuse me of not actually owning a Nexus 7, so it's great to be able to direct them back to this page. Many of those people are actually in the habit on lying about their ownership of Apple products in a twisted attempt to give credibility to their lies.
They're so used to making up absolute lies about Apple and Apple products, that they're never prepared when they meet someone who actually tells the truth. Like all liars, they're arrogant enough to believe that everyone around them is just as evil as they are.
So in answer to them I say this: Yes, I have used Android and yes, I still believe that iOS is better, but unlike most Apple Haters it's not due to some perceived slight from the CEO of Google (I mention this because Apple Haters are obsessed with Steve Jobs) or because I have some aversion to the sort of people that use Android devices (I mention this because Apple Haters are also obsessed with Apple users), although I've conceded in the past that I believe the majority of Android users are cheapskates. No, I dislike Android for one basic reason: it's inferior to iOS.
Android is drenched in ads and bad taste, childish designs and half baked features. I would rather have 10 well written features or apps than 30 poorly written ones. I can't be any more simple than that.
Mid century sofa, a bit like a Hans Wegner but not one. It's still lovely and a bit more comfy than the Florence Knoll that preceded it.
Makara Beach, Wellington, NZ.
Made a 617 pinhole from some foam board, pva glue and other assorted bits lying round the house. It works! 32 seconds on Acros in LC29, 8 minutes.
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I've done a thorough study on this lens and what I found out is not only it's affordable, really sharp (as you can expect from a prime lens) and produce a decent focusing speed on a pro body (Canon 1D above, and Nikon D1 above). Some state its performance is on par with the Canon 400mm f5.6 L lens (except for focusing speed).
Sample
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The only drawback is that it's no longer been made;hard to find in the market. To make things even worse, Sigma only made a few thousands of this gem.
During my observations over the past 3 months, there's only few of these lens being auctioned on eBay and was sold no more than 250 pounds. If I get lucky and wait a couple more months, I might have an awesome telephoto that fits my cheapskate budget
Alhamdulillah :)
I just bought one copy of this fantastic lens today with a price tag of under 150 pounds. I did not lie when I said this lens is affordable, but I didn't expect it will turn out to be this crazy... :)
My cheapskate audiophile system:
Top: Sonic Impact T-Amp
Middle: TEC 4-input PreAmp
Bottom: Creative Sound Blaster Extigy
Read more about the Cheapskate Audiophile system.
This low cost charger controller for under £20 gives better results than an expensive Morning Star £70 controller I had in my last van.
After checking levels and tightness of the connections at the battery and charge controller this week in March 2011, I noticed the pulsing equalization charge to the battery from the controller was 14.9 volts, I was a bit alarmed at such a high voltage at first, until I re-read the instruction manual, it stated that when the battery is fully charged and the ambient temperature is at zero or below, the controller will output nearly 15 volts in the equalisation mode for a short time before going into float mode of 13.8 volts. The equalisation mode will bring all cells in the battery bank up to the same charge level, so conditioning the battery. Seems to work as I have never had an Elecsol Carbon Fibre battery fail me in the last eleven years, the oldest battery being over ten years old, putting an old battery and new battery in parallel is supposed to be a no no, but it worked for me, and the charge controller seemed happy enough.
I am not sure just how happy my unregulated cheapo SMD 5050 LED lighting will be with a pulsating (PWM) line voltage/power, although if the sun is out I suppose I won’t be using the lights anyway.
see link
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Hi Pete,
The SMD 5050 leds I have are the two quid variety from China, they have the tiny MB6S bridge rectifier so the led assembly connections are not polarity conscious, and a selection of resistors mounted on the pcb rear, but no voltage stabilisers, so they are rated at 12 volts only. Reading the forums some members have suggested that they should work up to 13.5 volts with not too much detriment to their longevity.
On a fully charged battery and when the controller is in the equalisation mode, the PWM frequency is fast enough not to effect the performance of the leds , i.e. no flickering can be detected, the battery would smooth things out as you remark, but the voltage at the battery terminals is still reading nearly 15 volts, not too good for my cheapo Chinese SMD 5050 leds.
I noticed as the cvan voltmeter was indicating 15 volts (verified) while the ammeter monitoring the controller output power, was cycling very quickly between 0.3 amps to 1.5 amps, now I know the ammeter will lag, but it looks to me as if the PWM is pulsing the power and not the voltage. If we get the same sunny conditions and zero ambient temperature later I will put my scope on the controller output to see what is actually happening.
I think you will find the 12 volt G4 LED types that stand up to 30 volts are the ones that cost upwards of £8 each not the 30 bob ones that I have – I know I’m a cheapskate -
Does anyone else have the combination of Solar Panel and the Cheapo Chinese LEDs ? and could check the battery voltage on a fully charged battery when the sun comes up?
Regards Terry
Nore about LEDs on link below.
www.caravantalk.org.uk/topic/44237-l-e-d-s-m-d-lights/pag...
Spotted this guy on my way to the train... set up on 14th St. with a table, homemade sign, video camera and jar of dollar bills. Remarkably, there were about 6 or 7 people lined up to claim their dollar.
I thought I was finished with the Lomo Fisheye but Sunday morning a
couple of weeks ago had such lovely grey light, and this swing set was
so pleasingly twisted by the fish's eye, that I felt compelled to post
this too.
Again, I'm struck by the fact that, given the vignetting, the Lomo
designers missed their chance to turn this camera into a near-square
format and thus get more shots per roll. Bottom dwellers and
cheapskates like myself would have been impressed.
Fuji 400 Superia (expired three years). Processed somewhat (upping
local contrasts) in Paint Shop Pro.
While in NYC, there was a daily charge for use of the internet ($15 a day!). I'm a cheapskate and I was not paying that much money for internet. At the moment, I'm sitting at JFK hoping they don't cancel our flight... and using their free internet.
On Thursday, we traveled from New Haven to NYC. After checking into the hotel, we walked around and shopped and talked and ate.
Originally, Dalton was going to stay with my niece but the hotel upgraded us to a bigger room and he got to stay with us. It was a great room and only a couple of blocks from Central Park.
This picture reminded me of double exposed pictures. I love the way Dalton was chilled out on his bed and I was snapping a picture of the office building that was the view from our room. It was late on a Thursday night and people were still working. I wanted to knock on the window and yell for them to go home -- but I'm sure they wouldn't have heard me.
Seen here from the rear is this Bolton-based Volvo B5LH with Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 bodywork.
It was seen here today - 19/03/16 - in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre for the day for a promotional event (with another in Leigh) for the new 'Vantage' service from First, which runs from Leigh to Manchester with a part of the route (over 4 miles) using a guided busway - the first in the North West of England - and set to launch on the 3rd April. As such, the vehicle's (a batch of 20 including 2 spare) are painted in a special purple livery and of a luxury standard, including plush coach-like seating and two tables on the upper deck, free wifi, USB charging and next stop audio-visual announcements.
There were also Goodie Bag's available at the event, and whilst I was hoping for a free ticket of some kind (with the cheapskate that I am), I was still satisfied with 2 Cadbury chocolate eclairs, a blueberry muffin, a leaflet and a Vantage branded pen!
Seen here from the rear is this Bolton-based Volvo B5LH with Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 bodywork.
It was seen here today - 19/03/16 - in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre for the day for a promotional event (with another in Leigh) for the new 'Vantage' service from First, which runs from Leigh to Manchester with a part of the route (over 4 miles) using a guided busway - the first in the North West of England - and set to launch on the 3rd April. As such, the vehicle's (a batch of 20 including 2 spare) are painted in a special purple livery and of a luxury standard, including plush coach-like seating and two tables on the upper deck, free wifi, USB charging and next stop audio-visual announcements.
There were also Goodie Bag's available at the event, and whilst I was hoping for a free ticket of some kind (with the cheapskate that I am), I was still satisfied with 2 Cadbury chocolate eclairs, a blueberry muffin, a leaflet and a Vantage branded pen!
Levi 501's from 1993, complete with skateboarding related rips and the paint splodges of a thousand council house cheapskate renovations. Still cool :)
Kitty takes her new Bobbins Glorie Fairground for her first spin. I say spin, we covered about 30 miles of Surrey's best hills – stopping at a couple of choice pubs along the way.
The O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London. Taken from Canary Wharf, using a simple 35mm film compact camera - Olympus XA2 (cost £0,50p in a car boot sale), loaded with Ilford HP5 Plus film. Developed at home in ID11.
The 'Green Pig' our 1971 Citroen Ami 8 Estate gets a bit of a treat in the shape of a brand new carburettor from those awfully nice people at ECAS.
Built in China as a direct replacement for the Solex 26/35 twin choke. At £200 quid, fully 40% of what the car originally cost us, the new carb costs only slightly more than a 'professional' rebuild does. Cheaper in the USA mind but then there's the import duty and delivery times faff to deal with.
Casting quality isn't quite, on a visual basis quite to Citroen standards but hey. Jetted to perfection by ECAS it worked straight out of the box apart from some slight fettling of the throttle cable mount, throttle arm and choke cable clamp.
Here is the cheapskate choke cable clamp. The top plate is flat and not shaped to properly grip the cable outer as per the original. An extra eighth of a turn on the screw and it pulls out of the base so put the original clamp on instead.
Tick over is much smoother and the engine is generally more tractable. Hardly surprising as the up until know the car has been running on a €35 euro carb from the scrappie that came off who knows what. The original carb had been snaffled some years back to get an Acadiane up and running for it's emissions test.
So all round a bit of a hurrah then. Highly recommended
A message to skinflint cyclists .....
This happened to my back tyre during the CTC 2015 Birthday Rides in Cumbria, England.
The cause of the problem with my car brakes. These two washers were the (haha) "sealing" washers on the banjo union that connects the brake hose to the offside rear brake caliper. Once upon a time they were ordinary flat, smooth, circular aluminium washers... Cheapskates. They should've used copper. All fixed now.
Eastbound billboard on the Santan Freeway Loop 202 for Uptown Cheapskate.
Uptown Cheapskate
Wear today.
Sell tomorrow.
Now open across from Chandler Fashion Center Mall next to Hobby Lobby.
3454 W Chandler Blvd. #18
Chandler, AZ 85226
480-786-0043
Uptown Cheapskate is not your typical resale store. They provide an arena for individuals to express themselves with brand name fashions, without having to pay mall prices.
Used clothes, resale and consignment store. Buy and sell top brands of trendy clothes, shoes, and accessories at huge discounts.
See more at www.uptowncheapskate.com.
The Santan Freeway Loop 202 is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers billboards along the Santan Freeway between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101.
Almost every classroom valentine came with candy. Why didn't anyone tell me thats what we were doing? Now we're the cheapskates who couldn't even throw in a lollipop!
A scavenger rifle made using weapon parts from both American and Russian armament supplies. First parts used was the stock from an SVD Dragunova Sniper Rifle, lower reciever from an AK 47 Assault Rifle and upper reciever from an M4A1. Later on, sights were added, and a handguard was carved out of wood. Then, barrel was added and connected to the gas system of an AK47, and turned upside down. An open bolt was added to the upper reciever to eliminate need for a buffer tube, and the recievers were welded together. Field stripping is slightly difficult, but with an hour or so of training, it should be pretty simple. Can use three ammo types:
7.62x39
5.56x45
5.45x39
Highly versatile, accurate, reliable and light, this weapon is perfect for any cheapskate soldier, scavenger, assassin, thief or awesomesaucer on the planet. 250$ per rifle.
Office Party Rules.
No 6 – Get the birds from the typing pool to photocopy their tits. Great Tits. (Parus Major)
An attempt at macro photography for cheapskates! Taken on a 400D with the 18-55mm kit lens fitted properly, with the "nifty fifty" Canon 50mm f1.8 mk2 held infront, reversed.
This was just a quick test shot, showing a guitar string and fret. I am currently waiting for my reverse mount ring to arrive, then I shall be attempting more ambitious shots with this lens combination.
Money Smart Week began on Friday, April 17, 2015 with a kickoff at St. Louis Public Library downtown where about 100 people gathered to hear the importance of being money smart. Author Jeff Yeager, known as The Ultimate Cheapskate who has appeared on the NBC Today Show, served as the kickoff keynote speaker. Money Smart Week, April 18-25, is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances by offering free personal finance classes and helping to raise awareness about the need for personal finance education throughout the year. St. Louis Money Smart Week includes over 200 free financial education classes, events and activities for adults and kids. The week’s activities are coordinated and put on by members of the Greater St. Louis Financial Education Collaborative, hosted by United Way of Greater St. Louis, which is a collaboration of over 100 partners that include financial institutions, non-profit organizations, local libraries, churches, schools, colleges and the media.
The Saggy Baggy Elephant
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Variation on e.e. cummings' theme, "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
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"Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars
"'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are ..."
Instructions
Tape elephant to Lindt truffle or lollipop et ectera for a party favor.
Sticker Shock !!!
After watching the cliff divers and wandering through the souvenir shops, I spied a Coke machine. Thinking I'd crab a cold one for the bus ride back to the ship, I moseyed over. After carefully reading the price, I thought ... no problem. I'll find someone that can translate the price to American dollars. I was promptly told that IS SEVEN AMERICAN DOLLARS. And I thought paying $4.50 on the ship was high. Silly me! Mind you, I'm not a cheapskate but you'd think that at the very least, a bag of peanuts would be included!
Cheapskate 100% C9, Retail $75
Turtlemobile - 100% C9,Retail $200
Footcruiser - 100% C9,Retail $200
Retrocatapult -100% C9,Retail $75
Sewer Seltzer Cannon - 100% C9, Retail $75
Toilet Taxi - 100% C9,Retail $75
Mikes Kowabunga Surf Buggy -100% C9,Retail $125
Knucklehead -100% C9,Retail $75
Oozey - 100% C9,Retail $75
Double Barreled Plunger Gun - 100% C9,Retail $75
CUSTOM FRAMED - signed SDCC 9 signatures - C10, Retail $500
You are looking at the Revson Fountain at the center of the Josie Robertson Plaza, flanked by the David Koch Theater on the left and you may be thinking "Why their names and not mine?" It's because you are a cheapskate. Send them a little money and they will be happy to name something for you. It's that easy. And it's not too late. The Metropolitan Opera House on the right has no name, yet. But hurry up, it won't stay that way forever.