why not?

[mellowtigger]

Why not make a company that can create replacement panels for various automobiles out of recycled (and recycleable again) plastics? In Minnesota (and probably coastal states too) there's a lot of salt-induced rust that could be solved by plastic. Even if the color was not an exact match, it'd still look and perform better than rusted out holes.  Or does somebody already do this?

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Unrelated "note to self" for things to do now that I have income again (in probable order of acquisition):

1. brake repairs on car (needed)
2. electric litterbox for T'Reese (wanted)
3. eye exam and new glasses (needed)
4. renewed subscription to EverQuest2 (wanted)
5. new shirts (needed)
6. renewed membership at the zoo (wanted)
7. some books from my wishlist (wanted)
8. new computer motherboard/cpu/video! (very very wanted)

Comments

[mellowtigger]

Wow, there's some really inexpensive stuff out there!

But I've assembled my own pcs from parts for... I dunno, maybe 15 years. I'll probably continue doing so for many years to come. I get to custom-pick features that I want that way and upgrade only minimal parts as necessary until it's motherboard time again. I got my current motherboard (Intel D865PERL) 5 years ago for its dual parallel/serial hard drive connectors. It was a good transition board as I copied data from old parallel drives onto a new serial drive.

Back in July, I knew exactly what pieces I wanted for $1000. I'll have to review for the latest updates now, though. I think some of these items aren't even available today.

$370 http://www.nanosys1.com/mb-as-striker.html (motherboard)
$245 http://www.nanosys1.com/cpu-int-c2d-e6600.html (cpu)
$300 http://www.nanosys1.com/vid-bfg-7950gt-oc.html (video)
$130 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231121 (memory)