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A good folder knife. I like benchmade.
Unfortunately only Spyderco makes these and they are priced right but looks too ugly for my taste. I think i might adjust my taste to shapes as my taste to steels is too rigid :)
Floor jack for your car and a battery jumper. You never know when your battery is going to go dead or when you'll need to change a tire. Trust me... just happen tonight.
I'd add a foot-operated pump and pressure gauge to that. Often more convenient to just top up the air and drive to the nearest garage. Also lets you maintain your tyres at the right pressure, which is good for fuel efficiency.
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The official filters are $2.99 for 350 on Amazon, so 0.85 cents per filter (for up to 4 cups). $2.99 for a year's supply seems pretty reasonable to me.
Your volume is off a fair bit for us. Assuming you don't reuse them my wife and I will make 8-12 cups a day, which means 350 will last for around 35 days. Or basically a month. Additionally the filters cost £3.99 as "add ons" at Amazon.co.uk, or £6.99 when purchased alone. So trade-off is clear one metal filter costs the same as two packets of papers. (Yeah, tried to persuade my wife to recycle, but she preferred the…
In the Summer of 2011, I was working at Mozilla. My first exposure to an open plan office. I decided (for a poor student) to spend an insane amount of money on a pair of headphones so that I could get more productive: The Shure SE 215 in ear phones for $99. Since then, I have used them everyday. Backpacked across 3 continents. Taken them to the gym. Used them like crap. Yet, they still lasted. I went through 4 differ…
I can't rave about my Shure 535 IEMs enough. I'm even about to spend the $2-300 to get custom molded fittings for them Near-reference quality sound (a little too warm, though it hasn't been an issue so far), great isolation (about 25db), and they are hard to have randomly pulled out of your ears. Granted, this is well out of the $100 ballpark, but they're still fantastic. If you're looking for reference quality sound…
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I'd add a foot-operated pump and pressure gauge to that. Often more convenient to just top up the air and drive to the nearest garage. Also lets you maintain your tyres at the right pressure, which is good for fuel efficiency.
I'm adding the foot operated pump to my list. I completely forgot to mention a pressure gauge.
A fountain pen. I grew up using pencils and ballpoint pens. I swore off fountain pens after some frustrating, messy experiences. In hindsight, I think I still lacked the fine motor skills necessary to get the best out of a fountain pen. I took an interest again when I started working on a website selling fancy $2000 models, but the one I bought was less then $10. In my downtime I retrained my hand, and learned tradit…
Next time you sign a check with your fountain pen, take a damp sponge and see how easy it is to wipe the ink away... ;)
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I can't rave about my Shure 535 IEMs enough. I'm even about to spend the $2-300 to get custom molded fittings for them Near-reference quality sound (a little too warm, though it hasn't been an issue so far), great isolation (about 25db), and they are hard to have randomly pulled out of your ears. Granted, this is well out of the $100 ballpark, but they're still fantastic. If you're looking for reference quality sound…
So I am really tempted to get the SE 535s (because they seem like the next level up from the 215s which also fit me really well). The only thing that is stopping me is that the idea/hope that the Westones would be better. Did you do any sort of comparison between the two?
I do see that the Westone's offer 4 drivers to the 535's two drivers, but unfortunately Headroom doesn't have the frequency response graphs for them yet. Otherwise, they seem very similar for features & specs (they both appear to use the same ear tips, which is good for finding the one that fits the best).
Of course, I'm lucky enough to live in Headroom's home town, so that helps these kinds of purchases immensely.
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Your volume is off a fair bit for us. Assuming you don't reuse them my wife and I will make 8-12 cups a day, which means 350 will last for around 35 days. Or basically a month. Additionally the filters cost £3.99 as "add ons" at Amazon.co.uk, or £6.99 when purchased alone. So trade-off is clear one metal filter costs the same as two packets of papers. (Yeah, tried to persuade my wife to recycle, but she preferred the…
I love my Aeropress, but I keep myself to two cups a day and my wife doesn't drink coffee. Sounds like you guys would be better off with something that made a "pot". Like a large Chemex or something.
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So I am really tempted to get the SE 535s (because they seem like the next level up from the 215s which also fit me really well). The only thing that is stopping me is that the idea/hope that the Westones would be better. Did you do any sort of comparison between the two?
No, when I purchased my 535's from Headroom, they didn't have any Westone in stock (that I recall, it was several months ago). I tried out similarly priced Sennheiser in-ear headphones (ie80 and ie800) as well as another higher priced JH Audio IEM model (JH13, iirc), but the 535's sounded the best to my ears. I do see that the Westone's offer 4 drivers to the 535's two drivers, but unfortunately Headroom doesn't have…
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Premium membership with Fitbit ($60/year) allows for export of the data http://www.fitbit.com/premium/export Withings Pulse has a data export function too: https://withings.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201488977-How...
I want one that keeps the data "only" locally. Is there such a thing? :-)