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i took pictures of maple m22s alongside black m22s
#44236 05/03/04 06:59 AM
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this is for everyone who has always been interested on how the maple looks aside from the deceiving pictures at the axiom store. they look real nice - much like unfinished wood. check my profile and click on the link to find it.

enjoy guys!


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#44237 05/03/04 07:04 AM
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Pinipig:

Those are nice pics bud, the maple looks really cool. All that sweet gear for a computer system though? That should be transformed into your HT system buddy! I know how dorms are though, I was once in college too. lol


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#44238 05/03/04 01:06 PM
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Actually, for a lot of us young whippersnappers, our HT/stereo/computer systems are all combined.

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#44239 05/03/04 01:11 PM
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man, quite the set up. your neighbors in the dorm must love, or hate you. what a temptation, not turning the volume up.
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#44240 05/03/04 01:14 PM
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and a lot of us, when we were young whippersnappers, were entirely too poor to have anything like that. i remember being excited as hell when i got a jambox that had both a tape, and CD player!!!

i see all you young college guys buying HT systems and bad a$$ computers, and wonder what the heck i was doing wrong back then?? either i was not working the right jobs, or my parents wernt financing me enough.. oh wait, my parents didnt finance me any..

please tell me that you still eat ramen noodles??

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#44241 05/03/04 01:24 PM
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i'm 25 - still going to school, working full time, and still eating ramen. it's too late for me to go back to a traditional program. i'm in an adult program that meets on saturdays. it's working out very well.


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#44242 05/03/04 01:36 PM
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John, I think it depends on the student. Some do have parents to back them up, god knows most of the people I was in school with were in that boat. I was on loans and grants in college, and broke as all hell until my junior year. That summer I got a good internship and won a full ride scholarship for the next year, then senior year I landed a TA job that paid $16/hour. (which, at least I think, is damn good pay for a college student.) While I didn't have quite the watercooled system in those pics, being a comp. sci. student I did funnel what money I could into my computer. The axioms had to wait until I got a real job though...there's no way I could have afforded the system I have now and still eaten, even ramen. But even within the "financial aid" crowd, I had friends who said "there's no way I could afford that computer" and then went off to band practice with their *insert instrument and amp here* which probably cost a similar amount.


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#44243 05/03/04 01:38 PM
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Apologies for going OT.

When I started college (Ohio State), the ONLY TV set was in the first floor lounge; you were lucky to have a radio (small portable) in your room; the telephone was on the wall in the hall; and the only computer in existence occupied an entire floor in some building somewhere, and couldn't do a fraction of what your laptops do today.

By the end of my college career (Kent State) we did have a 13 inch portable black and white TV in the room (on which we religiously watched Laugh In); The phone was still in the hall; and that computer was still taking up an entire floor, although it could probably do a few more things than when I started college.

And we DID walk to classes; in the snow; uphill; BOTH WAYS! (credit to Bill Cosby )

Actually, at Kent State, I lived off campus and did have a pretty healthy, hilly, 20 minute (or more) walk to classes. I remember one winter walking to class with my breath condensing on my mustache. By the time I got to class my mustache was a solid block of ice.


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i surely wasnt poor, but i wasnt buying electronics either. i did have steady income from my GI Bill(Army, 3 1/2 years) but worked several part-time jobs to make ends meet.. landscaper, installed sprinklers, vinyl siding, package courier, blood donation center, and i ran a mobile DJ service on the weekends. that one was my favorite.. most of the dances were on friday and saturday nights, so not only was i making money, but i was saving money cause i was working, and not out drinking.

used to treat myself to a nice big breakfast at IHOP after doing a dance. it was my one good meal of the week!!

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#44245 05/03/04 04:35 PM
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Sorry, I forgot to post the other things u see in the picture:

- SVS 25-31PC+ in the top right corner.
- 19" Sony monitor - which has to be replaced this summer to an LCD because it takes too much desk space - i have no place to study!
- Homebuilt WATERCOOLED PC =) -> lian li aluminum case, AMD 2500+ overclocked to 3600+, 1gb ddr400 Geil Ram, Ati Tv tuner, Radeon 9800Pro videocard, Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS soundcard... in case u guys dont notice, my other hobby is pc-building. THE GREEN YOU SEE IS WATER (in the tubes and in the front reservoir)! =P
- Yamaha RXV-530

No no no... im not rich.. but i do make pretty good money at my job at the hospital (15$/hr). I am in medical school and right now - this is probably my last summer working, so i need to start saving a bit... no more speaker upgrade after the QS4s!!

The way i accumulated my stuff is this: whenever i had a big exam or at the end of the semester - if i got an A, i would allow myself a certain number of dollars for self-indulgence... after a while, it added up - and i spent on myself with no remorse because the money, to me, was like a reward spent well. i dont buy things for the heck of it, i have to earn it, even if it means depriving myself of certain things for extended periods of time.

I paid for everything - parents got me the axioms for my getting into medical school though... the sub,pc, monitor, receiver, clothes... everything is through me.

And yes, I eat RAMEN noodles.. but i try to go out a lot - i go to city restaurants a lot.. maybe a little too much because i find that most of my money goes to food. And no, im not fat.

thanks for looking guys!

btw, i returned the maples - i kept the black oak... besides, i thought the black matched my overall room (stands, pc, monitor, sub, receiver, keyboard... blah blah blah) better. cheers! =)

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