Could save a bit of money that way, if I could afford it. I have to buy one piece at a time, (It comes straight out of my beer budget). Last year's hotness, generally, so I barely end up spending much more than a complete new one, but they seem to hold up a good long time in game world.
Living in the San Francisco Bay region has helped me with access to cheap parts, I think.

Do you know the razor-blade trick? A guy shipped me some seriously under-packed socket 939 Opterons on an ebay deal, so naturally they were completely fucked on arrival, he suggested I use a blade to push the strays back into line. Actually worked, (I can scarcely see those little pins) coulda saved me a few hundred $ in the old days.
I suppose its common knowledge, but I sorta taught myself and had not figured that one out.

That's the interesting way to do it.

Your sampling is skewed towards the homeless population that is willing to go to a church.
You should get to know some other homeless people.

Some fungus is getting a few of the Lithocarpus and Quercus around here.
It seems to be hitting like a new/exotic thing.

What new arable lands have you discovered?

No, they don't.

I am curious about the troll quotient in the responses to this submission. Could someone do a quantitative analysis to dispel my suspicions of Astroturfing?
I think some professionals are attempting to hijack the thread.

Ain't it the truth!

My conure died. I'd get a parrot if I wasn't such a short-timer myself. Maybe adopt, but people are such idiots, I'm afraid I'd get a broken bird.

How she got my number is beyond me.

I think my transfer expired.

This is basically what I tell OWS supporters, that they're outside the wrong offices. The government is supposed to protect us, but have been made into another flailing arm (the one holding the PR-24, actually) of the dying monster.

I haven't done the math, but I've always heard that @$100/Barrel it becomes viable to squeeze oil out of shale. "They" say that's all that keeps OPEC from reaming us any worse than at present. I'm fencing in a little bit more pasture for vegetables this year and buying more spare tires for my bikes in anticipation of the next big news.