Pimp your ride

A company called Dub has dedicated themselves to making your ride even hipper than it is now. Tire rims that spin independent form the wheel are so 2008. What you need now are LED Display lights for your cars wheels. That's right, Pimpstar can turn your ordinary wheels into rolling LED billboards.




Now you can be the hippest dude on the block. Let your wheels tell people something about you! Be patriotic. be hip. be sexy. Be cool. Turn that dull ride of yours into the talk of the neighborhood.

It's scary what technology can do in the wrong hands :-)

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I have doors!

Yes - My cabinets finally have doors! Installed Monday, the kitchen takes another step toward completion. Not that there are doors on, I have to say they look a whoel lot better thnan open cabinets. A nice wood tone, matching the older lower cabinets.

And they're actually paneled doors - that's a real frame with a real panel in them. Thought Ikea would have been solid or something a little more generic. They have a 'soft close' hinge as well. You swing them closed as if to slam them, and it'll stop short of slamming and then ease closed. Nice, but it will take some getting used to. if you try and hand-close it all the way, it'll start resisting as you get close to the cabinet. And of course if you swing it closed without enough force, you get get an almost-closed cabinet door. After a few days I'll probably be used to them.

Some nice looking things to. Looks like actual wood. (The cabinets themselves are just laminate. The finger joint looks nice, and I actually have pulls this time - the old ones were jsut 'pull open from the bottom corner', so this is a nice change. Only thing left is the microwave. That should be next week...

Of course now I have to put things back in place. This is the perfect opportunity to get rid of stuff I haven't used in ages, but who empties their cabinets and cleans them out. Maybe pick up some of those mini-shelves for the smaller things inside. such excitement :)

Getting there - cabinet frames are up

Well, the cabinets are almost there. Late last week the missing cabinet (over the sink) was installed and they were all attached to each other. The doors should be installed early this week, meaning I can finally clear stuff off my dining room table and start to put everything back into it's place. I guess Ikea doesn't keep every style of door in stock - you can get any of several styles for each finish. I did have some basics on the shelves since Tuesday when the last cabinet was installed. just enough to cook with and make dinners without running into the living room to get things over and over, but cleared them out again so nothing gets knocked over during door installation. Not sure when Microwave is due.



The old cabinets were just screwed into the walls. These cabinets are attached to a bracket. As you can see, many lag bolts have been used to attach this bracket to the wall. The screw sticking out is where the 'late' cabinet was installed. it's eventually attached to another bracket in the cabinet as such



The sides of each cabinet are attached to such screws on the bracket. So every vertical piece pretty much isn't going anywhere. I don't think these will come off the wall. (those silver brackets are hidden by grey snap on pieces, as seen in the first picture.) I have to say there's a certain convenience to not having doors on cabinets. but I don't want anyone to see where the potato chips are, so i guess it's all for the best ;-)

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