Auction - Birds Eye Sheoak OM Set

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:37 pm

Thanks to Tim Spittle for his generosity in donating this set of Birds Eye Sheoak which will be suitable for an OM.

Highest bidder before noon on Saturday 31st.

Shall we start the bidding at $20

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:12 pm

I'll see you're $20 and raise you another $10.

xray · Post by **xray** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:57 pm

$50 thanks bob

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:05 pm

Have I mentioned that I quite fancy sheoak? $80

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:03 pm

An opportunity to buy tonewood & call it charity? I think that you guys might be on to something here

$90
Steve

TimS · Post by **TimS** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:21 am

Just a correction Bob. The set is Birsdeye Sheoak. My apologies for the initial misdirection.

regards

Tim

Dennis Leahy · Post by **Dennis Leahy** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:30 am

Bastards!

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:05 am

Charity you say. In that case I'll want a tax receipt for $100.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:53 am

You have already demonstrated just how charitable you are with your group purchases Allen. I'm happy to help share the load

$110
Steve

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:06 pm

I've got to go out tonight and show a bunch of wanabe luthiers how to knock up a uke, but I wouldn't be able to sleep soundly afterwards without tossing another $10 on the bid. So it's back to you Steve at $120.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:18 pm

Bloody hell Allen. I was prepared to let you have it, but it's killing me thinking of you losing sleep, worrying about whether Bob's raised enough funds for the new server.

$125
Over to you.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:18 am

I've got just enough room on the shelf for this set. I promise to treat it well, and not allow it to burn in the North Queensland sun. I'm willing to stretch my bid out to $130, but I'm going to have to stay late at work and do a little overtime to help pay for it.

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:38 pm

So Allen can have an early night.......$150

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:25 pm

Too many Stella's Martin. They must have gone to you're head and you're imagining that this set is a lot nicer than it its. The only reason that I'd even consider going to $160 is that Bob's done his lot on the server upgrades, and is going to be eating beans for a month.

Poor old Bob. It's $160 to the rest of you that might have a charitable bone left in yer body.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:38 pm

Allen wrote: is going to be eating beans for a month.

Poooh.

Allen wrote:Poor old Bob.

Poor Bob! what about the rest of us that have to share a forum with him? Months worth of beans, it aint gonna be pleasant. For the love of god somebody bid more, spare us all & take one for the team.

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:49 pm

$170..at this rate Bob will be able to afford a Macpro....quad core intel chip.....and 7 fans to cool the fucker.

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:50 pm

^^^&&&&...at this rate the ANZLF will soon be running on a Cray.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:01 pm

kiwigeo wrote: $#*^...at this rate the ANZLF will soon be running on a Cray.

Blue Gene baby

The new ANZLF servers housed in the purpose built shed at the end of Bob's garden (had to evict the free loading fairies to make way for it tho).

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:05 pm

And about 10 TB of storage so you can upload all the pickies that you want.

$180

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:26 pm

190 Stellas...er..I mean dollars

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:30 pm

Nick O wrote:
kiwigeo wrote: $#*^...at this rate the ANZLF will soon be running on a Cray.
Blue Gene baby

The new ANZLF servers housed in the purpose built shed at the end of Bob's garden (had to evict the free loading fairies to make way for it tho).

"The Blue Gene/L supercomputer is unique in the following aspects:
Trading the speed of processors for lower power consumption."

Jeeez Nick...are you suggesting Bob should go for a Toyota Prius when what the ANZLF needs is a V8????

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:34 pm

Wimps talk in terms of terraflops........real men talk in terms of PETRAflops.

"Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Currently the world's fastest computer, the US$133-million Roadrunner is designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops, achieving 1.026 on May 25, 2008,[1][2][3] and to be the world's first TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops system. It is a one-of-a-kind supercomputer, built from off the shelf parts, with many novel design features.

In November 2008, it reached a top performance of 1.456 petaflops, retaining its top spot in the TOP500 list.[4] It is also the fourth-most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world on the Supermicro Green500 list, with an operational rate of 444.94 megaflops per watt of power used."

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:00 pm

Come on lads!!!!

Size isn't everything.

And I'd rather not have a Megaflop anyway.

seeaxe · Post by **seeaxe** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:44 am

Can I get one of those in a laptop version???

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:53 am

Whoa - the big fish has internet access again! I'm not going to be able to match it with you hard-lute'n & uke'n fellas.
Good luck & keep the bidding coming.
Steve

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