Comments | bababouy: getting the most for your money

bababouy

getting the most for your money

May 20, 2006 00:12

Just went to do a load of laundry and realized I was terribly short on quarters. The washing machines here are crappy and charge 5 quarters to boot. The dryer is only slightly less crazy charging 4 quarters. That makes a load of laundry $2.25 in quarters, not something to undertake without a change machine. Which happens to be the case ( Read more... )

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scrsteven May 20 2006, 05:06:42 UTC

Wow, and I thought campus was bad for 1.50 a load total. I'll be around all summer I think so drop me an IM or call to get together some time.

bababouy May 20 2006, 17:43:14 UTC

indeed

zackman986 May 20 2006, 06:02:46 UTC

There's that debug menu that doesn't actually do anything...

So I've been working on a rubiks cube lately. I can solve it pretty easily with this 7 step manual that came with it but I get stuck when trying to solve the middle layer without the instructions because the algorithm doesn't make much sense to me. Anyway, that made me think of you.

bababouy May 20 2006, 17:46:14 UTC

ah, I only have two moves I do for the middle
are there more for you?
and do you solve top down or bottom up? because bottom uppers are freaks (but that seems to be how the guides tend to teach, as least the one henkle had in the day)

also I dont know if I had told you but I got a 5x5x5 cube, it was crazy... Solving it was partial luck I think, as I got down to three misplaced pieces three times but could only fix a 2-problem scenario, but the fourth time I tried it ended up in a 4-problem scenario that simplified to two 2-problem ones :)
i've yet to try since then, as it stole four days of my life one winter break :)

richard_iii May 20 2006, 15:30:17 UTC

hey andy go to the sunbay office, the crazy women there will change your dollars bills into quarters (they have buckets of em there) without forcing you to buy soda.

richard_iii May 20 2006, 15:30:54 UTC

oh, and my laundry room has 1 dollar wash and 75 cent drying, so maybe check the nearby laundry rooms to see if they are cheaper

bababouy May 20 2006, 17:46:39 UTC

wierd, are the rooms run by different people?

richard_iii May 20 2006, 22:10:49 UTC

its all run by the office, basically they take the quarters out of the machines and then trade them back to you for cash. i think yours might be more cause yours seemer newer. or maybe its cause there are fewer of them (supply and demand!)

mindofatrekker May 20 2006, 16:46:45 UTC

hmmm maybe they changed the way the machines work, or maybe your machine was just recently empty...because I know when I lived in southgate when they had the quarter system and I need quarters I would just grab whatver change I had stick in the vending machine and most of the time it would give me a quarter when I pressed the return button.

lies_and_theft May 20 2006, 17:26:06 UTC

I find that some machines will make change for you if you insert your dollar press a selection that is sold out and then hit return.

Or sometimes if you hold down the change return while you input your dollar it breaks it up.

mmm bababouy May 20 2006, 17:48:18 UTC

hmm the sold out option is interesting, I will wait for the thing to have one sold out just to try it... though i wonder if it sells enough to ever sell out

Re: mmm scrsteven May 20 2006, 18:04:20 UTC

Maybe you'll have to drop $10 on buying out one type of soda..and then it'll be all quarters forever! Or at least until the guy comes to restock it the next day.