Items are priced for craigslist. Friends and family can expect steep discounts so make me an offer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carb/sets/72157623997876795/

I participated in Dash 2009 a while back. It was a good time but I've had a little trouble describing the puzzles. Thankfully they posted them online, some of them are presented differently than we received them but they are the same for the most part ( Read more... )

Tracy and Jessica may remember this scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVI0u12m-Ng

My roomba lost its mind recently and started endlessly circling in a tight 1ft loop. Taking it apart and cleaning the bumper and other components brought it back to life for about 30 minutes before it started failing again. 6 months out of it's year warranty I took it back to costco ( Read more... )

I'm working on a project that requires a small digital camera. This camera has a high likelihood of being destroyed when I take it apart. Let me know if anyone has an old digital camera they'd like to sell for cheap or whether I'm better off heading to rite aid and taking apart one of their one time use cameras.

The recent business version of the Dell Mini 9 got released a few weeks ago. This is particularly cool because it integrates the neat webcam and bluetooth features and has the same internals of the super hackable Mini 9. Folks have installed OS X on them and modded them to do some pretty cool stuff (Read more... )

I'm a pretty liberal guy in comparison to most of the US. I tend to take the devil's advocate position to the extreme a little too often but I vote solidly democratic (like my parents) and take out my recyclables once a week ( Read more... )

Democratic Method - Loosely sort your collection from best to worst. Invite your friends over and have them shift movies ( Read more... )

If you work in any sort of computer related job at one point or another you'll be responsible for some sort of downtime. This can range from something small and isolated like someone's workstation being fubarred all the way up to taking down a mission critical system that millions of customers/users interact with and depend on. When dealing with ( Read more... )

Clint Eastwood is the crochetiest, most racist old man ever...