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The man should be on TV all the time. Who doesn't love Tim Gunn?

Edited to add that I've misted up watching this show in both episodes so far.

I went all out and took the extended test:

1. Botanist
2. Business Systems Analyst
3. Microbiologist
4. Database Developer
5. Environmental Consultant
6. Ecologist
7. Marine Biologist
8. Biologist
9. Researcher
10. GIS Specialist

The FDA has an RSS feed for all the latest food recall news.

My poor computer's hard drive seemed to do some choking thing earlier this week when I tried to copy 5 GB of data to it...it started running really slow and then basically after the usual disk repair/reinstall system stuff (which took eight hours! That is not right), it just stopped booting at all. I was able to get it into target disk mode and get ( Read more... )

I'm making soft roman shades for the living room. Currently, the shades are these cheapo roller shades that I bought for $10 each at Pier One a few years back. The main problem with those, however, is that the dogs keep trying to nose the blinds out of the way so they can look through the window. That knocks the shade out of place and screws up the ( Read more... )

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Am standing in line for iPhone on Tom's behalf. Am I an idiot? I don't even want one myself.

If anyone is watching "On the Lot," we know one of the contestants! Tom has been working on a lot of projects for Mateen Kamet, one of the 50 contestants on the show. Tom edited the trailer for his submission movie ( Read more... )

I seem to have strained my right pinky finger over the weekend. I believe the injury was caused by holding these one-handed while reading all weekend. Pretty entertaining read, though.