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Mom has an aluminum iMac from last Christmas. This Christmas she got the little aluminum unibody Macbook Air. I thought I was going to need to split the ethernet cable from the satellite modem box, but then realized they could probably both use the AirPort Express, no new cables or splitters necessary. I couldn't get the old machine to grab onto it ( Read more... )

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I made mom a 132-piece maple and walnut end grain cutting board with a framed heart design. She had mentioned a week prior that she would like me to cut her out a 10" square board for her to cut vegetables on, and I decided to make something more pretty, like she makes her home. Now she won't use it. It's on a plate stand on the counter, being used ( Read more... )

Apparently it's a new hobby in Japan. I think we need a pool painted all black with some embedded LED stars.

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Here's an idea for speeding up everything on CSI, NCIS, and their many cousins and offspring ( Read more... )

I arrived in Philadelphia to 18°F weather just as the sun set. There are snow banks everywhere, and it's extremely fluffy. I used the flight to design out pretty much every part of one of the very next things I want to make when I get home. I always bring graph paper on flights and say "I'm going to use the flight to design "____" where "____" is ( Read more... )

My flight home to NJ from LA leaves in 12 hours. I'm mostly packed. I'll be back on January 4th ( Read more... )

Sometime a couple years back I brought a little deck of hastily created index cards - based on a trick I'd learned online - to a dinner with friends at The Cheesecake Factory (to mixed reviews). The 32 cards were numbered 0 to 31, and each had 5 holes punched across the top, registered to each other when stacked up. I had cut a slit from the edge ( Read more... )

I'll deep-link you to the important part. You can give up on it after the 12-movie trick ends a minute later. The rest of the 8 minutes is just explanation for some nerds on reddit who asked me about my multi-movie trickery.