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Pictures, Invites, and Question

May 11, 2008

Pic­tures! This is my entry in the Col­or­Wars reverse-caption con­test: It was warm and sunny this after­noon.  Every­one was enjoy­ing it. It’s amaz­ing what a lit­tle work and less than $20 worth of sup­plies from the hard­ware store can do to get you more orga­nized.  This is my “net­work closet” (you can’t really see the […]

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In which we discover $(new drill) < $(replacement battery)

December 23, 2007

I have had my Makita cord­less drill since about 2000.  The bat­ter­ies have been real troop­ers.  Recently, the two bat­tery packs it came with had only been able to hold about 5 min­utes of charge each, but with two packs, it was usu­ally enough if you act quickly.  Get­ting new bat­tery packs has been on […]

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The Make Bomb Defuser

November 3, 2007

I am now ready to cut the red–NO, GREEN!–wire, thanks to my Make Mag­a­zine Bomb Defuser.  Yes, Make has a laser etcher and along with lap­top lids, they are find­ing all sorts of things to etch.  This thing was part of a birth­day present to myself (well, I guess it’s tech­ni­cally from my par­ents, as […]

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