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Commented on Magic Mouse
Difference Engineer (#4) asked, so I'll answer: my favorite mouse is the VerticalMouse from Evoluent. It keeps my wrist in a handshake pose, rather than pronated like most mice. Very comfy once you get used to it....
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Commented on Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's
libraryboi, here's part of Douglas Coupland's description of Fry's from his book Microserfs: "Near the EPROM shelves, Karla, Todd, and I were marveling at the pyramids of Hostess products, the miles of computing magazines, the cascade of nerdiana lifestyle accessories:...
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Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
I love Galco's! Mr. Nese guided me toward an incredible ginger beer, Jamaica's Finest. They had toned down the heat at one point and he got them to amp it back up under a new name, Jaimaica's Finest Hot! Hot!...
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Commented on Brand New discusses our logo
I say kern it, Mark! http://www.understandingmaya.com/blog/?p=192...
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Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
Impressive! I had a college professor show us how to blow the bottom off a glass beer bottle with a similar trick, just in reverse....
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Commented on Film decors by the Brothers Quay
Your post reminded me of this: the Brothers came to do a lunchtime talk for us a few years back at Disney, and at one point one of them said that cutting off the ends of deer antlers smells just...
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Commented on Big-ass flying boats full of water save LA from fiery doom!
That's an excellent story title, Xeni!...
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Commented on Man spent $7 million in bogus currency made with cheap inkjet printer
That was a neat article. Most shocking thing to me was the 9 year sentence he received. If the RIAA were running the Secret Service he'd be serving 10 life sentences!...
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Commented on Aliens invading vintage postcard scenes
Here is Monocol's collection of "Woodgills": http://www.monocol.com/paint/...
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Commented on Aliens invading vintage postcard scenes
That's fantastic. Here's another practitioner: http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.32655925.jpg...
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Commented on Building a mystery box
@Takuan, nice side benefit of building the box was actually CLOSING a nasty hellgate we had in the living room. @stratojoe, You hit the nail on the head: John's willpower is the only thing that needs loosening to open the...
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Commented on Mark on The Martha Stewart Show, May 18, 2009
I'm so excited about this Mark. Thanks to the "Jpixl" lettering on the base of my espresso tamper, I expect my blog will be inundated with Google-savvy Martha fans :)...
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Commented on New nerd merit badge: Inbox Zero
I could only honestly wear on that says "Inbox != 0"...
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Commented on Del the wooden-machine-maker's latest hand-cranked wondermental gewgaw
Respect! That was definitely a wonderful thing....
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Commented on Onion video nails gadgets and marketing
Respect to the designer who made the brilliant fake labyrinthine menu graphics!...
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Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 2
That's beautiful. The shack is leering at me....
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Commented on Playing my Widower Card
Charles Platt, that's a fantastic card. Doubt I would ever play it, but it would be nice to have one just in case....
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Commented on Gareth in no-man's land
Awesome, Gar, looking forward to it!...
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Commented on Hodgman and Coulton tonight in Los Angeles (Nov 13, 2008)
It was everything I wanted it to be! Anyone know who the plant was? He was perfect....
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Commented on Photo gallery of female body builders
Watch the video link -- hearing the photographer talking with his subject is very interesting. It changed the impression I'd formed after being freaked out by the still photos, making me feel less judgmental toward them....
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Commented on Make: television preview
Thanks Simplebot! I was told by someone at PBS that the whole show will be available online as well as broadcast. -JP...
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Commented on Take on Me: literal video version
I'm crying. That was fantastic. The overdubbed dialog during the chase was perfect....
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Commented on Man on TV shocked by grapes
Kurtmac, that's precisely what I expected, too. I'm still laughing at that expectation, as well as what actually happened....
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Commented on <em>Esquire</em> to geeks: hack our e-paper magazine cover
Would you could consider hanging onto the cover to hack it as a form of recycling, Teamshadowboat? If you did want to chuck the whole thing recyclers would need to probably deal with the cover, eInk circuitry/screen, battery, and paper...
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Commented on Learn to build a network-attached storage out of old PCs tonight in LA
The class was a blast -- Ryan cleared up a lot of confusion I had about some fundamental networking concepts. The practical, hands-on portion was great. By the end of the night my old PC had a new lease on...
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Commented on Learn to build a network-attached storage out of old PCs tonight in LA
I'll be going to the class, to finally turn my Mini-ITX based machine into something useful. I'll post a follow-up here tomorrow....
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Commented on Kyocera Mandoline Gets Two Thinly Sliced Thumbs Up
I have a mandoline in my kitchen that I love and fear in equal amounts. My wife used it on a whim two weeks ago and sheared the end of her thumb off. She got eight stitches and made me...
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Commented on Apple Must Be Outsourcing Its Customer Service for Christmas
My Apple support guy yesterday was not only confused, confusing, and hard of hearing, but he had an almost laughably bad case of Laryngitis. It would have been comical to listen in on us going back and forth about my...
