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• Commented on Anti-energy drinks
  Valerian + Melatonin = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  I tried a natto sushi roll once because I like sushi and don't eat meat. How bad was it? Instead of nori it should have been wrapped in Charmin....
• Commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
  I work at an elementary school near Detroit. Today we had a meeting about snow removal. Our walkways will be clear but once again Detroiters will have to pick their way through the drifts and along unplowed streets. And people...
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  I actually kind of like the idea of Lady Blahblah the former governor of a cold place soaking up a lot of media attention. She's a harmless dead end and the hours the MSM spend on her are lost to...
• Commented on Shackleton's Antarctic whisky found
  My step brother is in Antarctica for 6 months repairing heating boilers*. When he gets back I'll ask him if word of this reached him. * Yes, the jobs situation in MI - highest unemployment in the country - really...
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  Many things that taste good smell bad. Try to get a kid to eat bleu cheese. They can't get it past their nose. Steve Don't Eat It is a hilarious column about icky foods, as mentioned above. His post about...
• Commented on Make Volume 20 features Adam Savage
  I just read the full article and it's really interesting. Savage's life basically has been devoted to inventing and making stuff since he was a kid. It's quite inspiring....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  I don't like Yoplait anything. It's all too gluey and viscous to seem like food. I haven't had it in a while, but from my experiences with the Dannon Coffee flavor I can +1 that....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I showed this to D.R., a third grade teacher in Birmingham MI public schools. After staring at it for 7 minutes she declared "Clear as mud but it covers the ground."...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Elementary school kids are pretty smart and mentally flexible. I've seen science tests for 3rd graders that were logically difficult and they breezed through them. Kids have the advantage that they haven't yet been taught that there's one fixed way...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  From what I understand one problem some elementary students have is not that the parents can't do the kids' homework but that they DO do the homework. Good grades on lessons, lousy grades on tests....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I work at a good elementary school. I'll show this to a first grade teacher. If she pauses for more than a 3 count before explaining it I'll know it's junk....
• Commented on Make Volume 20 features Adam Savage
  Stuff that I make gets lent out, but generally I'm making audio gear. If I have trouble getting it back I know I'm on to something. Other people can be objective and that's useful....
• Commented on Make Volume 20 features Adam Savage
  Also me. I'm in there on page 146 with a short article on modding stereo speakers. I'm right after how to train your cat to poop in a toilet. It's my first magazine article and I'm very grateful to Mark...
• Commented on Bike outfited with one-cylinder engine
  Motor conversions for cycles are available as kits for around $140. They're pretty easy to do. I'm too lazy to Google this. They're 2-stroke cycle engines. The dirtiest and most inefficient power source short of igniting a coal seam to...
• Commented on Science Question from a Toddler: All Eyes on the Turtle
  That looks like my Eastern Box Turtle named Porky. And yeah, they're deranged....
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  I use Hubbel Hospital Grade outlets. They're rugged enough to last forever and really hold on to the plug. I bought a few boxes of surplus ones on eBay and the last time we had a power blackout I went...
• Commented on Joey Roth on design
  I'd quibble with the speaker connectors as well. As a matter of safety I never use all metal connectors any more where significant voltage and low impedance is present. They can get shorted together too easily and who knows how...
• Commented on Chumby kits for sale in Maker Shed
  Okay. I got the Chumby Guts in the mail a while back and just got around to assembling the thing today. It's electrically complete and works as assembled without the case. It took very steady hands, tweezers and some teensy...
• Commented on Joey Roth on design
  This system is pretty good technically. The TB driver is a very decent performer and Tripath 'digital' amps have the respect of a lot of critical listeners. There's no reason this shouldn't sound significantly better than typical powered speakers and...
• Commented on Props of Mad Men
  Right or wrong, the Selectric is one awesome business machine. We bought a Correcting Model 2 in 1982 for a price that today would purchase a desk full of decent laptops....
• Commented on Disney gags on "Ho White" beer
  Buy it while you can for the collector value. It's about to get banned, recalled and erased from the history books....
• Commented on Sympathy for the Lamprey
  I've fished the Great Lakes and have seen the horrible damage that the parasitic ones can do to a salmon or lake trout. It's an image you can't un-see. OTOH, invasive alewife fish are cute. For Christmas I bought the...
• Commented on Tone Balls -- dust bunnies that collect in guitar bodies
  Elderly goes back a generation. Used to shop there in the '70s. Very respected in the stringed instrument world. I wonder if they still have that awesome one of a kind harp guitar that used to be on display....
• Commented on The Lost Art of Cable Lacing
  I knew I shouldn't have looked at this. I just finished the internal wiring for a new audio amplifier project. I used twist/braid for the AC wires but this would be so much cooler. Thanks, Gareth....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  takuan...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  It's all changed and different! It can't change. It has to be just the way I expect it to be. So unfair!...
• Commented on A Song To Celebrate
  Dizzy... confused... must get to Untitled 1......
• Commented on Boneshaker: Cherie Priest's swashbuckling steampunk Seattle story
  "rogue zeppelin pilots, armored giants, and steam-powered cyborg barmaids" ?!? The man knows how to pitch a sale. I'm intrigued....
• Commented on Honda's U3-X is the new segway
  I can see uses for that. I worked in a building where it was a one mile walk to lock all of the outside doors and another mile 5 hours later to unlock them. People used to drive a huge...