Author: jason
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Dirty Jobs Cancelation Commentary Round Up
More commentary (include Mike’s own in the last) on Dirty Jobs being canceled: ‘Dirty Jobs’ cancelled by Discovery Discovery Channel Cancels ‘Dirty Jobs’ A Turkey Without a Pardon: Bidding Farewell to Dirty Jobs Guess I need to start tracking down episodes on DVD, sniff.
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PSA – Wrong Jason
Turns out that another Jason Crowther (of Utah) recently passed away and folks are finding me instead of him. Thanks to the folks who reported this in comments on my recent post. You can find more details about the other Jason here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=jason-crowther&pid=161083498 Condolences to his family and prayers to God to help his friends…
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Banana Sharpener
With this equipment, you can store bananas on any convenient vertical surface. Nice.
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Hello to all my new friends!
Bots or otherwise… Mercy, that’s quite a spike. Easily most page views for a single day in the 8 or so years I’ve been running this blog. Most were on the home page, but a good chunk are on an archive page that’s pretty ordinary; mostly twitter updates, save for a few thousand word rant…
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A Little Overdone
Got distracted and my Bacon Balsamic Brussel Sprouts spent a little too much time in the oven. A little crispy, but still tasty none-the-less. Winged the recipe this time. Prepped bacon via the Perfect Bacon Method, recycled bacon grease to cook halved brussel sprouts. Added a little more olive oil and couple of shots of…
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Storage Wars
The latest in our ongoing battle to more effectively use the closet space in our house. There were some standards on the wall already but not sure if they ever had shelves on them because they were installed pretty bad. Way out of plumb and only screwed 1/8th inch into the studs.
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How I spent my Friday
Wasn’t quite as much hassle as I expected.
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The Magic Skittle Sorter – Cheezburger
The Magic Skittle Sorter. Ah, memories. I remember back to high school, in my Principles of Engineering class, where we tried to build a similar device for sorting marbles using FischerTechnik kits. They had a serial PC interface that was programmed with GW-Basic. I’m not sure if we were just too low tech, or the…
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Guy Puts a Volvo 240 Turbo Engine Into a Tractor, Goes Offputtingly Fast – Cheezburger
Guy Puts a Volvo 240 Turbo Engine Into a Tractor, Goes Offputtingly Fast – Cheezburger. Mechanically, awesome. But, equally impressive is the driver. Not every day you see burn outs and drifting in a tractor with 4′ mud tires.
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Meanwhile on 690E
Yeah I know it’s a dump truck being towed; but, still kinda scary to see a truck front end in wrong direction at highway speed.