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  • Banana Sharpener

    With this equipment, you can store bananas on any convenient vertical surface. Nice.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • How I spent my Friday

    Wasn’t quite as much hassle as I expected.

  • 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…