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The kitchen sink has been dripping for ages and Rich finally got tired of it. That and he discovered that the deep basin we'd put under the sink to catch any leaks had about 2 gallons of water in it. Not good at all. So he took the sink apart, thinking he would need to… Continue reading

We have learned to fold t-shirts. Last summer, we found this wonderful short movie depicting the not-so-ancient Japanese (?) technique of t-shirt-foldong. Wow. We were, to say the least, impressed. Also mind-boggled. How did she do that? Well, today, Rich stepped through the "miracle" part (ain't QuickTime wunnerful?) and when I got home he gave… Continue reading

Fun for technoids ** 😉 1111111111 translates to Thursday, March 17th 2005, 17:58:31 (GMT -8) Online Tools: Unix Timestamp Convertor ** The Unix date/time is stored inside the computer as the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970. Continue reading

My dental hygienist found a cavity at my recent cleaning 😦 I had it filled today. I do not "do" novacaine. I do not like to be stuck with a red-hot railroad spike, then have my lip be numb for the next four hours. I take nitrous. Nitrous oxide is a very safe and popular… Continue reading

Spam is a plague, a disaster, a dreadful ramification of the Information Age, a torrential onslaught on the email inboxes of all right-thinking and innocent people. It can also, on occasion, be fun. Sometimes we have to take our amusement where we find it. One of my "favorite" recent spam techniques is the effort to… Continue reading

Two weeks after signing up for the Junior Achievement program, all Company volunteers trooped over to the "sponsored school" one afternoon to meet the teachers whose classes we'd be working with. I had a few new feelings of trepidation, not being quite sure if the teacher was really happy with this program (or confident in… Continue reading