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Cool things for home remodels as seen on HGTV’s I Want That! show (which the tivo suggested, and Cam noticed as cool): Manhole cover floor tiles from Imagine Tile: Design 1 Design 2 Design 3 Very cool...

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No more phone books, please.

Last night saw the delivery of about 20 pounds of phone book to our front walk. The last time I used a phone book was … I honestly can’t remember. The only thing a printed telephone directory adds to...

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Local Indy Wrestling Promotions

This metafilter post reminded me that I’d been meaning to look into what sort of independent wrestling is available in the area. It turns out there’s more than I thought, including: + FTW Pro Wrestling...

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Dial-A-Human

Thanks to Dave (aka halos, aka jeffbadge) for pointing out this awesome resource compiled by the Seattle Times: Dial-a-human shortcuts: How to escape from automated phone-system hell (from the article...

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Washing Machine

November 5: Our washing machine leaves oil stains on clothes. Time to buy a new washing machine. November 6: Purchased a Whirlpool Duet 9150 front-loading washing machine at Almvigs. I specifically...

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Installing Xbox Media Center in 3 21 easy steps

I was up way too late last night figuring this out, mainly because all the xbox modding guides for n00bs expect you to be running Windows, and I’m using OS X. In the interest of preserving my sanity in...

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VHS to DVD again

I spent a good chunk of yesterday trying to recreate the process I’d used in August of 2005 to create a DVD from a VHS tape. I remember making that DVD being a fairly simple process, but apparently I...

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Meatless hot dogs?

I bought a few different types of meatless hot dog at Whole Foods the other day, because I like hot dogs, but I don’t want to support factory farming. So far, the results are not too promising. Smart...

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Handy rsync backup script

I'm using the following backup script to make live backups (like Time Machine) of a bunch of web sites, all of which live under /sites: #!/bin/sh date=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"` find /var/lib/mysql...

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How to open a Fisher-Price Record Player Music Box

If you have a Fisher-Price #995 Music Box / Record Player that you want to get open, you may have run into a problem with the screws holding it together. If yours is held together with regular phillips...

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Referer spam stats

In the last few days, I’ve seen a marked increase in the amount of referer spam in my server logs. The hits have come from 384 unique IP addresses so far, all of which I’m assuming are either...

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