Compare a piece of Baltic Birch plywood to anything you find at Home Depot. It is pretty self evident what the difference is. I've been buying plywood and building furniture and cabinets for over 30 years. I've watched HD plywood get thinner and thinner, lose plys, and get worse and worse as supply chains shifted to…

I've used all of the plywood I've seen that remotely approaches flat. Never found anything decent. Neither HD nor Lowes around me sells pre-finished plywood.

That (http://www.amazon.com/Ryobi-ZRP506-P…) is not an expensive circular saw. That is a POS. This is an expensive circular saw, but it is also the only one I'd buy again: http://www.amazon.com/Festool-561556…

We have a very different standard for accuracy. Speed squares are for making decks and framing.

If you intend to build furniture with plywood and don't have space for a traditional cabinet saw, invest in a Festool track saw and it will redefine what you think of as straight and square—sub-millimeter deviation over 5' with a zero clearance cutting edge to avoid splintering. Has the added benefit, when coupled…

I absolutely will not buy plywood at either Lowes or Home Depot—my only two "big box" store options. I get 5x5 sheets of Baltic Birch delivered from a hardwood supplier because of years of problems with Chinese plywood from hardware stores... Even the stuff that is supposed to be "premium" (their Sandeply and Maple…

Amazing. I have never, ever, seen plywood that flat and without voids from Home Depot. As for the "nice" Home Depot guy who made the big cuts, last time I had a sheet of oak veneer pre-cut at Home Depot the employee managed to jam the panel saw so hard it splintered the veneer 3" from the cut and his cut was off by…

These are database files—it isn't that Windows launches the wrong app, it is that the application I'm importing into will allow flexibility to define the fields used when importing a .txt, but when you pull in any file named .dat, it interprets the data as dBase data. Stupid, I know, but I can't change the fact that…

The only thing I seem to use the command line for is renaming the output of one data set I get—bunch of .dat files—to .txt so I can pull them into another program that insists on treating .dat files as dbase files or something. Command line makes it easy to do the whole directory at once—rename *.dat *.txt does the…

You say you don't feel cool when you carry it, but you feel compelled to point out how impressed people are—thus confirming my view this is manifestation of a very sixth grade attitude. I'm guessing you have a self-esteem problem.

I just started messing around with Rocksmith. So far, it seems pretty well thought through. We'll see how far it gets me.

Lawn care. Some people like, I hate it. My wife enjoys planting flowers, and I like planting a vegetable garden, but someone else can weed, edge, mow, rake, mulch and all that stuff. I'll shovel snow, but the predictable maintenance goes elsewhere.

Anyone know if this app (or any others like it) are web enabled so: (i) they sync across multiple devices and (ii) I can do form the lists with a real keyboard on a website instead of typing with my iPad?

I'm not assuming anything. Look at your comment from Monday at 11:09AM, where you explained that you carry this pick set because "[i]t helps a lot when I'm locked out of my house." So I'm just going to go ahead at this point and say you've confirmed you're full of shit.

A "security professional" that locks himself out of his house all time. And doesn't have a pick gun. Sure.

Oh give it up. You're trying to be cool by carrying something edgy and you want people to say "ooh, how cool," which is why you posted it in a public forum even though it is useless for 99.9% of the people in the world as EDC. And I'm going to guess that putting your housekey all by itself in your wallet might be a…

Pfft. You can't remember to carry keys, but will carry a lockpick multitool?

Any jolt significant enough to dislodge anything from a Grid-It is going to make falling objects the least of your worries. I run with scissors too. And chew gum and walk. Don't be such a pansy.

Let me try again. If you think this might possibly cause distraction or aggravate an accident, you probably ought to be living in a plastic bubble.

Wow. You probably shouldn't be driving at all.