I'll second this... I live in a large apartment building with shared heat and hot water heater. Both are out more often then they're on, we pay more than many of the apartments around us and were told it's because the water heater and unit heating was included in the rent. Now I just get to pay more for rent while…

Neodynium magnets while really strong compared to most cheap magnets still aren't that powerful once they're more than half inch away from something. The thickness of that board should be plenty to protect stuff sitting on the top shelf of it if they have magnetic media.

Black and White laser because I use it so little that an inkjet just clogs up and dries out by the next time I need it. I occasionally take a thumb drive to Fred Meyers to get a few pictures printed out on kodak paper and for larger format stuff I take it to one of my towns local print shops. Unless you're some kind…

My GOD! We've been looking power sources all wrong. Wind, wave, solar, nuclear and hydro all pale compared to the all mighty potato. It's an energy source, it makes decent vodka and throw it in the ground and it's somewhat self replicating. Sorry, I gotta go hit up some conspiracy theory websites now to confirm my…

Swipe? Swiiiipe!? How am I supposed to "hit" the buttons hard enough that it knows I'm getting pissed at the game. There really is no simple way to swipe angrily... yet.

Plug a couple electrodes into the potato and you could have a super futuristic self powering potato watch... we really are living in the future! </sarcasm>

I started doing this regularly a couple of years ago. I try to set aside the last five minutes of each day to write up a list of things I haven't finished that day and any major things happening the following morning. That way when I leave work I don't find myself constantly reminding myself of the things I need to…

I suspected, but didn't want to wander down that rabbit hole. Then I checked it out and lost an entire evening to it... you're a monster ;-P

The problem with Caprica being part of the Battlestar Galactica storyline was that you end up realizing the whole war with the cylons and humanity nearly being eradicated really boils down to a couple of highschool girls being narcissistic selfish assholes. That knowledge alone nearly ruined one of my all time…

A million times YES! This was how i described the movie to people. As a stand alone Sci-Fi movie it's not bad, there are a few really stupid parts that will drive you crazy but as a whole it was watchable, but if you going to watch it as a fan of Aliens and Predator and such... you're going to be very, _VERY_…

This is pretty close to the dumbest thing ever and you're paying a premium for it. Save a couple bucks and buy a Belkin outlet adapter and a cheap USB extension cable from Amazon or MonoPrice. Oh Hammacher Schlemmer, you always know how to take poop and add sparkles to it for the people with more money then sense.

If there is a "movie trope" site the giant-strechy-mouth-right-in-the-camera should be on that list of overused garbage. I got an idea, how about being authentically creepy/scary where you don't have to overly rely on cheap tricks to get a few audience members to jump in their seats. What's that, we're in a giant…

It's a shame we never really had a chance to recover after the great bedazzler wars of the late 80's. We lost a lot of good men and women to a product that should never have been released to the general public. That machine was only supposed to ever be used by figure skater fashion designers and moms with children…

The growing trend of anti-science viewpoints really isn't that surprising when you look at how much Americas pop culture fixates and even celebrates willful ignorance.

Nice! I actually know one of the main HVAC contractors in this town. I'll check with him the next time I see him. Thanks for the tip.

Now for the tricky part. Trying to find any of this locally in Juneau, Alaska.

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitly look into it plenum liner or fiberglass, my black egg crate foam is starting to get pretty beaten up with chunks missing in places and just kind of smells funky enough that a fabreeze bomb wouldn't dent the funktastic smell.

Great timing! A couple weeks ago I was talking with some friends about getting all my old emulators working on my HTPC and using the Xbox 360 wireless USB dongle for my PC so we can use my xbox controllers in MAME. It's been close to ten years since I used MAME and all the other emulators much. I'm really…

Absolutely right, but I'd say the same thing about movies, music, architecture and video games as well. There are a few pieces that create a high watermark for each genre, but most of it is too derivative and formulaic to inspire emotions beyond "meh".

I would love to put something like that on the back wall of my studio instead of the black egg crate styrofoam I'm currently using. I'm guessing it's also thousands of times more expensive than high density egg crate foam, although it also looks thousands of times better.