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I own pets because the crumbs on my floor aren't going to clean themselves.

I use templates I made for blank sheet music. I have versions for piano and instrumental scores.

My wife bought me a telescope when I was taking the astronomy class. Before I knew what to look for, sky scoping was just a bunch of dots. But then I used SkyGazer software, which came with my textbook. I found Saturn a couple of months ago and Jupiter last week.

This is great. I have a growing interest in star gazing after recently finishing a semester of Astronomy in collage. I picked up a few books but none were so clear about how to find specific objects and constillations.

@Josh Smith:

I'm using all my vacation days and personal days this year. Last year I had five days that I needed to use up or I'd lose them so I made them into a bunch of three day weekends.

I just checked out all the other blogs and Lifehacker is the best newsgroup on that list.

Since I don't have a mobile web device I'll have to find an internet cafe first.

This ball trick works fine on a bicycle. I can hop on and pedal away without worrying about any pesky door lock. Thanks tennis ball.

I prefer to run out of Best Buy with a handful of my favorite CDs, alarm blasting, and angry security guards at my heels. There's just something special about opening shrink wrapped products.

Don't nap for less than 15 minutes or more than 45. Anything outside that will screw up your sleep patterns. Advice from a psychology finishing a master's degree.

It gave me a page of useless results when I typed in "Tivo to DVD."

When I was a teenager, a drummer friend of mine rented a garage in a garage complex, padded the walls with carpets and mattresses, and ran lights from a gas powered generator and 100' chord that he wheeled out behind a dumpster at the back of the complex. That worked out well for him.

I'm glad to know that the Pentagon's communication system is now back to switchboard operators with ear pieces patching chords into a big panel, and the offices are populated with 1970's telephones that have rotary dials with actual bells for ringers.

Paint a wall with an image of a much larger room.

Are there mod instructions for wearing this giant laptop clock around your neck, a-la Flava Flav?

I have that same Altec Lancing subwoofer, lots of utilized space under my desk, and too much hardware floating around. It's a sign!

Here's what I have to say:

I made myself a little flashcard Visual Basic application that I use for studying for tests in college. It loads up texts files which I create that's full of questions and answers, and randomly asks the questions as text and voice (using a text to speech component). To get the answer, I either click a button on my app…