@avatar003: C'est drôle, n'est-ce pas? ;-)

@mohkahn: This took me less than a minute with the Paint.NET plugin in my other post. I just used the lasso tool to roughly outline the areas I was interested in, put 'lightness' to 'set' with a value of '0' (to make any changes temporarily appear as black), then adjusted the controls on the right until the yellow…

I'm actually pretty surprised that nobody has posted about the Conditional Hue/Saturation Plug-in for Paint.NET. Pick the hue and saturation limits that you want to change, decide how you want to alter the hue, saturation, and lightness of those ranges, and Voila! You've just turned a blue bowl into a red one. …

For one thing, you don't have to have an igloo that's free-standing. A collapsible, cloth, '3/4 sphere' version could hang from a planter hook in the ceiling, then use the '1 1/2 twist' method to fold down into messenger bag-sized package, with a couple of velcro straps to hold it in place, making it both…

@shift123: Actually, you could make a gas version, with a honeycomb of burners. It would probably work a lot better and be much less expensive. If you make (most of?) the caps of the pressure switches thermistors, you can check and regulate the temperature under anything you put on it. The software would probably…

@architecturalize: I've tried using the back of a large, plastic store hanger advertising the release of the Wii. It's about 1*2m, and is easy to clean, but, because it is somewhat shiny, and it tends to hold creases, is less than ideal.

@DeadlyDad: I just checked, and found another useful trick; you can check to see if a particular volume is present with a single .cmd/.bat script command:

@Wafflemao: Here is a figurine I did a couple of years ago. The point cloud is dense enough to create a model out of it, though using the photos to create a texture for it would be a 'bear'.

One thing that occurred to me was security; you can keep your Wii locked in a cabinet and never have to worry about someone just walking away with it, and you can keep all of your games disks in a different secure location.

FYI, if you install Steam to an external drive, you can plug that drive into any computer and have access to all of your games; Steam is completely location agnostic. You can even have multiple people using the same Steam installation over a network with no problems.

@purplegreendave: A better option is to use mountvol to find out the actual volume name of the drive, and use that in place of the drive letter wherever possible. For example, right now on my system, \\?\Volume{672d540b-8458-11df-977f-001f8100011c}\Notes points to the same location as M:\Notes. If the next time…

@Hellaphunt: You wouldn't believe what a hassle it was to get them to leave my name off the list. I eventually had to force them to make the cutoff age 35 instead of 45. ;-)

I can't believe that someone didn't mention NDN, as it is simply the best orthodox file manager for Windows and Linux. I've been using it for over 15 years, and have yet to come across any OFM that does more to make my life easier, every single day.

"I'm not lying; I'm optimistically expounding upon one possible future state, using the present tense."

I bought a pair of Helium Digital HDBT-750's about 5 years ago, and find them to be absolutely perfect for listening to music on the go. No cords, great sound (A local audiophile/tech guru said that they had the best sound possible with bluetooth. So much so, in fact, that he wanted to become a dealer.), and battery…

@DeadlyDad: FWIW, here are links to torrents of tables:

@varun: That is probably just a generic furnace filter. Measure the largest size of hole you want to make, then head down to your local hardware store and find one to fit.

@Lite: an adventurer is me!: Yes.

@eggy78: If he worked for Microsoft, he would. :-D

Under the category of 'Go Big or Go Home', check out HyperPin. (It supports both Visual Pinball and Future Pinball, which have literally hundreds of tables available. ...and yes, both will run just fine on your regular computer and monitor.)