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Let’s Bring Back Picture Rail

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Design
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...uter). I picked up some door and window casing at the Big Orange Store and used the dado set to cut a groove in the back of the molding. Put it up and pick up some picture rail hooks and you’re ready to hang art. Picture rail hooks come in a variety of sizes and we had to test a few to find the right fit. The picture rail hooks fit standard, rounded picture rail better than my DIY effort, but my improvised picture rail works okay. New picture rail...

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So Much Stuff

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...g at pictures of estate sales as a way of reminding me of the importance of doing with less. Think of this as a gentler form of the late Medieval cadaver tomb. There’s nothing like a pile of seldom used glassware or blank stationary dating the 1960s to scare you away from a trip to Costco or make you want to drive a stake into the cold, vampyric heart of Adam Smith....

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I Fix It: A Guide for Repairing Electronic Devices

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Tools
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...ully I found some repair instructions on IFixIt, a handy website that I’ve used many times in the past. IFixIt posts repair instructions for everything from faulty Roombas to cracked iPhones. They’ve even posted directions lifted from Apple’s top secret repair manuals, thereby invoking the ire of the vengeful ghost of Steve Jobs. In the case of my sticky Trackpad, IFixxIt’s instructions guided me through removing the back panel and adjusting a scr...

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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

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...as easy to make as boosters said 2 years ago. Also, looks like they’ll be used to automate and deskill the heavily unionized transportation sector: https://t.co/cCYUu2POXy v — david a banks (@DA_Banks) January 5, 2019 Happy National Bird Day. Starling murmurations function through chaos theory and critical mass mathematics, but they also wander into the realm of poetry, imagination, and spirit. Look up! https://t.co/b9LryeadcQ — Lyanda Lynn Haupt...

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Ham Radio vs. GoTenna

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Preparedness
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...ly answer that question. I will say that ham radio has a few pluses and minuses. In order to use a ham radio you have to get a license which isn’t that hard especially since you no longer need to know Morse code. You are not supposed to use ham radio for commercial communication so if Johnny and I wanted to send messages over ham radio about our respective blogs that might be considered out of bounds. Of course, Johnny would also have to have a ha...

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