2021

This is my non-machinist method for tramming my drill press (making sure the bed is 90 degrees to the chuck).

I’ll take any help I can get scrubbing my stove, inclusive of a Dremel brush arbor.

I prefer my pocket knives to be clipped to my belt, but the Fällkniven U4 doesn’t have a clip. Fortunately there’s nothing you can’t do with 3M VHB (very high bond) tape.

Dulse is the potato chip of the sea.

For those of you who eat peanut butter that needs stirring: store your peanut butter upside-down. It reduced my stirring time from ~10 minutes to ~1 minute. All credit for this idea goes to my partner, but she doesn’t have a blog so I’m writing here because people need to know.

Looking over my old 3d-printed designs, this is my favorite: www.thingiverse.com/thing:140… . Convert any table into a drafting table with a rolling paper surface! I was particularly proud that it can be entirely 3d-printed on a small bed.

Words of encouragement from Frederick P. Brooks, Jr:

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

For all of the vegan, gluten-free, non-fermented folks out there, my killer condiments are Bragg’s soy aminos for salty/funky, coconut aminos for sweet, and freshly-squeezed lemon, sumac, or pomegranate molasses for acid.

Try cutting sugar entirely out of your diet and replacing it with more vegetables. You’ll be so well-adjusted you won’t know what to do with yourself.