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Tue, 27 Apr 2010

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

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Mon, 26 Apr 2010

I love it when I get the chance to work from home. The food is good but the service sucks. (whole wheat basil pesto + chicken parm w/swiss)

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Fri, 23 Apr 2010

Anybody make gigantic anti-glare stickums for glossy macbook screens? (like for iPhones?) I’m tired of being able to do my hair in my screen.

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SketchUp Makes Closets Nicer

In my quest to get the office put together (and get the printer, cable modem, wireless router and external hard drive out of the master bathroom), I’d like to put some extra shelves into the office closet.

proposed closet design

After taking a bunch of physical measurements and some liberal use of the “tape measure” tool in sketchup, I came up with the above design. I’m indecisive on whether to consistently use cleats attached to the wall or stick with the uber-simple 3” post as drawn above.

Posts mean there is nothing permanently affixed to existing structure but you’d have to disassemble the shelves anyway to get it out of the closet (no other way to rotate the main shelf and legs to get it out of the doorway.

An undermounted cleat (like your regular closet shelf) on the non-printer side is an easy compromise and frees up a bit of usable space where the legs would have been. I still think I like the four posts under the printer but I might end up putting cleats on the post to support the main shelf and undershelf (the top shelf I imagine just screwing straight down into the top of each post).

If you have an opinion speak now or forever hold your peace.

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Fri, 16 Apr 2010

I used to love the school library and their books on castles, especially with maps and pictures. How Castles Work: http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/sysk/2010-04-15-sysk-castles.mp3

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Mon, 12 Apr 2010

Swedes are widely considered to be atheists because assembling their furniture doesn’t make you want to take the lords name in vain. #ikea

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Thu, 01 Apr 2010

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12:09 CST | category / entries / tweets
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