A Columbia University professor, dumpster diving into NYC Sanitation Department records, has found a number of counterintuitive things about the amount of garbage we’ve been throwing out of the past … Continue reading »
Testing out the new bookmarking regedit hack for IE6 I mentioned earlier. I wanted to get a reference in there for this old Slate article on UFC for some … Continue reading »
So we have a car now. I have no idea how to fix things if there are problems, as most of what I know apparently comes from Junkyard Wars, … Continue reading »
Ah, someone posted a way to post URLs to b2 using a right-click in IE. I haven’t tried it yet, but will in a couple more days. Here’s … Continue reading »
I’m finally getting the ceilings in the bedroom and bathroom replastered. They were damaged in 1998, a few months after I moved in, when the then-upstairs neighbor overflowed the … Continue reading »
The badly installed stereo is also only a tape deck, which is OK, since we have all the wiring to plug in the MP3 player, but alternatively, for less than … Continue reading »
1997 Honda Civic LX, with about 55K miles for $5400. A previous owner went through a little trouble putting mods into it, such as a thumpy exhaust system, a … Continue reading »
These were posted on rec.arts.movies.reviews, so they’re archived on groups.google.com. I may try to bring them down for local storage, but it’s a bit of a pain right now, since wget … Continue reading »
Here’s a hack to get sticky posts, where marked posts will stay at the top of the sort order. This was implemented this afternoon to keep the “first post” up.