Emco Compact 5 Mill/Lathe
Michael Hightower I have an Emco Compact 5 Mill and Lathe combo I purchased from a friend. However, I’m not sure what standard fittings it uses. So, I’m using this page to…
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Chicago Pizza Recipe
PrintChicago Pizza Recipe Prep Time: 6 hours, 30 minutesCook Time: 30 minutesTotal Time: 7 hours Serving Size: 9" pan serves 2 people. 12" pan serves 4. This Chicago deep dish…
Getting closer to importing Emax disks into my ESI-32
For a while now I’ve been trying to find a way to recover my old Emax floppies. Here’s the deal: The ESI-32 can import Emax stuff but can only do…
Tom SwiftKeys (by Karen Brown Brown Brown Small Sauce Pan)
A while ago my friend John and I were playing with SwiftKey on our Android phones and made a game out of letting it finish our sentences for us. The…
Think You Know What the ‘BA’ in BA Baracus Stands For, Fool?
Below is a Facebook exchange from yesterday that got a li’l silly. I first posted this: Then my friends and I kept this joke going (I’ve shortened their names and…
Kurzweil K2000 Service Manual and Other Data
I’ve started working on repairing the messed up K2000 I got for $25 from Guitar Center. There was a service manual available online, but it was just an image scan.…
Batch renaming files using Excel
Pardon the repost of the internet, but this is a handy trick that I occasionally forget. I’m putting it here to remind myself, really. Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel…
Print Directory Listing
Have you ever needed to print a list of all the files in a directory? Sure, we all have. But unless you’re a DOS kind of person it’s a real…
New Personal Jingle: Chris Schoen
This one’s going out to my friend, Chris Schoen. He’s a master of wearing cardigans, which, sadly, I couldn’t shoehorn into this track.
Odd book find: Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought, 1898
While packing up our books I came across something I didn’t know we had: Horace Fletcher’s “Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought” from 1898. It’s a self-help book that…
Replicating a Word Checkbox
Need to autopopulate a Word checkbox in a form, but can’t actually use one of the content controls for some reason? Good news: You can use MS Reference Sans Serif…
Testing adding a YouTube link
Just trying out adding a YouTube link using the Ultimate TinyMCE editor for WordPress: Looks like it works, yay!
Trying a SoundCloud plugin
One of the things I think I like about WordPress so far is the ease of adding plugins. Here is a SoundCloud plugin that links to the latest music I’ve…
Welcome!
Welcome to the new mphtower.com. I’m switching to WordPress from Joomla with the hope of making this easier for me to manage. We’ll see how this goes! You can still…
Remove XML/HTML Tags from a Document
Here’s a useful trick to remove XML, HTML, or any other tags from a document using Notepad++: Find: <+> Replace: Be sure to have your cursor at the start of…
Batch renaming/PowerShell Here context menu
Here are some handy tricks for batch renaming files and for printing a directory listing of files. First, download the PowerShell Here executable: powershellhere Batch Renaming Files Using PowerShell (included…