Doctor Who Doctor Review: Colin Baker
Michael Hightower Oh Colin Baker, who’s fault are you? I had wondered before starting in with his episodes if I would agree with the common wisdom that he’s the worst of the…
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Doctor Who Doctor Review: Peter Davison
Time for another Doctor Who Doctor Review: Peter Davison I’m waiting to watch the last available Patrick Troughton episode before I review him, and still have season 16 of Tom…
Doctor Who Doctor Review: Jon Pertwee
I’ve just finished watching all of the Jon Pertwee episodes of Doctor Who. While there are no bad doctors, per se, I find his portrayal to be one of the…
Handy Milk Substitution Chart
For those times when you’ve got two milks and need something else…. Add the following to 1 cup of skim milk to approximate 1 cup of: 1% Milk: 1.5 tsp…
Emco Compact 5 Mill/Lathe
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…
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…