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2nd Amendment… amendment
You can protect yourself with a gun… well, maybe not so much.
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Better Inkscape Palettes
Inkscape is a great vector drawing tool, and perhaps my favorite opensource app. One reason being that it is much more polished than most opensource applications (I’m looking at you Gimp and OpenOffice!) But one area that is noticeably lacking is its set of default palettes. In a word, they’re horrid. Of the 18 available, […]
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Me a wuss? Yeah, pretty much
So, next time you see me out riding my bike and I come to a stoplight and do my little “look at me, I’m stopped, but not putting my foot down!” track-stand trick, just remind me of this video and call my out for the wuss that I am, okay?
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Postmark Hacking
Ever wished you could post-date a letter or envelope (or tax return)??? Turns out David Malki, who pens the very worthy Wondermark online comic, has been experimenting with the Automated Postal Centers. Apparently the post office hasn’t figured out that, to some people (like the IRS and landlords), the distinction between when a stamp is […]
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White Sewing Machine Manuals
See that picture? That’s about what it felt like as I was trying to track down the manual for the White #999 sewing machine I bought at a garage sale last week. I’ll explain below, but if you happen to find this page while on a similar search let me save you a bunch of […]