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The frog in the attic

Basic Knife Skills

Basic cutting skills. Check it out, save your fingers.

How To Learn Basic Knife Skills from Apartment Therapy: The Kitchn on Vimeo.

Volume Widget

I love useful system widgets. Sometimes they're packaged with laptops or new computers, but for us roll-your-own folks there aren't many preinstalled options for bypassing Windows controls.

I was reading over on LifeHacker today about a nice little volume control tool called 3RVX. Simply put it's a volume controller. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that it's skinnable and will configure hotkeys for you. I've got mine set to use Windows+scroll wheel, up or down does the expected and a click will mute the sound.

You can download it here:

http://matt.malensek.net/software/

Did your food preparer wash their hands?

Sarah and I walked into a Subway a few nights ago and observed the sole employee rolling up a very wet, salty, disgusting floor mat while on the phone. The employee’s call ended with a few foreign words and the sound of sucked teeth. She then walked around behind the counter and put the phone away.

 

I observed the employee very carefully as she had just been handling the rubber mats. She made it to the sink, but not to the soap. Her hands darted under the running water as if she was washing sand off her fingertips. No soap, no amount of time, just a quick flick under the tap. A pair of gloves were handled, and instead of looking at them to be careful not to contaminate them, she rubbed her hands all over the surface that was about to touch my unmade sandwich.

 

“Whart kind of surb would you lirke?” the foreign lady asked me.

 

“Actually… I’ve changed my mind, we’re going grocery shopping instead.”

 

We saved a few bucks and didn’t get the shits from Subway in Kildonan Crossing that night.

 

Radiator under the counter

I have a hot water radiator that the previous owner thoughtfully
installed a countertop overtop of. The heat used to absorb into the
countertop and dissipate out through the exterior wall.

To remedy this, I've installed foil backed bubble wrap on the
underside of the counter. Now the hot air rolls right out into the
middle of the room where the counter top ends instead of being
absorbed into the wood.

Future herb garden

Update: Google Expansion

Well I've got 200GB of Google-Room now. Time to backup those photographs.

 

In addition they're sending me a special little prize that Sarah will like at some point :)

Busy?

I can tell when I've been busy based on what time of the day I actually get around to reading http://www.lifehacker.com