DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Erle-ismsMy ex-wife's father was infamous for this shit. He lost the cap on his brake fluid reservoir on his Saab- so he fitted it with a baby food jar lid. He broke the globe on the light by the driveway- so he painted the inside of a pickle jar white and stuck in on there. The little door that covered the headlight on his station wagon stopped raising because of a vacuum leak- so he propped it open with a stick.
My favorite? He had a Chrysler station wagon that kept blowing a fuse for the dashboard instruments. Since electrical problems in a car are notoriously difficult to fix, he wrapped the fuse in foil from a pack of cigarettes. Why is this my favorite? Because the next day it burned down to the axles in the front yard.
Numpty.
For years after he died I found these rigs all around the house. Bless his thick old skull...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 20 Aug 2009, 20:44,
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'it burned down to the axles in the front yard'hahahahaahahaha!
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HmmmLots of references to American cars...
then you use the Scottishism: Numpty
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Yeah...I picked that term up from here. It's become a favorite of mine lately.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 20 Aug 2009, 22:57,
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