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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GCSE Physics winThe one thing I actually took away from GCSE-level Physics was how to wire a plug. For some reason, the knowledge has become deeply embedded in my psyche; for the most part it's fairly useless apart from as proof for my male friends that, despite being a girl, I have some uses. I can also change lightbulbs, but I digress.
A few years back, I had a friend whose family dynamic was best described as volatile. This friend's mum once gave her a video player, but only after she'd cut the plug off with a pair of nail scissors. No, I don't know why.
This is why, aged about 16, in a small council bedsit full of gerbils, I finally got to make full use of my plug-wiring expertise. As my friend - for reasons unfathomable - did not own even a small toolkit, I wired a plug using only a pair of kitchen scissors and a butterknife. It worked, too.
(, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:08, 3 replies)
Whatother implements could you use to wire a plug? The butterknife/scissors method was the only one ever used in my house. (not so much any more as things usually come with plugs attached)
(, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 22:15, closed)
WowCan you boil an egg and make toast too?
(, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:09, closed)
True storyI have never boiled an egg. I make a bitchin' osso buco, though.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 1:58, closed)
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