So, I'm such a dork that when I feel an earthquake, my first reaction is, "is everything holding up okay?" then if the answer is yes, my section reaction is "Woot! Earthquake! Rock!" Given that I live maybe no more than a few dozen yards from a major fault line, I'm on a hill with a water tower only a little ways up the hill past the fault line, ( Read more... )

One of my long term goals is to set up a computer database of all the books I own. I want to be able to scan my books, be able to notate things like "so and so borrowed this book" or "using this book for x project and is currently located at y project area". I want to eventually have a nice set of bookshelves to keep all my books on.

When I saw an ( Read more... )