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    Garage: How to find wooden stud to hang stuff?

    you can also use a couple strong magnets to find the screw heads holding the drywall to the stud. just make sure you find two or three in a row to form a rough pattern.
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    Is South parde island still unsafe?

    I was down there for work not long ago and did not hear anything about the island being unsafe. However several locals told me not to cross the border into Mexico there.
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    painting the whole house interior

    I borrowed a airless sprayer and used the power roller attachment when i moved. It was great for priming all the rooms at the same time, but cleanup was a pain so it didn't work well for actually painting the rooms since they were all different colors. The paint rollers with a reservoir in the...
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    Ebook readers

    I have the Bookeen Cybook Gen 3 and have been pretty happy with it. I can't speak much about the formats used because i have only read .prc which is a mobipocket format, .pdf and a couple of .txt. The battery life is fine, I don't know about 11,500 page turns but i can generally finish at least...
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    Cure for Death explored

    this one is also pretty interesting
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    w00t, I just purchased my first LCD!

    UPS has been by twice today and the city is mostly shutdown for mardi gras. It could well show up tomorrow.
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    freelancer

    Wonderful space game. Multiple ships and weapons with joystick or mouse control. Sadly it has been out for a couple of years now and the community has kinda fallen apart.
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    Root Beer

    Barq's has caffeine, A&W does not. Barq's for me.
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    Anyone have one of those indoor portable air conditioners?

    I have 2 of them, one soleus and one everstar. They don't work as well as an equivalent btu window unit, but they do work. The Everstar has a bucket that has to be dumped everyday, the soleus has an evaporator and has not filled the bucket yet.
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    stupid invisible fence

    I cheated and put mine in pcv then just left the pvc on top of the ground. There is a tool that i think you can rent from home depot called a ditch-witch, it is basically a big slow chainsaw for digging narrow trenches. i have never gotten to play with one, but i want to.
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    Hooray! A Feast for Crows has shipped!

    "A Game of Thrones" was a very good book. It didn't have much in the way of fantasy. I would call it more of a swords book than a sorcery book. The rest of the series does move more into fantasy as it goes on though.
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    Advice on buying a desk

    How much does the Jerker cost in the store? They have it online for ~$130 and I was going to order one until I got the email saying it would cost $298 and some change to ship it. Just curious if it is worth driving 6 hours to get one. thanks much
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    comp won't boot

    My computer was working fine, then i left it turned off and unplugged for a couple of weeks. Now if i plug it in and push the button all the fans spin a couple of times then stop, if i push the button again nothing happens. Once i flip the switch on the power supply i can get the fans to spin a...
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    Quick Dual Monitor Question

    drag it onto the first monitor then close it. the next time you open it it should open in the first monitor. It will also tend to open in the same window as whatever spawned it. ie opens on top of my outlook when i click on an email link regardless of where it would open normally. Apart from...
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    Waterproof sheets of paper! HOW DO I DO IT?

    Once it is printed you can try soaking it in cooking oil. That will keep the water out, and I don't think the oil will make the ink run. I know it works short-term for maps in wet weather. It might work for you.