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this is a new posterous i started with @riotoussideburn. we both love making top 5 lists of songs, albums, artists etc, so this was the perfect outlet.
if it's your thing, come check it out! :)
i'm filing this under "extreme excitement" and "can't wait". bonus points for "i'm sure we can put our differences aside. for science."
i still have no idea on how to pronounce eyjafjallajökull though.
i wanted to tidy the mess of cables that lay under my desk recently and researched options. initially i was going to use a cable tray (like the ikea signum) or a cable organiser box however i decided i also wanted my external hard drive, airport and modem hidden as well. i found decluttered.com which had exactly what i was looking for. i decided to use their ideas for my own desk.
i had to store the following items:
i didn't want to have the items underneath the desk though, instead i decided to mount them on the back of the desk. it always faced a wall anyway, so it was a better fit in my eyes. i purchased a piece of mdf pegboard and had it cut to size. i drilled four holes through the back of the desk and threaded bolts through them. i then fastened nuts onto the bolts to fix them to the desk permanently.
i fixed the mdf pegboard onto the bolt threads and then fixed it in place with wing nuts. this meant that the bolts were always affixed, however i could easily remove the board at any time by unscrewing the wing nuts.
each of the devices was cable tied to the board, often joining several together to extend the length. everything can be removed pretty quickly by cutting the cable ties and moved easily. the cables were difficult to keep tidy, but as the idea is to hide them from view, i'm not too fussed.
all up the costs were:
totalling $49.72. all up it took me about three hours from start to finish.
with everything in place, there are no visible cables from the front, leaving a clean desk free of clutter as you can see here:
This is bad Tetris. It's hateful Tetris. It's Tetris according to the evil AI from "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".
just like normal tetris, except it *always* gives you the worst possible piece for any situation. follows on nicely from my tetris hell xkcd comic from the other day....
apparently the record is 17 lines. insane.
We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly.
this attention to detail is simply awesome. there are literally thousands of little quirks like this all over apple devices and it shows. i love it.
hi, i'm tim
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