At some point, I think I mentioned that I busted up my ankle, and how glorious it was. I think the painkillers must have been going to my head. There pretty much isn’t anything fun about the entire process that I can think of at this point. I can’t move around very well–sleeping in my Frankenstein boot is near impossible, and trying to use stairs is an exercise in looking like an idiot, feeling like an idiot, and perhaps falling on your face and sliding to the bottom of the stairs to start all over again–like an idiot. These kinds of things make me crabby. I want to choose to look like an idiot. [click to continue…]
Because I am Nerdy Von Nerdstein, when I saw the Foxgloves Gardening Gauntlet, my first thought wasn’t about how great they’d be for tackling rose bushes and prickly weeds. It was how awesome they’d be for a costume at a renaissance fair, Comic Con or if you had a part time job as the hawk tamer at Medieval Times. (Random Trivia: The hawk at my local Medieval Times is named “Lady Guinevere”. Bonus Trivia: I’m only slightly ashamed that I know that info.)
Even if you’re not the type who dreams of slapping a gauntlet across someone’s face and challenging them to a sword duel (and I feel sad for your lack of nerdy imagination), the Foxgloves Gardening Gauntlet has many uses for you. I guess. [click to continue…]
Liquid Fence’s information page on their snake repellent asks: “Are Snakes Terrorizing your Family, Pets, and Livestock?”. #@!$ no! Snakes are terrorizing me! My wife and pets can fend for themselves–all I have to be is faster than them. I dislike snakes. A lot. I know I am not alone in this–but seriously–what are they for? Fine. Get all PETA on me and tell me how many uses snakes have. I think they belong in two places: Hell and Zoos. Both are probably similar from the snake perspective. [click to continue…]
A while back, we wrote an article about SawStop table saw safety technology, and a particular lawsuit won by a man, Carlos Osorio, who severely injured himself using a basic table saw without SawStop technology installed. Most readers and commentary expressed disgust that Osorio won the lawsuit against the table saw manufacturer. Unfortunately, many of the opinions thrown around after the verdict (including my own), were arrived at with relatively little factual knowledge about the case. It turns out facts are useful in this kind of discussion. Luckily, there are journalistic crusaders brave, dedicated and thorough enough to read through hundreds of pages of legal transcripts and actually educate themselves on the facts that make up this interesting table saw safety case. Of course I’m not referring HomeFixated, did you actually think we were serious journalists? [click to continue…]
