ENO Hammock & Bug Net ~ Just bought an Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO) Guardian Bug Net and ENO DoubleNest Hammock. This was my first time setting up a hammock, and it was super easy using, mostly because I also bought the ENO Atlas Hammock Straps.
Farrimond Friction Hitch ~ WiltshireMan on YouTube has a very nice video on making the Firrimond friction hitch knot. It’s a great knot for raising tarps or hammocks because it enables you to adjust the tension of the line quite directly by simply sliding the location of the knot anywhere along the cord or rope.
Elizabeth in Bioshock Infinite ~ This parody video from machinima captures what Elizabeth REALLY wants to say while I’m playing Bioshock Infinite. It’s also a good approximation of what my son says when he watches my play NSFW, mostly due to F-bombs.
YouTuber Mikey Sklar takes a four or five year-old dead sealed lead acid battery (small one), removes the seal plate, uncaps the six cells and fills with each cell with “rain water.” After giving the battery a small charge using a “pimp” charger, Mikey demonstrates how you can use a handheld voltage meter to check how each
Ra, the Sun God, has moods. Shot at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), this fascinating 3 minute time-lapse video captures 3 years of our sun’s peak activity during it’s “normal” 11 year cycle. Watching it, I felt quite vulnerable…
Homemade hot fudge! Just found this recipe on the Yankeeprepper YouTube channel, and it is excellent! His original version used molasses and brown sugar. That was much too strong a molasses flavor for my taste buds, so I immediately made a version using sugar and corn syrup. Ambrosia! My son loved it. My wife loved
Honest advertisement for the cable company. In related news, Comcast is one of the least trusted companies in America. Source
Bumped into this interview of actress Alice Eve on Conan that just charmed my socks off. I’m not familiar with Alice Eve, but during the interview she demonstrates how she can instantly change from her gorgeous English accent to an American, Los Angeles accent—which includes inserting “like” for commas, or so goes her theory…
Cory Doctorow wrote a very touching blog post on BoingBoing in response to the suicide of his friend Aaron Swartz. Such a loss. Doctorow ends his piece with this:
Seconds ~ Profound and well done video on the importance of each second in life…Use them wisely.