From what TV tells me, we’ll all be living like The Jetsons shortly, right? And where would they be without their flying cars and trusty robot maid, Rosie? Well, no flying cars yet (ahem, fellow scientists, get on that please), but a recent video from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley shows [...]
Continue reading...5 April 2010
Here’s a nifty kitchen space-saving idea from This Old House: a pull-out cube shelf that stores cookbooks in the front and has a spice rack int he back to take advantage of deep shelf space. Photo from from This Old House If you’ve got deep shelves, rather than trying to organize them in such a way that [...]
Continue reading...1 March 2010
It’s getting to be the time of year when we all start thinking about spring cleaning. It can pay off big time, too. Not only will you get the satisfaction of making your house just that much neater and tidier, but you could also find something valuable that you’ve misplaced. Photo by Patrick Talbert A woman in [...]
Continue reading...18 February 2010
This is a guest post by Everett Bogue. It was supposed to post automatically this morning, but I guess I didn’t do that right. Oops. There may or may not be a post this coming Monday, since I’m busy doing awesome things at Con-G this weekend. Unfortunately, “awesome things” doesn’t include [...]
Continue reading...1 February 2010
I’ve recently taken an interest in personal finance. And by “recently”, I mean “about a year ago now”, but the interest is still going strong. I may as well try to clean up my finances as well as my house, right? On the plus side, decluttering my finances is going to be [...]
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8 April 2010
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