Category Archives: Random

I’m a DMOZ editor

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 27, 2010
A few years ago I became an edi­tor on DMOZ. The cat­e­gories I chose were pretty sta­tic, so even­tu­ally my account got deac­ti­vated because I wasn’t using it. But I recently got re-excited about being able to edit the direc­tory, so I’ve got­ten my account re-activated and I’m back in busi­ness! Maybe after a week or so [...]
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Lock a Deadbolt without a Key

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 3, 2010
I found this fun Instructable today that shows you how to lock a dead­bolt with­out hav­ing the key. I can think of a few sit­u­a­tions where this could come in handy: You are at a friend’s house and they leave you home alone but for­get to give you a key (or they give you the wrong one). [...]
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Buying glasses online

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 3, 2009
Recently, I’ve been hav­ing some trou­ble read­ing small print on my mon­i­tor. After talk­ing to my wife, I real­ized that my vision just isn’t what it used to be. After get­ting my pre­scrip­tion, we hit up Sam’s Club and found a nice pair that would cost $127 plus 5% sales tax. Yikes! I just need a pair [...]
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Painting Pictures

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 6, 2009
A few months ago, I bought my lovely wife some paints and a few blank can­vases to go with the easel I made her for Christ­mas. Well, things have been busy, and my wife hasn’t got­ten a chance to use the paints yet. Well we finally got every­thing set up, and got her going on her [...]
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Officer Toad Man

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 13, 2008
So today I took Becca to this weird indus­trial park thing down the street from where I live, because I saw it yes­ter­day and it had some neat look­ing stuff and we were over that way and had time. Any­ways, right as we are pulling up this toad man secu­rity guard was walk­ing out and get­ting to [...]
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Protected: Grumpy Crinkles

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 6, 2008
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I’m a dad!

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 15, 2008
So Becca and I had a baby. Pretty sur­pris­ing con­sid­er­ing Becca wasn’t preg­nant, no? There is an app on Face­book called Make a Baby and so Becca and I decided to prac­tice some par­ent­ing skills on a vir­tual kid before ruin­ing a real one. So far, things aren’t going ter­ri­bly well. First of all, the kid is pretty bipo­lar. [...]
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Hit and Run

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 3, 2007
Becca and I were going out yes­ter­day evening, so I drive up to her dorm and park on the side of the road, com­pletely out of the way of traffic/vehicles/etc, to wait for her to come down. Becca ends up break­ing a bot­tle in her room so she takes a bit longer than orig­i­nally expected, [...]
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Nomadic Display

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 25, 2007
So I acquired part of a Nomadic Dis­play today. Basi­cally its this giant expand­able metal thing that is used at trade shows and stuff to show off your goods. Sort of like the top two parts of this pic­ture here. So Joey and I are try­ing to brain­storm some good uses for it, and this is [...]
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Hand-held shower heads rock

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 21, 2007
So Becca and I were at Lowe’s last night pick­ing out dish­wash­ers, sinks, refrig­er­a­tors, cab­i­nets and so forth, and I remem­bered that I wanted a new shower head, so he headed to the shower head aisle. After much delib­er­a­tion, I chose the hand-held Water­pik Pow­er­spray plus Pul­sat­ing Mes­sage with opti­FLOW with 6 Unique Flow Set­tings for $24.98. [...]
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