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Working at the Virtual Stelarc Initiative,and between jobs i find a little time to hack the media content
On the way to Toroweap, we spent the night camping in this narrow little canyon. It's a long drive through 'a whole lotta nothin' - just dusty sagebrush as far as the eye can see on the Arizona Strip. It's BLM land, and this little canyon is much more interesting (and cooler - it was a HOT day) than anything else in the initial 2/3 of the drive.
Pioneer X-HM10 speakers hack.
Haven't done a previous careful auditioning to the system with the original speaker cables, I can't describe any kind of benefits from this hack, but sure's not hard that had been some sort of improvement in sound. At least now I can experiment with different cables or connect a longer run if necessary.
Yeah. I'm the guy who hacked Santa Claus. He had some rather subversive messages to share for all the boys and girls last Christmas. You can read all about it at my website: members.cox.net/jmccorm/santa.html
Apologies for the picture quality. This was from my Palm Pilot with a cheap CCD camera.
I've got my copies of iPod & iTunes Hacks and Home Theater Hacks. Looking forward to reading through 'em.
Esta vez, además del odioso grito del trineo (se oÃa desde la salida del Media Markt!), dejó Photo Booth colgado en la otra dirección.
A sampling of custom trucks we've built at Hack Shack. Some dropped to the ground, and some lifted to the sky.
So, say you have a electrical gang-box that needs upgrading, located behind some wooden panelling that ends about 10 inches below the box with no obstructions. Do you:
a) Remove the old box, slightly enlarge the wall opening to accomodate the dimensions of the new box, and push a new flush-mounted box into the panelling in the place where you want to install it, snaking the wiring up under the panelling to the box?
or
b) Say, "Screw that", and simply take a Sawz-All to the (original, probably irreplacable) panelling so that now there's all the space in the world to install a stud-mounted box?
Guess which option my electrical contractors chose?
The really annoying thing is that a different crew on Monday installed a brand new double gang-box outlet in the wall under my computer table, having to cut a new hole for it through the exact same type of panelling and run wire from under the subfloor, and they did an awesome job. In a place where no one's likely to notice it. As opposed to this box, which is in the most visually-prominent spot in the kitchen.
Grr. So if you were me, what would you be demanding from the contractor right now?
- Repair? I don't know if it can be repaired without looking like an obvious patch - and besides, the section they took out is unusable and I don't know if it's possible to find matching replacement panelling (this stuff's 50 years old).
- Ask for a discount - which does nothing to fix the cosmetic problem? Or get a quote from a remodelling contractor and ask that the electrician pay for it?
- Have the Corian countertop backsplash run high enough to cover the damage? That would probably look silly.
I'm stumped. Suggestions?
Even with a 10 digit password with a mix of letters and numbers, some little sh_t got into my html file and did this little number.
It was quickly fixed by my provider once I alerted them.