Ice Shot Glasses

12 December 2005

Elephantstaircase has a neat how-to on making shot glasses out of ice using 2 dixie cups of different sizes to make a mold. Might be nice to try this over the summer - looks like my kind of way to keep …

Filtering Cheap Vodka

8 June 2005

Looks like I’ve found my next project. After reading about filtering cheap vodka over at Oh My God It Burns!, I’ve decided to try my hand at making some flavored vodka. My plan is to buy a large bottle of reasonably cheap vodka, filter it a few times, then …

Bar Monkey

17 May 2005

Another automated bar! There are five diferent designs here with plenty of pictures.

A Bar Monkey is a machine that automatically mixes and dispenses alcoholic drinks. The original Bar Monkey v1.0 was created by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer. The total cost of this Bar Monkey was $235 …

Setting up a Home Soda Fountain

16 May 2005

Everything you need to know to build a post-mix soda system at home. A soda gun is an essential part of any bar, and it’s far cheaper than buying coke by the bottle. Personally I’m trying to wean myself off coke & sprite as much as possible - just …

DIY Margarita Maker

4 May 2005

Beautiful. Make just posted a link to a margarita machine - basically a water cooler hooked up to a garbage disposal. Now there’s something unusual to build into a kitchen counter… [Via Make]

Kegerator Construction

2 May 2005

George Fairbanks has a great page detailing how to build a kegerator out of a freezer. I’d love to try this one day, but install everything under the kitchen counter, so the beer tap is an integrated part of the kitchen. [Via MAKE: Blog]

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.6
17 July 2008

Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …

Incredibly Strange Film Festival iCalendars
12 July 2008

“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …

Last.fm Charts
6 July 2008

This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …

Sharing a Canon laser printer between OSX and XP
5 January 2008

In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.

First, the problem. While …

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