For many of us geeky, maker-types (of a certain age), ‘MacGyver’ was the reason we loved to build and hack things. For me, it was the reason I carried a Swiss Army knife for many years, and developed a life-long love of duct tape, of course. So it’s pretty cool that today’s Amazon Daily Deal is the complete collection of ‘MacGyver.’
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Do you remember that scene in Apollo 13 when the engineer dumps a bunch of parts on the table and tells the other engineers in the room they need to create a carbon dioxide filter using nothing but that pile of parts? Did that scene totally make you smile? Yes? Then grab a copy of The Martian before anyone ruins it for you and read it. Seriously Read it. You won’t regret it.
Continue ReadingWith the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Good riddance, so far as I’m concerned. In my experience, the optical drive is often the first …
Continue ReadingI’ve been reading a lot (too much, really) about what sitting all day can do to you. Study after study is popping up showing that not only is inactivity extremely bad for your long term health, but the act of …
Continue ReadingIt’s not often an actor gets to play one role with iconic geek cred, let alone three. But Richard Dean Anderson achieved that amazing track record playing every maker’s hero, Angus MacGyver, then Ernest Pratt, the writer turned old-west hero …
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