Tool chests are expensive. Why shed out all that money when you can make something for hardly any money.

Heck, why not treat the wife to a new dresser, gaining some good behaviour points! Then turn her old one into a tool chest. Everyones a winner!

Good thing I was checking over at bitchaday, otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed that the sweet script I proposed earlier had moved your last comment over there!

;)

But seeing as you obviously don’t recognize my brilliance, let me propose this hack:

1) Take kirov (or the group of people pretending to be him/her) and set this person(s) in front of a mirror.

2) Trick him/her into facing the mirror while saying, “this mirror trick is a hack.”

3) Upon seeing his/her image declaring something to be a hack that surely isn’t, kirov will spontaneously respond, “no it isn’t”

4) Upon seeing the reflection assenting this, he/she will be forced to take the opposing position just for the hell of it. “Yes it is!” That’s what trolls do.

5) This will lead to another round of exchanges with the mirror, which lead to more and more, and so on. It’s like a 2-line piece of assembler code where a jump loops back onto itself.

And like the processor, which is rendered non- functional by all the wasted cycles, kirov will likely be incapacitated (at least until the mirror is broken or he/she is rebooted).

Result… the signal to noise ratio in hackaday comments will improve by many decibels.

Now @tbase, I defy you… tell me *that* isn’t an 3l33t hack. Sweet! 8^o

1) the hackaday staff should write a script to parse comments looking for lame “that’s not a hack” phrases.

2) Once detected, the script will check to see if the person who is bitching has *ever* submitted useful work of their own.

3) If not, they are wanna-be’s or just plain trolls. *plonk* The comment is deleted.

4) Everyone’s life gets better. ;)

Man, I’m full of great ideas today.

I figure I should have hackaday straightened up by lunchtime. This afternoon, I’ll tackle world hunger, and cure corruption in the White House.

The key to success is to make sure that you beef up the drawers and dresser body, as necessary, to account for the greater weight of tools.

In my own case, I have many dozens of plastic containers similar to these:

http://www.akro-mils.com/industrial/coupon_display.asp?id=124

I repurposed an old dresser by removing the drawers, and building a series of shelves into it. The plastic organizers slide into the shelves. I also added casters to the dresser. The result is a chest of parts… all of my resistors, capacitors, and small fasteners (nuts, bolts, washers) organized and easy to wheel around if needed.

My dresser had a faux woodgrain formica finish, so I left it as-is.

1) register the domain “www.bitchaday.com”

2) Write a script that parses comments looking for phrases like: “that’s not a hack.”

3) Delete that comment here, and post it on “bitchaday.”

At the very least, it would make things much more pleasant for the rest of us, here.

I wonder if there is any other kind of tough plastic that can be re-purposed for glides?
Milk bottle plastic or something?