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  • Dog fur pusher for Ryobi PCL705 hand vacuum

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    So, I recently got tired of having to reach into my trusty Ryobi PCL705 vacuum cleaner to remove dog fur, and I designed and printed a tool to do it for me. With my two and a half dogs (two husky mixes and a wolf/malamute mix), fur-shedding season can be brutal. I fill the vacuum…

  • Decibel Meters For Autistic Kids

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    If your kids are on the autism spectrum, and are verbal, there’s an excellent chance that voice volume control is one of their challenges. It certainly is the case for my kids, and has been a challenge for me as well in my life. I think perhaps if my parents had had one of these…

  • Cable machine weight stacks are lying to you

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    So, I very much like to know exactly what I’m doing in the gym. Free weights are the gold standard for being reproducible, but there’s something to be said for the convenience of cable-based weight machines and their weight stacks and pins. I’m not going to lie; I use them myself quite a bit. But…

  • New wireless, old camera

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    Disclosure: Affiliate links in article; if you purchase something from an Amazon link on this page, I’ll receive a small amount from Amazon. Over the course of my almost-15-years working for Sony Electronics, I acquired quite a few cameras – video and still. While most of them are HD only (I only have a couple…

  • Weights of the Bars At Ozark Health & Fitness Center

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    So, this is not going to be of much interest to folks who aren’t working out at the same gym I go to (Ozark Health & Fitness Center). I find myself hauling bars over to the scale every now and then when I’m not exactly sure how much they weigh. So, this post is mostly…

  • Making 3 Open Face Subs For $2.50 in 2024

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    A friend was recently complaining on Facebook about how basic fast food sandwiches are no longer $1. I certainly share in the annoyance of fast food inflation, but this made me realize that folks may not be familiar with the scope of their available options. Wal-Mart uses (or perhaps misuses) a lot of vertical integration…

  • Eat that in a small town

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    One of the things I focus on at Newton Publications are things that you miss from the big city, and what to do about it. If you describe what you’re missing to the locals, it seems irrelevant to them, because they’ve never had it. It’s like you are describing colors to someone who’s very happy…

  • Percolators are underrated

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    One of the big things about working in an office, was the unlimited coffee which our employers offered us in an effort to keep us working as hard as possible during our time at the office. When COVID hit, most of us who were regulars in our corporate breakrooms began buying more coffee personally than…

  • Went to Corks & Cattle Market today

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    Many of those who’ve spent time in San Diego, have been to Urge Gastropub (RIP), or similar foodie restaurants sprinkled throughout its local food scene. While I’m by no means a huge foodie, Urge was somewhere I liked to go once in a while. When I worked at Playstation, it was right down the street…

  • My life’s fitness trajectory

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    I’m Sean Newton – 47 years old presently, and I’ve worked at a desk job since landing my first dot-com job in 2000. I have several interests in life, but obviously the first and foremost is being able to work effectively. I have DSPS, which is a sleep disorder that tends to keep my body…