Sooooooo last night my roommate and I started talking about ways to make entry/exit of the apartment easier, and I brought up Smart Door Locks. This naturally led us to a discussion of how we could get someone into the actual building so we could then let them use the Smart Door Lock to get into our specific apartment.

He mentioned it would be cool to have some sort of remote control for the buzzer/intercom system and I said it’s so funny you say that because I’ve been thinking about that too.  I said, it’s probably a simple wire jumper that triggers it.

Well, I was right.  And now I have a new project to work on. 🙂  This will be an on-going series, because I think this is fscking awesome.

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Republicans encounter angry citizens after killing online privacy rules.

Source: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet” | Ars Technica

Filed from the “Is Anybody Actually Surprised At This Point” Department.

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This is once again a recipe I’ve pulled from Reddit, and reproducing here for posterity’s sake.  It is a recipe I’ve made exactly once, but it is VERY tasty and I’m very happy with it (except the Blueberry Compote which came out more like a Blueberry Sauce, but I think I have a fix for that).

As always, the result comes before the instructions.

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This is an early one, normally we don’t get a driving situation video until about halfway, maybe three-quarters-way through the month.  This month is different, obviously.

The video is presented without comment.  You know, other than to say “OH SHIT.”

-M, out

p.s. Great job on the auto-generated thumbnails YouTube.  PERFECT.