Like an electric-powered ninja throwing star of death

An older lady came into the store yesterday and picked up the circular saw we have on sale so I went over to see if she needed some help.
"Oh no, thank you, I just need a saw to cut down a rhododendron in my front yard."
I took the circular saw away from her and gently steered her towards the hand saws.

Popular Mechanics' DDIY

It looks like even that great bastion of DIY, Popular Mechanics, agrees with me. Don't get me wrong, I love DIY, but the line between self-reliance and self-destruction is very thin. Not as thin as as this article would have you believe, but thin nonetheless.

If your roof blows away in a strong wind...

Okay, I can accept that there are specific conditions in which rolled roofing is acceptable on a peaked roof (low pitches, for those who are curious.) What I cannot accept is that:

1. You didn't know what a roof cap was.
2. You didn't know to start at the bottom and work up - instead you started at the peak and worked down. Letting the water flow into the seams instead of over them seems so very counter-intuitive to me.
3. You hoped to save money and create an attractive look by alternating mineral surface and plain felt paper.
4. You thought that your leftover driveway sealer would work just as well as roof cement.
5. Finally, if the roof that you installed last year blew away in Tuesday's wind storm, perhaps you shouldn't be the one to install the new roof.

I swear, after about fifteen minutes on the phone with this person I thought they were screwing around with me.

Nothing funny this week

Well, I found this video while searching for some plumbing supplies earlier. Enjoy.



I've met guys like this before. Guys who wonder why their plastic drainpipe cracked when all they did was use a pipewrench to tighten the slipnut.