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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Tool Review: Pen Flashlight
We are starting out with something simple as a part of a new section of tool reviews for the Occasional Explorer, a flashlight. Yep that's right it's a flashlight... and a cheap one too, it cost me $2.88 at Meijer.
What makes this flashlight special is the fact that it is remarkably effective for how inexpensive it is. Firstly it's only a bit wider than a pen and has the same style click top, it also uses an ordinary AAA battery and goes a claimed 15 continuous hours before it's dead. I've had one of these at work where I am an automotive technician for several months now and it has continued to work splendidly. It's perfect to throw in your pocket and use for those quick, 'I just can't quite make out if that...' inspections. If you do any work on your house, car, boat etc, get one, for less than a latte at Starbucks you won't have to use your cell phone to find that bolt that kinda just slid off into the dark.
Manufacturer: Rayovac
Price: Less than $3.00
Steel Yard
There's just something about giant racks of raw materials that makes me excited, the possibilities are endless. It's better than being a kid in a candy store, the best I could manage then was get fat and have a stomach ache, now I have tools and a garage. I'm picking up more steel for the tool box project, I'll have an update in the next couple days with photos.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Tree
Unfortunatly, we did not discuss the subjects for the photo of the day, and have taken similar shots. Oh well.
Practicality and a New Begining
A little over a year ago Andrew and I set out, after a great many late night conversations to create a blog devoted to people, art, culture, travel, music, photography, technology and much more... We demanded of ourselves that the content be perfectly edited and the photos of a magazine quality. We made it through two posts.
With a year gone and very little progress made we realized something, like so many other people we don't have any time, nor do we have unlimited budgets, or secretaries, or even press passes that would make us feel important. What we do have however is an undying curiosity with the world, over the course of this year we've both toiled over projects of our own some successful some not. In our new attempt to share some of this with the world we've taken a much more practical aproach, in short, good content but not sweat the details.
So as I write from my phone laying in bed, what do we have to look forward to in the upcoming weeks? Well for starters I'm just starting to build a very large tool cabinent of my dreams, which should be quite spectacular or an incredible failure, so there will be more on that shortly as well as a step by step guide at the end for any one else who wants to try. I will also be doing some car maintenance postings some easy little repairs and some bigger ones with guides, with automotive stuff we will be working towards a sort of automotive encyclopedia of DIY jobs. Andrew has several projects in mind and he will be updating shortly. We also will each be doing a photo of the day, something to just brighten things up a little. Stay tuned and as always please send us comments and questions we look forward to hearing from you.
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