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Display Name: mg33
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Member Since: 8/23/10

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I talked with someone about this in a fireplace store recently and they recommended that a TV be at least 10" away from the top of the fireplace.

Also, it will be helpful to know if you have a fireplace with an exhaust to a chimney or not, because most of that heat indeed goes up the chimney. Fireplaces that vent out into the room release a much greater amount of heat into the room than ones with a chimney, so they will certainly make a difference in terms of the ambient heat around the front of the TV.


Is It Safe to Mount Your TV Over the Fireplace?
11/29/11 5:17 PM

I think that Steampunk stuff like this is very creative, but personally there are few things I hate more than this type of stuff. Something about it screams "bizarre foreplay/bedroom role play / bondage play." It just weirds me out.


The Totally Awesome Steampunk iPod
1/27/11 1:52 PM

I'm sorry, but that is hideous.


Geek Gift Idea 1001: Make a Bag Out of Floppy Disks
12/7/10 11:10 AM

I had a roommate for 2 1/2 years who was one of my best friends that I moved to a new city with, but to this day I still cringe when I remember a few of the downsides of living with him. Some funny stuff too, I'll get to that.

Gross activity 1 occured when he and I and my girlfriend were watching a movie. He was alone on the love seat, and I looked up to notice him picking his butt, bringing his fingers up to his face, looking at whatever he picked out of his pubes, sniffing his fingers, then flicking whatever it was onto the floor. How my girlfriend never noticed this I will never know.

Gross incident 2: I knew his parents were coming to town one Saturday, and when I got up I noticed that the toilet rim was just caked in freshly trimmed pubic hair. I had to clean it up and he didn't see why it was impolite to have such a nasty toilet should his parents have to use it.

Gross incident 3: once when I opened the cabinet to throw something away in the bathroom trashcan, my hand came within centimeters of a used, bloody condom. I raised hell about it and like the pubes, he didn't get why it was so disgusting.

Of the funnier moments, he had ab affinity for doing his exercises in the living room, completely naked, without caring that the blinds were up. Jumping jacks, ahem, full frontal nude jumping jacks in front of the windows where neighbors across the courtyard on any floor could have seen him. He'd also usually switch to naked exercises when random friends would be over. It was always hysterical.

Gross stuff aside it was the time of my life!


Top 10 Worst Roommate Stories
Jezebel

11/14/10 4:42 AM

I just bought some of these last week to do some cable organization behind a CB2 desk. What I didn't realize until organizing everything is that the desk's glass top rests on metal bars across the back and sides that has a space just small enough to slide the velcro through. It worked perfectly to get all the wires parallel to the back of the desk, and down the vertical supports.


Cord Control: Velcro One-Wraps
9/3/10 11:59 AM