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These seem to be among the more intimidating of handheld power tools - for good reason, I suppose.

A local contractor made it to the age of 57 before he took off two of his fingers with one of these - handholding a board and cutting with his fingers too close to the cut path.

I'll use my circular saw for just about anything. Last night I was holding it overhead to trim the ends on some too-long straps.

I've shortened steel exterior doors, ripped 8' sheets of plywood and anything in between.

A good straightedge will increase the utility of your saw tenfold.

"polycarbonate clearstory"

Could you be looking for "clerestory" here? (pronounced clu-ress-tory)

Sort of gross to think of somebody buying 2400 DVD's.

That's one a day for over 6 years.

At an average price of $15 per, he's spent $36,000 on movies.

One of the biggest changes you can make is shutting off the computer when it's not being used. I used to leave mine on 24/7/365, when it was really only being used for around two hours per day. I instantly saw a $10-15 drop in my bill.

As far as the hot water stuff, we are tankless gas so the above will save on our gas bill, not our electric bill.

It is frustrating here in Ontario that the bulk of the bill seems to be delivery and debt charges as opposed to actual usage - makes it hard to get motivated to conserve when you are only able to reduce the amount of a small fraction of your bill.

I hope you have some blue paint left, because you need to take that tv down and center it.

as somebody has already suggested, get a piece of 3/4 or 1" finish grade plywood cut the size of the opening.

you can hang your TV from anywhere on the plywood.

in fact, if you mount the plywood spaced out from the back wall with 2x2 material, you can cut holes and run your wires in behind. move the dvd player to the bookshelf below.

Adjustable shelving would be great to keep your cats on their toes - or you could just swap in longer/shorter shelves periodically.

Spraypaint it whatever colour you want.

Problem solved.

As a fairly experienced woodworker, I'd say that the design of this shelf makes it fairly easy to pull off construction wise.

The way that the shelves jut off in different directions would give them great stability when screwed through the backing board (which looks more like birch or maple than walnut to me - the shelves are likely walnut though)

UL: Underwriters Laboratories - http://www.ul.com/

The simple version is that they give products (esp. electrical/electronic) safety approval.

Agreed on the ceiling - It looks really cool, but you are going to be having heat and moisture issues in there, I would think.