Michael Doornbos » Hacks http://michaeldoornbos.com Just your average evil genius Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Minty Boost http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/12/30/567/ http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/12/30/567/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:47:29 +0000 mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/2009/12/30/567/
]]> http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/12/30/567/feed/ 0 I should know better than to leave home without paper and a pencil http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/09/i-should-know-better-than-to-leave-home-without-paper-and-a-pencil/ http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/09/i-should-know-better-than-to-leave-home-without-paper-and-a-pencil/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:32:23 +0000 mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=378 I've been doing a lot of writing lately. I gave myself a deadline of today to finish an article I've been thinking of for a week and spent the whole day having writers block.

As soon as I walked out the door to pick up our Chinese takeout for the evening, 100 ideas came swarming into my head. In my Jeep was a pen, but I cleaned it over the weekend and there was not a scrap paper in sight.

The moral of the story is twofold:

  1. If you have writers block, a simple change of scenery can unblock you
  2. Never leave home without some 3x5 notecards in your car
]]> http://michaeldoornbos.com/2009/03/09/i-should-know-better-than-to-leave-home-without-paper-and-a-pencil/feed/ 0 Fix your broken NES http://michaeldoornbos.com/2008/06/18/fix-your-broken-nes/ http://michaeldoornbos.com/2008/06/18/fix-your-broken-nes/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:16:37 +0000 mike http://blog.michaeldoornbos.com/?p=215 Did you know the 72 pin connector on the original NES is not soldered in?  I didn't know either.  All those years of blowing on the cartridges and all we needed was a screwdriver and a replacement connector.

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