Need to keep your tech books from falling over? Lenore over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has the perfect project for you: DIY geek bookends! Her solution employs two bricks that are wrapped in paper, and uses Dirac notation to explain the complex state of your bookshelf.
Posted by: Gareth Branwyn on September 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Firesign Theater
Seeing this project reminded me of the line from Firesign Theater's (Phil Austin's, actually) "Roller Maiden's from Outer Space:" "...want to know how to make an attractive bookend out of a shoebox and a brick?"
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I did that when I was 9. Minus the notation.
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Seeing this project reminded me of the line from Firesign Theater's (Phil Austin's, actually) "Roller Maiden's from Outer Space:" "...want to know how to make an attractive bookend out of a shoebox and a brick?"
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