Printer hack that really shouldn't work

Next to HOA fees the biggest racket in America has to be printer ink cartridges, what a rip. My old Epson ran out of black a couple weeks ago so on a whim I filled the empty cartridge up with water (3/4 full according to the utility) to see would happen and to my surprise it works perfectly.

I’ve been printing things for three weeks with it. I guess there’s so much ink left over inside it just kind of mixes. I doubt I could print a photo but for text and DVD labels it looks exactly – normal. It doesn’t smudge either. Huh?

In other news an NGO on a USAID project in West Africa is hiring an Onion Expert. I'm speechless.

Audio Hack: Mics and Fans

I bought this sleeping bag mat for a road trip two years ago and we ended up in hotels every night so I never used it. Now I pull it out when I'm recording voiceover and stand it up around my hard drives to keep some of the fan noise from reaching the mic. With the lower background noise I can sit a little further back off the mic and that helps get rid of all the little mouth noises. It kinda looks like it was specially made for this since it's got the egg crate surface and all the folds.