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My friend Mohammad

Want to see one of the most embarrassing photos ever taken of me? Buckle up your eyeballs and cue the self-deprecating drum roll.

The competition is tough, but no, it's not this one:

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Hi from Adam Savage

Three things:

1. Hi! Long time no see. How have you been? Did you know that possums have 13 nipples with one bulls eye in the middle? (I'm sitting next to my...

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Letters to my future self

A couple of weeks ago, I found a letter. It was in a sealed envelope with “DON’T OPEN UNTIL...

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Entering the wallpaper stage of life

There is so much to write about that I'm instead going to just tell you one tiny thing: my mom is in town, and we put wallpaper up in my dining room. We did a very good job and I think it looks ver...

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Flying with a dog, mushrooms and blacksmithing

Hope you've had a good summer! 

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hi quick update on the YETCH Store

I should have prepared a proper post for this but I ran out of time! But the YETCH Store just launched, and I made a discount code for Pat...

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The problem with bubble wrap

I don't know if you remember this (or if you'd prefer to forget) but a while back, I made an instrument out of teeth.

2022-04-18 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post

1 uninteresting, mildly interesting & very interesting thing

One uninteresting thing

I got an extra ball in my dishwasher tablet. This means that there is a...

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Two project ideas

Hi! I just want to apologize in advance for this upcoming joke. Apology accepted? Great. And no, I do not accept refunds. Ok, here we go:

Coming up with ideas is like popping pimples...

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Why I've been feeling down (don't worry it's not very dramatic)

My New Year's Resolution is to make more friends and try to build more community! I think that would help a lot.

PS. I've been thinking of starting a Patreon Discord, is that something yo...

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Scraps' Big Trip

Hi Past Self! 

Future Self here. I know you're super nervous about flying to Sweden with Scraps because she tends to bark - no, war cry - at random strangers. But you know w...

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YETCH Photoshoot BTS

Launching a product company is a like snail marathon: slow, exhausting, and you might get run over by a car at any point. But we're making incremental progress, and this week was a big one! We fina...

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Just a quick happy Friday!

Well hello, folks! This is Simone’s pal Alie, and I have taken her phone for a few moments because I’m ordering her to make herself a plate for dinner at the moment.

She’s been shooting...

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Meet Campla

Wanna see something that looks really mundane but made me cry? Getting this notification on my phone:

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Puzzle table update

Here's a photo that sums up my week pretty well! Just a messy pile of random stuff, with a puppy on top.

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Five things that have happened

Two of my best friends got married
To each other! Very practical. My love language is making gifts, which is a double edged sword because:

A. there's no r...

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Product Prototypes and Periods

You know on April 1st when I said I was building a period machine? Well I wasn't joking. 

A couple of weeks ago, we turned the workshop into a proper (alas very crammed) studio and filme...

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My Dark Dog Past

Today, it has been a year since I adopted Scraps. It has been a really difficult year, for obvious reasons. But also for some less obvious ones. 

WARNING: long, occasion...

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Pet chairs & plans for the future

The bad news: it's been so long since I posted on Patreon that I've uploaded two (!) YouTube videos since last time

The good news: I have uploaded two (!) Yo...

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Give A Girl Some Space

Can I just start off with saying that I really miss running into you all. It’s been almost a year of wearing masks, and I can’t remember last time I got a random high five in the street...

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Futz Friday: the most sacred of made-up traditions

Let’s face it: all traditions are made up. Everything from easter to honking in tunnels to making out are just ideas pulled out of some random person’s ass. So why couldn’t ideas pull...

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Worst client I've ever worked for

I need your help.

The last couple of months, I've been working with a really difficult client. I've been hired to come up with a brand name and a logo, but every draf...

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My 2 month bed project

Was about to title this post "Beds and Performance Anxiety" which is indeed a great title, but might have given you the wrong idea.

I juuuuuust glued in the last piece of thi...

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Let's hang out this afternoon!

I'm going live today at 1pm PST, so in an hour and a half-something! I'm just going to be sanding some wood for my next project and answering your questions. Looking forward to see...

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Coat hangers and the slow death of my YouTube channel (?)

Me, after six years of building stuff: wow, I'm starting to get the hang of this.

Also me, trying to draw a straight line:

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Meet my new friend CNCelia

If don't care for machines: this post is probably not going to be interesting for you. 

If you do care for machines: this post might still not be intere...

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Things to yell at people from a dark bush

A couple of weeks ago I went on an evening dog walk with my friend Alie. There's nothing unusual about this: Alie is one of my best friends, and we both have dogs. 

Alie spent majority o...

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Hi can I harvest your ideas

First of all: THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES AND CARDS AND GIFTS. You're the best.

I'll tell you more about it later, but I had such a good birthday. I slept in a bubb...

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Don't put me in a box (just let me build one instead)

Hi! It's me, your local workshop gnome. I've spent the week trying to get the new workshop under contro...

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2020 in an error message

I just got this error message when I tried to update my password manager:

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