Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Overheard in the Office:

While we were at the State Fair, Bobbi picked up a couple of neat-o garden auger bits that could be chucked up in a drill motor and used for planting bulbs and suchlike in the clay soil of the raised bed in the back yard.

This morning I was messing around on Amazon and saw one of their Dealio-of-the-Day things.

Me: "Hey, Amazon is having a sale on this "Milwaukee Fork Meter & Cordless Drill" thing. I don't have a drill motor and I don't know what a 'fork meter' is..."

RX: "[arcane explanation involving amps and volts and things that can electrocute me and which I therefore avoid like the plague]"

Me: "So that's something you could find a use for, then?"

RX: "It could come in handy."

Me: "Is $99 a good deal?"

RX: "What do they normally sell the meter for by itself?"

Me: "Almost that."

RX: "So, free drill."

Me: "Right. On the way."
Tools are neat things. I'm glad that some people know what the heck they do. Me? I'm mostly an idea person; execution is generally somebody else's department.
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12 comments:

  1. North8:59 AM, August 17, 2011

    America wouldn't have an obesity problem if more forks had meters.

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  2. Tam9:00 AM, August 17, 2011

    Your internets is in the mail. :)

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  3. North9:04 AM, August 17, 2011

    I hope it tastes good covered with awesomesauce.

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  4. Ed Skinner9:04 AM, August 17, 2011

    (I fear a "turbo encabulator" post is coming... [see youtube])

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  5. Keads9:08 AM, August 17, 2011

    Ed, The one from Rockwell Automation is funny!


    wv: coment- No really!

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  6. Keads9:09 AM, August 17, 2011

    That is a good deal, and as any good geek would say: "It could come in handy".

    One is on the way to stately manor!

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  7. RWC9:15 AM, August 17, 2011

    Wait until next week when they offer the board bender package.

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  8. og10:16 AM, August 17, 2011

    I've used that drill, it's good.

    get two extra batteries. You'll thank me.

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  9. The Raving Prophet10:54 AM, August 17, 2011

    Those little 12V drills are FANTASTIC. Mine is a DeWalt 12V MAX and not a Milwaukee (the sheer amount of stuff Milwaukee makes that uses those batteries is epic, but I preferred the feel of the DW), but generally they're all the homeowner really is going to need.

    They're small, so they fit into confined places, they're powerful, they're light, they're just great.

    If the toolmakers would have come out with these a few years ago I never would have needed a 18V drill.

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  10. Cybrludite12:55 PM, August 17, 2011

    And you can mod the drill to be a battery charger, if need be.

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  11. God, Gals, Guns, Grub10:29 PM, August 17, 2011

    "auger bits that could be chucked up in a drill motor"

    I thought we couldn't drill any more... but then again, I guess you're not offshore...

    Dann in Ohio

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  12. Les Jones9:03 PM, August 18, 2011

    The fork meter is for measuring your O face.

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