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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

Adam Savage

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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Arranging Name Ofcourse Order Organisation Point Tool
The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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Literally Long Made Paint Story Tell Use What Where
After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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Anything Better Day Huge Job Responsibility Wanted Worst
I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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Best Developed Legos Thinking Toy
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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Black Box Car Effectively
The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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Allowed Explore Kind Large Legend These Thing Urban World
We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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Curiosity Educator Real Scientist Set

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