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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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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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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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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