Ben Towle

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Crackhouse windows

I began work last fall on restoring a couple of windows from what will one day be the master bedroom of the Crackhouse, and have just now gotten around to finishing them up. The stripped, reglazed and repainted sash had been gathering dust in the basement while other projects supreceded them, but here they are …

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Crackhouse update

Here’s a recent picture of my soon-to-be studio. The sheetrock has been taped, pulled and primed; ceiling painted; trim installed around windows and doors; and floors sanded down and coated with the first layer of poly. (Click for larger image)

Microsoft Office Assistance: Paste Text Without the Formatting into a Word Document

Microsoft Office Assistance: Paste Text Without the Formatting into a Word Document I recently stubled upon this fix for one of MS Word’s most irratating features…you know, when you paste something from a web page or another Word doc and it pastes it with the source document’s font face, size and color—rather than formatting it …

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Happy Birthday, Gimli!

My cat, Gimli, is five years old today. Here’s my favorite picture of him. I was growing a pot of catnip for him on our balcony in Savannah and assumed that, since it was hanging about four feet off the ground, he couldn’t get into it… but clearly I was wrong. (Click for larger image)

The Nameless Dread

The Nameless Dread “The Family Circus” as written by H.P. Lovecraft. (Click for larger image)