Behold! A light! A halogen light! With an 18 kV battery!

This took 3.5 hours but I learned a valuable Gimp lesson: don’t “erase” by drawing white lines on things – it will end poorly for you. This white line trick caused me to have to re-draw a lot of the internal lines over the coloring, which is ridiculous and take for-ev-er. Also, I had a gimlet in the middle of the drawing. I’m not sure that helped.

I like opening manuals and seeing that the instructions consist of numbered arrows and no English text (or text in another language). Case in point: I don’t need too much help installing a mother board in a PC case, but the instruction manual for the case I just bought was hilariously lacking in text. It had several pages of numbered arrows surrounded by what appeared to be written French. I just got out the hot glue gun and went to work.

I think the arrows in this drawing really help inform people about this tool. First, you do something here. Second, something else happens over here. See – clarity.

tags: tool of the day