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A brief, incomplete list of things more likely to happen than Vernon Wells being traded
So, apparently making up Vernon Wells is a thing now. If you checked out the Halo Headlines this morning, you were treated to not one but two different stories from respected(?) national reporters who both suggested that the Angels could find a taker for Vernon Wells at the trade deadline. This is, in a word, laughable because:
- Vernon Wells has the worst contract in baseball.
- Vernon Wells is currently injured and won't be back in time to play enough to "show that he's back."
- Vernon Wells has been terrible for over a season and thus unlikely to ever "be back."
- Vernon Wells' name is synonmous with one of the worst trades of all time that essentially got Tony Reagins fired. Any GM trading for Wells would be taking on a radioactive asset and immediately subject himself and his ballclub to intense criticism and scorn.
- Vernon Wells.
Those well-known facts should be enough to convince a rational person that Wells isn't going anywhere, yet we still had the speculation arise. This I cannot abide. So, just to make sure we are all clear on how unlikely it is that Vernon Wells will NOT be traded before this coming trade deadline, I present to you a brief and incomplete list of things that are all more likely to happen than a Wells trade:
#1 - Jeff Mathis winning the Triple Crown
#33 - An Adam Sandler movie being nominated for Best Picture
#74 - Mike Trout not winning AL Rookie of the Year
#90 - O.J. Simpson admitting that he framed Jerry Sandusky and was also the second gunman on the grassy knoll
#112 - Albert Pujols revealing his true birth certificate and turning out to be just 26 years old
#113 - Barack Obama revealing his true birth certificate and turning out to be Albert Pujols and 24 years old and born in Skokie, Illinois
#199 - One of the other writers for this site actually formatting a Game Preview or Game Recap article the way I told them to
#241 - Lindsay Lohan being named the next Pope
#475 - Someone sincerely says, "Sure, Mr. Travolta, I would love to give you a private massage."
#883 - Mike Scioscia uses the same lineup everyday for an entire week
#1,349 - My wife actually convinces me to go see Magic Mike with her
#3,601 - Commentators on a political talk show have a calm, reasoned and constructive debate about the Presidential race
#7,272 - Mark Trumbo wins five straight Gold Gloves at third base
#15,008 - Me, Kate Upton, a mix tape of slow jams, an ice sculpture of a river otter and 90 minutes of pure passion
#29,555 - Five words: Bartolo Colon, Sexiest Man Alive
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CORPUS CHRISTI — Increasing county employee salaries dominated budget discussions Tuesday morning at a Nueces County Commissioners Court workshop.
Commissioner Joe A. Gonzalez pushed for a 2.5 or 3 percent cost-of-living increase to employees' salaries. The proposed budget calls for 2 percent.
"While everybody comes up higher, these guys at the bottom are always coming up real slow," Gonzalez said.
County staff estimated that a 2 percent raise would cost $670,000, a 2.5 percent raise would cost $840,000 and a 3 percent raise would cost $1 million.
County Judge Loyd Neal said if Gonzalez wanted to increase the raise, he needed to find the money. Gonzalez pointed out an $800 cut and a $6,400 cut.
Neal suggested taking away the commissioner's discretionary fund. In the proposed budget, each commissioner gets $150,000 to complete projects in his precinct.
Gonzalez, thinking Neal meant his 2 percent raise, readily agreed.
"Anybody else want to give that up?" Neal asked the rest of the commissioners, who remained silent.
"You have no money," Neal turned and told Gonzalez in a heated exchange. "You'll have zero money for your precinct."
When Gonzalez realized Neal was talking about the $150,000 discretionary fund, he took it back, saying his precinct needed it.
He told the judge not to take his suggestion personally.
"I'm not taking it personally," Neal responded. "You come up with these ideas and you don't have a way to fund it all."
Neal later apologize for getting defensive.
"We have looked at these things a lot," Neal said. "My concern and our concern is there are so many unknowns here in the next 12 to 15 months."
Commissioner Oscar Ortiz said it didn't make sense for the court to give up its raises because that still wouldn't add up to the needed funding. In fact, raises for all elected officials add up to about $55,000. Commissioners make about $70,000 this year, while the county judge makes almost $86,000. Click here to search all county employee salaries.
"I have had one or two (elected officials) tell me, 'We deserve a raise, but the county commissioners don't,' and I took offense to that." Ortiz said, adding that the decisions the court makes affects people across the county.
Ortiz said previous administrations have looked at living wages and increased salaries accordingly.
Gonzalez said it's time to look at salaries again.
"The bottom (employees) are not coming up. That's the bottom line," Gonzalez said. "If you want to take my 2 percent, fine. It's not about the money. This is about our employees who do all the work."
Ortiz suggested dipping further into the fund balance to cover the difference on the 2.5 percent raise, but both Neal and Steve Waterman, Commissioners Court administrative director, advised against it.
In the proposed budget, the county staff estimates an ending fund balance of about $18.6 million. County policy is to maintain a fund balance of 25 percent of its budget revenues, which is about $18.3 million.
"I'm not willing to change the estimated balance because that's too close," Neal said. "We could hiccup twice and be below that 25 percent."
Neal pointed out the county is still spending more than it makes and is having to dip into the fund balance to make ends meet. The goal, Neal said, is to even things out once again.
He emphasized the county's step increase program he started when he came into office, which gives employees who have been with the county three years a 2.5 percent raise. Employees who have been with the county for six years have received 5 percent in longevity along with a 3 percent raise approved by the court in 2008.
"This court has not ignored any employee," Neal said. "I'm proud of that."
Commissioners did appear to agree to bring all county employees onto the same pay schedule. Several years ago, the county created an alternate pay schedule to give some groups of underpaid employees a raise. Others were left on the old schedule. In the proposed budget, several employees were already set to be reclassified and moved over to the new schedule at a cost of $106,000.
County staff estimated it would cost $26,000 to move the rest of the employees to the other pay schedule.
Because the Tuesday meeting was a workshop, no action was taken.
Neal also recommended a $5,000, or 5 percent, raise for Waterman.
"Steve works hard for us and has refused once again for me to recommend a salary increase," Neal said. "He has told me no, but I'm going to tell you right now I don't necessarily want to accept that no. Nobody at the county works harder."

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DXL - 5:31 am on Nov 26, 2010 (gmt 0)
The Ghost Partner
I've had to deal with that exact situation before.
The more common spin on it is when a business manager gives a personal stamp of approval on each step of project development. Right when we're about to launch, the actual business owner (who I was given the impression was always in the loop) decides that he completely hates the layout.


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Ben Deignan – Addiction [Music Video]
Singer/songwriter Ben Deignan releases the official visual for the first single off his forthcoming debut EP set to be released this year, the video is for the track "Addiction," which was previously recorded for one of Deignan's mixtapes, but when a close friend heard the rough version of the track she convinced Ben to re-record the track. The single is a story of a man who thirsts for a woman so badly that it becomes unhealthy. for the video Ben linked up with Jason Lee Denton of Tesla Rossa whom he shares management with through Bowe Inc. out of Atlanta, GA. The treatment was shot throughout downtown Nashville, TN during a cold winter night.


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Parkland takes on Whitehall in a District 11 Class 4A high school football semifinal on Friday, November 15, 2013.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
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Billed as "an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus," Fur decidedly does have hair on its balls. Director Steven Shainberg (he did the fearless Secretary) had no access to Arbus' famed photos of society's outcasts. So with a script by Erin Cressida Wilson, he imagines what might have turned Arbus, played with more chill than necessary by Nicole Kidman, from a 1950s housewife and mother into a chronicler of the misbegotten and a suicide at forty-eight. Enter the fictional character of Lionel Sweeney (Robert Downey Jr.), a mysterious figure with a hood who moves into the apartment upstairs. It turns out Lionel suffers from a condition that covers his body with fur. It's Diane's professional and erotic obsession with Lionel and his circle of freaks that defines her career. Downey makes something lively, sexy and moving out of a role that's just a thin concept. But the movie feels like it's still in the darkroom.
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No, judging from her appearance, it looks like she's past the stage of puberty, so that's as big as her boobs will get.
confess your impressions of my tits with quickness, i'm blessed with these breasts that you wish for Christmas I got the best chest and I don't restrict it tits unlimited
I would not mind coming home after a long day of work, tired and aching, and just gracefully fall onto that body, my face gently cushioned by those enormous breasts.
Try Lola Ferrari. Man her bewbs were huge back in the day. I think she died of health complications due to how much surgery she had on them make them even more bigger. I blame her cosmetic surgery loving husband though.
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2nd Patch.
Jan 5, 2014 Patch 1 commentSimply Override existing files. NB requires deletion of data/maps/airport folder and contents!
This is the Bill & Ted Mod,created by Doc-Holliday-.
New forum:
The Team:
Doc-Holliday-/BillAndTed Leader/Head Designer
Mktherimelord Co-Leader/Manager
Ajvgames GXT Modeler
D3stroyer (Retired)
Nagoyafound Assistant Texturer/Coder
This mod will/ should include the features listed in the list below.
Planned features include
Color codes-
Red- On Hold
Orange-Partly Done
-Time-travelling phone box (Not Yet! until we get a 3d modder and get it coded)
-Bill and Ted skins (On Hold)
-Bill's van from the film Needs a few more fixes
-Water Loo (If Possible)
-Circle K (On Hold)
-San Dimas Mall (On Hold)
-San Dimas Police Station (On Hold)
-San Dimas Police Car (Finished)
-Missy's Car (Finished)
-San Dimas Police Uniforms for Cops (Finished)
-San Dimas Police Uniform for Player (Finished)
-Re-Textures In And Around Global Films (On Hold)
-Easter Eggs Made (On Hold)
-New Maps (Not until 0.1B or so)
-New Fist (Finished)
-Missions (None yet possibly a 0.1B release or so)
-New Water Texture (Finished
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-Mall Props Such As Big Icee Cup,Win This Car Sign Etc.(On Hold)
-Coffie Shop In Mall/Icee Shop In Mall (Working On)
You will be informed of further updates & release dates at a later date.
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First off: BETA 3 is DEAD :( due to possible copying rights I decided to kill it.
Its almost here! (No specified time frame) XD
Nagoyafound (moi) brings you the most thrilling chapter yet!
New Name too! Drum roll..................................................
GTA San Dimas !
Yes you read correctly.... A new GTA game? Hardly. It is a GTA VC mod, but I'm changing the best bits.
To include:
III, SA and IV cars, (I know done before on other mods YAWN) ( proper owners will be credited on models)
new LC themed HUD. Not VC or LC or even LCS a NEW HUD.
This Mod is set on Stock VC Not a previous version (partly because some was lost partly starting a fresh!
Renaming Zones to fit GTA SD, 70% done.
Vehicles: 90%
new skins including III, possibly SA. 0%
importing LC and SA models/ colours 20% ( could be more or less)
New SCM (game code) (VC SCM w bits added) 20%
Photos to come soon. NB in-game gates and that will be closed again! Play the game or fly to over come this!!
All the Best NF!
Simply Override existing files. NB requires deletion of data/maps/airport folder and contents!
1st release will need gtasd.exe to work properly!!
New and improved HUD, font, particles game posters and plane advert, Starlise is now waterloo, golf is now Mod island, Previous mod island is now tweaked...
Can't wait til 2.0? well here it is the mini version! Whats a mini it doesn't include the BIG laggy img that im still editing ha ha soon enough
New and Improved. Features include: New HUD, New American TXT, Slightly better code. It Shall be better than the first i promise
The work done thus far plenty of room for improvments
have patience. we're trying our best.
Come join the forum. The more members,the better it will be! Billandtedmod.motion-forum.net
Don`t forget you can follow us on twitter also for tiny updates that are too small to be put here. Twitter.com
Great work neliop on the new updates and doc great work on the new fist
keanu reeves is not dead, he was neo in the matrix...
Lol, that's just seriously funny...
they are very much alive i think the only actor that's dead is the guy that played Rufus
A side-note you can check on the actors on if there alive or dead or what other films they star in by finding out there names here Imdb.com and Imdb.com and just to let you know yes Sadly Rufus(George Carlin) is Dead Afp.google.com
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MEDFORD, OREGON -- Took my Dell 5100 Laptop to the local Best Buy "Geek Squad" to remove an error message on boot up. Twice went through the boot up procedure with the receiving "tech agent" to explain the problem, as once past boot up, the laptop performed normally.
Received a phone call two days later from a geek, explaining that the hard drive had failed and the motherboard was malfunctioning and they would have to send it to their repair center (up to $500 and a couple of weeks !!) They had also removed the hard drive and connected it to their "Mule" for diagnosis.(Typical "one size fits all" mentality)
Picked up the laptop (without signing their "release of liability"!!) brought it home and ran one of the Dell Diagnostic Discs - (since I had nothing to lose). Very comprehensive -- took 1 1/2hrs and came up with everything working perfectly.- except the hard drive.
Took the unit to a local computer repair shop who discovered that the hard drive had been re-installed improperly (bent connector pin)
The smug arrogance of the Geek "tech" and that that they denied any fault being theirs, is what really ticked me off -- apart from the obvious fact that the repairs were attempted by unprofessional idiots.
It is obvious that this repair service is a real money spinner for Best Buy (who "own" it) and deflects consumer complaints from their main core business.
Send a message to Best Buy to eliminate (or drastically improve this lucrative sideline of theirs) by not patronising their Store. There are many alternate (and cheaper!)options to buy electronic gear like Newegg, B&H, Tiger Direct etc.
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Posted by leet60 on 2012-11-04:
The "geek squad", in my opinion is virtually useless. They have "canned" diagnosis for almost any problem. Taking your computer to them for service is like having a brake shop repair your engine. I always try to use a local repair service if possible.
Posted by Dakota1015 on 2012-11-04:
The best and the brightest IT people do not work for a company that pays them Burger King wages, calls them geeks and dresses them up in 1960s Blues Brothers costumes. Just sayin....
Posted by FoDaddy19 on 2012-11-04:
"Took my Dell 5100 Laptop to the local Best Buy "Geek Squad" to remove an error message on boot up"
That's a 9 year old laptop, I'm impressed it's still running.
"Received a phone call two days later from a geek, explaining that the hard drive had failed and the motherboard was malfunctioning "
It's entirely possible that the S.M.A.R.T HDD diagnostics detected an imminent HHD failure, in which case the unit could boot normally after the warning, but the warning is there to let you know that your HDD is likely on borrowed time. So it's likely the HDD was on the way out. As for the mobo diagnosis, it's possible that the IDE controller could be bad, but if the optical drive still worked, then that probably wasn't defective.
"They had also removed the hard drive and connected it to their "Mule" for diagnosis.(Typical "one size fits all" mentality)"
Please understand that HDD's come in three main variety's; SATA, which is the most common by far today and has been the standard for 6 or 7 years now, IDE, which used to be the most common, about 10-20 years ago, and SCSI, which never made much headway in the consumer/retail market, but was around during the time IDE was common. So test a HDD is really a "one size fits all" approach as there are only two real standards in play here. What I'm trying to say is, it doesn't require any proprietary equipment to test a HDD out of a Dell vs. one out of an HP, it's all standardized.
"Took the unit to a local computer repair shop who discovered that the hard drive had been re-installed improperly (bent connector pin)"
Very easy to do on those 2.5 inch IDE laptop HDDs, fortunately it's also easy to fix most of the time with a pair of tweezers.
"Took the unit to a local computer repair shop who discovered that the hard drive had been re-installed improperly (bent connector pin)The smug arrogance of the Geek "tech" and that that they denied any fault being theirs, is what really ticked me off -- apart from the obvious fact that the repairs were attempted by unprofessional idiots"
It's possible they did it, it's also possible the other shop did it. And are trying to cover themselves. Either way it a bent pen is an easy fix most of the time. However if you were get a SMART warning upon startup the HDD will need to be replaced in the near future, back up your data now. I don't think the cost of a IDE HDD (which the 5100 takes) would be justifiable given the age of the unit though.
"It is obvious that this repair service is a real money spinner for Best Buy (who "own" it)"
It is, GS is a major source of revenue for Best Buy, their margins on Geek Squad services/labor are huge.
In the interest of disclosure, I should mention that I was a Geek Squad agent for three years. I, along with most of people who worked in my store were overqualified for the work we did. I had a 4 year degree, and several certifications (A+, Network+,MCDST,and MCSA) However, most companies require that you have have several years experience (regardless of qualifications) before they'll even look at you. For me and most of my co-workers Geek Squad was a stepping stone, it was the job you had before you got the job you wanted. I worked at Geek Squad for 3 years, it was enjoyable for the most part, the pay sucked, but I liked my coworkers, we were shared alot of the same interests and were fun to work with. During my stay I can't say a really learned anything I didn't already know, but the freebies were nice and the employee discount didn't suck back then either. I can only remember one time in three years where we made a big mistake ( we replaced a motherboard when all we had to do was replace a floppy disk cable, I screwed the pooch on that one, but we were only out $80 for a cheap replacement mobo, so it wasn't the end of the world, and the customer ended up getting a new mobo for free. These days I'm a network admin overseeing about 200 computers, virtually everyone I worked with at Geek Squad has moved on to bigger and better things as well. Geek Squad as a whole takes a lot of heat for being overpriced (it is), but not all precincts are bad. It is true that alot of the kids that work there aren't going to be as qualified as you might think, but there are some people who work there because they can't find anything better right now, and most of the time these people will be very competent. It's the luck of the draw really.
Posted by Joe on 2013-05-03:
the installed a ram module in my laptop, without removing the oem module. the new module has different specs than the oem, and the mismatch has been causing my computer to crash. that said, their online support for software is OK, although there is alot of hopping from agent to agent.
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Yeah it was a pretty dumb short but i sure as hell got a great laugh from it and plus the animation was pretty good as well as the voice acting,you did a nice job on this silly flash short.
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this is the humour i like, the voice was serious and made it cool.
the alien eating the face was the cherry on the creampie
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Well, I guess it's not completely bad. The artwork was done well. It really does have that "Alien Hominid" look. The voice work was okay, even if it wasn't very loud. I'm not even bothered by the flash being so short. I've seen shorter flashes than this that somehow managed to be quite hilarious. But with that said, I'm afraid that this flash really wasn't all that hilarious. I do admit that the character movements were kind of funny, although not laugh-out-loud funny. The biggest thing that bothers me is that it wasn't really necessary to use "Alien Hominid" characters for this flash. Since the joke doesn't actually have any relation to the game, you could have easily settled with making your own characters for this.
P.S. I played "Alien Hominid" on one of the consoles before, and it really was quite awesome. I wish I had never gotten rid of it.
theres a few alien hominid jokes in here. like the fbi agent spinning.
Rated 4 / 5 stars March 31, 2009
lol nice
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Eva combined $1056.95 worth of Ikea EXPEDIT shelves to build this awesome megashelf -- I'm such a sucker for the wall o'books.
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89 Responses to "Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books"
crenelle says:
I've built many cheap bookcases for hard covers and paperbacks. I don't think I'd pay that much today for the board feet and backing panels, if I did all the cutting, routing, gluing, screw-driving and painting. That takes time, but the edge to doing it yourself is that you can use materials that will travel better. I'm not even sure I can make a bookshelf from scratch using particle board, that's tricky stuff.
The house I'm in today (Wash. State) has many bookcases that originate from a now closed used bookstore in Chicago, but I had to build a few paperback bookcases to get the paperbacks and other similarly-sized media off of the floor.
Nur says:
I'm thinking it's "cheaper than getting someone to build it for your" but still, at over £1000 it's hardly pocket change.
That said, of course it looks nice, it's a wall of books.
dculberson says:
If you were to buy professionally custom built cabinets, this would be $10,000 easily. My parent's kitchen cabinets cost a multiple of that.
steelwraith says:
Takuan has this right.. why are we thinking *wood* when there are many other materials we can use.. I can have Mennonites re-create this for close to double in hard woods, close to cost in soft..
But just plain ole recycled particle board? Priceless….
Oh, and the ladder is the risque artist thing going on.. that adds 20%..
Daemon says:
I hate all storebought bookshelves. None of them are sized for paperbacks, and I own over 800 of those. Their dimensions result in either phenominal wasted space, or stacking books in a manner that makes it hard to find them when you want them.
Once I'm not living in a uni apt I'll grab some wood and make 'em myself – for a fraction of the cost, and a bit more time.
apoxia says:
Pretty cool, but would be so much cooler if recessed into the wall.
michaelwc says:
Hey Cory check this out-
My father has been working on our upstairs living room for some time now. It's still a work in progress. It actually has become known to my family as "the library". These bookshelves are custom made and yes, those are rolling library ladders. You can see my father, Dante, sitting by the phone. What you can't see is the second row of books behind the first. Sorry these aren't good panoramas, I lack the good software and computer to make them better. -
TroofSeeker says:
@Gloria: "Cinderblocks? Do you people hate your eyes?"
Gloria, a coat of pretty paint does wonders.
One recommedation- set the cinder blocks at an angle (what's the opposite of pigeon-toed?), or the whole stack could get bumped over. -
Praystation2 says:
@23 There is a recession going on at the moment and therefore about 200.000 homes are not being built this year and thats a lot of lumber that is not being used so for the 1st time in years the lumber price is actually dropping.
kaiza says:
The thing that gets me about this is that joining multiple units together means doubling the wall thicknesses everywhere. Granted, it'll be stronger (and particle board does tend to sag), but it's most likely complete overkill.
Takuan says:
@35 to make it appear "recessed in the wall", just trim the edges out.
Suburbancowboy says:
The side pieces of these bookshelves are actually filled with rolled up paper. Not even cardboard. Just rolled up paper. That is why they are so cheap. I wasn't aware of this, until I went to the scratch and dent section and saw one busted open.
TroofSeeker says:
Cory asks "…If that's not cheapass, what is?"
Bricks and fence slats. Ugly, but cheapass.
This may be a golden age for garage sales, so used bookshelves probably abound.
But for a nice bookwall, without too much expense or the trouble of making it, unfinished furniture stores. You buy four or five units, sand them, then finish them. Not that much trouble. And black varnish? Beautiful!
BTW- if the shelves are adjustable, you may need to turn them over now and then, due to sagging. -
blueelm says:
This has been my problem with Ikea from the start. I was so excited thinking I could find much cheaper ways to get things like this… but really it isn't cheaper than making it yourself at all. You also give up a lot in quality.
We built some shelves like that in our old house. We used pine and it wasn't anywhere near $1000.00, probably half that.
That being said we already had the space and equipment to build shelves. Also, we did not bevel the edges nicely. The time was still significant, especially considering that we had to prime and paint them too. It was pretty challenging to get them secure against the wall.
On the whole though, I think it was nicer not having the heavy and weak particle board to deal with. Not that you could really tell that much beneath the paint. Tit for tat I guess.
stickyfinger says:
Judging from the owner's taste in products and methods, I'm confident in predicting there isn't one title in that library I'd want to "borrow".
Beware the hidden costs of cheap, say, for instance, (ad nauseam) the demise of locally produced and superior goods. #16 has it right.
Anonymous says:
How to make ultra cheap bookshelves with a hammer and a saw: 1. Get an old wooden door. 2. Nail planks around the edge to make a shallow box. 3. Cut, insert and nail planks to make the shelves. 4. Paint or varnish.
Anonymous says:
I'm a longtime reader, first time poster:
42 posts and no one has mentioned Ikea Hacker (http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/) – this just seems like the sort of crowd that would enjoy it. -
efnord says:
Daemon: DVD cases are just about a centimeter taller than standard paperbacks- get a DVD shelf unit.
hassan-i-sabbah says:
Ha! That the last time Doctrow comes on here,Talkin
his fancy Shelf Talk! HEEEeeee!!pile em up.
let em lie.
-=[ArcSine]=- says:
I did the same in my house with cheaper Billy bookcases. It appears they've redone the widths since I did mine, but I had to combine two narrow ones and three wide ones to get to the right total width for a wall in my house. Came to around $300 IIRC. Holding up great, though not loaded 100% with books, mostly collectibles and baubles. Never moved 'em though.
FoetusNail says:
Lumber and cinder blocks, reminds me of my first apartment in 1974, 90USD per month. The larger units were $125.
Brainspore says:
If economic forces ever allow me to purchase a house of my own I look forward to building custom shelves for my ever-growing library, but in the meantime I'm happy Ikea was able to help me organize my one-bedroom apartment. Before the "Billy" bookcase most of my stuff was on those industrial wire shelves. Ugh.
North of 49 says:
Daemon, what Efnord said.
Three years ago IKEA DVD shelves were $17 Canadian, so probably not much more than that now. Each has five shelves and holds about 60 paperbacks, 12 to a shelf. They'll stack nicely, come with hardware to attach them to the wall if you so desire (handy in our earthquake zone), and since they're only 8 inches deep, work well in confined areas. I've got ten lining one wall of a narrow hall, stacked in a pleasing seven-and-three pyramid.
Couldn't have built that myself — not finished, nor looking as good, for the under $200 (tax included), that I paid.
kaini says:
anyway i just zoomed in and it's like three hundred various editions of "atlas shrugged".
kaini says:
#48: truth-bullets. i furnished a flat in amsterdam entirely from stuff people threw away, and had quite an awesome library like that.
toxonix says:
That is going to fall down and kill you. You get what you pay for.
that is a bookwall! Although I prefer the classic multistory kind with rolling ladders.
andyhavens says:
These look nice… but Ikea? From the folks who worship Making? I gotta believe I could do it myself fro less than a grand.
Perhaps the library has some books I could look at on the subject…
Iscah says:
Ikea includes hardware and instructions for attaching shelving units to the wall with every unit they sell. This will only fall over and kill you if you didn't use the hardware, something for which they would bear no responsibility whatsoever.
kaini says:
#50: save one for bioshock research. the other 299? it's one of those rare 'dave matthews/cheaper than blank tape' scenarios. expect a pic of "me reading 'atlas shrugged'" from my "'desk made of various unsold copies of 'atlas shrugged'" on bOINGbOING soon….
Anonymous says:
For those people who are talking about how this could be done for cheaper… Cinder blocks and 2x4s. My dad is a carpenter, and if I were to ask him for bookshelves to hold my books I would get cinder blocks and 2x4s.
The cobblers children have no shoes.
CerebralMagpie says:
Handyman Father-in-law plus $70 worth of recycled house wood from a friend plus $50 worth of stain and varnish equals floor to ceiling full wall bookshelf porn in our computer room.
Only wish it was ermm…bigger. Yeah, gotta build more shelves…it's an addiction.
Anonymous says:
All those hurricanes that we've been having the last few years? They've sent lumber prices sky high.
Um. Futures hit their peak in August of last year, at $260/1,000 board ft. Right now, they're at $144. Actual lumber prices are down to their lowest rates in at least three years. Pine in the south is down 3% in Q4 '08 compared to Q3 – not up, as your hurricane hypothesis would suggest. (Gustav and Ike didn't hit Louisiana and Texas lumber very hard. If anything, they caused a bump up in demand regionally, but not much. Katrina and Rita were the same story.) Southern pine's down 30% compared to Q4 '07.
Paper and housing demand have both plummeted. Logging operations are closing from Wisconsin to Louisiana and Texas, and have been on the downturn since August '08.
So where the hell's your data coming from? The UK? Nope – prices are bottoming out there. China and Africa are seeing some success, but it isn't reaching the export market, where there's no buyers.
Anonymous says:
@82 – 'duck-toed' is apparently the opposite to pigeon-toed.
weg says:
This is unbelievable.
Not to burst Cory's bubble, but this is for you all:
I made a loft bed entirely out of Home Depot's lumber and screws. It fits a queen sized mattress, stands a bit more than 6 feet high, and comes with shelves for books and DVDs. I finally had my own shelving space for the awesome collection I have been carrying around in boxes (easily 200+ books). The whole effort cost me about a week of sporadic light-duty sanding ($30 sanding machine, from Home Depot), measuring, and drilling (another $30 machine from Home Depot). It took a mere few hours of teamwork (2 people) to lift it off ground and it withstood some raunchy nights.
The result? Around $200. And I did this in February, regardless of lumber prices or whatnots. It is infinitely cheaper to DIY (unless the DIY you like doing is lugging boxes and boxes of that expedit set).
Purly says:
How do you prevent them from falling? Are they attached to the wall in some way? I already have that many expedit shelves, but I don't have them stacked.
Takuan says:
$200!? $200??!! Cor, what bleedin' LUXURY! When I were a nipper, we had to make our bookcases out of screwed-up old chip wrappings! And damned glad of it too!
pinehead says:
I came here originally to spout something about how it shouldn't cost $1000+, but I think Cory and Takuan squelched that in #3 and #5.
I do have a full shop, and I can make my own floor-to-ceiling shelves for next to nothing. But it's probably a safe bet that Eva (and most other people) aren't similarly equipped. As far as retail goes, I'd agree; that's a good deal and her shelves look nice.
Takuan @21:
Off-gassing gets a lot of attention, but its real-world effects are minimal at best. It's like those people who swear they're allergic to radio waves; they claim it's true, but it just smacks of BS to me. Pretty much every house built since the late 80′s (or earlier, I don't remember) has used OSD or CDX in the underfloor layer and occasionally in the walls, ceiling and roof layers. If off-gassing was a major issue, I think we'd know it by now.Not saying there aren't a tiny few people legitimately allergic to OSD and such. But it's really a non-issue for those of us who… you know… open windows occasionally. Or who use our HVAC systems and circulate the air in the house.
ekalb says:
For a inexpensive wall of shelves that are far superior to particle board. Ikea's Broder shelves and frame are steel. Everything is adjustable. Best of all it is free standing with only a few screws in the wall for non-tipping. The supports with 20 shelves cost me less than $700.
pinehead says:
Those are lovely and at a good price, too. I think the deal breaker with some people would be that they're too austere for certain rooms. But with the furniture and the lighting you have in that photo, it looks great to me. Nicely done. -
Takuan says:
re: out-gassing; perhaps some people are genuinely sensitive/allergic, but natural wood witt safe finishes should always be choice anyway, if only for quality and durability. Heard the latest? Now Chinese made drywall/gypsum board is being accused of being contaminated (sulphur compounds?) as well as formaldehyde laced clothing (including lingerie)
Avram / Moderator says:
Cory, there's no way the photographed shelves total 250 linear feet of shelving. By my count, it's about 130 feet. That's $7.90/foot. (That's pretending that the TV units was a regular unit. For the actual shelves pictured, it's even fewer linear feet.)
Seven Ikea Billy shelving units, with height extenders, would take up about the same amount of horizontal space, offer 140 feet of linear shelf space, and cost only $553, or $3.95/foot. And you could adjust the height of most of the shelves. Wouldn't look as cool, though.
Takuan says:
clearly an economic opportunity here for a bookcase entrepreneur.
Dave F says:
The problem I have with this solution is that the default shelf size is huge – roughly twice as high as a paperback and probably three times deeper.
If you're like me, with an effectively unbounded need for book storage, it's going to be much more efficient to use shelves that are paperback height (+ epsilon). I think it looks a lot better too, to be honest.
This also saves you on lumbar costs, because if the shelves are 3 x shallower, you only need a third as much wood.
In my last place, we basically did the "floorboards supported on wall brackets" thing. But because those shelves were *solid* with books, you really didn't notice the shelving, just the books. That worked out as something like 150 linear feet for $200 dollars. They didn't sag, either.
pinehead says:
This is the first I've heard of that about the drywall, but it isn't really surprising. Chinese tools are mostly okay, but their end products are crummy.Formaldehyde on clothing? What?
"SPRAY DOWN THOSE KNICKERS SO THEY'LL KEEP." Usually rotten underwear isn't an issue until after they've met a person's backside.
John Napsterista says:
I made these when as I was a student:
Just some wooden planks and cinder blocks, cost me around $100 from Home Depot, back in '00.
eclectro says:
@ Takuan and others;
You really are not familiar with book physics, not physics books. First, there are specific reasons you would not want to hang books from a ceiling or stick them in the floor. Most people would not want to lose vertical height in their living space. Besides that fluids/dirt like to hit the floor and would kill books or that people would feel uncomfortable sitting under that much weight let alone the structural stresses. Let alone accessibility in both cases.
Also particle board is a very inferior product for bookshelves. Nowadays bookshelves are sold with a weight limit to prevent their bowing which means only a few books with most of the shelf empty. But even the "heavy duty" bookshelves I have are bowing. Yes you can flip them around and they just bow down the other way.
In my book anybody with 200 or less books is a "book pansy".
Takuan says:
you've never actually lived in a book midden, have you?
birthdaygrrl says:
I love this. How creative and resourceful! Where did you get the ladder? Did you fasten all the shelves to the wall?
dr says:
Media shelves are the right size for paperbacks, but many of the cheaper DVD bookshelves are not designed with the strength to hold books (though they can be easily reinforced). DVD cases are mainly air.
In our last condo we put a wall of bookshelves in the home office, by using wall brackets and lengths of hardwood board cut to our specifications by the lumber yard. It was neither hard work nor a lot of money. We used shelves in two widths – 8″ and 6″ – to intrude as little into the room space as possible yet still be (just) deep enough for our books. Pricing: a 4×8 sheet of nice 3/4″ birch plywood might cost around $60, you can rip 56′ of shelving out of that (mix of 6″ and 8″ widths) with nominal charge for cuts, so maybe $300 for the lumber for the wall in this article.
Incidentally, when we sold that condo our real estate agent tried to talk us into storing the books and removing the shelves and brackets. She said that prospective buyers would be turned off by all the books. We couldn't bring ourselves to do it, and don't know if her advice might have brought us a higher price.
Anonymous says:
I love the IKEA Shelving! I heard some negative comments about the particle board shelving units. We have had our IKEA shelving for almost 25 years and in three countries. They look beautiful and have lived in many rooms of our home. These shelves have outlived many other similar manufactures of shelving. As a librarian these have been some of the best shelving for the price I have ever used.
jphilby says:
I like a wall-o-books even better when it's parked against an outside wall using the books for insulation … warming you TWICE!
etho says:
I'm quite conflicted on Ikea. On the one hand, I think they make a fair amount of affordable, not-awfully-ugly furniture. On the other hand, their stores are genuinely upsetting for me to visit and they are responsible for the most appallingly bad table-and-chairs design I have ever seen.
(http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70092553 I mean really, you end up sitting at the corners of the table, the corner chair things are uncomfortable, and the chairs fit together under the table, meaning there is no leg room if you want to share the table with anyone else. It's terrible, it's a piece of furniture designed entirely to look good when it it not being used.)
I do love wall-to-wall book shelves, and this might be a good way to do it cheap, but I wonder how much it would cost to just do it yourself.
Takuan says:
you'd think so, but these days? A cheap table saw, that much decent lumber, hardware, multiple coats on that much surface area of finish… Unless you have space, a full shop and a line on wholesale material, who wants the bother? Only way cheaper might be finding old store fixtures.
Robert says:
I love the Trinity College Library photos, but whenever I see that awful rope preventing the great unwashed from touching the information, a little part of me dies :(
FoetusNail says:
Just wish we had that much wall, we probably have almost as many books in six large cases in four small rooms.
Takuan says:
how about a floor bookcase? Clear plastic panel doors that open in sections?
Takuan says:
or for that matter, how could you make a ceiling bookcase that gripped the books but still released them for random access? (as opposed to parallel box beam type shelves that accessed from either side)
kaini says:
i love book porn. i found a site a while back with the most amazing shots of libraries in places like the amsterdam rijksmuseum and trinity college, dublin.
Anonymous says:
This IKEA orgy is relatively inexpensive compared to a custom bookshelf.
This would be cheap.
Milk crates would be cheapass.
Made in DNA says:
#1 — agreed, on both points.
A $1000 = cheap? Wow! I wish I lived in your world Cory. A 1000 yen is cheap, but $1000, are you kidding?
Still, very nice setup.
General Specific says:
That looks great, but I wish those cases has adjustable shelves. So much wasted space.
Seven years as a bookseller left me with more books than shelf space, but I've grown to love my little rotating floor stacks.
Moriarty says:
What he lacks in insight, he more than makes up in first rate word salad.
General Specific says:
@ 10- That much shelf space by anyone other than Ikea would cost thousands more. Maybe value is a better word here.
Cory Doctorow says:
Really? What do you think 250 linear feet of lumber and cinderblocks sufficient to stack them would cost?
This is about 10% of what it would cost to build these cases any other way. If that's not cheapass, what is?
Bentcorner says:
$1056.95 is a lot of money for particleboard junk.
I'd love to see what this wall-o-books looks like four years from now after all that weight has done havoc to it's glue and sawdust makeup.
Takuan says:
in all fairness, particle board shelves can last if never disturbed. It's moving house that kills them.
orinos73 says:
I'm not one of those guys who likes to brag about how little he paid for something. I've got this many expidit shelves throughout my house. I paid in the neighborhood of $300, total. Craigslist FTW.
jacques45 says:
@4, I love that table. It may not be the most comfortably-designed table, but in dining rooms that were were apparently designed for lilliputians like my old house, it fit perfectly, and allowed for 4 people to sit and eat.
And that bookshelf is missing a nice rolly-ladder.
Takuan says:
any current wisdom on Ikea type products formaldehyde outgassing these days?
grey not grey says:
@15, @17
I have 6 of the full-sized Billy bookshelves I bought well over 10 years ago that are holding up OK completely full, only the one with my oversized books is bowing at all, and structural stability hasn't been affected by 4 moves – though I did completely disassemble the shelves & flat pack them for each move. The more recent Billy shelves I got seem to be even more solidly constructed than the older ones.@ 35 – gorgeous, simply gorgeous. Put some louvered glass fronts on those and I'm going to die of jealousy.
:)FWIW most of the people I know with really nice antique shelving (used book stores, mostly) picked them up from fixture auctions at closing churches, seminaries, and rural libraries. A bookshelf about the size of a full-sized billy will run you about 2 grand in a regular antique store in my neck of the woods, but I know people that have picked up the same at these fixture auctions for under a hundred bucks each.
codereduk says:
"This is about 10% of what it would cost to build these cases any other way. If that's not cheapass, what is?"
10%? Really? You think you would need to spend over $10,000 for that much lumber?
Maybe if you are cutting down old growth forests …
Antinous / Moderator says:
You think you would need to spend over $10,000 for that much lumber?
Take a trip to Home Depot or whatever you have locally and price finish quality lumber. All those hurricanes that we've been having the last few years? They've sent lumber prices sky high. We've even had lumber (ply and OCB) rationing in the US in the last few years.
Takuan says:
oak,maple and other hardwoods traditional for fine furniture WOULD cost that much.
EH says:
That's about 106′ worth of shelving. Sure you could probaby do that in bracket shelving with pine boards for $500, but it'd be not so nice looking. Ladder extra.
pgomes says:
#1 and #10: Eva got acres of good looking shelf space, strong enough to hold her books and other shelving for $1000. The only way you could go cheaper would be to DIY, but then you'd run into the problems that #5 posted. In this case, bookcase, $1057 is cheapass.
#4: "it's a piece of furniture designed entirely to look good when it it not being used". True, but even in that aspect it fails.
#9: The Trinity College Library is amazing. I never get sick of admiring it:
http://tinyurl.com/dmh9gp -
Takuan says:
speaking of panel products shortages; yet another use for cannabis hemp fiber.
Takuan says:
just how does that ladder at the end work anyway? Looks precarious.
kaini says:
#26: directlinking looks to be forbidden :(
but i found the link: http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/hot_library_smut/
trinity: http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/TRINITY-COLLEGE-LIBRARY-DUB.jpg
the book of kells is at the end of that hall in another room. no, seriously.