Eric Busboom

Month: August, 2009

I Stole Clooney’s Hair

With a lot of help from the InStyle Makeover, I stole George Clooney’s hair. I don’t think it helped:

I think I’d trust Bald Eric or Hat Eric much more than Clooney Hair Eric.

I Caught A Naked Boy

Hey! I caught a naked boy. He thought he could escape from a bath, but I got him with his own butterfly net.

The Perfect Evening

The Perfect 5:00:

The Perfect 5:45:

Child Sacrifice, For Children Who Love Freedom

Mummification, human vivisection and live burials in a format children can understand. Yes, really.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Inca Mummy will let parents address most of the uncomfortable questions that don’t involve sex, including human sacrifice, what happens when you yank out someone’s heart, the various ways of clubbing someone to death, and how [...]

Yes, I do need 5 of these.

Five angle grinders means I don’t have to change the wheels during a large job. For most jobs, I only use the smaller four. I only paid $11 for one of them; It has been grinding gears like it’s last day for 5 years.

Posted via email from Eric’s posterous

Homemade hammer

Lately Max brings us sticks and says ” make me a hammer.” Of course I do. Notice that mortise and tenon joint.

Posted via email from Eric’s posterous

Dispatch from the Battle of the Sexes

Yes, we play golf to get away from you:
Secret #2: We actually do play golf to get away from you
More than 21 million American men play at least one round of golf a year; of those, an astounding 75 percent regularly shoot worse than 90 strokes a round. In other words, they stink. The point [...]

Life Before Child

Although I’d never go back, there are a lot of things I did before children ( the boy and the business ) that I don’t do much anymore, like hiking. Here is a link to Gary Stowell’s website detailing a hike to Carrizo gorge in 1999.