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LOL... 
I've had many accolades over the years, but that ones a first!
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Stick a box fan under it meanwhile.
Where I worked for a while a couple decades ago, we always built our own computers for client jobs, and it was normal for us to always have computers sitting around that consisted of everything screwed to a piece of plywood or foam core board or stiff cardboard or whatever was around for testing before we committed to the components we were going to put together in the boxes, in addition to having some that we already assembled to test them already built. Not quite pizza boxes, though. That's a good one! Personally, though, I just use some old towers that I keep around and just put together new stuff in them.
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I don't know if a mining cart counts as a hack.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I own a MIG welder and chop saw, so I can weld one up and powder coat it from stock steel. But I think it's a pretty neat product and worth a look.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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Giving new meaning to the expression "Soup up your PC"
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My first hack was in my college years, back when a "laptop computer" was the size and weight of a typewriter (and kept your lap PLENTY warm), I bolted a steamer chest handle to the top of my mini-tower, and an eye-bolt to the back. I then fashioned an old strap with clip-hooks (think old-style carabiner clips before carabiners were known to anyone but climbers) on the ends. This was my daily setup for going from home to school to the office and back again. I got lots of interested looks on the bus.
My second hack was back when my kids were starting grade school and learning more about the internet than Dad was showing them, I gathered scrap components from various dead machines, and built my first home firewall on a piece of cardboard that I mounted on the wall behind my desk. Never worried about overheating. My wife even thought it was a fun conversation piece when friends would come over, even though she knew nothing about computers, and could barely use the one I gave her.
I have done several hacks since then, but they have been less and less original.
I did once mod a 5 1/4" floppy case to fit into a drive bay, and used it as a drawer to keep all my license fobs in. Remember those horrific parallel port devices you had to plug in to make commercial software work? <shudders>
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Your last one reminds me of the old:
Customer calls computer support:
“My drink holder is broken.”
CD/DVD disc tray is not designed to hold a 1 liter stainless flask.
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authentic, trendy, cool car embraced even stardom (16)
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authentic,
trendy, IN
cool car CON VERTIBLE
embraced
even stardom TRO
INCONTROVERTIBLE
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OK, I have to ask: What is "TRO"? EDIT: Never mind figured it out. I don't think I'll ever come close to OG in solving these!
modified 23-Feb-22 7:59am.
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even sTaRdOm
1234567
T R O
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Same as
odd stardom
0123456
T R O
😊
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CCC's aren't development tools though!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm glad the code contests are for keeps and this is just for fun or I'd be out of luck.
I saw the solution to this. I would have never arrived at it on my own.
I find that's just the case with CCCs.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Gregs clues are formed differently than most of us Ximenean adherents - you often have to solve a mini embedded clue before you can start on the main one
this explains it in quite a nice way
Ximenean clueing
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'd say most of the clues posted here are libertarian. I've used both styles but find that anagrams, in particular, are rarely challenging if Ximenean.
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I agree , I do try and keep away from anagrams if possible because they are too easy to solve
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My intention
Lookup all 16 character words!
My brain
Duh…
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relatable content
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm up early today! So I'll post it in about half an hour, at 11 UTC.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where's the CCC?
Next to the Shore Shore Shore?
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Stupid boy Pike
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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