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Refinishing a $40 mid century modern desk

Lacquer is the ideal finish for MCM pieces, and how virtually all of them were originally done.

The fumes are some Serious Shit, however, and getting a good build with aerosol lacquer is expensive and and hard.

The only other option for pieces that will be seeing frequent use is polyurethane, IMO.

Water-based poly can look a little plastic-y, but it dries a lot faster and has the added benefit of being thick enough to be sprayed out of most cheap paint sprayers on a very low setting.

If you want to go OB, I've had great results from the $40 Wagner finish sprayer.

Mine tragically broke halfway through this project, though, so after fucking up most of the desk multiple times and having to re-strip and start over twice, I switched to WB and my regular $100 Wagner paint sprayer. »

Facebook admits it did not read terms of the app that harvested data of 87 million

Authored by cnbc.com

Facebook did not read the terms and services of the app that improperly shared user data with Cambridge Analytica, the company's chief technology officer said Thursday.

"We did not read all of the terms and conditions.".

Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher, created an app that collected data on millions of Facebook users. »

Coffee can help people have a more favorable view of their colleagues, according to new research

Authored by psypost.org

Drinking coffee before a discussion can help people stay focused and feel better about the people in the conversation, suggests a new study that appears in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

“We see coffee being served in many meetings but found very little research on how coffee might affect group dynamics.

So, if you are a coffee drinker, it looks like coffee helps you do better in group tasks.”. »

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

Authored by joelonsoftware.com

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over.

The reason is that they think the old code is a mess.

The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:. »

Bill Cosby found guilty on all charges in Andrea Constand sex assault retrial

Authored by abc7chicago.com

EMBED >More News Videos Watch video from the Action Cam of Bill Cosby leaving the courtroom a jury found him guilty on all counts on April 26, 2018.

EMBED >More News Videos Watch the full statement from attorney Gloria Allred after Bill Cosby was found guilty on all counts in Norristown, Pa. on April 26, 2018.

EMBED >More News Videos See video from outside the Norristown, Pa. courtroom after Bill Cosby was found guilty on all sex assault charges on April 26, 2018. »