So I’m walking through Canadian Tire’s paint and paper section the other day (Needed some white tub ‘n tile to touch up where my back splash meets my kitchen counter) and I see this ridiculous looking rubber thing labeled “Caulking Applicator”.
Apparently it is to smooth out your caulking seam after applying it?
Now I’m no expert by any means but I thought that’s what your index finger was for…
So unless you want to spend 5 bucks on something that you are likely going to just throw out, spit on your finger and run it down the seam like (almost) everyone else does.
Just keep in mind most caulking tastes like shit so if you run out of finger lube, wipe your finger off first or spit from a distance.
Christ, what will they think of next…

September 6th, 2011
AfterDarkMike
Forgotten TO-DO’s
I’m not sure about all the rest of the Developers out there but my biggest problem is coming back to finish TO-DO’s.
I have always marked temporary code hacks, or code that needed improvement with a // ::TO-DO:: {description of issue}.
I finally got sick of going through old code and seeing multiple ::TO-DO:: blocks.
I wrote this tiny shell script and run it nightly from cron.
Just ensure there is an email address for the cron output or you will have to pipe greps output to mail, mailx, mutt, or something similar.
The -r flag tells grep to search recursively for each path.
The -n flag adds line numbers on the offending line.
The -B1 and -B3 adds the prior line and three following lines to the output.