"Then offer better solutions. Duh." Have a teenager eye-roll, Zou, with a slight look of concern. Don't scare him like that, Zou! "And the magic's still totally there."

All the things that typify a teenage criminal and packrat - duct tape, knives, screwdrivers (square, flathead and Phillips), tin foil, MERs, extra batteries, markers, and of course the mini bottles of shampoo from Galilee. And some other garbage.

"Well, I have wiring. I just can't figure out how to get it to work. All the manuals look like they're written by monkeys who can't figure out which way to turn a diagram."