These 'Doh' situations happen to everyone. I once carried large heavy wheel for about 50 meters before I realized I could just roll it on the ground :)
Regarding to hacking around I think almost everyone could do something if he just stop and try to think what could be done. We often don't notice opportunities right before our noses because we simple don't focus on trying to do something with it. I myself enjoy that type of hacking. Recently we had some reconstruction at home and we had some leftover materials in garbage pile ready to be thrown away. So I grabbed one leftover ceramic floor tile, couple of stair wooden balusters and some thin plywood. I sawed each baluster in half (they had central symmetry), screwed them to plywood on both sides, glued ceramic tile to plywood from one side and small pillars to the other side and then painted wood. Couple of hours of work and got myself a pretty slick looking side table, which I needed at the time :)
The only thing I bought were small silver pillars which cost couple of dollars.
Bender's picture is also some kind of hacking, I printed picture at the local photo workshop and made the frame from a very cheap plastic ceiling plinth.
These 'Doh' situations happen to everyone. I once carried large heavy wheel for about 50 meters before I realized I could just roll it on the ground :)
Regarding to hacking around I think almost everyone could do something if he just stop and try to think what could be done. We often don't notice opportunities right before our noses because we simple don't focus on trying to do something with it. I myself enjoy that type of hacking. Recently we had some reconstruction at home and we had some leftover materials in garbage pile ready to be thrown away. So I grabbed one leftover ceramic floor tile, couple of stair wooden balusters and some thin plywood. I sawed each baluster in half (they had central symmetry), screwed them to plywood on both sides, glued ceramic tile to plywood from one side and small pillars to the other side and then painted wood. Couple of hours of work and got myself a pretty slick looking side table, which I needed at the time :) The only thing I bought were small silver pillars which cost couple of dollars.
Here's photo: http://i.imgur.com/6OsLDPu.jpg
Bender's picture is also some kind of hacking, I printed picture at the local photo workshop and made the frame from a very cheap plastic ceiling plinth.