Richard Dean Anderson was born this day in 1950. On TV he played MacGyver, a clever fellow who could rig anything out of anything. At home, on his own time, he was just as ingenious -- such as when he wanted to cut just two ceramic tiles. Not about to rent a tile cutter, he went to his workshop, took out a standard glasscutter, metal straight edge and a wire coat hanger. Marking the cuts with a felt-tip pen, he held the glass cutter against the straight edge and scored the cut lines on the glazed surface (making a crackling sound as the scoring wheel sliced across the fire-hardened glaze). He then laid the coat hanger on the floor. Placing the ceramic tile -- glaze side up -- (with the scored cut line directly over the wire), he pressed down firmly on both sides. And snap! -- the cut was made, as (once again) was his reputation. And that's the On The House tip for today.