A long time ago, I got a Harbor Freight drill driver that was on sale for less then twenty bucks. I knew not to expect too much from the drill, but I thought that a motor,motor-controller, gear box, battery, and battery charger was a pretty awesome bunch of stuff for that price. The drill didn’t see … Continue reading
I’m a big fan of Tove Janson and her lovingly illustrated kids’ books about the Moomins. When a coworker sent me a link to a set of Moomin-themed stacking stools that had apparently never come to market, I thought “I bet I could make a set of stools like that in one night!” I’d … Continue reading
My son Pioneer has been going to Rock-It Science camp. He loves it SO much. He calls it “make it and take it” because he gets to build a lot of things and bring them home. When he heard they were going to have a Van der Graaf generator, he assumed they were going to … Continue reading
Simon had a high fever for several days. We got him to take liquid Tylenol exactly twice: he took the cherry flavor once and the grape flavor once. After that, he declared they both tasted like toothpaste, and even though they helped him feel better, he was not interested. When we took him to the … Continue reading
Grandpa Stan bought this 1962 Triumph Spitfire and has been restoring it. It had two brackets that hold the stabilizer bars, but his were horribly bent and broken. I guess those brackets are hard to get because he asked me if I could make some replacements. He gave me the the less destroyed of the two … Continue reading
During Teacher Appreciation week, we wanted to have some fun flowers for Pioneer to give out at school. He had a book that mentioned that you could make multicolored flowers by splitting their stems and putting the ends in dye. The dye gets sucked up to the head of the flower and, voilà, multicolored flowers. … Continue reading
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