It seems that the solar experiments we did in the summer were just in time according to a CNN report today. Apparently the U.S. Mint has noticed that the penny is now a bullion coin and consequently have written some new regulations to disallow “recycling” of pennies and nickels. (When we did the experiment, I […]
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I was taking this apart when I realized I hadn’t recorded a picture of it for posterity. See if you can guess what it is.
Just in case you were wondering; yes it’s a huge event here. We went to a party (at a friend’s parents’ house) dressed like this. The really scary thing was that nearly everyone recognized who we were supposed to be.
I installed a new ceiling fan over the weekend, so I spent a lot of time at the top of a very tall ladder. It took a few hours to make and finish (paint) a little box to make the beam wider and hide the cable. It took a few hours to run the power […]
It seems that Google Video is now carrying the Ski Elvis short movies. Will dubious fair use of copyright shenanigans never cease? Ski Elvis 2006, “The King Kong”, is halfway done now.
We went rafting down the (redacted) River last weekend. It was mostly calm with occasional patches of this… (Our guide Orion was having fun at least.) Also, I found a tiny nugget (about 1g) of gold—worth about $25. B-) So of course I’m not tellin’ ya which river! Update: It was only 0.21g (about $5). […]
We spent an exhausting afternoon looking at new beds today. We learned the following. All beds are more comfortable than our current one. A decent mattress costs $1000 to $14000. All mattresses are pretty much the same.
Some of you know that my wife bought me the best Christmas present any guy could ever get. A pair of first-class aircraft seats! First they sat at my parents-in-law’s house for a few weeks while we found time to borrow their truck and go and get them. Then they sat in our garage for […]
For those of you who’ve known me for a while, this may come as a shock. Yes, the bookcase is installed!
We spent the weekend with friends in the Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Forest. I brought a plastic magnifying lens and we melted a penny. The quarter, as you can see, didn’t quite melt (nickel versus zinc) so I think I need a more rigid frame. [For legal reasons, none of this was done with the intent […]