Weekend Engineering

This "Lab Book" posting is my thinking about a design problem I've been considering. Problem:  I want a way to display a tim...

I am hopeful this is information nobody will ever need. But it seems like one of those things that's better to know than not. Plus, mayb...

I'm currently reading "I Will Bear Witness - A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933 - 1941" by Victor Klemperer. Klemperer was a Germ...

Here's some Christmas treat recipes that I've been meaning to post for ages.  I hope to get others posted soon! Homemade Caramels...

This is from my backlog of previously unfinished posts. I'm trying to go back and finish some up. This was from early 2012: I was r...

Native English speakers are generally familiar with many of the common homophones, words that sound the same but are spelled differently and...

Imagine that right outside your house hangs an enormous wrecking ball.  And when I say enormous, I mean REALLY big.  Like far bigger than yo...