Dean W. Armstrong

Oversharing: Yesterday's catalog search items that caught my eye. (My search was all T acquired in the past six months published in the ...

I had a rust stain on the interior of a stainless steel dishwasher from contact with a rusting pan, and after having no success with CLR and...

For years I've encountered this issue, and it always perplexed me: why do a lot of toolboxes stink? I had always assumed it was rela...

A third CFL failed in my torchiere conversion I did back in the winter of 2008. I used this light about 7 hours a day consistently until m...

To improve my first cigar box guitar build, I added a piece of 2" x 1/4" mahogany mull casing (ripped to 1.5") to the neck. I...

A few photos of my first cigar box guitar. For cigar boxes both Hyde Park Cigars (the place on 53rd and Harper) and Binny's have them,...

Amplifying audio without the use of any electronics: Audio Acoustic Amplifiers from Experimental Musical Instruments.

I'm just putting this here because I would doubt Facebook or Twitter would archive very well. Mike Myers, in the movie "View from t...

My current fridge (a Hotpoint Foodcenter 24) is older than I am. It was originally the avocado color shown in the ad; at some point someone...

A 39 day long sampling of every minute leads the geiger counter to a long term average of 7.72 uR/hr. That's 56658 sampling points. T...

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whatever, it doesn't matter, the blog is dead in practice if not in theory. The hits now a days are image searches and the occasional c...

Go out and see the Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 13th. It's an awesome video of the Saturnian system from Cassini. If all the...

A recent inquiry brings up the question of what's the normal natural background radiation rate in Chicago? Using the EPA's online t...

I just noticed that a second CFL failed in my torchiere conversion I did back in the winter of 2008. I use this light about 7 hours a day ...