I’ve been trying to figure out an easy way to build a charging box. I lack access to power tools so it has to be easy-ish.
Basically, I’m talking about a box which houses a smart power strip  in a bottom section with the power cord sticking out the back and all of my gadgets that […]

A digg story about a drunken German man who ended up in a hospital maternity ward tipped me off to this. The drunk’s situation is hilarious but it informed me of the existence of “baby boxes” in Europe.

Hundreds of babies have been deposited in the boxes, set up across Germany and Austria, since the […]

The Vernal Equinox being tomorrow, by the way.

If you want to celebrate Japanese style you should go to the grave site of your ancestors, wash the headstone or marker, and offer flowers.
If you’re Zoroastrian, Baha’i, or Iranian then today is Nowruz! Various partying down can be observed including the Haft Sin in which seven specific […]

There’s an ass-ton of stupid in this world. So much that it takes more and more outrageous instances of idiocy to even get us to sit up and take notice. There’s nothing much you can do to escape it but there’s plenty you can do to mitigate its effects. One such thing is to take […]

I always thought that this would be a really neat thing to have out on my patio during the summer months. I’m not sure how well it would work in the humid air of the midwest but since I don’t have a yard, deck, patio, porch, or even a gazebo it’s really a moot point.
First […]