8.28.2014

Tools and Toys

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A nine year old girl shot and killed an instructor on a gun range in Nevada yesterday. Here's a picture of my son with the products of...
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8.07.2014

Ebola shows we learned too little from AIDS

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The largest Ebola outbreak ravages out of control in Africa as WHO considers declaring a public health emergency on suspicion of the diseas...
11.21.2013

Blowing a Gasket

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What's left of the combustion air gasket of our condensing boiler. Condensing boilers are great, but the pH of the exhaust can be pret...
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11.01.2013

Survival Mode vs. Creative Mode

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Worldwide CAD users: about 44 million. Of those, 40 million are using Minecraft, and about 4 million are using everything else. It co...
10.14.2013

Carbon River

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200k From Redmond to the Carbon River ranger station with the Seattle Randonneurs . A very pretty day. 200 kilometers (about 125 miles) may ...

How to tell Eneloop batteries apart

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Sanyo is now making the 3d generation of their Eneloop battery, the best NiMH rechargeable battery ever made. There are various special hi...
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10.02.2013

SAE What?

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Here are the two most dangerous SAE screws to get mixed in with your ISO (metric, as in bike) screws. They are the 1/4"-28 and the 10-2...
9.29.2013

Oh SAE, can you see?

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Today, I did something that I should have done a long time ago, and something that anybody who works on bikes (or cars, for that matter) in ...
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9.26.2013

Squirrel Eating Sunflower

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The squirrels, or at least one squirrel in particular, have really taken a liking to Sven's sunflower. There's a chill in the air...
9.25.2013

Front Fender

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This is a setup I've had for about 5,000 miles. It broke, so I made it again, but stronger, so hopefully it lasts longer. I wanted a ...
9.15.2013

Parking: it's a skill.

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September 13: SDOT SUV parked northbound in a no parking zone on Dexter Ave, blocking both a bike lane and a general traffic lane, right af...
8.09.2013

Corrosion --now in 3D

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In reference to my previous treatise on battery terminal corrosion, you can now view a 3D image of a corroded battery terminal at the Lytr...
8.06.2013

Padding

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Here is the outer (leftmost) brake pad I recently pulled from my front Avid BB7 disc brake caliper. The part of the pad closer to the hub i...
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8.03.2013

The Tomato Diaries

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Sven is endlessly curious about math and frankly I'm a little worried that school next year won't give him enough to bite into. S...

Corrosion

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[UPDATE: see a 3D image of the corroded battery terminal here.] AA battery packs are cool, but check for corrosion. If your bike is t...