Recent content by J Sigmo

Now dare you! And now I need to root around in my mom's house basement to see if I can find my old Lite Brite! :)

It looks like the business end of the shaver they're advertising. Maybe a big image of one comes into the picture or goes out of the picture as part of the commercial. Either that, or the UFOs are spying on the filming!

Now that you bring that up. If the driver didn't find a keypad, I wonder how much time he would have spent looking for one. We put in a new storm door and a new main front door a few years ago. The storm door is almost all glass (with a screen insert you can swap for the glass one). We...

I don't know why they're bothering to ID the suspect. They'll just let him out without bail immediately.

I always wanted to get into Bonsai.

Disco. Disco Duck! Disco. Disco Duck!

The push in connections should be illegal! I really like the receptacles with the side clamps. I always sort of hated the loop around the screw, even though it does make a good connection if used correctly! I'll pay more for better devices to get the clamp type connections! They're what I've...

I think the genius that wired that part of your place might be the guy who owned my house before we bought it. He was very frugal! Connections behind walls with no junction boxes, and he liked to pull every centimeter of slack out of each box, too. You couldn't even pull a switch or...

I want one! I've just never sprung for any of them yet! Aluminum wiring. Nasty stuff if not handled correctly. People don't realize how quickly aluminum oxidizes, and how great of an insulator aluminum oxide is. It's sapphire! Hard, great insulator, and forms within minutes of exposing the...

Many years ago, a guy brought a thermal imaging camera into the place where I worked. He was somewhat desperate because he had connected it backwards to a big 12V battery, and fried it. This was an AGA "Thermovision" thermoscan camera back in the late 1970s, or early 1980s. I got the job of...

I'm not sure you can blame all of the action on him being drunk. Even drunk, you'd think he would have seen some problem with driving over that pipe. I wonder how he'd do somewhere that gets snow. :)

I have an amusing "fishing" story. And this has absolutely nothing to do with Florida, hurricanes, snakes, or alligators! ;) A rig was operating near Gillette, Wyoming many years ago. At one point, a wireline company came in to do an open-hole log of the well. Unfortunately, at least part...

The woman definitely initiated the attack on the deer. I don't blame her for defending her dog, but the dog was safe under the car by the time she tried to do a Ruth Buzzi on the poor thing. I'm not sure where the deer started out, but it was already terrified after it came out from behind...

Where's my treat, buddy?