A work in progress – how to reupholster a chair seat for cheap or free, with scrap fabric and recycled stuffing. These pictures show some…

This is an “article bucket” for “life hacks”, or DIY repairs, instruction manuals, device codes, and so forth. If you’d like to write some articles,…

I stumbled across and ad for an old Japanese doll, and wanted to get an idea of what’s out there, so I went to eBay…

This is going to sound crazy, but I think there’s a conspiracy  by plumbers to frustrate DIY plumbing repair efforts.  My mom had a hose…

Here are some new pages on the site.

Bernie got into a bit of controversy over his position, that prisoners should have the vote. He called it a fundamental aspect of democracy. It’s…

I enjoy reading about alternative currencies (and laughing at them, for the most part) so Yang’s “Human Centered Capitalism” was an eye opener – a…

Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization…

I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible….

Numerous things have pulled me away from doing tech work, the big one being a mishap that flooded our apartment, and necessitated my moving, temporarily,…