Early in my blogging life, I made a solid go at an automotive blog called Cowl Shake. I still like most of what I wrote over there—it is still out there, though I think the title image must have perished when I closed my HiWAAY account—and I still think “NVH from an SOB” is a … Read more
I just deployed this padlock in a typical around-the-house sort of application. I’d forgotten I still had it. I recently rediscovered it moving some things around in the garage. It was new sometime in the second half of 1982. I told my mother I found it in the bushes of the apartment complex where we … Read more
Most days I want freshly-ground Tellicherry pepper on something I eat, so most days I use a pepper mill. I have used an Oxo mill for the past several years. It’s generally okay for seasoning table food, but it’s always been inadequate for adding black pepper to recipes, or to anything else for which I … Read more