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Tag Archives: D.I.Y.
Accidental Handyman
This weekend after filling our dogs’ water bowl using the sink in our half bath downstairs, as I was walking out of the room I heard dripping water. Turns out the faucet wasn’t leaking in to the basin, but down … Continue reading
Today I learned a little bit about clothes dryers
The bad news came this morning as we were cleaning the house in preparation for Christmas: the dryer wouldn’t start. Andrea and I both assumed that the belt must have worn out, and I made another assumption that cost me … Continue reading
How a tweak becomes a full-blown upgrade
The pre-built DIY brewery I bought earlier this year is now sitting in pieces on our garage floor. I realized something about DIY projects after getting it home and wired up for use — when the works of a thing … Continue reading
Steampunk Homebrewery
Thanks to a DIY home-brewing engineer known as Sizz building a pretty cool electric all-grain brewing system and then deciding he wanted to play golf instead, our garage is now stuffed with a recirculating infusion mash system (RIMS)-based all-grain brew … Continue reading
Tagged D.I.Y., Food and Drink, Geek
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Skype, Cause, Effect, and Overkill
My loathing of Skype’s new UI and horrible group conferencing performance at work has led me to implement a PBX at home. When I stop to think about it, it must be overkill, but once I got started, it was … Continue reading