A client commissioned David Boardman Fletcher to make a copy of Robert Jupe's patented 1835 table design in 1997, thus beginning a 20+ year period of innovation and subsequent design… Read the rest of the article: The magic of the Capstan Table

Jimmy Wah's appreciation for the way a solder's ankle "so elegantly curve into his boot" in Good Morning Vietnam echoes my affinity for a well-fitted trash bag into a step trash can.  Over… Read the rest of the article: I have perfected the way to fit a trash bag into a step can. Allow me to share it with you

March 10th, 1996 is a date that should live in infamy, for it marks the day Rudy Stanko started a series of events that would eventually strip Americans of their… Read the rest of the article: Here's what stripped Americans of their last state without a daytime numerical speed limit 

Letting YouTube's algorithm serve up shorts feels like hitting the SCAN button on the car radio, and letting serendipity guide one down the digital rabbit hole ended for me at… Read the rest of the article: Watch animals getting chiropractic adjustments

When it came out in 2005, one of the most contentious topics presented in the book Freakonomics was Steven Levitt & John Donohue's hypothesis on the link between unwanted pregnancies, legalized abortion,… Read the rest of the article: Freakonomics' legalized abortion/crime link to get real-world validation in 15-20 years

Back at the tail end of the aughts, I was on a team designing a monitoring system for cell phone towers. It was during that time a cell phone tower… Read the rest of the article: The time three gentlemen tried to steal a cell phone tower

I saw Mark's post about the Kingsford charcoal chimney, and I 100% co-sign on the awesomeness of charcoal chimneys. I wanted to share a trick for the fastest and easiest… Read the rest of the article: The fastest and easiest way I've found to start a charcoal chimney