Oh come on! I can't seem to get this to work on my iPhone!!!

Here's what I've found, so far. Apparently, there's only one species in Missouri, and it's the striped scorpion, Centruroides vittatus. One site listed their color as... golden yellow or tan, some specimens may be almost white. They're nocturnal hunters, which would explain why I used to find them in the shower in…

I'm in the KC area now, but I grew up on the Lake of the Ozarks. I still have a little weekend place down on the lake and I've been told to definitely keep an eye out for those little scorpions, although I haven't seen one in many years. I'm being told they're making a comeback with the warmer weather over the last…

I grew up in central Missouri, and while most people probably don't think of Missouri and scorpions in the same sentence, they were actually an issue we had to deal with quite often when I was a kid. Not only did you need to shake our your shoes and boots in the morning, but you had to clear the shower before…

The universe continues to expand, and the rate of expansion continues to increase. While nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, the fabric of spacetime itself is not constrained by this particular shackle. Eventually, the speed of expansion outraces light itself, leaving us in a particularly dark…

Yup, it's pretty good stuff. I've used them for light sabers for my boys, too. They have a blast with the stuff. I like them better than pool noodles.

Buy this from the hardware store. You can get the pipe insulation with or without tape on the already split seams. Cut it in half and put the taped side on top. No screws needed. It also worked on the steel pole I have between both lanes of my garage. The nice thing is that the dark gray color doesn't look so…

Both of my young boys have a metal bunk bed in their rooms. The top bunk has the requisite metal rail, so I was thinking of using the noodles to pad the rails. The problem is that I think it would actually look very unsightly to have them on the rails. So, instead of using pool noodles, I think I'll use pipe…

It might sound strange, but I have no idea who this Parker person is, and frankly, I don't care. I assume he's some sort of movie celebrity, or someone like that. I have nothing against any celebrity, but I couldn't care less what they do in their spare time any more than I care about the doings of some random…

I have an old TP-Link router with repeater functionality baked right in. It works great as a repeater.

They do have museums. The State museum down off Red Square is quite impressive. I haven't been to the Smithsonian yet, so at this point, the Russian State Museum is probably my favorite museum of all time. I'm a history nut, and that museum is full of extraordinary pieces of Russian history. It's just not full of…

Way over complicated and over thought. I can't imagine it being too much different from sex while floating in water. It might not be easy, and a gravity assist certainly helps, but it's not impossible by any means. I've always thought that suit was lame.

I watched several of these fly around and do touch and go maneuvers yesterday. My kids really got a kick out of watching these planes fly circles around us.

I grew up on a farm and this was a family event for us. We would milk the cow, let the cream rise to the top, skim it, put it in a large jar, then sit through an evening of primetime television while turning the jar. When you got tired, it was a simple matter to pass the jar to the next person. Before long, we had…

Have you tried the glass butter keepers? My father sold me on these years ago, and they work great. You simply fill the butter on the inside of the lid, then fill the water until it goes up just past the bottom of the butter. It keeps the butter perfectly well.

Where I grew up, if you didn't have a rifle by the time you were 5, you were a late bloomer.

Wow, I just told my 11 year old son this very thing, yesterday. He wanted to take his Nintendo DS with him on a short drive in our little town. I told him no. He then complained he was going to be bored. I told him it was a good thing to allow yourself to be bored. That's when you come up with new ideas and solve…

I used the spray bottle method, but I use water and a small bit of fabric softener. Basically, you have to play with the mixture to get the ratio you want. From there, I smooth out the largest wrinkles with my hand, then hang it to dry. 76% of the time, it works every single time.

I have an HTC Flyer, with a stylus, and it works great. I also have the Note II with the same type of stylus. I do quite a bit of math for my job, so I can say the stylus can help in that situation. If I'm writing out a long formula, it's nice to be able to use that stylus. If I have to type a lot of notes, I…

I have an iPad 2 and also an Asus Transformer, running Android. Personally, if I were to take one of them to class, it would be my Transformer with the keyboard dock. Not only is it a fully functioning keyboard, but an additional battery. The nice thing about Android is that you can use a regular wireless mouse,…