Never gonna build one. But if you have trouble finding compression springs, try a farm supply store.

She could drop out of the public eye right now and live 5 lifetimes comfortably. But sooner or later, she will do something really, really stupid. Or someone else will come along and unseat her. And her popularity will tank. Seen it happen before.

The crash when she falls will be huge. And fun to see.

I think a more appropriate test would be to build a satellite from scratch and launch it in a week or less. Maybe that will come later.

I thought it had been a known fact about a human bottleneck for a long time.

I remember reading a Popular Mechanics, I figure it was late '70s, early '80s. The article was about a new steam locomotive design someone came up with. It theoretically would be more powerful and cheaper to run then diesel/electric locomotives. Only problem was no one would put up the capital to build one to test it.

My Dad was a professional photographer. One of his repeat customers was a local semi-famous motel. It is a single story type. They are kinda like a row of duplexes built all connected. With a space between every other one, where all the plumbing and vents were located. The owner called once, to have Dad come and…

That was for the old ni-cad batteries. They would form a “memory” of sorts if you did partial charges on them often. To get the longest life out of the batteries we have now, it is better to keep them between 30% and 70%. I charge my pixel 6 for about 1 hour in the evening while watching TV. I've read that EV's are…

10! I'd be 25.

At the end of 2016, we bought a 2012 Ford Fusion, with 80,000 miles. With only a few minor problems, it’s been a pretty good car. We are semi retired, and never go long distances, so it only has 113,000 now. It would be fine with us if it lasts another 11 years.

“so check if you have animals you’re bringing with you”

We don't have a savings account. Just checking. But BOA standard savings account interest rate is .01%. A 7 or 13 month CD is 4.51%.

In reality, it won’t matter a whole lot. The national average rate on savings accounts is .42%, or $42 on a $10000 balance. If they raise this by .25%, it will be .525%. Or $52.50 on a $10000 balance. Whooppee!

I can think of only one place in the kitchen to avoid placing the microwave. On the same electric circuit as the refrigerator. If the microwave is on when the fridge cycles on, it can trip your circuit breaker.

If these are the best of the contest, I'm glad I wasn't one of the judges. Having to wade through hundreds (thousands?) of mediocre images. I wouldn't call any of these outstanding.

Is this Washington DC, or Washington State? That could make a big difference.

All 5 seasons of Babylon 5 got me hooked.

You can also, after all is up and running, use an app called Wintoys. With it you can easily disable or uninstall several Windows processes that you don’t need that slow things down. I’ve got an older laptop that kept saying 100% disc usage with Windows 10. Nothing I tried fixed it. After playing around with Wintoys,…

It looks like you keep the doors attached. Only the shelves are removed.

I guess it would be a good thing for some people. But that is a lot of wasted space. We have 4 times as many plates and bowls on one shelf in our kitchen.