Lock-picking “Night School”
Learning how to pick locks is a lot of fun, in a challenging sort of way. To “know” how to do something is nice, but being able to “do” the thing is a [...]
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Boxster Project: Dash Speakers Repair
We replaced the left OEM speaker on the dash of the 2000 Porsche Boxster a while back, so when the right speaker started having the same audio issues and we knew that, rather [...]
Lock-picking Skills (LPS)
Certain “life skills” are fun to learn, practical to have, and occasionally useful. Lock-picking is such a skill, right up there with making fire and tying knots. [...]
Angle Pro Sharpener: FirstUse
The knife motto in the RainyDayKitchen is: Be sharp and be safe. Those who know knives know this to be true. Those who do not know this will learn it the hard way, likely [...]
Dynaplug Tire Repair Kit: InTheWild
Back in May, when we swapped out the Winter tires for Summer ones, we noticed that the driver-side rear tire was pretty low. We looked but didn’t find an obvious nail [...]
SharkBite Push-to-Connect : FirstUse
It is ALWAYS distressing to find a leak in one’s basement, but obviously better to find a leak before water drips everywhere. This was the case just before the [...]
Candle Training: exercises for soft, smooth, connected power
Solo practice is nothing new to the RainyDaySports folks, who think of training as a means to an end—be it for darts, ping pong, or the martial arts. During this strongly [...]
DIY: Herman Miller’s Aeron Chair Repair
The Herman Miller Aeron is an iconic office chair that is exceptionally adjustable and extremely well made. The one in the RainyDay office had been in service for a long [...]
Super Memory
The world record for memorizing the greatest number of digits of Pi belongs to Chao Lu of China, who memorized 67,890 digits. He set this record on November 20, 2005. He [...]
Spaced-Repetition Learning
Every once in a while, we read something that sticks with us. In 2008, we came upon an article by Gary Wolf in Wired magazine which did exactly that. It was coincidental [...]
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