Making it easy for fire fighters and paramedics to find your house is very important, and because 911 porch light flashers are now very difficult to find, we need a reliable, low-tech method of helping them. Enter the reflective house number sign. These use retroreflective sheeting applied to a metal base, with numbers also made from retroreflective sheeting applied on… Read more »
This post will be short and sweet, and not the least bit silly. Update: Shortly after I wrote this post, all 911 porch light flasher switches have become unavailable on Amazon, and very hard to find elsewhere. I’ve changed the broken link from Amazon to Legrand’s product page, so at least you can see what it looks like. I’ll revisit… Read more »
Before I can talk about the first very important topic (kitchen safety), there is one last getting-ready-to-get-started topic I need to cover—installation tools for the safety equipment. For now, I’m only going to include the bare minimum things needed to install fire extinguishers. As I continue building the ultimate geek kitchen, I will occasionally update this post with the additional tools… Read more »
Going metric is not as hard as you might think, it just takes the rare knowledge of how to do it in the best manner, as decades of experience in countries such as Australia has shown. The hardest part is being brave enough to discard the dozen-plus separate medieval and ancient units that make up the U.S. collection of unit… Read more »
In building my kit of metric measuring and installation tools, I set about finding the right type of screw for mounting the life safety equipment (fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, etc.). And ran smack into the Invisible Metric Embargo, again. Situation: Most Screws in Your Toolbox are Wrong for This There is no ISO standard for wood screws, similar to ANSI/ASME… Read more »
Early on in my mulling over how to start this cooking blog, I decided to switch to the metric system. Not just a little bit, when it was easy, but completely metric, and 100% SI (the International System of units, the official name for the metric system since 1960). And using methods that are now known to be superior to… Read more »
I am a geek, and proud of it. That means that I’ve spent most of my life operating as if things such as sleeping, eating, and cooking were tasks to be minimized, because they took away productive hours that could instead be spent researching, writing, testing, and building. Cooking, in particular, seemed the least productive of the necessities, because it… Read more »
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