An Engineer in the Making

Date December 6, 2009

One of the favorite XY-chromosome weekend activities in our neighborhood (all the adult men plus Benton) is to grab some glow-in-the-dark golf balls and walk down the street to “Smuirfield,” which is a set of six greens with flagsticks on semi-sculpted terrain that was set up 25 years ago by a couple of local residents […]

PVC + Mini Marshmallows + Hair Spray + Spark

Date May 26, 2009

Benton and I have made a couple of spud guns — the hairspray-combustion style — over the past few years. While out in West Virginia and shooting one last month, Benton came up with the idea that we should try to make a mini-marshmallow shooter of the same design. We made a run to the […]