Daily Archives: August 1st, 2006

Children everywhere are vindicated!

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_32/b3996068.htm The Business Week reports that the army has learned what every third grader already knew!  If you mix certain things together (Think water and corn starch) they mold like mud, and when you hit them with force they react like a rock.  Let me dig out my kindergarden diploma so I can reproduce a [...]

How To: Safely Get rid of a paper wasps nest

Ingredients: 2 Cans RAID Wasp and Hornet Killer, $7 at the Home Depot 1 80″x80″ patch of burlap – fine mesh, $4 at the Home Depot 1 Roll duct tape 1 Sweatshirt (or tight knit sweater), long sleeved 1 Pair leather work gloves. 1 pais scisors 1 source of light, preferrably NOT a flashlight Prepare: [...]