A couple years ago we got into a yard game called Kubb (rhymes with tube). Since then it’s grown quite a bit in popularity, at least around here. If you haven’t heard of it, the basic idea is for each team to take turns trying to knock down the short wooden blocks (called Kubbs) by throwing the long skinny wooden blocks (batons) at them from the other side of the yard (called a pitch) without hitting the extra large wooden block (the King) in the middle (until the end of the game). Sounds thrilling, I know! The full rules are Continue Reading
Oldsmobile Modsmobile
If there’s one good thing about driving a $500 POS with no A/C and a driver’s door that doesn’t open, I guess it’d be that you can’t really make it much worse. Before the brakes blew out for the second time, I made a couple mods to my 1995 (??) Cutlass Supreme, aka The Stallion. Since the Cutlass was already an extremely high-performance machine, and that fact that I know next to nothing about auto mechanics, the upgrades were purely electronics related. CarPlay The first order of business was to hack in an aux input into the radio, which only Continue Reading