DIY 2-line phone services Everyone knows that only geeks work at Radio Shack. I should know, I worked as a geek-for-hire for several years. We Radio Shack geeks never ask questions like “will the cable company charge me more for splitting the signal off into my bedroom?” or “will the phone company make me pay extra for receiving faxes?” We know better. (In case you don’t know, you pay the cable company...

This isn’t really a plumbing how-to or anything, because as our site visitors know, .\\ doesn’t do plumbing. But I was recently reminded of a “trick” related to both good home upkeep and plumbing - something we had to do on a regular basis when we lived in northeast Texas. There’s a practice up there, in the drier, sunbaked areas, called “watering the house.” Yep, I said watering the house, or...

being unable to complete a task once i begin it, i always seem to leave freshly picked radishes out on the counter in my kitchen too long and they end up looking like wrinkly old men - then i toss ‘em out. yesterday (saturday), i needed to rinse off some other stuff in the small, rarely used island sink in the kitchen when lo, there were the radishes that i picked on friday… they looked pretty bad,...