Recent content by GoldDragonAurkarm

If it's sticky and crudded up, yeah, a shot of Houdini or WD-40 can help. If they're in decent shape already, though, I haven't noticed a lot of difference. Also, thanks for reminding me: I need to order a new ejector tool for my interchangeable core pinning kit. I had a particularly...

Congrats! It's a big step, going out on your own for the first time. It's equal parts freedom and responsibility. It's your own space-freedom. You can come and go as you like. You can eat all the junk you want, have all the beer in the fridge you want, put your feet on all the furniture...

Heh, those tall front pins with shallow pins behind are always a tricky combo. 'Fraid I don't have any good pointers right off. Did your kit come with a tension tool for double-sided keys? Those types have a spring-loaded fork, with one tine sticking on each end of the keyway, leaving the...

Oooh lock picking and locksmithing are fun! Did your kit come with any see-through or other training locks too? Those always looked like they'd be pretty sweet to learn on and get the idea of what's happening when you feel one thing or another through the pick. Maybe some year I'll splurge...

To be fair, they're human and decent people trying to run a business. I know and Mr. Aurkarm is actually old friends with one of the founders, and we both know the other. They're good people, and they're interested in doing the whole business thing right. I'd urge you to give them another...

That can be tricky to sort. It sounds like you're talking about an inner-ring suburb, and there's a lot of development happening on the fringe. So right there you get the idea the upper-middle and professional classes aren't looking there. I'd look at what houses are selling for, how long...

Hmm... To be honest, some of it is gut-feeling of what's happening in that part of town/the region. For instance, where I'm rehabbing in Detroit, I've seen a lot of development happen to the south of me, I'm near a major corridor down which they're trying to put in a streetcar, and I'm near...

Well done! Looks like you're keeping busy. I feel like my whole life is DIY these days. Projects currently in progress or recently done? Major one involves a full rehab of a formerly-derelict two-family house. It had been stripped of all the wiring and plumbing for the scrap value...

Oh I dunno. The Fiesta ST (a 2014 example of which I run as a daily driver) is nearly exactly the same in physical footprint as a 2005 Civic Si, but for the 5.6 inches less overall length.

Everything'll smoke a (stock) Civic Si these days. Honda's let that car go pretty badly. Hell, a Fiesta ST'll nearly take it in a line, despite the Honda only being a couple hundred pounds heavier and having nearly a liter more displacement. I'd be surprised if a stock Si could keep up with a...

A few years ago I went back to university for my master's, and around that time my desires dropped right off. I went the better part of two years without being the least bit interested in diapers. At the time, I wrote about it here...

Yep, she's making the rounds on Facebook right now.

So, it's worth realizing you're not going to die or anything. At worst, you'll have a bit of a rash if you go a bit too long. Like others have said, it's a crap-shoot (pun absolutely intended). It depends on how sensitive you are down there, what you ate, if you used powder or Desitin or...

Honestly, I'd rather sleep on the toilet, that's how unpleasant my last diarrhea in diaper experience was. Like I said, it might as well have been battery acid.

I've seen threads on here before where people talk about getting padded up to deal with being sick. I don't get it. I am in the final stages of what was, apparently, the worst case of food poisoning I've ever had. I've never had anything (discounting traumatic injuries like being smashed by an...