Glenn's home page.
A page of quickies that can probably best be described as (ugh) 'life hacks'.
I think my issue with the term 'Life hack' is not so much with the label itself, as with some of the silly and often absolutely-pointless junk that gets attached to it by the second-to-absolute-lowest form of content-aggregator YouTube channels and spam-sites. Though I guess we at least get to use the concept of 'hacking' in an actually-historically-correct way!
I was tired of cough lozenges absorbing moisture from the air and going soggy in my bag once the pack was opened. And I realised that they fit very well into the cylindrical containers that effervescent vitamins come in. These containers have moisture-absorbant crystals in the cap, so should not only seal up the lozenges, but keep the interior super-dry (likely I will change out the cap every so often). Since I have access to a sand-blaster at work, I went overboard and removed the old labeling off the aluminium tubes and re-painted them (I had intended to do them white, but had run out of white spray paint, so they are red!). Finally, I added a label with my label-writer. .... I did two, as my mum had also complained about cough lozenges going soggy in her bag some weeks back when I was visiting (which is what prompted me to think of this solution, I guess!)
Big heat-leaching window I don't need. Rental appartment I can't permonantly modify.
Sheet of black-melamime-coated 17mm form-ply cut to the width of the window (and another cut to fill the bottom of this, and another window).
The back (outside-facing) has a sheet of roofing-foil spray-glued to it, to reflect more of the summer sun out, in addition to the thermal (and accoustic) insulation the 17mm plywood provides.
Front is somewhere to mount the eWaste-rescue FHD signage screen I use as a monitor, and some other things that I prefer wall-mounted, including - mounted just above the screen - a USB industrial camera with a c-mount zoom lens so It can focus just on my face from that distance and not half my room, for web-confrencing, mainly back during COVID lockdown.
It's a terrible photo, I know. I need to take a new one anyway, as soon as my new phone battery arrives from overseas, as I now have a shelf at the top, and my 24V fan attached.
You can't see them, because I painted them black to match, but the boards are held in place by spring door-stoppers with the springs reversed. So no permonant modifications to the window frame, even.
Recently in my state, tennancy laws were adjusted so that renters can now (within reason) put hooks in walls without getting landlord permission. But I don't think dynabolting big-screen mounting brackets into the rendered-brick would be covered by that!
To come: I also had some huge sheets of 25mm-thick corrugated cardbord from some equipment packaging that I cut to other-window size and spray-glued reflective foil on the out-facing side and put colourful contact-vinyl on the in-facing side. Reasonable insulating in summer/winter and light enough to just rest in place, and be easily removed when I want the light.