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Find The Cat In The Crowd
See if you can spot the cat! :) Photo Info: A large crowd, upon arriving at the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU station on the Washington Metro, heads toward the escalator to exit the station. Photo taken July 4, 2006 by Ben Schumin. Cat added later.
Store Clerk Freakout Game
You can only buy 3 items, which group do you think will freak out the cashier the most? Try it!
Other Household Uses For Wd40
Do you know WD40 can be used for other things besides squeaks? I have compiled a list of other uses for WD40 and will share them with you. - As a solvent, clean crayon marks off of walls - Get rid of paint scuffs on your car like the kind your car gets from other people's car doors bumping...
Tips To Learning How To Play Guitar Without An Instructor
I am a totally self taught guitar player and I get asked all the time how I went about learning to play guitar. In this post I will share some general tips and advice on how to go about teaching yourself how to play guitar without an instructor and without spending tons of money. Here we go: ...
How To Make Your Own Metal Guitar Picks
Metal guitar picks can help give your guitar playing a brighter sound and a better feel. Buying metal picks at the music store was a real disappointment for me because they were always overpriced and never the right thickness/gauge for my tastes. So I set out to make my own just the way I like...
Django Unchained Movie Review
The plot Django is the story of a freed slave, freed by a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) that takes place in the Wild West. The bounty hunter frees Django (Jamie Fox) because he needs his help finding men on his bounty list. In exchange for his help, the bounty hunter gives Django his...
Cloud Atlas Movie Review
Finally it came to Apple TV and the previews and trailer were convincing that this was going to be an awesome movie. After all, it stars Tom Hanks who is always in good movies. The plot The plot consists of following six lifetimes in varying time periods throughout history that are all somehow...
Rockstar Frontmen From The Eighties Then And Now
Ever wonder how your favorite rockstar from the 1980's has aged? Well here is 9 of them. Mark Slaughter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Slaughter Vince Neil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Neil Sebastian Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Bach Ozzy...
Open Source Blood Glucose Meter Kickstarter Idea
My 11 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus_type_1. Our days and nights were soon filled with constant finger pricking / blood glucose checking, insulin injections, carbohydrate counting, blood sugar lows and highs and all the parental...
A Chewing Gum Without Artificial Sweetners Kickstarter Idea
Where is all the good gum? If you are looking for a good chewing gum to freshen your breath or just a great blast of flavor, you might be disappointed to find that there are no longer any on the market without artificial sweeteners. What happened to good old fashioned sugar sweetened chewing gum? ...
Really Useful Vim Commands
Vim is an awesome text editor found on most Linux systems. It's name means "Vi Improved" because it is an improvement of the original Unix text editor vi. I find Vim to be a very powerful text editor and have used it exclusively for many years. In this article I will list some very...
