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		<title>Watercooler:  TBS airs &#8220;Old School&#8221; in English AND Spanish at the same time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Completely off topic, but I tuned to TBS just now and Old School was on.  I realized all of a sudden that it was being dubbed in spanish CONCURRENTLY with the normal english!  Hilarious.  It&#8217;s 6:06pm EST (December 9th), in case you want to check it out.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Completely off topic, but I tuned to TBS just now and Old School was on.  I realized all of a sudden that it was being dubbed in spanish CONCURRENTLY with the normal english!  Hilarious.  It&#8217;s 6:06pm EST (December 9th), in case you want to check it out.</p>
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		<title>Great tips that have nothing to do with the home office!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long</dc:creator>
		
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<category>cayenne pepper</category><category>cotton ball</category><category>dryer sheet</category><category>egg yolks</category><category>email forwards</category><category>leftover pizza</category><category>q tip</category><category>shards of glass</category><category>squirrels</category><category>wet cotton</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I generally despise email forwards but received one today that I strangely decided to open.  Turns out it contained some useful tips! Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t determine to whom I should give proper credit!
1. Reheat Pizza
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I generally despise email forwards but received one today that I strangely decided to open.  Turns out it contained some useful tips! Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t determine to whom I should give proper credit!</p>
<p>1. Reheat Pizza</p>
<p>Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove , set<br />
heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No<br />
soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really<br />
works.</p>
<p>2. Easy Deviled Eggs</p>
<p>Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all<br />
broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up<br />
mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg.<br />
Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.<br />
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3. Expanding Frosting</p>
<p>When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with<br />
your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to<br />
frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and<br />
calories per serving.</p>
<p>4. Reheating refrigerated bread</p>
<p>To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated , place<br />
them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will<br />
keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.</p>
<p>5. Newspaper weeds away</p>
<p>Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet<br />
newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with<br />
mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic<br />
they will not get through wet newspapers.</p>
<p>6. Broken Glass<br />
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you<br />
can&#8217;t see easily.</p>
<p>7. No More Mosquitoes<br />
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.</p>
<p>8. Squirrel Away!<br />
To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne<br />
pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn&#8217;t hurt the plant and the squirrels won&#8217;t<br />
come near it.</p>
<p>9. Flexible vacuum<br />
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty<br />
paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or<br />
flattened to get in narrow openings.</p>
<p>10. Reducing Static Cling<br />
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a<br />
clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty<br />
hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and &#8212; ta da! &#8212; static is gone.</p>
<p>11. Measuring Cups<br />
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot<br />
water. Dump out the hot water, but don&#8217;t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such<br />
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.</p>
<p>12. Foggy Windshield<br />
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box<br />
of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a<br />
cloth!</p>
<p>13. Reopening envelope ;<br />
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something<br />
inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two.<br />
Viola! It unseals easily</p>
<p>14. Conditioner<br />
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It&#8217;s a lot cheaper than<br />
shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It&#8217;s also a great way<br />
to use up the conditioner you bought but didn&#8217;t like when you tried it<br />
in your hair&#8230;</p>
<p>15. Goodbye Fruit Flies<br />
To get rid of pesky fruit flies , take a small glass fill it 1/2&#8243; with<br />
Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid , mix well. You<br />
will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!</p>
<p>16. Get Rid of Ants<br />
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it , take it<br />
&#8220;home&#8221;, can&#8217;t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so,<br />
especially if it rains , but it works &amp; you don&#8217;t have the worry about pets<br />
or small children being harmed!</p>
<p>17. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS<br />
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things<br />
around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us somethin g and he<br />
went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I<br />
always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that<br />
he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink, ran hot<br />
water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material - I&#8217;m sure you know<br />
what your dryer&#8217;s lint filter looks like. WELL&#8230;the hot water just sat on<br />
top of the mesh! It didn&#8217;t go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets<br />
cause a film over that mesh that&#8217;s what burns out the heating unit. You can&#8217;t<br />
SEE the film , but it&#8217;s there. It&#8217;s what is in the dryer sheets to make your<br />
clothes soft and static free - that nice fragrance too, you know how they<br />
can feel waxy when you take them out of the box, well this stuff builds up on<br />
your clothes and on your lint screen This is also what causes dryer units to<br />
catch fire &amp; potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way<br />
to keep your dryer working for a very long time (&amp; to keep your electric<br />
bill lower) is to take that filter out &amp; wash it with hot soapy water &amp; an old<br />
toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the<br />
life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something<br />
new every day! I certainly didn&#8217;t know dryer sheets would do that.</p>
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		<title>Awesome handpuppets!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long</dc:creator>
		
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<category>coffee break</category><category>hand puppets</category><category>home office</category><category>louis armstrong what a wonderful world</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t typically spend much time on YouTube, but someone sent me this video and I just had to share it.  It&#8217;s a great break to your day!
This gentleman creates phenomenal handpuppets to the music of Louis Armstrong (What a Wonderful World):
Click here for the handpuppet video.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t typically spend much time on YouTube, but someone sent me this video and I just had to share it.  It&#8217;s a great break to your day!</p>
<p>This gentleman creates phenomenal handpuppets to the music of Louis Armstrong (What a Wonderful World):</p>
<p>Click here for the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=2awuWK6c6xE" target="_blank">handpuppet video</a>.</p>
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		<title>The future of images on the web!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long</dc:creator>
		
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<category>collective image</category><category>microsoft</category><category>random snapshots</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another watercooler moment.  Here&#8217;s a mindblowing peak at how Microsoft (*cough*) is changing the way we view images.  Of particular interest is the idea that thousands of random snapshots of Notre Dame can be morphed into creating one collective image.
This ain&#8217;t your mom&#8217;s internet!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another watercooler moment.  Here&#8217;s a mindblowing peak at how Microsoft (*cough*) is changing the way we view images.  Of particular interest is the idea that thousands of random snapshots of Notre Dame can be morphed into creating one collective image.</p>
<p>This ain&#8217;t your mom&#8217;s internet!<span id="more-52"></span></p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t embed the video properly, but here&#8217;s the link:  <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129</a></p>
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		<title>Chill a Coke in 2 minutes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long</dc:creator>
		
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<category>chill</category><category>chill beverages quickly</category><category>cold drink</category><category>home office</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not exactly home office envy material, but a handy little trick when you need a cold drink after a hard day&#8217;s work!


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not exactly home office envy material, but a handy little trick when you need a cold drink after a hard day&#8217;s work!</p>
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<p>If you do this with beer, STIR SLOWLY!</p>
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