Archive for March, 2008

Fool your co-workers with these April idiot’s Day pranks

After reading these quick computer pranks, I can’t tell you how badly I wished my brother lived nearby. We have a expanded history of playing April Fool’s pranks on each other, so lengthy that whether the phone even rings on April Fool’s Day, we’ve already got our defenses up. But a prank on his…

Kitchen Eye Candy

I need some kitchen eye sweet. I’ve worked solidly for two days (this weekend.) Tons of detail work doing an electrical plan, plotting very specific dimensions for lighting and appliance centerlines, switching, and receptacles, only to have beams be in the way, I’m certain! plus, uploading plan…

Kitchen Tech

My world has changed nowadays. My computer arrived a week and a half ago, but my new monitor arrived nowadays. I had been using a Sony monitor that I paid $2,000 for about 5 years ago. You’d think it was a good investment. I noticed by instance, it was getting increasingly dimmer and dimmer and adju…

Kitchen Cabinet Remodel

What do you do when your kitchen cabinet remodel project does not good? Kitchen remodeling is a major project. The national home center might not be the best contractor. whether you have to pay-in-full up-front, you have no leverage whether things to wrong. Will an attorney help?

Original p…

Avon Products recalls overheated plush warming bears

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Avon Products is voluntary recalling about 113,000 Cozy Warming Polar Bears.

The bear features a warming pouch that can overheat and ignite when the pouch is heated in the microwave oven, posing a fire and burn endanger to consu…

Healthy hair can be yours

Do-it-yourself healthy hair? What do you mean, you thought hair had to do with genetics?

To an extent, it does. You can’t change your hair’s thickness, for instance. But with the right diet you can have do-it-yourself healthy hair.

Web MD has published a list of the top ten foods to eat fo…

IKEA towel rail hack

I love IKEA: I can spend my days looking and drooling at all the wonderful products that I could have shipped to my home. My husband is incredibly thankful that I am not a big spender, considering I really could have IKEA packages delivered to my door every day.

If I did go on a shopping spree fo…

Open question: How do you use your tools?

Let’s just pretend for a moment that we at TOH have no notion how to use the reciprocating saw in that new 18-volt Ridgid combo kit.

Or the table saw, brad nailer, or tool bag below. We know nothing. We need help.

We need you to say, “Ya know, that tool’s great for when you need to…”

We …

Open question: How do you use these things?

Let’s just pretend for a moment that we at TOH have no view how to use the reciprocating saw in that new 18-volt Ridgid combo kit.

Or the table saw, brad nailer, or tool bag below. We know nothing. We need help.

We need you to say, “Ya know, that tool’s great for when you need to…”

We wa…

Hy-Lite window: Bathing beauty

I once lived in a 1950s ranch home that had a metal casement window
by the tub. It was so badly rusted that it was rendered totally
inoperable, welded shut by a thick layer of crusty corrosion. And in
winter, ice would style on the inside of the pane.

So believe me—choosing a window for a b…

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