I grew up in a suburb, then my folks moved to a rural area when I was in high school. I liked rural life, and eventually bought a house out in the country myself. After moving back to town a few years ago, though, I found to my surprise that I really like urban life.
"Urban" is perhaps an exageration for Champaign, but it's really nice to have things within walking distance: two grocery stores, a dozen restaurants (more than that, if you're into walking), a 24-hour pharmacy, multiple video rental places, etc.
The walkability is the best part. The great mass transit is notable mainly because it was such a surprise.
That's freakin' AWESOME. People have been playing some pretty great practical jokes on YouTube over the past couple of years but that's one that I hadn't seen:
1) Set the viewer up with something nice and calm... heck, water is gently running in a sink like the sound of a running brook or a stream... how much more low profile can you get?
2) Then BOOM!
This is worthy of a YouTube award. Stephen King would be proud.
OK, now that's cool. We live in the boondocks, so there's absolutely no mass transit system for several hours driving distance. But still, your post shows the power of what can be accomplished with a little planning. Most people avoid mass transit systems that are annoying. I frequently discuss / wish for the need for better public options in this country.
I'm glad it's working out for you in your location. For us, we just have to suck it up and plan for a major list of errands whenever we travel to civilization, which doesn't make for a very fun or relaxing outing. But I guess that's the trade off for getting to live in a relaxing location. Good post earlier, too. I've been meaning to comment on that one as well.
I think, as schoolkids, we became conditioned to associate them with a new year full of new possibilities. Still as an adult, I think getting new notebooks, pens, etc., gives me an opportunity to redefine myself and get a fresh start on things. Of course it doesn't really work that way, but the pull for me is as powerful as I think and addiction must be to some.
Thanks for the heads up fellow readers! Those images on the toothpaste video (second video) are totally freaky. If I hadn't known they were there, I too would be needing a change of drawers especially as I am alone in a very large and creepy building at the moment (Sunday).
Yes, office supplies are my nemesis. There ought to be a support group.
@CB: I've seen lots of descriptions of how to get off catalog mailing lists, but I've never made an effort. I think I always expected that it would turn out just as you describe.
I should, though--for the trees if nothing else. Google gave me this link, which seems to have a pretty comprehensive summary:
Good post, Andrea. I just found it. Have been researching perennial and cold weather greens for the garden, but this is really quite interesting. I think I might have some of the Japanese weed out back. . .
you forgot to mention using ash what is used for years for polishing glass (watches) or displays (cover) of mobiles, it's working too, but for me is bet choice toothpaste (you forgot to mention it should have microgranules)
I am tired of lugging the catalogs to recycling, and want to save trees so I call to get removed from mailing lists of any catalog that I don't want to study. Trying to get removed from Dell's list last week was exasperating because I had to go through India. After half an hour in which I explained what a house number meant, tried to explain "or current occupant," and that my town (central to Silicon Valley) was a city name and spelled it multiple times, I was exhausted. Before I started the conversation I was considering looking on the Dell Web site if I ever wanted to buy one again. Afterwards, I remembered my last experience with this company when the computer arrived DOA, and it took me a week of talking with people who didn't have the computer nor the manual before I got any action, and that was prompted by telling them I had a better idea than opening my computer one more time and fishing around in it--I was going to call my credit card company and have them handle its return.
Companies should make it easy to stop receiving their catalogs. I develop negative feelings when unsolicited ones come too often.
I was watching the videos and was unpleasantly surprised when at the end of the second video the one from YouTube there was static then a series of very disturbing images, which freaked me out a little. I just thought you should know.
You made me laugh with the "office supply porn"! You couldn't have put it better. I have more problems resisting impulse purchases in Staples than in any clothing store.
I too have an office supply fetish. Shopping for school supplies was always the high light of my year, and when I see the blank notebooks with the witty quotes on the cover, or the journals I think "Wow...if I bought that, Id give up writing in my Live Journal." Then I realize how much paper I save by keeping my journal electronic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys the Office Max catalog :)
About 25 years ago I had a problem with tiny scratches on the face shield of my motorcycle helmet. Riding at night became dangerous because of the "headlight flare" of oncoming cars. New shields were more expensive than I wanted to deal with on a regular basis.
A friend told me about Meguiar's plastic cleaner and plastic polish. They were sort of expensive, at the time, but if they worked, they'd be well worth the money. I was astounded at the results: my face shield was 100% like new with no scratches at all. I've been using the cleaner and polish since.
A couple of years ago, I needed to use a CD to reinstall Windows XP. It was so scratched that I couldn't use it. The installation had already skipped 36 files before I quit trying. I didn't want to purchase another copy of XP and I happened to remember the Meguiar's plastic products. I had nothing to lose so I tried them on the XP CD.
They worked so well, I was able to reinstall Windows XP without a single file skipped. Since then, every time we rent a DVD movie that is so badly damaged it skips and/or stops, I pull out the Meguiar's plastic cleaner and plastic polish.
I see that Meguiar's has a newer product named PlastX. I haven't tried it yet, but I will as soon as I run out of my current supply of the old stuff. And no, I have no connection with Meguiar's; I have just thoroughly enjoyed the results of every one of their products I've used.
Great ideas - I'll try them out. I've got another problem though - and apparently I'm not the only one; this is happening to a friend of mine as well:
The CD player in my car has started to get really weird about ejecting CDs. Sometimes it doesn't want to accept them, but it's gotten to the point where it nearly always takes several tries to get it to fully eject because the CD gets "stuck" on its way out. My friend says this only happens with the CDs that he's burned himself.
Hair Gel works, but in a different way. It fills the scratch and restores the refractive qualities to the track, enabling you to copy the disk. If you have a very deep scratch on your disk, this is the way to go as an abrasive may damage the disk even further.
These types of repairs will only work on a very limited number of dents. Someone else said only on dents you could push out with your hand if you had access to the back of the panel and that is probably describes it well. Of all the dents you get in a car these methods might work on one percent of them. Most dents and dings will stretch the metal enough that it will not be possible for heating and cooling of a panel to bring the dent out. Even some dents that don't look stretched will have metal displaced out around the dent that will hold that dent in unless the pressure is released. I would be a bit cautious about trying to remove a dent because sometimes you can do enough damage to a dent that will make it impossible for a professional to take it out when it could have been fixed without painting before you mucked it up.
It's like trading with god. Let's see, trading with people, business owner can earn 10 to 30 percent earn. Trading with god -you don't have to be a business owner to do this- you'll be guaranteed a 1000% earn (that's a return worth 10 times money you spend).
*real deal*
My mother is my best example person at this area.
Every time she gives (cash) for the less-unfortunate around her. Not long time after that she will get a bonus from her boss exactly 8 to 10 times amount of her charity. She learns it as a pattern and never stop do this stuff and give the lesson to her children.
Another example when she donates these brand-new ordinary school-bags, school tools, books for orphans, a week later she gets a gift: European-made luxurious travel bag from her relatives worth ten times plus another souvenirs. Gifts are tax-free.
My father is fully supporting her acts. He loves her so, can sense it by the way he looks at my mom.
*sacrifice*
You have to set your mind, though. Switch mind to "I do this for god's generosity" or "Only god and-no-other could repay my sacrifice" and stuff like that. Don't do charity as a showoffs or a indirect showoffs. Some people will do the charity after they (think) are wealthier. You'll never feel you're richer. Whenever humans get richer their needs are also broader.
Indeed, some charity-engaged person announce their charities but let's not make this an accusation that they're showing off. Maybe they do that so their deeds interpreted like a role model or an example. I'm sure their mind already switched to earn god's blessings.
Remember, those 1000% won't return to you as pure wealth. Sometimes it is granted as health, which is more valuable. You got sick (illness or accident) you'll lose wealth, sometimes lose skill or gain disability but worse is you lose time -we cannot replenish/regain time we spent.
Millionaire has greater chance to enter heaven. Greatest chance are poor with generosity in charity. It is the law at judgment day.
I grew up in a suburb, then my folks moved to a rural area when I was in high school. I liked rural life, and eventually bought a house out in the country myself. After moving back to town a few years ago, though, I found to my surprise that I really like urban life.
"Urban" is perhaps an exageration for Champaign, but it's really nice to have things within walking distance: two grocery stores, a dozen restaurants (more than that, if you're into walking), a 24-hour pharmacy, multiple video rental places, etc.
The walkability is the best part. The great mass transit is notable mainly because it was such a surprise.
Thanks for the kind words!
re: Toothpaste video ending
That's freakin' AWESOME. People have been playing some pretty great practical jokes on YouTube over the past couple of years but that's one that I hadn't seen:
1) Set the viewer up with something nice and calm... heck, water is gently running in a sink like the sound of a running brook or a stream... how much more low profile can you get?
2) Then BOOM!
This is worthy of a YouTube award. Stephen King would be proud.
OK, now that's cool. We live in the boondocks, so there's absolutely no mass transit system for several hours driving distance. But still, your post shows the power of what can be accomplished with a little planning. Most people avoid mass transit systems that are annoying. I frequently discuss / wish for the need for better public options in this country.
I'm glad it's working out for you in your location. For us, we just have to suck it up and plan for a major list of errands whenever we travel to civilization, which doesn't make for a very fun or relaxing outing. But I guess that's the trade off for getting to live in a relaxing location. Good post earlier, too. I've been meaning to comment on that one as well.
As a lawyer I see people fight their tickets every day. It is always best to consult an attorney for advice first.
ARRRGGGHHHHH THE DRY ICE AAARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!
06 GTI HOOD RUINED!!!!
DAMN MY EYES!!!!
Try creamy peanut butter.
indeed the ending of the second video scared the living ©r@p outta me. so i got a clean cloth, smeared the unplayable disc with it, polish that smelly stuff in circular motion.
well guess what.... it still does not work & now it stinks too
I think, as schoolkids, we became conditioned to associate them with a new year full of new possibilities. Still as an adult, I think getting new notebooks, pens, etc., gives me an opportunity to redefine myself and get a fresh start on things. Of course it doesn't really work that way, but the pull for me is as powerful as I think and addiction must be to some.
Thanks for the heads up fellow readers! Those images on the toothpaste video (second video) are totally freaky. If I hadn't known they were there, I too would be needing a change of drawers especially as I am alone in a very large and creepy building at the moment (Sunday).
Yes, office supplies are my nemesis. There ought to be a support group.
@CB: I've seen lots of descriptions of how to get off catalog mailing lists, but I've never made an effort. I think I always expected that it would turn out just as you describe.
I should, though--for the trees if nothing else. Google gave me this link, which seems to have a pretty comprehensive summary:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm
Good post, Andrea. I just found it. Have been researching perennial and cold weather greens for the garden, but this is really quite interesting. I think I might have some of the Japanese weed out back. . .
you forgot to mention using ash what is used for years for polishing glass (watches) or displays (cover) of mobiles, it's working too, but for me is bet choice toothpaste (you forgot to mention it should have microgranules)
Here I'm watching a nice educational video on how to help fix CD/DVD's and all of a sudden, WTF! I just soiled myself.
I am tired of lugging the catalogs to recycling, and want to save trees so I call to get removed from mailing lists of any catalog that I don't want to study. Trying to get removed from Dell's list last week was exasperating because I had to go through India. After half an hour in which I explained what a house number meant, tried to explain "or current occupant," and that my town (central to Silicon Valley) was a city name and spelled it multiple times, I was exhausted. Before I started the conversation I was considering looking on the Dell Web site if I ever wanted to buy one again. Afterwards, I remembered my last experience with this company when the computer arrived DOA, and it took me a week of talking with people who didn't have the computer nor the manual before I got any action, and that was prompted by telling them I had a better idea than opening my computer one more time and fishing around in it--I was going to call my credit card company and have them handle its return.
Companies should make it easy to stop receiving their catalogs. I develop negative feelings when unsolicited ones come too often.
Dont watch the second video 'till the end!
disturbing!!
x_x
not nice
I was watching the videos and was unpleasantly surprised when at the end of the second video the one from YouTube there was static then a series of very disturbing images, which freaked me out a little. I just thought you should know.
(I hope it wasn't just my computer.)
You made me laugh with the "office supply porn"! You couldn't have put it better. I have more problems resisting impulse purchases in Staples than in any clothing store.
I too have an office supply fetish. Shopping for school supplies was always the high light of my year, and when I see the blank notebooks with the witty quotes on the cover, or the journals I think "Wow...if I bought that, Id give up writing in my Live Journal." Then I realize how much paper I save by keeping my journal electronic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys the Office Max catalog :)
About 25 years ago I had a problem with tiny scratches on the face shield of my motorcycle helmet. Riding at night became dangerous because of the "headlight flare" of oncoming cars. New shields were more expensive than I wanted to deal with on a regular basis.
A friend told me about Meguiar's plastic cleaner and plastic polish. They were sort of expensive, at the time, but if they worked, they'd be well worth the money. I was astounded at the results: my face shield was 100% like new with no scratches at all. I've been using the cleaner and polish since.
A couple of years ago, I needed to use a CD to reinstall Windows XP. It was so scratched that I couldn't use it. The installation had already skipped 36 files before I quit trying. I didn't want to purchase another copy of XP and I happened to remember the Meguiar's plastic products. I had nothing to lose so I tried them on the XP CD.
They worked so well, I was able to reinstall Windows XP without a single file skipped. Since then, every time we rent a DVD movie that is so badly damaged it skips and/or stops, I pull out the Meguiar's plastic cleaner and plastic polish.
I see that Meguiar's has a newer product named PlastX. I haven't tried it yet, but I will as soon as I run out of my current supply of the old stuff. And no, I have no connection with Meguiar's; I have just thoroughly enjoyed the results of every one of their products I've used.
Great ideas - I'll try them out. I've got another problem though - and apparently I'm not the only one; this is happening to a friend of mine as well:
The CD player in my car has started to get really weird about ejecting CDs. Sometimes it doesn't want to accept them, but it's gotten to the point where it nearly always takes several tries to get it to fully eject because the CD gets "stuck" on its way out. My friend says this only happens with the CDs that he's burned himself.
Any clues? Does it need to be cleaned?
I'll have to try that one. Thanks!
Hair Gel works, but in a different way. It fills the scratch and restores the refractive qualities to the track, enabling you to copy the disk. If you have a very deep scratch on your disk, this is the way to go as an abrasive may damage the disk even further.
These types of repairs will only work on a very limited number of dents. Someone else said only on dents you could push out with your hand if you had access to the back of the panel and that is probably describes it well. Of all the dents you get in a car these methods might work on one percent of them. Most dents and dings will stretch the metal enough that it will not be possible for heating and cooling of a panel to bring the dent out. Even some dents that don't look stretched will have metal displaced out around the dent that will hold that dent in unless the pressure is released. I would be a bit cautious about trying to remove a dent because sometimes you can do enough damage to a dent that will make it impossible for a professional to take it out when it could have been fixed without painting before you mucked it up.
Charity.
It's like trading with god. Let's see, trading with people, business owner can earn 10 to 30 percent earn. Trading with god -you don't have to be a business owner to do this- you'll be guaranteed a 1000% earn (that's a return worth 10 times money you spend).
*real deal*
My mother is my best example person at this area.
Every time she gives (cash) for the less-unfortunate around her. Not long time after that she will get a bonus from her boss exactly 8 to 10 times amount of her charity. She learns it as a pattern and never stop do this stuff and give the lesson to her children.
Another example when she donates these brand-new ordinary school-bags, school tools, books for orphans, a week later she gets a gift: European-made luxurious travel bag from her relatives worth ten times plus another souvenirs. Gifts are tax-free.
My father is fully supporting her acts. He loves her so, can sense it by the way he looks at my mom.
*sacrifice*
You have to set your mind, though. Switch mind to "I do this for god's generosity" or "Only god and-no-other could repay my sacrifice" and stuff like that. Don't do charity as a showoffs or a indirect showoffs. Some people will do the charity after they (think) are wealthier. You'll never feel you're richer. Whenever humans get richer their needs are also broader.
Indeed, some charity-engaged person announce their charities but let's not make this an accusation that they're showing off. Maybe they do that so their deeds interpreted like a role model or an example. I'm sure their mind already switched to earn god's blessings.
Remember, those 1000% won't return to you as pure wealth. Sometimes it is granted as health, which is more valuable. You got sick (illness or accident) you'll lose wealth, sometimes lose skill or gain disability but worse is you lose time -we cannot replenish/regain time we spent.
Millionaire has greater chance to enter heaven. Greatest chance are poor with generosity in charity. It is the law at judgment day.
Great luck with charity.
Boiling CDs does NOT remove the scratches or fix problems with that, but it fixes a different cause mainly for new discs:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Recover-Unreadable-CDs-DVDs-Just-B...