The Neverending Vacation

Hi! Remember me? Unlike many other teachers, my district gives three weeks off for the Christmas Break instead of two, ... and the caulking gun as I sealed a hole in our rain gutter and installed some hand-fabricated (by me) sheet metal ... , I will also be cleaning our back patio with my new gas-powered blower that my mother-in-law was kind [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:22:00

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Snapshots from Asia: Hong Kong’s Outdoor Fish Markets and the Asian Reverence for Fish

From Serious Eats Fish is a big deal in Asia ... with water—once a buyer has selected a fish, the fishmonger gets to work scaling and cleaning, sending slippery entrails and shiny, rainbow-hued flecks swooshing down a central gutter. Unlike at a Western [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 18:14:01

A Christmas Story

I'm not nuts about this time of year, but one thing I do enjoy is finding new witnesses to the trashwhispering ... if our eyes meet, but usually there seems to be a wad of fast food wrapping in the gutter ... from Celebrity Rehab? Him: Not quite. I saw this guy, walking his dog, and cleaning the street [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:08:24

OoooHhhh MmmMmmmm

For the Song of the day please visit UTube for the Mom song, performed to the William Tell Overture.**WOW** I know you have a data streaming problem... LOL... but it does have caption and guaranteed to make you laugh like a gutter rat on garbage ... that don't belong in there, 2)dusting, 3)washing the walls, cleaning lamp shades, dusting pictures etc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:54:00

Amy Winehouse A Real In-The-Gutter Alcoholic

We have all probably seen this occasionally; hell, some of you may have even experienced it yourselves when you have had a night out on the tiles; ... , the alcoholic down on all fours in the gutter is none other than good old Amy have you finished that drink ... is meant to be cleaning up her act while she is there, doing yoga and other kinds of body [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:03:10

I decorate like a kindergartener…

While I was cleaning out the shed I came upon a few treasures: chair with no back and some old rain gutters ... about rain gutter bookshelves?(no harsh words were exchanged, we are mature enough to kid around [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:32:30

What I did on my Christmas vacation...

Well, the Christmas vacation is almost over, and dare I say it, I'm actually looking forward to getting back into the routine of school. ( ... days here, which was nice. Last Saturday, our family did our church-cleaning and then Scott took ... and Gracie almost beat Scott (with only "a little" help from the gutter-rails and the ball-ramp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 03:40:00

De-cluttering in 2009

There's too much stuff in the world. Too much clutter. My closet, my fridge, my desk, the gutter, Target on the weekend, Macy's at Xmas, my parents' storage shed, and this blog. So, I'm cleaning house a bit. I hope you like it. Next stop, that darned [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 09:20:25

The wonderful sensation of taste

The name “Ramadan” is the name of the ninth month of the Islamic year; the word itself derived from an Arabic root denoting intense heat, ... in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. For some reason, they all tasted like gutter water, so I settled ... , I notice them and savor their differences. 2. I save a lot of time not cooking, eating, and cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 13:23:36

Village waiting for electricity

By ALLISON WOOD Staff Writer As power crews worked to restore electricity throughout the county on Tuesday, ... from her refrigerator and cleaning up her backyard. She, like everyone else, lost power on Sunday ... just down the street and her brother’s house next door received gutter damage from a swaying tree. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 07:04:38

Dealing With Urban Runoff

San Luis Obispo, like many communities, is dealing with a different type of littering problem.    When Kevin Main opens his jewelry store on Higuera Street each morning, he’s never sure what he’ll find. “We’ve had everything you can imagine on our doorway — puke, urine, feces, all kinds of disgusting things,” he said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 04:26:31

Charlie Huston, Guest Blogger: Another Bloody Mess

[Ed.: Charlie Huston's latest book, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (Amazon's pick as Best Book of the Month for January), descends into the grisly underworld of crime scene clean-up, appropriately inscribed with his indelible signatures: hilarious, inappropriate dialogue; outrageous supporting characters; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:38:37

Ribbit, Ribbit...

This week began with some major frogging. Remember this project?It now looks like this: This was a project that I started months ago. I thought it might be a relatively quick knit, but it just seemed to drag on and on and on. I was beginning to believe that little elves were messing with my progress in the middle of the night [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 21:35:00

Eleven Days of Fail: Day 2

Day 2: The Payless-eningLast month, I flew to LA to attend a friend's wedding ... in storm gutter, I immediately started getting ready. I used an entire fun-sized bottle of shampoo ... of finding trouble. Even if I did nothing but crawl into the dry cleaning bag with it, within five [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:59:00

FEELING GOOD AT HOME

“With the cut in interest rates, the savings on your mortgage may be better invested in the home than the bank.”“Buying curtains, putting up shelves and choosing colours really make your house a home.”RENOVATINGAND EXTENDINGWith the housing market so slow, many people are considering renovating or extending rather than moving [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:12:00

How to Install Rain Gutters

Time Needed - Between 6 and 8 Hours Estimated Cost - $2 to $6 Per Linear Foot For homes in most areas throughout the country, having rain gutters and downspouts is necessary so that you can collect rainwater and carry it away from the home. Without rain gutters and downspouts, the water would erode the soil around the foundation of your home, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:36:28

Summer Giveaway: Tech Support

Computers. If you work – heck, if you live – in these times, you gotta use them. You gotta master them. More often, it seems, computers master us. Perfectly competent, intelligent people shudder at the thought of backing up their files, configuring their email clients, or setting up a website [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 16:00:00

He says, She says… (part thirty-four; of a dance troupe)

…and the new year starts with a bang! Or a butt, as it happens… some things never change *~~~~~* Ajay McDowwll: Elwe, it always makes it interesting trying to find jeans that don’t have that GIGANTIC gap at the waist, doesn’t it? Ajay McDowwll: If they fit through the thighs/hips/butt, they’re cavernous around the waist [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:20:44

Thankful

I am thankful for the taxes I pay, even when used in a redistribution of wealth scheme, because it means I am employed or own my own business... ... , because it means I have had enough to eat.For a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutter that needs fixing, because it means I have a home. For the parking spot I find at the far [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 22:35:34

Negative Splits

Today I had six miles scheduled. I looked at Google Earth to see where I could run. The canals? No, I didn't feel like a canal run ... ended up running around my block. A one mile course that I did 6 times. Past my neighbor cleaning the street gutter six times. Past the kids playing hockey six times (rollerblades, no ice), past [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 00:36:00

On the eve of The Eve ...

I'm busy spring-cleaning my workstation. Yep, what bliss it is to squat and bend over all that I want when the bosses are not in the office. *ahem* Squat and bend over to move and clear clutter, I mean. :) Get your mind out of the gutter ... the stuff I don't need and what you see in my RAK giveaways. So since I'm spring-cleaning, I wanted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 09:02:00

WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction - It happened in Church - Chapter Ninety Five - Deaths, Decades, and the Tontine

It happened in Church - October 19, 1962 Chapter Ninety Five - Deaths, Decades, and the Tontine October 19, 2002 Forty year mark ... . But what about himself? The TomT production facility was a block building with no windows a little away ... . It had five floors of below ground lab space. There were Disneyland-like below-ground service tunnels [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 13:53:46

Tips to help you and your home survive severe cold

NEW — 8:36 p.m. Dec. 13, 2008 When temperatures drop to freezing lows, plumbing problems are very common.  There are many things that homeowners can do to prevent these problems that have the potential to cause severe damage to your home. Frozen pipes are common, but can be avoided. ? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 05:09:17

British Scientist Warns We Must Protect The Vulnerable From Robots

Top robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey, of the University of Sheffield, has called for international guidelines to be set for the ethical and safe application of robots before it is too late. Professor Sharkey, writing in the prestigious Science journal, believes that as the use of robots increases, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 21:21:54

Common Book Problems - And How to Solve Them!

How can I remove the musty smell from old books? While you can probably not completely remove the smell, there are ways to minimize it ... freeze drying is carried out by a commercial service such as AFD. If the pages are only partially ... . Rain came in the window and my book was soaked [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:01:40

Werm, The Rain Gutter Cleaner

Gutter_Cleaner_1.jpg It's a man's job and it's a dirty one…cleaning the rain gutter. Unless you're Greg Focker (Ben Stiller, Meet The Parents) ... , the device gets going, cleaning the gutter just as you would with your broom and hose. Just as the dirt ... Luna, the device uses sensor technology to determine its positioning in the gutter. The flexible [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:03:34

iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot

iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot- The product that we will introduce you now was choosen as Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award by ... Consumer Electronic Showcase (CES). Below i will share the specifications, pictures and a video of iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot. Only for today, it is from $39.99. At first look, everyone ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 09:59:54

Hey Bro, Check Out the Gutter Cleaning Robot!

iRobot Looj 120 Gutter Cleaning Robot I have no friggin’ clue if this thing works, and nor do I care since we don’t have gutters on our house.  However, it sounds pretty cool, and I know how much getting on the roof sucks.  So, with that, check out the iRobot Looj 120 Gutter Cleaning Robot.  At just $50, this represents a 75% discount off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:52:40

CES 2009: Cleaning Made Easy with iRobot

As if having a robot for a vacuum cleaner wasn’t enough, iRobot has gone even farther and created several products to make cleaning easier ... McDonald and exclusive look at the new iRobot Looj. The Looj is the gutter-cleaning robot that blows leaves ... . For those of you who aren’t familiar with the iRobot Roomba, it is a vacuum-cleaning robot [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:18:39

Gutter Covers and Gutter Protection Devices - How Do They Work?

by Sock Woodruff For hundreds of years rain gutters have been used in house design ... . Various inventive people have created all kinds of solutions. Today these are marketed as gutter guards, gutter covers, gutter screens, or gutter filters. The simplest solution is some kind of gutter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 14:59:33

CES 2009: iRobot Introduces Looj 2

We reported last week that iRobot was planning on releasing a new product at CES this year ... and improved version of the Looj gutter cleaning robot. We got ourselves a video demo at the CES Pepcom ... , the battery is easier to remove, and the Looj moves slower, making it more efficient and gutter cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:35:55

6 Strange and Unique Fathers Day Gifts

The problem with buying a gift for Fathers Day is that most men just go buy things they want when they want them. If they can’t afford it, chances are you can’t afford it, either. Is it any wonder why we buy him yet another fishing lure or tie every year? [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 12:12:22

The MAN Post

*EXTRA EXTRA LONG, sorry, but it does hold a month of happenings*Ok, so you’ve been waiting and wishing and wondering…well…at least you’ve been semi-speculating…on my man status. I have met someone who is incredibly NICE (nice is entirely underrated, I find…hot, hung, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:30:34

iRobot Looj 2, ConnectR and iTube

The past few days have been busy for the number one manufacturer of consumer robots, the very well known Roomba maker iRobot. Taking advantage of the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas, iRobot announced the second generation Looj gutter cleaning remote-controlled robot and announced the cancellation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:55:00

How to Make Your Roof Last Longer

Making your home green does not always mean replacing with green materials, but finding ways to make what you have last longer. This can be a challenge on a roof, but it is possible. Typically, most roofs are said to last for fifteen to twenty five years, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:37:51

Copper Gutter Guards - What’s Available?

by Sock Woodruff Is your house equipped with rain gutters made of copper? ... copper does nothing to avert the major bane of all rain gutter owners: cleaning out the gutters ... you install a gutter protection system to keep all that debris out of your rain gutters in the first place [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:19:37

Copper Gutter Guards - What’s Available?

by Sock Woodruff Is your house equipped with rain gutters made of copper? ... copper does nothing to avert the major bane of all rain gutter owners: cleaning out the gutters ... you install a gutter protection system to keep all that debris out of your rain gutters in the first place [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:36:09

Gutter Protection for Half-Round Rain Gutters

by Sock Woodruff Almost every home is equipped with rain gutters ... their appearance-are equipped with a different style of rain gutter, the half-round gutter. Whether ... time, the accumulated debris can block the gutter. This leads to a recurring item on your “honey, do” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 08:37:48

Shorties

The Barack Obama campaign has announced a compilation album, Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement, ... type book out of my butt to support my prose habit. Cleaning my office, it looks like a crazy [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 13:32:21

Free Patents Online

SEARCH: GO TO ADVANCED SEARCH LOGIN:       * Login       * Create a Free Account       * HOME       * SEARCH Patents       * CHEMICAL SEARCH       * DATA SERVICES       * HELP More Site Features Document: U.S. Patent, U.S. application, U.S. Patent Design Tools Software. Free Download. Free Download Data: Plug Software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:20:48

Dealmonger: iRobot Looj Gutter-Cleaning Robot $70

The iRobot store is selling their Looj gutter-cleaning robot for $70 ... ;  but if it works on yours, it could turn the chore of gutter-cleaning into a pleasant and easy experience — certainly well worth the price. Looj Gutter Cleaner iRobot Street Pricing Google Via Amazon [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:29:22

Independence Days and a Sweet New Year to Y’all!

Independence Days and a Sweet New Year to Y’all! Sharon September 28th, 2008 Posting will be light or nil much of this week because of the Jewish High Holidays - the New Year begins Monday evening, and L’Shana Tovah to all of you (a sweet, happy and healthy new year, despite all the changes!) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 15:15:22

Robot Sightings: Anybots Rocks, Animated Monopoly, Snail Car, and more...

Robot Sightings: Anybots Rocks, Animated Monopoly, Snail Car, and more... What's going on today in my crazy robot world? ... soft & natural. (tinyurl.com/soft-technology-robotics) 10:19 Why is iRobot building gutter cleaning robots? What the world really needs is a plant wetting WaterBa! (tinyurl.com/next-irobot-bot [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:53:57

Gutter Protection for Half-Round Rain Gutters

Gutter Protection for Half-Round Rain Gutters By Sock Woodruff | December 23, ... -are equipped with a different style of rain gutter, the half-round gutter. Whether K-style or half-round ... debris can block the gutter. This leads to a recurring item on your “honey, do” list of home maintenance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 09:05:01

Copper Gutter Guards - What’s Available?

Copper Gutter Guards - What’s Available? By Sock Woodruff | December 30, ... nothing to avert the major bane of all rain gutter owners: cleaning out the gutters. The wind and rain ... gutter while keeping the debris out. Adding gutter protection will eliminate the need for cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:20:08

iRobot Looj V.2 Cleans Gutters, Probably Has Other Unspeakable Uses [Ces 2009]

Here's Looj, iRobot's second generation of—get this—The World's Only Gutter Cleaning Robot ... features to make it more efficient: The iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot drives easily under ... . Seriously, is this really a gutter cleaning robot or something else? Yeah [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:15:00

Everything Dems Have Ever Said About Government Spending Is …… Oh Look A Shiny Ball

Do you want the bad news or the really bad news first?  OK, here’s the bad news, but it looks like good news.  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ... account and cleaning up the ledgers, and refusing to spend forecast surpluses until they’re [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:41:11

If Dr. Suess designed downspouts

Rain downspout made up of pipes and funnels If you hate cleaning gutters and downspouts, be thankful you don't live here ... pipes and large funnels that carry rainwater from the gutter at the roof's edge down--eventually [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:18:31

The Cultivation Of Vegetables

Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, I shall outline the general practice of cultivation, ... by a day or so of rain, may easily double or treble the work of cleaning a patch of onions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:39:44

Illegally Dumped Debris Plagues Los Angeles

Illegally Dumped Debris Plagues Los Angeles The Los Angeles Times reports the problem of inner-city trash removal in Los Angeles ... and Boyle Heights, said Bruce Howell, who oversees alley cleaning citywide for the department. "I'd [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 20:59:57

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