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Make Your Own Etched Glass Storage Jars

Storing kitchen items can either look like you’re lazy just leaving everything it the container it came in or you’re spending an absurd amount of money on custom storage jars. What if you could spend very little on jars only to have them look custom? Yeah, I would spend the few minutes and a buck on supplies:

Keep pantry staples organized with a set of glass storage jars customized with etched lettering.

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How to Mount a Camera on your Bike

Since the local circle of friends are getting more into cycling (congrats on the bike purchase Chuckles) its time to start posting more of the interests in the adventures we could have. When it comes to mounting a camera on a bike the point is obviously about the documentation of these said adventures. Photojojo has an awesome step-by-step how to when it comes to doing this project and I’m all aboard trying. Check it out.

The Photojojo DIY BikeCam! from Photojojo on Vimeo.

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Practice Makes Perfect

Jeff Atwood has a very detailed post over at Coding Horror discussing the ideals of practicing skills outside of their everyday usage in order to improve yourself. It definitely applies to more than just coding.

Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doesn’t qualify as real practice. Going to meetings isn’t practicing your people skills, and replying to mail isn’t practicing your typing. You have to set aside some time once in a while and do focused practice in order to get better at something.
I know a lot of great engineers—that’s one of the best perks of working at Amazon—and if you watch them closely, you’ll see that they practice constantly. As good as they are, they still practice. They have all sorts of ways of doing it, and this essay will cover a few of them.

The great engineers I know are as good as they are because they practice all the time. People in great physical shape only get that way by working out regularly, and they need to keep it up, or they get out of shape. The same goes for programming and engineering.

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Predicting the Weather with Clouds

In this Instructables a person can gain the skills to forecasting the weather by looking at the clouds in the sky. This should really be something everyone should know how to do, but in the age of the lazy and moronic Idiocracy seems to become the law of the land.

Cirrus clouds are white wispy clouds that stretch across the sky. By all accounts, cirrus clouds indicate fair weather in the immediate future. However, they can also be an indication of a change in weather patterns within the next 24 hours (most likely a change of pressure fronts).

By watching their movement and the direction in which the streaks are pointed, you can get a sense of which direction the weather front is moving.

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How to Be a Productive Procrastinator

NPR has a segment about how to be a productive Procrastinator by “Procrastination expert” Timothy Pychyl. If that is an actual job title I can think of a few people who would proudly hold the mantel.

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Get Rid of Ants Yourself Without Harsh Chemicals

Several of my friends try and take a homeopathic approach to everyday situations. In this particular instance of the ‘Do It Yourself’ routine get rid of those pesky ants with a simple mixture of Boric acid and table sugar.

First, pick up some boric acid powder (available at most drug stores) and mix a small amount of it 50:50 with table sugar. There’s nothing particularly scientific about this ratio, so it’s fine to just eyeball it. Next, put some of this mix into a small container such as the the cap from a milk jug or the lid from a 2 liter bottle. Finally, drizzle some water into it to make a slurry (i.e., a thick suspension). That’s it — you’re now ready to kill some ants.

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