Before and After: a Professional Job
dear clusterflock
How do you fold a fitted sheet?
How to Probate and Settle an Estate in Texas
Office of Precinct 6 Justice of the Peace. Jim Wells County, Texas.
If you live outside the state, you will need to appoint a resident agent, and the letter of appointment must be notarized. You can usually scare up a notary in any office of a justice of the peace.
from the sacramento valley
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this unique 18-minute genre has its own requirements
From a Wired article on how to ace a TED Talk:
“I’m surprised to see that half the people here know my career in some detail and the other half don’t know who I am,” he says.
Science is fine, but not when it messes with our illusions.
If she had included solar power and African child warriors, it would have been so perfect a TED talk that there would have been no need for others.
Wolfram wraps his talk by saying that when it comes to trying to boil down the universe to a simple algorithm, “it’s almost embarrassing not to at least try.”
“Just because someone has an ego,” he says, citing a writer whose name I can’t read from my scribbled notes, “doesn’t mean he’s wrong.”
Thank you, Cindy.
Not only is Cindy Scroggins a performance artist, but she is an information specialist. If ever you are looking for lodging in the Dallas area, you just call up Cindy. She will not steer you wrong.
At The La Quinta Uptown, some of the rooms have heat. Mine even had hot running water for two or three minutes. If you want to wash but your timing is off, you can fill the sink with cold water, then add water you’ve boiled in the coffeemaker and give yourself a whore’s bath.
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sausage fingers
In Korea, sales of a snack sausage increase by almost 40%* in the winter as iPhone users utilize the sausage as a stylus in order to avoid removing their gloves.
*I was unable to locate a link to an English language website confirming the story but it appears to be real (I think this is a Korean news site).
via Byron at Bike Hugger
Amy just said (in response to a Dove for men commercial)
Dude, if you let me in that shower with you, I will fight your dryness.
C-41 in Caffenol
Then peroxide and sun.
This woman in central Florida does the most mad and wonderful things with film, and I like to share things that I like.
Oh. And she’s really funny, and so are her friends. Her Flickr comment threads make for good reading.
Follow the example of Juliane Koepcke
On Christmas Eve 1971, the Lockheed Electra she was traveling in exploded over the Amazon. The next morning, the 17-year-old German awoke on the jungle floor, strapped into her seat, surrounded by fallen holiday gifts. Injured and alone, she pushed the death of her mother, who’d been seated next to her on the plane, out of her mind. Instead, she remembered advice from her father, a biologist: To find civilization when lost in the jungle, follow water. Koepcke waded from tiny streams to larger ones. She passed crocodiles and poked the mud in front of her with a stick to scare away stingrays. She had lost one shoe in the fall and was wearing a ripped miniskirt. Her only food was a bag of candy, and she had nothing but dark, dirty water to drink. She ignored her broken collarbone and her wounds, infested with maggots.
On the tenth day, she rested on the bank of the Shebonya River. When she stood up again, she saw a canoe tethered to the shoreline. It took her hours to climb the embankment to a hut, where, the next day, a group of lumberjacks found her.
The whole article is fascinating. Now I can safely say I know how to fall out of an airplane.
pork!
“I didn’t know that eating pork improved sexual activity,” Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry late Wednesday. “It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra.”
Dear Clusterflock
Favorite pie? Hot, or cold? When?
“Bad pinhole,” she said.
Fuji 200 C-41 developed in expired Fomadon LQN for 10 minutes. Presoaked and rinsed in water.
“Why do I keep trying?” my Flickr friend asked. ” I just can’t make myself stop wasting film on this whole pinhole thing.”
The ensuing conversation is a long one, I warn you, but it’s a good one. You might enjoy reading it even if you’re not into the whole pinhole thing. People talk about what constitutes waste, about learning by experimenting, about what film is made of, about how to save money on food, about pinhole cameras — and about paranormal phenomena.
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the first legal male prostitute
I think for a male, if you want to be successful in this type of venture, you’re not a prostitute. You’re a surrogate lover. You encompass everything that’s required of you—not only emotionally, physically—but psychologically. Because women are wired differently. They’re much more sensitive creatures. You actually have to enjoy what you do. You can’t necessarily say, “Oh, it’s just a job.” You actually have to say it’s a passion. I think it’s the same situation as with anything that happens when you break apart a social institution. There has to be some kind of change in terminology to describe persons like myself. And it’s more of a civil rights thing now. Basically this is the first time in the economy of the United States that a male has actually stood up and said, “I want to do this for a living.” And be protected under law to do it. It’s just the same as when Rosa Parks decided to sit at the front instead of the back. She was proclaiming her rights as a disadvantaged, African-American older woman. And I’m doing the same. I’m actually standing up now, and hopefully I can be supported by the male community and be understood as a person. This actually isn’t about selling my body. This is about changing social norms.
Congratulations.
(via marginal revolution)
Passive Aggressive WiFi
Why I haven’t thought of this sooner is beyond me.
(hat tip to Andrea Kremer)
The Nook has been rooted
What does that mean in non-geek speak? Well, root or superuser access essentially means that you can change any settings in the OS. This is significant because the Nook runs Android 1.5, Google’s mobile operating system, which means that it could essentially do everything a rooted Android phone could do. (Lifehacker lists a few benefits of rooting the Android phone, if that doesn’t mean anything to you.)
The Nook rooting tutorial will most almost definitely void your warranty and, if you don’t know what you are doing, could possible brick your machine. (Psst. It looks easy to do, but you didn’t hear that from me). The NookDevs also have a breakdown of the hardware.
Hat tip to Matthew Battles for this find.
Google Chrome Extensions
Here is a short list of extensions I currently use in Google Chrome Beta:
- Adsweep
- Facebook Ad Block
- Killtext
- Facebook notifications
- IE Tab
- Send from Gmail (mailto: links use gmail as default client)
- Wave Notifier
- Chromed Bird (twitter client)
- Xmarks (syncs bookmarks between computers)
How to buy on eBay
I am continually amazed at how many people incrementally bid up an item they want six days before an auction is over. It’s like watching someone walk around with a switch unknown to him flipped permanently to stupid. It’s easy, really. All it requires is patience, knowing what you want, what it is worth, what you are willing to pay for it, and then, again, and this is the important part — waiting.
Holiday Jewelry Commercials in Need of New Copy
Diamond Dick opens the little box; she shows the weakness he likes and reaches for him, leading with the puppies he bought for her last year–and the recession is over.
Captions?
Readability
Readability is one of those incredibly powerful bookmarklets you either know about or you don’t. It reformats content into larger text and removes all ads, sidebars, and other unnecessary distractions. To return a page to normal, all you need to do is refresh. For example, this:
| At the end of my freshman year of college, back in 1936, I flunked five out of five subjects. Flunking three out of five would have made me eligible to report for an invitation to attend some other college in the fall. But men in this three-out-of-five category sometimes had to wait outside the Dean’s office as long as two hours. Men in my group – some of whom had big dates in New York that same night – weren’t kept waiting a minute. It went one, two, three, the way most men in my group like things to go. |
Turns into this:
There, now y’all know.
how to expose film
If there’s a crazy man staring into the sun, shoot at f16.
If there’s smog and a crazy man is about to be attacked by a shark, shoot at f11.
If it’s smoggy and there are sky turds, shoot at f8.
If the sky turds are higher than the sun, shoot at f5.6.
If you see a garden slug with a turd on its head, shoot it at f4.
If you’re about to be run over by a docking ocean liner, @##$@!
Instructions on how to climb a staircase
An Absurdable.
(Via my classmates Carolina & Asli)
How to Ship Anything
This is a superbly informative article about streamlining and simplifying shipping, particularly international shipping, on a small business scale. I suspect I don’t get the quantity of shipping orders Joel does, but I wish I had half the technology that he has at my disposal. Here is the tutorial’s payoff:
Shipping an international order now takes about 35 seconds, down from 3 minutes, and can be done by anyone, whether or not they have SQL and Mail Merge skills. Domestic orders are even faster since they don’t need customs forms. Most of all, it’s all really fun.
No knowledge of SQL or Mail Merge required almost sounds like cheating.
How To Open Wine Without a Corkscrew
All it takes is a shoe and a wall. (thanks, Autumn)
get motivated
The Fort Worth event is October 26th.