Oh man the canned soup reminded me

Say you got a can of refried beans or chili or something. You remove the lid and it's just a solid slug in there and you're shaking and shaking the can trying to get it to slowly schlurp out but it won't cuz of the vacuum. You end up taking a spoon or whatever and scooping it out.. man what a pain.

Instead:
1) Remove Lid
2) Turn can over and use a butcher knife or something to stab a little hole in the bottom.
3) If it doesn't slide right out into the bowl/pan you can blow into the knife hole and it will launch out.

There are a number of tricks to know.

1 - set up your app rss to dload your fav shows automatically

2 - don't just go to the most popular site. There are members only sites that download at 1 mb/sec rather than 100 kb/s from known places.

Add the above two together and voila you've got your fav show, commercial free, on your tv less than 30 mins after it aired. Better than dvr imo.

Can't really go into detail more though obv.

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Forget chugging water if drunk. Go with gatorade. Seriously its amazing, chug one of the huge bottles and go to bed.

The down side is who wants to chug something when hammered? And yea if you throw up blue gatorade that's no fun. But it fights off dehydration and therefore hangover headache way better than water (and I find it easier to put back when hammered for some reason).

Yeah, I always pour from 6 ft. up. Wtf? No one else has had that problem?

Do you have the same problem pouring liquids into any other container or is it just the soup that stumps you?

Your douche requirements are pretty low and misguided.

Slowing down is actually polite. Do you prefer that we just steamroll into people?

Don't all breads have a stamp on the bag? That's what I go by anyway.

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/breadtag.asp

Good enough for snopes, with the disclaimer that it's probably entirely uneccessary to worry about what color tie is on your bag of bread.

I don't know what kinds of soups you're eating, but the ones I like aren't all liquids. DUCY this could get messy, no matter how careful one is?

For velveeta lovers.... this trick only took me a few decades:

The box top is notoriously inconvenient. If you cut it the way they recommend, it's still a pain to put back on, and the flap rarely stays down, making it awkward, and difficult to handle as a whole.

For maximum effeciency and maximum ease of handling, DO NOT CUT THE TOP. When new, slide a knife into each of the ends between top and bottom box sections. Remove the top. Then -- firmly bang one end of the cheese into the countertop -- effectively scrunching the cheese and the cardboard bottom.

The scrunching creates just enough room for the top to slide easily back on.

For maximum ease of acquiring geometrically perfect even slices, I make sure the foil remains peeled off to reveal apprx. 1 inch of cheese, then cover with plastic wrap.

This way, the Velveeta will never dry out. All Velveeta related problems solved.

( I'll try to think up more stuff... I know I have some. )

For know, just know -- for fixing anything wood-ish, or hanging pictures or whatnot -- 1.25 inch drywall screws are the shizzle. They're nice and sharp and strong, and best of all, they're easy to acquire. So you never, in the course of owning your home, have to worry about some stupid flat head screw, or silver piece of junk screw that gets stripped, etc...

I think most ppl know this but taking out your spare tire from your car will save you a lot more $ (from gas savings) than calling aaa everytime in the long run, esp if u live in a weather-friendly city

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Why not take it out of the box and put it in a 1 gallon zip lock bag?

Or you could, you know, get an HTPC for a few hundred, not risk ruining your ps3, and be able to do much more/have a fully functional PC.

Wait, Bourbon Street Steak is people?

Did you read the article? I don't see how it is possible to ruin the PS3. Drive removal is about as difficult as removing a hard drive from a laptop, you cannot destroy the PS3 OS because it is in the interanl flash memory, and the PS3 itself has the support for the additional OS built right into the system. They actually made it really easy to do this. Which is extremely surprising given Sony's track record.

Sorry, I'd assumed it was a more invasive procedure as w/ the X360 since that's what I own. Regardless for people w/o a PS3 an HTPC will accomplish the same and more.

I use TVersity to stream from PC to ps3. Not sure if this is the best app but it works well. Usually can wirelessly stream 1080p content w/o lag or anything. Works better than using DVI out on laptop because ps3 has more processing power and a better soundcard (optical out + dolby digital etc.)

Pretty sure you can get a 99c big mac now due to this + 99c double cheeseburger. I don't know how much you save but I think the only difference is the extra bun in the middle.

This is a technology that emergency personal use in non-metropolitan areas as a means of changing traffic signals for approaching emergency vehicles. I think the most mainstream version is called OptiCom. If you look at traffic signals you'll see small devices that look like this off somewhere on the beam. They are generally angled slightly downward.


The earliest versions of these only required several pulses of light at the correct frequency to trigger the device. Emergency vehicles would basically have properly tuned strobe lights (that were likely sold at a large premium) that would trigger the device. At this time they were easily exploitable. Phreaking manuals would reference a device called a Chrome Box which was a strobe light that triggered the opticoms in your city.

The manufacturers continued getting smarter and started requiring timed sequences of pulses, almost like morse code. Chrome Box plans were updated to instruct users to film approaching emergency vehicles with a camera and advance frame-by-frame to get the correct sequence of lights. It was also common knowledge at this point that cops knew about chrome boxes and would bust people using them. Hackers knew that most new sensors were designed for the IR level so they changed their designs. I think the cheapest way to modify existing boxes was with an IR gel.


I don't think much has changed wrt this technology since I looked at it 10+ years ago. At that time, I had a traffic light I could consistently get to change close to my house with my high beams. It was at the top of a decently steep incline so my headlights pointed almost perfectly at the traffic signal as I approached. I had greater than 50% success rate with changing this light as I approached the signal. I only cared if it changed when traffic was moving through the intersection on the cross street and if I was still far enough away that I hadn't hit the induction sensors.

This is the intersection in question in case anyone actually cares about this
google streets

I drove through this intersection at least once daily and tried it every single time for 1-2 years. if I was unable to trigger it on my drive up, my lights were no longer at an angle that would hit the sensor. In this case I'd slowly roll backwards over the induction sensor until it triggered it from having multiple cars.

i saw this on good eats and it works

that show is like this thread for cooking x100

lol same. Open can on top, turn over over pot. open can on bottom until everything falls out

yeah i get it what kind of weirdo doesn't just use the can opening contraption to make another hole - but with things like refried beans i just find it easier to flip over, grab the butcher knife next to the stove and stab it once right in the center (plus it's a fun game of not stabbing yourself), then you can get a seal over it with your lips and blow those refrieds out, to be reblown refrieds later that night.

I think big macs have lettuce, onions, pickles, and sesame on the bun.

Tell them to make it like a mac. They charge like $.40 in Canada for it. Just missing sesame and the middle.

case closed

Hate buying cards for your significant other? Birthdays, anniversary, Valentine's day, holiday season, etc.

Personally, I can't stand agonizing over which piece of cardboard filled with overly sentimentalized drivel written by someone else is most appropriate for me to give my special someone. There are too many occasions, I'm a procrastinator (by the time I get to the store all the good cards are gone), most of them are WAY over the top in their proclamations of undying love, and worst of all girls actually care about this ****.

Here is the solution: The next time you are in this spot, buy the most random card you can find, one that has ABSOLUTELY nothing whatsoever to do with the occasion you are celebrating. There are so many good ones out there. Get your girl a "get well soon" card this Christmas, get her a Happy Birthday Grandfather card. Hallmark has an entire line of "ethnic" cards (eg. Mahogany for African Americans) and all sorts of cards in different languages. Extremely religious cards as well as cards with funny pictures of animals also work beautifully.

When you give this to your girl she will probably love it straight away, but if she's even slightly taken aback by it at first just tell her that you thought it would make her laugh, or "it was so random I just had to get it". Just make sure to write, "I Love You" somewhere on the inside and sign it.

Once this goes over once, and it WILL go over with 95% of normal girls, you are set for the duration of the relationship. Do this everytime, this is now your quirk. Eventually she will be expecting, dare I say even waiting with bated breath, to see what wacky card you bring her next. Getting some sappy generic card is now an insult!