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How to Scare Someone

LA SERPIENTE MAS GRANDE DEL MUNDO (via christiancruzazul)

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How To Decorate Dangerously...

stephenfalk:

A satisfying night of redecorating turned tragic for Hannah when, the next morning, she stabbed herself in the eye on an antler getting out of bed, cut off three fingers on her new vintage fan, and bled to death buried under a pile of precariously-stacked books.

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How To Keep Dancing

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How to Create Brand Dissonance. (Mystery MeatSoup?)

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How to Make the Genius Bar Hate You ()

Be a self-professed "PC person", but step up to the Genius bar and plop down a Macbook Air.

Describe your problem as "I can't get email."

After 15 minutes of troubleshooting, admit that you don't know your own email password.

While the tech waits patiently, call corporate to get your password and repeat loudly that "Password1" isn't working.

Go through a lengthy password reset process and successfully login to Outlook Web Access.

Ask where the Page Down button is.

When asked to find an email from December 20 that contains a program license key, sort all of your mail by sender, not date, and be annoyed when your technician does not know who the email came from.

Complain loudly that the experience is like a Saturday Night Live skit.

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How to Have a Lunch Break Experience (1)

Yelp a no-frills diner within walking distance of your office. Bonus if the place is very close, but you've never noticed it before, in all the years you've walked past it, twice a day.

Plan to go for a solo, late lunch on the initial visit--maybe 2:15 or even 3, if you can hold out that long.

Walk in and survey the seating options. A narrow booth built for one-across is very desirable, as is a counter seat that abuts a wall.

Find a seat, or be seated, and order a coffee as you accept a menu.

Ensure there's cream on the table, or sugar, if that's your thing.

Scan the menu, giving priority to dishes that are called out as Specials! or are enclosed in rectangular boxes to denote their especial quality.

Consider a BLT, if you eat meat.

Think about a grilled cheese if you do not.

If there's any sort of pea soup, order it.

It might be most comfortable to read something while you wait. This could be your phone or the Onion or a novel.

Accept more coffee refills than you usually would.

Really look around.

Take a guess at how often each diner eats there, and for what stretch of time they've been doing so.

Concentrate on the food like you'll need to be able to describe it in detail next evening. 

Sip more coffee.

Overtip.

Stay in your seat reading, thinking, etc., until the very last moment you need to return to work.

Walk back and browse Yelp again at your desk, but read all reviews within the context of your recent visit.

Go again, or not.

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How To Use Your Mac to Broadcast Wifi ()

If you have a live internet connection on your Mac laptop, you can create a wifi hotspot connection that others can use to connect to the internet as well.

Make sure your airport is on, even if you are accessing the internet using ethernet, a mobile air card, etc.

Open System Preferences and click on Sharing, under Internet & Wireless.

Find the Service called Internet Sharing and check the checkbox.

You should see the airport fan icon change to a solid gray fan with a small computer in it.

In most cases, that's it!

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How to View Dictionary/Thesaurus Context Menus ()

I just discovered this keyboard shortcut for displaying context menu Dictionary or Thesaurus results from within many programs on the Mac. More and more, I compose in Evernote or Gmail and this tip allows me to access Apple functionality within those interfaces.

This doesn't work in Microsoft apps, since they have their own Dictionary/Thesaurus function, accessible via Control/Right Click. It works on text within Gmail's Compose Message window, but not on other text published on the web , though many Firefox extensions exist to get you similar tooltips.

How to View Dictionary/Thesaurus Context Menus

Highlight any word and click Control-Command-D.

How to switch your main resource from the default Dictionary to Thesaurus

Open the Dictionary app (search dictionary in Spotlight)

Open preferences.

The default resource is the one at the top of the list, so drag Thesaurus to the top.

Tip: to make this icon: , use Shift-Option-K.

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How To Snack On Valentine's Day (Taken with instagram)

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How to Park Close to Terminal 3 Baggage Claim at O'Hare Airport

Hourly parking at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago is a great deal at $2 for the first hour and only $4 for up to three hours.

If you're looking to pick someone up at Terminal 3 and would like to meet them by baggage claim (as close as you can get these days), there's a very specific area of the parking garage that will allow you to skip the long corridors of people movers.

Enter Hourly Parking and use the left-most entrance.

Go up the ramp and drive straight ahead until you see aisle nine or ten.

Take a left and drive until you see Elevator 5. Anywhere around this elevator is rock star parking (if rock stars were to drive their salty sedans to ORD to pick up loved ones in the middle of a Chicago winter).

Take the elevator down to Terminal level and head towards the saxophone busker and through a short tunnel.

At this point, you're one short escalator ride away from baggage claim. Take it up and head left and you're there.

Enjoy a Starbucks snack if flights are delayed.

Terminal 3 services these airlines:

Alaska

American Airlines (domestic)

American Eagle

Delta

Delta Connection (Comair)

Spirit Airlines

image via TheDarkThing via Flickr

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How to Find Funny Things on the Internet, or What is a Meme?

Meme (rhymes with cream)

In its most basic form, an Internet meme is simply an idea that is propagated through the World Wide Web. This idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, website, hashtag, or even just a word or phrase. This meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, news sources, and other web-based services.

An Internet meme may stay the same or may evolve over time, by chance or through commentary, imitations, parody, or even by collecting news accounts about itself. Internet memes can evolve and spread extremely rapidly, sometimes reaching world-wide popularity and vanishing all in a few days. They are spread organically, voluntarily, and peer-to-peer, rather than by predetermined or automated means.

via Wikipedia

Being the first one to share a burgeoning Internet meme is a source of pride. In order to stay on top of the funny, odd, unusual, or just superweird stuff, here are five sites to get you started:

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/

http://cheezburger.com/sites

http://www.metafilter.com/

http://cuteoverload.com/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/

If you need to catch up, start here:

http://knowyourmeme.com/

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How To Make A Friend (1)

The first step is to attend a large concert. The concert can be any kind of music or performance, but know that choral ensemble concerts will produce a different sort of friend than will a blues concert or the Lilith Fair. That's not to say that one couldn't make a new friend at each of those types of concerts, but results may vary. Once you're at the show, sit or stand near a side aisle so you can slip away when the time is right. You will recognize the moment when the musicians take a break to thank the crowd, the city and, most of all, their fans for coming out tonight. Those around you will start to grow restless and a low murmur will spread through the stadium/hall/meadow, etc. It's your time. To show respect for those still watching, leave the space in a sort of hunch, as if to say, "I really wouldn't be moving now, except that I am." No verbal explanation is necessary. Your new friend will also have ducked out of the concert and will be hanging out by the entrance, checking her phone. Once you see her, walk confidently in her direction, but don't quite stride right up to her. Instead, choose a spot near her to lean against the wall/gate/fence and check your own phone. Begin an inane conversation and discover your shared interest in tap theater. Suggest that she check out an upcoming tap performance based on the work of David Bowie. Become Facebook friends. Comment on her status update about being out of coffee on a Saturday morning. Like her status update about ordering Tom's Shoes for the first time. Invite her to get a drink after work sometime next month, after your travel schedule calms down. Get a drink and, later, end up walking to a diner that's probably a bit too far of a walk. Talk the whole way and ask if Tom's Shoes are okay for walking such a distance. Drink diner coffee late into the night. She will order eggs and pancakes, but will get grits and pancakes by accident. She won't mention it to the waitress. She puts jelly on her grits. Image courtesy jugglerpm via Flickr

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How to Order Glasses Online

Go to an eye doctor and get your prescription. Prescriptions are good for one year after they are issued and most, if not all, reputable online retailers stick to this policy.

Important! Make sure to ask them to measure your pupillary distance.

Ask your eye doctor for a copy of your prescription.

Choose an online glasses retailer.

Personal endorsement: There are many, many, many retailers, but for style and customer service, I think the best online glasses retailer is Warby Parker.  I love their policy of allowing you to order and try on five pairs of frames. I did this, and it was delightful to get a lovely package of frames to wear over the course of a week. Soon after, I ordered my final pair and love them. They also give a pair of glasses away for each pair ordered, through RestoringVision.org. Yay!

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How to send emails to several people at once from your iPhone

note: this might work on other phones (or your phone might have this as a native function if Apple didn't design it).

In the body of an email (on your phone or otherwise), type or paste the addresses you'd like to send to as a group with commas separating each address: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Send this email so you can access it on the phone. If you're on the phone, copy the text. (To copy: Hold your finger over the text until a Select magnifying glass appears. Select, then Copy.)

Create a new contact with a clever name. This is the name you will type whenever you're sending to this group. I chose Pixel because I don't have any other phone contacts that begin with Pix... and I most often send photos to groups of people. If you are in contact with pixies, etc., you may choose another name.

In the email address field, paste your copied list.

Save contact.

Now you can send group emails from your iPhone.

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How to Make Ladybug Toast

Toast an English muffin, bread, etc.

Spread cream cheese on it

Cut grape tomatoes in half and place them on the toast so it appears that each tomato is a ladybug parading around.

ps- I tried sprinkling black sesame seeds on top to add some black, bug-like characteristics, but that was not a good idea as it looked more like ladybug excrement than ladybug spots. I'm sure you could devise something black that would add an agreeable flavor, but then you get into worrying about the placement of the black spots, and how to get them to stick to the tomatoes and at that point, the snack becomes fussy and I'm rarely in the mood for fussy snack-making.