When I was a kid, my dad always said, “Close your window. We aren’t heating the outdoors,” and “Don’t use the air conditioner in the car. Just roll down your window.” But the line that put me over the top was, “Don’t use the fan when you’re in the shower. You’re letting all the heat out.”
The nieces wanted to make paper snowflake holiday ornaments, so I broke out my slightly rusty hand crafting skills and we got busy. When I shared a photo of one of our finished ornaments n Twitter, er Instagram, I was surprised at how many people wanted to know how to make their own. No problem, gang; I’m happy to share.
OK, so Curiosity is on Mars and sending back high resolution images to Earth and holy crap is that frakking amazing, or what? Of course, I can’t leave well enough alone, so I just had to add my own special touch to Curiosity’s panorama shot of Mount Sharp.
I have a hypersensitive sense of smell, which means I can smell a lot more than the average person, and most aromas are like “smell concentrate” for me. That’s a really big problem, especially when I’m in public and people are wearing perfume. In fact, the perfume thing is so bad that I sometimes have to leave stores and restaurants because of the smell — and I bet I’m not alone.
After running today my iPhone was so hot it practically felt like it was on fire. So I thought, “What if my iPhone really was on fire? What would I do?” And I realized I’d do exactly this:
