Archive through September 26, 2003
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Archive through September 26, 2003
Jed245 | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 05:28 pm     Tell us how to do something. Techie, cooking, automotive, whatever. :o) |
Whoami | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 05:31 pm     Someone can tell me how to change a headlight in a 1986 Chevy Celebrity station wagon!  |
Jed245 | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 05:37 pm     Well whoami I'd love to tell ya how, but, my knowledge of cars is. Turn the key and it goes VRRRRM VRRRRROOOOMMM... then I go WEEEEEE :o) I like cars. :o) |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 07:48 pm     Well, Whoami, I have never done it, but wouldn't there be little screws on the front of the headlight glass? And then you would either just unscrew or pull out the old bulb? I'll go ask Bigdog. He knows all that stuff. <bounds down into the cave> Okay, Bigdog says first of all go to someplace like Shucks or Western Auto or whatever is your standard car parts store and tell them what kind of car you have and ask them whether it is sealed beam or bulb. Bigdog says almost no cars are sealed beam for many years past. He says if it is a bulb, they will then sell you one that will fit, and if you are lucky, when you ask them how to put it in, they might go out and do it for you. Otherwise, you go in under the hood from the back side and look for some wires going to the headlight area and you should see a plastic screw out fixture. Unscrew that and pull it out a bit to where you can remove the old bulb. Bigdog says be careful not to get any grease on the new bulb as you are putting it in. And then of course you screw the fixture back in. Edit: Of course, Weinermr will be along in a minute or two and tell you how to really do it. |
Yankee_In_Ca | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 10:47 pm     With apologies to any vegetarians/vegans out there, I'll tell you how to open and eat a Maryland blue crab. (I don't know why I decided on this topic, but this is one thing I know how to do that most of my friends don't know how to do. So I'll share the wisdom! This might be a little difficult without visual aids, but hey, I'll give it a try. And a caveat -- this is the YANKEE_IN_CA way of doing it. If you have your own way, excellent! But trust me, my method works!) Hopefully, your crab has been steamed with rock salt and Old Bay seasoning. Yes? Good! Make sure you've got a cover on the table (preferably paper or newspaper that you can just roll up and throw away at the end of your feast) and lots of napkins next to you, on standby. Pick a good crab out of the pile by testing the weight -- usually, the heavier the better. (Although sometimes the weight is from water -- but not usually. Yankee says ... always go for the heavier crab). Me? I like to pull off the legs and claws first. Others do it last. I do it first. You decide. It's your crab! Take your crab right-side-up and turn it over. See that funny thing running up the middle? It's called an apron. Take a knife (be careful -- a dull butter knife will do!) and slide it under the funny thing, and pull it down towards you. Then, slide your knife into the little opening that you've just made under the funny apron thing and at the bottom of the big crab shell. Work your knife in there, and then use the knife to pry the big shell off of the crab. You'll quickly notice that there are guts and intestines and two ugly tentacle things, and some other stuff. Get rid of it -- don't eat it! (My dad eats some of it and its D-I-G usting!) Take your knife and scoop it out of there! Throw it away! So now you should have the crab, with two halves connected by a thin shell membrane in the middle. Use your knife to hack the two sides apart, and to cut off/get rid of any and all of that thin shell in the middle -- including the two thin shell flaps at the top. Now you should have two good, roundish sides of crab -- all filled with meat! Use your fingers or knife (at this point I switch to the fingers) to smash and pull and pick the meat out. Yummy! Where I come from, you dip the meat in a concoction of white vinegar, onion, black pepper and maybe a little Old Bay. (Others use butter, but in my hood, that's just plain silly!) Did I say yummy?! Love, YANKEE P.S. -- Don't forget when you're done to crack open the claws! P.S.S. -- As I was typing this, I realized that the reason I might have thought to type this is because 1) I'm a certified weirdo and 2) now that I live in Canada, I don't get Maryland blue crabs very often and I MISS THEM! |
Squaredsc | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 04:58 am     psssttt yankee, being a marylander i learned to eat a crab before i could walk, lol, and i eat all of the insides except the gill-like stuff, yummy.  |
Jed245 | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 06:13 am     Ok here's my how to for the day. Er wait I'll do two of em. how to. Use your PC as a backup alarm clock. Double-click control panel.(if ya don't know where that is it's either on desktop, or unused desktop shortcuts for some of us xp users, or click start/control panel :o) Double-click the Task Scheduler (sometimes known as Scheduled Task) folder. It should look like a little folder with a clock being placed in it...er ok that sounds confusing you'll know it when ya see it. Double-click "Add Scheduled Task" to launch a wizard. Select how often you want an event to occur.7am every mon-friday for example. :o) When you're asked to select a program, browse to a MP3 or other media file of your choice(something noisy). Then blast your pc speakers. Then when you sleep with the pc on.... it'll start blasting "for whom the bell tolls" at 7am and wake ya up :o) The same thing can be used to schedule scan disk, defrag, virus scan, or anything else ya want the pc to do. Except instead of selecting an MP3 you select start/programs/accessories/system tools/disk defrag. For example :o) Or you can have it set to play an MP3/video or whatever on a certian date to remind you of a birthday or annaversary or whatever ya want. (having your pc play happy birthday on your g/f-w-h-b/f-children's birthday is kinda cool. :o) Ok part two...For larger fonts in windows XP all ya gotta do is right click on desktop. Then when the lil window pops up select properties. Then when the new window pops up look for the appearance tab and click it. Ya should see something that says font size select extra large font. Click ok/apply (either one works) and you BOOM bigger fonts. :o) Hope this helps someone out. :o) Jed. :o) |
Yankee_In_Ca | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 09:48 am     Squaredsc-- I knew there would be some on here who already knew how to do it, but most of my friends have NO idea, so I thought I'd spread the love -- and I think I was having a serious crab withdrawal attack last night! And ewww -- you eat the inside stuff!! You and my dad should meet each other! |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 10:45 am     Little known fact: Texas ships a lot of blue crabs to Maryland so Marylanders can enjoy more "authentic" Maryland blue crab. |
Squaredsc | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 10:53 am     oh yeah yankee, the yellow stuff is the best. i love heavy female crabs. of course alot of times even us in maryland don't get 'maryland crabs', lol. we get louisianna ones alot, at least thats what i was told. rofl juju. oh and yankee, i totally agree bout the old bay, that's a must have. if you are in my neck of the woods we will have to get a bushel or two. |
Yankee_In_Ca | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 11:57 am     My family is a crabbing family in MD, so every time I go home I go to Southern MD for crabs! And they're usually crabbed by my family, so I'm sure they're MD crabs. And, my dad is so weird that he even eats the inside shells. He has no patience to pick. But I think that's gross. (Also I can't believe I forgot to mention the gills above. Oh, well. Too much dreaming about the meat, probably.) So I do get them a few times a year -- but not here in Canada, sadly. Although my grocery store here started selling Old Bay a few months ago! To get the "home" feeling, I put it on everything -- including roasted potatoes. My Vancouver friends always compliment me, saying, "What's that flavor on the potatoes?" |
Squaredsc | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 12:03 pm     yankee ive used old bay on my french fries sometimes. but thats kool that your family does crabbing. in bmore we can just get live crabs from many street corners or just go to a crab place. i personally have never cooked live crabs before, i prefer to buy them already cooked. oopsies i just realized ive done it again. sorry jed, my bad. |
Yankee_In_Ca | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 01:33 pm     JED -- that's a cool tip. I travel all the time, and never realized I could use my laptop as an alarm clock! THANKS! Yankee |
Ducky | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 03:56 pm     Jed this is so neat. We over slept this morning because I have a habit of hitting the snooze alarm in my sleep. Now when this plays in the morning you will have to get up to turn it off. Thanks again |
Lostintheglades | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 04:16 pm     There sure are a lot of crabby people in here. hehe I'd tell ya how to cook and eat Gator tail but it's really not good unless it's fresh and the bigger the gator the tougher the meat. This means you gotta get the ones that are about 6 feet long which will leave you with about 3 feet of tail. Of course it's illegal to hunt alligators so...er...well...never mind. |
Denecee | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 04:21 pm     I'm leaving in a few, so thanks in advance to anybody who can tell me how to...make a link to an article of interest that I might want to share in a post. |
Jed245 | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 05:11 pm     How To.. Make a link to an article of intrest. Ok to make a link to a website or other article. Even a link to email (on this board) you type \ link { the url or link in question , then a text description. then } Take out the spacing and replace the url/link in question with http://www.yahoo.com for example and it should look like this. a text description *This link won't work because the link I described opens a link on this forum* had I posted a link to an archive or a link to another thread it would have worked. if you want the link to open in another window just type newurl instead of link after the \ mark. :o) yahoo? This one will open a new browser and take you to yahoo.com :o) For email you do the same kinda \ mail { email address , text description The comma is spaced because you need to put the comma in there. I think this will work :o) <Links fixed> Edit to add: You must include http:// in front of the link or it will attempt to add http://tvclubhouse.bomis.com/ to the front of your link. (22) |
Jed245 | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 05:46 pm     OK just because I recently learned how to do this myself. How To... Git rid of that annoying lil box that pops up and asks.. "are you sure you want to delete this file." Everytime you try to delete something. right click on recycle bin, then in the little window that pops up select properties. Left click the tab that syas global. Now uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog box." and boom when ya delete something no little box asking if ya really wanna do that. :o) Jed |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 06:21 pm     But, Jed? What if you don't reallllllly want to delete something? |
Weinermr | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 06:24 pm     If really doesn't want to delete something, he switches to.... " " and it magically reappears. That's one way I think. Maybe. Sort of. Could be. Etc. Now about that headlight.... |
Jed245 | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 06:51 pm     heheh Well Juju. :o) I never thought about that... ok ya can keep your button!! :o) Or Ya can always go into your recycle bin and restore it. Which, brings me to another how to. How to. Restore a file from recycle bin. Simple double click recycle bin, then right click on the file you wish to restore and select restore file from the pop up window. :o) Now if your needing to recover files after a format you need to purchase something for that....I can't remember the name of the file, but, it costs about 70 bucks. And it can find any file that was ever on your computer and restore it. :o) Just so this doesn't get to be a totally techie thread. How to. Set up a neurological trigger in a friend or enemy. :o) Things you need... 1. An unsuspecting test subject that you have atleast daily contact with for five days a week . 2. An intrest in Neurological programming. 3. A goal. Start off by catching the person in a stressed mood or angry/nervous, happy, sad, calm which ever you prefer. Catch the person in a calm happy mood. Now do something inconspicious, but, original. For example reach over and touch them on the under part of the wrist. Somewhere not really notable, but, not everyone is gonna walk up and do. Talk to this person about good memories or something that you know makes them happy or excited. and touch that spot in the same way everytime (the wrist). How is this handy ya might wonder? Several ways first off lets say you know someone that is easily depressed. In time thier mind will associate the touch on the wrist with the way they feel when they get that touch. So when they are in a bad mood (not every time they are in a bad mood) do the little inconspicious wrist touch. The idea is that they will relate it to how they always feel when you touch them there. And the result is they are happy. Works great when ya wanna borrow your dad's car. :o) Ok that's the basics of Neurological programming and will likely not work as easy as it seems to by reading my post. Er not that I've done anything like that. :o) Jed :o) |
Weinermr | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 07:05 pm     I like my way better. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 09:16 pm     Weinermr, wait!!! Come back! You're supposed to tell Whoami about the car headlight. |
Jed245 | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 09:10 am     How To.... stop a squeeky door. Try closing the door really fast. Well that is if the squeek is when you open it. If the door squeeks when you close it. Try opening it really fast. Do this several times and the squeek will stop. (for light doors only) |
Denecee | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 10:05 am     Thanks Jed! for all your how to's especially the link one, now I hope I can remember it! |
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