So while I was on my usual procrastinated rampage today I came across an article that demonstrates five things you can do with ketchup, and none of them involved food.
Some of the practical uses they suggest are to shine your copper or clean your auto parts thanks to the acid in the ketchup. Anyone else see a problem with this? ACID? Yum. So, next time you get those Super Sized fries drenched in ketchup, clean your car and pennies with the extra!
Here’s a use for all your blondes out there. Apparently ketchup can restore your chlorine damaged hair. Parents: next time your having a bbq and all your kids are in the pool, put some ketchup on the burgers, and then in your kids hair. What? This is all very odd.
There are some more uses; you can check them out in the link to the article. I guess people find out these odd home remedies in a recession. As much as I am weirded out but a lot of this ( I love me some ketchup and if it can clean copper what is it doing to my poor stomach? ) I going to admit, it’s more than likely I’ll try a few of these out.
2 years ago
Courtnet Cyr and myself waiting backstage at the Rachael Ray show in NYC after getting our hair and make up done.
Alright, so here’s my big experience for the day. A couple of friends and I got free tickets to see the Rachael Ray show today. After waiting online for two hours we were asked to be volenteers on the show, and of course we accpected. Never let an oppertunity to be on TV slip through your hands.
Any way, I’ll leave you wondering what acutally happened to us, but here’s your teaser. We ended up in hair & make up, and we were mic’d up. Did I reel you in? Guess you’ll have to tune in on July 3, 2009 to find out!
2 years ago
This swine flu epidemic is really starting to be a cause for concern.
It seems as though everyother year or so we have a huge flu outbreak that causes the US to response in drastic measures to prevent every one from getting sick.
If you ask me, I would say we’re doing the right thing. It’s better to be over cautious than underprepared.
Apparently the World Health Organization raised the alert system for this outbreak to a phase four. This is the highest the alert has been for a while. In 2004, the bird flu outbreak rose the alert to a phase three.
I think the most important thing for all of us to do is be smart about it. Wash your hands more than normal,don’t share drinks or food and stay clear of things that you would have to have direct contact with people. It’s common sense.
So be smart and safe. Don’t forget to wash those hands!
2 years ago
Okay so for an assignment this weekend we had to do some research on Google vs. Newspapers and It got me thinking about the future of newspapers. So here is a few of my thoughts on the topic.
The recent recession has been showing its effects in all of the industries across America, so it’s no surprise that it’s starting to hit the newspaper world. Recently many newspapers all over the country have had to fold or lay off tons on their writers. In times like these people always want to point the finger at someone and some newspapers are beginning to point their fingers at Google. These papers are saying that Google has destroyed their revenue, and it’s their fault and spam filled and fact-lacking searches that are the reason these papers are folding. I have to beg to differ. I believe that Google and newspapers are two completely separate things, and one should not be blaming the other for its fall in revenue.
One big problem is that newspapers are saying that Google has taken away a lot of their ads that fill the middle pages and no one reads, therefore their revenue is falling and they are laying people off left and right. Before I begin even debating this I want to take a minute to touch on one topic. The world is moving into a mobile phase, they want everything with them at all times; their phones, internet, books, and music. So it’s only a matter of time before the newspaper in actual print is done away with. People even have the Kindle now, so they don’t have to carry around actual books. What I’m trying to say is that I predict in a decade or so the printed newspaper will be done with anyway, and these papers will get most of their revenue from their website.
This leads me to my next point. Google is not a newspaper. It does not update its own stories; it is simply a database of stories. If you want a story on pickles, you can Google pickles, it’s that simple. Which is actually the case is that Google is helping these newspaper websites. If someone hears about a story and Google’s it, it can lead to a story on The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal websites. It acts as a buffer, this way people done have to go to these website themselves to search around and find a story they want to know about, but at the end of the day they will end up at some newspapers websites and read the story they want to hear about.
So in the end, the newspapers have no one they can really point the finger to. The only case they might have is pointing a finger at the changing times and what people really want. The fight between Google and the newspapers is kind of like Radio vs. TV. TV came out and was better and people began to have an easier access to it. So now today most families won’t sit around a radio to listen to a TV show. So my message to the newspapers of the world is, Times are changing. Get used to it.
2 years ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSLF721427
Pirates? Really?
I know this is almost old news by now and has been over exposed but I had to make my comment on it while I still have a chance.
These pirates are thrifty and it seems like everything is planned out very strategically. They are definitely not a Captain Jack Sparrow, if you will. I just don’t understand how this whole process is working exactly and how this came about, but its madness!
I’m glad the US is stepping in here, although I’m slightly reluctant. Who really wants to go into a war with pirates? But I also must add, I highly doubt they have a change again the Navy, but still no one wants to deal with them. I say it’s time for them to go back home and get a real honest job.
Shiver me timbers mate.
2 years ago
