After watching this, I want to try some new meals. Don’t you?
Monthly Archives: April 2012
A Look Behind-the-Scenes at GE
Here’s a look into GE’s new refrigerator factory.
STONEFRIDGE: A Fridgehenge
From the Stone Age to the Appliance Age
Why do humans create monuments? What is the driving force in us?
Why do we possess the need to create? Why do we wish to leave a mark upon the earth? What sparks the desire to build? Deep questions, I know.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any of those answers.
I’d like to tackle another question, if I could. Why are people fascinated with man-made objects? What’s the attraction that causes us to stare at monuments? Even silly ones hold us captive.
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Pulled Pork
Man, this recipe sounds great!
Custom Planters
Wow! I would have never thought of this. I’m going to have to try some different ideas myself.
Our Environmental Footprint
Earth Day is this Sunday. It is always a good day to step back and think about our environmental footprint.
You see, everything we do impacts the environment in some way. It’s like we’re leaving footprints everywhere we go.
How big those footprints are and how long they remain should be something we think about, right?
Of course it is.
No one is saying we get crazy, but we should be conscious of our footprint. That’s where the ENERGY STAR program comes in.
ENERGY STAR is a program which began 20 years ago and is a joint effort of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy.
The program sets standards and rates products we use every day to ensure they are efficient and environmentally friendly. The goal of the program is to make our footprints smaller and smaller.
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Chicken Marsala
This looks amazing and doesn’t seem to be impossible to do at home. Well, I’ve managed to make myself hungry again.
How to Build a Cardboard Spaceship
Have you ever become fascinated with an idea? Maybe you read something in a book or saw something on TV. And it got you thinking.
Were you so inspired you thought you could build that thing?
Building a Real Spaceship
Well, when I was a kid I saw a movie called Explorers. Not the best movie in the world, but I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. You see, the main characters are children who build a spaceship out of junk around their houses.
Being a young boy obsessed with Space, this was a revelation.
I became determined to build a spaceship out of junk, all by myself. (Who knows what I would have tried to build if I had seen Battlebots.)
I gathered my supplies: the control panel of an old washing machine, a few light switches, various wires, a toboggan, a few tools and other odds and ends. With these in hand, I began my epic task.
Needless to say, my project was never completed and I never reached orbit let alone Mars which was my intended destination. (In the movie, the kids were given detailed plans of how to build the spaceship by aliens. Lacking such guidance is surely what doomed me to failure.)
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A Green Kids Room
This is some kids room. I would have loved the loft when I was a kid.
New GE Data Center
Wow, some excellent innovations over at GE. Check out some of the their state-of-the art appliances.