I teach English in China to seven year old students. We have been learning phonics and if effort to help my students pay attention to phonetic words, I decided to create some random BINGO cards. It is quite simple to do.
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Rabu, 29 Mei 2013
Games for Education - Making BINGO cards using a spreadsheet
I teach English in China to seven year old students. We have been learning phonics and if effort to help my students pay attention to phonetic words, I decided to create some random BINGO cards. It is quite simple to do.
Sabtu, 16 Februari 2013
How to fix the popup flash on your camera (Canon DSLR)
Here is the problem:
You are trying to take a photo with your Canon DSLR camera. The lighting is a bit dark, so the flash should pop up, but instead of the flash popping up, you just hear a clicking sound until your camera gives your an error (Err 05 The built-in flash could not be raised. Turn the camera off and on again).
Solution:
Your flash is stuck and needs to be cleaned. Use WD-40 (Warning: don't do something stupid. This blog is not to be held accountable for other people's negligence, haste, stupidity, or lack of research).
Minggu, 20 Mei 2012
Cooking Banana Bread in a Rice Cooker
One thing I have noticed in China is that I have had to be a bit more creative here when it comes to cooking. I can't use a full size oven, so I have to make due with a toaster oven. I have been on a banana bread craze and while looking for better ways to cook it I came up with a pretty neat method: cooking it in a rice cooker.
You can find my recipe for banana bread here.
Banana Frosting for your Banana Bread
If you are looking for a way to spice up your banana bread, you should try making some banana frosting!
Blender Banana Bread Recipe - The Quickest and Easiest Way to Make Banana Bread
I am always looking for the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to do things. I think I have it perfected as far as banana bread goes. Below the recipe ingredients I will have more detailed instructions with a bit of information
Selasa, 26 Juli 2011
Make your own low (or zero) calorie soda pop
I have always been a huge fan of making home made root beer. It is super fun and easy, but more importantly, it is super delicious.
The concept for making root beer is this: Buy root beer concentrate and mix it with sugar and water then add dry ice to give it the carbonation. Easy.
So one day while I was making root beer, I decided to try an experiment. I started putting dry ice in other drinks and found that it was amazing!
Want to make zero calorie soda? Find some zero calorie Crystal Light and add dry ice to it. Want to make an amazing fruit drink? Add dry ice to it. Want to make your favorite Kool-Aid flavor into soda? Add dry ice to it.
I think you get the point. Making soda out of different flavors of drink is fun and delicious!
Selasa, 31 Mei 2011
Making the ultimate exercise equipment on the cheap!
Exercise equipment is great, but can have a lot of drawbacks. To name a few, exercise equipment is a bother to move around, takes up space in the home, and is expensive. I prefer to use dumbbells for weight lifting but at about $1/lb it can get expensive to upgrade my weights. Not only that, but I find that since I move around a lot, lugging the dumbbells around is not very practical.
I have decided to solve this problem by making the ultimate exercise equipment!
Senin, 09 Mei 2011
Some tips for hand made cards
Growing up, I remember my older brother was always really good at making cards. I don't remember if he actually taught me how to make cards, or if I just picked it up from watching him make them, but I have also come to enjoy the art of card making. It is something that can be somewhat time consuming, but I think it means a lot more to someone that you spent the time to make something yourself than you going out and buying something.
I don't claim that my cards are anything super fantastic; it is just something I enjoy. Here are some tips for different things I do that might help you out when you decide how to make your own personalized cards.
Rabu, 09 Maret 2011
How to make a simple and free plant waterer
Yesterday I was filling up my plant waterer and realized that I have been using it for over 15 years. I made it when I was a kid and it has worked great! It is simple and free so I thought I would show how you can make it.
Senin, 07 Februari 2011
Bacon Candle; Fact of Fiction? How to Make a bacon candle.
Recently on Lifehacker.com I read this article on making an oil lamp using bacon grease. I did a bit more Googleing found a site where someone posted pictures of their bacon candle. I wondered how well this would work, so I set out to do it myself.
Rabu, 02 Februari 2011
How to make a DIY Phone Charger Stand using Tennis Balls
This is a pretty simple project for making a phone charger stand out of tennis balls. It can be used for just about any type of phone with any type of charger.
Rabu, 19 Januari 2011
Tip of The Day - Removing labels or glue with WD-40
For this tip of the day I am going to talk about two of my favorite things in the universe. WD-40 and hydrogen peroxide. They both have about a million uses and they are pretty cheap. I will be showing why WD-40 is amazing for removing glue or labels.
Selasa, 11 Januari 2011
How to clean your vehicle's headlights - Use toothpaste
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There are many products you can buy to do this. I am cheap and lazy so I decided to do it another way.
This is actually super easy and relatively quick to do. Searching on Google, I found people using toothpaste doing the same thing here and here and here and here and here and here. So I figured it would be worth a shot.
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Jumat, 10 Desember 2010
How to make a flash diffuser and reflector from your existing built in flash
How to make Wassail - The cheap and easy way (the geeky way)
Yay for Christmas! Yay for wassail. This is the quick and easy way to make it. Since this is a blog for geeks, this is NOT a recipe; just a general easy way to do it. Recipes are lame.
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Senin, 08 November 2010
Fix the flash on the Nikon D70 DSLR
This morning I fixed my girlfriends pop-up flash on her Nikon D70 camera. I decided to document the ordeal hopefully to help others with this problem (seems to be a poor design on Nikon's part). First of all; shout-out to Steve and Tony for posting on how to fix this problem. The primary reason for this blog post is to give more in-depth info on what is going on and provide an alternate solution to fix the problem.
The Problem(s):
The flash does not pop up or go off when the shutter button is pressed.
The Solution:
First, you should go to Steve's blog post to see how to take the camera apart. His post is great and very well may fix your problem.
The parts we will be looking at to fix the flash are the plastic rod, the metal hook for the contact switch and the contact switch.
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The Problem(s):
The flash does not pop up or go off when the shutter button is pressed.
The Solution:
First, you should go to Steve's blog post to see how to take the camera apart. His post is great and very well may fix your problem.
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