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Magic Goo Gone GG89ST
April 10, 2007 | | TrackBacks

A life-saver! Somehow some bubble-gum got into our dryer machine. I expect it was in one my trouser pockets but I'm blaming it on my daughter (haha).. unfortunately the inside drum of the dryer was completely smeared with a green plasticy substance (gum after been through a full drying cycle) and was not coming off easily using regular round the house cleaning products. I googled for a solution and saw a posting suggesting a product called 'Goo Gone' and the name instantly made sense to me. I rushed out to Harris Teeter (local grocery store) and luckily found that they carried Magic Goo Gone GG89ST.
It smells of orange, and I found it funny because now-a-days everything has an orange scent as opposed to the traditional citrus/lemon kind. I guess orange is the new scent of choice. Anyways, applying it to the drum and within 5 minutes of wiping it off the 'goo' sure enough did come off. It's also been amazing to get adhesive label stickers off of products and Ive heard it has a million other uses. Buy this and keep it around, a product like this is something you never anticipate using but constantly end up relying on.

Tivo Remote Wireless G USB Network Adapter
February 27, 2007 | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks

Apparently Tivo provides for a way to connent to the mothership to download the TV guide for the owners respective cable access provider.. I didnt have a phone jack anywhere near the Tivo box, so I ended up stringing a phone line (luckily Tivo provides a long one) across the living room and all the way into the kitchen to get Tivo phone access... the wife wasn't too happy about that configuration. I guess it does go against some aesthetic law to have a phone cord strung up in the middle of the house like a washing line. (I apologize if any of the readers still utilize that method). It did take a little bit of fiddling with, most errors were on my part (I forgot my WEP password) and BAM! My Tivo is now net-enabled! I can now even download Tivo'ed shows off of the Tivo box and onto my laptop (have to download a free Tivo desktop client) and better yet, I can share the shows with perhaps futue Tivo boxes in other parts of the house *hint*. Note: I did attempt to buy a generic usb wireless ethernet card but Tivo didnt recognize it, so just go down to Radioshack and buy it for $10 cheaper than off of the TIVO.com site!

Redi-Check Remote Smoker Thermometer
September 26, 2006 | | TrackBacks

Charcoal grillin.. and bein a newbie at that.. I'm always having a tough time figuring out what 'temperature mah fire's at'. There is apparently the 'professional' way to tell by placing the palm of your hand above the coals, at cooking height, and if you count the number of seconds before the heat forces yer hand away.. one can theoretically gauge the temperature (4 seconds is considered medium heat). Yeah, I'm not going to do that.. so thats where i looked into buyin a thermometer.. and apparently the salesperson at Barbeque's Galore, who looked like Jon Cryer, realized I was a techie to point me to the wireless versions. The Redi-Check ET-73 Remote Thermometer is perdy damn good. It comes with two probes, one for the meat and the other for the internal chamber. One can even set the receiver to buzz upon the temperature hitting a certain limit, so you dont have to harass your meat every 2 minutes.

Starbucks Barista Aroma™ 8-cup Thermal Coffee Maker
September 13, 2006 | | TrackBacks

This is my favorite so far in a long line of home coffee brewing contraptions.  It swivels, and the water reservoir is a handled, removable bucket that keeps you from refilling the water using the barely-rinsed-out carafe (come on, you know you do it!).  The coffee brews quickly, getting you from Point A (“Where’s my coffee?!?”) to Point B (“Ahhhhh!”) in great time.  When the coffee’s done, the digital clock times the life of your precious life fluid.  The thermal carafe maintains a tight vacuum, keeping your coffee nice and hot for a good long time; so no hot plate, no evaporation to a syrupy sludge, and you can take the carafe off of the station for mobile coffee drinking.  It has a couple of minor idiosyncrasies related to carafe rinsing and pouring, but I love it anyway.  Ahhhhhhhhhh! OH NO!, MY COFFEEPOT HAS BEEN RECALLED! BLAST and CURSES!.  lg_ssBarista8c.jpg

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