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The Self-Turning Hot Dog
What if … you poked tiny holes in hot dogs so steam would vent in a way that the hot dog would turn itself as it heated? I was just about to try it, when I found out somebody ate the last two hot dogs! Test results await. More adventurous would be the Self-Turning Burger. Read More …
How to Think Up Thoughtful Gift Ideas
It all begins with this: What does she really love? Example: Her cat. So buy, make or invent something for her cat. Make a kittie photo album. Photoshop it to include all sorts of celebrities, human or cat. Or remove some cat-related annoyance. Like: Clipping its claws. So give her coupons saying you’ll clip Floofoo’s Read More …
Holiday Inflatables Turned Mid-Air Balloons
Now lawn inflatables move, with penguins that pop out of igloos and Santas and snowmen that wave. What’s next? How about inflatables turned mid-air balloons? Use helium, hot air or much more powerful fans keeping tethered characters aloft. The hot-air system would probably need flaming gas jets, which might not be too safe, but, hey, if you want to make Read More …
Gift Idea: Customize a Box of Candy
My wife, Anne, like Jujyfruits, but only the reds, oranges and yellows. No green or black ones, thank you. So one Christmas, for fun, I took two boxes, pulled out the greens and blacks, and filled one box with her favorites. Also cut and pasted pictures from the second box so only the kinds she liked were Read More …
For Halloween, Give Your House Giant Glowing Eyes
Ingredients: One house, with two upstairs windows; big black trash bags or large pieces of cardboard or poster board; large white, yellow or orange trash bags (for eyes). Simple idea: Block out the entire window using dark trash bags or cardboard EXCEPT for holes cut in the shape of giant eyes. Cover the eye cutouts Read More …
Invisible Man Halloween Costume
Here’s how my son, Alex, became the Invisible Man one Halloween. Suspended a hat in midair on top of two black coathanger wires. The wires were attached to a setup he wore on his head. A skinny piece of wood ran across that to simulate shoulders. That in turn held up a sweater with big enough holes to Read More …
Homeland Heroes Day
We have days for honoring military heroes, but why not a holiday to honor other people who risked their lives to protect and save their fellow man? Police. Fire fighters. Transplant donors. Rescuers from accidents and disasters. Extend gratitude to doctors, teachers, parents, too. If as a society we’re not going to pay these people as well Read More …