A clipping catcher for my electric hedge trimmer. It would eliminate the bother of raking up and picking bits and pieces out of the hedge.
By R.M. Woodbury, Natick, Mass.
May 1963
The only clippings catchers that I could find on Amazon were ones for trimming beards! đ€Ł
An angle jig for use with electric hand drills. The arms would telescope as the bit entered the work; graduations would indicate the depth drilled.
By R.Knudson, Hanover, N.H.
May 1963
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You can purchase a modern-day angle jig from Amazon…
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Today arrived with a crash of my car through the garage door. Iâm not one to complain or say that this was a really big deal because letâs face it, all the things in life are small if you take the time to look at them. For example, if you have to get a new car, your old one is going to die or be damaged. Thereâs no big deal in that and youâll be able to make it the best car ever and your new car will be an amazing car.
When I say big deal or not, it depends on what you want to do with your new car. If youâre like most car owners, you might just treat your car like a tool or an item you need in life. Yes, cars are important, but theyâre not like a tool, because they wonât be your sole possession. Instead, itâs a vehicle that will be shared with everyone in your family.
If you want to save money, then itâs going to be a vehicle that you can enjoy for the rest of your life.
How much does a car cost in the first place?
If you want to be a car owner, you might start by thinking about the type of car you want, which type of car you prefer, and what kind of car is too big or too small for you to buy. Once you have decided which one, your next step is to choose between different brands, and then, youâll have to find one that fits your budget.
Some might think a car is expensive because itâs a machine or it could cost a lot, but you need to look at other aspects too. Thereâs a misconception about a car being expensive because it is a âluxuryâ or it isnât an âessential toolâ in our lives.
They might as well be compared to a luxury home, the same goes for a yacht, a Ferrari or a Bugatti.
But for us, there are many factors that goes into a carâs value, and itâs mostly about how we use it. If you use it to commute to work or school, you donât need to worry about whether you have a new or old car. Itâs mostly just about your comfort.
If you use it as a transportation to take you wherever you need to go on holidays or weekends, like to visit friends or family, you will definitely want to consider the price you are going to pay.
The reason why itâs quite hard to find the right car for yourself is because you need to look at the pros and cons of all the cars in your target price range. You might feel lost when trying to choose the right car for you.
When you have decided to buy the car, there are certain features that you must consider. However, the prices that you will pay for those features will depend on whether or not you can get financing. This is why you need to make sure that you check out what cars in this price range have in terms of features.
We have put together an inventory that will help you decide which features you can get with your budget, and at the same time, keep your car safe from the clutches of thieves.
While it may seem obvious to look for the features that matter to you in a car, you might be surprised to see how difficult it can be to find the right one for you. There are three features that you should be looking at when you are choosing the right car. They are safety, design, and performance.
The first one is security. It is crucial that you look for a car that has a higher theft protection rating Don’t just look at what the average insurance rating is but also check out all the security features that your new car has. This is very important as even a car that looks nice may not be safe. You don’t want to be stuck with a car that you are going to have to pay for any stolen items.
The second thing is fuel efficiency. You don’t want to be stuck on the road with a car that is wasting gas. If you look for a more efficient car then you may be able to save on gas money.
The next thing to look for is something that has a comfortable and safe driving experience. You don’t want to be a nervous wreck every time you are in a new car. You want to be able to go on vacation or go on a long road trip without fearing for your life.
The last thing to look at when you are buying a car is the cost of the car. Don’t go for a car that costs a lot of money. If you are just starting out, maybe you can save for one, but the car may end up ruining your finances. Save for your first car!
A better idea is to buy a car that is in good condition. You may be able to get a great deal on a great condition car. Buying a car like this is much cheaper than buying a brand new car.
If you have a family, it’s a good idea to get a compact car. This car will hold your family of 5, and the inside will be roomy for those with babies and toddlers. Compact cars are great for families.
Keep up on the car’s maintenance by going to the dealership every year and get an oil change and a checkup. Do not put off getting the oil changed and do not put off having the vehicle inspected. The car will cost a lot more to fix if it’s been neglected, and the car could even be dangerous if you keep neglecting it.
Don’t have kids yet
Don’t rush into having kids right away. The car will be out of commission most of the time and there will be lots of things to deal with. The next few years will be challenging and they will be expensive. Wait a while before deciding that you want children.
Easy-to-handle-fishing gear – fishing net, boat hook, and gaff designed as snap-on heads so that you could use them all with a single pole.
Idea by Anthony J Santoro, Farmingdale, N.Y., May 1963
A fishing net is a device used to prevent fish from swimming away while hooked up to the pole. The first net was invented in the 11th Century A.D. in Europe and consisted of a mesh trap suspended from the end of a fishing line to capture large fish. The mesh was very fine and prevented the fish from swimming through. The mesh is set to approximately one inch or less for this reason. The earliest fishing nets were made from bamboo.Â
I couldn’t find multi-use fishing gear on Amazon, but you can purchase a telescopic pole fishing net…
Bug bombs for phone booths that would spray at the drop of a coin. I’d gladly spend a penny to get rid of insects drawn by light at night.
By C.Petzold, Runnemede, N.J.
May 1963
You can purchase your very own bug spray from Amazon…
I had a number of revenge ideas submitted by Faith Stockwell including…
Peter Swann, University of Nottingham
As the Premiership juggernaut rumbles back to centre stage, bringing with it the usual impassioned debate about footballing philosophies and the respective merits of âparking the busâ and possession, spare a thought for innovation policy. Innovation is often defined as the successful application of new ideas to create wealth. But innovation policy is itself in need of innovation â and a footballing analogy goes a long way to explaining why.
Route-one football is especially associated with the traditional English game. The ball is booted directly from defence straight to the forwards, who try to control it and mount an attack on goal. Although it can sometimes lead to exciting surprises, the tactic is not held in high regard. It is considered uninspired, limited and sometimes comical.
Contrast this with tiki-taka â the head-spinning passing game associated with Spanish football and, in particular, with FC Barcelona. Here an attack is made up of a long sequence of passes involving defenders, midfield players, wingers and forwards. Anyone and everyone may be involved. In contrast to route-one, it is highly inventive and offers myriad routes to goal.
Most innovation policies are in the route-one mould. Their rationale is based on the assumption that innovation and wealth creation are business-centred and that the activities of other sectors of society â science, arts, education and so on â can contribute only if they have an impact on business.
Activities that have no such impact may be culturally interesting, the argument goes, but do not contribute to innovation and wealth. Like route-one football, such a view is profoundly unimaginative â and yet it goes almost entirely unchallenged.
In truth, there are many innovative activities that happen outside business, and many of them contribute to the creation of wealth and well-being. I call these common innovation.
Common innovation is the work of ordinary people in everyday life â individuals, households, clubs, communities â with well-being, not profit or revenue or market share, as the principal goal. While business innovation revels in the swirl of Joseph Schumpeterâs âperennial gale of creative destructionâ, common innovation represents a gentle and benign breeze. Rather than destroy what is already there, it creates where there is nothing.
Common innovation is much more akin to tiki-taka, because it involves numerous positive interactions â in this case between different sectors of society and the economy. For example, intelligent consumers can draw on education, arts and sciences to consume wisely; the public and third sectors might draw on science to transform an industrial wasteland into a nature reserve; online health forums routinely draw on the goodwill of contributors to create valuable resources; and so on.
These interactions may take place at some distance from business, but they can still play a part in creating wealth and well-being. They accumulate over time to create wealth from an economy in which different sectors are in harmony with each other.
Yet the route-one view dominates UK policy. While this clearly serves business very well, it is not necessarily best for society as a whole. And it seems that the UK government has become too business-centred to engage with alternative perspectives on innovation.
The route-one approach to innovation policy gives business an undue level of bargaining power. Business has not been slow to take advantage of this. Across the political spectrum there has been a sense of outrage that many of the largest and most profitable companies pay no corporation tax. And then there are the generous subsidies and grants given to companies â even some that pay no corporation tax at all.
The route-one approach can also be used to justify some very controversial policy proposals. Under its aegis, factors such as the natural environment, science, arts, education and health are deemed to create wealth only if they enhance business innovation and productivity.
From this perspective, parts of the country that are underperforming should fear for their future. A release of files in 2011 revealed that senior Conservative ministers sought to persuade Margaret Thatcher to âconsider abandoning Liverpool to a fate of âmanaged declineââ after riots in 1981. They argued that spending public money on such âstony groundâ would be like âtrying to make water flow uphillâ. Similar proposals have since been made for other cities, which show that a narrow conception of innovation and investment will only serve the interests of certain parts of the country and economy.
Another major downside of such a narrow view of innovation policy is that we lose sight of the things that common innovation can do and which business innovation does not. A striking recent example has been the transformation of derelict terraced housing in Stoke-on-Trent, where the city council introduced a policy of selling off properties for ÂŁ1 each and providing loans to local buyers who could commit to restoring them and so make a positive contribution to the community.
William Morris described commerce as âonce the servant and now the master of civilisationâ. A route-one approach to innovation policy only reinforces this transition. As we face continuing austerity, an ever-more unequal distribution of wealth and grave concerns about sustainability, it is time to give serious consideration to an own-goal in the making.
Peter Swann, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Economics, University of Nottingham
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The game of bingo has been around a very, very long time â dating back to the 1500s and a community lottery game that was played regularly in parts of Italy. That may not make bingo as old as some other popular games like chess or checkers. But to give some perspective, bingo is older than some modern forms of poker. And to compare it to another game thatâs evolved from an in-person experience to a renowned video game, bingo is also old than table tennis! According to a brief history on LiveAbout, modern table tennis really only dates back to the 1880s (though it does have roots in a 12th-century game).
Any way you cut it, itâs something of an ancient game. And yet in the last few years, its most popular versions have become almost shockingly modern. Video game poker, in one form or another, has been around for decades. But todayâs casino and gaming platforms are presenting almost a different kind of game entirely. Foxy Bingoâs game offerings exhibit the evolution with total clarity, showcasing all of the best of modern internet bingo. There are live community games, digital bingo rooms packed with vibrant graphics, and games based on popular content such as the American TV sitcom Friends. This particular platform even presents a different spin on bingo altogether: âSlingo,â a game which combine arcade slots and bingo cards.
Compare these offerings to traditional bingo â in which a wheel is turned, numbers are called, and people fill in simple cards with small chips or markers â and you really notice the remarkable innovation that has gone into modernizing the experience. The interesting question though is whether this innovation should strike us as surprising or inevitable.
On the one hand, such an abrupt change to a game after hundreds of years is surprising. From those early Italian iterations in the 1500s through the 1990s, there were few if any noteworthy overhauls of how bingo was played, or what it looked like. The game lasted more than 400 years, in other words, without changing all that much. And then in the span of just a few decades, bingo became a popular digital game. Then, even more suddenly, it reached a point at which online players are guided by an animated fox into multiplayer, pop culture-themed bingo rooms augmented with visual graphics. Itâs safe to say those 16th-century Italians, at least, would be rather shocked at the state of the game.
On the other hand, when we look at modern bingo innovation specifically through the lens of the video game era, it is arguably far less surprising. We covered âThe Invention of Video Gamesâ in another article, noting the earliest computer game in 1958, but focusing primarily on the emergence of games like Pong, Space Invaders, and Tetris in the â70s and â80s.
These particular games are beloved, and still exist in something close to their classic form today. But they also laid the groundwork for the incredibly rapid advancement of video games that has continued to this day. Look to the latest industry updates by GameSpot, and youâll see eye-popping images of massive modern video games that would stop the original Tetris and Pong programmers in their tracks. If bingo took 400-plus years to truly evolve, gaming has transformed into something well beyond its earliest examples in just 50 yearsâ time.
In the end, itâs essentially a matter of perspective! If you look at the entire history of bingo, there is something surprising and remarkable about how suddenly it made the leap to become something drastically changed, and far more modern. On the other hand, if you look at bingo in the video game era, and consider that there were some fairly early examples of digital bingo, the evolution seems natural and obvious.
Whichever way you look at it though, one thing remains clear: Modern online bingo has become a whole new game, and one that at its best is thoroughly engaging and entertaining.
Post written by Harvey Hobbs
Put chocolate bars, crayons, AND other sugary candies (gummy bears ?) in the dryer with the victim’s clothes.
Also Melted Candy all over Carpets. Crayons. LOTS OF THEM in victims microwave set the microwave to the highest setting for at least a half-hour or so, then leave the area immediately. Rubber bands in the microwave, Durian Fruit?
By Tom Bosley
Take a box of something your victim likes (Candy, pokemon cards, etc..)
Pierce small air holes and fill it with bugs.
Leave it, on their Birthday, on the doormat, with a happy Birthday card.
Ring, then leave so they don’t know it’s you…
Then, when they take it inside to open it and they open the box, bugs will pour out, and it will take months to get rid of all of them!
Revenge Idea from Abigail
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