How To Do Everything?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The New York Times has summarized some of its favourites from seven years of this column (hopefully not paywalled). It might come in handy if you forget how to deal with sharks, tongue tie a knot in cherry stems, or deliver a baby.

But what topics would you really like to see them discuss?

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Building a 1920s Style Death Ray?

How to Ooze Charisma From Every Pore?

How to Buy Twitter?

How to Macgyver a Mask Using Empty Pringles Containers?

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I can turn the grayest sky blue
I can make it rain, whenever I want it to,
Oh, I
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand
I can make a ship sail, on dry land tell 'em yeah
But my life is incomplete and I’m so blue
'Cause I can’t get next to you

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I don’t know if the OP’s link is paywalled, but this one isn’t.

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I subscribe so cannot tell if it is. Not without mucking about more than I want to, anyway.

How to build a Great Pyramid.

How to build a lesser pyramid scheme.

How to build a house in the woods made of candy.

How to avoid bees.

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Interesting how much of it I’ve already done:

  • Rolled a joint (and my own cigs)
  • Skipped many stones
  • Held (and delivered) a stranger’s baby
  • Not a canoe, but had sex in an airplane (while I was the pilot)
  • Written condolence letters
  • Talk to someone with Alzheimer’s (way too much experience here)
  • Sing in Tune (even got paid to sing for a commercial once)
  • Sutured wounds
  • Written an obituary
  • Undressed someone quickly (it helps to tie them down first and scissors are better than knives)
  • Asked for raises many times, even demanded them
  • Fixed a brake light
  • Never taught anyone braille, but taught myself ASL.
  • Wrote love letters
  • Never kicked open a door, but have picked the lock (once)
  • Read aloud to kids (hasn’t every parent done this?)

What would I like them to cover?

  • How to make a really good meatloaf. I’ve progressed to “edible” in my attempts, but no further.
  • Where to find tortilla chips as good as those in restaurants.
  • Home welding (for beginners). Ditto acetylene torches.
  • A list of non-intuitive medical symptoms, whose appearance means “get medical help immediately”.

I’ll add more subjects if I think of them.

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That’s pretty cool, but they should change the title to “How To Do 63 Things.”

mmm

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This link seems to be paywalled as well.

Now I’ll never know how to roll a joint. :frowning:

mmm

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Harrumph. That’s interesting to know. I used the gift link option. Rats.

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The Monty Python guys beat you to it.

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Thank you for this. I’m a subscriber, but hadn’t seen this collection.

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How to flag a mod to fix title misspellings.

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Those three little dots in the right hand bottom corner of the quote box? Click on those, then click on the flag symbol and put in your request.

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Paywalled.

If I get eaten by a shark, I blame the New York Times.

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It was a woosh. Mods fixed title spelling.

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You got me.

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Time Management