Year: 2011

Mail Your Turtle

Ok, this may seem like a weird DoIt AndHow entry, but if you have to move or need to get your turtle to a different location. Here’s how to do it.

Turtles — the easiest pet to transport — can be mailed overnight. Pack them in well-cushioned Styrofoam boxes with air holes and lined with soft grass or leaves. The box should not be so tight that the turtle cannot extend its legs or head. Write “FRAGILE. LIVE ANIMAL” and “THIS SIDE UP” on the box. Keep the surroundings moist, but not wet, by dampening a cloth and placing it inside the container.

Here’s how to move the other stuff in your life: from Atlas

How to Quickly Cook Pasta in a Frying Pan

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How to chop wood without messing around

Not much info is available but it seems the secret is in the elastic band on the chain.

Thanks Gene

How to make an exact replica of your body form

What you’ll need:

A large T-shirt that fits below the bum that will be cut up and destroyed in the process
Another small piece of discard able cloth (a paper towel will do)
At least two 45 gram rolls of duct tape
A pair of sharp scissors
Cardboard, and cardboard tubing
Something to stuff the form with (peanuts, foam, polyfil, old clothes, be creative)
A helper

Complete instructions

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Edible Specimins

Before we begin, let’s be clear about what we’re trying to accomplish, with a few ground rules for the project:

1. What good is a specimen jar if you can’t serve it at dinner?The contents of the jars should be genuinely edible, made out of real food. Plastic snakes and spiders are right out.

2. Make it tasty. While the appearanceof the specimen jars may cause loss of appetite, the scent, by contrast, should be simply mouth watering. There are many ways to get there. Specimen jars can be prepared as an antipasto course (e.g., with preserved vegetables), as a soup appetizer, as a palate cleanser between courses, or a dessert course, depending on the ingredients chosen.

3. Work within the comfort zone of your guests. If your guests are super-omnivores, eager to eat the most challenging ingredients that you can get your hands on– whether that’s brains or balut or something far worse –then go right ahead. However, the point of this project is to make a dish that looks intimidating but actually consists of friendly ingredients. It’s possible to make a truly scary looking set of specimen jars that is (for example) strictly vegan or passes the even stricter dietary requirements that your child may present.