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Videojug - Get Good At Life. The world’s best how to videos plus free expert advice and tutorials. 100 Free Tools to Tutor Yourself in Anything. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. My First Eight Drains.

My First Eight Drainsby drainer-wannabe Ninjalicious Meters below the busy streets above, a hidden concrete utopia snakes its way from the downtown core out beyond the suburbs.

My First Eight Drains

Concrete pipes conduct our urban stormwater to strange fringe areas known as forests, meadows, riverbanks and seashores — a gallery of horrors collectively known as nature. In these unholy "natural" areas, the ground is covered with neither cement nor asphalt, and rainwater is allowed to fall directly onto the ground and soak into the earth at its own pace. Ironically, these primitive wildernesses are exactly the sort of places one must visit to find the grated entrances leading to storm drains. And so, hateful though it was, I spent the latter half of my summer traipsing through plant-filled suburban forests, wandering along wooded riverbanks filled with insects, and scratching my case of poison ivy, all in order to bring you this preliminary report on the state of drains in the Toronto area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Drop Spots. Watermelon carving. HOW TO BREW BEER IN A COFFEE MAKER, USING ONLY MATERIALS COMMONLY FOUND ON A MODESTLY SIZED OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VESSEL. Beer brewing is as much an art as a science.

HOW TO BREW BEER IN A COFFEE MAKER, USING ONLY MATERIALS COMMONLY FOUND ON A MODESTLY SIZED OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VESSEL

Finding the right blend of delicate grains, hops, malt, adding just the right flavoring agents, boiling for exactly enough time to release the tannins, starches, humic acids from you wort, these are all skills that take a lifetime to master. Perfect beer is meticulously planned and carefully crafted. Screw that. You’re six days into a 2 month expedition, and if you were lucky enough to not be on a dry ship, it’s de facto dry by now anyway. You’re eying the ethanol stores, the crew is eying each other, and all hell will break loose if y’all don’t get some sweet water soon.

This is not, as a rule, a terribly good beer (though, with a good brewmaster on board, it can be). The tools you need are simple: an electric drip coffee maker with hot plate, a coffee filter, 2 1-liter sample jars, 2 handkerchiefs, 2 rubber bands, and a source of clean (preferably R/O) water. You’ll have to be more creative with your ingredients. Sanitation is key. 1. 2. 3.

Travel Bar. To begin with, you must locate a good suitcase for this project.

Travel Bar

I strongly recommend a hard-sided suitcase and to avoid anything that is soft or fabric. A lot of the stability of the case comes from the suitcase itself so starting with something sturdy will lead to a successful project. I created this case to hold supplies for a few types of whiskey drinks specifically. This case was built around the objects I wanted it to carry so before I started I searched my local stores and purchased the objects needed to complete my vision. This included bottles to hold the alcohol and mixers. Here is a list of items the case is set up to hold: - 2 large bottles (one for whiskey, one vermouth) - 2 medium bottles (one for lemon, one bitters) - A shaker - A set of 6 glasses - A jigger - 3 glass jars (for cherries, sugar, and orange slices) - A set of coasters - Tongs for serving sugar - Straws - Stir sticks.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials. Seagulls + Laxatives = Bad Time.

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