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I  just might try one of these methods even if I do have a corkscrew handy!   I love gadgets and experimenting with different ways of doing common tasks. It's better to use a white wine so there won't be any staining.                                                                           

This Russian video shows how to open a tin can without a can opener.  In an emergency this could be necessary. I don't think this will work if  you have arthritis.  Maybe it would work if a lot more time was spent bending the can back and forth.   Placing the can on the edge of something hard like a sidewalk curb and using your foot would be easier even if not very appetizing. 

This video is from the self-study Italian course I'm taking.  Understanding what's happening in the video is hard for me to follow but it's a lot of fun. There are many other courses available for no charge. The link for the courses offered: Find Courses by Topic - MIT OpenCourseWare - Free Online Course Materials A very rough translation from Italian using Google Translate: Sugar - Women Women Looking for trouble Women with a phone that never rings women In the middle of a street Women in disarray without company In the eyes of the recommendations have And the desire to adventures And if they have made ​​many mistakes They are full of fears You see them walking together In the rain or under the sun Inside dull afternoons Without joy or sorrow women planets dispersed For all men so different women Friends forever Fashionable women, women against the current ... In the eyes have airplanes To fly at h...

“Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences  that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.”  ― David Richo It all started while I was watching "It Happened One Night" with my wife.  When a song about the "Daring Young Man..." came on she said to me  that it might be good for one of my posts. Yesterday on January 8, 2014 I did a post about the song: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Here's the link to that post: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Now today January 9, 2014, I somehow surfed my way to a post named "Why Leotards Are Called That" from the Today I Found Out blog. Here's the link:   Why Leotards Are Called That Some excerpts: "Born in 1842, Leotard is best known for inventing the flying trapeze routine. His father owned a gymnasium and trained Leotard in his early years. As a boy, he became proficient at the parallel ba...

I saw a great movie on the Turner Classic Movie channel called "It Happened One Night".  In the movie while riding in a bus one of the passengers starts singing  "The  Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze ".  Some of the other passengers join in.  Now this has very little to do with the plot but it's one of those songs that just stick in your mind playing over and over.  

Ever since I've been renovating my basement the house has turned into a pile of clutter.  There are boxes and papers everywhere.  Everything is very clean but just out of place. I want to discard as many things as I can without throwing out some valuable or sentimental items. Clutter keeps building up as if some force or intelligence is battling against me.  One problem is reading books about how to make my life simpler and uncluttered, instead of taking action.  This wastes a lot of time and energy. Is there some intelligence causing the clutter?  It would be nice to put the blame on someone else.   Maybe my wife is messing things up just to be mean. But that would not make any sense. I could blame it on goblins. But I don't believe in goblins.  Sometimes it just seems as if someone is messing things up. I believe the real cause is entropy. Here is a video that explains it best. This is a bit too theoretical and...