Monthly Archives: September 2005

A scouting troop reference guide to tying “popular” knots. I guess the unpopular knots don’t get asked to prom.
Stephanie and I were trying to tie down stuff to my truck the other day, and I was very frustrated because I couldn’t figure out how my dad ties knots; he has some sort of slipknot that he ties that is secure, but you pull one end and it comes undone easily. I’ve been meaning to figure out how to do that.
oh, here’s a site that has animated knot instructions.

Coinstar now has a deal with Amazon and some other online commerce sites in which they will return a gift certificate to that site– and here’s the fun part — without the 8.9% fee they charge for sorting.
Woo hoo! I’m taking my pennies in. I’ve never felt like I wanted to pay the fee, but I also don’t want to sit around counting and rolling coins when I could be doing something more productive.
What’s interesting is that if you wanted to go completely off the grid, you could use your Amazon gift card to set up an Amazon account and pay, without ever entering personally identifying information, AND coinstar will accept paper money and convert it to the Amazon card. So if you were on the run from the law, and you wanted to send someone a gift from Amazon and have it shipped to them, you could put your cash into a coinstar machine, get a gift certificate, set up an anonymous Amazon account, and make purchases.

PledgeBank is a site where you can sign up to pledge to do something — but only if other people will do it. You can either make your own pledge, or find a pledge that someone else has proposed and add yourself to their list, thust providing support for each other.

Courtesy of my friend Lori, a pointer to the best car magnet ever on northern sun’s site… the “support our pants” magnet.
I currently have two magnets on my car — a rainbow one, which I bought, and a Women’s heart health one I got free from Clarian for spending $43,000 of my insurance company’s money to have my heart fixed there. I figure the heart one I probably should slap on there, regardless of how I feel about the whole ribbon magnet phenomenon.