Archive for September 10th, 2007

September 10th, 2007

The spidercatcher

One of the things that I hate about being a “grown up” & taking care of a house is all of the spiders & bugs. When I was a kid, there was always someone around to catch them. Now it’s my job.

I remember an episode of Gilmore Girls that dealt with this. (Actually, I remember all the episodes of Gilmore Girls). Lorelai trapped a cricket under a paper cup then tape the cup to the floor & then cut holes in the top so the cricket could breathe. Then she waited for Luke to come & take care of it. Since I still haven’t found my Luke, I laughed when I saw this page about how to make a humane spider catcher using pvc pipe & an audiocassette tape case. I’ll have to give this one a try.


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September 10th, 2007

Deserving Design

When Vern Yip left Trading Spaces there was a lot talk about this new design show he was going to have. It didn’t happen for years. He eventually ended up as a judge on Design Star. We saw Ty Pennington also of Trading Spaces fame skyrocket to stardom with his own show Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Last night Vern’s new show Deserving Design premiered. The show is about giving good design to people who… well, deserve it. Think of it as the poor man’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. There are a few problems with Vern’s show.

  • He’s not a host. He can try to be, but he just isn’t. He’s a great decorator. He can plan a space like no one’s business, but he’s just too low energy to be a host.
  • The great part about Trading Spaces is that we got to see things we could replicate at home. This meant that Vern had to be creative & show us projects that were affordable. Deserving design lacks that.
  • The show didn’t make me cry. I thought it would because it’s called Deserving Design, but it really didn’t touch my heart.
  • Vern’s style seemed to be missing. The rooms weren’t classic “Vern”. They even seemed cluttered. Maybe he was just decorating to fit the couple’s tastes but overall it looked like walking into Pier 1.

I’ll give Deserving Design another chance, but only because I want to watch TV & cry. Don’t let me down this time.


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September 10th, 2007

Then & Now

A very long time ago, when I was a kid, (I’m 25 now) there was much discussion about living on the moon. No one knew exactly why we would want to live on the moon, or how we would live on the moon, it was just take for granted that we would someday. There have been a lot of changes since then. For instance, I remember back in the day, when a phone looked like this:

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It had a lot of features, like it could dial, & it came in three colors. Even though I’m only 25 years old I remember how far phones have come. I was around for the invention of the cordless phone, speed-dial, call waiting, caller id & voicemail. Now I don’t have to answer when a telemarkerter calls.

This is what phones look like now:

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When I was a kid, I couldn’t even have dreamed of a Video Phone, let alone owned one. Yes, we all thought that we would be living on the moon in the year 2000, but we couldn’t even comprehend a video phone. I would love to own the Packet8 phone which uses a Cable or DSL internet connection to bring video into your house. This is great because my nephews are so cute & I don’t get to see them nearly enough. The phone is easy to use, & can store 100 numbers. It even has echo cancellation which is a problem I seem to have with my current home phone. It sounds like I’m in a canyon. So even though I didn’t end up living on the moon, there has been a huge change in technology in just the twenty five years that I’ve been alive & it’s even more cool than I expected. I’m kind of glad that whole living on the moon thing didn’t really work out.

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