opinion-and-editorial
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Recycling Your Old Electronics.
I found this nice surprise the other day. I was at Target and noticed that their customer service area has a series of recycling bins. I noticed that one of the recycling bins wasn’t the usual paper, cans or greens. It’s actually a bin for batteries, small electronics and what Target calls “mp3” I didn’t…
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Original Mini Cruisin in Irvine
I was driving the other day, heading to Dot Com Lunch and came up to this little car. I thought it was pretty cool but I was surprised I didn’t recognize it. Someone told me this was a Mini, later on, but for some reason I didn’t think it was at first. Maybe it’s because…
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Wild About Greens Challenge
Recently I watched Matt Cutts Ted video about his 30 day challenges. I’ve always wanted to do a 30 day challenge too. So I thought about the different ways I could approach one for myself. My Wife has been telling me that I need to eat healthier, and she’s right. As I’ve been working a…
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Photo Booth iPad App
We went to a kids birthday party recently and someone had a cool makeshift photobooth setup for the guests have fun and take pictures with their kids and family. It was a blast, so my wife found an app for the iPad that acts like a photobooth. This is the first photo I take using…
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Remove Black and White Backgrounds
This is a very useful tutorial showing how to remove or blend two images with a black or white background. Very slick, this is very useful when creating your banners or ads for marketing. I know that whenever I get photos or images from Shutterstock they’re usually on a black or white background so this…
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My Site Revamped
I apologize for the outage over the past couple days. Apparently I installed a plugin that made my server crash. After talking to my awesome webhost Inmotion Hosting, they offered some help to resolve the issue. Almost 2 days later, I’m back on at full force, and Notagrouch.com has gone a full round of redesign.…
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Gadget Spritzes Juice From the Fruit
Check this little neat thing I ran into on the interwebs. Pretty cool if it really works!
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Parents will understand
It took me about a minute to remove myself from this baby trap. The tricky part was replacing my arms with the pillows with minimal disruption. Much like the mines used during the Vietnam war, baby traps like these can explode with just the slightest motion or activity. It takes practice to be able to…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I have been working incredibly hard on a few projects lately and haven’t had a chance to write in about 10 days, I have a few videos I made but no blogposts. But I thought I’d take a few minutes to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. Remember those people that are important to you, the…