Category: How To

Number one on our list of “Things to do before 30”? Have $10,000 in savings

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 14, 2010

Frogs Eye View of Life's Great Lessons
A Frog’s Eye View of Life’s Great Lessons

Floating around the Internet are any number of THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU TURN 30. This list, for example, includes the following:

Write a book
Start a budget
Volunteer in a developing country
Enjoy a really expensive bottle of wine
Learn to play the guitar
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
Learn to scuba dive
Take a road trip
Eat fearlessly
Teach a child to do something
Cook like Mom and Dad
Go skydiving
Read the Bible
Get a tattoo
Learn to sail
Kick your worst vice
Buy some adult toys for yourself
Begin an investment portfolio
Build your own website
Go to a psychic
Go deep-sea fishing
Run a marathon
Pay off all your debt
Go on a yoda/meditation retreat
Join an improv troupe
Learn a new language
Learn to swing dance
Bluff your way into a job you’re totally not qualified for
Go on an African safari
Go on a pilgrimage

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food How To

Bartenders ignore you on purpose. Here are some tips to make that drink come faster

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 11, 2010

Bartender Warning

Web Watch knows the best way to get a drink at the bar: Tip noticably well on the first round.

Even if the drinks are free, such as at an open-bar wedding, you should tip big when you have the opportunity to do so and be noticed. A $20 bill at the right time early in the evening will do wonders for you later at night. Perhaps a heavier pour, speedier service, an extra drink made available after the bar is “officially” closed for the evening.

All for $20.

Tags alcohol, food, How To

10 Things How To

Tips to Help Avoid Being Laid Off. Number one on the list? Don’t give them a reason to do so

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 10, 2010

Eight steps to getting back on your feet when you're fired, laid off, or your business ventures has failed--and finding more job satisfaction than ever before
Eight steps to follow when you’re fired or laid off

If you’ve ever worked at a company where there’s even a hint of a threat that layoffs could be coming, you need to make sure that you’ve worked your way into a position where there is as little of a chance that your name would be written down onto The List of Those To Be Let Go as possible.

That’s right – in order to not give them a reason to lay you off, you need to lay the groundwork ahead of time by following at least these TIPS FOR HELPING TO AVOID GETTING LAID OFF.

Tags 10 Things, business, How To

10 Things Gadgets How To

Some tips for extending your cellphone battery life

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 30, 2010

Emergency Portable Cell Phone Recharger

It has happened to Web Watch, and we’re sure it’s happened to you: you’re hanging out with your friends all weekend and you forget to plug your phone in to recharge, and now you’re stuck in a situation where your phone is on it’s last battery display bar and you still have 5 hours to go before you can get to your charger.

Sure, you can use a Duracell emergency recharger that you happened to have stashed in your glove box — but how many of us have bothered to pick one of these up the last time we were out running errands?

Tags 10 Things, gadget, How To

Disney How To

Want FIGMENT and DREAMFINDER returned to the Imagination ride at Disney’s EPCOT? Here’s how

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 24, 2010
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Epcot's FIGMENT
Epcot’s FIGMENT stuffed toy

Fans of Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park have a new mission: to RETURN THE FIGMENT AND DREAMFINDER CHARACTERS TO EPCOT, specifically to the Journey Into Imagination ride.

First, some history: when Epcot first opened, the plan was for the park to not have any of the traditional Disney characters present at all. Of course, “where are the characters?” was a common complaint from families who visited and expected to see Disney characters at any Disney theme park they visited – which, at the time consisted of just the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland…not exactly a large sample size to deal with, here.

But Epcot did have one cuddly, friendly cartoony character available – FIGMENT, the playful winged dragon of imagination — who, along with his mentor Dreamfinder, became the defacto face of Epcot when no other characters were available.

Luckily, park fans loved Figment and Dreamfinder, and together they made the original incarnation of the JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION attraction a family must-see favorite. Ask anyone who visited the park in those days if they could sing the “Imagination” song, and you’ll hear everyone share their version of “One Little Spark”.

Tags Dismarks, Disney, Epcot, How To, theme parks

How To

Tom likes beautiful women who can’t poop. (Memo to Tom: beautiful women don’t poop, ever.)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 19, 2010

TOM HAS A FETISH ABOUT CONSTIPATION.

Specifically, a fetish about women who are constipated. Beautiful women, that is.

Tom’s fascination with poop – or lack thereof, it appears – puts him into the same category as a klismaphiliac (a person with an enema fetish), a mysophiliac (a person with an excretion fetish), or an eproctolagniac (a person with a fart fetish).

Keeping the pipes clean is a four-step process:

Hydration: more water in the colon helps keep the pipes clear
Mechanical: add bulky high-insoluble fiber to your diet
Irritation: the colon needs a little irritation, such as psyllium husks or flax seed
Stimulation: caffeine, nicotine, or exercise

If you’re not doing enough of each of these four items, Tom may take an unhealthy interest in you and your clogged-up bowels.

So Web Watch would like to offer this public service announcement to help our more attractive Web Watch readers avoid people like Tom and become more regular, with some of these HANDY TIPS TO RELIEVE CONSTIPATION:

Activia
Coffee
Cigarettes
Senna Tea
Suppositories
Sugar-free candy
a Reuben sandwich
Aloe juice (mixed with lemon and water)
10 oz hot water and 1 lemon squeezed in
1 cup Magen-darm tee (Really strong chamomile tea)
3 shots of espresso
A tummy massage starting at the navel, in a clockwise motion up to above your pubic bone for 2 minutes
Touch your toes and reach up into the air and repeat for 2 minutes.
Eat fresh unsweetened, active culture whole milk yogurt with raw Quaker oats
Eliminate white flours and refined sugar
Increase intake of healthy oils like Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Constantly eat celery before, during and after meals
2 tablespoons of raw wheat bran

Tags How To, medical

10 Things Gambling How To

How to pick a winning March Madness bracket

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 15, 2010

This time last year, Web Watch shared some tips on how to pick a winning NCAA tournament bracket.

As basketball tournament madness rolls around again and everyone DOWNLOADS THE 2010 NCAA BRACKET, we thought we’d share some more tips with our Web Watch readers:

Tags basketball, brackets, Gambling, How To, march madness, ncaa, office pool, sports

10 Things How To

Want people to conform to your wishes? Perhaps these ten tips will help.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 11, 2010

Once in a while, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to get an entire group to conform to a single thought or rule.

Web Watch admits that getting a group of any size to conform to the group’s wishes on the whole is a lot like herding cats – there’s always going to be someone who wants to march to their own beat and do whatever they want, just because they can – regardless of whether that marching is going to help the group in whole or hinder whatever progress you’re trying to make.

Web Watch has found these TEN TIMELESS INFLUENCERS OF CONFORMITY. Each of these ten items affects group-think, and are the things that any group leader (or group dissenter, if that’s the way you’re marching) should take into consideration if you’re trying to win friends and influence people. Some of those items are:

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