bullet going that fast can kill you do you think a plastic ball doing 1/3 that speed just might be able to do some serious damage if you’re not careful? It will. On that note, before we really get started, I’m going to give you a safety tip that, amazingly, they missed in all these videos but believe me you’re going to thank me for this if you hadn’t thought of it yourself. Gentlemen, how do you feel about a plastic ball striking you in the twig-and-giggleberries area (your crotch) at around 200 miles an hour (which is about 300 feet per second)? Ahhh, you all cringed, didn’t you? Yes, I imagine it would be quite painful and I don’t ever wish to confirm that. These videos cover pretty much all pertinent safety measures you should take, except this one which I would highly recommend you heed: WEAR A FRIGGIN’ CUP!

Alright, here are some really good tips compressed into a few minutes and presented in a very entertaining fashion, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sylvester Stallone’s deatbeat paintballing brother:





Alright, let’s get serious with some simple safety procedures and paintballing basics. The guy talking is John Greeley, the former field manager and current CEO for Hogback Mountain Paintball where he’s been employed since 2004:

How Not to Be Rendered Blind While Playing Paintball

How to Assemble Any Paintball Gun

And here’s how to assemble pneumatic and electronic paintball guns:

How to Shoot a Painball Gun Properly

Here you see a pro demonstrating how to properly hold, aim, and fire both a pneumatic and a higher-end electronic paintball gun:

When You Are and Are Not Out of the Game (Important–Noobie Mistake)

How to Move in the Paintball Zone (without getting shot)

How to communicate, use barricades and cover, how to handle a one-on-one firefight, dealing with snipers, and how to shoot moving targets:

How to Clean and Maintain Your Paintball Gun

Lastly, but not leastly, you need to learn how to clean and maintain your paintball gun because if you don’t it will jam and fail to fire the next time you take it out, resulting in you getting shot and eliminated–also, you probably paid a good bit of money for you gear, you’d have to be an idiot to not take care of it properly:

Additional Resources and Further Learning

Paintball.com–comprehensive ‘everything’ site on paintball.

Find out where you can go play paintball in your area with the paintball field locator.

Basic tactics and strategy for use in paintball (which is hosted on UC Berkley’s site for some strange reason–wonder who wrote this…)

Top 2 online forums for paintball: PBNation.com and PaintBallForum.com

Couple of extra tips:

• Stay downwind of the cow: they can smell you, and this will spook them.




• When you approach the cow, hold it on the bottom of it’s side, while one friend stands beside the other and both place their hands against the cow’s upper back and push–this has to be done quickly.
• Cows tend to kick when they’re pushed over, stay away from the rear!




• I live in Texas, and I know for a fact that Texas has a law that allows property owners to use lethal force on trespassers IF (and only if) it’s dark outside (the theory is you can’t tell if the trespasser is armed or not and since it’s your ass on the line you get the benefit of the doubt and may open fire if you wish). In short: farmers tend to have firearms, in all likelihood it will be dark when you do this, and in Texas they can legally fill your ass full of buckshot, so if you reside in the Lonestar State proceed at your own risk, you’ve been warned. Here’s the law that I think is usually used in reference to this (it’s specifically 9.42(A)): http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/9.42.00.html

heat on the element you’re soldering, not the solder itself–are absolutely essential, and he shows you exactly how to do it:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Here’s a really good basic guide on how to solder, specifically he shows how to solder small components to a circuit board.

Here’s an extremely detailed, but excellent, guide on how to solder in general from Instructables.com, they’ve also got a PDF you can download (but you have to join).

water-tightness, electrical conductivity, and strength for just about anything you would practically want it to do. Soldering has been around forever, much longer than gas-torch welding, and there’s even evidence that it was used up to 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia.

Now, something else you need to know before you solder anything copper is that because copper is an extraordinarily good conductor of heat as well as electricity, large copper items such as pipes and fittings need a lot

more heat to properly solder than what a soldering gun or iron can do. Your best bet for most plumbing jobs is either a propane or MAPP gas torch, although some pros prefer acetylene for large jobs because of the higher heat (note: they don’t use oxygen with the acetylene like you would if you were

welding–oxygen would make the flame much too hot for soldering and would likely melt the copper).

Before we get started, you need to remember that all the parts you’re going to join need to be clean and oxide (rust) free, and wire brushes designed for internal and external cleaning are available for common pipe and fitting sizes. You can also just use some steel-wool, emery cloth, or sandpaper as he does in the video below. Alright, let’s kick this pig, here we go:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Really good article on soldering copper pipe for beginners from Reader’s Digest, very nice.

Here’s some really nice step-by-step instructions with photos for each step from FineHomeBuilding.com

Now, we’ve got a lovely instructional video here to get you started in origami by making a pretty, and pretty simple, origami heart for

your sweetie (enjoy the talking hands, I loved that–that and the exceptionally clear and detailed instructions are why I picked this specific video). Oh, and if you like this be sure to check out the little bonus I did to go along with this on how to make an origami money heart (you make a little origami heart like below, but with a

dollar bill instead of traditional paper), here’s the video:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Super cool (and different) design for an origami heart at origami-fun.com–I like this one because it looks more three dimensional and full than the one above.

This is the best general origami site I could find: I LOVE the step-by-step animations they use to show you how to fold these things, that really is the best way to show someone how to do stuff like this–I know this from teaching myself how to tie knots, nothing worked better at showing me how to do the knots than animations like what they’ve got here, simple but brilliant.


More origami designs and instructions at Origami-Instructions.com that you can imagine, plus they’ve got lots of detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures to go along with each step, but no videos.

know, b) she’s very personable and good on camera, and c) she’s cute . The second one is included because it’s a bit more professionally made and they give simple step-by-step instructions that someone who’s never done this before would need to hear, plus they show some

good close-ups of what they’re doing while they’re explaining it, here you go:

Also, here’s a short summary of the instructions that she did from her own video (this is written by the girl in the video above) that she’s got on the description for this video on her YouTube page, thought this might be helpful as well:

“Video explains it all
1. Apply thin layer of liquid liner
3. Curl Lashes if you like
2. Apply mascara
3. Place drop of glue on lash container (Duo Surgical Glue is best, you can get it at MAC or any drugstore)
4. Use back of tweezers to apply thin layer of glue to lash band, concentrating on the ends
5. Wait 20 seconds or so for glue to become tacky
6. Apply just above lashline, make sure ends stick
7. Use tweezer back to push lashes on and down so they are close to lashline
8. Add line of liquid liner over lashband to cover any glue and make it look seemless

**Sorry theres like a little bit of glue on the lashes midway, but the glue dries clear so you can’t even see :)**

**EYESHADOW LOOK IS IRON MAN :)** “

And here’s the second one from VideoJug:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Probably the most detailed set of instructions I managed to find.

Here’s a really nice step-by-step set of instructions with photos from wikihow.com.

Here’s the blog of the girl in the first video, it’s nicely put together and apparently she’s a freelance make-up pro of some sort, she’s got a lot of other tutorials on her site, do have a look.

Texas Cheese Fries

Ingredients

• 32 oz tripled-cooked french fries (don’t worry about whether you’ve got exactly 32 oz or not, just make a bunch and slather away, you’ll be fine )
• 1/4 cup of sliced green onions.
• 1/2 cup of shredded colby-monterey jack cheese .
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt.
• 1/8 teaspoon seasoned salt (onion salt is good, too).
• 4 slices bacon (mmmm…bacon), cooked & crumbled.
• 1 cup of ranch dressing .
• 1 1/4 oz taco seasoning .
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Directions

1. Pre-heat the oven just enough so that you can melt the cheese over the fries later.
2. Combine the ranch dressing along with half the taco seasoning and put it aside.
3. In a small container sprinkle some black pepper, seasoned salt, and garlic salt, then put the remaining taco seasoning in and mix.
4. Once the tripled-cooked french fries are done, put them into a paper bag and sprinkle the seasoning you just mixed onto the fries.
5. Place fries onto a serving dish that you can place into the oven.
6. Put the cheese & bacon evenly over the fries on the baking sheet.
7. Put the fries in a hot oven until the cheese has melted, then remove.
8. Spread the green onions over the fries.
9. Serve fries with the previously prepared sauce for dipping.

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Mexican french fries with beef (I like the idea of involving some beef, kinda like chili cheese nachos…but with fries…sort of)

Emeril Lagasse shows us what he thinks is the ‘Perfect’ french fries recipe

This is very simple, you’re just making a simple solid rocket engine and attaching a stick to it as a stabilizer, the PVC functions as the rocket engine body and combustion chamber, the kitty litter caps the front and rear to contain the expanding gases, and the sugar/salt peter combo function as the propellant: the sugar is the

fuel and the salt peter is the oxidizer–FYI salt peter is the original oxidizer used in black powder for the past thousand years or so. A couple things before the video, specifically about the ingredients: the potassium nitrate he uses seems to come from either fertilizer or (and this is your best bet) stump remover, which is usually

98% pure KNO3 (potassium nitrate), and you shouldn’t have a hard time finding and buying that at all, Home Depot and Lowes, etc., should all carry it. You can also find it in herbal remedies stores and on Amazon under the name “saltpeter”. Here we go:

Also note that you can scale this up as much as you want, just be careful and try not to piss off the FAA, okie-dokie (see photo below)?



If that interested you, then I’d also encourage you to check out my other stuff on rockets, such as: how to make a butane bottle rocket, how to make a rocket engine with alcohol and nitrous oxide, and how to make a match rocket (matchstick rocket).

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Skylighter newsletter and articles–these guys have been around forever, they’re very professional and safe, and they’re also kinda considered the net’s go-to guys for homemade fireworks supplies and chemicals.


Pyroguide looks like a really cool wiki-style setup for pyro’s and fireworks enthusiasts, check it out.

effort (although not necessarily time, as you’ll see below a very nice bento box can be made in 5 or 10 minutes after some practice) producing an appealing bento lunch for their spouse (usually a salaryman) to take to work with them. Here we go (no, I have no friggin’ clue what’s up with the poodle, the Japanese are just weird but we love them):





Bento can be very elaborately arranged into all sorts of shapes and images (see below), and contests are often held where people compete to make the most aesthetically pleasing and original arrangement. The food is usually designed to look like a particular person (often someone famous), animals or cartoon/anime characters, as well as things such as beautiful plants (bonsai trees) and pretty flowers. This style of elaborate bento is called “kyaraben”, and you can see examples of it illustrated below with Hello Kitty, Calvin and Hobbes, and Super Mario bento boxes:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

JustBento.com: This seems to be the online English-language resource for everything Bento, they’ve got a lovely looking forum, lots of recipes (vegetarian bento, bean bento, all sorts of bento), and info on where to get bento supplies and what-not…

Lunch in a Box: Cute bento. Creative bento. Dude, go there just to check out the rooster sausage bento, seriously: WTF?! (not saying it’s not good…I’m saying it’s weird…then again, I can almost guarantee you I’d eat it).

Kids Web Japan has a very nifty little page set up on Bento specifically for kids here and apparently creative and original bento lunch boxes are very important for when you go to school. They also have a VERY cool application called ‘virtual bento’ where you can design and pack your own bento box (you’ll need Adobe Shockwave installed).