Tips for Cleaning Up After the Holidays

• Wine and fruit stains: Cover the stain immediately with salt. Let it stand a short time and then wash in cool water.
• Candle wax: Remove the wax from carpeting or tablecloths by placing a brown paper bag over the area and gently running a warm iron over the bag.
• Sticky labels: Spray the sticky surface with WD-40 and price tag and sticker residue comes right off!

Tips for Feeding Birds

• Ground-feeding birds: Form a small circle on your patio or deck with an old garden hose and spread the seeds within the circle – they won’t blow away!
• Suet feeders: Fill old muffin tins with suet and nail them to scrap lumber. The birds can eat right out of the tin and they won’t tip over!
• Hanging feeders: Use your engineering skills to hang feeders from cables and pulleys. When they need filling, just release the cable and lower the feeder. Then raise them up again out of predators’ reach!
• Tray feeders: Put a piece of nylon window screen in a large embroidery hoop. Trim off the excess screen and attach four pieces of heavy string to the hoop. Hang it upside down so the hoop forms a lip around the edge, keeping the seed from falling to the ground.

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Engineering Terminologies… from www.inflection-point.com

1. A number of different approaches are being tried. (We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.)
2. Close project coordination. (We should have asked someone else.)
3. An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach to the problem. (We just hired 3 guys. We'll let them kick it around for a while.)
4. Major technological breakthrough. (Back to the drawing board.)
5. Customer satisfaction believed assured. (We're so far behind schedule that the customer is happy to get anything at all from us.)
6. Preliminary operational test were inconclusive. (The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch!)
7. The test results were extremely gratifying. (It works and boy are we surprised.)
8. The entire concept will have to be abandoned. (The only guy who understood the thing quit.)
9. It is in the process. (It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless.)
10. We will look into it. (By the time the wheel makes a full turn, we will assume you have forgotten about it.)
11. Please note and initial. (Let's spread the responsibility for this job.)
12. Give us the benefit of your thinking. (We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we have already done.)
13. Give us your interpretation. (Your warped opinion will be pitted against our good sense.)
14. See me, or Let's discuss. (Come down to my office, I'm lonesome.)
15. All new. (Parts not interchangeable with previous design.)
16. Rugged. (Too heavy to lift.)
17. Lightweight. (Lighter than rugged.)
18. Years of development. (Finally got one that worked.)
19. Energy saving. (Achieved when the power switch is off.)
20. No maintenance. (Impossible to fix!)