Category Archives: Blogs
Change Alexa's voice to voice of dead relatives. Vid of demonstration in blog.
Amazon is working on a new feature for Alexa that will replace the female voice that's familiar to all of us with one of your dead relative's voices. Apparently they only need a couple minutes of the ...
Jun 28, 2022 Smart Home Perfected / CC
Hocus Pocus 2 Trailer is Here!
I LOVE Halloween. The scary movies, the costumes, every single thing about Halloween! So yes, I am oh so very excited for the return of the Sanderson Sisters and Hocus Pocus 2! Disney dropped a traile...
Jun 28, 2022
The most-feared bug of the summer
Unlike the past two summers, the most-feared bug of the summer ISN'T Covid-19. According to a recent survey, 45% of people said MOSQUITOES. Right behind mosquitoes, 17% of those in the survey said FLI...
Jun 28, 2022 John Tann / CC
We need this energy
Don't you just love it when a crowd gets behind someone and celebrates the small wins? That's exactly what happened to this little one, when she started her game of bottle flip. The crowd got invested...
Jun 28, 2022 John Seb Barber / CC
I am the lone Covid hold out.
I know I'm tempting fate, but everyone I know has now had Covid except me. This past weekend, my folks came to visit. Dad started coughing with a huge headache with coughing and phlegm Saturday mornin...
Jun 27, 2022 amslerPIX / CC
Netflix reality show puts whiney millennials in the wilderness.
Netflix has a new show called "Snowflake Mountain" and it has nothing to do with snow. The kind of snowflakes they're talking about are young, easily offended, overly dramatic people. Families that go...
Jun 27, 2022 Rachel Collins / CC
Food delivery service helps save kidnapped woman's life.
Grubhub saved a woman's life. The woman was being held hostage in New York. She was allowed to order food from a restaurant using Grubhub. In the "Special Instructions" box, she wrote, "Please call th...
Jun 27, 2022 Jernej Furman / CC
The best month to have a birthday
I'm not saying this because MY birthday is in June . . . but someone polled thousands of people asking which Month is the BEST month to have a birthday. Survey says: June! June was the #1 answer with ...
Jun 27, 2022 Pratiksha Mohanty / Unsplash
Just take a moment to appreciate things...
Imagine you've spent your entire life never seeing a body of water. Now add to that you have lived in an orphanage your entire life. How overwhelming would that be and what would you think about?? Wat...
Jun 27, 2022 Mark Gillow / CC
Tips to save cash on gas. Also, the "Gas Tax Holiday" math shows it's less of a holiday and more like a trip to the basement.
I did the math on this proposed gas tax holiday. I wouldn't get too excited about it. With it, you would save 18 cents a gallon. The average size of a car gas tank is 15 gallons. If you fill up once a...
Jun 24, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC