Two weeks ago I paid to have lasers fired into my eyes. The next day I woke up like Peter Parker, post-spider bite. I couldn’t climb walls, but I could see so well I felt like a superhero. For the first time since I was a kid I could open my eyes and just see. My laser eye surgery story isn’t quite comic book-worthy, but here’s everything that happened, in case you want those powers too.
The best gift of all on Tax Day is getting it over with
so you don’t have to worry about taxes for another year. Some retailers are sweetening the pot, however, with freebies.
This year, the National Park Service is celebrating their 100th anniversary by granting free admission for everyone during National Park Week, April 16-24th. That means it’s a great time to get outside and explore our national lands, parks, and monuments.
If you spend any appreciable amount of time in the kitchen you will, at one point or another, be confronted with a kitchen fire. Dumping buckets of water on the situation is almost never a great idea, but luckily Bon Appetit has some tips on how to prevent and handle various kitchen fires.
We’ve previously covered how cool automatic blinds are
. And we know the Amazon Echo is pretty awesome
. This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds.
Anker has continued its inexorable march towards producing anything that includes a battery with the release of the new PowerHouse electric “generator,” and you can save $100 on yours for a limited time.
Sig Nordal 