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Ever wondered, as I have, where the Sabrina the Teenage Witch house was? Yes, I know it's a TV show. Yes, I know the rooms were on a set. But they would occasionally show exterior shots of a white Victorian house -- and that is what I am talking about. Well on several occasions I've looked for it, and tonight, I've found it! (Granted, technically someone *else* found it - and I found their finding of it.) But since the web does not have any real answers as to where it is (the Yahoo! Answers answerer's sarcastic response not withstanding) -- I wanted to make sure others looking could find it easier than I could, and blogs are remarkably easy to find on search engines. Without further ado, SPELLMAN MANOR: The Sabrina House is 64 East Main Street Freehold, New Jersey 07728-2255 . At present it contains a variety of business offices, including the Monmouth County Democratic Party Inc . (If anyone goes to the house because of this post, I'd be interested in hearing...

Woo, well after a fairly successful Thanksgiving (for this family) -- today Sarah & I drove out to Fremont, Ohio to see the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Museum, House & Library . I'm using the fact that going really is extra credit in my American Presidency class, but really I just love going to Presidential sites -- especially the ones in Ohio I haven't been to. n.n Fremont, btw - is in the Sandusky area of Ohio, so an hour and 40 minute drive West. (Approximately the width of South Korea!) The temperature was 25 degrees today X_X this fact will come into play later. So we go up to this big fancy entrance, and wouldn't you know this is just the for-show entrance -- you actually enter on the side. Ugh. So we go inside, buy our tickets (for admission to both museum, and the house tour is 13 dollars a person. No student discount -.-) Luckily though, cause we didn't want this to take all day, there was a house tour in 5 minutes. I didn't want to carry m...

dmittedly, I did watch Sarah Palin's Alaska last week. And I DVR'ed it for this week. But as this article points out, that whole 8-week long infomercial is just a political ad keeping in the mind of her supporters how awesome they think she is -- except a turn on the head of political ads, they're actually paying her!? (Okay, finished with my oatmeal, off to shower before Geography and International Institutions classes,  then have a bunch of homework to finish before my Educational Implementation class!) Please, please, PLEASE someone tell me she is just a nightmare, and will never actually have a chance in this country to be President... Quote of the Day:  "But logic doesn’t apply to Palin. What might bring down other politicians only seems to make her stronger: the malapropisms and gaffes, the cut-and-run half-term governorship, family scandals, shameless lying and rapacious self-merchandising. In an angry time when America’s experts and elites all seem...

Haha, I read this article that my family's trusted source of non-partisanship, the Public Broadcasting System channel (PBS) -- has censored some of comedienne Tina Fey's acceptance speech. Past winners of "The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor"   include Ms. Frizzle's voice actress Lily Tomlin , Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and others. "I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn't thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight," Fey said. "My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me." Regrettably, I cannot find the COMPLETE speech -- and am studying for American Presidency in the Library cafe, so I would prefer not to have my sound on to watch this video at this very moment. Watch the full episode . See more Mark Twain Prize. (See approximately 12:30) The part that was cut, and thereby my Quote of the Day: "Politics aside, the ...

So I'm researching something for ASG (as I often find myself doing): what is the best way to dry your hands in the bath room? I just read a 35 page research paper (okay, power skimmed alot of it) that compared several types of traditional paper towels, warm-air hand driers, and the new Dyson hand-slot jet driers. The results were shocking! My first instinct when someone from ASG suggested I look into this, was wow -- the Dyson hand driers (such as at Canton/Belden Village Mall ) definitely have cool factor! I like'm. They actually shoot cool air in a jet to "scrape" the water off your hands. They advertise themselves as the fastest hand driers around, and the study pretty much confirmed that. Bacteria grow on wet hands -- and in heat. So you want dry, not hot hands. And the study actually revealed that all paper towels pretty much dry your hands the same (~96%) after about 10 seconds. The Dyson Blade awesome thing also dries your hands to about 96% in 10 seco...

Haha, top two favorite Disney movies? Beauty and the Beast , and Bedknobs and Broomsticks . But Bedknobs and Broomsticks doesn't get nearly as much fanfare as a lot of other awesome Disney movies, like Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music . In fact there's like nothing about it on the internet, unfortunately. So I thought I'd share a few of the Spells of Astoroth for all the internet to enjoy! Here's a bit of the cover. Haha, I wish I had a book that seemed centuries upon centuries old! Even if it was just aged that way. Today, at my elementary school - there was a video that showed how to make Ancient Egyptian papyrus. Yeah, gonna do that someday! The other page they show. Haha, anyone who has seen the movie will tell you they do not say the most famous of Astoroth's spells in his book. For some reason you have to get the accompanying comic book published centuries later? To fly a Broom: Clasp the broom with both hands. Take an easy, graceful, sideways pos...

Surprised? I know I'm not - lol. First time I saw them I assumed you couldn't remove toxins through the skin of the foot. And if you *were* going to remove toxins through skin, why the hell would you do it through your foot? That where the thickest calluses is -- these toxins would have to find their way through more skin than anywhere else on the body. I mean, how are you going to sell us this - the same people willing to buy the PedEgg feet-cheese-grater because we know that skin is so dead!? Haha, I just noticed that I didn't mention: I didn't learn this by first hand experience, it was on an AOL news article saying the FTC was fining them 14 million dollars and removing their TV ads for misrepresenting their product. Haha, Googling -- all that comes up is "real or hoax?" not even an official site. Apparently 20/20 did a hoax segment about them. "Kinoki" by the way, means "Tree Sap" in Japanese. Oh here's an official (quote un...

Another awesome college weekend! Friday night was Sarah's awesome Halloween Party, for which I finally came up with a costume and made it! Hahaha, I had so much fun with that costume. This is by far my favorite Halloween costume I've done in College - even funner than the Sandslash craft from last year, which admittedly was pretty awesome. Panda was Sailor Moon again (this time in her "Princess Serenity form" - if you don't know what that means, trust me you don't need to.) Brit was actually Sailor Mercury which went over awesomely, and Sarah was an amazing Avatar alien (which - though none of us called it this -- is actually called a Na'vi . The "Avatars" were actually the genetically-modified alien bodies the humans could control. I feel there is a widespread use of the word Avatar but little understanding of the words meaning.) The party went well, except Kayla had pink eye and we're worried she may have given it to some of us (Angela...