The Positively Positive

Recently I was asked to review the beta version of the Microsoft Hohm site. I had never even heard of it before and I was intrigued, so I went right over to check it out and sign up for a free account.

Microsoft Hohm offers a lot of Energy saving tips, some of which even I didn’t know, and I consider myself fairly well educated on the subject. I knew about things like changing out traditional light bulbs for LED/compact fluorescents, but I hadn’t actually thought about setting my laptop to hibernate when I’m not using it. Yeah, I know, that should have been obvious, but still, I hadn’t thought about it. You can bet I’m gonna start doing that now.

Other info I got was about how to make your home appliances more energy efficient. Once again, there were things I already knew (like wrapping a water heater in a blanket), but others I did not (like wrapping your hot and cold water pipes, too).

Now as an apartment dweller and not a homeowner, I can’t follow all of the tips. Those of you who are homeowners, I think will really see the benefits of this site. You get to fill out something called a “home profile” which asks a lot of questions about the energy used in your home. Then based upon the info you give them, they provide specific data on how much home energy you are currently using and how you can reduce your costs as well as your carbon footprint.

Overall I found the experience very educational, even as a lowly apartment renter. I can’t wait to have a home of my own to be able to control a lot more of my energy usage. I don’t see myself as the kind of person who will be riding a bike in my living room in order to run my tv set, but I still care about this planet of ours and anything I can do to reduce the amount of waster energy I use, as well as reduce my energy bills, and I’m all for it.

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Supernatural, Season 5, episode 17 “99 Problems”

NCIS, Season 7, episode 19 “Guilty Pleasure”

I was invited to take a look at a site called “Hobby-eStore.com” and give a review.

The first thing I said when I checked it out was “cool stuff!” as it totally reminded me of the tons of fun I had as a kid playing with various radio controlled cars, etc. My preference was for cars and trucks (yes, I was a tomboy sort of girl, can’t you tell?), but they have a really awesome radio controlled helicopter up there too. I never had anything that flew and somehow I think that would be a real blast….though maybe not inside, lest you have your mom (or maybe your wife or husband) screaming at you not to break stuff. LOL.

Overall a great site with lots of fun toys, for young and old alike. Whether you like radio controlled cars or want to try your hand at a Radio Control Helicopter, I’m sure you’ll have a blast either way.

current movie reviews

I was invited to check out this site and gotta say that I was really impressed by it. It is for Rogue Pictures which helped to bring some of my favorite movies to the big screen like ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’.

Going to their ‘Movies’ section, I found some really great trailers for some flicks I hadn’t heard about yet and now that I’ve seen the previews, I really want to check them out – movies like ‘Season of the Witch’ and ‘MacGruber’

I really liked the quality of the site – the previews load very easily and are absolutely perfect. Plus I like that they include other info as well, like a synopsis of the movie, statistics, etc.

Overall a very slick looking site that looks to a be a good resource for upcoming Rogue Pictures projects.

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