jeremyfrombenton

Ingredients:

• 1 to 2 lbs. meat of your choice
• 1 pkg. onion soup/dip mix
• 1 can Rotel
• 46 oz. V8 or tomato juice
• 8 oz. tomato sauce
• 28 oz. diced tomatoes
• 16 oz. beef broth
• 2 cups sliced carrots (approx. 3 carrots)
• 2 cups diced potatoes (approx. 1 baking potato)
• 2 cups corn (fresh or frozen)
• 2 cups green peas (fresh or frozen)
• 2 cups diced celery (approx. 4 stalks)
• 1½ tsp. oregano
• 1½ tsp. minced garlic
• 1 tsp. chopped basil leaves
• ¼ to 1 tsp. crushed red pepper (spice preference)
• 1 tsp. black pepper
• 1 tsp. salt
• H2O as needed

Directions:
In a large skillet, sauté the meat in a EVOO/butter/garlic mixture for approximately 5 minutes; do not overcook. Place the browned meat and the remaining ingredients in a large pot or slow cooker. Bring to a boil and allow to simmer for at least 4 hours.

I hope the following tutorial will clear up any misconceptions on how to figure something out via the internets.

1. Find your computing machine (desktop or laptop).
2. Get you some internets or internets2.
3. Open up your internets browser (Internets Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.).
4. Go to a search engine website (google, yahoo, msn, etc.).
5. Decide on something to figure out. In this tutorial, we want to figure out ‘how to solve a rubik’s cube.’
6. Type your question into the search box. For example, type in the following question: how do i solve a rubik’s cube?
7. Hit enter.
8. You should see a plethora of links on how to solve a rubik’s cube.
9. Click on a link. If you are not totally satisfied that the selected site can lead you to success in your endeavor to conquer the rubik’s cube, try a different link. Keep trying until you have solved the rubik’s cube (do not remove the stickers- that’s cheating).
10. Think of a different question, go back to number 6.

So, you have downloaded all four seasons of Battlestar Galactica; you don’t want to burn a stack of divx disks to watch Battlestar Galactica on your DivX player; but you want to watch it on your new, swag LCD or Plasma widescreen television display. If you have an extra computer around, hook that expensive toaster up to your fancy television machine!

Things to do and/or order from amazon:

1. Get a color TV set (with a VGA or computer input- it will look like the monitor out connector on you computer; console, fake wood-grain TVs usually don’t have this input).
2. Find your computer (the laptop or desktop kind).
3. Acquire a VGA cable (just like the one that connects your desktop computer to your monitor) and a 3.5mm audio cable (it looks like a headphone plugin on both ends). This item from amazon has both connectors on one cable for convenience.
4. Once you have the above items, hook the VGA cable to both devices and hook the audio cable up to your headphone jack on your computer and the other end should plug in to the audio in jack next to the RGB jack on your TV.
5. Your computer should now recognize the second monitor (your TV) and allow you to switch between them if you go to your display settings; right-click on the desktop and go to properties, then click on the settings tab. Select your TV as the primary display or select dual-display. Do NOT select ‘extend my desktop to this display’. More information on this can be found here.
6. Change the input on your TV to VGA, RGB, or computer.
7. You should now see your computer on your TV. Windows Media Center makes watching your video files really easy, especially if you have a media center remote control and/or a wireless mouse/keyboard.

So you like the free internets radio stations? Here’s how you can record (A.K.A. rip) these radio stations to your fancy computer machine as individual songs so you can listen to them later.

1. Download and install Winamp (let Winamp be the default application for playlists).
2. Download and install Streamripper (after install, you may want to change the default save-to directory).
3. Go to shoutcast or icecast to select some radio stations.
4. Click on the ‘Tune In!’ or the ‘M3U’ link for your selected station(s). The playlist should load in Winamp automatically.
5. The stream should start automatically, if it doesn’t, hit ‘Play’ in Winamp.
6. In the Streamripper window hit ‘Start’ (if not visible, right-click on the SR icon in the system tray by your clock and hit ‘Start’) .
7. Once the ripped song is finished, Streamripper will place that song in the directory you selected in step 2 (or on the Desktop if you went with the default) and automatically begin ripping the subsequent songs that play until you hit ‘Stop’.

If you have the slow internets, check out this tutorial: Streamripper Tutorial. Enjoy your audio files- complete with ID3 tags.