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How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee: and other techniques for surviving the 9-5 jungle
More than just a modern survival guide, How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee gives you the means to make your life more interesting. Harnessing the laws of science, nature, and human behavior, author Matthew Cole revisits and humorously reinvents the little tricks and ingenious solutions developed in the past with an updated twist for the 21st century. In How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee , you'll
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208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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December 9, 2016
while it was certainly fun to read about urban bushcraft , I don't think these whimsical things might actually be useful. nevertheless a fun read which made understand a bit about 'men'
June 17, 2018
A mixed bag. Some ideas are interesting and worth knowing, others are impracticable or useless. The directions on reading a coffee barometer are exactly opposite to the illustrated diagram, so I'm left not knowing which indicates which.
Interesting - you can cook in the engine of your car. Apparently there's a whole book of techniques and recipes - see Manifold Destiny by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller.
If you can ring your mobile phone while it's closed inside your microwave, said appliance is also allowing potentially harmful microwaves out when in use.
Sky dishes in the UK point 29 degrees east of due south. (Though I have observed some don't comply with this)
Useless -
Slugs eat mould off grout. Who wants slugs loose in their bathroom?
Various advanced techniques for shooting your office colleagues with rubber bands. Seriously?
Crushing a packet of fizzy sweets under your armpit at work will enable the bicarbonate in them to solve an underarm emergency. Cause buying deodorant instead of love hearts is wayyyyy too adult.
Interesting - you can cook in the engine of your car. Apparently there's a whole book of techniques and recipes - see Manifold Destiny by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller.
If you can ring your mobile phone while it's closed inside your microwave, said appliance is also allowing potentially harmful microwaves out when in use.
Sky dishes in the UK point 29 degrees east of due south. (Though I have observed some don't comply with this)
Useless -
Slugs eat mould off grout. Who wants slugs loose in their bathroom?
Various advanced techniques for shooting your office colleagues with rubber bands. Seriously?
Crushing a packet of fizzy sweets under your armpit at work will enable the bicarbonate in them to solve an underarm emergency. Cause buying deodorant instead of love hearts is wayyyyy too adult.
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December 30, 2024How to release your [my] inner bushman, and surviving in the real world.
A mixed bag of blokey tips on how to rediscover and hone your bushcraft skills - without the hassle of camping, foraging, and basically putting yourself out too much! For example, Car-B-Q (cooking in your engine), how to queue, navigate by satellite dish, measuring stuff with bits of your body, tracking down your lost car, using fizzy sweets as deodorants ... you get the idea!
This might have been better as a series of little articles in a column, not really sustainable as a book, but I will take away some good ideas into the urban jungle:)
A mixed bag of blokey tips on how to rediscover and hone your bushcraft skills - without the hassle of camping, foraging, and basically putting yourself out too much! For example, Car-B-Q (cooking in your engine), how to queue, navigate by satellite dish, measuring stuff with bits of your body, tracking down your lost car, using fizzy sweets as deodorants ... you get the idea!
This might have been better as a series of little articles in a column, not really sustainable as a book, but I will take away some good ideas into the urban jungle:)
February 29, 2024
Lame. One star for the testing your microwave with a cellphone trick.
December 13, 2011
I can see the point of this, I really can, but it's not really relevant to any situation that the common person is likely to find themselves in. That said, it is a bit of fun and little interesting facts like the title suggests are crammed into it. I wish the whole book was just fun facts like this, instead, it was stuff like 'How to cook your breakfast with an iron' and stuff like that. Which, lets face it, not many people will probably bother doing.
I get it was supposed to be fun and light, but I found myself saying 'I will never use this, why do I need to keep reading?' - Something to perhaps finish in one sitting or flick through occasionally.
I get it was supposed to be fun and light, but I found myself saying 'I will never use this, why do I need to keep reading?' - Something to perhaps finish in one sitting or flick through occasionally.
April 3, 2014
A lot of useful tips, although some are irrelevant to most of the innovative world since they are UK-specific. Also goes into great detail about some unnecessary things like he had a contractual agreement to make the book a certain length. Overall, I learned a lot and I'm going to put some of these things in practice.
December 22, 2010
Some good trivia in there
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