We have vacuums, juicers, blenders, dishwashers, lawnmowers, leaf blowers, bread machines, coffee makers, ice cream makers, food processors, microwave ovens, and much more.
Tournament officials held an army of vacuums at the ready: by my count, twenty-two leaf blower-looking machines, half a dozen mini-zambonis, three lawn mowers, and five blocks of heaters.
The discovery has prompted state epidemiologists to enter Mrs. Lundgren's home again, this time with leaf-blower-like machines to stir up microscopic particles, though all of her mail tested negative for anthrax spores days ago, and finding older mail she threw out weeks ago would be virtually impossible.
One person will operate the blower, turn the machine on and off and fill the hopper with insulation.
As Ricky Gervais made especially clear with "The Office," mundane modern sounds -- like the blower in a copy machine, the clunking ice machine of a fridge, or the classic scream of a car alarm -- lend useful absurdism to humor that is inevitably too mannered.
With foam-block sets, a makeshift greenscreen, and a leaf blower as a wind machine, the San Francisco couple filmed the final cut of their latest, "Like a Million," in one take.
Then have the blower operator turn the machine on and slowly start putting insulation into the hopper.
Thrilling news has emerged in the Los Angeles area, where the South Coast Air Quality Management District is encouraging landscapers to replace their old, dirty leaf blowers with new machines that run cleaner and more quietly.
"The No. 1 rule with a snow blower is that if the machine is running, you never, ever, try to pull anything out of it by hand," he said.
