Getting ready for Halloween? We were lucky enough to have a guest teacher come in today to get us in the mood for Halloween. Elizabeth Romatz, a Psychology graduate student at Seattle University, taught us how to make entertaining brain shots for your upcoming Halloween costume party. It was great to learn bartending skills at the office, even only for just one shot. Here’s how to make this tasty concoction below:

Ingrediants:

• 1 1/4 oz. Peach schnapps
• 3/4 oz. Irish Cream
• Splash of grenadine

Instructions:

1. Chill all of your liquors before making this shot
2. Pour in your peach schnapps into a shot glass
3. Slightly tilt the shot glass and pour the Irish Cream so it hits the glass before touching the schnapps
4. Splash the grenadine on top and watch the braininess ensue

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Are you looking to take tennis lessons from a real tennis coach? If you are, Stephen is definitely not your guy. But if you’re looking to have some crazy fun on a tennis courth which involves pelting your opponents with tennis balls — he’s your go-to-guy. Stephen Travieso is the creator of a game called Xtreme Tennis, widely famous in the Baltimore area and wanting to slowly grow here in the Northwest. Here are the rules for Xtreme Tennis on TeachStreet.

If you walk by a tennis court and see someone running across while a person is trying to pelt them with a serve, you know what’s going down — XTREME TENNIS!

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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.

Our CTO, Daryn Nakhuda, takes time away from his computer screens to teach us how to draw — his way. I’m not sure how many art classes he’s taken before, but judging from the video — I think it may have been a couple years…or more. Although, his story telling is always funny. Maybe he should provide public speaking training or even a comedy class to pass down his quirkiness. I know I’d be in line for that one.

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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.

To top off this nice summer we’ve had here at TeachStreet, Jenn taught us how to make some tasty chocolate covered strawberries. You have to love cooking classes that don’t need a stove or oven, especially since we don’t have those in our office. If you need reason to impress a special someone or just want to prepare a “nice summer time treat” — you have to try this out. It’s super easy and simple.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

Ingrediants:

• Strawberries
• Chocolate (semi-sweet or dark)
• Milk
• Wax paper

Instructions:

1. Heat your chocolate either under a double broiler, or TeachStreet style (in the microwave)
2. Mix in a tiny bit of milk after the chocolate has melted
3. Wash your strawberries and dip them into the melted chocolate
4. Make sure you swirl the strawberry to get it all covered in chocolate
5. Place on a sheet pan/plate lined with wax paper
6. Put the chocolate covered strawberries in the fridge until chocolate has hardened

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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.

Have you always wanted to learn how welding works?  Me too!  So, last weekend, 5 of us (including Twitters Courtney Johnston (@c_johnston), Jason Vonnieda (@vonnieda), and Jeff Smith (@JeffreySmith), plus my wife and I) took a Seattle Welding Intensive class to learn about welding, and to get get hands-on experience and practice with several different types of welding equipment.  In three words, “it was awesome!”.

Class was held at the Hazard Factory, in South Park (a neighborhood south of Seattle, near the Georgetown neighborhood), and it was amazing how fast the 5 hours flew by — we learned about the different types of welding (MIG, TIG and Stick) and got to practice with different machines — we were actually welding things together in the first 1-2 hours, and I’m actually feeling competent enough to do some work around the house — really, I highly recommend it.

The teacher, Rusty Oliver, has been welding for the last 13 years, and is also a sculptural artist — he was a fantastic instructor (he said that his mom was a teacher, so he learned the skills from her), and made it a fun day that I’m pretty sure I’ll never forget.

This video was from early in the day, as he explained the differences between MIG and TIG welding:

And, here are a few photos of us decked out in our gear:

Several weeks ago we blogged about our ‘TeachStreet win’ at the WTIA Fast Pitch Forum — today, our friend Chris Pirillo posted the video of the TeachStreet talk — it’s actually a pretty good 5-6 minute intro to what we’re building with TeachStreet, and why it may matter to you (and millions of other folks like you).

Enjoy — and, thank you to Chris — check out his tech/community site — it’s about as good as they get. And, if you’re in Seattle and you’re interested in technology, blogging and/or what’s new and exciting, you really should attend a conference he puts on called Gnomedex — it’s in mid-August each year, and I try to never miss it!

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A new tradition we have started at TeachStret HQ is having our employees teach one another something new every week. This week our resident Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Scott Windsor showed his softer side by teaching us how to make some relaxing fizzy bath salts which he learned on Etsy.

Here’s the supplies list:

• 1/2 cup Citric Acid

• 1 cup Baking Soda

• 1/2 cup Dendritic Salt

• 1 cup Sea Salt, Medium

• 1/4 Ounce Fragrance Oil of your choice (skin safe!)

• Measuring cups and measuring spoons

• Mixing bowls

SMX is in Seattle this week, bringing in web celebs like New York’s Allen Stern, of Center Networks — he stopped by TeachStreet World Headquarters today and shot a quick video (here’s the TeachStreet blog post on Center Networks) — normally, I’m uncomfortable watching these, but I really enjoyed this one — I’m looking forward to drinks at Paddy Coyne’s in a few hours, to learn more about Allen’s projects!

We’d be remiss if we didn’t ask Allen what he’s learning… his answer, “German Classes in New York”

A couple weeks ago on TeachStreet TV we saw the exciting demonstration of how to steal a penny. This week we have the long anticipated revelation of how to do this magic trick. Try it out on a friend and let us know how it went in the comments section. Interested in learning more cool magic tricks? Check out these great magic classes on TeachStreet.

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A penny saved is a penny made rings truer than ever in our current economic situation. Here at TeachStreet we want to equip you with all the learning tools you need to weather any economic situation. Perhaps you need to understand your finances better or need some help getting out of credit card debt TeachStreet is here to help!

In this episode of TeachStreet TV we have our wonderful new intern, Grace helping me demonstrate how to save… I mean steal a penny.

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