Woodworking, like rhinoplasty, requires a trained hand, involves precise cuts, and gets humans one step closer to upstaging haughty woodpeckers. Chip away at avian arrogance with today's Groupon to North Country Woodshop in Burnsville. Choose between the following options:
- For $75, you get a Cutting Board course, which yields one cutting board (a $150 value).
- For $190, you get the complete series of three Woodworking 101 workshops, which includes five total classes (18 hours) that yield a tambour clock, a cutting board, and a shaker table (a $390 value).
North Country Woodshop's stable of lumber-shaping instructors educates aspiring and existing woodworkers with accessible classes, garnering favorable reviews from local press for its dedication to the craft. Woodworking courses allow pupils to outpace hyperactive beavers in a 10,000-square-foot woodshop flecked with more than 40 mounted power tools, saws, and hand tools. Throughout each course, students hone skills on top-quality equipment, including planers, jointers, table saws, presses, and sanders, also gleaning general assembly techniques and overviews of the various wood species. Using their newfound skills and provided materials, trained woodsmiths depart the three progressive workshops with a completed tambour clock, cutting board, shaker table, and ability to frighten the neighbor's impeding oak tree.
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The Groupon Guide to: Astronaut Training
NASA's manned shuttle program ended not because of a lack of interest on the part of astronauts but because so few people could complete the rigorous astronaut training process. Here's a look at the extreme tests given to would-be space jockeys:
Human Centrifuge: This giant man-spinner rotates thousands of times per minute to simulate the effects of the space shuttle accidentally getting caught in a giant centrifuge.
16-Minute Mile: Would be easy except that the astronauts have to race while simultaneously writing an essay-length evocation of the perfect sunrise
A Series of Riddles: To prepare for the riddles that the real space station will ask after it comes alive
Media Training: Helps returned astronauts face reporters even after learning the horrible truth that the back half of the moon is simply not there anymore
Forlornness Simulator: Not for space, where astronauts stay occupied with work, but for their return to Earth after the empty vastness of space has opened their eyes to human existence's overwhelming lack of meaning
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