Time To Ponder Your Place In The Cosmos

This video is wonderful.  It's my after Thanksgiving, pre Christmas, Black Friday gift to you all.

After a day of bargains at the mall, it is truly awe-inspiring and very therapeutic to ponder your place in the cosmos. 

Unforgettable Thanksgiving Turkey

It's turkey time again.  Thanksgiving in America-- a real Norman Rockwell moment -- but cheer up.  Here's a way to brighten the faces around your Thanksgiving table-- The bikini turkey won't keep Uncle Jack from getting drunk, or the twins from fighting with each other, or grandma from forgetting your name-- but it will make you laugh.

Before you put your turkey in the oven, just create an aluminum foil " bikini" for it, as per the illustration.  Secure the foil with basting pins and then stuff roast and baste as usual.  Remove the foil before serving ( duh) and give your guests an unforgettable Thanksgiving turkey.

Happy Turkey Day everybody, and thanks for sharing the internet with me.  May you all have much to be thankful for, wherever you are and whatever you are doing this Thursday. It's  Thanksgiving  day here  in America and I'll be cooking, eating, and feeling grateful.  See you when it's over:-)

Chistmas Gift for Your Favorite Cat

I am not much on cat toys, since I no longer own any cats,or rather since no cats own me at the moment-- but the Frolicat Bolt is rather cool and I must say that if I did have a cat, I would buy it since I think it is a very nifty idea.

So cat owners and cat lovers,  as the annual holiday shopping frenzy is about to kick off in earnest, I offer you the Frolicat Bolt as a perfect Christmas gift for all the pampered and bored cats on your list who long to chase mice, but live in houses and apartments   Let them chase lasers instead.

You can just flick a switch and the bolt will send a laser light hither and  yon for kitty's delictation for about 15 minutes-- soooo much easier than a ball of yarn  eh?  And the best idea for cats since catnip IMHO. Have a look at the video below and then order the thing,  from Amazon-- What could be easier? That's what I'm going to do.

Here kitty kitty.

My Laptop Crashed and I Burned

It's been a tough few days without my trusty HP Pavillion laptop.  It crashed  three days ago  in quite an ugly way so I finally gave up trying to deal with online solutions and windows Vista forums and help desks and took it off to my local " computer hospital" aka JWS Computers and a friendly  geek named Brian.  After two days of  picking and probing, Brian told me the bad news.

" There's a bad sector on your hard drive" he said, " but that's not the worst of it--.the motherboard has issues too.   To be honest, you would probably be better off getting a new computer".  "But" I screamed, "how can that be?  I've had this laptop for less than two years? Brian the unflappable nodded sagely and said " we see this a lot with these HP Pavillions.. I'm not surprised"  Now it is true that any laptop used by heavy-blogging, amazon shopping, hypertweeting and emailing me gets rode hard and put away wet-- but still-- 15 months is not a very long life for a laptop-- especially when the warranty runs out after a year.

Yesterday,  feeling like a junkie in need of a fix, sweating, shaking, and anxious,  I managed to borrow a laptop from my son the super techie. I logged on and began plowing through hundreds of emails-- there were sixty something messages in my stumbleupon toolbar, numerous twitter DMs and of course,Facebook.  Need I say more?

I have a whole life online--I have friends I value and whose lives I know much about whom I have never met in person. They are physically located all over the world and run the gamut in terms of age, gender, profession and educational background..   My online friends know things about me my neighbors don't, like my political views, for instance. They listen to my complaints and I listen to theirs.  We tweet and blog and digg and stumble and share it all on our friendfeeds.  Sometimes we are working together on actual  projects.  Other times we are just birds of a feather flocking together online.

Whatever we are, I found out for three days just how important my cyberfriends are to me. Call me an internet junkie, but my online peeps mean the world to me.  I didn't realize how much I would miss them until they were gone.... but not to worry  things are almost back to normal now and the only thing I have to decide is whether I am going to buy a Sony Vaio or a  Macbookpro.  I'll figure it out. I'm gonna do a little online research and take the advice of my cyber friends.

Twitter Sing Up Number Five

There is no telling what dedicated and truly addicted tweet-a-holics will do for fun. Some of them might even get together and produce a group video singalong and call it a Twitter Sing Up-- hey what a good idea.

This wonderfully mad video got me out of the grumps on a cold wet November morning. It is just delightful. It will leave you laughing and whistling too I promise-- oh yes and looking on the bright side of life, as well.

Forget the Prozac. Dump the whiskey and eschew the chocolate. Fight the winter blahs with Twitter Sing Up number five.