Have fun with this.
How long to figure out how it worked?
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged card trick, David Copperfield on July 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged British tabloids, Lionel Ritchie, Princess Diana, Three Times a Lady on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lionel Ritchie’s song, “Three Times a Lady,” came on the radio tonight. I have beloved memories of dancing to that with Blaik whilst on the road to becoming engaged, and wondered, as always, what or who the song is actually talking about.
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So since I was already puttering on the computer (don’t ask, don’t tell policy [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow! If you want to see Simon Cowell get utterly shocked, as well as the other judges AND the audience, here’s a You-Tube video for you. (I think it was the audition stage from Britain’s Got Talent, and they’re very different than American Idol–on the big stage with big audience instead of alone in the [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged comedy, humor, igudesman & Joo, music, Rachmaninoff had big hands on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
OK, I was sent a link to a YouTube video that was absolutely hilarious. I watched a few, then followed it to the original Igudesman & Joo web page, where the best ones are posted. Here it is–enjoy!
Rachmaninoff had Big Hands
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged europe, Ireland, Obama, politics, presidential election on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been rather surprised at how interested everyone here (Irish, Brit, French, South African, etc.) is in our elections. I know that as a world power, events in the US affect the rest of the world. But whenever someone hears our American accents, including in the ladies’ room at a restaurant, they want to know [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since I mentioned my computer dilemma earlier, I ought to put an update in. I went back and forth a bit, but the decision came down to the fact that I either had to go through a learning curve with Vista, or go through a different learning curve with Mac. And I’m tired of virus [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged computer, computer shopping, laptop, Mac, MacBook, PC, Vista on June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My computer is dying . . . fast. It’s been having weird problems so I knew it was coming (looks like the hard drive is going, not just the fan), but I hadn’t planned on getting a new laptop now, in the midst of moving. However . . .
I’m fed up with virus updates, windows updates, registry problems, [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged Add new tag, elgoog, google, internet on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s amazing the things our teenagers discover for us. Try these for some fun:
Go to Google.com. It has to be Google and it has to be the actual website, not the search bar on your internet browser. Type “Chuck Norris” in the search box and click “I’m Feeling Lucky.”
Check out elgooG. After you’re done examining the page, [...]