Rhonda Bracey: At Random

David Pogue’s technology blog on The New York Times website alerted me to this amazing technology. I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or not… especially if it’s used to ‘correct’ errors made by long-dead musicians.

Anyhow, see for yourself (7 mins).

I freaked out a friend of mine this morning. She lives on the east coast of the US, and I live on the west coast of Australia. Here’s an edited version of the IM chat we had this morning:

Me: So, when were you going to tell me you were in hospital????
Her: Excuse me??? I just got admitted an hour ago!
Me: Exactly! I’m psychic! 😉
Her: You had to have talked to [husband]
Me: Nope
Her: No one else knows I’m here! ???
Me: Yes they do… keep guessing… not [your son] either… keep thinking
Her: Who?
Me: lol
Her: Heck, they only decided to admit me 3 hrs ago
Me: You drove yourself there, right?
Her: Well, yeah. You got a tracer on my car?
Me: And you have a blood clot, right?
Her: Yes
Me: And you’ve had swollen legs for 3 weeks, right?
Her: Yes. OK, this is freaking me out
Me: And you’re not meant to go up stairs, right?
Her: Right
Her: I didn’t even twitter [Aside: I seriously think she was panicking by now!!]
Me: I can’t keep you in suspense too much longer… who’s birthday is it today?
Her: Oh, duh.

By some weird coincidence, I’d emailed birthday wishes to a friend of hers 24 hours too early. Her friend’s reply email told me the details (including how she’d driven my friend’s husband and son to the hospital just a few minutes earlier), so I decided to play games with her head!

You can run, but you can’t hide! Even from half a world away…

BTW, diagnosis: DVT.

Google Australia (http://www.google.com.au) has changed its logo for ANZAC Day (25 April in both Australia and New Zealand). Thanks Google!

Sue, mother of two cats, sent me this link to a great YouTube video (7 mins). I particularly liked the ‘tuna is cocaine for cats’ reference! Thanks for sharing, Sue.

Last year I linked to the YouTube video of the mobile phone salesman who had the most amazing voice. This year, “Britain’s Got Talent” has discovered another one—13 year old Andrew Johnston, a schoolboy bullied at school for his singing. My biggest concern is that this amazing voice will change dramatically when it breaks. Awesome.

I had an interesting conversation with Greg (my butcher) this afternoon and learned something I didn’t know. I popped in to pick up some chicken carcasses (it’s nearly making-chicken-stock-for-winter-soup time), and he said he was out of them at the moment as one of his regulars had come in on Saturday and bought up the last of his supply for the dogs.

I commented that I thought you couldn’t feed a dog chicken bones as there’s a risk of them splintering in the dog’s throat. Greg said that ‘myth’ that only applies to cooked chicken and lamb bones. If the chicken or lamb bone is uncooked, it seems it’s OK for dogs.

I don’t have a dog, and I’m not sure I’d be willing to experiment on it if I did, but I thought I’d share this little snippet of “stuff I didn’t know before”.