Storms

I love lightening and thunderstorms. The way the air smells just after a lightening storm. Everything smells "fresh". Maybe it's the ozone giving me a buzz, but I love it. We had one last night, and we're having one again tonight. It's by far my favorite weather, what's yours?

Plus my tomato plants can use the rain.

What Amazon's recommendations say about me.

After writing the previous post I was curious as to what Amazon's recommendations would say about me. I copied the above from their site. I find their recommendations give a lot more weight to what has been purchased recently as opposed to overall purchases. However, for the most part things didn't surprise me.

Country - I'm assuming for the Shania Twain and Coyote Ugly CD in my wish list and the CD's I bought for Paul
Dance Pop had me wondering until I saw that's where they categorize Depeche Mode
Romance really had me confused until I looked through it and saw My Fair Lady and a few suspense/thriller type book recommendations...

I use my wishlist to store things that either I want to read or just catch my eye. I also use it to hold CD's that I need to buy to replace my tapes, before I'm willing to part with the tape.

Anyway, here's my wishlist if anyone wants a peek...

Netflix Stalkers...

Sam Anderson has an article on Slate regarding NetFlix voyeurism. It's actually quite interesting, because I'm always interested in the types of movies people watch, books they read or music they listen to. I feel it gives a little insight into their personality. However, as a Netflix friend, you would get to see not only what they say they like, but what they actually rent. It would be like giving people a peek at my Amazon purchases and wish lists but without all the gifts purchased (since you don't rent gifts, I hope). So, the sample is a little more pure or uncontaminated. Of course, there are always the movies that you watch because everyone is talking about them and you want to be "in the know". However, when you rent the cheesy dreck 5 times, your friends would be "in the know".

Thursday Thirteen

I thought I'd start with an easy one for me...

My Favorite Thirteen Authors In no particular order... 1. Nick Bantock 2. Ken Follett 3. Tom Robbins 4. C.S. Lewis 5. J.R.R. Tolkien 6. Tracy Chevalier 7. Douglas Coupland 8. Clive Barker 9. Barbara Kingsolver 10. Amy Tan 11. Truman Capote 12. Toni Morrison 13. John Irving

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These Green Thoughts....

I've posted mostly meme's lately, mainly because my life this summer has been consumed by work. Since I don't write about work in my blog it leaves me with little else to write about.

We went to Thunder Road in Fargo last Sunday for Paul's birthday and played mini-golf and drove go-kart's. Paul and I have talked many times about how something like that would go over well in Grand Forks. I'm not really sure what the plans are for the Canad Inn and the waterpark area, perhaps they'll include something along those lines. If I had the capital I'd consider doing something like that myself. We enjoyed it so much we're going again this Sunday and bringing along my brother-in-law and his two boys. We always feel like Fargo is such a ways to go to do things, but realistically it's only a little farther than going up to the farm where his parents live and we think nothing of having to run up there after work some evenings.

I'd like to visit around the area a bit more, since I know we won't live here forever.

Blog Title courtesy of The Smithereens - Green Thoughts

I'm a copy cat... Otherwise known as couch potato proof

Doing a T.V. meme that Miyon had listed...

Instructions: Bold (or change the color) of all of the following TV shows which you've seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Bold and Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

I've never heard of a lot of these…

24
3rd Rock from the Sun
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
A.L.F.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Allo Allo
All in the Family
America's Funniest Home Videos
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol
America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Big Brother
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brady Bunch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
China Beach
Clarissa Explains It All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Design Star
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (new Who)
Doctor Who (series 1-26)
Dragnet
Due South
Dungeons and Dragons (old cartoon)
Dynasty
Earth 2
Eight Simple Rules
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Falcon Crest
Family Affair
FamilyGuy
FamilyTies
Fantasy Island
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flamingo Road
Frasier
Friday the 13th
Friends
Full House
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gimme A Break
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Good Times
Green Wing
Green Acres
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Head of the Class
Hey Dude
Highlander
Hill Street Blues
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Iron Chef (Japan)
Iron Chef (USA)
Ironsides
JAG
Jackass
Jeopardy!
Joey
John Doe
Kath and Kim
King of the Hill
Knight Rider
Knots Landing
La Femme Nikita
L.A. Law
Laugh-In
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: SVU
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Mad About You
Magnum P.I.
Malcolm in the Middle
Married...With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission Impossible
Mister Ed
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Family
My Favorite Martian
My Life as a Dog
My Mother the Car
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mysterious Cities of Gold
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numbers
One Tree Hill
Oz
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Perfect Strangers
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pirates of Darkwater
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Punky Brewster
Psyche
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Rhoda
Riptide
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saturday Night Live
Samurai Jack
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
Small Wonder
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Square Pegs
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
Teletubbies
That Girl
That70's Show
That's So Raven
The4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Ben Stiller Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Real McCoys
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Tonight Show- with Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show -with Jay Leno
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Thirtysomething
Three's Company
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Upstairs, Downstairs
Veronica Mars
Weeds
Welcome Back Kotter
Wings
What Not To Wear (US)
What Not To Wear (UK)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Witchblade
Will and Grace
Wonderfalls
Wonder Woman
Xena: Warrior Princess
Young Hercules

I added Big Brother, 8 Simple Rules and Mad About You

Octodog's Frankfurter Converter

The Octodog Frankfurter Converter has to be one of the silliest kitchen gadgets I've ever seen. However, I bet my nieces and nephews would LOVE Octodogs...



It was one of the featured gadgets on Hungry Girl last week and I was just playing a little bit of blog catch-up and noticed it. I had to share!

Mixtapes...

One of the blogs that I read had a post recently referring to mixtapes. Which reminded me of a challenge, per se, that my sister put forth about a month ago. A friend of hers issued the challenge of creating a soundtrack to her life. My sister sent me her mixtape song choice compilation a few days after telling me about it. I've mulled it over off and on for about a month now and have chosen a few must have favorites. However, I still have quite a bit to choose. Mixtapes that go beyond a specific mood are always such a process for me.

So I'm just a bit curious now, what songs would you include as must have's on your life's soundtrack? Which approach would you take, a birth to current list of favorites? or songs that illustrate what you've gone through in life? pick favorite artists and find appropriate songs to fit, even if they aren't song favorites? or an entirely different approach?

I've got about half of my songs chosen, and I've been working on the rest this weekend. I'll post it when I have it done.