November 27, 2002

Pre-Turkey Day Panic

1955 Westinghouse roaster-oven

We've cooked our turkey in one of those since the mid-1950s; I never realized how much wattage gets eaten before we even start on the contents! 1335 watts? Good thing we only use it twice a year!

Oh, for crying out loud. I got an e-mail from Amazon yesterday offering me a Charlotte Church greatest hits compilation. What is she, sixteen? With maybe three albums to her credit in three years?

When cookies (computer variety) go bad: scroll down to the final paragraphs to learn how TiVo sometimes gets it wrong. It ain't just TiVo; how many screwy Amazon recommendations have you gotten?

Posted by Linkmeister at November 27, 2002 12:12 PM
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Hey, what's up with that severe weather alert in Honolulu (on your front page)? My friend is going back on Monday, and I figure I'd give him the heads up (not sure what Island he lives on).

Posted by: -e- at November 27, 2002 02:11 PM

Eric? You have a friend?

Oh, yeah, that's right...

<g>

Happy Thanksgiving to both of you!

Posted by: dan at November 27, 2002 02:41 PM

I ain't going near that remark. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at November 27, 2002 03:15 PM

You could probably get a few nice bucks for that turker cooker on eBay. Is it a deep fryer of some kind?
Never quite saw something like that.
Not that there's anything wrong with it...
Oh, by the way-
Have a Great Thanksgiving to you and your family!!

Posted by: toxiclabrat at November 28, 2002 04:16 AM

Check the link, Ms. Toxic; it tells a lot about the thingies.

Posted by: Linkmeister at November 28, 2002 07:40 AM

pretty fancy turkey thingy there.

Amazon's been pretty accurate with me, in fact sometimes it just scares me. Like, my very first purchase was a Kerry Livgren CD -- he was in Kansas (the band) before he went solo -- and next time i went there sure enough it recommended a Kansas CD i'd never heard of. how did it know i would be overjoyed to find new Kansas? this was in my early internet days and it rather freaked me out.

Posted by: kd at November 28, 2002 09:23 AM

Yeah, Amazon was just the one I could think of that tries to recommend stuff; I actually have had fairly good picks from them as well.

Posted by: Linkmeister at November 28, 2002 03:17 PM