Cyber social mores

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! To catch up with all posts at once, happy bday Irene, Jennifer, and Jenny! I'll see Jennifer in a couple weeks in her seminar. I didn't see the 1st or any Harry Potter's with Lisa's Gang, though I clearly remember seeing the 1st one the day after tgiving in the plaza (with a friend visiting for the weekend). My boss had me over yesterday to enjoy tgiving with his family.

I've experienced my 1st facebook friend death. An American I met in Haiti died yesterday. I followed the details on facebook (his wife's page). Weird. And people are leaving him goodbye messages on his page. I always wondered what becomes of someone's page after they die. Will it be on-line forever? Will facebook be around 50 yrs from now? Where do they (facebook) store all those photos? He wasn't even a close friend, was old and out of shape, had a heart attack, so I'm not surprised. But bummed out now none-the-less.

On a positive note, all the post labels to choose from crack me up.

Best thing since sliced bread!

Okay, maybe that's exaggerating. But I am really excited about this website I found. It's a recipe website, but different than all the other ones I've seen.

You enter an ingredient, or more than one, and it suggests recipes that can be made with those ingredients. First I tried "nutella" and it came up with at least a dozen recipes, including nutella hot chocolate, nutella fondue, several kinds of cookies, and so forth. Then I wanted to try something a bit oddball, something that I'd have a hard time thinking of how to use, so I put in "rutabaga" expecting two or three recipes, and it came back with dozens upon dozens.

I figure this is a great tool for deciding what to do with random farmer's market finds (quick, gimme ten recipes for rhubarb!) or that can of pineapple slices that's sitting in the cabinet.

www.supercook.com