<YAWN> Easter is over and Purim is over and Spring Equinox is over and ….

Oh hello!  Nice to have you drop by!  

I hope your weekend was quite enjoyable as well.  Over here in Ling Land, we did the usual Easter Egg Dye-Kiddie-Fingers blue and green and pink, a holiday brunch, quality time with the family, etc.  And now it’s time to start the day!

As you know, finding ideas about what to write can sometimes be a daunting task.  That’s why I’ve scoured the Internet for you!  Did you know that [Read more]

Do you inflame your network?

Eliot Spitzer’s rep wasn’t built in a day, but his monetary value increased over a 1 million in less than 24 hours.  Talk about an exponential growth!!

Over here in the Internet, it’s social networking that creates such an inferno.  I was reminded of this when I read [Read more]

In two words, I am going to reveal to you the secret for eternal bliss.  Yes indeed, only 2 (count ‘em, 2!) words:

Are you ready?  Atingle with excitement?  Riveted on the edge of your seat?  Okay, here we go:

"A full night of heavenly luxurious sleep couple with" "utterly decadent coffee upon waking up".

What do you mean that’s not two words?  ‘course it is!  Don’t you see [Read more]

You know, niche blogging ideas can emerge from the strangest of places.

No, I’m not talking about praying to the All Powerful Blog Idea Faerie, or dropping your freshly-made piping hot morning coffee onto your pajama-clad nether regions, or even absently-mindedly commenting to your darling children:

"No dear, we do NOT use Mommy’s newly folded clothing as the scratch pad for your Elmer glueing (ohmigosh wow, what a magnificent blogging topic!)"

Instead, I’m referring to tried and true testosterone-fueled ability of [Read more]

Pssst!  I have the ultimate blog-writing secret:

Do you think you can handle it?  Are you alert?  Ready to be amazed?  Can you guess what I’m about to write?  Read the next line and digest it for 3 seconds:

Microsoft is buying CNN.

 Okay, HOLD ON!  The above is NOT true….but….let me ask you: [Read more]

If you’ve been online for more than, hmmmm, 17 seconds or so, you’ve probably heard about Twitter - the nifty site that lets you communicate in chunks shorter than 140 characters. 

If so, you’ve probably noticed that people use the TinyURL function to easily let their friends know about super neat blog posts, websites, etc.

After witnessing this sharing about 817 times, I said to myself:

Gee self, it would be quite spiffy if I could proactively give my readers the TinyURL itself…and then encourage them to tweet it on Twitter!

And thus was born my quest that resulted in every one of my blog posts being prefaced by:

NOTE! If you enjoy this post, please feel free to twitter it with the tinylink (fill in tinyURL here). Thanks, I appreciate it!

Here’s how I did it and how you can do it too.

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Watch out Easter Bunny - There’s a new Hare-raising VeggieTail in town!

Oh, the looks of excitement in children’s eyes as their fevered imagination conjures up visions of:

• Chocolate eggs!
• Chocolate bunnies!
• Marshmallow Peeps!
• Crunchy stalks of broccoli!

Hey wait a sec, who said anything about Crunchy stalks of broccoli?  Well, keep this hush-hush to yourself…but the Easter bunny has a new hiney-kicking rival in town: [Read more]

<YAWN> oh, it is NICE to have actually snatched MORE than 23 minutes of luxurious sleep!  What nirvana NOT having to keep one ear open to catch the stray

"Psssst Mom’s asleep!  We can play Superman on top of the filing cabinent now!"

or [Read more]

Yesterday was my second class of Brazilian Jui-jitsu!

Now, if you’re not familiar with this awesome sport of kings, macho dudes and all-powerful mother units, let me explain a bit about it - basically you grapple with your opponent and try to pin/immobilize/win the bout.

Doesn’t that sound simply heavenly?  I mean, think about it - after hours and hours of typing at your keyboard and watching your children fling their cheerios heavenwards in order to test out if removing them from the box FIRST makes them fall faster….what else [Read more]

QUICK!  Tell me the first thing that pops into your mind when you read:

VACATION

Is it…

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