jason on jeopardy

my sister's husband's brother's son -- jason zollinger -- has won his fifth jeopardy show and his sixth show will be aired in about four hours from the time of this writing. i am overseas and do not have access to the show and I look daily on the internet for video clips of him in action -- so far, nothing (hint, hint).
i am very proud of him and congratulate the whole zollinger family. if you are in the western new york area and haven't yet tried Zollinger's Restarant's fish dinner, this would be an exciting time to do so -- the show airs at 7:30 pm, but you won't be allowed to order anything while it's on, so arrive early or eat late!

crawling out of the dinosaur pit

my kids laugh at me when i mix up google, windows, and firefox. i haven't yet gotten to the place where i can confidently say that i understand the difference between a search engine and a web browser. they were otfl (for those of you who don't have teenagers to translate: ontl means "on the floor laughing") when i asked if windows used to be called ibm. (back in my early computer days there was ibm and mac). today there was something i wanted to do on the internet and it required my blog address. blog address? i don't even know what a blog is. so, i looked up "what is a blog? in google and before i had finished typing the question, google predicted what i wanted to know! see? it wasn't such an outlandish question. i found out that blog is short for "web log." an online journal. sounds very exhibitionist to me. then i read something that said if you linked your blog to twitter you would get more hits on your blog. just as i started feeling brain freeze creeping in, my teenage daughter came downstairs and i asked her, "what's the difference between a blog and tweeter?" and she didn't laugh! i think that means it wasn't a dinosaur question.