Michael Lee's Train of Thought

I know that sometimes it is easy to misplace your cell phone -- and I know that more than once I've looked for another phone so I can call my cell phone. Another way to do this is to go through this website -- which means you don't even have to find another phone.

Labels: gadgets, webapps

There've been a couple of blog entries about pizza makers like this one for Pizzaz recently, and I had to stand up for it. A couple of years ago I picked up one as that has been one of the main things that I use an oven. And for your basic frozen pizzas, I've generally been very happy with it, and it definitely doesn't heat up the room in the way that this article describes.

But for the price of the device -- and at Amazon it runs you about $35, I'm quite happy with it given the number of frozen pizzas that I'm likely to go through.

Labels: food, gadgets

One of the things we picked up this holiday season was a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker, and I'm an immediate fan. My childhood memories of ice cream makers were the old manual hand-cranked kind; and while they're fond memories, it took FOREVER to make ice cream. And it was a lot of work, and messy as it was turning a crank, with ice and salt everywhere. I suppose that meant you earned the calories that would be in any result, but not something that you could really do with any regularity.

But this machine is astonishingly fast -- it's quick enough that you can start the machine running after dinner, and it'll be ready in a half hour or so -- just long enough so you've digested your main meal, and are ready for a dessert. And it is portable enough that you can bring it to a party, and it's not terribly expensive -- especially when you consider the price of your higher-quality ice cream.

Labels: food, gadgets