Happy Gobble Day

Happy Gobble Day from the Shawster.  I hope you get to eat all kinds of goodies and enjoy time with friends and family.  Is anyone traveling anywhere this year?  I get to stay put this year as the parents are coming here.  They are traveling in today.  

On a food note, this past weekend Jules and I went to Greenhills to check out our new health food store called Trader Joe's.  It was quite a neat place and the prices were very reasonable.  They had all kinds of stuff that looked really good.  We sampled some cider and cranberry gel and both were quite tasty.  If you have one in your area, go check it out!  Trader Joe's 

Shaw's shout out of the day:  Spotted Dick Pudding?!?!?

Today's shout out goes to my BFF and her hubby for sending this one on to me.  I have to say I got quite a laugh when I saw this.  Apparently this is a real product produced in England.  It is called Spotted Dick Pudding as you can see from the photos.  Now who's gonna eat that!?!  I guess the Brits huh, Ha Ha.  They bought this in a grocery store in their area and of course the bag boy had to laugh about it!  I told her she needed to fix this and try it!  So lookout maybe this is a dessert they will bring to their Thanksgiving outing!   Have any of you ever heard of Spotted Dick Pudding or have ever tried it?  Looks like it has raisin' s in it, thats all I can tell from the label.

Where did I go?

Howdy folks. I've not blogged in a long while. I've been a bit busy. The group I work for goes to a big conference in the fall. I've been very busy these past few weeks printing for them. This time around I had the largest group I've ever had for this conference. So I've been a bit out of it lately. But I'm now resting up and getting back into normal life again.

This is old news now, but I am quite excited about our new president elect. I am happy he got elected and I believe Obama will make a lot of positive changes this country needs right now. It may take some time for changes to take place but I think it will get there maybe sooner than we think.

Shaw's Shout Out of today:
To a very snazzy store I like to go into here and there. It is the perfect woman store. It has clothes mixed in with kitchenware and housing ware and is all very hip and well designed. The store is called Anthropologie. Here in Nashville, there is one in the Hill Center over in Green Hills. Go check it out.

Brain Science

So did anyone see this on 60 minutes last night? I just happened to walk into the living room and saw it on TV. Since I work with numerous neuroscientist I found this very fascinating. Basically the guy in the main story, who happens to be a neuroscientist himself, has been paralyzed from a disease and can not move anything but his eyes and he can smile. He can not speak, but his brain functions just fine. They put this cap on his head and it contains sensors in it that can record brain waves, or neurons firing up. He then looks at a computer screen filled with flashing letters and thinks about the letters he needs to create words, and the computer records the brain waves from the cap and writes the words for him. Now that's pretty darn cool! It really was very amazing, he is basically thinking, and the computer is picking up his thoughts. You can read the entire story here.

Shaw's Shout Out - to the Obama slognator again. Because it was just so much fun the first time around I have to do it again! Also its a reminder for tommorrow to go cast your vote!

Generate a Barack Obama Quote!

"You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about Starbucks prices. Well I think Americans are tired of the same old dead bugs. Ordinary Americans believe in clouds, they want less
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