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Leave yourself a voice memo using Braincast

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I really like the idea of this new internet and phone based message and memo recording system that BrainCast has developed.

You can use Braincast with any regular or cell phone system as long as it’s US based. You can record reminders for yourself when you are on the go and you’ll get a reminder of your memo on your home PC or whichever account you register with Braincast. You can even organize your messages so that you can access them from anywhere. For example maybe you’re the kind of person who can’t remember what you need at home when you are shopping in a grocery store. Well, if you had left yourself the occasional grocery related message you’d be able to call your Braincast number while you were in the grocery store and find out that you needed to purchase bread or whatever because you were running out at home.

Yes, you can organize your messages by type -grocery, kids activities, work related and access them easily online or from a telephone. The service is completely free of charge.

BrainCast is a free message and memo service that allows you to record reminders for yourself on the go, and automatically delivers them to your PC at home for later use. There is also an online organizational system for storing your messages so you can access them from anywhere. Simply add the BrainCast toll free number to your cell phone and you can use it from anywhere free of charge!

My husband has a terrible memory. Every time he goes out to a store without me he ends up calling me a few times to find out if whatever he’s buying is ok to buy or for a reminder because he almost always forgets the shopping list when he goes out too. If we put our list of needed items in a memo on Braincast he could stop calling me 5 times each time he goes out and just call Braincast instead. LOL






The snow stayed this time!

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Darn! I write about how it’s been snowing on and off each morning for the past few days and guess what? It snowed a tiny bit yesterday evening and I guess it snowed a tiny bit in the night and unfortunately it’s been cool enough all day for the snow to stay on the ground.

It’s been melting away quickly before this … but now it’s staying. Boo Hoo.

I’ve had roses continue to bloom through the month of November.

Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t been warm here, although we have had a few nice warm days here and there. Nope it’s just my crazy roses don’t know when to shut themselves off, and before you ask the last time I deadheaded any of them was the beginning of August so they’ve had plenty of time to get the message and shut down for winter.

Finally those lovely miraculous blooms are drooping. I thought I might continue to look out the window and be amazed at the perfect flowers for a while yet, but I guess last nights snow and cool temps finally got to them.

Maxim write an article about Urban Myths

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Maxim Magazine has just put an article on their online site entitled “Everything you know … is wrong” it talks about Common Myths. This is the first article in their new section – Common Myth and Urban Legend Debunkkment.

baby birds in nest One of the myths that the article mentions is that If you touch a baby bird it’s mother will abandon it. They claim there’s not a chance of that happening. They quote an Urban Wildlife Director, Laura J. Simon, as stating that birds have a terrible sense of smell, so no matter how much of your scent is on the bird they will not abandon their baby. I don’t know, I’m not sure I fully believe that. I’ve rescued fallen baby bird before and put them back in the nest and the parent hasn’t returned. Maybe their sense of smell is bad, but their sense of sight isn’t.

Another myth buster questions the myth that if you pee on a jellyfish sting the pain will go away. Their expert says that while urine is acidic it might actually cause more pain and possibly infection if you pee on a jellyfish sting. I disagree with the infection part. As a nurse I know that urine is sterile (unless someone already has a urinary tract infection) when it comes out of our bodies so I see no reason why it would cause infection. As for it possibly increasing the pain- I can’t comment on that. I’ve been stung by jellyfish but I just suffered through it.

Other urban myths that you might be interested in reading are ones such as a recent question that makes headlines regularly, and that is that using a cell phone can give you brain cancer, or that pierced tongues give better sexual pleasure, Licking a certain type of toad makes you hallucinate, or that the Catholic Church is the largest landowner in the world – they claim that isn’t quite true since every parish is technically owned by the patrons of each particular church. Personally I think the Catholic Church is the largest landowner; or that the Great wall of china is the only man-made object that you can see from space. They claim that’s not true, that roads, towns and even peoples backyards can be seen, but I say that that’s with satellite technology and that the myth they are discussing is that the Great wall of China is the only man made object you can see with the naked eye from space.

I don’t want to give away the rest of the Myths they attempt to debunk. However I will tell you that for most of them I think that they are only half right. Why don’t you read the article and tell me what you think of their debut article for their Common Myth and Urban Legend Debunkkment section.

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