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HUMAN BED WARMERS

A hotel chain is employing human bed warmers in London to help guests get a good night’s sleep.

The walking electric blankets are dressed in special all-in-one sleeper suits and are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn before they get under the covers.

Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep.

He said: “There’s plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop. The decline occurs partly because the blood vessels of the hands, face and feet open up and release heat.

“A warm bed – approximately 20 to 24 degrees Celsius – is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep. Holiday Inn’s new bed warmers service should help people achieve a good night’s sleep especially as it’s taking much longer for them to warm up when they come in from the snow.”

Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said the idea was “like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed”.

The five minute free bed warming sessions are also being tried out in Manchester later this month.

Awesome! If she can figure out how to get OUT of the bed, she’ll be set for life.

* UPDATE*

In case you feel sorry for Jay Leno, let’s look back at what he said on his show in 2004, when he announced that he’d be turning the show over to Conan in 5 years:

“When I took this show over, boy there was a lot of animosity between me and Dave, and who’s gonna get it, and quite frankly, a lot of, what I thought, well good friendships were permanently damaged. And I don’t want to see anybody ever have to go through that again. Because, you know this show is like a dynasty, you hold it, and then you hand it off to the next person. And I don’t wanna see all the fighting and all the ‘who’s better’ and nasty things back and forth in the press, so right now, here it is, Conan, it’s yours, see you in 5 years buddy. Clear enough?”

Sigh. Boo, Jay, BOO!

JD and I are deep thinkers and have intense intellectual debates about important issues of the day. Which is why I can tell you that it is with much thought and deliberation that we hereby announce that we are on Team Coco.

Poor Conan, given a job for a mere 7 months, then publicly humiliated as his show is ripped away from him and given to that mean Jay Leno. It’s like being dumped on your honeymoon for the crazy ex-wife that left you for a younger man.

And only getting THIRTY MILLION dollars in alimony.

I don’t know how he’ll survive it.

I use the term “fans” loosely.

Derek Dooley, the head coach AND athletic director of Louisiana Tech (and son of UGA legend Vince Dooley), has been hired by Tennessee to be their next head coach, according to the Sports Animal in Knoxville (via Clay Travis on Twitter).

Since arriving at LaTech, Dooley’s compiled a 17-20 record as head coach, 12-12 in the WAC.

So UT interviewed candidates, narrowed it down to their top picks, and HIRED a coach with a 17-20 record?  I’m confused, I thought the first number was how many you had won. That’s still correct? Gotcha, so 17 and 20 must be a GOOD thing. Wow. That’s nice to know.

In a totally unrelated note, I guess I should keep playing tennis. Turns out I’m awesome!

Do you know what this is?

This is the latest in punctuation. Move over question mark, see you later PERIOD – meet the Sarcasm mark. That’s right, a punctuation mark to end all of your  sarcastic remarks and ensure that everyone knows you are not being serious.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 12 (UPI) — A Michigan company announced the release of software Tuesday that introduces new punctuation to the typed word: The sarcasm mark.

Sarcasm Inc. of Washington Township said the SarcMark, which resembles an open circle with a dot in the center, can be installed on computers via a program that can be downloaded from sarcmark.com for $1.99.

This brings up some very interesting questions. Like -How lame are the people that need that mark to tell them they are encountering sarcasm? What if this really catches on? Will I be able to write a paragraph without using one? And most importantly, why didn’t my family think of this first, since it’s right up our alley?? We need to be more creative and pay attention to our natural gift for the zinger.

Between this and the “I’m with Stupid” t-shirts, we could have been millionaires.

I was surfing the internet the other day and found a guy that photoshops images for celebrities. The original pictures were good, but the retouched  ones were TA-DOW! And I thought – I bet my husband could do that.

Behold –

This is a shot I did of my sweet niece last summer. She already looks like a super model, but I wanted to see if JD could give her the Hollywood Treatment.

Yowzer! Ummm. Let’s just keep this between us. His sister doesn’t really need to see these. She has a hard enough time as it is.