the smallest laptop -IN THE WORLD

I have an "EEE PC" by Asus. It's really not that exciting. But you would think otherwise.
Let me explain.
A year or so ago, when we had money ( or at least weren't in the middle of the economy breakdown), my fiancee and I went to the PC Micro Center on a search. Our search was fall really small laptops. He wanted to use his on the train to work, and in general. I wanted a laptop I could take notes in class with, and could bring to the library, or Starbucks, or wherever, and it wouldn't be heavy. We found an awesome machine (in fact I'm typing on it right now) the EEE PC. The investment was well worth it, and not very expensive either (considering that it is a laptop).
Most laptops are at least six hundred dollars, at the very least, for full-sized laptops. We got ours (his black, mine white, we are big dorks I know) for three-hundred fifty dollars each.
I know what you are thinking-WOW, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Well, it is. And as I explain to many a fellow Starbucks customer, every time I use it, or at the library, or at MSU, here's the deal-
I wouldn't use it as my only laptop, because there isn't a ton of memory ( I usually use stick drives when I work).
I wouldn't put music on it (I don't think the contents of your IPOD would fit).
I have uploaded pictures on it using my camera and a card and it worked really well, but then I made sure that they weren't saved on the computer, because it would take up too much space.
It is the most convenient thing ever ( I take it with me everywhere!)
It allows me not to have to buy a crackberry, or any of those phone things where you can be reached 24/7.
The computer runs Linux, so it is not Microsoft and has none of its programs, so you don't have to pay for all the Bill Gates licensing crap.
However, it has free software on it, already installed called "openoffice" which allows you to do all the microsoft like programs and save them in other forms, for example,
I do a doc. in openoffice/writer
and save it in word, and it's almost the exact same product.
They have the same thing for excel, adobe,powerpoint etc.
The internet is hook up or wifi, just like a normal laptop.
So, you may be wondering- why is she telling us all of this?
Well, every single time I go out someone asks me about it. Whether it is a 13 year old, who thinks it's a MAC because it's white, or a 72 year old who wants to try computers for the first time, I explain it again and again.
I just really should guide them all to this post. I mean if they already have a computer. But seriously, if you are looking for an easy to use, lightweight (2lb), affordable laptop, get on the EEEPC train! I also hear that Acer has one as well, but don't know much about it . ..

You Are What You Eat? (or watch?)

We often have the food network on at our house. It never really bothered me before. I enjoy learning new things about cooking (not that I'm any good at it) and new meal or preparation ideas. I really do. But last night I was sitting in the living room with Pierre and I realized, WE ARE SO FIXATED ON FOOD! Holy crap. I mean, it's ridiculous!
We watch food shows on MULTIPLE networks, talk about places we'd want to go and EAT, and all we discuss about our weekend plans is WHERE we are going to eat, and how we are going to get our shopping done. When I put it on paper (online, type it out etc.) it seems even more lame than it seems in my head. I know it is good to be educated about food, but obsessed with it? I don't think so. I think we have crossed the border into unnatural territory, and frankly, I don't know how to stop it.
We all have priorities, right? How can I take the two of us, two food focused people and focus our energies in a different direction?
There are a few factors in this that I do not believe are our fault. We are Jews. We are predisposed to being overweight by parents/grandparents. We have "depression" food syndrome, like my Nanny did where you ate all of your plate and more, and you didn't waste, because times were hard. I used to think it was just like a human garbage disposal complex, of wanting to keep eating,but i know who i learned it from. I'm not trying to blame, really, just to understand.
Now that I started a weight loss/don't die young/hoping not to get diabetes program, I am thinking more and more about food- how to portion it, how much i've had, how much I can have . . .it's extremely frustrating. It's like to one extent, I can obsess about it, and to the other I have to obsess about it or I will never change my health or habits.
Sometimes I wonder, and afraid for, in fact our children.Will they be so food focused? Will they have to go through the taunting and teasing and struggling that I went through? I hope for their sake they get their grandma (my mom's) genes and have lots of energy, a good work ethic, and athletic ability.
Actually I'd settle for one out of the three.