NBA Lockout is Over, Chris Paul Kicks the Games Off in a Big Way

As of Dec 25, 2011, Let the Games begin...NBA Games, that is...

I am sure all of you NBA Basketball fans are surely glad that the drama of this years NBA Lockout is history...Because with NFL Football winding it's way to a close, there needs to be some pro-ball action for sport fans to tune into...Chris Paul, formerly of the New Orleans, LA Hornets, currently plays for the L.A. Clippers and has kicked off this new season on his new team with nine assists and 20 points yesterday...That's the beginning of a new chapter for Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers following the crazy drama of the trade that almost didn't happen...In the end the Clippers traded Eric Gordon to the New Orleans Hornets along with the 2012 first-round draft pick which they had acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves...





The Charlotte Bobcats will be playing at home for their next three games on Dec. 26th, 28th and the 30th...The Denver Nuggets will be hosted by the Dallas Mavericks tonight and return for a home game in Denver on the 28th of Dec., followed by a road game at the Rose Garden against the Portland Trail Blazers on Dec. 29th... The Minnesota Timberwolves are playing at home tonight and on Dec. 30th, while on tomorrow they will be hosted by the Milwaukee Bucks at the Bradley Center...


If you are interested in the thrill that only live courtside action can give  buy Charlotte Bobcats tickets, Denver Nuggets tickets or Minnesota Timberwolves tickets at TicketAmerica...You can not only buy your tickets online, you can check out your selected teams schedule, view seating charts and find maps to the stadium... TicketAmerica.com has NBA Basketball tickets for the Charlotte Bobcats and the Denver Nuggets as well as the schedule for the Minnesota Timberwolves including maps and seating charts...

Viral Hoax verified: Jon Bon Jovi is NOT DEAD

Welcome to the viral internet age, where celebrities reach their untimely demise

Jon Bon Jovi was alive and well in New Jersey on Monday night, tweeting and posting a picture of himself in front of a Christmas tree with a date stamp to squash the crazy rumors that he was dead...This apparently isn't the first time that he has been knocked off, and thankfully for him it is not his last...Check out this video from the HollyscoopTV that verifies that Jon Bon Jovi's death was just a rumor...





Probably a good number of "This Crazy Life !!! 's Blog" have been wondering if WAHM Shelley had fallen off a cliff somewhere...No need to worry as you can see I am still hangin on, much like Cliff Hanger from Between the Lions...

Apparently celebrities other than Jon Bon Jovi have been rumored to have kicked the bucket including: Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, Johnny Depp, Jackie Chan, Justin Bieber and Queen of the little monsters Lady Gaga...But the rumor mill for this round of  Dead Jon Bon Jovi headlines was kicked off with some mixed up old news from a 2009 report about the very real death of Michael Jackson...

Stay tuned, because we are on the brink of 2012, where apparently according to the Mayan calendar all of us will be history...and then...The throat sighs!

Review Toshiba NB505 Netbook

Great gift idea, give the Toshiba NB505 Netbook

Give a new netbook as a gift and you can't possibly go wrong...You can even personalize your gift by choosing the netbook in your friends favorite color...The Toshiba NB505 is available in five different colors from Amazon... Select from blue, brown, green, turquoise or orange...The Toshiba NB505 is perfect for on the go computing, because it will fit right inside a backpack, purse or book bag...It features Wi-Fi networking capabilities and much more...

•     Intel Atom processor N455 1.66 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache
•     Configured with 1GB DDR2 (works at 667MHz, max 2GB)
•     250GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
•     10.1 inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite display at 1024 x 600
•     Genuine Windows® 7 Starter
•     Dimensions & Weight: 10.3 x 7.48 x 1.4 inches (WxDxH); 2.9 pounds
•     Up to 8 hours, 21 minutes of battery life (6-cell battery; 48 Wh)

Here's a video review of the Toshiba NB505 Netbook:

Here's an excerpt from a 5/5 star rating reviewer of the Toshiba NB505:

"Great little netbook at an affordable price. Specs are pretty standard for a 2010/2011 netbook: 1G RAM, 250Gb HD, 3 USB ports, basic video camera, separate Mic & headphone jacks, sd card slot, vga output and a very useful 8h battery life.

There are a lot of netbooks like this on the market, but what really stands out for me on this one is the keyboard, FULL size main keys with ALL the cursor movement keys: DEDICATED up, down, right,left, PGUP, PGDN, HOME and END. I work a lot with excel spreadsheets and it is really uncomfortable to move pressing fn+end/up orf+end/down or ctrl+fn+home, ctrl+fn+end, etc. to move around. Also scrolling with pgup/pgdown while reading a long web page is a pain when you have to press also the fn key! With most netbooks you have to live with the fn key, not in this case, the NB505 keyboard is really practical and comfortable, almost like a full laptop or pc keyboard, even do the position of the keys is not standard, they let you do the work easier and faster.

I also really like the case feeling: like some very soft rubbery cover, it looks nice and grips nice!

Windows 7 Starter is really basic, but you can find programs, utilities and tips on the Internet to take care of the basic "missing features" like changing the background image, colors, sounds, re-size pictures, etc. I got rid of most of the Toshiba utilities and also Norton, and installed MS Security and my preferred freeware home edition utilities.

I would have liked to have stereo speakers, but the netbook only includes a mono speaker under the unit...."

You can't go wrong with the Toshiba NB505 as a gift for yourself or a loved one...It has been rated at about 4.5 stars out of five by 318 customers at Amazon...And it's the most wished for Netbook at Amazon too...

MacBook Air Pro Review Plus Top 10 Best Selling Laptops at Amazon

Apple MacBook Dominates the Top 10 List of Best Selling Laptops from Amazon


Buy a new Apple MacBook from Amazon and you will be in the best of company...Four slots out of the top ten best selling laptop computers, currently at Amazon, are from Apple, Inc...When you compare the features of each, you will have to decide which feature is more important to you...Maybe you want the largest screen available or perhaps you want the lightest laptop because you'll need to carry it during your commute on public transportation or even in your carry-on luggage, while travelling...Once you have decided which physical attributes will meet your needs, then you can decide which operating system (OS) you desire to work within...I can tell you first hand that if you choose an Apple MacBook, you do have the added bonus of being able to run Windows applications within a simulated OS...Other features which are important to consider include RAM (which helps determine how fast applications will load) and hard disk space (usually measured in gigabytes and tells how much storage space is onboard for documents, applications and all sorts of files including videos, pictures and more)...And perhaps last or first on your list will be the price...The top 10 best selling laptop computers range between $349.99 and $1709.94...So at a glance I would say that you might as well invest in a new laptop, instead of a refurbished one...It takes all the crazy mystery out of what kind of life your refurb laptop may have had prior to your second-hand ownership and why was it ditched in the first place...

The third highest sold laptop computer is the Apple MacBook Air MC965LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop...The MacBook is the go to laptop for people that tend to work with applications that require heavy computations from their laptop like graphic designers, programmers, etc...This MacBook Air has earned about 4.5 out of 5 stars from 76 reviewers at Amazon...Here's a helpful review from CNET:





Here's the Top 10 List of Best Selling Laptops at Amazon:
(Price, availability and ranking are subject to change.)

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Apple MacBook Pro MD313LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION) (Price around $1140)

•     2.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 Processor
•     4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
•     500 GB Hard Drive, 8x DVD/CD SuperDrive
•     13.3-Inch LED-backlit Display, 1280-by-800 Resolution, Intel HD Graphics 3000
•     Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, 7 Hour Battery Life
•     Weight: 4.5 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Toshiba Satellite L755-S5349 15.6-Inch LED Laptop - Fusion Finish in Matrix Silver (Price around $500)

•     Intel Core i3-2330M Processor 2.2 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache
•     Configured with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 8GB)
•     640GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
•     15.6" diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LED display at 1366 x 768 native resolution (HD)
•     Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 5 hours, 42 minutes
•     Weight: 5.3 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Apple MacBook Air MC965LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION) (Price around $1230)

•     1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
•     4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
•     128 GB Solid State Drive
•     13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor
•     Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, 7 Hour Battery Life
•     Weight: 2.96 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: HP G7-1272NR 17.3-Inch Laptop (Price around $550)

•     2.10 GHz Intel Pentium B950
•     6 GB SDRAM
•     500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
•     17.3-Inch Screen, Intel HD Graphics
•     Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 5hours Battery Life
•     Weight: 6.05 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Apple MacBook Air MC968LL/A 11.6-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION) (Price around $1710)

•     1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor
•     2 GB DDR3 SDRAM
•     64GB Solid State Drive
•     11.6-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor
•     Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, 7 Hour Battery Life
•     Weight: 2.38 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Apple MacBook Pro MD318LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION) (Price around $940)

•     2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 Processor
•     4 GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
•     500GB 5400rpm Hard Drive; 8x DVD/CD SuperDrive
•     15.4-Inch LED-backlit Display, 1440-by-900 Resolution; AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB GDDR5
•     Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, 7 Hour Battery Life
•     Weight: 5.6 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Toshiba Portégé R835-P56x 13.3-Inch LED Laptop (Magnesium Blue) (Price around $770)

•     Single Intel Core i5-2410M Processor 2.3 GHz (2.9 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), 3MB Cache
•     Configured with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 16GB)
•     640GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive, 8x SuperMulti DVD drive
•     13.3" diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT display, Intel HD Graphics with 64 MB
•     Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 8 Hour Battery Life
•     Weight: 3.2 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Acer Aspire AS5552-7677 15.6-Inch Laptop (Price around $400)

•     2.2 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 Quad-Core N970
•     4 GB SDRAM
•     320 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
•     15.6-Inch Screen, ATI Radeon 4250
•     Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 3hours Battery Life
•     Weight: 5.74 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5336 15.6-Inch Laptop - Black (Price around $350)

•     AMD E Series Processor E-450 1.65 GHz, 1MB Cache
•     Configured with 3GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 8GB)
•     320GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive
•     15.6" diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LED display at 1366 x 768 native resolution (HD)
•     Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 5 hours, 56 minutes
•     Weight: 5.5 pounds

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon: Acer AS5250-BZ669 15.6-Inch Laptop (Price around $465)

•     AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 (1.60GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
•     4GB DDR3 Memory
•     500GB Hard Drive
•     15.6-Inch HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ TFT LCD Display
•     Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 4.5 hours Battery Life, 6-cell Li-ion Battery
•     Weight: 5.74 pounds

Select your next new laptop from the above list by clicking its link so that you will be redirected to Amazon where you can add it to your shopping cart to check out...Buy an Apple MacBook Air and you will be of many the satisfied laptop owners...

Reminder: Black Friday is gone so don't let Cyber Monday Deals Week at Amazon get away from you there's only one day left...