Possibly the best thing about my holiday

was that we got my mother a laptop.

I told her she should TOTALLY GO MAKE INTERNET FRIENDS now, but so far she seems content to lurk around here, which. Oh well.

But first: fandom seems pretty disability-aware, so does anyone have recommendations for a good laptop stand or setup that can be used by a person who is lying down? Does anyone have a friend of a friend who might be able to recommend one? All the ones I've seen so far seem oriented towards people who are sitting up in bed, which is not terribly useful for our purposes.

Second: my mother likes knitting, Firefly, science fiction of the fluffy kind (Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey), good design (especially spaces / homes / anything involving stainless steel and Scandinavian furniture), vegetarian cooking, and being thrifty about absolutely everything. Does anyone have any fairly friendly lj-comms I can point her to? So that she has something to look at besides my fandom lj?

I feel like I'm a part of something larger, at least?

My Zune is frozen too! Oh, Microsoft.

If this is some sort of spectacular mp3 virus, I at least want to see shout-outs. It does not help that I am reading Corey Doctorow right now! Oh no it does not.