"Sit up! Don't slouch!"

If you read my post last week about not playing with your food, you may have come to the conclusion that I'm all for becoming your father/mother. Well, nothing is further from the truth!

Take this one for example. I'm all for slouching! If you watched me all day, I'd be surprised if you got me sitting up for 30 minutes. Total.

So I'm really happy to report that slouching while sitting is not bad for you.

Now, if I could just figure out the health benefits of not showering for weeks at a time, I'd be all set...

A great comic strip

Frazz is my new favorite comic, and following is just an example of why! (I just love wordplay.)



What's your favorite comic strip?

Black Friday

Okay, so this story says that Black Friday is so named because stores offer big sales to "go in the black." It appears that for some people, Black Friday just gets you black and blue.

From the linked story - We saw one woman who had been trampled limp away in tears.

Me? I think I'm glad I slept in...

"Don't play with your food!"

Now, how many times have you heard your parents tell you that? Can you even count that high?

And if you're a parent, have you told that to your kid(s) lately?

Well, guess what? You can't anymore, because then you'd be a hypocrite! At least, you would be if you happen to buy Lego Eggo Waffles. According to the box, you "Toast, Break, and Build." I suppose now they'll be coming out with Aunt Jemima Mortar?

Actually, for you traditionalists, there is hope! I just looked on the Kelloggs web site and guess what? There is no mention of such a product. I know they exist, or at least used to, because I saw a box in my own home! I'm just hoping they flopped and Kelloggs fired the product manager. I can just see my son barricading himself in his room using waffles and syrup.

Let me know if you happen to see any in your local Toy Store frozen food section...

Is it just me, or...

does something stinketh in Whoville?

Have you noticed that there now seem to be a whole lot more Christmas decorations up than Thanksgiving decorations? I can't even think of a place where I've seen Thanksgiving decorations. It appears to me that society has gone from being thankful to gimme, gimme, gimme. Straight from gimme candy to gimme gifts. Of course, that's just the 'half-empty' side of me talking. Still, it's a little weird that Thanksgiving is hardly even acknowledged...

Please tell me I'm wrong!

Dangerous Drinks

I used to work with someone who would tell me that my Diet Coke habit will kill me someday. Well, based on this website, I guess she was right! All it would take is me drinking 300 cans of caffeinated Diet Coke to take me down.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for me, I guess) there are two problems with me dying by Diet Coke. First is that you need to drink the 300 cans in "a short period of time," and by short, I'm guessing that means within a couple of hours (okay, so I can handle about 2 1/2 cans of soda per minute...). The second problem is that I drink Caffeine-Free Diet Coke. Oh, well. Not going to kick the bucket this way. So what's it going to take to kill you off? :)

Question of the Day

"If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?" -- anonymous

"That's not a knife..."

With all due respect to Crocodile Dundee (whatever respect he's due), what he has isn't a knife. THIS is a knife.

And just what is a busy, active computer lovin' geek like me supposed to do?

Too busy to exercise because you gotta blog?

Too busy to build that website because you gotta build up your endurance?

Well fret no more. Here is the answer!

Okay, I have to admit it: The Weather Troll blows away the Weather Pixie

At least for today.

While NatGo's Weather Troll frolics in the rain soaked grass (at a nice comfy 65F or so -- I was just running, 65F feels comfy to me), the Weather Pixie of Salt Lake International Airport at this very moment is standing out in a lightning and rain storm. With an Apple iBook. Holding a presumably metal umbrella.

So score a win for the Weather Troll today.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to think about the naked Weather Troll when the temp is 20F. His hair is not the only thing that's going to be blue.