Urban injuries

HUGE umbrellas give a poke in the eye.

So golf umbrellas (or any umbrella over 58″) have become very popular for everyday use.  Mostly sold to men (no big surprise there).  And not necessarily because of big, but a lot of people are getting injured by careless umbrella use in cities.  But let me tell you, an umbrella could poke my entire eye out, but no way I’d let the other person just walk off.  I’d pick up my eyeball and then chase them down (bumping into everyone because with one eye I lack depth perception) and beat them.

Celebration of “real”

Land’s End catalog = new porn.

The Lands’ End fall catalog is porn for the heartsick man. Who thought sixty pages of stylish-yet-practical clothing would employ models who are disturbing approximations of the lovely thirty-something woman who doesn’t want to put up with your shit anymore?…

These are images more invasive than any Victoria’s Secret spread, because they don’t inspire lust. This is a pornography of regret, and the longer you stare, the more seductive it becomes. These sixty pages are a self-pity trap; any sane lonely man would do well to avoid them…

You have to look closer to see what truly makes the models special, though, what elevates them above Victoria’s Secret: they have wrinkles around their eyes. These women have laugh lines, taut necks, and that slight tummy that can be so, so sexy. These are not the airbrushed dolls of ignorant fantasy. These women are real.

Now I don’t know how realistic these women are.  Of course more realistic than the non-human hotness that are VS models, but still these women are still too good looking, too thin, etc. to represent the real woman.  I’ve not seen a Land’s End catalog in awhile (not one I get), but from the article, this woman’s pretty hot.

land's end model

TOO MUCH!

This goes too far.

People now want a slimmed down Santa.

Umm, I don’t see any kids growing up saying “I want to grow up and be fat like Santa”.  In fact, while I agree healthy habits need to be fostered early in life, how does having a skinny Santa change that?  I think this is ludicrous.  It’s just another way to find something else to blame for what is fundamentally a (in the case of a child) parental problem.  Yes it costs more (not really) and takes more time to prepare healthy snacks and meals than to toss your kid a Happy Meal, but its the parents’ responsibility to their children to do so.

cool

Pock-It 

Cool, but perhaps ulitimately useless.  I guess the money example’s good.  but the reservations, I mean I guess you don’t have to write the restaurant’s info because you kept the card and just wrote a reminder on the pock-it.  Dunno.  It’s neat nonetheless… like the Post-It wall I posted about way back when. 

Pock-It

Need help achieving your goals?

Put some money on it.

Coming soon a website (StickK) that lets you do it.  Set a goal, if you don’t achieve you pay a set amount (payment to go to charity).  The example they give is weight loss.  Regardless of what the goal is, this is perfect for me.  I’m at my best, most disciplined self when something’s actually on the line.  And my money is a pretty good motivating factor.  In any money based competition (e.g. recently had a bet with some buddies who could lose the most weight in a month, $50/head into the pool, winner takes all… yes I won, I CRUSHED), I get as much satisfaction from keeping my money as I do from getting the winning money.

Sharing is caring

Sharing gameplay between couples.  This is an article about a woman who shared a character with her boyfriend.  Only to find that he played without her when she went out of town.  And how annoyed it made her initially.

I’ve read similar articles about Netflix.  Where people are watching a series or have their queue of movies they want to see, one half of the couple is unavailable or whatever, and the other goes on without.  It’s an interesting thing.  Which is why I don’t share my stuff with the girlfriend.  She can have her own profile/queue/character.  I’m more than willing to do things together (game, watch movies/tv series), but you have to have your own stuff.  Even if you also have “joint” things.  Haha, same goes for bank accounts!