Month: September 2009

  • Eight Spelling Mistakes Even Smart People Make

    I was reading an article that was titled “Eight Spelling Mistakes Even Smart People Make.”

    1. YOU’RE and YOUR

    2. IT’S and ITS

    3. THEY’RE, THEIR, and THERE

    4. TO and TOO

    5. LOOSE and LOSE

    6. IRREGARDLESS (Not actually a word).

    7. ALOT

    8. AHOLD

    Here is the link:  Link

    Which spelling mistake annoys you the most?

                                                                        

  • The Movies

    I took my wife to see the movie “Love Happens” tonight.

    It was alright for a romantic movie.  I would give it about a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.

    Here are some of the movies that were playing:

    1.  9
         
    2.  Aliens in the Attic
         
    3.  All About Steve
         
    4.  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
         
    5.  District 9
         
    6.  Extract
         
    7.  G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
         
    8.  Gamer
         
    9.  The Informant

    10.  Inglourious Basterds
         
    11.  Jennifer’s Body
         
    12.  Love Happens
                
    What movie would you see?

                                                                                               

  • Talk Like a Pirate Day

    Is it me, or do you want to just punch the people that are talking like a pirate?

                                                         

  • Save the Boobs and Xanga T-Shirts

    I have 11 official xanga t-shirts and I am going to use them for our Save the Boobs campaign in October. 





    I have a great idea for our example photos this year.

    So if you would like to help with one of the example photos, send me a message.  You must be 18 years old or older to participate.

    Note:  Xanga does not endorse this project or pretty much anything else I ever do.

                                     
                                          

  • My Friend the Anorexic

    In December, I will have been on xanga for 5 years.  During that time I have met and made friends with various people who ran anorexic sites.

    My first approach when going to an anorexic site was to correct everything.  I would just point out that their eating habits were unhealthy and were going to lead to long term damage.

    I didn’t keep many anorexic friends with that strategy and I wonder how helpful it was.  So then I tried the strategy of making friends and then taking the opportunity to correct things in certain moments.  I am not sure that strategy was very helpful either.

    If I thought they looked great at their current weight, I would tend to tell them in the moment so they wouldn’t try to lose more weight.  This may be horrible but if I thought they looked better at an earlier weight that was heavier, I would say that too so they could move to a more healthy weight.

    If you made friends with an anorexic on xanga, would you correct their behavior?
                               
                                                                                             

  • 8 So-Called “Chivalrous” Moves That Creep Us Out

    I was reading an article titled “8 So-Called ‘Chivarlous’ Move that Creep Us Out” and apparently there are some things women don’t want us doing anymore.  Here is the link:  Link

    chivalrous

    Here are the things that men should not do according to the article:

    1. Ordering my meal for me
    2. Letting me win at a game of Scrabble/pool/bowling when you are clearly better.
    3. Using a code term for going to the bathroom.
    4. Pulling out my chair.
    5. Carrying my purse.
    6. Asking my dad for my hand in marriage.
    7. If you’re paying for dinner, not letting me put in for tip.
    8. Helping me put me coat on.

    Here is the link:  Link

    The one that surprises me is that a man is not supposed to ask the woman’s dad for her hand in marriage.

    Should a man ask the woman’s dad for her hand in marriage?

                                                                         

  • Does Xanga Make You doubt Your Existence?

    We received the following message from our son’s youth minister via email that was apparently sent to youth across the country:

    “Facebook, the most popular social-networking site, users make and keep in touch with friends, post pictures, and update their online “profiles.” Other social-networking sites include MySpace, Friendster, and Xanga. Twitter, another fast-growing network, combines interconnectivity with  “microblogging.”

    Users write frequent, short bursts of information (also known as “tweets”) to keep up-to-the minute
    current with one another. All this online friend-forming is affecting teenagers’ development, according to
    experts. Researchers say social-networking sites are shortening attention spans, encouraging instant gratification, and making young people more self-focused. A British neurologist warns that extended use of the sites actually rewires the brain, causing teenagers to require constant reassurance that they exist.

    Is xanga making you doubt your existence?

                                                                                

  • The Ideal Boob Size

    Recently I asked everyone what their bra size was.  Here is the link:  Link   I mainly asked so I would know who would be the best women to ask to help with the Save the Boobs campaign and who would be better suited to just help us click the links.  (Just kidding.  Women with small boobs can help too).

    bra.jpg

    One of the things I noticed is some women told their cup size and then mentioned they were too small.  Other women mentioned that they had large boobs and then mentioned they wished they were smaller.

    So we had everything from the cup size of As, Bs to double DDs and larger.

    What do you think would be the ideal cup size?

                                                                          

  • Dating A Tall Man

    There is a new tallest man in the world.

    He is 8 foot 1 inch tall.  The Guinness World Records declared him the tallest man.  (I still wonder if he is anatomically proportional).

    He has mentioned that he is hoping his new fame will cause him to get a girlfriend:  “I want to get married. It’s really difficult to find a girlfriend. They are usually scared of me.”  Here is the link:  Link

    If you were asked out, would you avoid a date just because the person was 8 foot 1 inch tall?
                                             
                                      

  • What Brought the Buildings Down?

    This post was inspired by a Facebook thread.

    I want everyone to participate.

    worldtradecenter

    What brought the World Trade Center buildings down, the planes or explosives that were planted?