Pleasing. That’s the only way to describe this.

Starbucks is handing out coffee for nothing after years of overcharging for highly addictive substances. I adore Starbucks. They give health insurance to employees and their coffee packs more caffeine per punch. Those two things are pleasing too. The free coffee dealie goes down March 15th from 10am to noon.

Now for the bad news. Every huckster and scrub within 1000 miles will descend upon my sanctuary which will make the lines long. This will cause me to buy a pastry, as a coping mechanism, which will defeat the purpose of the whole exercise.

Starbucks, you are a most worthy adversary.

Channel 4 in the UK is has a new show called “Too Big To Walk?” It is a rip off of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.” Essentially they are taking a group of morbidly obese people and taking them on a 500 mile trek from England to Edinburgh.

I really hope that nobody really is “Too Big to Walk” because that is essentially the whole point of the show. I wonder what the catchphrase is….are they going to kick off people when they can’t keep walking?

“You are…Too Big to Walk.” Depressing eh. I can’t even imagine how angry these folks are going to be when they are sore and hungry and having to trek around the countryside.

I really hope they bring this show to the US…I love “The Biggest Loser.” I’m a big fan of shows that emphasize losing weight by exercise. I also love it when contestants get randomly hot.
Check out the show’s site here.

I don’t know why this is so incredibly funny to me. Maybe because I went to Arizona State, where I’m fairly certain vanity hit that asymptotic high point after which any further changes are infinitesimal in, like, 1987. I’m not sure why they even bother holding classes there anymore. Classes are to frat parties at ASU the way that television programming is to commercials at NBC: just the tedious filler in between the rapes value-added content. Asymptotes? I learned about them in high school. Vomiting in the shower without allowing it to clog the drain? That, I mastered as a Sun Devil, baby!!! (And a special welcome to all 500 visitors an hour who will now show up here looking for pro-mia content … here’s a tip: stop.)

Ahhh….

Article here if you care.

I hate my boyfriend’s Blackberry. I really do. I know a lot of women and men who are annoyed at their partner’s tether to their office. These “crackberries” create people addicted to the Internet even though a lot of people forget that 10 years ago we didn’t have all of these little electronic gadgets.

When my dog jumped on my computer and broke it and when I lost my phone (a few times) and had to use a payphone I almost had a nervous breakdown.

The guy, the Managing Editor of Forbes in this video actually breaks down and cries. This is an interesting study on how we have gotten obsessed with email/cellphones and other fun little electronic gadgets. It is a little freaky.