Someone has to surf the net while you’re working
Like Kelly I am going to get a new shiny smartphone! I applied to the same marketing campaign she did a few weeks ago and they finally contacted me yesterday for an interview. The fine people at Matchstick liked what I had to say so they’re going to give me a new Nokia 6682 to play around with! In the words of Peter Griffin that is Freakin’ sweet!
Dave’s Longbox posted an official review of Superman Returns:
Superman Returns is better than Batman Returns, but not as good as Batman Begins. It’s also not as good as X-Men 2, but it is better than The Fantastic Four and is about a third as good as both Superman and Superman II combined. It’s not up there with Blade, but it’s twice as good as Daredevil and five times as good as Catwoman. It would take all the combined good parts of Elektra, Batman and Robin, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze to equal half of Superman Returns, but Superman Returns would have to be twice as rad to equal The Incredibles or Spider-Man 2. Having said that, I’d say it was a little better than X-Men 3 and four times as good as Superman III and IV (separately.) It’s no Swamp Thing, though.
I hope that clears thing up.
Yes. Yes it does.
The new ‘teaser’ for Spider-Man 3 is out. Now if a trailer is a preview of a movie, does that make a teaser a preview for a trailer? Hmm…
… Oh yes! Alien black suit, Eddie Brock, Sandman, Green Goblin, Gwen Stacey!?! Um, maybe we should just concentrate on one story here guys.
I am quite tempted to buy Naruto: Ultimate Ninja for the Playstation 2. From what I’ve read about it, the game play is solid, similar to the fast paced action you would get in Super Smash Bros. The multi-tiered fighting arenas also interest me as do the team-combos you can pull off.
Of course it doesn’t hurt that the game is based on an awesome Anime/Manga franchise that I’ve been obsessing over the past year. Well most of last year, barring the months and months of horrible filler arcs they’ve been shoving down our gullets. Bleah!
The only thing stopping this Narutard from spending his hard earned cash is the fact that all the voices in the game are the painful English dubbed voices. Blah! Emo brooding Sasuke and whiny Naruto are in full effect. Believe it!
.. Oh yeah, and I don’t have a PS2 right now. Um, gotta work on that as well.
I’ve always said that when you sing Karaoke, you’ve got to sing from you heart. Well it also helps if you’ve got a good friend to back you up and if the two of you have an awesome dance routine to back it up.
I’d ask someone to translate the Korean text in the clip but there’s just too much flying around. So they’re not the best singers in the world. They at least sing with all they have and that puts them at the top of my book.
When we do barbeques we go all out.
I’m trying to find Nelly Furtado’s music video for her latest single Maneater. Her current single, Promiscuous, is catchy as the common cold and both songs have been rotating in my head all week.
I haven’t found the music video yet, but I did find Benjamin Screech doing his own dance to the song. Break it down boy!
Regarding my last entry, Maria had the following comment:
I’m sad to tell you that you have fallen pray to The Gap’s latest marketing scheme. They just made their sizes bigger. I’m an 8 everywhere except at The Gap, where I’m a 6.
In the past 6 months I’ve lost quite a bit of weight. Up until yesterday I haven’t purchased a new pair of pants or shorts because quite frankly I was afraid that nothing had changed. That I’d still be stuck rummaging in the back of a clothing rack to find that one last pair of 40/30 pants to try on.
The truth is I had nothing to be scared about. I know I have a smaller waist then I did last year around this time. I really do not need The Gap’s waist measurement chart to tell me that, but it’s nice to receive a little form of external confirmation. Internally, I can just look to the closet and see that every single one of my pants are loose on me now. From a pair of old Levi’s to some dress pants I bought at The Bay, all are size 40 and none of them sit snuggly on my waist, cutting into my gut like they used to.
Does this mean I’m a size 38 across the board? No, of course not as it will depends on the fit of the pants just as much as the waist size. Shorts designed to fit on the ‘classic’ or ’slim’ body shape will just be too tight for me. In those cases I’ll probably still have to look for a 40, or I can just find a ‘relaxed’ 38 and be happy with something that sits right and fits.
The Gap and many other clothing chains subscribe to this kind of formula. They’re not trying to trick you in any way, they’re just trying to get as many people into their clothing as possible. If that means making different fits to suit different body types so be it. Just as long as they get people wearing their clothes and looking good in them. Sounds like a sound marketing plan to me.
So I’m not fooling myself. I am not a simple chubby boy fallen prey to the diabolical plans of a sinister board of apparel pushers. No matter what anyone else says or believes, I know that I’ve lost enough weight to fit into clothing smaller then what I previously owned.
The size 38 Relaxed shorts I’m wearing right now don’t lie.
Yesterday after work I went on a quick shopping trip to buy some shorts. Partly because it’s summer time and I need to get some sun on these pasty white legs of mine. Partly because working out at my Physiotherapy sessions in warm-up pants is not the best way to keep cool.
For the past 6-7 years my waist size has been 40. I am a bit ashamed to admit it, but that’s just the way my body is. This of course made shopping for new pants difficult since most of the nicer stores end their sizes around the 36-38 mark. I’d be stuck falling back on The Gap or Old Navy to find suitable attire for my portly waist.
So when I stepped into The Gap that evening I sifted through their available shorts and picked up my usual sizes. Heading to the change rooms I steadied myself and pulled on the first pair I had picked up.
It was loose. Quite loose. I could fit my fist between the waist and the waistband without having to hold my breath. Holy crap! I could hardly believe it. Did I actually loose that much weight? Am I going down in size or is this just my body tricking me, making me think I’ve gone down a number but really I was hovering around a devious 39.
I asked the attendant to get me the same pair of shorts but in a lower size. When she returned I pulled that pair on and again braced myself for the inevitable.
But it never came. I managed to button up those shorts without holding my breath or any discomfort. They stayed snuggly in place, not cutting into my sides or restricting my breathing in anyway.
I didn’t bother to try the rest on. Leaving them with the attendant I proudly strode to the cash register and bought those shorts right there on the spot. This was the first pair of pants/shorts I had purchased in over 6 years that wasn’t a size 40. Hopefully it won’t be the last.
