Sunday, October 31, 2010

Week of Loss - Oct. 31

This week I lost 6.4 lbs., and am within 26.8 lbs. of my year-end goal weight (199 lbs.).

Continue to monitor my progress and other health and wellness information over at A Year of Loss and Health, Pirate.

And Now For Something Humorous

Heh.

Happy (gross) Halloween


No thanks. I'm not hungry.

Happy Halloween 2010

Here are some pumpkins that I didn't carve, but found online.

Enjoy Escape Pirate's 2010 Pumpkin Patch.

(It's a superhero/NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS theme.)

JackSally
SpidermanJoker

And the coolest pumpkin-related thing I found this year: PUMPKINCEPTION.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

I Saw This on the TV



Hilarious. I'm sure I felt just like that baby every time I was placed in my own little racer. Zoom.

Week of Loss - Oct. 24

This week I lost 7.2 lbs., and am within 33.2 lbs. of my year-end goal weight (199 lbs.).

Continue to monitor my progress and other health and wellness information over at A Year of Loss and Health, Pirate.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Honesty

Wish I was clever enough to think of something like this if the occasion demanded it.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Mesmerizing

I could watch this over and over and over again.



Amazing. Fun. Mesmerizing.

Build A Hero

A nifty little site allowing you to create a more "super" version of yourself.

Escape Pirate as:

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Star Wars, As It Could (Should) Have Been

Even though I'm a donkey at video games...this looks amazing. If only the Star Wars movies were this good. (Not saying they weren't good, but this is a whole new level of action and fight choreography.) The following are two trailers for the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, massively multiplayer online game, available next spring.

[Videos removed because I couldn't get them to stop playing automatically. You can find them here. Look for "Hope" and "Deceived."]

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Walking Dead Trailer

Now here's a great comic series being turned into what appears to be a great TV series.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Done

I give up. I'm done.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Day 19 - Yelling Discount

It should be socially acceptable for a person to vent their feelings or frustration vocally and viciously. Granted, some people will have a more natural talent for providing and weathering such outbursts of anger, so we would have to find a way to even things out. Compensation of sorts.

I imagine it would work a little something like this:

A person places an order for chicken chunks with barbeque sauce at a drive-thru of a fast food restaurant. That person looks in the bag and once again the barbeque sauce is missing. The person should be able to drive back around to the window, hand the restaurant worker a dollar, and then tear the worker a new poophole (verbally, of course).

If you don’t want to pay the cost of verbally abusing someone, you simply keep the complaint to yourself.

Sounds pretty simple to me. And you’d be able to use this practice anywhere. Don’t get enough extra butter on your movie popcorn, fork over a buck and let loose. Don’t think the neighbors should let their dog bark through the night, knock on their door, and simply provide the payment to give them a piece of your mind. Don’t like the look of someone’s face, give them a dollar to expound on their ugliness.

Sure, this will upset some people, but just imagine the thick-skinned character it will build. And, it’s not like they get nothing out of the deal. Listen to some dummy’s rant and get a free dollar.

Only problem is I’d be broke. I’d be handing out dollar bills faster than I could make them. So I guess it’s still just silent yelling at people for me. For the time being.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Day 18 - Least of My Problems

My knees are sore from too much time crouched in a stuffy attic laying insulation.

Not just my knees, but my eyes too. Old contacts mixed with dust and fiberglass. Not a winning combination.

And these are just the least of my problems.

What a day.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Day 17 - Books

I don’t know if it’s just that earlier in the year I wasn’t really reading books at the rate I have been this summer, but the last five books I read were amazing. So good that I’ve been reluctant to put them down unless I had to go to work or was too tired to continue reading. Those five books totaled over 3,000 pages, and I just tore through them.

Tonight I finished CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy. The story ends with a good enough cliffhanger that I’ll be counting down the days until the final book hits stores (August 24th).

Books in a series seem to be my downfall this summer. Back-to-back I finished THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST. Back-to-back I just finished THE HUNGER GAMES and CATCHING FIRE. Before those was THE PASSAGE. I'm in some sort of luck here because the second book of this series has not yet been written yet.

I guess I need to make sure the next book I choose to read isn’t part of a series. Only, looking at my stack, I notice that I’ve already started HUNGER by Michael Grant, and if I finish it I have LIES waiting patiently on the bookshelf. Another series (books 2 and 3 of the Gone series), another chunk of the summer?