Old as Hell

But always wonderful.

Huwuff

First off, I'm gonna be honest, some people who know personally know I like girls who the media would call "chubby" at the very least. I like a girl to at be healthy, and to be really honest, I'd rather (biblically) know a woman is fat than one with pelvic bones you could hang a coat on (read skinny).

I have a few other criteria (read "no skanks") that certainly come in to play now and then, but for the most part, none of those matter with what I'm going to talk about here.

Note the before and after here. Supposedly she got up to 267 at her max which is certainly on the large side. Don't get me wrong, if you're not healthy and you're overweight, you'd probably do best to lose some weight. That being said, 150 pounds in a year is a lot of weight in a short span of time. Hate to break it to the dieting world, but ten pounds a month is pretty impressive, any more than that and it's probably not a good thing to be doing to your body without a doctor watching you like a hawk.

Monologue about the weight loss aside...

Note how she's rail thin, but more importantly...

Could she not have lost the weight without ending up looking like a total skank?

I can't say she was ever my cup of tea (skank, etc.), but now? Good God. Besides that, any good plastic surgeon (note the horrifying breasts) would have suggested a nose job before sewing cantaloupes into her.

Random Note

While Blogger is letting me use Zulu/UTC/GMT time, I'm sad that I can't use 24-hour format for that extra flair. Oh well.

I know it's wrong to laugh at other people's misfortune, but...

This whole BlackBerry thing is giving me the grins.

I'm not bashing the tech generation, God knows I feed it myself, but the fact that there are indeed people wigging out about this is awesome.

Part of this scare, even though it wasn't as severe and interruption as it could have been, was more about a potential danger. With eight-million customers to this service worldwide, a huge swath of those people being in the financial districts of companies and markets (The Guardian notes that there were worries in the stock markets of the US and UK about a lack of communication for major deals), one would have to wonder what would happen if this was worse. Given that the American market can void its metaphysical bowels over nothing. Let's not forget that there was a talk about skyrocketing natural gas prices over something that happens on at least a monthly basis anyway. Since the story completely evaporated after it turned out to just be a huge wad of mindless hype, many people might not remember that nothing happened.

God only knows what could happen if something with an actual impact occurred. In the meantime, I don't really have a problem chuckling at the mental image of men in suits swearing at a little plastic thing because they can't check their e-mail.