Disney reported they are banning junk food ads on all programming directed at children, but…
All junk food marketing within theme parks will remain at the eye-level of a 4 year old.
<3 capitalism.
Asides (Page 3 of 4)
T1
Not counting running from swim exit and to bike mount line because I don’t know how long that will be: 15s
T2
Not counting running from dismount line and to run start because I don’t know how long that will be: 30s
Amped.
Her: You know that trainer at the gym…super fit, dark hair?
Me: Does she live at the bottom of the pool? Then no, haven’t seen her.
You always hear about how hard it is to find time to train when you have small kids. I think it’s true that it presents a challenge, but one that’s pretty easily overcome if you are disciplined with your schedule. Finding time to train isn’t the hardest part of training when you have small kids.
The hardest thing about training when you have small kids is that there seems to always be a cold, ear infection, or sore throat lurking around the house. I don’t notice it so much when the schedule is light, but when volume picks up and the body is more susceptible to the crud, I seem to get it at every turn.
How can you hate the free market on a Wednesday when it is the very existence of the free market that allows you to successfully pressure for-profit entities to remove their advertising dollars from someone who says something you don’t like on Thursday?
This isn’t commentary on what was said, who said it, or whether it was right or wrong.
But doesn’t this prove (yet again) that free markets are a good thing.
I skipped this morning’s swim, and I’m not even going to think about making it up. It’s a recovery week anyway, and I definitely needed the rest. If I have to choose between making a swim and making a run, I’ll choose the run every time. I’m considering even waiting until late tonight to do that, just to soak up more rest.
I thought you were supposed to get better when you practiced something? I hadn’t spent any time in the pool for a good stretch up until a few weeks ago, so I wasn’t too tough on myself for swimming like a fish out of water. But it’s been 3 weeks…I should be getting better by now. My technique is so jacked up I don’t even know where to start to fix it. I just know that it’s bad all over.
Think I may be headed for a masters class or a swim clinic next month. This is supposed to be the easy leg of the race, and I want to keep it that way.
From Jack Chambless:
With the exception of Geitner, who is alot like Hamilton in his contempt for us commonfolk, the other three….well just look at the names slowly and compare the person from 1776 to the person sitting in the same office in 2012.
ZING!
Sorry…I just had to post what I saw on Twitter today:
[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/JoseCanseco/status/127435700441321472″]
Um…sure. Ok.
Actually, this response was much better:
[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/CaughtOffBase/status/127436411858194432″]
Real quick…two articles in Mashable today that should give Facebook a clue:
Sean Parker (a FB shareholder) notes that Facebook’s power users are moving to Twitter and Google Plus
and
Users surveyed dislike Timeline.
What do these have in common? It’s the perception that users’ privacy is being chipped away too rapidly. For instance, I think Timeline is awsum! I want to look at my Timeline…what a great tool! It’s just that I want to be able to lock it down and only show it to a few people (or no one).
What if Facebook’s default position was to make all new features super-private in the beginning and give users a chance to adjust to them and open up themselves instead of forcing everything to be public and ratcheted down? They continually come at things from the wrong direction.
UPDATE
And teens will leave Facebook for Google+? I’ve said it before…they really screwed up by putting off that IPO.
Watching the debates last night, I noticed that other candidates have started to talk about things like auditing the federal reserve and using terms like “Keynesian economics”.
Good job Ron Paul. You started those conversations four years ago and have shifted the debate in some very key areas this time around.
However, I don’t think they are going to be talking about “the fence that keeps us all in” during the 2016 campaign. I’m afraid you may be losing it us a little on that front.
Thinking my money would be better spent this time around helping Newt stir the pot.
Google released a +1 extension for Chrome last night. Big news? I guess, but maybe not that big.
I’m surprised at a couple of things. First of all, I can’t believe it took Google this long to push this extension out. It’s nice, but nothing that Facebook can’t do for “Like”. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official “Like” extension out in the next 24 hours. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook acts like this isn’t even happening.
*UPDATE*
Here’s Facebook’s extension, less than 24 hours after….I should do this for a living.
*END UPDATE*
What I really can’t believe is that the +1 button hasn’t made its way to the Chrome base install yet. That’s something Facebook can’t do unless they build a browser and capture market share like Google has. Extensions are great, but they still require people to install extensions, and I’m not convinced that’s something the average user is going to go out of their way to do.
Now…when is the API going to be exposed so that my blog posts can show up in Plus automatically? Twitter has it, Facebook has it.
Well Google?
I promise I’m not going to have a daily Ron Paul post like I may have possibly been guilty of during the last election cycle. But here’s a way Ron Paul could could have put his organization and fund raising abilities to substantial use…
Switch parties and force Barack Obama to primary against him.
Just an idea.
**UPDATE**
I realize that’s not possible at this point, but it would’ve been an interesting turn of events.
This is so unfair to the rest of us.
“We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image.”
This almost encourages these ignoranuses and the wannabes waiting in the wings to amp up their behavior even higher. Why not take the money from AF and invest in some higher end clothing, hoping those guys will pay you even more to not wear their clothes? Sounds both reasonable and logical to me.
Now, I hope I’ve never taken my obnoxiousness to The Situation’s level, but I think I could have given him a run for his money on the occasional Saturday night at the turn of the century.
I’m old and have gray hair…not at all the image they want to portray for their brand. If I had any kind of platform at all, I’d go out and dress from head to toe in AF stuff. I’d make sure I was mic’d every time I grunted when transitioning from standing to sitting, and I’d make sure their logo was prominently displayed every time I bent over to pick something up and grab my lower back to aid me in standing upright again.
Cha-ching!
I’m not sure what AF expected when they targeted this market.
If you suddenly (never saw it coming) found yourself maxed out on your credit cards, what would be your first move? Would you call Visa and try to convince them to up your limit in order to save your credit score, or would you call the cable company and cancel HBO?