Geez, watches are such boring, pedestrian things; I mean, they just tell time, don’t they?
Of course, the geeky thing to do would be to replace it with one of the new SPOT wireless watches, which give you weather, news headlines, calendar reminders, etc. via MSN. Because the content for such watches is limited at this time, many will wait before dumping their old-fashioned timepieces (and pay $10 a month for a subscription to a watch).
But SpotStop.com points to an advertisement from watch-maker Fossil and MSN that suggests possible future content.
Next up, for sure, for SPOT watches will be sports scores (can’t wait, huh?). Other content coming soon: traffic conditions and alerts; a dining guide (to nearby restaurants); a movie time / location finder; and “daily diversions” (horoscopes, lottery numbers, words of the day, etc.).
An Unusually Brazen Dirty Tricks Operation
Looks like the “vast right-wing conspiracy” crew are back in business down south.
Writing in Salon magazine, Joe Conason prepares readers for what is sure to become “an unusually nasty presidential election”, pointing to this ad by Citizens United, written and produced by the same group of “consultants” who brought Paula Jones, Willie Horton and Whitewater to the world.
In the coming months, we will all become witness to a “scorched earth campaign”, the likes of which we’ve not seen since the last Presidential election, the focus of which will most certainly play on the resentment of U.S. citizens towards the French, and gays and lesbians. If Bushies’ handlers are really really lucky, they’ll even dredge up a sex scandal.
Housekeeping, and the place is looking much cleaner
Note the addition of New York Times contributing writer (to the Jersey section), Debra Galant‘s very readable personal weblog, to your right under Weblogs / United States. Ms. Galant has set for herself the task of explaining the universe to her many avid readers. No small task that.
And congratulations, too, to Ms. Galant on the birth of her 319-page, 81,668-word novel, which she is …
“almost ready to send it out into the world. I feel like doing one of those end-zone victory dances to a roaring crowd. And in a writerly sort of way, I am doing a victory dance. That is, I’m calling up friends with the news. My friend Brooke just dropped off a bottle of champagne. In a way, I feel lighter than air. Like I’ve caught up. I’ve crossed something huge off my to-do list. Now I can spend my Saturdays any way I like.”
Meanwhile, as you’ve probably already noticed: on the left-hand side set of links to various sites, under Radio, there are a whole bunch of CBC sites to which you can surf and hear the latest radio newscast; or, should you choose, to listen to the latest (or an archived) edition of As It Happens or The House, or the latest The Inside Track or Quirks and Quarks show.
Walkin’ Pneumonia and The Boogie Woogie Blues
Three weeks and counting, this damn “Walking Pneumonia” (at least that’s what my doctor calls it) has had me in its grip. Five days go by, I feel terrible. Then I start to feel better for a couple of days, and back it comes for another five days, at which point I once again to begin to feel better, and then …
Of course the resolution to the illness is easy: for it not to have happened in the first place (antibiotics, which I’ve avoided for three weeks, commenced yesterday, so that’s a partial solution for the moment). And how might I have achieved this “not have happened at all” state of grace? Regular exercise (walking five miles a day, since I like to power walk), and maintenance of my South Beach diet, from which I slipped just before Christmas, and have yet to resume.
No secret this: a healthy diet and regular exercise = good health. When will I ever learn my lesson?