dumbbell.

i just heard a rather ridiculous ad slogan:

BowFlex SelecTech: dumbbells for smart people.

it's not smart to pay as much as they're charging for those dumbbells. the cheap ones are $149...and the pricey ones are $599.

six hundred dollars? for dumbbells? really?

if you need multiple dumbbell weights, it still seems a lot cheaper to buy the individual sets of plain, cheap dumbbells at the weights you like to use. in fact, it's probably also cheaper to buy a gym membership than to buy such pricey dumbbells.

they're dumbbells for people who have more money than sense.

listen to me whine.

i'm watching the Texas A&M/Oklahoma State game on tv. they are now on time out with 3.9 seconds to go.

and the band is playing "basket case" by green day.

what an odd song to be playing at a ballgame.

you snooze, you lose, indeed.

presenting the greatest alarm clock ever: the SnūzNLūz.

it's an alarm clock that hooks into your bank account. every time you hit the snooze button, it automatically donates an amount of your money to the cause you program in. the theory is...you tell it to donate money to an organization that you hate, so you have strong financial and ideological disincentives to sleep past your wake-up time.

genius, i tell you.