The office complex where I work has a small gym for the tenants’ employees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I leave the house at 6:00 a.m., beat the traffic, and then run on the treadmill before work.
I’ve never worked out with weights, but from what I understand, the best routine is to use relatively little weight with lots of repetitions. If that is correct, in all the times I’ve run at the office gym, I’ve only seen a couple of people follow this routine systematically.
This morning it was just me on the treadmill and one younger guy who came in to use the weight machines. He cracked me up: he would put on lots of weight, do three or four difficult reps, get up, stare at himself in the mirrored windows while flexing and rubbing the affected muscles, then repeat. He spent more time caressing himself and staring at his reflection than actually lifting weights. I also noticed that he only worked the muscles that he could easily see: arms, chest and shoulders.

Heather Armstrong discovers the Good Dog Carl books, and says (though with more vulgarity) pretty much the same thing I did when I first read one of them:

What mother in her right mind leaves her baby in a stroller at the bottom of an escalator in a department store TO BE WATCHED OVER BY A DOG? Do the police know that this is in print? AND I‘M THE BAD MOTHER?

The person who named the food that we bought for Samuel’s hermit crabs had a sick sense of humor. Not ‘Hermit Crab Chow’ or ‘Hermit Crab Food’, but ‘Hermit Crab Cakes’! Mmmm.

My wife is a college rhetoric and comp instructor, so I frequently hear about instances where students let the spell check substitute the wrong word. Check this out (click on photo for a larger version and read the small type along the bottom):

A 22-pound lobster was caught off Nantucket, Massachusetts. Interesting. Even more interesting, from the article:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Wholey [the owner of the lobster] a letter asking him to work with the group to release Bubba back in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.
Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals reportedly offered Wholey a hefty price for the lobster. At Tuesday’s price of $14.98 a pound, Bubba would retail for about $350.

UPDATE: Here’s the lobster:

Part of growing up is realizing what a prick you used to be. —Cyrano

Yesterday, I browsed in Barnes and Noble, and noticed that they now have a ‘Religious Fiction’ section (thanks to this, I assume)–located, of course, next to ‘Christian Inspriation’, not near real fiction.

A McSweeney’s list

From the Sydney Herald:

A rare – and dead – oarfish washed up at City Beach in Perth yesterday, proving more than a handful for Troy Coward, Andy Mole and Axel Strauss (pictured).
The serpent-like animal was found six metres offshore, bringing to at least six the number of oarfish that have washed up on the West Australian coast in recent months. Prefering to live in the depths of the ocean they have only been known to come to the surface when sick or dying and have rarely been seen alive.
Living in the world’s warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans. The longest bony fish in the sea, it grows up to nine metres long with a bright red crest that runs the entire length of its body.
It is probably the creature that sparked “sea serpent” legends following sightings by ancient mariners.

Oriental Trading Comany is selling Kosher Easter Eggs (click on image for larger version):