Happy Boredom

I went camping at Yosemite for Labor Day weekend. It was a great time but most of the meals we ate were not ideal for your digestive health: hot dogs, bratwursts, pizza¹ , sandwiches, spam, chips, and beer. For essentially 4 days (Fri – Mon) I didn’t have a quality movement².

Coincidentally at work we’ve been talking about colon cleanse treatments like Colon Blow because it just sounds like a good idea to clear things out once in a while. Metamucil has long been on my mind after reading about the “legendary, immaculate no-wiper³“

Inspired by the poor quality of my movements, work, and Jack Black I went to GNC to investigate the various possibilities for colon cleansing. There was a lot of stuff there: powders, pills, juices, enemas, and some other stuff. I doubt I’ll ever be so desperately constipated that I’ll cram a tube up my ass so the enemas were definitely out. I settled on ground psyllium seed husks because it was the cheapest stuff (~$9) and sounded least likely to cause massive diarrhea.

Having tried the recommended dosage of psyllium seed husks for the past 4 days, I can safely say that psyllium seed husks are the shit (pun intended). The many benefits: according to Wii Fit I lost about 2 lbs and less wipes (not no-wipers). Awesome.

Psyllium seed husks on Wikipedia

¹ I never said we were hardcore camping. We slept in tents but ate in the park.

² movement is bowel movement

³ Jack Black Maxim interview.

Gametrailers.com has a wealth of great gameplay videos for Call of Duty: World at War (CoD 5). This trailer has a lot of action but for some reason the graphics just don’t look as compelling as Modern Warfare. Nevertheless, I can’t wait until it comes out later this year. I doubt it will beat the weaponry in CoD 4. It would be awesome if they could get 4 players on a machine only like Halo. There is a a severe lack of party games out there right now.

The NBC website for the Beijing Olympics this year is really good. It’s much better than the TV coverage. They have video coverage for all ofthe sports. I was watching unedited, commercial-free replay of ping pong. I watched about 30 mins of a 4 hour streaming video. How awesome is that?

By far NBC’s Olympic website is head and shoulders above its television coverage.

And another thing, where is American Airlines getting all this money to advertise on the Olympics every 5 minutes? Shouldn’t they be saving that money for employee pensions or lowering costs?

So now Michael Phelps finally has won his 8 medals now. What’s also lame is that they’ve been showing Phelps walk from the podium for 5 minutes followed by a 10 minute one-on-one interview with Bob Costas. Phelps deserves it but after seeing Michael Phelps on TV every 30 seconds for the past 7 days I’d really like to see some different faces. It’s an amazing accomplishment but geez the guy is on the screen ALL the time. I don’t like the way NBC overexposes olympic athletes.

Also Usain Bolt from Jamaica won the gold for the 100M dash. they showed him celebrating for about 5 minutes also. Isn’t that type of celebration coverage slightly excessive? I thought the Olympics were about sportsmanship but apparently NBC thinks the Olympics are all about celebrity and individual accomplishments. NBC could shave some of the celebration time off and show some different sports.

I wish I had CBC (Canadian television) in California. NBC sucks balls. Universal HD is slightly more diverse but they show a bit too much boxing.