Random As Rhyme

I’m skinny, I was born skinny (part of being born premature) and aside from a brief stint of being over fed as a youngster (pic inside) I have always been skinny. At one point I was pretty close to being un-healthily skinny (thanks mono) but now I seem to be have settled down to a nice stable healthy looking weight even though people still constantly ask me if I have lost weight. My weight has stayed the same since the beginning of the year but I started to wonder what my body fat percentage was and whether or not I was at a healthy weight.

I can’t really afford to get properly tested in a dunk tank so I opted for the next best thing.

A body Fat Estimator, and my girlfriends fancy digital scale. At 6ft 150lbs the digital scale placed my body fat percentage at 18% while this estimator placed me at 13% body fat.

To be safe I am going to say I am going to go with the high number 18%.

Is this a healthy number? Unhealthy? I had no idea so I asked Jeeves hit up google.

According to this chart from bmi-calculator.com

at 18% I fall in acceptable and 13% I fall in athletic. I think if I were to get properly tested I would fall in the ‘fitness’ category.

From my understanding though body fat percentages are only really used to plan weight loss goals and slice I have never, and hopefully never have to, set out to intentionally lose weight in my life this is all just hear say and poppy cock.

But at least I don’t look like this anymore

For no reason here is a video of a 400lb 7 year old

Top Ten List of Transformers – IGN (I don’t agree with all of it and therefor must do a better one)

Heinz Makes Worlds Smallest Microwave – serious eats

In England, Heinz has unveiled the world’s smallest microwave—and it plugs into a USB port so you can nuke some grub at the desk or on the go. Called the Beanzawave, it’s obviously a ploy to increase brand awareness for Heinz baked beans, but you could also warm some coffee, tea, or maybe a meatball or two.

City digitally adds black guy to Fun Guide cover to make it more ‘inclusive’ – National Post

E.T. would have been more awesome if…

Bike Font – via thecomeupbmx.com

These buildings are probably very un safe

BMW Z1 doors make women show their undies

This makes me laugh a lot

SOOOO GOOOD… Okay

Zack Morris is awesome

Well this is weird

Poor form

Crack is wack

Having worked in a retail environment for about three years I thought moving into an office environment would mean that I no longer had to endure the pain of listening to music I could not control. I figured I had left the weekly top 40 and the monotony of seasonal music behind me. Fat chance.

At my first job one of the big wigs had a decent computer speaker setup that I assume lacked a headphone jack since I don’t recall him ever using headphones. He had quite an eclectic taste in music, one day Jack Johnson, another Alanis Morissette, and on Fridays Cypress Hill.

On the other side of the Office another big wig would crank the free Jazz music which meant us grunts stuck in the middle got a weird sonic mish mash of music that didn’t really match nor did we like. It was terrible, listening to a mix of two types of music you don’t want to hear when ie6 is being an incompetent bastard is a great way to become red in the face.

At my new job I briefly sat near the accounting department that loved to listen to Easy Rock or something of the like… I LOATHE Easy Rock. I will probably do so until I am 65 and my hearing is so muffled and brain so frazzled that I have the radio on to keep me company.

While some of the problem is they type of music conflicting with my own personal preferences the bigger issue is that I have no control over the volume or content of what’s being played.

If someone was playing my itunes library aloud it would annoy me just the same because I might not want to be listening to the song that is currently playing at that time of the day, or maybe I don’t want to listen to any music at all, few things are worse than taking off your headphones and being greeted with this.

I am all for music at the workplace but I wish people would purchase and wear headphones. I wear headphones 90% of the day, heck they are on right now and nothing is playing, as a courtesy to my fellow employees and as a way to tune them out. I encourage you to do the same.

If you are in a position of power at your workplace and you can play your music out loud without any one complaining please, please, please at least have the decency to turn it off when you leave the office leaving it on is a serious dick move. I already know you make more than me, that is evident by your car, condo, hot wife.

I bought a McDonald’s combo for the first time since high school yesterday and realized that my memories of Mcdonalds over the years have not aged gracefully.

I swore off McDonalds some years ago due in part to it being terrible for me and in part to throwing it all up after a touch night with Bacardi but when I did go to McDonalds often I used to always get quarter pounder with cheese combos. It was my go to menu item for being a cheap ass. It was $5.75 of great bang for the buck.

Now some 6/7 years later the combo price is over 6.50! I have had to replace my go to combo with a double cheese burger ($5.05) which isn’t nearly as impressive to say or eat. I was hungry again in about 3 hours.

The double cheese burger sandwich is also 35% of my recommended daily fat intake THIRTY FIVE PERCENT just the damn sandwich. The sandwich and fries total to 60% of my daily fat intake, leaving only 40% for the rest of my day.

Whats worse (or better) is that they put the nutritional value not only on the back of the tray mat but on each individual item so you know just how much this meal is screwing up your plans for healthy eating or healthy living.

With Pizza Pizza having a much better 5 dollar combo (Any Slice + Pop or Water and your ANY 2 sides:
chips, fries, onion rings, or dipping sauce) I can’t see myself going back to McDonalds anytime soon for a quick fatty terrible for me long term meal.

The one saving grace was that the fries still taste good with BBQ sauce any time I go to McDonalds I think of the lovable purple being that is (was?) Grimace.

Oddly enough Grimace was voiced in commercials by Frank Welker, aka, Megatron from The Transformers. Now that’s random.

This is amazing. I wish I could do flips and take off my clothes I would get all the ladies!

It’s been awhile since I have written one of these since I decided to do a few reviews what not on Thursdays. So as a treat I decided to bring it back Things I always wanted “T” days with what is probably the stupidest thing I ever wanted. The most embarrassing thing was I wanted it at an age where I should have figured out that it was ridiculous.

In 1997-1998 there was a Canadian Comedy series filmed in Burnaby British Columbia that ran on YTV. The show had a bunch of nobodies in it for the most part, aside from this guy.

It was your typical ridiculous teenage drama tv show that dealt with the “issues” in an unorthodox fashion. Now that I think of it the show was basically a bootleg Saved By The Bell on water. You see my friends this show was:

Breaker High.

Admitting to watching such a stupid show at the age of 12-13 is one thing (hey there were attractive girls on it so you can’t fault my logic) but thinking that it might be possible, and actually wanting to, go to high school on a boat is admittedly very stupid.

There was a certain amount of low budget TV magic that made it seem as though this idea were feasible. The idea was instead of your standard booze cruise vacation the open bar was replaced with classrooms where your basic highschool courses were taught to a handful of lucky (and probably rich) teenagers.

I can’t seem to remember any tests happening on the show so that would be a big bonus over traditional high schools and the girls were often bikinis or skimpy clothes (never really rained) so that was another bonus. Finally you were away from your parents so really no one could tell you to clean your room.

It all seemed glamorous then, since my pre-teen mind never really thought considered the fact that the never seemed to show any sort of lessons in boat safety on the show, or addres the fact that the food was probably not so good and the living quarters cramped and damp.

Also since such a small amount of privileged kids could go on the boat if you hated someone you were stuck with them in your class for however long it took you to return home. If you were one of those awkward kids with no friends in high school this would be torture.

They also never touched on the fact that the class size, and boat size, was actually pretty small or the fact that the ships crew consisted of a Captain and some whistle blowing, possibly gay, assistant. If that boat were ever to hit an iceberg everyone would have been doomed. Which should have worried me since rocks and I share the same amount of buoyancy. Let’s also not forget the very real life threat of pirates!

I also never factored in that in high school I was late for basically everything. I would have missed getting back on the boat first stop over. Getting stranded in Panama is probably only cool for the first five minutes, until you get robbed, shot, and thrown in jail a la prison break.

Yes going to high school on a boat with other students was an incredibly flawed, impractical idea but that didn’t stop it from being something I always wanted.

Man shot dead at Mississauga condo – I live here

A man is dead after being shot behind a Mississauga condominium last night.

Emergency crews were called to 4205 Shipp Dr., southeast of Rathburn Rd. and Hurontario St., around 10 p.m. to respond to a shooting.

“We found a male who had been shot. Paramedics rushed him to hospital but despite their efforts, he died,” said Peel Const. Wayne Patterson.

Police are not releasing the victim’s name or age until family is notified.

Patterson declined to say if the man was a resident of the building.

Witnesses told police three suspects, described as black males, fled the area following the gunshots, and two vehicles were spotted speeding away from the area.

Police are searching for a dark-coloured Mercedes SUV and a 4-door, silver passenger vehicle.

Investigators have closed Shipp as they try to piece together what happened, and officers are canvassing the area in hopes of finding witnesses or security cameras that captured the shooting.

A post-mortem is expected to be completed today.

The shooting marks Peel’s eighth homicide this year. – The star (I work here)

Toronto Street Jam History

Street jams have been going down in Toronto since the 1990’s. They originally started with a small group of 10-15 flatland/street riders who would meet at the banking district and ride the downtown core areas. More

Milk I am your father – Fashionably Geek

Bacon Infused Waffles – Via This is Why You’re fat

Tofu

Man mocks cops, gets tazed, runs away

Blue In Da Face

Crazy idiots

Insane Motorcycle Stunt on Freeway

You know what they say the couple that plays together, stays together. Then dies together.

Get humor videos at NothingToxic

Isetta In Auto X nearly tips over

Suicide Fail?

One of my favorite video parts by one of my favorite riders

Scanned up some more classic BMX, this time around its a kids book I have had since I was two (1986), Greg’s First Race.

THE BMX BUNCH – Friends draw together by their love for BMX bikes and daredevil stunts. Enjoy the escapades of the BMX BUNCH and the vivid, imaginative language used by fans of BMX freestyling and racing. The adventure, indexed glossary, safety rules, illustrations of BMX gear, and – of course – the bikes themselves entertain and instruct young readers – those who join in BMX action as well as those who watch.

In Greg’s First Race, Greg competes against Colin an ace racer. Only one buy can win. But eve losing has its rewards.

I actually hate popped collars. But I love me some MC Hammer, so I am a bit conflicted.

I am probably late on this but I still find it really funny. Anyone who as watched a single episode of CSI Miami will also find it funny. I present to you the Horatio Cane Chronicles.