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August 21st, 2008

I subscribe to a lot of marketing e-mails.  I don’t usually read them all, but sometimes one of them catches my eye with a really good offer or announcement.  Hence, I was really glad to see this subject line on an e-mail from Juicy Couture:

Relax, the TRACKSUIT of the season is HERE!

Thank you, Juicy Couture, for anticipating my fall 2008 tracksuit needs.  I was so worried I wouldn’t be able to find one!

Now, on the question of being able to afford it, maybe if I traded in Gela Taylor’s husband’s last album that wasn’t so hot, I could get a slight discount?

(Unfortunately, I don’t feel I can be too snarky because at some point in my life, I would like to own a Juicy tracksuit.  Not only do they look comfortable, but they are made in the USA, and I’d pay a little more for that.)

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August 20th, 2008

I do some of my banking with Capital One, and I’ve gotten two e-mails on their latest advertising push that both made me say, “Why?”

They’re offering a great deal through the end of the month:  They’ll give you a $25 bonus on your savings account.  That is, if you deposit $10,000 by the end of August.

Yes, $10,000.  Um, I don’t have that much money stored under the mattress to make this offer worthwhile.  If I have money, it’s either already at work in your account, or I have it in funds.  And why would I pay fees on cashing in some funds just to get this $25 on an account that will probably earn less than what my funds do?

Am I the only one who sees the stupidity in this?  Or are there really a lot of people with $10,000 lying around who think, “Hey, maybe I’ll put that ten grand in an account!”?  Is there anyone who’s taking them up on this offer?

The Holier-Than-Thou Corporate Move

August 19th, 2008

Last week I was watching some TV online. The program happened to be sponsored by Brita, which meant at every commercial break, you saw a 30-second spot for Brita.

Each of the Brita commercials sent the message that drinking bottled water was bad because the plastic bottle spent a lifetime in the landfill. You could feel better about drinking water from a Brita pitcher because the filter system was just as healthy and as pure as bottled water.  The tagline was, “Please drink responsibly.”
This is a nice environmental message.  Except for the fact that the Brita filters need to be changed monthly, and what are they made out of? Plastic. It doesn’t seem to be any special type of plastic that biodegrades more easily (and maybe doesn’t at all because of the filtering material inside of them). It’s regular plastic that will sit in a landfill forever.

Oh, I know. Brita’s saying it’s better to use their plastic system and fill up a plastic Nalgene bottle and reuse that system a lot rather than buying several bottles of water every day, but isn’t it a little hypocritical to not admit their product isn’t 100% good for the environment?

Do You Digg Me?

August 18th, 2008

So, the Prevention gig I write for is having a little contest on who can get their story to get the most Diggs (Digg is a website community where you can say, “Hey, this is a cool article,” and then you can find other cool articles based on their popularity.

If you have a Digg account, please Digg this one for me.  I could use the help.  Thanks!

Why All the Choices?

August 18th, 2008

Astrochick wondered why U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps (maybe some of you haven’t heard of him) wore different suits for different races. Sometimes he wears the full-body suit, sometimes he wears one that’s just long pants.  Has he just worn the traditional Speedo? I can’t remember.
The Fort Myers (FL) News-Press has a decent explanation, which I can talk to a bit: You choose your suit based on what stroke you’re swimming.  Apparently that full-body LZR suit compresses your body quite a bit.  If you’re doing a stroke like butterfly, which requires incredible range of motion on your upper body, you need to have some freedom of movement.   So that’s probably why he wears just the bottoms for the butterfly–in that stroke your legs stay together and move as one unit, so having the extra buoyancy on the bottom half probably helps.

Does that make sense?  It just depends on your stroke.

Runners also seem to wear a lot of different options–sprinters wear bathing suit-like bottoms.  Longer distance runners wear regular running shorts.  My guess is that the bikini bottoms are also compression shorts that cut down on drag and allow for greater leg movement.

Fast Company also has a great article about all the high-tech athletic gear at this year’s Games.  I wonder how long it will take for all of this to trickle down to us mortals.  Until a few years ago, I thought I could run in any kind of shoes.  Wrong!  I need expensive running shoes!  (which, yes, they are expensive compared to what I could buy anywhere, but oh, can I feel the difference!)  I wonder how long it’ll take for me to not be able to go for a swim without my own full-body suit.

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The Greatest Olympian?

August 17th, 2008

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Now the hyperbole starts, and I’m going to guess that hours of coverage will be devoted to this achievement.  In the commercial right after the win, NBC advertised that you can buy the DVD to relive the moment again and again.  Nothing like cashing in, eh, NBC?

But simply because Phelps won so many medals in one Games doesn’t necessarily make him the greatest athlete ever.  He’s just lucky he’s in a sport where he can earn so many medals.  Rulon Gardner had one event.  Is his accomplishment any less amazing just because he only earned one gold (and that was by defeating the best Greco-Roman wrestler in history)?  What about the decathletes?  TEN events–but you only get one medal for them.
In fact, swimming is the only sport where you can earn that many medals in one shot.  Runners usually only do a few races–Carl Lewis was about the most active with five events.  A male gymnast would have a chance to match that, but they’d have to win the team, all-around, and every individual apparatus.  Highly unlikely that could happen.

Although Phelps’ achievement is great and his record will last for a long time, he’s not the best in history.  When Phelps changes sports three times or competes in five Olympics, maybe I’ll think differently.

As If I Need Another Distraction

August 15th, 2008

Since it’s the Olympics, all I really want to do is sit around and watch the coverage and read Olympic news. So it’s been great that I’ve taken on a few writing assignments that would keep me quite busy, even if I had nothing else going on.

It doesn’t help that this weekend is the Air & Water Show, which is, of course, bigger than ever. The city has added a third day to the festivities, with a short preview of the big acts on Friday afternoon and a concert. I’m not all that interested in the concert, but I will probably be running up and down the stairs in my apartment building once I hear the jets.

And for those of us around the lake, the show is just not during the weekend. The teams start rehearsing earlier in the week, which means an extra bit of show for me.

Normally I’d be incredibly stoked about the opportunity to sit on the roof and see some of the action, but the events going on in Beijing have been really great so far, and I hate to miss out on them too.

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Can You Tell Me How to Get to Archery Street?

August 14th, 2008

Over the last couple of days I’ve become totally captivated with the archery competition. The women’s mostly, but I’ll probably try to catch the men’s action too when I run out of women’s footage.

I don’t quite know why I’m liking it so much, but I do think it’s interesting to try to shoot an arrow at a target a ways away. You have to have precision, and the sport takes a lot of strength and concentration. It’s pretty impressive.
And you get to wear a cute hat.

One of the Korean aces Yun Ok-hee has a cute pink bow and this chest protector that’s also pink and has a lot of English words on it, along with a cute panda. They might be kind of random (Engrish-like), but the overall effect is adorable. Her teammate Park Sung-hyun has a blue protector with cute cartoon characters on it. These put everyone else’s sensible protectors to shame.

The crowds are amazing–the Koreans even have cheers and songs for their archers.  What do we have for the US archers?  We have archers?  Oh–U-S-A!
I also like the announcing at the matches. They have two guys, one doing most of the talking in English, and then a Chinese speaker following up with the score in Chinese. The English-speaker is very enthusiastic and often throws in some commentary about the sport, which helps explain the sport a bit.

It’s helpful to have the scores announced in the two languages. I like to try to pick up what Chinese I can, so I parrot the announcer. I’m becoming quite adept in my numbers…well, adept in numbers 7-10, since that’s what the archers seem to score the most.

After saying, “Ba,” (Chinese for eight) about five times, the Boy looked at me and said, “You’re starting to sound like an episode of “Sesame Street.” Maybe so, but this particular episode is brought to you by the character “jing” and the number “ba.”

Why Divers Shower

August 14th, 2008

A few posts ago, Astrochick asked why divers shower after every dive.  Yahoo provides the answer–guess a lot of people wonder the same thing.
What the article doesn’t mention is how much more synchronized diving we’ll have to endure.  I bet it’ll be about the same amount of time devoted to stories on/interviews with Michael Phelps.

Wait, There Are More Than Five Sports in the Olympics?

August 14th, 2008

Sigh. This phenomenon usually happens with the regular (i.e.–free TV) broadcast of the Olympics, and I’m already getting tired of it. The folks at NBC think that prime time coverage should only include a handful of sports: Swimming, diving, gymnastics, beach volleyball, and basketball. Oh, something else probably sneaks in too, but for the first week, it’s always these sports. Next week track & field will replace gymnastics.  Because we’re dying to see every heat, especially when other sports have been regulated to online coverage.

Even the Boy has picked up on this.  The other day I e-mailed him to tell him I was going to go to the grocery, and he replied asking if I really could, because I might miss a Michael Phelps interview.  Seriously, the guy is swimming 5000 races during these Games.  His life consists of swimming, eating, sleeping, and maybe playing some video games.  Is there something new he’s possibly going to say after race 3815?  Stop talking to him all the time!  Talk to that black swimmer, whose gold medal in the 4×100 freestyle relay is actually more interesting (and possibly important) due to the fact that only two black swimmers from the US have medaled.  That’s definitely a more powerful story.

Yes, I know daytime coverage has included rowing and cycling and water polo, but that doesn’t change the fact that the last few nights have been hours of heats or preliminary games, or watching a gymnastics team sit around waiting for their rotation while Tim Daggett waxes poetic, even when other gymnasts are performing and we could be watching them.

How is it that every Olympics you get the same coverage? How is it that the programming executives don’t think anything else needs to be shown on network television? [I realize my argument may be moot because they’d just say, “Well, we show it on cable, so if you want to see it, you should pay for it.” My counter–surprisingly, because I didn’t think the statistics would say this–is that just over half of television households have basic cable TV. And this number is down from a few years ago…though I don’t think that includes satellite or other dishes, but still. Not every American pays for television.]

Is it just me? Does anyone else think that Olympic coverage needs a total overhaul? Maybe those little bio packages on inspirational athletes need to go in favor of telling the same story while you watch the athlete compete. Maybe we could show a few minutes of badminton or table tennis or judo on network television, just to let you get a feel for what else is out there. Who knows–maybe those five minutes of shooting coverage would inspire some talented sharp-shooting youth in small-town Arkansas, who feels there’s no future for him, to realize he might actually be able to go to the Olympics.

I like to think of the Olympics as a showcase for what’s possible. There are so many sports to try out, so many things to be interested in and promote the use of, that showing just a handful of what’s “popular” seems to really be against the Olympic ideal.