Episode 28: “I’ve got YouTube”

I’ve only just discovered TED Talks (I know, I know, sometimes I’m a bit slow), but this clip is just fantastic. It’s a brilliant medley from David Pogue on the music wars.

Here’s another one from Pogue from the Ted Talks of 2006:

I hate shoe shopping. Not because I don’t like shoes. Oh no, I love shoes. Somewhere deep down is side of me, there’s a girl who could own a closet full of shoes and still keep on buying them. But I don’t. Because I hate shoe shopping.

I’ll let you guys in on a little secret: one of my feet is bigger than the other. The left one to be exact. Not a little bit bigger, that wouldn’t have been a problem. Nope, it’s one size bigger. One freaking complete size bigger. Do you now understand why I hate shoe shopping?

Photo from Flickr by merfam

There’s no way that I’m actually going to buy two pairs of shoes, so I always have to go through hell trying to find a new pair. It’s already difficult enough to find a pair that I fit, let alone a pair I actually like. So many times I’ve found the perfect, cutest shoes, only to find out that (of course) I don’t fit them.

Low heeled boots and jogging shoes are (relatively) the easiest; try to fit the larger foot in and it doesn’t really matter if the other shoe feels a bit loose (an extra sole can easily fix that). But high heeled boots, pumps or sling backs? They’re terrible (but way prettier; so of course I’m going to go through the trouble to get them). I always have to go for the pair that isn’t too loose on the small foot (cause otherwise it falls off) and isn’t too tight on the big foot. Sigh… why can’t I buy two different sized shoes?

Photo from Flickr by ingorrr

Well, I found out today, some places you can. I was looking for new running shoes (because I started exercising again) and took a look at the iPod Nike ones. You know the ones with a special sensor you can put in the shoe to measure how fast you’re going? Turns out, you can customize them, pick your own colours and stuff like that and you can specify the size of each of the shoes. Great!

They’re a bit pricey, but I do think that in this case for me it might be worth it. Now all I have to do is pick the colours I want!

Interesting links for January 26th through January 27th:

• How to explain RSS the Oprah way - One of best, simple explanations of RSS feeds (the type that your parents would understand). RSS = Ready for Some Stories.
• Normal Breasts Gallery - Gallery of breasts from normal woman (NSFW). It’s great to see how normal breasts really are and that not everything has the “perfect” breasts that Hollywood and the media focus on.
• Bad foods that are actually great for your waist - CNN.com - Useful article about a couple of the “bad” foods with a bad rep which can actually be good for you. Now I’ve got a reason to eat icecream!
• The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You - Interesting visualization of what happens to your blog post.
• Thumper-001’s deviantART Gallery - Cool mash-up pictures from Disney and Star Wars (as in Goofy as Darth Maul, Snow White as Princess Leia)
• Averaging photos creates infallible face recognition tool « Not Exactly Rocket Science - A short piece about a new way that betters face recognition
• The 8 Things I’m Sick Of Seeing In Movies | The Movie Blog - Great list and totally true!

Since New Year Cristiano has been running weekly and yesterday I finally decided I should join him. So today I went running for the first time and I am just completely exhausted now. I haven’t done any exercising or sport since August 2006, so I’m really glad I’ve started doing something again.

Even though I haven’t exercised for so long, I haven’t really gained weight and am certainly not chubby or anything like that. Hell, although I say so myself, I still look good! No, the main reason I wanted to sport again is because I don’t feel that healthy at the moment. The past year felt as a real low point for me; I think I’ve never been as many times sick in one year as the past one. It feels like I need to get back into shape again.

So, I’ve started the same schedule as Cristiano is following, which came from this website. I’ll be running 3 times a week and build it up gradually over the course of 12 weeks, until I can run 15 minutes straight. I started this week with 5 times 1 minute running and 2 minutes walking. I know it doesn’t seem like much, but at the end of it today I was completely knackered. I’ll keep you guys up to date with what I’m doing; keeps me motivated to keep it up.