TheSnackHound

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We all know by now that if you are an “indoor person” you can get fit with Billy Blanks, but Billy Blanks doesn’t stop the video or DVD and tell you how you are actually doing compared to the folks in the studio.  Does he really know you are not sitting on the sofa watching him do all the work? Personally, if I was actually exercising, I’d make sure to send him an email or something to make sure he knew, because the last time I checked, it looks like Billy Blanks could flatten you if he wanted to, and maybe he doesn’t take kindly to sitters.

If there is a way to NOT exercise while having spent a lot of money on gadgets, there must be a way to feed your face too.

Over at , iNetVideo I have found amongst the sea of blu-ray movies and dvds, that Nintendo makes a game where Jamie Oliver helps you cook. Well, he really doesn’t, but its an interactive experience where you get grocery lists and figure out how to do all sorts of stuff.  In fact, they actually had other titles on dvd and various games revolving around cooking and nutrition.  iNetVideo has been around since the late 90s and has offered movies and games at a discount, but with the information overload of all the other movie websites out there, I’ve overlooked it until now.

If you interested, it appears to be a title that is being discontinued, or they just bought a lot of them, because its 70% at $5.99. It really doesn’t matter if they are coming out with a new game system, if a DS is what you have.  I still play the old Atari 2600. I don’t think Jamie Oliver would come over give you a whooping like Billy Blanks could, but he is certainly more skilled at wielding sharp objects, so you best make an effort, kids. Actually, he doesn’t have to do anything because if you choose to eat garbage all the time, you will cause more damage than a one time encounter with a juicer-of-steel could.

A little while ago, I checked out MyLife. It is a different kind of people search site. It is not one of those private investigation sites. If it was, than you would have to grow a Tom Selleck moustache or decide if you were Maddie or David. You remember Maddie and David….Moonlighting? I swear I was a little kid when that was on and wasn’t allowed to watch it.  I just remember Bruce Willis from the Seagram’s commercials. It’s Wet and It’s Dry. Whoops.

On the contrary, it sort of extrapolates all the information from social networking sites and figures out where all the folks you know are.  It also finds the people who you want to know.  Again.  You don’t have to register for Classmates.com, Reunion.com, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and all the others to try to connect with everyone.  Luckily, since these folks are all over the social networking sites, they WANT to be contacted, and you are in no danger of contacting anyone who is now in the witness protection program by accident.

There is a dashboard area that starts off by showing you the people in your address book, and then looks for people that you graduated with, and share other associations with.  The thing that is so different is that you can find out who is trying to contact you as well.   I guess that would make people really careful what they clicked on or who they searched for.  I bet you wouldn’t search for half the people on the internet if they were able to see you doing it.  Well, I guess it doesn’t really talk about people who are searching for you, but who is looking to connect.  This is actually a great feature, because I bet there are people out there that are searching for you, and you are searching for them, but neither of you have the guts to contact eachother.  If you find that you have both been searching for eachother, I would consider that a sign that you need to get in touch. It wouldn’t be stalker-y at all to tell someone you saw them looking at you, because you know its true.  Nope, nothing stalkerish if its true.

Is there anyone, out of all the people you have ever known, that you would love to reconnect with?  Maybe you wouldn’t want to be their bestest buddy, but would you want to know how their life was going?  Would you rather keep to yourself and not know?  I wonder if we somehow break a weird law of physics by reconnecting with people around the world.  I mean, back in the day we were lucky to travel outside of our town and when we picked our covered wagon up and hauled it away, the liklihood of seeing someone again was almost.  I think I like our situation just a little better.

(At left:  World’s most secure mailbox.  I showed it to you because I care about your safety.  You may want to get one for yourself.) 

Finally, I am starting to consolidate my email accounts. I had one email address that I would use for registering for websites. This way, I would know if I was getting junk mail from those particular sites. I had another email address that I would give out to people that actually knew me.  That email address hardly gets any mail, because philosophically, I only started getting to know myself recently, so how could other people really know me?  Then, as usual, there was the email address I had so no one else would register for that name because I really liked it.  Inevitably, I completely forgot the passwords to two of them as I use them so infrequently. I recall setting the passwords to things that weren’t my usual passwords.  That’s pretty swift if I was ever going to be interrogated by the KGB or some other partially disassembled organization. They wouldn’t be able to get any of my weather alerts, for sure.

Privacy Harbor is a new email provider that is supposed to be the be all and end all, as it eliminates spam and viruses so that your inbox is a very safe, tranquil and serene environment.   What if I like to read pleas for financial help from Nigeria, being the last known heir of Lady Diana, as I am?  Then I suppose I am out of luck.  The majority of people, when polled rather not read such tripe.

With other email systems, there is a way to “white list” and “black list” different email address so it knows who is the bad guy, and who is the good guy.  That is way too complicated as most scam artist email writers change addresses like my teenage brother changed socks.   Okay, that was a bad anology and the exact opposite of the picture that I was trying to paint.

I think I am going to give it a whirl.  The only problem is that my relatives are not up on all this technology and it might take a few years for them to realize that I have a new email address, even though I told them about it.   If I am not careful, one of them could try to send a cake, all wrapped up in individual plastic wrapped pieces to my new address.   I am sure the guys and gals at my internet service provider would intercept it for me and determine whether it was safe or not.  I would get a .jpg or a .gif in my mail box of just the crumbs that were left over.

Hey you, in cubicle number two at Privacy Harbor: Consider yourself on notice!