Well, this is one for the record books, and I don't mean the good record books. Starting in 2006, freshmen at Lincoln University in Pensylvania (United States) were required to have their BMI tested by the university. If it was 30 or over, they had to take an extra class, called "Fitness for Life," which "involves walking, aerobics, weight ( Read more... )

I'm struck by how many jobs now require applicants to take personality tests, pee in cups to prove they aren't drug users, and have criminal and/or financial backgrounds run on them.  All of those cost the companies money (and annoy the applicants), but do they do any good?  I have serious doubts that they do anything but improve the bottom line of ( Read more... )

I was going to go to the Colorado Renaissance Festival with friends, but I've decided that their water policy is too problematic for me to support them.  Since I'm suceptible to dehydration thanks to a surgry I had, I emailed the Festival to find out whether I could bring water and whether or not water was available (not something you had to ( Read more... )

Either (as you're supposed to) ride in the street and follow traffic laws, or (wrong, but sometimes understandable) ride on the sidewalk and act like a pedestrian.  Do not mix the two; it confuses people.  But, above all else, do not ride in the street and disregard all traffic laws, including those pertaining to stop lights.   It gives drivers ( Read more... )

So, I finally watched Dungeons & Dragons, the movie.   Oh, holy hell was it bad.  And I watched it knowing it was bad.  But it's depths of badness sunk even farther than I'd expected.  It's the poster movie for everything you should never do when telling a story.  I'm not sure it got anything right.  Well, no, it surely had to have gotten something ( Read more... )