Apparently only one in four people in Australia are in the healthy weight range. Which makes too-skinny and too-fat people the norm. Being in the healthy weight range, I have to say that I do prefer to look at hot, abnormal ladies. Like Jennifer Hawkins. Nude. In that magazine. I can’t see why society, or more importantly, Ricki-Lee Coulter, would want me to think otherwise. Who doesn’t love perving on gorgeous, skinny girls?

Still, when I was classed as obese, just, by the Ninemsn BMI calculator in 2005, I preferred the hot, abnormal, Jennifer Hawkins look. And I didn’t cost the government anything to get fitter/healthier, except maybe a few hundred dollars in taxes from not drinking alcohol. How Australia can spend $35b on obesity handouts, education and/or subsidies is beyond me. Then there is the $21b in hospitalisation, sickies etc.

When I was chunkier, or 25kg more than I am today, I did my own thing. I bought a pair of scales, a mirror, and diet Pepsi by the truckload. I didn’t drink booze, eat take-away, microwaved meals or homemade curries. Well, I skipped food for 3 or 4 months. Them OptiFast shakes were great. And do you know how hard it is to lose weight when you’re employed to sit at a desk and answer phones, receiving free, greasy-yet-tasty meals from a buffet every night? The most exercise I’d get at work was walking to the elevator to head to the exit. When dieting/fasting, I’d do laps of Lilydale Lake [2.5km per lap] every night. Walking laps, not driving. This ain’t Chapel St on a Thursday night. I’d also walk from work to my car in Port Melbourme, another 2km. I was so strict with myself.

There were the “You’ll put it back on as quick as you lost it” people. Yeah, thanks for the encouragement., loser. When on this fast, I got down to 82.9kg. That was my best, before I started to hover around 85 for a few years, which was still pretty decent. Today, I jump on the scales, daily, and get all uptight at being 81. I’ve only been into the 70’s once since finishing high school [1995] and that was two weeks ago, about an hour before pay went in, when I recorded a 79.6. Still, I’m healthy as ever, even if I still technically haven’t eaten vegetables. Ever.

So you see, anything is possibly once you’re in the right mindset. You just have to push yourself, stay positive, and drink Diet Pepsi [ or Pepsi Max ]. That way, you won’t fall for any Ricki-Lee “I’m a real woman” Woman’s Day garbage, and you’ll agree with me that Jennifer Hawkins is one totallty awsome, gorgeous, sexy, abnormal woman.

I saw Faith No More on Saturday, at the Soundwave festival. That’s the only way you’re gonna get me to visit Brisbane. Head on over to Flickr to see my photos. They came out damn fine considering I don’t own a dSLR, or anything with a massive zoom. Here’s a sneak peek -

I love screengrabs, Women’s magazines use them to show us the crap frames to say Brad Pitt is high on drugs and stuff when he is only squinting at the 300 camera flashes going off in his face. . So doing my screengrabs of Wendy Kingston on the afternoon news today, I got some frames in a rearranged order can be used by me to say she was taking a dump. It’s my contribution to Woman’s Day and New Idea.

“Uh oh. That was moist.”

“AAAarrrrrnnngggghhhuummph!”

“Almost there. Uurrgggggghh”

“Whew! That was a big log.”

“Aaahhh. Relief. No more chimichanga for me”

This is for everyone who has a problem with iTunes and their iPhone on Windows XP, SP3. It may help y’all, it may not.

Anyways,  it’s all about my stoopid computer, iTunes and iPhone. Friday arvo go to open iTunes, error error error! Reinstall, error error error! Ok, uninstall, re-install, error error error! Really busy, have to go to work…

Yesterday, again, the same error. Bring on Google. Turns out that no forum out there has any help. My error was iTunes having a sook over something called ntdll.dll. Okay, download new ntdll.dll, error error error! Can’t save over existing copy. Grrr. Downgrade iTunes from 9 to 8.2? Ok, uninstall iTunes, Quicktime and the three other programs, reboot, install 8.2. Works sweet, except that the playlist doesn’t exist, which is no biggie. Install 9 over it? Hmmm, okay. Install complete, iTunes now loads sweet, still minus playlist. Hook up phone as I’ve a stack of apps to upgrade. No connection. Just three dull tones coming from Windows XP saying pretty much “Your phone ain’t connecting to me today. Suffer in yer jocks.”

Try a different USB port, same deal. Whack other USB devices, two tones, they are connecting sweet. Could my phone be dead?

Today, go to work, hook iPhone to work computer, two tones. It’s working sweet. Come home, same three error tones. GRRRRRR! Go looking for more forums, check the USB part in Windows Device Manager. Mine doesn’t say Apple Mobile Device or anything. Look thru driver update details, found the one that searches for Apple or something in the Common Files directory. Uninstall driver. Okay, keyboard and mouse don’t work. Just great. Shutdown computer by pulling the plug.

Turn on computer, keyboard/mouse now working, connect iPhone, three error tones. Again! Go to Device Manager, hello! Says Apple Mobile Device with a triangle on it. Hmmm. Hit the forums again, nothing but reinstalling some driver you could only get until iTunes 7 or something. Uninstall iTunes, Quicktime and friends, two beeps. iPhone now connects! YESSSSSSSSSSS!

Ok, shut down computer, turn ‘er back on, install iTunes, start iTunes, still no playlist, but who cares. Connect iPhone, IT WORKS! Woooooo! What a hassle. Now I think when I re-sync, it’ll zap everything, then reinstall all these old apps I don’t want.

Amanda McLeay, the Channel Ten weathergirl from Brisbane.

and Wendy Kingston, as always.

I dunno. I guess after the hype of the last three days, it was a bit of a let down. I mean, the iPad, wasn’t it meant to be a computer or computer-like device? That’s what I thought it’d be anyway. Yes next year they’ll have iPad 2.0 with bonus features like SMS capability and webcam, but really, like everyone else is saying, it’s just a clown shoe-sized iPod Touch with a few extra features. Like eBooks. Who reads books these days? People read magazines so naturally we need eMagazines to read eGossip about eBranjelina eBreaking up.

I’ll see what the pricing is all about once Optus comes to the party, but I dunno if I’d go buy one. Maybe on a plan or something, as I can’t get enough of using my phone at work, plus it’d really be great for graveyard shifts. $499US today is about $550AU. So they’ll sell for around $700, for the basic model. For that money, it’d probably be better to just buy a laptop, or something I can use for Photoshop watching DVDs downloading torrents ripping movies from Blockbuster Video into DIVX format writing dodgy stuff on Wikipedia pages.

This happened on Twitter tonight. It involved my favourite Aussie comedian and fellow Western Bulldogs fan, Wil Anderson,  I photoshopped out all the unnecessary crap, ie tweets from others, to make this easier for you to read. [ PS, with Twitter, newer posts are at the top, so read the bottom text first. ]

Text zoomed in…

Dougie. LOL.

Googling for Twitter icons, for a project I have, more on that later, I come across this -

Mind you, the enlargement is only to show image results without having to make you squint. But c’mon. Who gets naked and kneels on a large black foot? And gets their picture taken?

I donated blood today. It has nothing to do with this 3D maid, but I just thought I’d tell you anyway.

Okay, a few months ago I did a post about the best albums of all time. But you’re a kid of the ’00s, you want to know the best music of the past decade,  not some ye olde schlock from the 1990s. So in no particular order, well, except for Weezer, which was the best album of the past decade [ yet almost missed out by 5 weeks ], here are the top 8, ultimate, best albums from 2000 through 2009. Yes, eight super albums in ten years, but there’s many others which, while good, just aren’t as super-awesome-fantastic-good. Anyway…

1. Raditude, Weezer.

This album is the best. That’s all I gotta say. Following Raditude, in no particular order…

Two Shoes, The Cat Empire.

They Who Built, The Grand Silent System.

Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By, Lovage.

The Directors Cut, Fantômas.

Still Falling, Virgil Shaw.

Peeping Tom, Peeping Tom.

Shangri-La Dee Da, Stone Temple Pilots.

I know, some of these were recycled from that other post, but that was an all-time thing, and some of these were deserving of it back then. So what are you waiting for. Go hit Amazon.com, eBay, iTunes and/or JB Hifi! If your pocket money will only allow you to spend $20, go for Weezer.