Coolest Birthday Present Ever!

Kudos to my wife on this one...she knows me so well inside and out. Aren't you all SOOOO jealous???

Oh yeah, this other picture is for Jared...

Man-Friendly Stores

So the lovely wife and I spent most of the day at the Outlets in Smithfield, NC. For those of you who haven't been there, it's fairly typical as most outlet shopping centers go. The store composition was what one would expect:

52% - clothing stores
33% - stores involving dishes and various household items
11% - shoe stores
4% - other (i.e. man friendly stores)

As you may have noticed, only 4% of these stores are what we would call "man friendly." In other words, these are the stores that men WOULD go into without being dragged in by their wives, girlfriends, or mothers.

This is a problem.

You see, by only providing 4% of stores to service 50% of the population, the owners of these outlet malls are shooting themselves in the foot. It's really simple economics...if the demand is there, then the supply must change to go with it. Actually, that's not really an economic premise, but it sounded good...so just go with it.

Do I think such a change will occur? Probably not. But I can hope...

Big Blue is BACK!!!

Oh man oh man oh man.....

Wow...

If you haven't seen it by now, heed these words of advice: Drop what you're doing and go see Superman Returns RIGHT NOW!!! I don't care if it's 3:00am...it's playing SOMEWHERE....so go see it!

Now that you're going to go see it, I have another piece of advice: If you can swing it, go see the IMAX 3-D version! It only has 20 minutes of actual 3-D footage, but those 20 minutes are amazing! I know what you're thinking...you don't want to wear those cheesy 3-D glasses the whole movie just for 20 minutes here and there...well don't worry, they'll flash a signal on the screen to show you when to put on and take off the glasses. It really is worth the extra 3-4 bucks to get the full experience.

On a completely unrelated note...this is my first post from our brand new Macbook. I'm still getting used to it, but so far it's really amazing!