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Seems to me that most people want to stretch more frequently and/or regularly. I know I do. So, how about this: A website where you can sign up and enter your IM contact information (Yahoo!, MSN, AIM, etc) along with a schedule. The code on the servers sends out a reminder, along with a link. When you go to the link, you’re rewarded in some way (perhaps with a joke, or something similar), and it also makes a log entry for your personal use. The site could have suggested stretches and schedules that you could select instead of entering your own.

The rewards would need to have no value, of course, because otherwise the system would be abused for profit (It might still be abused, but who cares if someone fakes a stretching record?). Jokes are the first thing that come to mind, but I guess it could be almost anything with no value.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a website without ads, so you’d have ads for local occupational therapists and related professionals.

I propose that workplaces enact some sort of policy designating a single day every month as the only day in which employees are allowed to shake the crumbs out of their keyboards (which often includes banging the keyboard against the desk, somewhat distracting).

Yeah, I’m not going to be shedding any tears over the loss of the Sonics, should they actually make good on their threat to leave town. Let some other state’s suckers^Wresidents pay hundreds of millions of dollars so a few people can toss a ball around.

If only our political leaders could have handled the “Qwest Field” and “Safeco Field” disasters the same way.