Another Timmerman to be published this Fall!

August 1st, 2008 | By Kelsey | 5 Comments »

My brother’s doctoral dissertation is going to be published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology in November. You can read the abstract HERE. Have a taste:

Exercise training or higher levels of physical activity are known to exert anti-inflammatory effects. CD14+CD16+ monocytes are potent producers of inflammatory proteins, and elevated levels of these “inflammatory” monocytes have been implicated in disease development. Little is known about the influence of exercise training on this cell population.

People back home often refer to Kyle as the smart one. An argument that I disagree with by pointing to tales of lost keys, drowned cell phones, and temporary lapses of common sense as evidence that he is not.

Although, when I read stuff like this, I start to agree with them.

If Kyle is the Smart One, I guess that makes me the Dumb One.

DOH!

COMING TO A LIBRARY NEAR YOU….THE BROTHERS TIMMMERMAN!

The USA is a pucker and China is a hemorrhoid

July 23rd, 2008 | By Kelsey | No Comments »

I had someone email me today asking about where our clothes come from. Here’s the short answer: 97% come from outside of the U.S., mostly from China.

And here’s that answer visually, courtesy of worldmapper:

The map is accompanied with this interesting tid bit:

Of all earnings from international trade, 7% is earned from clothing exports.

Worth more dead or alive?

July 18th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 2 Comments »

My life is officially insured now. If something were to happen to me in the near future, please point investigators in Annie’s direction, since she is my sole beneficiary.

I don’t expect that she would harm me, but it’s never really been to her benefit to do so until now. Also, she possesses super-human pregnant lady strength, which, as everyone knows is the best kind of strength because no one can fight back lest they be accused of fighting a pregnant lady.

Thanks.

(Note: This has nothing to do with my most recent death threat)

Woohoo!

July 16th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 3 Comments »

A Senator might be endorsing Where am I Wearing.

Garfield minus Garfield

July 15th, 2008 | By Kelsey | No Comments »

I’m a huge Garfield fan, so I never would have guessed that I would like the comic strip minus the cat.

Garfield minus Garfield removes Garfield from the comic, making poor Jon Arbuckle look like a schizo.

Hilarious and brilliant all in one.

Social Butterflies

July 15th, 2008 | By Kelsey | No Comments »

I’m not really sure about this whole social networking thing.

I realize that statement is so 2005, but I’m a little late onto the scene here. Now you can be my friend on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. And I want to be your friend, especially since my newly opened accounts are relatively friendless. Heck, with only 4 friends, I’m a MySpace hermit.

I guess that my issue is, who really cares what I’m doing this very second? Who am I to think you care?

Look at me trying to have my humble pie and eat it too. You’re reading this on my blog, at the domain name I registered, hosted by a travel community that I pitched an idea to. I have another domain name that’s simply my name: kelseytimmerman.com. And that’s nothing compared to the fact that I wrote a 300-page book where I am the central character.

If that’s not the opposite of humble, what is?

If it weren’t for the book, I don’t think I would have joined many of these sites. I saw the YouTube clip below on my agent’s website. In it an author is being drilled by his publicist to join all of the social networking sites. After watching him squirm, I thought I would circumvent any such conversations. So I joined.

I even downloaded Second Life and flew around a virtual reality world with my T-shirt-clad avatar hoping no one would talk to me because I wasn’t sure how to talk back. That’s 30 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

Doesn’t promotion look like fun?

Now that I have joined everything from MySpace to Twitter, I’m kinda like…meh. But it’s beginning to grow on me. I admit it is kind of cool getting updates on people that I haven’t seen in a long time and to see when someone has moved cities, or is having a birthday. A few of my friends even have changed their relationship status. I thought about posting a note on their wall congratulating or consoling them, but I didn’t. I’m still waiting for someone to change their gender; that would definitely warrant a “wall-to-wall”. I’ve even made some new “friends”.

I feel a little silly belonging to all of these networks, but I’m a firm believer that everyone has a story, so why shouldn’t they have a Facebook or Twitter account.

If you’ve got one…wanna be my friend?

What’s your favorite Tom Petty song?

July 8th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 4 Comments »

Mine is last dance with Mary Jane.

I’m off to see him in concert tonight in Cincinnati. Should be fun. I’ll scream like a school girl when he plays this song.

What’s with the corpse anyhow? I never quite got that video.

She grew up in an indiana town
Had a good lookin momma who never was around
But she grew up tall and she grew up right
With them indiana boys on an indiana night

For some reason I always think of Annie during that first verse even though she grew up in a town that was half in Indiana and half in Ohio, her good looking momma WAS around, and she’s not that tall. But she did grow up right, for whatever that’s worth.

George Carlin on stuff

June 23rd, 2008 | By Kelsey | 1 Comment »

George Carlin died. He left a lot more with us than just a bunch of stuff, including this line on stuff, “There stuff is shit and your shit is stuff.” from this bit on stuff…

(found this clip on WorldHum)

When Google’s AdSense goes bad

June 17th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 8 Comments »

I was just checking the blog and noticed this random GoogleAd:

Boys Wearing Thongs
Bargain Prices. Smart Deals. Save on Boys Wearing Thongs!
Shopzilla.com

Can’t a fella get arrested for having something like that on his blog? I followed the link and luckily it didn’t take me to “boys” wearing thongs, but instead women wearing thongs.

If you’re not familiar with Google AdSense I should probably inform you of how it works so you don’t go thinking I’m a big perve and had something to do with the “boys thong ad”. Here’s how wikipedia says it works: “Google uses its search technology to serve ads based on website content, the user’s geographical location, and other factors.”

A few bits ‘o tid

June 14th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 1 Comment »

* I updated the T-shirt survey results. Mexico is still firmly in the lead.

* I’ve been found out: “Kelsey Timmerman, the aforementioned “guy”, doesn’t come off as a particularly educated or well-informed guy, nor does he try to be.

* I’ve added a set of links to the right called “of Globalization and Garments.” If you stumble across anything that would work here let me know.

* I also added a set of links titled “Who I’m Reading.” These are people I read on a regular basis and I use my site as a jumping off point to them. I’m lazy like that. If you’ve never read Nick Kristof, I suggest you check in on him weekly.

* No one has won the “13 fellas” competition, even though I’ve practically give you all the answers. If nobody wins, we’ll have another contest soon.

* I’m announcing big news tomorrow.