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Tall Bike Company - Dirty Sixer on KickStarter

2016-03-05T22:35:32.000Z

Ever get tired of tiny normal human-sized bikes?

David Folch has your back.. errr legs taken care of with his Dirty Sixer bikes now on kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1743061580/dirtysixer-the-only-big-bike-for-tall-people-36-wh

The Old Solution vs. the New Solution

Longer videos are available at the KickStarter link, but this 20sec video really shows you the visual difference of the same rider on the average bike vs a Dirty Sixer.

Check out the Dirty Sixer on Kick Starter

John Amaechi - Success Talk & Being Tall

2016-02-24T16:30:00.000Z

I can really identify with this talk by John Amaechi, as I'm sure many of you will too. He speaks about his childhood growing up being so tall and different from other kids in his hometown.

He is now a psychologist, executive coach and also an introvert. He has a lot of other amazing things in his bio, but I don't want to spoil it for you if you don't know of him. If you are tall and introspective it's well worth the 20 minutes of time. I imagine we'll see John on a TED Talk sometime soon if he hasn't already done one that I have not yet found.

Learn more about John at John Amaechi.com

More talks from this site can be found on Success-Talks.co.uk

Delta Airs Absurdly Poor Customer Service

2010-06-30T12:30:00.000Z

Good Morning this is Delta Airlines Customer Service,

How about we start off your morning revoking your voucher that you paid for, then insinuating that you are trying to cheat the system and
calling you stupid for thinking we would have a process that every other
Delta employee has told you about and appears on my computer screen.

Lets toss in some questioning about your feminine name and deep voice which shows me you are trying to lie again, this time about your gender
and who you are. Ok now back to my coffee, job well done and $400
nicely stolen from a loyal customer.

Me: Huh?!! I can assure you that I am a male sir, I am not dumb, that I did pay for that voucher and despite your "years" of service that at
least has been the process.

What does shock and dismay me is that Delta's customer service has crumbled this far and that you have had
your job for "years" telling customers they are liars right down to
questioning their ethics and gender. Forget the face I was trying to purchase a $1400 plane ticket and you probably just flushed the extra grand down the drain.

Thats ok, I will nicely hang up with you and take my case to Delta and social media. I love that we are no longer bound by 1-on-1
conversations with big faceless corporations.

If only I had musical talent I'd write a follow-up song called "United breaks guitars and
Delta questions the gender you are".

Its bad enough us tall people have to wince in the pain and discomfort of coach to get anywhere, but at least I've always been nice about understanding that it is a business and I do fall outside the norms of human size which isn't there fault, and it is my choice to fly or not. I however do not have to put up with that level of service.

Tall People Video

2010-04-05T16:26:52.000Z

Just ran across this video of 3 tall people and one little person calling out some common stereotypes that tall people face. The little guy running in and taking a picture is probably the funniest part.

Kudos to Kaufmann Big and Tall for doing a little funny social video…

Tall Office Chair - The Search - UPDATE with Solution

2010-01-23T22:30:00.000Z

Search for the best tall office chair

So I stop looking like this guy everyday

So I'm looking around at buying a good office chair for my home office, but find that most "tall" designations are for people 6'1 and taller. Nothing against 6'1 people, but I'm a bit taller than that at 6'11".

That extra 10 inches of height and 300+ pounds of support needed means that this will probably be yet another long exhaustive search for the perfect tall persons office chair.

The Tall Chair Mission

Crawl the internet, ask our community and help everyone.

As I look around and find potential options I'll paste the links and information in this post. I figure it's something I would do anyway, trying to keep track of my options, so why not share that experience with everyone else.

Links, Thoughts, Community Help

Does anyone have good experience with a particular chair or a brand?

I'll be using this section to update everyone on my search and grab useful comments left on this blog post to also include up in here. By doing this, then down the road, we will all have a useful resource for fellow tall people trying to save their cramped back by finding a proper fitting tall office chair.

Ergonomics

Tall Chair Seat Height

The height of your seat should be high enough that your thighs are at least parallel to the floor, or preferably have your hips slightly higher than your hips.

For me that means I'm looking for a chair that will rise up to 23 or 24 inches high

Annoyance is that many people list the overall height of the chair and not just the seat. My legs, could care less how high the back of the chair goes up.

Tall Chair Seat Depth

The depth of the seat is something to consider as well. The deeper the seat depth the more of your body weight can be supported by the chair (this is something to consider when purchasing couches as well.)

My initial guess is that I probably am looking for 20inches deep of a seat.

Tall Chair Seat Width

Obviously if you can not fit into the seat width-wise this is a problem. This is really the airplane dilemma where people think fat people should pay for two tickets if they want to be comfortable. Truth of the matter is that the bones of my hips do not fit into many airplane seats. I find it so comfortable bruising the points of my hips or sitting awkwardly with hips vertical in one direction or another for a flight to get somewhere. No need to repeat that in looking for my perfect tall office chair.

I'm not sure what width I need at this point, but looking for a chair with adjustable arms or no arms at all may make for a good choice.

UPDATE - Solution Found! - November 3, 2015

So.. it's been a long time coming for me to find a viable and affordable tall person office chair solution. I'm sure some of the $1000+ chairs are great, but for $60 extra this method has worked out amazingly great for the ROI.

As it turns out you can buy taller cylinders and actually replace the cylinder in an old office chair or even buy one from a chain store that you find comfortable and just replace the cylinder.

I wound up buying this 8" cylinder and at 6'11 this chair goes way higher than I need, in fact at it's lowest its probably perfect for me. The 5" cylinder might be better for anyone shorter, and perhaps even fine for myself.

There is probably a safety risk for chairs going up this high especially for normal people which is probably why we don't see them often, but I feel completely safe in my chair, though the 5" may be more stable.

Here are the two different height products for you to check out on Amazon. Note those are affiliate links but certainly feel free to search around for more. I had great luck with this vendor and the part was delivered quickly and worked perfectly once I got the old cylinder out of my short office chair.

Heavy Duty 5" Stroke Replacement Office Chair Gas Lift Cylinder Pneumatic Shock - S6111-HD

Heavy Duty 8" Stroke Replacement Drafting Stool Gas Lift Cylinder Pneumatic Shock - Medium Stool Height - S6115-HD

Finally, for replacing the cylinder, there are tons of videos, but this one was a good start. My chair was really stuck and took some serious WD-40, time and the pipewrench technique, but it was pretty old and jammed in there after years of use. A new chair would probably be even easier.

[Note: Check the comments. The video wasn't embedding here for some reason.]

Dakota Simms - Basketball Boy

2009-11-18T17:30:00.000Z

Who is Dakota Simms?

Dakota is a 10-year old rising basketball phenom

(Story from 2009/2010. In 2013, Dakota continues practicing hard and reaching for his dreams with brothers Maximus and Scorsese at the Ravinia Club in Atlanta, GA.)

Dakota practices everyday shooting over 300 shots. He routinely makes 50 3-pointers within 5 minutes. That is a shot "made" every 6 seconds; with just one ball! He is student of the game, a student in school and a quick study of both.

Dakota Simms' Videos

CNN - Feature Story - Nov 2009

2012 BleacherReport.com - Top 20 Most Talented Kids in Sports - #4

2011 Dakota Simms Video Highlights

CBS Sportsline - Dec 2009

Dakota Dribbling and Tossing Alley Oop Passes - Apr 2010

AJC - March 2010

CNN - Dakota Shoots w/ Dominique Wilkins - Nov 2009

*to contact or get more information on Dakota Simms, email beyondworldwide (-at-) gmail.com

Watching CNN.com's 3-minute feature of NBA Hall of Famer, Dominique Wilkins and Dakota playing and talking about the game they love and what it takes to rise to the top. You will fall in love with the desire, passion and heart shown by young Dakota Simms.

Dakota started playing at age 7 and has never looked back. While kids his age are playing with a smaller ball, Dakota refuses to take the shortcuts and only plays with a pro-sized ball. "It takes strength to shoot the ball, it's not like something you can just throw up there and hope it goes in", plainly states Dakota.

Dominique and Dakota had a chance to meet and play and the Atlanta Hawks practice facility a few weeks ago. Dominique was fully impressed by Dakota Simms' arsenal of skills but had some poignant advice for him that carries on and off the court. "As long as you keep that attitude and focus, only you can stop you. Always remember that." The NBA legend continued with further advice for all kids of all ages, "Its the things you do now that dictate who you become in the future."

Surrounded by friends, family and coaches everyday Dakota puts his work in and loves the game. One of his special moves is called "the matrix". That was not a video effect you saw at the beginning of the CNN reel, that was Dakota slowing his between the leg dribble down into super slow motion before kicking it back up a notch. A notch that continually feeds his fire.

Is Dakota Simms NBA bound?

Only time can really tell, but Dakota sees the future blindingly bright and still just as simple as one basket at a time.

"Basketball is like a game of focus where if you miss a shot, you have to get your head right, you have to fix it, no one else is going to do it for you. I love basketball."

Good luck Dakota and may we all learn a little something from the passionate heart of a 9-year old man.

More Resources on Dakota Simms

CNN Article
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/16/teen.sports.prodigies/index.html

AJC
http://www.ajc.com/sports/10-year-old-trains-396503.html

ChatterKid.com
http://www.chatterkid.com/2009/11/9-year-old-basketball-prodigy-really.html

They Got Next

http://mommatheregoesthatman.com/2010/03/28/they-got-next/

AJC Blogs - Dakota Simms vs Jaylin Fleming - ATL vs CHI
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-georgia-sports/2010/03/31/is-the-best-10-year-old-basketball-player-here-or-in-chicago/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_georgia_sports

Fox Sports
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/10yearold-shoots-for-NBAParents-support-prodigys-dreamsDespite-boys-talent-education-should-be-focus-Wilkins-says-91079780

Bob Cook Op/Ed on True/Slant
http://trueslant.com/bobcook/2010/03/24/another-next-lebron-added-to-the-basketball-prodigy-pile/

BallHype

http://ballhype.com/video/dakota-simms-9yr-old-basketball-phenom/

The Hoop Doctors

http://thehoopdoctors.com/online2/2010/07/9-yr-old-basketball-phenom-dakota-simms/

Zimbio Polls
http://www.zimbio.com/Dakota+Simms/polls

AllVoices.com
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4632414-a-child-9-has-his-eye-on-the-prize

IMG Academies
http://www.imgacademies.com/news-and-results/on-the-eve-of-greatness-pressure-and-sports-prodigies/?ncat=1&p=2

Hoops China

http://v.hoopchina.com/v24008.html

Turkey (the country) Article
http://www.takvim.com.tr/Aktuel/2009/11/18/minik_jordana_10_milyon_dolar

Another local article from Turkey
http://www.turkishny.com/local-news/6-local-news/19236-9-yanda-nba-oyuncularna-ta-ckartyor

Fantasy Basketball Look-out
http://www.hoopsworld.com/FeedItem.asp?FEED_ITEM_ID=1168172

Technorati
http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D24JEBoC7UZM

StreetBall.com
http://www.streetball.com/profiles/blogs/9-year-old-dakota-simms-is-a

Current.com
http://current.com/items/91466793_dakota-simms-9-year-old-basketball-prodigy-cnn.htm?xid=RSSfeed

i love pwnage (aka "i love ownage")
http://ilovepwnage.com/video.php?v=MjU0MA==

Forums on Dakota's NBA Career
http://askville.amazon.com/keeping-extremely-talented-Dakota-Simms-joining-NBA/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=62889385
http://askville.amazon.com/basketball-player-Dakota-Simms/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=62895861

Kansas Basketball Forum
http://boards.kusports.com/showflat.php?Number=1560671

True Sports Talk Blog
http://www.truesportstalk.com/blog-1/archives/favorites/what-are-we-doing

5 Reasons to Start Social Bookmarking

2009-07-13T18:30:00.000Z

How Social Bookmarking Works

This is another great tutorial from CommonCraft.com covering "social bookmarking". Social bookmarking is a fantastic tool that I have used a long time now, and have found to be an absolute "must" tool. Learn how to do it, then I'll discuss other advantages.

5 Reasons to Start Social Bookmarking Today

Awesome right? No more wishing you had that bookmark you saved on your work computer after arriving home. Here are 5 more advantages.

People Benefit From Your Social Bookmarks

Want to know where my bookmarks on SEO related sites are... http://del.icio.us/cheyennejack/seo, or do you want my tall bookmarks... http://del.icio.us/cheyennejack/tall. Search them all. Check them out. I bookmark them mainly for myself, but if others find value in them, then great. If others use them to get an instant answer to that site I was telling them about last night without having to wait on me to respond to their call, email, or IM, even better.

You Benefit From Other Peoples Social Bookmarks

Whether its your friends tagging your username for extra bookmarks or strangers thinking you might be interested in something, suddenly you have a human element looking out for you. This has to be a little bit better than just the Google "I'm feeling lucky" button. The other advantage is that you can see who else bookmarked a site that you bookmarked and traverse through their similarly tagged bookmarks. Just the other day I found a user who had bookmarked 100s of medical journals and sites after I saw they had bookmarked one our disease state sites, CaringForDiabetes.com

Marketing

The power of discovery is a driving factor for people. They see you are bookmarking sites that are also of interest to them, then they check out what else you are bookmarking, what secret gems you may have. The bonus being if the secret gems are sites you are trying to promote. It may be a small impact, but sites like quarkbase.com and others are starting to show website value based upon data like delicious bookmarks, stumble upons and diggs. There is also the fact that Yahoo owns delicious and these sites are fairly easy to crawl. One has to assume they play a role in how the search engines order organic search rankings.

Organizations Sharing Bookmarks

Set up an account for your organization, and then let members know about it and have them tag relevant organizational worthy bookmarks with "for:MeditechMedia" as an example. In this fashion, not only do members help themselves by bookmarking content for them personally, but they help the organization have a long-term memory in their bookmarks. Delicious also offers several different views for your bookmarks so that you could automatically add a bookmark cloud or other similar offerings to your corporate intranet. Several weekly podcast and webcast shows use this to have their links readily available for each show; and even let fans suggest bookmarks.

Desktop Support and Other Bookmark Heavy Activities

Find yourself having to fix random peoples computers a lot. Head to their computer and realize they need to start installing the basics like firefox, flash player, plug-ins, drivers, anti-viruses and spyware removal tools? Set up a tag for yourself, go to these sites, bookmark them once and when its time to fix Aunt Edna's computer again, you'll know where all your bookmarked needs are without having to re-remember them all. If Aunt Edna is kind of savvy, she can at least go to your tools and start downloading from your links. In fact you could do this with any kind of subject matter as a tutorial for others to easily and instantly access.

TTSJ Bonus Tip

When you get started, make sure to Bookmark The Tall Street Journal homepage, and your profile page along with your other profile pages on other websites. This way when you need to update passwords, or just know what networks you are on, you can go to your social bookmarks and look-up all bookmarks tagged with "me", "myprofile" or any tag of your choosing.

Article from http://www.cheyennejack.com/blog/post.cfm/5-ideas-to-get-started-social-bookmarking">CheyenneJack.com

Why Do Men and Women Stay Single?

2009-06-04T05:00:00.000Z

I read this article by Bella DePaulo, BellaDePaulo.com tonight and immediately wondered what The Tall Street Journal citizenry might think about it. We talk plenty on here about the dating troubles of being tall, especially for our tall women. I think this article will offer some fresh perspectives on state of men or women who do stay single.

The article talks about stereotypes of remaining single and even how studies about married people being happier can be flawed.

The great part about the article is that it is well-written, well-researched and is not making an argument against marriage. It is simply empowering the single person to stand stronger in the face of a society that says they should be more sad due to their 'plight'.

I invite you to read the article, give it some thought and leave your comments.

Download the original "Single and Happy" .pdf here

The significance of getting married has changed dramatically in recent decades. When will our views of single people catch up?
~ Bella DePaulo

I'm fifty-four years old and I have always been single. I love my single life. But for a long time I rarely said that out loud. I thought I was the only happy single person.

I didn't love everything about my single life. I didn't like that "poor thing" look I'd get when others first learned that I was single. I didn't like their assumption that I must be miserable and lonely and pining for a partner.

There were other things I didn't like that I thought I could pin on my single status, but I wasn't really sure. For example, sometimes at work colleagues with partners would assume that I could cover the tasks that no one else wanted. Maybe they presumed that since I was single, I didn't have a life and so had nothing better to do with my time. Socially, I was invited to lunch with my coupled colleagues during the week but not to their dinner and movie outings over the weekends.

Tentatively at first, I began asking other single people if they thought they were viewed and treated differently than coupled people just because they were single. The responses were overwhelming. It was time to proceed beyond anecdotes.

Years later after I had read hundreds of scientific studies about marital status, happiness, and discrimination, and after I conducted my own program of research, I realized that much of the conventional wisdom about people who are single was either grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong. The place of singles in society and the significance of getting married have changed dramatically over the past decades. But our views of single and married people have not yet caught up. I wrote about this in my book Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. The subtitle captures what I learned about singles. Let me explain.

After collecting stories of singlehood, informally, from hundreds of others, I began conducting systematic research. My colleague Wendy Morris and I first studied perceptions of people who are single and married. We approached this work in a number of ways. In one set of studies, for instance, we created profiles of married and single people that were exactly the same (in terms of the person's age, hometown, interests, employment, and so forth) except for their marital status. In one experiment after another, we found that the single people were viewed more negatively than the married people. For example, they were seen as unhappy, lonely, and self-centered compared to their married counterparts. (The one exception is that single people were consistently viewed as more independent than married people.)

We looked up federal statutes and found more than a thousand instances in which official marriage was linked to federal protections and benefits. We found discrimination against singles in the workplace and the marketplace. We then did research of our own on discrimination and found that realtors (and other people we asked) would prefer to rent to married couples than to single women, single men, unmarried couples, or a pair of friends -- even when they all had equally positive references and ability to pay. They even preferred the married couple to the unmarried couple when the unmarried couple had been together six years, compared to only six months for the married couple.

The story that was taking shape in my mind was becoming clear. Single people are not as happy as married people in part because they are targets of stereotyping and discrimination.

At first I did not doubt that getting married made people happier. I saw indications of that in headlines and book titles. In fact, the assumption had become so much a part of conventional wisdom that some began to build other arguments on that foundation. In an op-ed in The New York Times, for instance, Jonathan Rauch argued that gay men and lesbians should be allowed to marry because social science research shows that marriage makes people happier.

When I set out to study the research on marital status and happiness, I thought I was looking for nuances -- are there some people who benefit from marriage even more than others? I was amazed by what I found.

In the typical study people in different categories are asked to rate their happiness, perhaps on a 1 to 4 scale, with 4 indicating "very happy". The categories usually include people who are single (and always have been), currently married, divorced, or widowed. Here are the results of one such study by Walter R. Gove and Hee-Choon Shin published in 1989; the numbers are the average happiness ratings of 2,200 Americans in the four groups:

3.3 currently married

3.2 single

2.9 divorced

2.9 widowed

The first thing to notice is that all four groups are on the happy end of the scale. They are all closer to calling themselves a 3 in happiness (the scale point that has the label "pretty happy") than to any other label. Second, the differences between the groups are not impressive, and the smallest difference is between those who are currently married and those who have always been single.

I'm mentioning this particular study because it is based on a nationally representative sample and because it is often cited by scholars who claim that getting married makes people happier. They look at numbers like these and say, "Look, the married people are happier than all of the unmarried people." But even if the differences were much greater than they actually are, we still could not say for sure that getting married is what made the married people happier. Maybe they were already happier when they were single, and getting married didn't change anything. Also, why not compare all of the people who had ever been married to the people who had never been married? In that comparison, the people who had ever experienced marriage would have an average happiness rating of about 3.0, lower than the 3.2 of the people who had always been single.

A better answer to the question of whether getting married makes people happier would come from studying people over the course of their lives, to see whether people who get married become happier than they were before. Professor Richard Lucas of Michigan State University has been analyzing data from just such a study. Thousands of Germans have been asked about their happiness once a year, every year, starting at age sixteen. The study has been ongoing for more than eighteen years. Lucas followed people who got married and stayed married over the course of the study, people who stayed single the entire time, and people who married and then became divorced or widowed.

Consistent with the study I described previously (in which people were asked about their happiness just once), both the married and the single people were solidly on the happy end of the scale. In this type of study it is possible to look back at the people who got married and stayed married to see how happy they were when they were single.

On the average, people who stayed single the whole time had a happiness rating of 7.0. (In this study, people rated their happiness on a scale ranging from 0 to 10.) On the other hand, married people had a happiness rating of 7.2 when they were single. What happened once they married? Around the year of the wedding, they enjoyed a brief blip in happiness. On the average, they became about .25 points happier than they were before. But after that honeymoon period was over, they went back to being as happy or as unhappy as they had been when they were single. So getting married did not transform them from miserable single people into blissfully wedded couples!

Moreover, the small increment in happiness around the time of the wedding occurred only for those who got married and stayed married. Those who would eventually divorce became slightly less happy as the time of the wedding approached.

So single people typically are happy, and getting married does not make people lastingly happier, even for those who get married and stay married. How can this be? Single people do not have the official, legal coupled status that is so celebrated in our society -- and many are not part of any couple, formal or informal, same-sex or different-sex. Plus, they are targets of stereotyping and discrimination. Why aren't they miserable and lonely?

The ways we have come to talk about people who are single is misleading. We often say, for example, that they are "alone" and that they "don't have anyone". In fact, though, single people (perhaps especially single women) are likely to have whole networks of important people in their lives. They often have friendships that have outlasted many marriages. They have not invested all of their emotional and interpersonal capital into just one person.

Decades ago there was a big bright line separating married life from single life -- a line that was especially daunting to women. Singles often felt that they could not have sex or children outside of marriage without experiencing stigma and shame. The Food and Drug Administration did not approve the pill until 1960. Before then, having sex entailed a greater risk of pregnancy. Now women can have sex without having children, and because of advances in medical reproductive science, they can have children without having sex. Marriage is no longer essential to any of it.

Even though women are still sometimes paid less than men for the same work, there are more jobs and better jobs open to women than there were decades ago. That means that women are no longer tethered to husbands for economic life support. Many can support themselves and even some children on their own paychecks.

There is a remarkable new demographic reality: Americans now spend more years of their adult lives unmarried than married. There are currently fewer households comprised of mom, dad, and the kids than of single people living solo.

Increasingly, people who are single are living their lives fully. Those who have the resources to do so are buying homes, traveling the world, and pursuing their passions. Their lives are meaningful -- and yes, they are happy.

Bella DePaulo is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. She is a visiting professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a contributor to the Huffington Post. Her op-ed essays have appeared in papers such as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsday. Visit her website at www.BellaDePaulo.com.

Fighting Spam on The Tall Street Journal

2009-05-12T17:30:00.000Z

A few minutes ago we were notified of the Susann B account that joined The Tall Street Journal and subsequently spammed everyone's comments. Her account has been banned and all of her activity on the site has consequently been deleted.

While the computers do a very good job of identifying and removing potential spammers, it is the community that helps in identifying and removing professional spammers and other seedy types.

A big "tall" thanks to Jonese for being the first to report this nefarious account. He may not be the tallest guy, as you can see he has a big smile and watches out for our community. Feel free to stop by his profile and leave him some thanks for ratting that bot out.

Depending upon your Tall Street Journal Privacy Settings, you may or may not have received an email notification of a new comment on your page. Unfortunately, we cannot retroactively take back those emails, but you will not see the comment either since all of her actions have been deleted.
Click on your Privacy Settings in the upper right hand corner after you have logged in to control features like..

Moderating your comments on your profile, photos, blogs
Controlling who can see your profile, photos, blogs
Update when the system should and should not automatically email you
Which activities show in the "latest activity" section of the homepage
plus more

Thank you for your understanding and leave any comments and/or ideas you have below about our community and website. Questions are always welcome here and there are few dumb ones (aka don't ask about the weather up here - most likely you live up here too.)

Finally don't forget to tell your tall friends and family about our city. As our community grows so does our information. The major benefit of being a part of this community is to use the thoughts and ideas of others who are in your same situation, even if it is just to get smarter comebacks to dumb questions.

Mission G Meets Monty Python

2009-02-19T06:30:00.000Z

If you enjoyed Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail then you should probably enjoy this gatorade spoof with Kevin Garnett, Derek Jeter, Usain Bolt and others.

Dilbert Comic About Tallness

2009-02-06T20:04:11.000Z

My friend sent this to me awhile back, thought people might enjoy.

How Tall Is Michelle Obama

2009-01-20T19:00:00.000Z

How Tall is Michelle Obama?

Michelle Obama may be the tallest first lady ever standing at 5 feet 11 inches tall. The average American woman stands at 5'4.

That makes Michelle Obama TALL.

What Does Michelle Obama's Height Mean?

The height of Michelle Obama means a lot for women around the world? While many tall women have served as role models in the past, many have been either athletes or models. Michelle Obama is a new role model for tall women. She graduated from Princeton cum laude while majoring in sociology. Michelle then topped that off with her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law and raised her accolades by being listed among "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women" by Essence Magazine in 2006.

On The Tall Street Journal, a social network for tall men and tall women, many women are very strong and proud of their height, while some are embarrassed and shy away from being tall, due to the social pressures of being tall. Some women even suffer depression induced by their own fabulous stature. Tall women suffer these unfair stereotypes because they are tall and because others attack those insecurities due to their own feelings of inadequacy.

However do you ever hear these tall stereotyped statements about Michelle Obama?

"Michelle Obama's height makes her masculine and ugly."

"Michelle Obama is tall, so she must be dumb."

"Michelle Obama is too tall. She can't wear heels."

I have yet to hear these words. I doubt we will. Tall women world wide should hear and acknowledge this silence, this void of opposition as a loud resounding voice saying "Michelle Obama is tall. She is intelligent, fashionable, respected and admired. I too will be tall. I will now demand those qualities from myself and others. Yes I can."

The leadership and elegance of Michelle Obama stands tall among other tall role models. I hope to see more tall women willing to grab their heels, assert their height and femininity while claiming their regal elegance. Strong, proud, tall women that refuse to shrink away. Tall women that embrace their beauty and intelligence to claim a place of leadership and influence in all facets of life, just as Michelle Obama does today.

Tallest Twin Girls

2008-12-10T17:30:00.000Z

Who are the worlds tallest twin girls?

Claire Recht and Ann Recht

The worlds tallest twin girls, stand at 6'7 and 6'7.5. They are currently playing volleyball at American University. Check out their clip on The Early…

Tall Woman Commercial

2008-09-16T15:21:40.000Z

I guess this is for Lee Dungarees, but not sure they make a compelling case for their brand vs. the hot giantess.

Funny how a giant woman inspires aww and sex appeal, and then yet at the same time, I always hear tall women talking about how its so hard to find a date as a tall woman.

Whats that…

Kevin Duckworth

2008-08-26T15:14:26.000Z

Sadly, I have just learned today that one of my favorite basketball players has passed away. Kevin Duckworth was a 7' center that played most of his 11-year career with the Portland Trailblazers. He wasn't the greatest player but he worked hard and smiled doing it. I still have a lot of his all-star basketball cards from back in elementary school when I first started collecting them.

This is an article from ESPN talking more about him.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-225/Kevin-Duckworth--Dead-at-44.html

Anyone else fondly remember the "Duck". At 44, I'll be interested to know what his cause of death was. I know he battled weight problems and I'm afraid at his size it could be size-related.

RIP Duck

Tallest Woman, Sandy Allen, Passes Away

2008-08-13T21:00:00.000Z

At 7' 7¼" (232cm) Sandy was the worlds tallest woman according to the Guiness World Book of records. Today August 13th, 2008, at the age of 53, in Shelbyville, Indiana sadly she has passed on, I'm sure to a greater destiny.

I just saw Sandy on a television show not too long ago. She seemed like a great person, talking to children about the challenges of being tall, and working it in to how it can effect their lives and it is ok to be different.

At age 10, she stood 6'3 and by age 16 she was 7'1. At 22, she had surgery to help stop the effects of giantism she was suffering.

She has appeared in several movies that can be viewed on her IMDB page, and even wrote a book appropiately titled "Cast a Giant Shadow".

Whats going on here?

2008-06-28T22:00:00.000Z

This picture is blowing my mind.

Anyone else seen it to know what was really going on here.

A wreck?

Weather?

Maybe Darryl Hannah as the 50-foot women has attacked?

Tallest Man Who Ever Lived

2008-06-22T03:30:00.000Z

Robert Pershing Wadlow

At 8ft 11in (2.72m) Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in modern history by the Guinness World Book of Records. At age 21 he weighed 490lbs (223kg). He also wore a size 37AA shoe(47 cm, 18½ in long) and had a wingspan of 9 and a half feet.

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Tall Woman Designer in New Zealand

2008-06-22T00:30:00.000Z

Just found this article about designer Julie Fifield and her company Made Tall, an internet mail-order company in New Zealand.

She is 1.8m tall herself, and also happens to be a sergeant in the police of Canterbury.

You might want to check out her website (www.madetall.co.nz) or this article that has more information about her and her design…

Skee-Lo - I Wish I Was a Little Bit Taller

2008-06-18T03:12:40.000Z

Loved this song back in the day... actually still do. Love when he wishes he was "like 6'9" since thats my past. Just fun catchy summery song.

What are your favorite videos and…

Becky Thomas - Tall Women & Short Men Video

2008-06-14T01:30:00.000Z

Here is a cool video talking about tall women and tall men on msnbc. Makes me think I really need to look into spawning off a companion site for short people too. What does everyone think?

Link since MSNBC embed code does not work

Profile Picture Tip to The Tall Street Journal

2008-06-12T17:39:06.000Z

For your profile picture, it is best to upload a perfectly square picture. Otherwise the software usually centers the picture and crops it for you. This usually results in cropped heads, especially for tall people.

If you want a great easy-to-use free photo editing tool, and one that I have used for years on my CheyenneJackShots Photos you can use Googles Picasa photo editor at the link below.

Picasa Download Site

Feel free to respond with comments below on other site issues you are having, and I will try to address them for you. I'm hoping to have more tutorials in the future covering some of the same topics I cover at CheyenneJack.com like RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking with Delicious, StumbleUpon, Mahalo and others, but will keep it focused for using The Tall Street Journal.