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...Eyeworks, which is still working out the exact details of the deal with Suleman, had its biggest reality hit to date in the U.K. with last year's Half Ton Mum, a one-hour show about Texan Renee Williams, who died at the age of 29, weighing nearly 900 lb. (400 kg). Her two adolescent daughters, Mirina and Mariah, narrated the program...
...months later, Eyeworks made Half Ton Dad, about the struggles of Kenneth Brumley, a 1,035-lb. (469 kg) 40-year-old father of four, also from Texas, who, unlike Williams, survived well past his bypass surgery. As the Channel 4 promotional material put it: "Half Ton Dad is the story of a father, his family and a country which currently has 15 million morbidly obese citizens...
...what you're doing with it. It also has a monochrome camera (it works with infrared) that reads depth - how far away your body and its component parts are - and a highly specialized microphone that can pick up voice commands. Along with all this hardware, it's got a ton of software that tells the Xbox how to find your body's various joints (it tracks 48 of them), how to keep track of multiple players at the same time, how to tell your Hawaiian shirt apart from the colorful wallpaper behind you, and so on. Microsoft even...
...stature we achieved seems exaggerated, remember that Harvard sustains a ton of silly, often pretentious things—like bowties and a cappella groups—that the real world has more or less gotten over. This adds to the place’s manufactured mystique: Those outside our bubble of obliviousness recognize that Gatsby parties and fencing are outdated, but our investment in archaisms, niche pursuits, and outlandish concentrations—not majors—is why we’re here. Jazz is no longer the seething cultural rebellion it once was—it?...
...more I go, the more I can, right? The more often - and I found this even in Chicago during the campaign. People eventually get used to you, no matter who you are. If I went out there once in a while, I think there would be a ton of excitement because everybody feels like, Well, this is the opportunity. But if people know I'm out there every Saturday, what you get is more of the normal kind of - I'm sitting down, somebody may come over and sit and we strike up a conversation. There isn't a frenzy...