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I just want to say FOR THE RECORD, that I didn’t buy this book. A certain Pirate Fembot left it at my house while she is out sailing the high seas. The book is called The Game and it’s about picking up chicks and is a prime example of why this particular Pirate Fembot is a menace. Fortunately she never reads my blog so I can say whatever I want about her and she’ll never even notice.

Amazingly, this girl is like 10x smarter than everyone around her.  That’s partly because she’s a heartless robot.  But it’s also partly because she spends her time reading bestselling non-fiction books on the secrets of pickup artists.  For six months this book has been sitting in my living room and I’ve only picked it up long enough to wipe under it.

Until today.

Before today I’d never even heard of Neil Strauss. I’d never heard of his book, “The Game” (despite its apparent new home in my living room).

So today I started reading it. And it’s got some really good info in it.

Stuff you would never ever want a crafty Pirate Fembot to know.

I’ve always loved performing magic.  I’ve never been particularly impressed with the big Vegas illusion kind of magic…I like the Harry Anderson street magic.  Cons,  Coins, Cards…pocket magic.   I never have given it nearly as much practice at it takes to be good.  But I’ve read a magic book or two.

The Game is kinda presented like  a magic book. It’s very matter-of-fact, it has diagrams, and terms like selecting a target (or a mark).  But instead of dealing with how to make people think you just read their mind, it’s about the practicality of meeting people….specifically girls.

How you present yourself, how you speak, the clothes you wear…all the things that actually make up “YOU”…are dealt with.  As are, the things you say, how much you listen, what to listen for, and  some actual tricks…ahem…techniques to achieve your goals with members of the opposite sex….whatever they may be.  Maybe you’re looking to get laid, maybe you’re just looking for someone to hang out with…whatever.

None of this information, whatsoever, will help me solve this Pirate Fembot issue.   If she knows all the stuff in this book, she’s probably already been reverse using it on me.

Wait…I’m just assuming she read it.   Maybe she just wants me to THINK she’s read it?  BLARG! This is the kind of trickery that Pirate Fembots are known for!  They trick you and then they steal your booty.

Why?  Because that’s why Pirate Fembots do.

She’s out there, men.  Beware.

Neil Strauss talks about The Game on Jimmy Kimmel

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul;
do not distress what is best in you;
do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts.

Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer,
for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it;
one may have willed something many times, attempted it — and yet,
only the deep inner motion, only the heart’s indescribable emotion,
only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you,
that no power can take it from you — for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

- Søren Kierkegaard 1843

I don’t think I want to look too deeply at the science behind this, but according to a new book, “Why Women Have Sex”, women cite some rather unexpected reasons, including:

• To relieve headaches
• Because he’s a good kisser
• To get revenge
• To lose weight
• Because it’s her wifely duty
• Sympathy sex
• To keep him from straying
• For Practice

Sympathy, painkiller, weight loss… the real reasons women have sex | Mail Online.

This commercial is actually pretty funny…

Hot Milk Lingerie Makes Pregnancy Sexy – ParentDish.

YouTube – How to kiss a woman by Captain Kirk.

A short animated clip made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone featuring a small segment of an Alan Watts lecture.

YouTube – Alan Watts – “Music and Life”.

I had a little scare today.  Last night I was feeling a little run down after work.  I had trouble sleeping but when I finally did fall asleep I woke up and couldn’t breathe.   This wasn’t the first time, after my bout with bronchitis earlier this year the doc at the walk-in clinic told me I might have asthma and he referred me to a specialist.

Problem is, I don’t have health insurance.

So what do you do when you wake up and can’t breathe?  I headed to the emergency room, with a quick side trip to the ATM to get out some cash.  I pulled out $600, my daily max.

There are 4000 asthma-related deaths every year in the United States, many of them uninsured (or under-insured) children.  Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children.  Asthma is treatable, but the most common  treatment (inhaled corticosteroids) costs over $100 per month, which is way beyond what many families can afford.

4000 preventable deaths a year…more than all the people who died on September 11th.   EVERY YEAR.

Except they aren’t being killed by foreign terrorists, it’s something much more sinister. Our own failed health care system is just letting them die.

This is why I support health insurance reform.  Not because I think it’s going fix everything that’s wrong, but we have to do something.  Because I know that there’s not always an extra $600 in my account.  What if the bill was $4000?  or $40,000?  Is that when I just become another death statistic?

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, right?

PEOPLE….IT’S THE FIRST ONE!!!!!!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-insurance-consumer-protections/

“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she’s left.

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her, or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”

- David Harkins

Funeral Service will be 1:00pm on July 31, 2009 at Strunk Funeral Home, Vero Beach.   Burial will be at Crestlawn Cemetery, Vero Beach, FL.

Ra-Ra, you will be missed by many.   I love you.

Ever wonder why you are attracted to certain people…or types of people?  Perhaps it’s because of how they smell.

To detect pheromones, most vertebrates use the vomeronasal organ (often called the VNO, or Jacobson’s organ). It’s the thing that, when disabled, made female mice attempt to mate with other female mice and also turned male hamsters impotent.  Since the early 1990s, scientists have fiercely debated whether or not humans have functional VNOs.

What would it be like to have a working VNO? Think of it as a sixth sense, or a “sex sense,” to complement the traditional five. It could allow men to smell when women are ovulating, and decide whether or not it’s the right time to have sex.

Every person has different markers on the surface of their cells called Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC markers) that indicate immunities or susceptibilities to various diseases. Like fingerprints, your MHC markers are unique. To create the fittest offspring, you need to mate with someone with strengths and weaknesses very different from your own.

That’s why the body advertises its MHC through pheromones in sweat. Research suggests that statistically, humans mate with people with vastly different MHCs more often than not….which probably also explains why you’re not attracted to your cousin.  Not even the least bit.  Nope.  I swear!

Mental Floss has the whole story:   How the Nose Can Control Human Sexuality.

5 Tips on Proper Geek Male Maintenance

1. Hurty Brain – Hurty Brain stems from the repeated misfiring of synapses that occurs when a question is asked of a geek that is light years behind what they specialize in..

2. Geek Males need play time. Whether it’s Xbox, Warcraft, or building PC’s from parts, geek guys need time to engage in said activities. Without harassment.

3.   Watch movies he likes i.e. “Buckaroo Banzai”.

4. Buying him a present? Giftcards. Giftcards. Giftcards.

5.   Lastly, and perhaps the most challenging…engaging the geek male in conversation….

via The Squees of A Geek Girl Diva: 5 Tips on Proper Geek Male Maintenance (or How To Keep your Geek Male Running Smoothly).