I generally build my systems with chef-solo cookbooks. I do not want to maintain a central server for recipes. However, I’m getting to the point where I’d like to share my cookbooks from one solo project to another. Anyways, I
wanted to run an individual recipe of a given cookbook. The following gist allows for this. Although, it may not be necessary, since cookbooks are generally idempotent. Seemed like a good idea earlier in the evening, meh.

http://gist.github.com/242526

Die Online Pokerwelt besteht aus vielen verschiedenen Anbietern. Nach Pokerstars und Full Tilt Poker ist das Netzwerk iPoker am größten. Es handelt sich also um das größte Pokernetzwerk überhaupt. Dementsprechend attraktiv ist es auch. Denn die Tatsache, dass es an die 100 Skins davon gibt macht es natürlich möglich, dass viele verschiedene Angebote vorhanden sind während man bei Pokerstars oder Full Tilt Poker nur 1 Angebot hat. Das heißt es herrscht auch ein ordentlicher Konkurrenzkampf unter den iPoker Skins! Und Konkurrenz belebt bekanntlich das Geschäft und kommt immer dem Kunden, in diesem Fall dem Spieler zugute!

Aber dennoch gibt es auf iPoker kein legales Rakeback Angebot. Wobei damit noch nicht alles zum Thema gesagt ist, denn eigentlich gibt es schon Rakeback, es heißt dort nur anders und wird anders verpackt. Nämlich mit Loyalty Programmen. Der Hintergrund ist der, dass man Rakeback nur an Spieler geben darf, die auch viel Rake erspielen. Und je mehr man erspielt, desto mehr bekommt man wobei selbst das noch nicht wirklich viel ist.

Jedenfalls gibt es dennoch die Möglichkeit auf anderem Wege Rakeback auf iPoker zu bekommen. Das ist auch inzwischen Gang und Gebe und die wirklich guten Spieler bei denen sich das lohnt genießen diese Deals auch sehr. Wir möchten an dieser Stelle gar nicht zu sehr ins Detail gehen. Denn es gibt eine Seite, die sich ausführlich zum Thema iPoker Rakeback äußert: iPoker Rakeback 24. Jeder, der mehr Informationen rund um iPoker Rakeback sucht, sollte sich diese Seite näher ansehen.

Jeder Pokerraum nimmt eine Gebühr aus jedem Pot. Damit erzielt der Pokerraum überhaupt seine Einnahmen. Ganz im Gegensatz zum Casino verdient der Pokerraum nicht wenn der Spieler verliert, sondern wenn er spielt und Geld setzt. Das Rake greift sich der Anbieter automatisch aus jedem Pot. Dies beträgt meist bis zu 5 % des Pots, wird aber nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen zum Beispiel wenn ein Flop gezeigt wird, eingezogen.

Der Pokerraum bietet neuen Spielern meistens einen Bonus an um das Spielen attraktiver zu machen. Der Bonus gilt aber nur für eine kurze Zeit und kompensiert meist nur wenig. Rakeback ist anders: Beim Rakeback bekommt der Spieler auf Lebenszeit einen Teil des erspielten Rakes zurück erstattet. Der Prozentsatz, also was letzendlich vom Rake zurück an den Spieler geht ist beim Rakeback meist höher als bei einem Bonus. So ist es ziemlicher Standard 30 % Rakeback zu bekommen. Erspielt der Spieler in einem festgelegten Zeitraum 100 Euro an Rake, so werden ihm 30 Euro zurück erstattet.

What can I say?

I spent a bit of time this weekend raking the leaves in our yard, towards the end of the chore the head of the rake fell off the pole.  This would confound some people and they would either stop raking, or hop in the car and buy another rake.  But not me.  I come from a family of “adjusters”.  Not Claim adjusters, like in the Insurance Industry, but bona-fide fiddlers, the puttering kind.

We once, not long ago, stayed with my Father for a week.  I didn’t think anything of it, but my Husband did and he quietly took it all in.  Since then he has entertained other people with stories of that stay.  One of his favorite dinner stories is the one I call the “shower” story; my Father had been renovating the only bathroom in the house (for a few years) and when we were there the hot water control was a monkey wrench and the cold water control was the vice-grip.  In truth, I hadn’t noticed.  

The another one is the “hanger” story; my Father has a penchant for saving wire coat-hangers, “Why, you can use them for anything.”  He says.  True enough, he has bent, twisted, painted and braided wire coat hangers into an impressive array of very useful things. 

Adjusting was in my blood and with that I picked up my two piece rake set and went into the garage.  I put the two pieces back together, drilled a hole through them, snipped off a good length of coat hanger wire (we keep our stack there), threaded it through the new hole, and was using my needle-nose pliers to bend the ends over themselves when my Husband walked in. 

“You’re just like your Father.”  He remarked kindly.

I watched him walk over to the car workbench to inspect the parts he’d spray painted that morning; each one hanging from its own custom bent coat hanger.

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My mind is numb with endorphins; my muscles are sore, but not as sore as they are going to be; and my hands are thirsty for lotion. It’s leaf pick-up day in the Warner yard.

We have eight (or is in nine?) oak trees in our yard that are continually shedding something. This year there was a bumper crop of acorns and our weather was so weird that the leaves dropped literally within 24 hours. The sudden leaf-dropping and wet weather have conspired to keep us from mulching the leaves bit-by-bit. We’re now forced to try to deal with the lot of them all at once.

With Hubby’s back no longer able to deal with the twisting motion of raking, he decided we needed a leaf blower. We purchased a light-weight (so I can use it) electric one that kicks out air at 150 miles per hour. We got it home and no sooner did Hubby have it out of the box then our neighbor, who owns a lawn-care business, said that Hubby should use one of his gas powered leaf blowers, which have more power than the one we bought.

The neighbor loaned us two leaf blowers. Hubby used one and Young Son used the other. Young Son thought leaf blowing was the bomb and had a blast doing it.

While the guys were busy blowing leaves into big piles in the backyard, I grabbed the new electric leaf blower and went to work in the front yard.  Having not used a leaf blower before, I didn’t realize there was a bit of a trick to it. First, you have to know where you want the leaves to go, otherwise you’ll end up blowing them all over the place. Second, you have to aim low to the ground and perform a kind of scooping motion, blowing down, across and up in the direction you want the leaves to go.

Once we had the leaves blown into ginormous piles, it was time to load them into the trailer so we can take them to the community compost pile. We knew, looking at the size of the leaf piles, that we were only going to be able to get maybe one pile’s worth into the trailer.

This task fell to me because Young Son was done with yardwork after playing with the leaf blower and Hubby’s back won’t allow him to do the lifting or twisting required. Adopting a technique I learned from a neighbor (not the same neighbor who loaned us the leaf blowers), I used two rakes like a clamshell to pick up leaves and drop them into a large lawn bag. When I had filled this, I would drag it over to the trailer and empty it.

After two hours of this, the trailer was full and most of one pile was gone. Not ALL of the pile, mind you, just most of it. And I was exhausted and numb. There are several large piles left in the yard and I will be enlisting the children to help me with those.

One thing I discovered during our leaf pick-up adventure is that one of our rakes is missing. I had left a rake on our front stoop and it was gone, nowhere to be found in the shed or rest of the yard. I have a feeling someone helped themselves to our rake. If this is indeed what happened, here’s a little clue for the thief. If we leave stuff on the curb with a “free” sign, by all means take what’s there. If, however, we have something on the stoop by our front door, we intend to keep using it, ‘kay?

I rakes yur leaves. You pay me biscuits

were iz ur sine?

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Strange weather we’ve had around here of late. October was chilly with a hint of winter in the air. Then comes November and we’ve had clear skies, mid-60’s weather. Right before Halloween, I was thinking I was going to have to break out the winter coats. But so far, not just yet. That’ll change here soon, I’m sure. I took advantage of a recent sunny day and went out to rake up all the leaves on the ground now that my trees are pretty much bare. What leaf pile is complete without a jump in them?

This season is one of the main things I love about living in Ohio.  I love college football, wearing a comfy new sweater and all the leaves on the ground.  The look of fall comes and goes so fast, so my girls made sure they got some quality leaf jumping in this year.

Happy jumping!!

Nos dias 13 e 14 de Outubro estivemos no Rails Summit e como de costume, aqui na Bluesoft quem participa de eventos faz uma apresentação aos outros membros da equipe sobre as principais lições aprendidas.

Na apresentação fizemos um resumo das palestras que assistimos e suas principais mensagens, tivemos a presença de nossos amigos da Agiliti, Alberto Portugal e Alexandre Marsicano que nos ajudaram com alguns comentários ao longo da apresentação.

Veja os slides no slideshare:

Veja o vídeo da apresentação em nosso canal do Vimeo:

Como citado no vídeo, você pode assistir à praticamente todas as palestras que aconteceram no Rails Summit 2009 no canal blip.tv do Hugo Borges. Você pode também acompanhar uma série de posts sobre o evento no Blog do André Faria.

Parabéns ao Akita e à Locaweb pela realização de mais uma excelente conferência e que venha o Rails Summit 2010.

From the new guys:

Obsidian says it’s much easier for women to get laid.

Double-Minded Man muses on his former life as a nice guy.

Sonic Charmer notes the correlation between progressivism and whiteness.

Genius comments on Israeli girls’ lack of femininity, pens a guide to men’s room etiquette, and shares my taste in sexytime music.

Gerard O’Neill writes on the consequences of a potential “grey flight” from Ireland.

Indomitable Thoughts revels in kicking women off of the pedestal.

And the rest:

Cless Alvein coins a new term for our sexual dystopia.

Prime relates what Dr. James Watson has taught him.

Chuck writes on the feminist conspiracy to destroy organized sports.

Dave from Hawaii shares his thoughts on the death of femininity.

Novaseeker reports on two related cases of feminist kvetching.

Roissy takes those who doubt the power of game to task.

The Elusive Wapiti argues against government marriage.

Zdeno pens another guest post at 2 Blowhards on fixing the university system.

Al Fin reports on Europe’s demographic future.

Alpha Dominance details how women misrepresent themselves in order to get men to commit.

11minutes explains why sluts are shamed and studs are saluted.

Anakin Niceguy says there is no such thing as involuntary celibacy.

Alex Birch tells guys to man up and inveighs against Randism.

Frank Azzurro reviews Total Recall.

Φ gives his thoughts on the biopic Notorious.

Fabius Maximus analyzes the collapse of the Old Media.

FeministX tells us why she hates sports.

Fishersville Mike compares Doug Hoffman to Barack Obama.

Three posts from Girl Game: Aoefe talks about kissing, Bhetti writes on temperateness and tempestuousness in relationships, and LovelySexyBeauty analyzes the bitch shield.

Trumwill argues against following your dreams.

Khankrumthebulgar muses on Gore Vidal calling Roman Polanski’s victim a “hooker” and other issues.

Dennis Mangan presents evolution as a asset for reactionaries.

HVanDerMerwe explains why you shouldn’t marry women over 25.

OneSTDV writes on left-wing pessimism.

Rake analyzes a day game approach.

Pons Seclorum criticizes Glenn Beck’s characterization of Theodore Roosevelt as a progressive.

Roosh outlines eighteen reasons why guys don’t get laid.

Talleyrand retells two conversations he had with two different older men.

Alkibiades explains why there is a sexual double standard.

Ben Leonard writes on how sterilization is driving us towards an androgenous world.

Chip Smith questions the facts of the Bill Sparkman murder.

J critiques Kevin MacDonald’s analysis of the Frankfurt School.

Assanova calls it quits.

Hugh MacIntyre posits the possibility of a Scottish independence referendum next year.

Slumlord talks about the limits of game.

Dylan Sauders lists the mistakes guys make on Halloween.

Eric Disco explains how to get women to chase you.

G Manifesto distinguishes between “pure game” and “tricking.”

Guy White rolls out a myth-smashing four-part series on Jewish power in the U.S.

The Audacious Epigone presents more evidence that women don’t care about non-biological science.

Tucker Max speculates on why I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell bombed at the box office.

Andromeda argues for the legalization of prostitution.

Archivist writes on how feminist beliefs enable rape.

Robert Franklin reports on the effects of fatherlessness on animal brain development.

Marc Rudov says why the GOP should try to appeal to men.

Agnostic gives a perfectly rational reason why straight guys should hate gay men.

Robert Greene releases an free e-book summarizing his newest release, The 50th Law.

Cassandra Goldman shows how laws designed to protect adolescents end up hurting them.

Emach states why China will not become a superpower and takes down the feminist absurdity of hyphenated names.

Larry Arnhart writes on Darwinism and human rights.

Silas Reinagel details how women are responsible for the current divorce epidemic.

John Robb gives advice to inquisitive youngsters.

Half Sigma opines on Judaism.

Joe Bageant contrasts the American and Mexican work ethics.

Karen De Coster blogs on the Gardasil and Cervarix scam.

Robert Higgs reports on the problems with democracy.

Mark Richardson states that feminists focusing on sex liberation are fighting a losing battle.

Will Grigg writes on how Obama is wrecking America.

John Dolan trashes Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

Hi third blog of the night i am soo board so i am blogging. On my youtube videos i just figured out that some of my vids were on a couple websits. They were on sites and some of my newer videos were on a site called pouplevids.com or something like that and i was like WOW! i did not know that my vids where that good. then the vid My New Barbie Games was on a site called www.SmashHits.com so i was soo happy to see that!

Still fall the fat leaves

after I rake, pile, black bag

work has just begun

Figured I’d post some more general observations.  Still getting used to the King and also don’t have time today to do a proper ride report for Sunday.  I’d like to find some way to put up a map or something, I don’t know.  Seems there isn’t any great resource for riding in my area (twisties, etc).

I figured something out about the way the bike feels, at least, relative to my old bike.  The steering column is higher than on my old bike – I think all Harley bikes have a taller frame than metric bikes. That’s why when you throw a leg over and pull the bars straight, it feels more like you’re picking up a toddler by his arms rather than picking up a bag of groceries.  That make sense? It’s like there’s more handlebar-to-wheel distance.  It’s probably just a few inches, but sometimes that’s enough.

That’s what she said.

Another thing I realized was the wide frame forces your legs a little forward when you put your feet down.  That makes it a little less stable.  I don’t know a single man that can do a split, but at least when you sit on a small bike you can keep your legs apart and they’ll touch the ground (unless you’re short).  With the Road King, the saddle pushes your legs somewhat more together or it forces your feet forward – either way, your legs are less spread and so you’re slightly less stable.  I think the passenger floorboards are evidence at least that your feet aren’t where you might want them to be (they ram right into your calves during taxi’ing).

Pornography of Motorcycles, and proud of it.

PAUSE! Apparently wordpress now lets us embed? Interesting… [EDIT - nope, maybe it's just for certain media? mp3s? or does Flickr not support oEmbed?]

So last night I took the King out for a spin.  Wanted to practice some slow riding and of course wanted to open her up on this straight, empty bridge by my house.

I’m not happy with the “whoop whoop whoop” of the exhaust note.  I want that wet-sounding beef noise but at least part of the problem is the catalytic converter.  There are a lot of “fixes” for the cat, and I must admit I’m curious.  More on that later.

I emailed the dealer to inquire about the missing “v” logo front fender skirt.  No word back.  Not shocked.  I’m tempted to tell Long Branch NJ HD that there can be a lot of info on the internet about them … kind of like “santa claus is watching you” … but I’m sure they don’t care.  They’re selling lots of bikes, even now, and apparently the Boss brought his bike in last week.

That’s a funny story.  When I picked up my bike, the dealer told me that Bruce Springsteen himself came in to drop off his bike – a wild, beefy custom bike in silver – said they were going to chop it out for him.  It looked mildly like a chopper already, with a longer rake and huge fat tire.  Who knows.  The sales guy said he saw Springsteen with his own eyes.  Told me to feel the clutch, and I pulled it, and it was stiff!  The Boss is the boss, you could say.  I was so dazed by having just seen my bike for the first time, I really didn’t care that much about anyone else’s bike.  I mean, I had *just* seen Springsteen play that last show at Giants’ Stadium, but I had never before set eyes on my bike.  What’s more important? More worthy of attention?

That’s what I thought.

Anyway, riding around last night was that same constant bliss that sold me in the first place.   I’m getting slightly more comfortable.   I have yet to get the ABS to engage (which is probably for the best, right? I’m so fascinated though!).

The bike’s sweet spot is definitely 2nd gear.  Can jump from 20mph to 45mph is what feels like a second and a half.  Have to remember that when I race Mike.

6th gear is an indefatigable gear.  ROARING up that bridge last night, I couldn’t get the RPMs (in 6th) to sound strained.  It’s a pretty sharp incline.  I imagine you’d have to be pushing the outer limits of the engine to get 6th to whine, something I’m not going to do just for curiosity’s sake. I mean like 120mph. Not happening.

This is a blurry shot, sorry. Gotta milk the weekend's pics till next weekend.

I’ll post Sunday’s ride report tomorrow.

wednesday, 10/14/09, tri-c metro ” my mother assumes that my daughter will get married and have children” 9:32

You know you’re getting old when you get yard tools for your birthday.  We celebrated my birthday at Grandma & Papaw’s yesterday and my parents got me a nice pitchfork and rake.  Fine with me, I need yard tools!  Its like when you’re a kid you hate getting socks and underwear for christmas then you get older and you say, uhh…can I have socks and underwear?  Plus my ridiculously massive trees still have more than half their leaves and I raked a HUGE pile today so I totally need that stuff. I really liked the rake, it is huge and real light so raking is just like sweeping.  By the way, we finally got to work outside Sunday. It was still a little chilly, but  no rain. I started raking leaves around 2:30 and we finished for the day around 7:30. The sun is setting earlier and earlier.

After I started raking, Mom and Dad came over with the lawn mower. We raked the leaves into a huge pile and mulched them.  We dug out some of the ditch because the pipe under the driveway its more than half full of dirt.  We also tackled some of the mess in the “flower beds”. Eventually I want to just tear everything out of the flower beds and start over.  There are TONS of little bush stumps and even half a tree.  Lots of holly bushes, hedges, azaleas, rhododendrons, peonies, ivy, weeds, vines, and large random rocks everywhere.  Its quite a mess and some plants have been so long without maintenance and half choked out by other plants I don’t know if we can get anything out of them.  So we chopped and yanked and tugged and ripped alot of junk out and there is still plenty left.

My plan is to have box hedges along the front of the house.  Nice rectangle or square shapes, then maybe a few smaller round bushes here and there in front of that, then little flowers in front of that.  Right now we have a couple of obese hedges….but they are in the front for some reason.  My plans will have to wait until spring.  For now trimming the blobby hedges into a somewhat hedge-like shapes will have to do.

We did have an incident with a poor little snake.  We’ve had a brush pile in the back for a week or 2 and we finally had a wheelbarrow and Jacob was pitchforking the brush into the wheelbarrow and poor little snake got skewered.  :(  He was still alive and he crawled away, but Jacob felt bad about it.  Of course I kept expecting to have some little animal (snake, rat, mole, etc) come running out at me, but it didn’t happen.

Still plenty of leaves on the huge trees in the front & back yards.

Jacob also did alot of work on the inside while Mom & Dad and I were working outside. The hall has been spackled, sanded, cleaned and primed!

Because I’m far too lazy to keep thinking up puns that involve the word “plug,” I’m sticking with one title from here on out.

New bloggers on the roll include Bob Belvedere, who I introduced in this post. He describes himself as follows:

I like to describe myself as an 18th Century conservative.  I am not an ideologue and, therefore, do not subscribe to any ‘ist’ or ’ism’.  I want to be left alone.  I believe the Federal Government should not be allowed to take any actions not permitted by The Constitution.  State and local governments should, likewise, be bound by their constitutions and charters.  Life is absurd.  Any man who does not have at least one vice should not be trusted.  The 17th Amendment should be repealed [and possibly the 19th].  Thomas Jefferson was a blackguard.

Mr. Belvedere’s blog skillfully blends the high and the low, as evidenced by his strict adherence to Rule 5. I dig it.

Another good site, Fishersville Mike, linked me up last Sunday. The blog consists of pithy observations on politics – the best kind.

I’ve also added Sean MacCloud (who I’ve seen commenting on my site and at The Spearhead), Luv(sic) (same), Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart (linked at Chuck’s place), Joe Bageant (forgot where, but I’ve been meaning to read his book Deer Hunting with Jesus for some time – Fred Reed has a good review), Everyday Thoughts on Life (linked at Novaseeker’s), Instapundit (which I’ve started reading again), and The Sartorialist (again, forgot where). I’m generally free and generous when it comes to linkage, so if you’re a blogger who reads and enjoys In Mala Fide, let me know and I’ll add you to my almighty blogroll (and less mighty reader).

Moving on, Cless Alvein introduces a mathematical way to calculate male attractiveness:

Men can improve their situation dramatically by increasing their sociosexual confidence. It’s difficult to do this, because PUA gimmicks only offer a marginal benefit, but it can certainly be done by improving one’s social skills, learning to tolerate rejection, and developing confidence through experience in all areas of life. A man’s sociosexual confidence also tends to improve over the course of his life. For this reason, although a man’s physical appearance peaks in his late 20s, as it does for women, his overall attractiveness to women is likely to peak in his mid-40s, with his gains in sociosexual confidence sufficient to offset his (mild) physical decline. A man who improves his “game” from a lagging 4 to an average-plus 6, with no changes to his physical appearance, increases his “batting average” by 237 percent. His dry and single spells, if he maintains the same standards, will be three times shorter.

Very cool stuff.

Knack, a Venusian Arts coach, guest-posts at Roissy in DC on gameless PUA instructors teaching useless skills:

That’s one of the things that pisses me off about all these people coming out about “natural game”. 95% of “naturals” are just good looking dudes that girls want to fuck. They have always been good looking and women have been approaching them for sex and dating. Because they have always been approached they have been positively reinforced for sexual aggression (even though they rarely actually start out sexually aggressive). These men can’t teach you anything. Because they never learned anything. It was handed to them. You see, like girls, very good looking men rarely have had to develop an actual personality (the key to pickup).

Also see Assanova’s response.

Whiskey writes on how e-books are changing the media world:

Already e-books are offering fast, and cheaper alternatives to printed books. Project Gutenberg has free, public domain HTML, audio/mp3, and “Plucker” e-books of classics such as Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” and Mark Twain’s “Roughing It.” Plucker which is software available for both Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, and runs on Linux, Macintosh OS X, and Windows, can read e-books prepared in that format. [Currently the Plucker site is unavailable, Sourceforge.com has various project files available. I have personally tried this with a Palm Tungsten, while offering limited readability, the software and content are free. Iphone owners have the option of using free application “Stanza” to read public domain books.

Another nail in Old Media’s coffin.

Bhanu Prasad posts on how culture affects sporting prowess:

A Culture that encourages competition and risk taking

In addition to sporting institutions, a nation needs to have a strong competitive culture. Competition ensures quality, and quality ensures the steady supply of champions.

There are few eastern cultures that actively discourage risk taking in favour of family and relationships. Such cultures are a death knell to sports. As sporting involves an unlimited success or a spectacular failure, and hence fraught with risk. The classic example is my own culture. Here men prefer stability to glory, wrapping nappies to war etc., No wonder we do not have a single explorer/conqueror on the lines of Zheng He or Belisarius.

He makes a number of compelling points.

Al Fin reports that the rate of evolution has exploded in the past 5,000 years:

One of the greatest intellectual curses of modern day humans is “groupthink”, which includes “political correctness” and excessive deference to authority. Mass incompetence provides groupthink with its power over populations. Mass incompetence is fed by poor childraising, perverse educational practises, a self-destructive popular culture, and the mass indoctrination into the groupthink cult by media and higher academia.

I look forward to the smashing of egalitarian shibboleths in the years to come.

anoukange tells the story of her life in descriptive prose:

If you were my man I would stand before you as an offer.  I would work to know you and dream your dreams with you.  I would vacuum in lace, I would time release my secrets and my desires to extend the ride of intrigue, I would be elegant on your arm and never question you in public, I would whisper dirty deeds into your ear and leave your thoughts to wander, I would keep my wrists skinny through out the years so that you may always pin them down with one hand only, I would give you the pillow you preferred, I will keep my skin firm, my muscles toned, my mind flexible, I would go deep, I would go down, I would cook your favorite foods, I would water your roots and iron your shirts, I would carry myself with class, I would fill your cupboard with Jack, I would kiss you with my hands on your face, I would sneak my foot up your leg under the table at dinner, I would steal glimpses of you in movie theaters and memorize your profile, I would keep my hair long and lush so you could pull it, I would absorb your stress and melt it, I would desire your brain, your ways and your pauses, I would trim your hair with precision, I would never stand in the way of your spirit, I would listen to your stories, I would digest you in inches, I would allow you your space and freedom, I would love you, hold you, fuck you, know you, believe in you, travel with you, stay in with you, drink with you, sleep beside you and live beside you.

Beautiful.

Alex Birch explains what differentiates CORRUPT from other anti-modern groups:

Our positive psychology sets us apart from the rest, because if you think like we do, you can achieve so much more good in life. Think about the whiners who always complain about how violent society is, how corrupt our leaders are, how NWO is controlling us, and how unfair life is. What do they really get done? Not much. Then think about the people who are aware of the problems around them, but believe they at least can change their daily environment. Who do you want to be? What do you want to be–bitter and angry or positive and successful?

The world is fucked. Now get over it and enjoy your life.

Φ reports on divorce statistics:

Taken at face value, the survey shows that either the common belief that women only initiate divorce for really good reasons is far from the reality, or the standard of what constitutes a “really good reason” has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. Conservative commentators have almost certainly fallen victim to the first delusion; however, the latter explanation appears to account for the behavior among women in the broader society.

Talk about confirming everything that the MRAs have been saying for years.

FeministX inveighs against the gay male influence and insistence on excessive thinness in the fashion industry (NSFW image):

But I don’t buy this anymore. These excuses are repeated so often that people don’t stop to think about the baseless nature of these claims. If designers want clothes on hangers, why don’t they just put them on hangers and mechanically lift them onto the runway? And why exactly are the clothes supposed to be on human hangers? In the 80s, fashion models were attractive to normal people and the concept of fashion didn’t collapse because of this. The idea is supposed to be that the clothing becomes fashionable, which means that some real women will wear them. And why do men with no interest in female bodies insist on making careers out of designing/presenting/marketing etc clothing for the female body?

It always amuses me when feminists rant about how starvation chic in the fashion industry is a product of the Evil White Heterosexual Patriarchy, when in fact it’s the fags who are making those girls stay thin.

Aoefe argues a controversial point – women are naturally submissive:

I believe the desire for a woman to be submissive to her man is innate, plus I believe women are wired to be submissive to proper authority in general.    Submissive, as I see it, is described as agreement, respect, duty, or deference.  I don’t personally view it as meek, passive or tameness.   I believe submissiveness is a feminine trait and I believe women have lost touch with this inborn need.

Alias Clio has also prepped a interesting response on her blog.

Chuck asks whether single men or married men are better at sex:

Having relations with a variety of women allows a man to know how to respond to the various sexual tastes of women. Some prefer the long game, some the short. Having the dexterity to handle both facets allows a man to quickly adapt to the given situation. Being with the same woman only lets the man adapt to the facet that the woman prefers. Being with a variety of women lets a man learn different techniques for pleasing women in general. If something doesn’t seem to push the buttons, a man can respond by digging deep into his bag of tricks. He adds to his tool-belt – if you will.

The answer will hopefully not shock anyone.

Gunslingergregi posts a picture of himself with his girl and this note:

Fuck thats hot shit god dang.

Go look at that picture, now. Gunslingergregi is a model of alphatude. He just oozes badass from every pore. Congrats to him and his woman.

Trumwill tells us why it’s not easy being a tall woman:

One of the things that some of the taller guys didn’t get is that it’s different when a tall guy is joshed around with because of his height and when a taller girl is. Tall guys, unless they’re freakishly tall, do not generally have reason to be self-conscious about their height. None of the bullies I ever had made fun of me because I was tall. Maybe it’s because my width was a more obvious point of criticism, but I also think because there’s no percentage in going after a guy because he’s tall. Notably, some people made fun of Clint for being short. But he wasn’t short. He was just standing next to me a lot. For girls, though, it’s different. Being tall is considered unfeminine by some. Some guys do discriminate against them. They are likely to have an even more difficult time finding clothes that fit than a tall guy is and the clothes they purchase matter more. So even lighthearted ribbing on a woman’s height that would be perfectly acceptable on a guy can be more problematic with a woman.

As an aside, the Justin that Trumwill mentions as claiming women prefer men fatter then they are is the same Justin who denounces game as “soul killing poison” (despite not knowing what it is), the same Justin who claims “feminism is a weak force,” and the same Justin who thinks picking up strippers is easy. Just saying.

Kamal S. posts on ways of dealing with penis injuries:

Injuries involving extreme bends – by whatever embarrassing means through which they occur – are best iced down immediately. Medical care should be sought at once. It is possible to, well, break the thing in such a way that it’s shape is permanently affected.

Yeah yeah, I know some of you are laughing, but this is important information.

MarkyMark masterfully tears apart a blog posting by a feminist harpy who presumes that all men are potential rapists:

The reason why guys fail to respect what women say is because what women say is bullshit. For example, they say that they want good, decent guys, yet they take up with the worst jerks imaginable. If your actions are going to constantly go against what you say, then you cannot expect guys to take your words seriously. It’s cause & effect, not that women have a grasp of something so hopelessly obvious.

A great takedown of a terrible piece.

Rake goes out with some seduction community guys and comes to a terrible realization:

It’s becoming more and more clear to me that this sort of an outing is simply an exercise in the blind leading the blind. None of these guys really have any clue what they’re doing. They don’t know what they want to open with, how to transition, how to build attraction, establish comfort, etc. I don’t think any of them really understand how to escalate. I believe I mentioned in a previous post that there are just a handful of guys connected to the Seattle Lair that have any real game.

Yep, that’s the seduction community to a tee.

Talleyrand educates readers on the ways of sociopathy:

Antisocial really is a nonsense term that psychologists use.  It is a catch-all for people that behave the way society does not want them to.  There are hundreds of ways (perhaps thousands) of getting this diagnosis, and it is entirely circular.

Not to mention that women find sociopaths sexy.

Coldequation reminds us that the Axis leadership was completely and totally nuts:

Hitler’s decision to declare war on the US was even worse. He had already bitten off more than he could chew by fighting a two-front war which, as had already become apparent, would be a long slog rather than the quick Blitzkrieg knockout he had expected. What do you do in that situation? Declare war on the country with the largest economy in the world with little tactical benefit when you have no way to even strike at them, of course (there was a minor benefit in that the U-Boats could then engage in unrestricted warfare against American ships that were supplying the Allies, but that didn’t amount to much).

This is a good opportunity to pull out Gary Brecher’s classic column “Why I Hate WWII,” in which he makes a similar point.

Marquis posits an experiment you can run that will both improve your game and allow you to experience what’s like to be a chick:

In going to a gay bar as a male who is good looking or even simply not ugly, you will immediately notice something: eye contact. Guys will invariably stare you down like a piece of meat. These are not the furtive glances by females, particularly hot ones at that, but rather the looks of those who want you to know that they are viewing/checking out your goods. You will also probably have at least a couple guys offer to buy your drinks. Of those offering, the more overbearing, direct, and “won’t take no for an answer” types will be older men and/or less attractive/or drunk. It is so obvious, yet strange to see this in action. All the basic principles of being a woman are in effect, but to experience it firsthand is truly eye opening/perspective changing.

When you think about it, a lot of what comprises game is using women’s own tactics against them.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Jack Donovan, The Spearhead’s newest contributor, Chip Smith interviewed him over at The Hoover Hog:

Can you be more specific — about these “highly questionable assumptions?”

The pursuit of knowledge isn’t the primary goal of any “study” program grounded in feminism. There is an obvious political agenda there. That’s the only reason why these programs even exist. While superficial debate occurs over doctrine and details, if you don’t buy into the primary goal and service the central idea, you are not “with the program.” It’s like arguing with someone who studies theology. God is the ultimate justification for every path of study, for every argument. The theologian’s claim to authority comes from God. If you pull God out of the equation, the whole thing falls apart.

If you don’t agree that creating a gender-neutral society is possible or desirable, then “feminist scholars” and “gender studies scholars” wield no real intellectual authority. If you aren’t prepared to accept on faith alone that sex is just a skin-deep costume, or that human societies have some sort of moral imperative to collectively wish-away or blind themselves to any meaningful differences between the sexes and do away with all gender roles, these people’s criticisms can be evaluated more realistically. They are priestesses and priests, propagandists, political operatives, interested parties. I’d no sooner expect objectivity from Karl Rove or a Jehovah’s witness knocking on my door. I’m familiar with their racket and I don’t find their arguments to be especially convincing based on my own first hand observation of human behavior.

A great read that’s gotten me more interested in Jack’s work. (And Chip, thanks for adding me to your blogroll.)

J dismantles the popular “cold climate adaptation” argument for white racial supremacy:

Polar people, like the Lapps, Nenet, etc. live several hundred kilometers to the North, in much harsher climates, and they are always tested as having one sigma lower IQ than Northern Europeans. Cold climate increases head size but not IQ. There is no correlation between latitude and IQ.

Pithy and accurate.

Robert Stacy McCain has two final postings on his brain-damaged cousin. From The American Spectator:

Meghan McCain would be well advised to stop exercising her First Amendment rights and instead invoke her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, as determined under Miranda v. Arizona. Everything she says can and will be used against her in the court of public opinion.

If it seems like I’ve been linking Stacy a lot lately, it’s because he’s just that good.

Assanova offers advice on how to avoid seduction scamsters:

And when you’re looking at testimonials, don’t trust testimonials for the company, look for testimonials about that individual instructor. If no one is mentioning that instructor’s name in the seduction community, then you can bet that he is either a rookie instructor, or he just sucks and isn’t worth a mention. An instructor for a company can be amazing, and get a great testimonial, but that doesn’t mean that the other instructors are also amazing. Don’t make the mistake of reading a testimonial and assuming that it applies to every instructor within that company.

I’d estimate that most so-called “seduction gurus” are con artists. There’s little you can get from them that you can’t get online for free.

Slumlord has two great posts in which he evaluates game from an Aristotelean and Thomistic perspective, respectively. From the second post:

Now a Christian man is supposed to possess Charity. In the Aristotlean sense, Charity is directed toward the perfection of things. Charity seeks to “un-private” the thing to which it is directed. Now Charity in a man is not only directed to things outside himself but to himself as well. Therefore a Charitable man will seek the ridding of his imperfections.. Hence it would imply that activities directed towards finding a mate are a good, since the remedy of a privation is a good.

It also follows that the “goodness” of a remedy is in proportion to the degree in which it is restorative of the privation. Now as traditional dating advice has pretty much been a dismal failure when it comes to finding a mate, whilst Game has been enourmously successfull, the Christian interpretation of Game is that it is a moral good.

Yes, you read that right – God wants you to have game.

Dylan Sauders identifies the types of women who go to nightclubs:

I met an intelligent, attractive, emotionally healthy college graduate with a propensity for long term loving relationships. To be fair, she doesn’t usually go out, but I’ve found that most people you meet in clubs don’t usually go out – they just happened to that night for a special occasion like a roommates birthday.

There is no such thing as a “club girl.” There is no such thing as a “bar girl.” Those are just false distinctions thrown up by lameasses who can’t cut it in those places.

Agnostic writes on the best way to discipline girls who are acting up:

I paced slowly over to her, set my hand down on her shoulder, and said, “Don’t… Do that… Anymore…” I didn’t have a scowl on my face, nor a coddling or reassuring expression. Just that look like, you’re being annoying and need to knock it off. She stopped horsing around at that point, and when she was about to leave the area 10 minutes later, she tugged at my jeans from the floor and reached up to shake my hand and say i’m sorryyyyy with an honest worried look in her eyes. I took her hand but merely half-smiled and waved her off as though she were overreacting and being weird, which must have fucked with her mind a little more.

Always remember to never take shit from a girl.

emach dissects a blog post in which feminists talk about how to go about dating:

At one point in the history of your genetic lineage, your ancestor was the result of a man exercising his right to be with a woman bceause he’s bigger and stronger.  You exist because a man’s right to have a woman trumps a woman’s right to turn him down.  Men invented rape laws because we are better people than feminists who, if the shoe were on the other foot, would not enact the same laws.  I know this for certain because feminists wrote divorce laws and the no-fault divorce is the closest thing to male-victim rape in this country and the feminists actively sought it and successfully made it legal.

Much comedy ensues.

Finally, here’s something I grabbed from Eolake Stobblehouse’s joint. It explains itself.

Fall is here, the leaves have changed, and traffic where I live on Talcott Mountain (home of the lovely Heublein Tower) has quadrupled because of all the leaf-peepers. That means the leaves are going to start falling soon and raking season will commence.

According to the Daily Green, one leaf blower with a two-stroke engine can cause as much pollution as 80 cars each driven 12,500 miles. That’s pretty scary.

There are some green models of leaf blowers, like these from STIHL.

Of course raking is also good exercise and nothing could be more nostalgic than jumping into a freshly raked pile of leaves. Enjoy!

Old rake snags Metro again
TNN 15 October 2009, 06:32am IST

KOLKATA: For the second time in less than a week, Metro Railway services ground to a halt during rush hour because of a recurring problem with
old rakes. Trains between Kavi Nazrul (Garia Bazar) and Maidan stations were suspended for over an hour on Wednesday, causing severe harassment to commuters.

Last Thursday (October 8), services between Kavi Nazrul and Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) stations had to be suspended for nearly three hours due to, what officials say, was a faulty rake. Wednesday’s disruption was also due to a technical problem in the rake, they said.

What seems to have caused some embarrassment to Metro officials is the fact that an expert committee set up to inquire into Thursday’s trouble, submitted its report only on Monday. Though the report has not been made public, insiders said that fingers have been pointed to obsolete rakes that are being overworked to maintain schedules after the Garia line was opened.

Trouble started around 9.30 am on Wednesday, when a Dum Dum-bound train got stuck at Jatin Das Park station. Engineers checked the rake and found something wrong with the third rail current collector’ (TRCC) a device in the train’s undercarriage that draws power from the third rail. On Thursday, too, it was a faulty TRCC that had smashed into the third rail, severely damaging it.

“Passengers were requested to get off the train at Jatin Das Park as the train was stalled. We know it caused severe inconvenience to commuters, but there was nothing we could do as the rake was in no position to be moved. A few other trains were also held up between Kavi Nazrul and Jatin Das Park. Around 9.50 am, we were forced to suspend services between Dum Dum and Kavi Nazrul as well,” a senior Metro official said.

Not wanting to repeat Thursday’s mistake when the faulty rake, while being shifted to Noapara damaged the third rail again, causing disruptions between Tollygunge and Dum Dum officials decided to conduct preliminary repairs at Jatin Das Park station itself. The process of patching up the damage and removing the rake to the car shed took till 10.54 am. Services were suspended till then.

“We were worried that the faulty rake might disrupt services between Jatin Das Park and Dum Dum. We decided that the stretch between Dum Dum and Maidan should be allowed to operate so that people from the north could reach central Kolkata. It would have served no purpose to close down the entire route,” the official added.

The Metro has 18 rakes, 17 of which are used every day. Nearly 50% of these are 25 years old from the time services first started in Kolkata. Earlier before start of services between Mahanayak Uttam Kumar and Kavi Nazrul a few of the rakes were sent for overhauling on a routine basis. Orders have already been placed for new rakes but they are not expected to be delivered before the end of the year.

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