Category Archives: culture
Is the Allure of the "Older Man" Fading?
A statement in a recent Financial Times article about data mined and analyzed from Match.com took me a little by surprise: “Women are less likely to e-mail with men who live far away, men who are older than they are, and men who are short.” Running counter to the “known fact” (as proclaimed by this Askmen.com author) …
Is the Allure of the “Older Man” Fading?
A statement in a recent Financial Times article about data mined and analyzed from Match.com took me a little by surprise: “Women are less likely to e-mail with men who live far away, men who are older than they are, and men who are short.” Running counter to the “known fact” (as proclaimed by this Askmen.com author) …
Shakespeare in the original Klingon
William Shatner interviewing Christopher Plummer, love it! aka – Captain Kirk and General Chang “You can’t appreciate Shakespeare until you’ve read him in the original Klingon.”
Need a Spotify invite?
Ok, I’m not promising anything here but I am 2 for 2. Both times I received a Spotify invite in my email pretty fast. The backstory is that Ashton Kutcher is a big fan of Spotify and he tweeted his fanboy-ism. Then his millions of twitter followers were like, “we want to try!” The company …
Geeks on a train
If you ever have a chance to geek-out, don’t hesitate to take it. There is nothing greater, no more pure joy than that. Ok, maybe there is romance and you’re child being born, but we are talking about geeks here. — I revel in these moments and seek them out, like the recent Harry Potter …
Ginormous nuclear haul from California to Utah
Today the largest truck ever to travel in California transports a nuclear steam generator weighing 750,000 pounds to Utah. The 50 foot long turbine is classified as nuclear waste and is travelling on a truck with 192 tires to a nuclear waste dump in Utah. The story of the journey is fascinating. A large police …
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Comic-Con Turns Geeks into Hollywood Kingmakers
“Everything I learned about the movie business I learned at Comic-Con.” Jon Favreau — Walking around San Diego for the 2011 Comic Con is an experience like no other. It combines the crowds and energy of SXSW with the geekiness of opening night at Harry Potter. There are costumes galore with (my favorite) girls as …
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Milk, it does a body…BAD?
This is a re-post of a piece I wrote last year on Posterous about milk and breaking my addiction to it. I’m reposting it because I’m writing a piece in response to the recent controversy over a PMS milk campaign. — A habit is a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in …