July 2011


Eat Drink Man WomanFriday, 29 July 2011 04:53 pm

demotivational posters - DOUBLE STANDARDS
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Sometimes, 50/50 yeah … I would like her to …

  • Decide what we are going to do for the night.
  • Drive my car when we go out.
  • Buy me a drink.
  • Take care of herself when random guys harass her.
  • Lead me to the bedroom.
  • Be on top.

Yeah I’m all pro girl power like that. Woo woo! And no it doesn’t mean I’m lazy. It means that I’m enlightened. :mrgreen:

PersonalSunday, 24 July 2011 03:14 pm

Girl cuddling a bottle of Bacardi 151
alb6450 @ flickr

Bacardi 151 is evil in a bottle. At 75% alcohol or 151-proof it’s highly flammable and is meant to be mixed into strong cocktails. But if you wanna get hammered very quickly at half the price, this is the shot for you. However …

If you like to enjoy your night slowly progressing from sober to buzzed to drunk, this is NOT your drink. If you want to help get the chick sitting on the couch into your bedroom, this is NOT the drink to use. If you want to showoff and think you’re a total badass, this is NOT your drink.

Urban Dictionary: bacardi 151.

Alcohol blackouts are nasty and nothing gets you there faster than a couple of shots of this swill. If you have a high tolerance of alcohol you can still function and appear normal but your brain is not capable of forming memories anymore. This was the crux of the rape case that I was a juror for.

Contrary to popular belief, alcohol does not kill brain cells but it does “interfere with brain receptors that produce steroids, which cause neurons essential to memory and learning to misfire”. And it gets you into dangerous and undesirable situations.

“If you drink enough alcohol, you will do things you won’t even realize you did the next day,” he says. “You will have conversations with people you won’t remember and put yourself in dangerous situations. You will get yourself in trouble, not remember and it may be the police explaining it to you.”

The Body Odd – About last night: Biology of the booze blackout.

Anyway, my point is … stay away from Bacardi 151. :P

Half a bottle of 151 off in a jug
1 cup of Malibu rum baby thats whassup then you
Fill the rest of the jug with pineapple juice and its crackin
The only defect is waking up like, “What happened?”

Blogging & BlogosphereWednesday, 20 July 2011 09:14 pm

So it turns out that the fix that I did where I stopped the ads from being displayed on my more dodgy posts was not enough. The code must not be visible in the HTML source either. My fault for not reading the relevant Google Adsense policy section carefully.

So the ads got stopped completely. I’ve now removed the code from my template and the ads will only be selectively added to my more popular posts. It’s too much effort to find out which posts to exclude; it’s much easier to add it on posts that I know do not violate the adult content rule. And I’m using a WordPress plugin called “Who Sees Ads” for that purpose and it’s great.

Anyways, I appealed the suspension of ad service and I prevailed.

Also, I’m trying hard to get inspired to blog more again. It’s not that I don’t have any stories to tell either. It’s just that they are either a bit too career-limiting or friendship-destroying. It’s hard to be discreet and non-descriptive when I have so many friends on Facebook. As if. Hahah!

Ok I guess what I am saying is that having one of the monetary incentives to keep blogging reinstated won’t hurt. :)

Blogging & BlogosphereMonday, 11 July 2011 10:43 pm

MA15+, for mature audiences only
I got an email from Google Adsense today saying that I’m displaying ads against content that they frown upon. Their words:

AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with adult or mature content. This includes any content that is sexual in intent or may not be considered family-safe, such as sexual aids, devices and fetishes.

And the single example that they listed (which they stressed is an example only and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website) is this one:

Sex doll for your dog

Heheh I guess that one is pretty obvious. Then I panicked a little and thought of the times that I have talked about sex and porn on this blog. Oh fuck. And also the times that I’ve used the word “fuck”. Hahah!

Although Google Adsense earns me the least on this blog, it’s still $10-$15 per month which equates to 2 or 3 video games from eBay over a year. It’s good chump change. So I went through all those posts and manually added a flag that will disable the ads on a per-post basis using a tip that I found here. Thanks Internet friend!

Mind you I haven’t talked much about sex these days. Because why? You all know why. Tumbleweeds are tumbling through my groin. If it was an action movie, it’d be the shittiest action movie ever because there’s no action. If it was a porno, it’d consist only of scenes that you normally fast-forward through. Ok I think you get the picture. :P

Photo bloggingSaturday, 9 July 2011 07:58 pm

Before …
Ohnamiya dinner - Before

After …
Ohnamiya dinner - After

Dinner at Ohnamiya, Applecross.

PersonalMonday, 4 July 2011 09:58 pm

monster-energy-drink-nitrous

I was at the supermarket picking up some Mother when I saw this preposterously named variant of one of its competitors on the market. The full name is: Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology Super Dry. I was like lol wtf?!

The gimmick is that besides carbon dioxide, there’s also nitrous oxide used to fizzy up the drink. Otherwise the ingredients are the usual energy drink culprits: caffeine, taurine, guarana and vitamins B1 and B12. Flavour wise it has a generic citrus taste, a bit like Mountain Dew. I don’t know how nitrous oxide is meant to taste like when it’s infused into water, perhaps it doesn’t even have a taste. Due to the nitrous oxide probably taking up the volume that would have been normally carbon dioxide, it is less fizzy than the other energy drinks which meant I could gulp it down faster.

The blurb on the can says the nitrous oxide gives the drink “a unique texture, smooth drinkable flavour and buzz that’s bigger than ever”. It did feel slightly thicker in my mouth than the usual fizzy drinks but I didn’t notice anything new with the flavour. It’s citrusy and that was it. But because I could slam it down faster, I did feel a stronger buzz that lasted for about 2-3 hours.

I would buy it again even though it costs the same as Mother but in a smaller can. And I would also buy it again because I want to encourage energy drink companies to come up with the next crazy idea. :mrgreen: