On Saturday January 24th, Amazon will make its excellent original series Transparent free to stream, even for those without Amazon Prime. More importantly though, Amazon is discounting Amazon Prime, the best deal in tech at $99, to $72 for the day. Prime is basically never discounted, and $72 is cheaper than the previous $79 that the service went for for years. [Amazon Prime]
Just like the human/avatar ladyparts on which they’re modeled, fleshlights come in all sorts of wacky shapes and colors. But if and when making love to a plastic robot vagina starts to lose its thrill, Sin Boutique is here to cushion your deep, dark fall with the latest solo sex substitute. In the form of a foot. You can now have sex with a plastic, vagina foot.
The folks who run the @Fuuwa Twitter account claim that if they can manage to get 2,000 retweets, they’ll put this dangerous but handy-looking shuriken (aka throwing star) multitool into production. Despite assorted built-in screwdriver tips and wrenches, we all know this tool is only designed to fix one problem: baddies in pursuit. [Twitter @fuuwa via Boing Boing]
Microsoft isn’t the only big tech firm grappling with surprise security flaw disclosures these days. Google’s Project Zero security unit revealed at least two unpatched vulnerabilities in OS X (Yosemite appears to have mitigated a third) that theoret…
This afternoon 4chan creator and sole administrator Chris “moot” Poole spoke (and continues to speak, depending on when you’re reading this article) on the whys and wherefores of his departure from the site. He’s the creator of 4chan and has been the one and only non-volunteer owner and administrator of the site since it came into being. Today he spoke … Continue reading
The connected home space is heating up and exciting, but platforms will pave the way forward. One platform, HomeKit, is slowly coming to us via Apple — and we do mean slowly. Announced at their WWDC last year, HomeKit has missed the boat on several iOS 8 iterations. A new report details why that might be. Broadcom, a long-standing Apple … Continue reading
This afternoon Chris “moot” Poole, creator, owner, and sole administrator of the imageboard 4chan spoke about why he was preparing to retire from his role entirely. One of the odd bits about his transfer of leadership and the story therein was that he’d actually tried to give 4chan away at some point inside the last couple of years. While it’s … Continue reading
Ford’s new Palo Alto research center may have driverless cars on the menu, but technology shifting the human driver from the car to across the country might be closer to primetime if engineers have their way. Virtual valets and remotely-piloted car sharing schemes could take advantage of increasingly electrified cars and faster LTE networks, Ford’s Mike Tinskey explained to me, … Continue reading
They teach you quite a bit in school. Algebra, world history, chemistry. But I’ve always felt that there was a knowledge hole, a plethora of vital information nobody ever takes the time to teach you. One of these things, undoubtedly, is how to execute a successful surprise party.
There is no surprise party more frequently flubbed than the shower, be it for bride or baby. Frankly, I’m a believer that, unless you have something especially unique planned, there’s no shame in the soon-to-be mom or wife knowing about her shower ahead of time. But everyone (particularly in the office) insists on the element of surprise… even if they do everything within their power to ruin exactly that.
In my experience, here are the most common ways co-workers ruin these alleged surprise showers.
1. The sudden disappearance
You don’t know why, but your entire department is MIA. Five minutes ago, it was bustling with all the pep and chaos of a trading room floor. Now tumbleweeds are blowing through it. Not suspicious at all.
2. The roomy conference room
You just received an Outlook planner from your boss, who’d like to meet with you that afternoon to discuss the “plan for coverage during your time off.” The meeting is for only the two of you, and the conference room you’re supposed to be going to seats 35 people. Nope, not suspicious at all.
3. The manila folder
A suspiciously unmarked folder (with a card inside) is passed around the department from person to person, with a list of names, some crossed out, some not. This folder is treated with the care of highly confidential government documents. If you happen to spot someone holding it, they’ll break into a sweat and run the other way. Everything’s normal here.
4. The check-in
The day of your shower, about 15 minutes before it’s supposed to start, someone will randomly pop into your cube. No reason, though. They just wanted to say “what’s up?” There’s no reason to be suspicious, especially when you hear them whispering to your cube neighbor 30 seconds later.
5. The escort service
This sometimes goes hand-in-hand with bullet #4. But your shower is the only meeting in your life that you apparently need a personal handler to assist with transportation from your seat to the room that’s down the hall. And it’s the same person who booked you in a one-on-one meeting in the huge conference room, who you saw sneaking around with a manila folder that checked in on you 15 minutes ago.
Instead of failing so badly at trying to surprise the guest of honor (who knows she’s getting a shower anyway), focus more on finding out what she might actually need. That way, the gift will be practical, it won’t get returned, and you can bypass all the Mission: Impossible hoopla surrounding what is supposed to be a joyous time. Besides, whether she’s a soon-to-be bride or a soon-to-be mom, there are going to be more than enough surprises around the corner to get her blood pressure spiking.
When my co-workers held a surprise shower for me before I got married, they told me we were meeting for a department-wide Halloween party (I got married in early November). So, I showed up wearing a Michael Meyers mask and a blue jump-suit (it was my “house work outfit” so it was soaked in paint and gasoline). Needless to say, I wish I had followed the aforementioned five signs.
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Have you ever thought about your “Dream Career”? The very special career or position that you feel everything in your life would have to go exactly right in order for you to achieve? Do you have that career already? Maybe you haven’t had this thought in a long time? Maybe you’ve never had this thought? Maybe you’re just glad to have a career? The Bureau Labor of Statistics says that most people will have at least 7 careers in their lifetime…it doesn’t say how we’ve felt about those careers. It would be interesting to know how many of those careers we’ve really enjoyed? I’ve had 4 careers already; I really liked the career I had before this one-the one I have now is a “Dream Career”. There are those of us that may think, “How did I get here? This is not the life I imagined”, but time flies! One day you’re in college and before you know it, your kids are in college. Maybe the job you took temporarily became permanent. Maybe something else kept you from getting your dream job. Things happen. Life happens. Times change and so do we. It doesn’t mean you can’t find your dream career. It requires a bit of inner soul searching to figure out what you would like that dream career to be. The idea of what was once “your dream career”, may not still be the same. Once you focus on what you want…you can take the world by storm. As you’re thinking about what dream career you’d like to have, or how you could climb the ladder of success at your present job to bigger promotions and bonuses, and higher salaries-ask yourself these questions:
1.Do You Feel You Deserve Success? You may have a dream career in mind, but if you don’t feel you deserve to achieve that dream, how will you gather the energy and motivation to push yourself forward? If you don’t believe in yourself, how will you get others to believe in you? What is it that makes you feel you don’t deserve to be successful? Is it that you believe you already receive too much? Do you feel you have enough skills, enough education, enough time to make your Dream Come True? If you feel you’re lacking…how much of these thoughts are real and how much of these thoughts are issues from your past, or perhaps fears or excuses? “Where there’s a will, there’s a way!”
2.Do You Think You’re a Fraud? When you think about going out there and pursuing your dream career, do you think about how you’ll need to shine a light on yourself? Are there things that you don’t know or don’t understand, but in the past may have said that you did-you fudged the truth. Maybe there are people that you’ve said that you know better than you actually do? Some of them you know really well-some you know less. In the world of Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook it can become perplexing as to how well we actually know “our friends”. Do you feel you may not be as good as you say you are? Do you think you pump yourself up too much for the public eye? There’s a difference between fraud and enhancement. In this world of social media, most people make themselves a bit fluffier than they really are; you can be fluffy without being Pinocchio. It’s important that YOU hold yourself in your highest regard-that’s the energy people will feel. If you don’t believe in yourself, how will other people? If you don’t feel this positive energy, ask yourself why.
3.Do You Have Patience? “All Good Things Come To Those That Wait”. Remember that saying? If you don’t know it, remember it now! This is not just any career you’re pursuing; you’re en route to your dream career. You may need additional skills or schooling, or there may be some psychological issues that you have to deal with-money issues for example. Perhaps deep down you fear that if you were to become successful you wouldn’t know what to do with the money, so it’s more “comfortable” to make less money? This may sound weird to some, but to others-it happens. If this is part of who you are-how will you ever be able to get to a point where you earn a large salary. Maybe your dream career doesn’t include a large salary. Not everyone’s dream career comes with a big dollar sign. There are different issues for everyone, and that requires patience. Some things happen fast and some things don’t, that’s the way it goes. We often focus on what isn’t happening instead of what has happened. We tend to think about all we haven’t done yet — it can feel insurmountable. Try instead taking a look back and see what it is that you’ve already accomplished. You will be surprised and uplifted by the distance you’ve made. Applaud yourself for every bit of movement towards your dream that you’ve created. Take a moment here and there just to breathe.
If you believe you can achieve, if you wish to find your dream career, what are you waiting for? You don’t have to leave your job today, you just have to start thinking, believing, having patience. These are a few of the ways to discover your dream career-it’s a terrific beginning. If you’re interested in knowing more, please check out my Life Coaching Matters website, to find more Empowering Tools To Find Your Dream Career and make more money than you ever believed possible.
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