"Murphy was an optimist!"
DomesticPsychology.com url shortener May 25, 2011 9:48 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, Sex, Technology, Touchy SubjectsI’m a strong believer in owning your content. URL shorteners like http://bit.ly/ and http://3.ly/ bother me in that if the business changes or goes under, your short links die. http://3.ly for instance has been acquired or changed to http://qr.net which I still feel was a bad business move. If the business becomes unethical, they could sell your short links to redirect your traffic elsewhere. So, just like I believe you should view Facebook and Twitter as temporary places for content (much like a bulletin board on a college campus) and instead host your own site like http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/ (much more like a library or museum…and yes I know Twitter gets archived at the Library of Congress), I believe you should own your own url shortener.
Anyhow, to live by my own words, I thought I’d buy Cathy a domain for her own url shortener for DomesticPsychology.com. My first thought was http://dp.me After two cups of coffee, I rethought that one. I’d say I am not sure Cathy would want to direct people to http://dp.me but then again I haven’t ever broached the subject 🙂
add a commentStudy: Christians feel guilty after sex May 23, 2011 10:29 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Religion / Spirituality, Sex, Touchy SubjectsBoingBoing summarized the UK’s MailOnline article Atheists have ‘better sex lives than followers of religion who are plagued with guilt’ in a BoingBoing article titled Study: Christians feel guilty after sex. BoingBoing writer Rob Beschizza gave my inner middle-schooler a chuckle when he wrote:
Mormons came the hardest
[Source, BoingBoing, Study: Christians feel guilty after sex by Rob Beschizza]
Subtle and I’d say deliberately written. I want to know how they measured this!
add a commentOh! I now understand why TN fears sex education. April 27, 2011 11:41 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Education, Health, Sex, Touchy SubjectsApparently sexual education is the gateway to teen sex and deviance! Without sex ed, teenagers would never, ever be aware of the capabilities of their bodies and therefore would never masturbate or have sex.
Seen on BoingBoing
add a commentWe hire fags! April 26, 2011 11:04 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Regional Politics (SE), Religion / Spirituality, Sex, Touchy SubjectsI’m thinking of starting a business in Tennessee with the sole purpose of hiring homosexual staff. Here’s the business plan:
Mission statement: To snub our noses at the Tennessee GOP
Objectives:
- Hire employees based on their qualifications and not sexual orientation
- Provide healthcare to employees and their significant others even if Tennessee will not allow them to be married
- Show the Tennessee Legislature that a business can operate and profit while respecting an employee’s personal choices in religion (or lack thereof) and relationships
- Provide the same opportunities to the gay and lesbian, transvestite, transsexual, and asexual communities as the heterosexual community
We can worry about a product or service later. Investors? Angels?
If this post confuses you, see quipsofyellow Gay gay gay gay gay: arrest me, already. and TN House Votes to Reverse Nashville LGBT Workplace Protection Ordinance and Tennessee Legislature moves quickly to nullify Nashville’s newly adopted nondiscrimination ordinance.
add a commentWithout debate, the House Commerce Subcommittee voted for legislation Wednesday to bar all Tennessee cities from enacting their own policies against gay, lesbian and/or transgender discrimination. The action was taken by voice vote, with no lawmaker offering audible opposition. [Source, Democratic Underground, Tennessee Legislature moves quickly to nullify Nashville’s newly adopted nondiscrimination ordinance]
I need therapy! March 3, 2011 6:43 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Interest, Sex, Touchy SubjectsIn the old days, they called these Internet cams and the cost was $5 per minute, not that I’d personally know anything about that but I’ve cleaned enough "phone dialers" off client computers to acknowledge that we live in a very sexually driven society. So at $150 for an hour, this therapy is a bargain albeit probably less, um, "interactive" than the other ones.
add a commentSo, just grab em? August 30, 2010 10:25 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, Sex, Touchy SubjectsOkay, what I gather from this Reddit discussion titled "Do women intentionally press there boobs up against men?" is that women basically have no feeling in their breasts. This changes everything! And explains a lot. You know, like when you’re working through certain Freudian fixations and she’s staring down at you with that quirky look of "can we get on with it already?!" like the one she wears when the line is moving too slowly at the grocery. Oh to be twelve again with this knowledge! …now where’d I put that book on erogenous zones?
add a commentTeens in ABC Documentary: Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss January 23, 2010 2:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Sex, Touchy SubjectsOne, there are some things a father does not want to hear:
Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss [Source, Mashtrends, Teens in ABC Documentary: Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss]
Two, holy cow, I was born 25 years too early! In all seriousness, I hope this report is media hype and construed data:
After four years researching for the documentary, Azam told "Good Morning America" that oral sex is as common as kissing for teens and that casual prostitution — being paid at parties to strip, give sexual favors or have sex — is far more commonplace than once believed. [Source, Mashtrends, Teens in ABC Documentary: Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss]
Talk to your teens! The schools are certainly not giving adequate sex education.
9commentsDear Lifestyles August 8, 2009 8:43 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Interest, Reviews, Sex, Touchy Subjects
I’d really like to review your product but right now my 4 year old child makes a better contraceptive than your Skyn condoms. Help me figure out how to get him to sleep in his own bed and your product sales might go up.
In yesterday’s mail August 1, 2009 10:54 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Hardware, Of Interest, Reviews, Sex, Technology, Touchy SubjectsThe Stigma
Apparently there’s some stigma around bloggers, particular mommy bloggers, doing product reviews. There shouldn’t be. I understand the stigma’s origins. The stigma comes from those ridiculous pay-per-post services where the participants are encouraged to write shining reviews in return for the product and/or money. They are disingenuous. The advertiser is not paying for the post. The advertiser is paying for search engine ranking. The 200 people who read that paid post, or even if it was 10,000, are not going to pay for the cost of the advertising. What pays is when someone searches for the product and the multiple paid posts have given credibility and ranking to the product in the search engines. As a matter of personal choice, I do not participate in pay-to-post programs.
Should product reviews be on a blog? Absolutely! The Internet is a reflection of the real world. In the real world, if I try a product I like, I will probably tell others about it. If a company wrongs me, I will warn others. It is only natural to extend that to the Internet. Some bloggers will even ask companies to send them products. They have the audience and clout to get this benefit. Reviews don’t have to be positive. The catch is that if you get a reputation for giving negative reviews, no one will send you their product. Mike Arrington recently accused Leo Laporte of Twit.tv of getting a pre-release Palm Pre in exchange for a glowing report and Leo took great offense.
I have products sent to me. I’ve had the best intentions of reviewing them but never have. Until someone starts BlogHim and lets us daddy blogs have cat fights over swag, I think I’ll accept products for review. Joan Goldner, a wonderful person!, sent me The Busy Body Book when my Covey planner had run out and I forgot Cathy’s birthday. I never posted a review of The Busy Body Book but it remains one of my favorite organizers despite being a Covey fanboy. I’ve been calendarless for 2009 but am just about to order a Busy Body Book. Read about it on their blog.
Yesterday’s mail
Yesterday I received two products: a bidirectional IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE Adapter and a LifeStyles premium polyisoprene Skyn "closest thing to wearing nothing" condom with Excite female stimulating gel. I’m looking forward to reviewing both of these products! The adapter I ordered from Hong Kong for $4 which included free shipping. It comes with a circuit board, power cable, and a SATA cable. I recently tried to buy a SATA cable locally, just the cable, and it was going to cost me $20 plus tax! The condom was a surprise and comes with a survey asking for feedback on the Excite female stimulating gel. I think I’ll be able to find a volunteer to help me fill out that survey (pseudo related note: We bought Watchmen last night). Now I’m off to plug a cable into something.
The Review
Here’s your quickie review: The Excite female stimulating gel product..let’s just wow! No, let’s say that twice..WOW! WOW! As for the Skyn condom, anyone with a LATEX allergy who has been horrified by a polyurethane plasticized baggy as an excuse for protection can be happy to know that your polyisoprene condom lives up to its marketing. Not only is it as comfortable and flexible as a latex condom, it truly is almost like wearing nothing.
1 comment so farNote to the DJ June 13, 2009 12:25 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, Humor, Murph, Sex, Touchy Subjects
When trying to have an intimate moment with the wife, romance turns to comedy when the music switches from Led Zeppelin to Meatloaf’s "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" mid-act. I think that’s the first time in my life I’ve actually been able to act that song out…while the song was playing!
Speaking of marriage… May 23, 2009 12:56 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, Of Interest, Philosophy, Sex, Touchy SubjectsApparently this is an ad on the back of Kentucky’s Leo Weekly.
10 breasts, not 64 boobs May 22, 2009 8:35 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Interest, Sex, Touchy SubjectsIt took a lot of staring, but after careful consideration, I believe there are 5 women, not 32, in the naked women with chainsaws cutting down trees picture. When I first looked at the picture, for some reason I didn’t see their boots.
add a comment32 naked women with chainsaws May 21, 2009 9:47 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Sex, Touchy SubjectsAs a Scout leader, one of my biggest concerns for the young scouts is accidentally running into 32 naked women cutting down trees (NSFW). No child should witness the horror of a healthy tree being killed!
Update: After careful consideration, I believe there are only 5 women in this picture.
5commentsLovin’ the black censor bar! May 18, 2009 9:57 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Music, Of Interest, Publishing, Sex, Touchy Subjects, VideoWhen I posted I’m moving to France! I saw today’s post in the comments. Btw, if you haven’t watched I’m moving to France!, go do it now and for added fun start both videos at the same time!
Today’s video reminds me of college for some reason. These people are so happy! I bet there’d be no terrorism if more people played with the black censor bar. The guy in the cowboy hat at the end of the video is my new hero!
The BPA – Toe Jam Featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal
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(I replaced this fuzzy Youtube video with the much clearer DailyMotion video that appears to actually be placed by The BPA)
This is the "Toe Jam" video by Fatboy Slim featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. I find it altogether too amusing. When I first discovered this one there were just over 6000 views. It’ll be interesting to see how fast those numbers grow.
Update: Some information about this hit video from the Fall of 2008. The Toe Jam song was released July 15, 2008 by The BPA (Brighton Port Authority an alias for musician Norman Cook who is better known as Fatboy Slim. I am becoming a Fatboy Slim fanboy as I was in awe of his Weapons of Choice video featuring Christoper Walken. Toe Jam is a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. The video is directed by Keith Schofield (Keith Haverbrooks, Eric Schoman and Jeff Mayfield). The Toe Jam song lives on the I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
The BPA also ran a contest which ended March 1, 2009 allowing people to download the Toe Jam song and make their own videos as a promotion for their album release. Although the contest has ended, Toe Jam is still available for download.
2commentsInternet has ruined nudity! May 2, 2009 11:25 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Health, Sex, Sleep, Touchy SubjectsThe human form, particularly the female form, is beautiful! All shapes sizes colors. It doesn’t matter. They hang in our art galleries, appear in photographic journals, hang on the walls of our homes (most fun thing to say at a friend’s house “so, is that your wife?” answer “yes”), are used in advertisement, sculptures, and so many other places. Nudity is art. I think religion was first to try to ruin the human body. Granted, some Pagan religions actually celebrate nudity. But the Internet succeeded where religion failed. How? Religion made it taboo and that raises curiosity actually making the forbidden object/fruit/alcohol/drug more desirable. The Internet threw it in our faces making it meh.
When I was a child to understand the human body, you had to sneak a peek at your friend’s father’s 2 or 3 adult magazines (if you could find them), or squint your eyes at the fuzz on the scrambled Playboy channel (how do you think The Magic Eye pictures
What brought me here today? A leg cramp. Last night my left calf spasmed nearly bringing tears to my eyes. I sat up in bed and grabbed my leg pressing my palm hard against the muscle. I tried stretching the muscle and relaxing the muscle, pointing the toes down and up, and it laughed in my face and wriggled beneath my palm as if infested with a thousand alien worms. I needed water and a banana. This seemed to go on forever and deemed a post. I sought a picture to accompany the post by Googling calf muscle. Clicked a link (NSFW). And uttered these words aloud: Oh, I like the bridge! Apparently, I now see dolphins again.
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