My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. He is 40 years old (I am 25) and he has never, ever, had an orgasm with a woman. He can only get himself off by masturbating in the most bizarre way (I wont go into details, I just have never seen it done this way). His physician gave him advice to see a therapist, but there is nothing mentally wrong with him. He and I both want to help him orgasm, with me.
What should we do?
- raina
Raina,
Head on over to Craigslist, pick your city, and go to the "casual encounters" section. Post the following ad: "25 year old female and closeted 40 year old gay man in denial seeks bisexual man with good oral skills."
You'll get about 50 replies, and you'll both have a great night!
Are all of the issues that have been raised lately concerning "net neutrality" going to be the end of the Internet as we know it today? -kerplunk
No. At the same time, I’m a strong supporter of net neutrality. (and btw i'm purposely not linking to more information about net neutrality. because i will describe the issues better than any wikipedia article can. darn, i linked)
Some background: There’s a problem with the Internet and it’s getting worse. The popularity of bandwidth-sucking services such as BitTorrent and YouTube have created enormous bandwidth congestion. (in part by my awesome videos. but i digress)
There’s another problem. How many choices do you have at home for broadband providers? One. Maybe two. Comcast? Verizon? AT&T? These are commonly referred to as “last mile” providers, because they physically connect the Internet to your house (the last mile…).
So here’s what’s happening. The last-mile providers propose to alleviate net congestion by creating a fast lane and a slow lane. If you want your site to get onto the fast lane, you’ll have to pay up. Gone is the level paying field that was the Internet -- website publishers with more money will have the advantage.
But guess what, it already happens. Got a lot of money? Put a rack of servers on the east coast, and one on the west. Pay Akamai and your data will be distributed to thousands of locations so that a surfer in Timbuktu will access a server in Timbuktu. How is Google so fast? 1.8 million servers. $$$ = performance. Don't have money? Shit outta luck.
To go one step further, last mile cable companies already have exclusive networks. It’s called cable TV. Want to have your own channel? It’ll cost you.
The sticky issue is not only the “level playing field” argument, but also that Comcast provides content in addition to controlling your broadband pipe. So they’ll have an (arguably) unfair advantage when they go and create new websites and Internet services.
As Internet entrepreneur, I need a level playing field, and I don’t want big companies, whether Comcast, or something like General Motors, to have a built-in advantage over me just because they have more money.
That said, they already do. Hence my original statement -- it sucks, but that’s life, and it just makes you work harder.
Are Levi Strauss Low Loose Bootcut jeans in fashion?
-Amir
No, they are not.
Every 10 years or so, jeans fashion go through a cycle from wide legs to slim legs. For example in the 70's we had bell-bottoms, in the 80's tapered pants (with elastic waistbands yeah!) The early 90's had their rediculously gigantic raver pants, followed shortly by the slim-leg rebellion of Levi's 501 and (gasp) capri pants. The late 90's and early 2000's had loose boot cut. Currently we're a "skinny jeans" phase, as they've been branded.
That said, if you are a man, avoid low-rise pants at all costs. I do not want to see your crack, thank you.
Pud, I'm relocating to San Francisco to start work with Yahoo. I'm 24, straight, former frat boy and athlete looking to find a fun, vibrant neighborhood to call my new home. I want to live in the city since, well, suburbia is suburbia no matter where you are. What do you recommend? - nik
Nik,
If you're looking for other 24 year old straight former frat boys, live in the "Marina" section of San Francisco (college equivalent: business majors). The problem is, you won't get any dates. Why? Because Marina girls only date older, richer guys who live in Pacific Heights (nearby to the Marina). But you can't afford Pacific Heights. So if you live in the Marina you'll have plenty of single buddies, but that's it.
Now if you're interested in meeting girls, live in the Mission (college equivalent: Art majors) . You won't fit in with the guys there, so you won't make any friends. But there are enough Mission girls with frat guy fetish that you'll do fine.
Will you ever bring back "Ask Pud?" I do like the new blog approach for pud.com, but there is no substitute for your take on some of the questions. Thanks.
Yes! Click "ask me anything" at the top of this page and I'll get to it.
One of the most interesting things I've done each year for the past 3 years, is go to the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference. There are around 50 speakers, from different fields, each one only allowed to talk for 17 minutes, with no question/answer period. Everyone is sequestered in a Monterey hotel for 3 days, so you can pretty much approach anyone, if you have questions or to chat.
I always thought it was a shame that only the people at the conference could see this stuff. Lo and behold, for the first time this year they made some videos public! Highlights include Al Gore and (of course) Tony Robbins, but they're all great. Click here to check it out.
So I spent about 50 hours or so this weekend unleashing my power with Tony Robbins. I have to admit, I was jumping around like an idiot (as instructed), doing things I never in a million years thought I would do. But I figured, "screw it, everyone else here looks like an idiot, might as well go along with it all..."
It was more like a big-budget rock concert than what I was expecting, light show and all. Huge speakers blasting music (everything from AC/DC to Celine Dion), synched perfectly to crescendo in rhythm with Mr. Robbins. The main thing that surprised me was how much audience participation is involved...every 30 minutes or so Tony says "Get up! Shake yourself out! Find a partner and start dancing! Give each other a massage!" and so on.
Even as I write this I can't believe I did that shit. Group activities which involved spilling your guts to sweaty strangers were also prevalent.
But I gotta say, it's pretty intense to go inside of yourself for 3 straight days and think about why you do the stuff you do. Tony Robbins is a master motivator, public speaker (gotta be the best in the world at public speaking), and most impressively a master salesman.
Yes, the seminar was peppered with pitches for his seemingly endless assortment of products. The most impressive pitch was a two-hour talk about his Mastery University (no .edu domain?:), where I swear he got at least 1,200 people (of the 3,500 in attendance) to quickly jump out of their chairs and drop between $10,000 and $15,000 on a set of three classes.
The technique was impeccable. "Everyone get up and sign up at the tables on the side of the room!" There I was, pretty much sitting alone in the middle of the room. "If you don't want to sign up, that's fine -- feel free to either take a break, or watch this video!" -- a commercial for the thing I wasn't signing up for.
But all-in-all it was a very positive experience. It was Tony's salesmanship that made me respect him the most -- anyone that good is worth learning from.
Tony rocks. And I might sign up for those classes one day (don't tell anyone)
Okay, I admit it, I'm going to a Tony Robbins seminar this weekend. It goes from Friday till Monday -- 8:00 a.m. till midnight each day.
Before you say to me, "dude you're such a douche bag," let it be known that I (and everyone else I was with) received a free ticket from Mr. Robbins at a technology conference I attended where he was speaking.
I am pretty much the most cynical person in the world when it comes to "self-help" stuff -- I consider myself a motivated, happy person, and do a fine job working through the rough spots on my own. That said, I am a HUGE fan of infomercials, and often prefer them to regular TV programming. I don't order their stuff, but I do enjoy watching em. So I'm kind of hoping to get the full 4-day infomercial experience this weekend.
Anyway, wish me luck. I apologize in advance if my blog starts to be filled with daily affirmations, upon my return.
So I posted a video to YouTube a while ago, of me playing drums in my office, along with the song Infecting The Crypts by the band Suffocation. It's a relatively complex song that's a classic amongst death metal fans from the early 90's (when death metal was "big", betcha didn't know it was big. betcha didn't even know it existed..:)
Anyway, the video took off virally on lots of message boards (ex: here and here), blogs, and according to YouTube (as of this writing) has been viewed 116,052 times and has 128 comments.
In the video, you can't actually hear what I'm playing (you hear the originally recorded Suffocation track instead), and I screw up a few times -- it's meant for entertainment purposes only. But the best part of the story is that this other band (well, like 2 people) recently one-upped me by actually playing the song on drums and guitar. Rock on!
My original video:
Here's the same song, performed by two dudes who rock:
Here's another video of the same guys, same song (funny to note the contrast between the RIPPED drummer and the skinny little guitarist:)
I've always thought the two luxuries that have the highest return on investment are shoe shines and maids.
Shoe shine - it's pretty much like getting a brand new pair of shoes for $8.
Maid - A $40 to $60 investment for the typical city apartment dweller. Even once per month significantly improves the quality of your life (especially if you have 30-days worth of socks and underwear...never do laundry again!)
Saw these two huge sculptures on the side of the road, on my way to the farmer's market. My favorite part might be the goth-o-rific couple who happened to get caught in this pic, parasol and all. "Sunlight is so not goth"
I just realized this is pretty much the 10-year anniversary of when I first registered the domain name, Pud.com (well actually I registered it in July '96, but close enough).
Funny that just now I'm doing something with it that seems semi-permanent. Here's a rundown of Pud.com over the years:
Still alive and well, but you gotta search a little harder to find out. Here's a great new rock n roll song, with an even better video.
And kudos to Buckcherry for making the video NSFW (and not safe for MTV etc.) so it'll really get play. The future of music videos is online, with boobies.
Portmanteau. It's when you take two words and mash them together. Examples: blog (web + log) and brunch (breakfast + lunch).
Speech would be much more efficient if we composed sentences solely of abbreviations, contractions, and portmanteaux. Basically human file compression.
Replace: The car dealership did not sell me a blue truck. With: The cealership didn't smee a bluck.
My first official blog posting ever. Well kind of. I used to run a site called Fuckedcompany.com that was perhaps a blog. Also for a short time I ran an advice column called Ask Pud that was blog-ish.
I do have a MySpace profile. And I used to write about my life in the form of an email newsletter to 250,000 subscribers called the FC Sporadic (darn, can't find any copies here...will post another day), which was kind of bloggy I guess.
But this weekend I was spilling my guts to a friend who suggested I start a blog.
Good idea. Email me at pud@pud.com and let me know what you'd like to see here. In the meanwhile I'll go back to listening to my new CD.
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