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We’re going to cover the digs or “Man Pad” of a bachelor, because it is integral to the proper execution of being single. I absolutely despise being single, the idea of being a bachelor is incredibly unpleasant to me. (also after typing/reading the word so many times its beginning to look funny.) That being said, I am single again and it requires certain criteria be met to be sucessful at it. Sucessful bacheloring is two faceted, the first part is having a comfertable standard of living and the second is increasing your likelihood to not be single any longer. Now the last point is something that some of you may argue, so let me clear the air. There are also different kinds of Bachelor making my sucess criteria will be different than say the college student aged bachelor looking to keep a steady stream of nookie flowing through his bachelor pad. That hasn’t ever really been an appealing concept to me but just like some women, men can be pretty good whores.

Your digs tell people alot about you, the sum of your interests are collected in your living space, the kind of person you are can also shine through your habits and rituals and evidence of those things litter your pad. Cleanliness, how you keep your fridge, where your socks end up when you toss them off at the end of the night, your dishes, the funk ring in your tub. A person can tell alot about who you are through how you care for yourself and your things. You probably already knew that but are you actively doing anything about it? What kind of person does that make you? And do you care? If you do then make sure you show it. Keep the 2 most important parts of your house balling so that women are not appalled when entering your “crib”

1) The Bathroom:
wanna have sex in the shower? Of course you do, its amazing.

well you can toss that idea out the fucking window after you introduce your potential shower sex partner to the funk lining your tub. God help you if your once clear shower curtain is yellow and dotted with mildew. When you see this shit building up, just kill it before it gets out of hand. I even think they make automated cleaners that hang from the shower head to nuke this shit at a press of a button after you take a shower.

2) Dishes:

This just should’nt happen, especially if you are a grown man and don’t live with your mother. Take the three seconds it requires to rinse the food and shit of your dishes when your done eating and stack them neatly, that way even if you don’t load the dishwasher or do a full clean, the prospect of finishing the dishes isn’t overwhelming. Not to mention when people come in the house the smell and sights of the kitchen won’t make them vomit.

My new man Pad project is in its infancy, day one matter of factly. I will keep you updated on just how awesome a man pad can be.

Incase any of you are wondering how the housing bubble was created and eventually burst. The Blog @ Mint.com one of my many budgeting/financial planning sites I use has created a visual respresentation of how it all went down. Check it out, for serious.

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

p.s. My news reader is filled to the brim with awesome and I normally share the good stuff with you on the side bar, there are some other ways to get access to my feeds and creating your own. Please I’m begging you take the 15 minutes to figure this shit out and get with the program. It’s worth it… I promise.

Penny-arcade has been around online since I can remember playing MOOII all night with my nerd friends in high school and really getting a handle on this internet thing, becoming less noobish and ever more web saavy. PC gaming was still huge and Mountain Dew was my beverage of preference. Penny-arcade was huge to me on so many levels. As an avid gamer from near birth and even more deeply intwined with all things nerd by the time they came around (Nov, 1998) it was hard to find a more relevant avenue for entertainment much less a better webcomic. The comics started simple and I watched them progress over the last few years, I even drew some of my artistic inspiration from Mike Krahulik’s illustrations. As I’ve gotten older and have grown an appreciation for the words that accompany the pictures in books. And in turn the actual content that Jerry Holkins pumps out. Although his love of writing lends him to being verbose at times. he makes up for it in the content. The writing for the comic and the blog has become incredibly insightful, funny and intelligent even when it comes to matters of gaming which can often times be difficult for others to do. I had to say something after reading the blog post today, surprisingly the funniest part of the content came from the illustrator. I highly recommend giving todays news at the least, if you dont follow gaming you might not understand the comic, but the blog about his new cell phone should appeal to just about everyone. Http://Penny-arcade.com

So i’ve noticed something very interesting about myself over the course of the last 5 days. I stopped drinking and smoking dope, my cigarette addiction is in its death throws. I started going to the gym in my office on monday and I’ve run for 20-30 minutes a day followed by a vigorous regiment of weight lifting for the remainder of the hour I alloted myself for this craziness. This morning I snuck a cigarette and no more than 10 minutes later I almost threw up. I feel like my body is telling me now that its starting to get healthy that it will no longer accept the funk I’ve been shoveling in it non-stop for the past 10 years. My body likes it when I give it good food to eat and not in excess, when I run till I can feel the lactic acid spilling out of my muscles and my legs go to rubber, it loves nights resting instead of drinking it ragged, My brain is thoroughly enjoying not being stoned to pieces and instead being actively engaged while I fiddle with the mysteries of Ubuntu Linux and Crossword puzzles in the morning. I feel like me again, strong, smart, healthy and I’m getting better everyday.

I guess its about time I did this, I’m fairly opinionated when it comes to politics and alot of people don’t agree with me on them. I’m far too idealistic and hopeful in my wants, in turn debates always seem to fizzle after heated debate comes to a stale mate. Even on matters that I agree with the person on. What most people don’t understand is that while my wants are idealistic, I do have a very realistic expections of politicians and the political machine in general. I would be naïve to think that politicians aren’t always acting in their best interests and that shady underhanded things don’t go on in washington from day to day mostly to the detriment of the american people. That aside, I do hope as I always have that some people regardless of their political status and ambition do have a genuine interest in making America a better place to live for everyone here. Everyone has a different views on how the greater good can be achieved and its going to take centuries for a plan that works for everyone, that makes everyone happy, that tends to the needs of all people without being overly corrupt. While we wait for that golden age we can still make the best choices within this science experiment in social policies and govermental controls that we call politics.

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For the readers on the site who aren’t familiar, a Troll is someone who places information out on the web for others soley to generate comments or get responses. The term was coined after Trolling for fish. A trolling boat lets bait out and at tug boat speed pulls the bait through the water, just waiting for the fish to come. By placing poorly based opinions, inflammatory remarks, racial or derrogatory slurs as “bait” you will find most intelligent people are unable to stop from posting a response. They will sometimes do this even when they know it’s being done on purpose. I decided to try a little experiment with the previous post, thinking just maybe I could pull a little extra traffic. If you were to contrast the amount of responses in the “booty” post (basically all of my readers) with the comments from all of the posts over the last 6 months (0-1 of my readers), you can see how it works. I think it’s kinda funny that a post with such weak content could generate so much feedback. Try to think what the intent of the poster is while you are on the net, especially on forums and blog comments because theres always trolls and you should never feed them.

I so strongly dislike the word booty that it makes me cringe (sometimes just internally) every time I hear it. Some of you are saying “Franklin, you are an ass man how can this be?”. Truth be told I am indeed an ass man but I always call it ass and never booty. It reminds me too much of being a child and the rules around saying naughty words, its like an ignorance fountain when the word comes out someones mouth. There are ample substitutes for booty… butt, ass, rear end, behind, caboose. The list goes on and on and any of these alternatives would be a better than booty. If you are an adult and you’re still using the word booty, just stop. It makes you sound stupid and I don’t want you to sound ignorant, no one does.

net week Doo-Doo. (Thanks Sam)

I think the video is cool and I like the song…Dayum.

Heartless from kwest on Vimeo.

I found this song here, they have some info on how the video was made, pretty awesome stuff.

meet the tortoise, he’s not particularly happy about the rain.

I finally managed to procure a Moleskine notebook. I’ve been eyeballing them for months now and after skineart.com opened, getting my artwork displayed there seemed like a great reason to get the ball rolling. I’m going to start posting my moleskine sketches here every night so we should have some fairly regular content even if it is just pictures getting posted. Heres my first post.

A couple weeks ago a little white weevil landed on my hand in the front yard. I had never seen a weevil up close and I love how furry they are. I found some reference material and free handed this guy, I know he may not be anatomically correct but I like him just the same