Let me talk to my guys for a second…  Guys, if a young lady called you to come over in the wee hours (let’s say after 10PM), what would you assume she wants.  To the typical male brain, a lady wanting to see you at that time of night is opening herself up to one thing.

Here’s why:

1. What else can we do at that time of night?
2. I’m about to move to my bedroom and bed if I’m not there already.  You must plan to accompany me.
3. You know there’s only one reason I’m staying up when I have to get up in the morning.

Ladies, your turn…  Why would you visit a man at that time of night?  What are you expecting of him at that time of night.  Snuggles, hugs, QT?

So let’s lay it all on the line.  What are we expecting from lay night visitors?

Today’s topic was sparked by an interesting conversation at a bar that came up a couple of weeks ago.  A gentlemen pawned the question to the women at the bar, “Does a sex with a man with money make the sex better?”  Odd question enough that sparked quite the comments.  However, the general consensus seemed to think that you should only have sex with people on your financial level.

Quite the eyebrow raiser to me.  I wondered if I even missed something during my bathroom break.  But I thought it about it for the reminder of night…  Should we really stick to sex with people in our tax bracket.  A sexual downgrade to a lower tax bracket could definitely get you in a world of trouble, or could get you in a world of fun.  But you be the judge.

Marriages come, marriages go.  Sometimes the go doesn’t move as quickly as the marriage came.  For many, they like to move on with their social/dating life prior to finalizing the divorce.  Some have no intent to seek divorce at all.  Single people encounter these persons daily.

Some people would choose to not deal with a legally married but separated person.  Some would deal with them anyway.  There’s a lot to be said about a married person that embraces the single life before divorce.  There’s maybe a little bit more to be said for the person with the separated individual.  But I won’t say it…but you can…

This goes out to the guys, the ladies with guys, and even the guys with guys.  Male libido is such a sensitive thing.  Some guys have it, some don’t.  Some have more than others, some wish they had less.  Even in a guy’s down periods, he can resort to several male enhancement or sex drive pills to get him back to where he needs to be.  But for some, a little porn does the trick – or does it…

I recently had a conversation with a female friend who said her man frequently watched porn.  Without her around, with her around, it didn’t matter.  And when it came time for their action, he just didn’t seem to get with it.  She blamed it all on the porn.  She said it was like he was cheating with it (I had to laugh here).

So I know many of you have dabbled in the porn arena before.  So your opinion is probably the best answer on the subject.

Sex is one of those things that everybody learns about in a different way.  Some parents flat out avoid the discussion.  Some parents tip toe into the discussion.  Some parents give way to much graphical information (mine did).

From what I’ve seen people whose parents really explain sex (and its outcomes) to them tend to be better adjusted.  People whose parents don’t explain it tend to swing from the pole.  I’m sure nobody here wants to see their beloved son or daughter sliding down a pole in their local happy gallery anytime soon.

That begs the following question.

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Thanks to Apple TV, Roku, Netflix, Hulu and several others, paying for cable is not the hands down popular winner of watching television shows and movies anymore.  Many opt for the $8-$25 amounts for streaming video vs. the $140 that cable wants from you.  There have even been comments made on here before about streaming as a future possibility for alternatives to watching television.

Almost every single week, I have a conversation with someone about how high their cable is, how they want to turn their cable off, or how displeased they are with their cable.  It’s not hard to see that many are looking to get away from cable.  In Q3 of 2010, 741,000 cable customers ditched their cable – the largest mass exodus of cable customers during a period since 1980 (I was one of those).  Many customers may have used the same logic I did.  Cable at the time was my highest utility bill, yet it was the most unnecessary one.  I opted for the cheaper option – $7.99 Netflix and free hulu (ads included).  This is also when Netflix boasted of its phenomenal growth.

If you already have internet, you already have the medium for online TV.  What do you think?  Is it your future?

First off, let’s start off by telling you what SOPA is.  SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.  SOPA aims to shut down offshore or sentence an “Internet death penalty” to offshore websites that are accused of hosting American broadcast or media via their sites.  In other words, the site you go to watch Real Housewives or the big football game.

These offshore sites are reported as attracting more than 53 million sites a year, and take away 19 million jobs (I don’t get the job part).  Does this sound like something you dislike yet?  Well, these small companies have voiced their concern over the US attempting legislation against this: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn.  But just to bring this closer to home, let me explain this.  Suppose you are online and surfing as normal.  You come across a site you like and it has some music or a show or content you are just interested in wearing.  If this Act passes through Congress, your internet provider would have the responsibility of blocking that site from your viewing and also reporting you to the internet bad people list.  <NOT GOOD>

Section 101 of SOPA states:

(A) the Internet site is used to provide goods or services to users located in the United States;
(B) there is evidence that the Internet site or portion thereof is intended to offer or provide such goods and services (or) access to such goods and services (or) delivery of such goods and services to users located in the United States;
(C) the Internet site or portion thereof does not contain reasonable measures to prevent such goods and services from being obtained in or delivered to the United States; and
(D) any prices for goods and services are indicated or billed in the currency of the United States.

Section 102 states:

A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States to the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof) that is subject to the order…Such actions shall be taken as expeditiously as possible, but in any case within five days after being served with a copy of the order, or within such time as the court may order.

You may be asking how is this different from the Protect IP Act that already exists.  Well, it only targets domain providers, financial institutions, and ad promoters.  Never any companies that provide internet connectivity.  If you’re on the slightly on the furious side, come down below and let’s talk about it.

The compact disc, most familiarly known as CD, has been a hot item since it first appeared on the scene in the 1980s.  Originally developed to store data and playback audio files, the CD has proved to be a necessity to many.  However, time moves on and things evolve.  Just as I was picking at my dad for having 8-tracks and vinyl years ago, that age is coming to roost for the CD.

The usage of CDs are now replaced by flash drives, iTunes, Google Music, the cloud, external hard drives, iPods, iPhones, Android devices, the list goes on and on.  Many major music labels have even planned to cease CD-format production by end of 2012.  I know you’re asking, what’s the reason.  The reason is that costs of creating, stocking, and distributing CDs cost money.  A company could save a ton by going strictly to downloads like iTunes.

However, every time I go in Best Buy, I am immediately hit with a rack of CDs at entry.  What about those?  Someone is obviously still buying and selling them.  And that means someone is making money off of them.  Go figure.

I will go ahead and put it out there that I love technology.  I don’t care so much for the prices all the time, but I love reading about ingenuity and changes to past tech toys.  I recently read an article (forgive me – I cannot find it) that discussed how innovation was killing jobs.  Then I thought back to a few stories that friends, aunts, and uncles told me of how they use to work back in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

• Backing up company data involved manually changing tape and sequenced with a card punch machine
• Auto assembly lines that once had hundreds of people standing alongside the belt now have large seemingly alive robots
• Do remember picking up the phone and telling the operator to connect you to your aunt in New York
• Even in my current line of work, we cut out a department of 100+ associates that order product for our stores; All currently done by the centralized automation replenishment system now
• Full service gas stations have even changed; And with the debit/credit card, you do not even need to go in and get a bag of chips or soda pop

These are just a few of the many I can recall from the “older” folks.  There are thousands more.  Just think about it.  If you don’t agree, vote accordingly and let us hear why down below.