by Rupe | Jul 21, 2011 | Computing, Mad Musings
Okay, I am not one to be too overly excited about much, but when it comes to my MacBook , IMac, IPOD or IPAD,  I must shamelessly admit, I simply cannot get enough. Why am I so big on the Mac platform, let me give you a bit.Â
I purchased my first Mac platform, my MacBook, in December 2006; it was sort of a Christmas gift for myself.  Now, I had been a total Windows PC guy up to that time, but after I purchased my MacBook, I have not looked back and I don’t see how I could ever go back to using a Windows platform.
It has now been 5 years since I made the switch and I am a total Mac convert – hook-line-and-sinker. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a rediculous Mac Fanboy, I don’t even like the way that sounds, but I have been totally pleased with everything Apple that I have used – both hardware and software-wise.Â
So here we are now. Mac’s latest operating system – “Lion” – is now out, and sure enough, I am just behind one of the leading-edge installers. I installed Lion last night. I haven’t had a chance to really take it for a good spin yet, but from the early signs, it will go the way of the past. I already know alredy that I will not be disappointed.Â
On the financial front, I wish I had stopped and given a look at Apple’s stock years ago, but then again, hindsight is 20/20. I decided to re-organize my portfolio at the start of the year, as a part of my year review and pick up some apple stocks. Well, lets put it this way, I am very please at the trajectory that the stock is on. I would very much recommend a buy, especially after the news on Tuesday that they doubled their net profit quarter over quarter from roughly $3.5B to $7.2B.Â
Bottomline – don’t even think about get Samsung, HP or any of the other wanna beat Mac. just give in and go Mac – resistance my friends is futile.
by Rupe | Jul 20, 2011 | Mad Musings
Ladies, be honest: when your sex life becomes a little humdrum, out comes the mental catalogue of all the ways your partner isn’t quite measuring up. Guys tend to get a bad rap when it comes to understanding women’s bodies and what turns us on, making them easy targets in the blame game when sexual satisfaction starts to wane. And sure, they make their fair share of bedroom errors. But as the saying goes, it takes two to tango. As it turns out, top sex and relationship experts say that women make plenty of sex mistakes of their own. Here’s what they have to say about the six most common mistakes women make in the bedroom and what you can do to get the satisfaction you so rightly deserve.  Go to the full article …
My Comments:
Very illuminating piece. Â Why is it so puzzling that we are still learning about mistakes that each of the sexes make? Â Hmmm…pretty complicated stuff.
by Rupe | Jul 18, 2011 | Mad Musings, what the...?
DADAAB, Kenya — The people start trudging in at dawn, more than a thousand every day, exhausted, sick and starving, materializing out of the thin desert air to take their places at the gates of the world’s largest refugee camp, here in northern Kenya.They are fleeing one of the worst droughts in Somalia in 60 years and many have walked for weeks through an anarchic landscape replete with bandits and militants but little food.By the time they get here, many can barely stand or talk or swallow. Some mothers have even shown up with the bodies of shriveled babies strapped to their backs.   Click HERE to read the rest of this article  and click HERE to view slide show
My Comments:
Too much hunger…too much poverty only made worse by stupid men fighting mindless war for some dumb cause. Â The disturbing thing about this picture is that this mother…this women without a name to me is reaching put for a bowl, as she hold the listless body of her helpless infant in her arms. Â I can imagine the father of this infant off at some distant place, probably fighting for some god, his faith or some other cause, while his kid suffers. Â Why is it that we burden our women with such heavy labor of body and mind. Â We call ourselves men…but we are nothing but mere fools. Â If the meek shall inherit the earth, I guess very few of us men will have his inheritance.
by Rupe | Jul 14, 2011 | Health-Wellness-Sex, Mad Musings
Physical pleasure binds two people together and lets them endure the inevitable pains and losses of being human. When sex becomes boring, something deeper is usually the problem — resentment or envy or lack of honesty. So I worry about the sudden craze for Lysistrata’s solution. Why reject honey for vinegar? Don’t we all deserve sugar in our bowls?
People always ask me what happened to sex since “Fear of Flying.†While editing an anthology of women’s sexual writing called “Sugar in My Bowl†last year, I was fascinated to see, among younger women, a nostalgia for ’50s-era attitudes toward sexuality. The older writers in my anthology are raunchier than the younger writers. The younger writers are obsessed with motherhood and monogamy. Continue…
My Comments:
This article is really worth a read by anyone who things that close physical connections between adults are important.
by Rupe | Jul 13, 2011 | Mad Musings, Mentoring
I was trying to do two things at once — cook (in the kitchen) while deciphering some paperwork (in the next room). I’d been interrupted a thousand times with requests for snacks, shrieks over spilled paint water, questions about what squirrels like to eat, and arguments over whether clouds could be blue and flowers could be green. And did I mention that a ruptured disk in my back was throbbing even worse than my head?
Still, nothing can excuse my behavior that afternoon.
I erupted like Mount Momsuvius: “Enough! Get out! Stop bothering me!” Continue…
My Comments:
Okay, so I am listening to CNN this morning at my desk and this reporter came on with this article…”9 Things not to say to your kids”. Now, I must admit, I am not the most liberal father out there, but for crying out loud…you have got to be kidding me. You have got to read this.
by Rupe | Jul 10, 2011 | Mad Musings
Gary Younge believes that identity itself is harmless, but the ways people choose to use it can hurt.
In his new book, Who Are We — And Should it Matter in the Twenty-First Century? Younge explores the ways people identify one another and how those identities affect our lives.
Younge tells NPR’s Brian Naylor that his exploration of identity started, naturally, with his own.
“I’m a black Brit who’s lived in New York for nine years,” he says.
And that matters because of all the ways he’s been misidentified and because of how that treatment has influenced his own story — a story that very much informs his point of view.
“I think we all come to life, politics, social interactions with something,” he says. “The idea that we are purely objective, omniscient all-seeing beings is a terrible mistake.”
But sometimes the more powerful your identity is, the less it can actually feels like one. Younge uses his own story as an example. Â Continue….
My Comments:
Really good read. Â You can even listen to the podcast on NPR as well.Â
Okay, I am not one to be too overly excited about much, but when it comes to my MacBook , IMac, IPOD or IPAD,  I must shamelessly admit, I simply cannot get enough. Why am I so big on the Mac platform, let me give you a bit. 
