Thought this was a pretty nice Gucci bag.
Large decorated bee with expansive wings on the flap.
Beautiful pink with white pearl studs.
Brass chain and red, white, and blue shoulder strap.
Priced around $1500!
Small shoulder bag yet plush oversized and ornate make a big statement.
Nice gift for that special someone or to treat yourself to Gucci! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Ran into this lady in South Florida.
Couldn’t help but notice the nails.
She told me she’s been growing them like this for 29 years!
I asked if she had any difficulty typing, driving, or anything.
And she told me she does everything with them.
No, I don’t think that I want to touch these things.
I’m only getting as close as the camera. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Just thought this was a really stylish shoe/sandal.
The gems and colors are really standout.
It’s relaxed and happy.
Ladies, this one is for you. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So ties are an unfortunate part of a man’s wardrobe.
But while some ties may look nice (in a feminine type of way), for the most part they are nothing but a pain in the neck.
– Feels like a noose
– Looks like a dog collar
– Enforced as the yoke of oppression
– Constraining since a tie ties
– Costs as much as $385 at Nordstrom
– Klutzy when oops!! it hangs out your fly
– Hazardous when caught in an office shredder.
– Filthy when eating soup, spaghetti, etc.
– Disgusting when bending over and it flops into the toilet
Some day fashion will grow up and ties will go the way of The Waltons, and even Goodwill will throw them unabashedly into the trash where they most rightfully belong.
(Source Photo: here with attribution to bark)
So we took my daughter to the Free People boutique store at the Mall.
That brand has such a cool clothing style (although a little pricey)–everything is sort of hippyish, natural, eloquent, cool grunge, and feminine with lace, beads, frills, ruffles, and more.
As we went through the store, we noticed the amazing fitting rooms with heavy tapestry-type curtains and these beautiful flowers hanging plentifully from the ceiling–ushering you to try out their clothes.
My daughter ended up getting a nice bag there, but the clothing also looks amazing and fits perfectly with her fashion sense.
It was interesting for me to learn that Free People was started by the same couple in the 1970’s that founded Urban Outfitters.
Two retail success stories–but Free People is not only the cooler name, but the better clothing line.
Be Free People! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So apparently data mining can be used for all sorts of research…
In the New York Times today, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tries his hand with google search results to better understand people’s feelings about sex.
Though Stephens-Davidowitz doesn’t explain how he gets these google statistics…here are some standouts:
As you might have guessed, the biggest complaint from men–and women–is that they don’t get/have enough sex.
For both (as you might imagine in a primarily–95%–heterosexual world), traditional surveys show that it’s about once a week.
However, the author says this is exaggerated (yeah, is it surprising that people exaggerate about this?) and it’s actually only about 30 times a year–or once every 12 days.
So there are a lot of search on “sexless” or “won’t have sex with me.”
Observing that “sex can be quite fun,” he questions, “why do we have so little of it?”
And he concludes that it’s because we have “enormous anxiety” and insecurity about our bodies and sexuality.
Again, you probably wouldn’t need data mining to guess the results, but men’s biggest worry is about their penis size, and one of women’s most toxic worries–a “strikingly common concern”–is about the smell of their vagina.
For men, they actually google questions about genital size more often than they have questions about any other body part; in fact, more than “about their lungs, liver, feet, ears, nose, throat, and brain combined.”
So much for health consciousness versus machismo pride.
The funny thing is apparently women don’t seem to care so much about this with only about 1 search on this topic for every 170 searches that men do on this.
Surprising to most men, about 40% of the searches women do conduct on this topic is “complaints” that it is too big!
Not that size doesn’t matter to women, but for them it’s about the size of their breasts and butts–and again, bigger being generally considered better.
In this case, most men seem to agree.
Another issue men are concerned about is premature ejaculation and how to make the experience last longer.
However, here women seem to be looking for information about half and half on how to make men climax more quickly on one hand, and more slowly on the other.
Overall, men are from Mars and women from Venus, with lot’s of misunderstanding between the sexes.
The conclusion from this big data study…everyone calm down and just try to enjoy each other more.
Amazing the insights we can get from data mining! 😉
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Daniel)
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