The Life of a Silicon Valley Rockstar

My varied life… in a nutshell

Sex Sells but Playboy loses money?

After announcing first quarter revenues, Playboy had better pray for rain! Playboy executive vice president Bob Meyers blamed the digital group which saw revenues drop 3% to $15.2 million. Hmm, Playboy overall saw an 8% drop. Who was responsible for the other 5%?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Silicon Valley Insider thinks it might be the glut and popularity of free porn on the net from sites redtube and youporn. I’d add amateur favorite RedClouds to the list as well. Above all else, Playboy still has the brand and the mystique of being “Playboy”. And, of course, the ageless wonder “Hef”. My answer to “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Besides, when hasn’t porn been freely available on the web? I remember downloading it since the 3600 baud dialup days before I’d even heard of playboy.

 

In more of a show of desperation than ingenuity, Playboy announced they would be hosting their search for the next Playmate on YouTube. Here’s the catch, no nudity allowed? WTF? That’s like a bar without booze or a job without a paycheck.

 

May 7, 2008 Posted by Alex | Life, Technology, humor | | No Comments Yet

So you’re doing my wife?

A great post from Smartassery!! I was laughing so hard people were looking at me funny. Hmm, come to think of it, people always look at me funny…

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To the guy doing my wife:

You know who you are. Yes I know. No I am not angry, I would just ask a few things of you. After all you are giving it to my wife.

1. Please stop leaving the seat up, I keep getting blamed and it is starting to get old.

2. You may be giving me a chance to go fishing more often but please stop drinking all my beer. It is fine if you have a couple while you visit(god knows I drink plenty before I find her attractive), but please leave me a few as I have to be there longer than you.

3. If you do drink the last one buy more or leave money on the counter I will pick some up.

4. Please replace the toilet paper when you use it all. For some reason my 5 year old son belives if its not there he does not have to wipe. We keep it under the sink, unless you can recomend a better spot?

5. After doing my wife please use something disposable to wipe off with. The basket of clothes on the right is mine and the clothes are clean as my wife does not do my washing, Irun out of time rushing to work. Last week my sweatshirt was crusty. Thanks.

6. Please do not tell my children that you are their uncle, they are young not mentaly challenged.

7. Please stop turning the heat up, You pay nothing and PG&E is putting it in my ass, my wife may like it but I think it hurts.

8. Stop eating the baked goods. The brownies you ate were from my mom for my birthday. My wife has not cooked anything that good for years and if she does she will not share.

9.Try shifting your weight when you sit on my chair. The recliner that I rarely have time for (soccer games and practice, basketball camp for the kids takes much of my time and I try to help with school work too) has a groove in it that forces me to roll to the left.

10. Lastly, I would like thank you for taking her to lunch on Valentine’s Day. She was not as hungry as usual and only orded one meal. I may be able to use the money I saved to take the children to a movie.

 I hope you can help me with these items, it may become ackward if I have to confront her. If you can do this for me I will give you a heads up on when I will be gone and for how long so that you don’t feel rushed.

P.S. I am going to take the kids to Tahoe on the 3rd of April for four days, I have a bottle of vodka above the fridge if you find yourself low on beer.

May 7, 2008 Posted by Alex | humor | | No Comments Yet