Kobe Jumps Pool of Snakes

You can look at this two ways: (1) Kobe is so high value, why would he do this? or (2) This is why people like Kobe so much: because he's so super high value, he can do this stuff for fun and for himself; not to qualify or prove himself to other people.

Frame Control - Jamie Foxx Destroys Doug Williams

This is an old video, but still very funny and informative on frame control. Watch it all the way through and you will be greatly rewarded.

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The Ultimate List of PUA Blogs

I cleaned up the PUA links, separated out blog links of "my people" and even added another section for randomly awesome sites.

This may not be the best PUA blog out there, but at least I can try to make it have the best list of PUA blogs.

I also didn't add blogs that haven't been recently updated.

If you want your blog added, just shoot me an e-mail.

Oh yeah, just because I added a blog to my list doesn't mean I agree, endorse, or have even read it.

Burn Notice

For those who missed the first season of Burn Notice, sucks to be you. Fortunately, it's available on Amazon right here.

In Burn Notice, Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Weston, a covert operative who has been "burned," i.e., tagged as an unreliable/dangerous agent. The show takes place in Miami where Weston divides his time trying to find the people who burned him and helping nice people in trouble—kinda like MacGyver.

After watching the show, I realized that Weston is extremely alpha. He is:

Always calm.

Always looks like he has the situation under control (even though he doesn’t)

Only use violence when he has no other choice

Speaks slowly

Never raises his voice

Never loses his focus

Rarely does he explain why, he just says things and people do it

He has a wealth of knowledge, but only presents knowledge that is directly relevant and necessary to the immediate situation

Never backs down and is not afraid of anyone.

Until then: Season 2 of Burn Notice premieres July 10, 2008 on USA.

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Facebook Ex Collection is Complete

Just a little update for ya’ll. I completed my facebook ex collection. The last one was a little tricky in that I had to ask her to be my friend. Inconceivable!! After she added me, she said she went through my friends and saw a bunch of my other ex’s. I told her she should make a group and we laughed.

The Book List

These are some of the books I’ve read in the past two years. At first I was embarrassed that this list is so short and then I realized that not all my I’ve read books are here. These are just the books I thought were good enough to recommend to other people. I’ve read some serious crap in the past few years and I’m going to save everyone trouble by just not listing those books.

Anyway, these are 12 books I recommend, presented in the order that I read them:

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss

The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, And Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth

Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Woman, Work, and Sexual Desire by David Deida

Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss

All the Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Check Out My Links List

I just dropped a massive nuclear spider link dump for blogs I like/read/try to read/just like the titles.

Make sure to check them out.

Do Things For Yourself, Not To Impress Other People

So I went out and bought my big ass TV: 52” LCD. Yeah, 52” is far bigger than I really needed, but purely awesome on a cosmic scale. Planet Earth at 1080p is almost as good as watching the lions take down the elephant live.

I then spent the next two weeks building a stand: solid wood, connected by biscuits so absolutely no sign of any nails. I stained it and dumped five coats of polyurethane on it. I am pretty proud.

Ultimately though, I thought I’d impress people with it. But somehow, people were more impressed with my TV stand than the actual TV.

This sort of led me to realize that part of the reason I got my TV was to impress other people—and that’s just retarded.

I should have bought the TV for myself. If people like it, then good for them, if not, then why do I care. If people don’t even notice the TV, then I’m no loss.

I realized that if I buy things and improve myself for the sake of impressing other people, then that’ll just leave me empty inside. If I do things for the sake of getting complements, which in turn will make me feel good (and possibly improve my confidence), then how will I feel when I stop receiving complements? Answer: my confidence and self worth will go down.

Now, on the other hand, if I buy things and improve myself because I want to and I do it with complete disregard for the potential complements, then when those complements don’t come I don’t lose self worth.

Moreover, if someone buys things to impress other people, it will show as value seeking, and that mentality is a major demonstration of lower value.

How Election 2008 Will Go Down

In exactly six months, all the dust from the 2008 Presidential election will have just settled and we’ll know whether our next President is a John, a Barack, or a Hillary.

Lately, assuming Obama does win the democratic nomination, I’ve been trying to figure out how he’d beat McCain.

This is how I figure: Obama will win all the states that Kerry won (with the exception of New Hampshire) plus Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, and one more. I’m going to go out on a limb and say Obama can win this election without Ohio.

First things first, let’s figure out what states Obama is going to win for sure: Illinois (his home state), Hawaii (his other home state), Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, New York, Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Total: 202 Electoral College votes (270 needed to win).

The “probably will win” states are: Pennsylvania (21), New Jersey (15), Wisconsin (10) and Iowa (7). Recent polls have Obama leading McCain (in Obama v. McCain) in these states. 53 more electoral college votes for a total of 255

Next up: New Mexico (5), and Nevada (5). Recall that Bush 2004 barely won New Mexico (0.79%) and Nevada (2.59%). So the Democrats have a chance. If New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson becomes the VEEP candidate, then NM is a shoe in (however as much I’d love to see an Obama-Richardson ticket, I don’t think Richardson is needed to win New Mexico). And the every increasingly liberal Nevada will probably swing blue this time. Running total: 265 But even with these two states, the Punahou graduate is still 5 vote short of the necessary 270 to win.

And that’s where the fun begins. Recent polls show McCain over Obama in swing states Ohio and Florida, so I’ll just give those to the guy with the Cougar wife.

So what’s left? Colorado. Yup, I say that Colorado must go blue for Obama to win. Yes, Colorado hasn’t gone Democrat since 1992, but recent polls show Obama with a slight lead in the state that cheers for the Broncos and the Rockies.

So let’s recap: Obama needs to win: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Iowa—which he seems like he will. He then needs to pull wins out of Colorado (likely) and eek out wins in Nevada and New Mexico.

And that’s how the election will be won.