Pablo Mera a.k.a Pablo EMG , Uruguayan-born writer and longtime resident of Paraguay whose life has moved through sport, business, reinvention, family devotion, setbacks, observation, and persistent hope. he writes with unusual candor about dignity, masculinity, suffering, resilience, love, and the architecture of a meaningful future. The Lucid Misfit’s Handbook is his first major English-language work.
Juegos SEGA en los vigitorios -para apuntar derecho
Toylet video games help Japanese men aim straight | World news | The Guardian: "urinal"
Para apuntar(lo) derecho
Tokyo urinals fitted with games enabling users to test power and accuracy
Public toilet Using the restroom is becoming an entertaining business for some Japanese men. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
A Japanese entertainment company has combined men's obsession with video games with their perennial inability to aim straight to create a range of distractions in selected Tokyo urinals.
Sega has installed the Toylets in male lavatories at four bars and games arcades in the Japanese capital.
The games use pressure sensors attached to eye-level LCD screens that test users' accuracy as they answer the call of nature.
The four games include one in which the object is to spray the screen clean of graffiti. Another, Manneken Pis, named after the famous statue in Brussels, measures the volume of the urine stream.
Splashing Battle, meanwhile, pits one user against another – though thankfully not directly – by challenging him to produce a more powerful stream than the previous visitor.
In the fourth game, the North Wind and the Sun and Me, sensors control a digital wind blowing up a young woman's skirt. The greater the stream's intensity, the higher the skirt travels.
The games sit (or stand) well with Japan's open attitude to all matters micturition.
Children are raised on tales of ghosts who inhabit toilets, perhaps to encourage cleanliness, while girls are encouraged to keep on the good side of the female deity who supposedly resides in domestic WCs.
While many foreign visitors to Japan find themselves befuddled by hi-tech "washlets" in upmarket hotels and restaurants, locals are accustomed to heated sets, multidirectional jets of warm air and water, and even face-saving "perfume bursts".
For the easily embarrassed, the toilet maker Toto offers Otohime (Sound Princess) – a gadget tailored for women's public lavatories that emits the sound of running water.
Sega said the Toylet games would be available only until the end of the month, and it had no plans to market them commercially.
Household versions would be unlikely to succeed. According to a 2009 survey by Toto, more than 33% of Japanese men prefer to urinate while sitting down.
UBS y como se llega a la idiotizacion de las corporaciones
UBS sugiere "como hacer el nudo de la corbata" y que color de ropa interior deben usar las mujeres del banco
The existing dress code stipulates that red ties must be worn and advises men on how to knot them
The existing dress code stipulates that red ties must be worn and advises men on how to knot them
Swiss bank UBS is revising its dress code after being widely mocked for its style guide, which suggests female employees wear skin-coloured underwear and advises men on how to knot a tie.
"We're reviewing what is important to us," UBS spokesman Andreas Kern said.
The existing 44-page dress code also tells women how to apply make-up, what kind of perfume to wear and advises them to avoid black nail varnish.
Men are told to get their hair cut every month and to avoid unruly beards.
All staff are advised to avoid garlic or onion breath.
The code only applies to client-facing staff, and UBS has previously said it had been "misunderstood".
The guide is thought to have been developed by top executives as part of UBS's attempts to improve its image.
Other pieces of advice in the document include: "You can extend the life of your knee socks and stockings by keeping your toenails trimmed and filed."
Another says: "Glasses should always be kept clean. On the one hand this gives you optimal vision, and on the other hand dirty glasses create an appearance of negligence."
Mr Kern told the BBC the mandatory dress code for men of a dark suit, black shoes, white shirt and red tie would remain, but said the bank was reviewing other things in the guide which were only meant as recommendations.
He said the size of the guide would probably be reduced from the current 44 pages, but could not say by how much.
Lost Tomb of Caligula Discovered - All thanks to Italian police | User Submitted
Descubren la tumba de Caligula *emperador romano del 37 al 41 ac* . de la forma mas inusual..capturando a los ladrones de una estatua robada..
Lost Tomb of Caligula Discovered - All thanks to Italian police | User Submitted
(User Submitted) – The lost tomb of Caligula has been discovered—in a most unusual way. Italian police last week arrested a man as he was trying to hoist an 8-foot statue onto his truck. The police force, which deals specifically with archaeological matters (who knew?), noticed that the statue featured "caligae" military boots, the same kind that Caligula—a nickname meaning "little boot"—wore. Adding to their suspicions, they nabbed the man near Lake Nemi, where the emperor, who ruled from AD 37 to 41, had a villa and floating palace, reports the Guardian.
After examining the statue further, the police guessed that it had been looted from Caligula's tomb. The looter confirmed their theory under questioning and led them to the site. Archaeologists were to due to start excavating yesterday.
Lost Tomb of Caligula Discovered - All thanks to Italian police | User Submitted
(User Submitted) – The lost tomb of Caligula has been discovered—in a most unusual way. Italian police last week arrested a man as he was trying to hoist an 8-foot statue onto his truck. The police force, which deals specifically with archaeological matters (who knew?), noticed that the statue featured "caligae" military boots, the same kind that Caligula—a nickname meaning "little boot"—wore. Adding to their suspicions, they nabbed the man near Lake Nemi, where the emperor, who ruled from AD 37 to 41, had a villa and floating palace, reports the Guardian.
After examining the statue further, the police guessed that it had been looted from Caligula's tomb. The looter confirmed their theory under questioning and led them to the site. Archaeologists were to due to start excavating yesterday.
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