When you get a chance, people, please be sure to tune into our newest episode.  It's referenced below, and you can also hear it through the Audio link on this shares base.  But right now, the Heir wants to share a rare victory lap with Brooklyn beating Chicago *in* Chicago.  That just never happens.  And the Heir usually just whines and complains about his teams losing and not always with the best amount of fight.  Different deal tonight, though the Heir was thinking that he'd be content if Brooklyn only lost by 5.  But he got a 14 point win, a post-Christmas Santa rally.  Chris and Tim on audio did say that Chicago did have problems with one or two players not playing to their potential, but the Heir likes to think Brooklyn actually earned this win, like with their taking privilege on the other team's weaknesses.  So here's the Heir going :thumbsup:

"You can't see it, people, but I've got the :thumbsup: on this one.  We should probably get an actual :thumbsup: pic of me at some point.  Way to go, team!"

The Bachelor Has A Different Take On The Past Election.  This, nearly two months after that election took place.  Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Heir is skeptical that the election was necessarily a referendum on or a mandate against Funny Named Skinny Kid.  When the new Congress is sworn in the New Year, the Heir continues to see the most important issues in this country today being neglected, particularly the question of whether to medically require young adults who haven't been sexually active by a certain age to go to a sex therapist.  Two months was also enough time for the Bachelor to express regret over our One Percent Doctrine type response to the Ebola scare, including killing a dog without testing him for the virus, and imprisoning a nurse in quarantine who never had the virus.  They also stopped listening to the CIS full-time, particularly because of their contribution to the scare with their wrong downer claims that never got supported.  But the Heir relates his love of German radios he saw on that YouTube channel, available under the Audio link on this shares base.  He talks about how to look at the month of October (now that it's nearly January) in the context of hedonistic meditation.  On Audio (click on Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Great Walkup

Either today or tomorrow we plan to announce our last episode of the year.  Right now we haven't uploaded anything.  I the Mentor am inclined to believe that it's going to be tomorrow, amidst all the pre-New Year cleaning the Heir's doing, as per Scottish tradition.  Also the Heir keeps getting tired and having two hour naps to the point where not even Leeanna's able to wake him up, in her own special way.  I keep telling him to be careful with those sugared holiday cookies, which I guess he's not so used to, now that BSK has made agave-based whole-wheat pastries available for him (and the other patrons).  Stay tuned.

We do plan to get an episode in before the New Year.

Something we had linked from our old site.  We want to link it here now as a fun First Pillar link.  Nudesbay @ http://nudesbay.com/

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The Heir has made further strides on his Linuxtop.  We did record some more of the upcoming episode, so we made sure that the Heir's adventures in Linux didn't distract from that.  But the Heir actually got Wifi to work, and he was amazed that he got precise instructions that were spot-on.  These were files that didn't come with the distro but which he had to go out and find for himself, with help of the web address he saw in the startup and shutdown screens, and that's kernel.org.  He had to go to the distro's wiki for info he didn't get at kernel.org, but he installed what they asked him to, and it worked out of the proverbial box.  His first apt-get foray, and which stands him in good stead for when he gets clamz.  And I the Mentor am plugged through that Wifi writing about this that he configured.  He also tightened up Samba a bit on the security, and he wants to do research on some other good security tips on Samba that seem simple and low-risk enough and applies to his system.  The Heir will look again at what I shared here regarding his other Linux tasks, but he believes that the last task is the CD/DVD drive.  He thinks it's broken, and it's also not a blu-ray contrary to what he was led to believe online with his specific unit.  So he wants to see about getting a CD/DVD/Blu-ray internal drive that fits in his unit, and he hopes that getting drivers and/or firmware should be just as easy as it was for Wifi.  The Heir's also not surprised that Brooklyn dropped yet another one by getting ahead in the first quarter, getting tied in the second quarter, and staying consistently behind in the last two quarters.  They really need to work on damage control for when they get behind in the score, so they can regain the lead at least once per game, because they can't always count on always being in the lead.

"Brooklyn needs to work on regaining any leads they lost in a given game, and not always count on being in the lead the entire game.  That's my constructive criticism."

The Brooklyn Nets game tonight is apparently in rain delay.  Heir turned on the radio to the game, and it was raining so hard outside, it seems, that it caused drips to come off the ceiling in the main court area, and onto the court.  Game was suspended until either the drips will stop or the NBA approves of a postponement.  The Heir tried to find news online for any details, but he can't find any as of this writing.  Basketball is an indoor game, so you shouldn't have rain delays like you would in baseball.  But, people, you saw it here first, because the Heir's not sure whether on social media anybody thinks this is necessarily news.

This is a nerd share with the Heir's relationship to the Linuxtop that may go over the heads of non-nerd types, just as a warning.  He did get Samba to work on the Linuxtop.  Samba is a program that allows computers to connect with regular files listing type connections.  But here's the nerdy part.  The Heir edited smb.conf so that he can connect our Mac with the Linuxtop with at least some security (he wants to put in more).  The documentation he read online said to add a user to Samba by using the smbpasswd command, but he found out that the documentation was incomplete, because it didn't work.  He did some more research and found out that you first need to add a user to the system proper using useradd (at least this is what worked for him), and then use smbpasswd.  The way his config of Linux works is that it needs to know there's a user in the system, and it needs to know there's at least one password associated with that user.  These are all separate steps.  The Heir is used to "signup" as being one and the same, but apparently it's not.  He did assign a system password to the user just to be on the safe side.  So he got the user set up and was able to connect to the Linuxtop through the Mac, and see the folders he got set up on the Linuxtop.  So that's progress.  Next he wants to make sure his sound drivers are working properly, because he's wondering whether you can do Amazon track previews on Linux (another thing he couldn't find documentation on).  Those preview buttons don't seem Flash Player-based, so he thinks it might be possible.  And he also wants to get his head around mounting CD drives on Linux so he can watch his (equally nerdy) DVDs.  At some point he wants to get Wifi working, and at least pull down the files he thinks he needs from a web site the system itself told him about.  But the Linuxtop is meant to help the Heir cope with his addiction to YouTube enabled by the tablet, as well as offer functionality he does not see in the tablet.  And he is happy with the Giants' past two wins, even though it's easier for him to go after them when they're losing.

"I've got tape in the middle of my proverbial glasses."

We're about halfway done with our upcoming episode in progress, but the Heir wants to take a break from further production on everyone's part thus far (me the Mentor, our girlfriends, the Chef and Marco, and other good folk) to get his linuxtop done.  As in a share below/previous, the Heir's satisfied that he only has 80% of his linuxtop up and running, and that he wants to get to the other 20%.  He wants to get networking working, so that he can share a folder on the linuxtop that he can get to through our Mac we do audio on.  He wants to see whether there's a problem with his CD drive, so that he can get to watch DVDs using vlc.  He wants to get Flash/Gnash/Lightspark and/or Pepper Flash running, mainly to do song previews on Amazon (he deems that a higher priority than to spend time with YouTube) for when the time comes for him to buy more tracks in a couple weeks.  He wants to go to wireless.kernel.org to get those WiFi files the installer said he needs to do WiFi with.  And other things on his list include clamz, the ability to record online audio, being able to sync his radio scanner with that scanner site through the linuxtop, and to make turtleback style disc shaped panels for the back of his linuxtop monitor lid.  That last one will help get the linuxtop in line with the second pillar of classiness, even though two turtlebacks will be checkered-flag style (one with red squares and the other with black squares), and the other two will have sheens similar to his spaceplates for the aux jack in the car (one red with chrome trim, and the other turquoise with silver trim, both of which will have a trim seal in the middle).  So if he doesn't get the minimum of the above done by the end of next January, he'll consider that date we did an announcement here that he has 80% of the linuxtop to be when this Year Of Nominality ended.  Right now we're typing all this through that dang tablet the fetters of which he wants to get free of, with the linuxtop, so there isn't that excessive vanilla umbilical cord.

"I want to get the other 20% done with the linuxtop."

About seven years ago or so, the Happy Bachelor did an episode that criticized westernized media campaigns of The Year In Review, charging among other things such a campaign would take place in early December, and leave out at least three weeks that are remaining in the year.  Apparently Google on its search page has a YouTube link called "#YouTubeRewind: The videos, people and events that defined YouTube in 2014."  Heir thinks it's cynical that they have a pound sign in the link, because the link would still be OK without the hashtag.  How's this for a hashtag, he asks: #ThisYearIsNotOverYetSoItsTooSoonToDoAYearInReview?  Or how about, #ItOnlyMakesSenseToReviewThePastYearWhenTheNewYearIsRungIn.  As in the past, the Heir is sure that the YouTube campaign will completely ignore any events that will occur in the next three weeks or so.  He tried to point that out at the YouTube link in their comments section, but it was trying to force him to change our account.  Maybe he'll comment using a separate account, but he doesn't know if it's worth it.  It's just that there was a time when the Internet was a subversion against The Man, who would arbitrarily go on with Year In Review type coverage.  How can the so-called "new media" claim any kind of moral authority, the Heir asks, when it's just "old media" lite?  He encourages people to similarly complain about Year In Review type campaigns online, and keep the Internet subversive accordingly.

"Dang, people, the year's not over yet!"

The Heir has finally got his Linuxtop up and running.  That means this Year Of Nominality is coming to an end.  But the Heir won't consider it in the can until two things happen.  One is that he ensures getting apt-get to work without the Terminal telling him he's not supposed to do that.  The other is when he can get networking working so that stuff he downloads on the Linuxtop he can get to his music machine, and for our audio to go from that machine to the Linuxtop, so we can get it on Mixcloud.  All without futzing with an easily breakable USB flash drive.  Once that's said and done, he'll be able to kick the tablet Youtube/visual habit.

The Heir was at Bland Barns tonight, with its endless row of magazines no one will ever buy. He estimates that you can leave one rack each for magazines, newspapers, novels and Magic Books, and spare three and a half shelves for enough things like radios, old school mp3 players, sculpy clay, acrylic paints and smaller home decor. You will have enough shelf space for one set of bigger handle radios, and two sets of portables: shortwave/am/fm and weather/am/fm. There will be enough cables and accessories for music, Linux and basic electronics geeks. All at your local food store. The vanilla world: if they only knew...

Here's another radio the Heir enjoyed seeing on that radios YouTube channel.  It's a European LW/AM/SW radio from the early 1960s, which has city captions in what the Heir believes to be the longwave band.  It's of an Art Deco style, and the speaker grille has an elegant rhomboid shape.  The brownish colors of beige, brown and gold go together very well on this radio, but there's also black, white and silver for the grille.  This radio's able to bend the classiness rules of not using more than 2-3 colors per artifact, because the speaker grille is perceivable by the observer to be a separate artifact from the rest of the radio somehow.  1963 Schneider Troubadour Radio @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZk1UBYikg

Please listen to our newest episode on audio, either in the appropriate announcement below this one, or the audio stream link on this handle.  In general, the bachelor points out the dovetail between the specific classiness of cigars, and general classiness at large.  That often includes Persianesque themes of medallion and damask designs in fabrics.  Here's a site that sells such fabrics FYI.  Fabric Guru @ http://www.fabricguru.com/

We've just recently made a new episode on audio, as per the next announcement/share below this one, so be sure to tune in.  The episode can also be accessed from the audio stream link on this announcements handle.  But from 1995 to 2005 we read Spectator Magazine each week, California's Original Adult Newspaper.  They really were the closest thing to something that pushed the pro-sex ideology, as opposed to porn mags which only wanted to make money, or what we saw in the Eighties and the early Nineties as hypochondriac sex columnists.  The one presence left of this second-to-none magazine, is a wiki on Wikipedia that we enshrine for the honor of Spectator Magazine @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectator_Magazine

The Bachelor's Concerns That Visual Is Starting To Corrupt The Developing World.  Even though the Bachelor acknowledges that the developing world has its problems, they do admire their enthusiasm for the radio medium with the information, something that the Western world has forgotten with its glut of tech.  But now, the Heir says he sees signs that visual is starting to corrupt the developing world, over irrational accusations on visual that a Ghanian soccer player had killed his best friend in a ritual sacrifice.  The Heir also takes psychoanalysis to task over the "dog test," whereby at least one writer he saw seemed to contend that because a dog does not know how to talk, he cannot come up with forensic arguments against his mistreatment, and therefore such is the case for a young child.  The Heir also doesn't know about this Isis raid in Australia a couple months ago, wondering why the CIS reported at least a hundred helicopters for only fifteen suspects.  The Heir believes we need to restore warnings in radio spots for nutritional supplements that they're not meant to treat, prevent or cure disease, particularly that brain one that claims EHT.  And to the dismay of both Sonya and Lucinda, he has decided not to go to that massage parlor after all.  On audio (click Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The great walk-up.

The Heir walks away from both the most recent Bill Cosby scandal, and that of Woody Allen years ago, with the feeling that there are no good players in such scandals.  The Heir has a low vote of confidence in both Cosby and his accusers, as well as the gossip on visual for trying to put words into the mouths of both Lisa Bonet and Symone.  So his question is, here in a vanilla Western culture, generally deprived, that invests such a lofty hero worship concept in actually flawed human beings, as opposed to the sex itself higher than all of us, are there any celebrities who have never done anything wrong?  He came across an online article about a handful celebrities who are so unrealistically saccharine-goody, that they really should start acting out.  He also wondered, on Google, whether anyone else thinks it's okay to throw some celebrities and heroes under the bus, and he found an article about that too, but it didn't use the phrase "throw under the bus," so he added it in the share below.  He likes it better that way.  He's thinking we should talk about it on audio, even with the ugly nature of what Cosby did.  8 Celebrities Who Need a Scandal Already @ http://thestir.cafemom.com/celebrities/110517/8_celebrities_who_need_a.  It’s OK to Hate Your Hero [and throw them under the bus when the situation demands it] @ http://www.rookiemag.com/2012/02/hate-your-heroes/

It's deja vu all over again for the Heir.  Giants' fifth straight loss, complete with all the fourth down in four straight play turnovers the Giants are best known for.  So what the Giants need to do now is win at home against a weak team, just for the sake of not getting comfortable with losing games.  But next week it'll be Dallas, whom the Heir sees as a strong contender.  Since the Giants can't possibly make postseason at 3-7, and with Dallas it'll be 3-8, the Heir's pretty sure there will be major personnel changes in January, though he doesn't know if it'll be Coughlin or Eli or a tertiary coach taking the fall, depending on their contracts.  But remember below when the Heir said that if the Giants couldn't make this win, they will open their next home game to a mostly empty stadium?  Well, they couldn't make this win, and therefore they will open their next home game to a mostly empty stadium.  The Giants organization will have to weather season ticket lawsuits from fans, possibly frivolous, as well as uncomfortable questions from their advertisers.  New York-Presbyterian, Bob's Furniture and even Met Life itself will light a fire under the Giants President's office.  Maybe there's an opportunity in reversing the trend of corporate names for stadiums, and actually name the place again after a good person.  Now, back to the risk of feeling comfortable with losing, the Heir did see rookie Beckham's (at least he thought that was Beckham) throwing down of his helmet in frustration and disgust a hopeful sign that they aren't so comfortable.  A sign to the fans that there's some fight left in them.  Something the Heir couldn't find in most post-game interviews with the rank and file, or overly sympathetic sports magazines and radio commentaries.  That sympathy just doesn't help, and the Heir's not entirely sure he'll tune into next week's game.  Maybe New Orleans instead if he can get it.

Those of you who've been listening to the Bachelor on audio (via the stream link here) have heard pro-sex sermons referring to or at least inferring the need for science to weigh in on whether health-wise (or otherwise), you need to have sex by a certain age, because of either intimacy-versus-isolation, or to obtain a brain chemical.  The Heir is still looking for factual answers online that science may have hidden for him on page 5 for search results if you use really obscure search terms.  But he did find one opinion which among other things called for a rational approach to the question of sexual deadlines.  (And we still need to get links from our old site to this online handle).  In any case, this opinion reminds the Heir about the days of Fun Loving Chief when there was discussion on whether there is a definition of sex that makes sense.  This online opinion extends that further, and asks about whether there's a definition of virginity that makes rational sense. Virginity Is A Social Construct @ http://bellejar.ca/2013/12/19/virginity-is-a-social-construct/comment-page-3/

We usually don't do hash tags, because that's mostly a vanilla thing.  But right now the Heir is fired up about something he's not sure can wait for audio, but he does plan to talk about it.  It's this campaign to make it illegal to feed the homeless on a per city basis.  The Heir believes this will effectively make food banks and hunger charities criminal organizations, and that it's against the basic human duty of thinking of the least of your brothers and sisters.  The Heir wants to go into more of a rant on it at some point, but he also believes that the Giants are presently the worst team in football.  Doesn't matter what their record is on the season.  They went to fourth down in Seattle in four straight plays, turned it over, and allowed a 60 or so yard pass play leading to a Seattle 14 point lead with 5 minutes to go in the fourth quarter.  This is in contrast to the Heir's other team New Orleans who 3-4 weeks ago grabbed a tremendous win with 40+ points though he forgot who they were playing.  So if the Giants don't win against San Fran next week, they will play their next home game afterwards in a near empty stadium, and fans will sue to get their money back on their season tickets.  Keep generosity alive @ #hunger #charity #generosity #worstteamever

So here's another radio on that radio channel on YouTube the Heir noticed quite early on.  This to him qualifies as a "scientific radio," because it's a red needle in a white slide rule, and red objects on a white background tend to be science type colors.  At some point the Heir also wants to share his music playlists with the music/audio dynamic, and not just radios with the information, but again, it's best we do that when we get that document base up and running, and we don't know when that's going to be.  But keep reminding us as to how many times we say that, because then we can go back to these shares, and find out what we wanted to put in the eventual document base, besides a synopsis to the Artifactorial.  BTW, our current episode was just updated a couple of days ago with the audio stream, so be sure to catch that through the stream link On Audio.  But with the German radio, the Heir has also noticed how the stereo grating uses holes that are at 60 degree angles with each other, very similar to how Eton and other radio makers still do so today.  And this radio was made 40 years ago.  So don't let anyone tell you that one thing has to replace another, because there are those tried and true traditional and classy designs you go back to.  ITT Schaub-Lorenz Touring Studio @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5CGt0LzQI&list=PLGHMwzSPjMfku9coMuvOeQ_WpVu7YA0Hb

Please listen to our new episode when you get a chance.  Info is in an announcement below this share (enable All Posts or equivalent), and you can also stream through the streaming link.  But good thing we finally got around to making those permanent pages here, or at least starting to.  Because now we can actually start sharing things as per "Shares" in Announcements And Shares, and have it make sense.  So because the Heir's getting discouraged that he couldn't find traditional slide rule portable radios in the general store ideal pharmacy he goes to, he was doing an images search on "sony radios."  That cheered him up a lot, but he still thinks we need to get slide rule radios back into those smaller general store ideal stores, and that that whole cutthroat store shelf culture (economics-based) should accommodate for this very real sociocultural need.  Some radios he thought were particularly interesting were a Sony Ericsson AM/FM phone (since phones almost never do AM), a DAB that is a little more akin to the reminiscent design standard and a yellow emergency radio (now discontinued) with a white slide rule display set inside a rubber frame.  What the Heir likes the best about the radio phone is the potential for pay-as-you-go phones (and not just contract-/monthly payment- only) to contain both bands.   Sony radios @ https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sony+radios

The Mentor And The Heir Disagree On Whether To Keep The Glasses Up Or Down In The Drying Rack.  People by now had seemed to think that the Mentor and the Heir agree on everything, but it ain't necessarily so.  Even in the best of dynamics there are differences in opinion, but the Bachelors believe it saves their having to go nuclear on more serious issues.  Some of those the Heir cites such as the case the vaporizer industry may have against the W.H.O. decrees against it, Ed Snowden's influence possibly discouraging our taking away garbage cans and mailboxes for security purposes before major events, the Heir's observation that that Japanese girl robot is wearing what looks like a space cadet suit, and very importantly, the Heir's declaration that he would never say that he would never go to a massage parlor.  On audio (click on Play All): http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

So here's a video about that organ/radio combo the Heir wants to talk about in an upcoming episode.  Initially he was going to say that he wishes we'd organize stuff here well enough so meaningful shares can get made.  But now that's no longer a problem, so then he'll have to say so accordingly, and whine and complain about something else in the world.  But we do expect it'll be on audio he'll talk about this particular radio, so we'll leave the details on audio accordingly.  He subscribes to this video channel, so he'll say what else from that channel he can share.  1974 Panasonic Radio / Synthesizer @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grpCKGKuhNk&list=UU1165x8QRmNOeP9fmogFNHg

The Tech Comes Of Age Because Of Sex Robots And Electronic Cigarettes. The Bachelor's collective reassurance for the Cigar Assistant over whether there will be an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. any time soon took place back in July or so. That was before those two people came over here with Ebola, and when airports started doing Ebola screenings of people from Africa who came from those countries most affected. The thrust of this episode, though, is the Bachelor's observation that iPhone smartphones that uphold a culture of puerile rectangles and social media TV tube style links no longer hold such a monopoly on contemporary society.  Tech such as sex robots and vaporizers represent a more adult and classy tip.  The Bachelor discusses enjoy-the-summer-while-it's-still-here style radio spots, the online doc pointing to a poll the CIS did indicating that the U.S. enjoys an above-average global rating despite all the America bashing this year, the Heir's momentary concern that Russia could possibly confiscate the black boxes for the plane that went down in the Eastern Ukraine, and the Heir's plan to move away from the tablet and onto a Linux laptop.  All while everyone gets body-painted on the beach that is conformant with Naomi's and Leeanna's preferred dress code.  On audio: http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Here is a link that pertains to conversations the Happy Bachelor has had about audio.  The Heir listens to Shortwave from time to time, and uses this schedule to know when to tune into Radio Romania, the Voice of Vietnam or Radio Thailand.  Right now he stays away from the Voice Of Russia on principle.  The BBC no longer broadcasting to America on Shortwave seems no big loss to the Heir at this point, since their news programs started going downhill when they killed that Trust Fund in favor of a licensing fee.  But the Heir needs to whine and complain about that in an upcoming episode in detail.  EIBI Shortwave Schedules @ http://www.eibispace.de/.

Here is a "decor" web site with themes conformant enough with the classiness ideal to keep featureless items made of white plastic at bay.  We've liked the Persian style curtains and the classy jars.  We're making sure that in the Bachelor Universe at least, the furniture store has things like those in stock.  Touch Of Class @ http://www.touchofclass.com/

The ladies have pics to check out on Renderotica.  They've got those pics tagged with their names on that site, and we have to figure out how to reference one tag per link.  So that way a Carmen share here can reference only those pics that have Carmen in them, even though many pics feature more than one model.  Also, now that we got that pages problem more under control here, there's no reason why we can't announce when one given pic is new and immediately available.  Renderotica (** Adult, Registration Required **) @ http://www.renderotica.com/.

So here's what we're thinking of doing about a need for a web site.  We're going to try to get those links on the old site copied here on this announcements list, separated into individual posts with Blogger, using the labels function, expanding the announcements list to a shares handle.  With our presence on Mixcloud for as long as it lasts, we assess that we can get some good interactions between this announcements list and the Bachelor audio there.  We're also thinking about how to share the Artifactorial as well, likely in cloudish doc form.  We should discuss this in a Bachelor episode in detail.  The Heir has questions about details.  Stay tuned.

The Heir Wonders Whether The Phrase Emerging Democracy Is Just A Euphemism For A Failed State.  Ever since the crisis in Eastern Ukraine started, the Heir also looked at things like Isis and the momentary conflict in Gaza.  Not to mention Burundi earlier this year or so.  He's concluded that it's just not a good world out there, and that "emerging democracy" is a little too half-glass fuller and possibly misleading.  Nothing's really changed in the past 20 or 30 years.  The Heir also shares his addiction to YouTube, mainly because of his frustrations regarding being made to do stuff he doesn't feel he should have to do, among other topics.  On audio: http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

We're still planning to find a new web site.  We haven't updated this list in a while, so we just want to put it out there that our updated presence online is not yet complete.  It's still the summer, so things tend to be slow at this time, and that includes the big stuff as well as the small.  Nearly a month ago we did find an audio handler, and we'll see how long it lasts.

The Encouragement The Heir Gets From Carmen And Naomi To Go To A Massage Parlor.  We talk about how authorities went out of their way to talk about sex trafficking during the Superbowl, even though there are numerous parlors up where the Superbowl took place anyway.  The Heir expresses concern that a massage place opening up near where he works might be one of "those" parlors, but Carmen and Naomi tell him that he should still go there if it is, to be adventurous and expand his repertoire in life, and to be sure to ask for extras.  Also in this nearly outdated and long overdue episode, we talk about whether in light of Donald Sterling's racist comments the Bachelor has a possible reputation problem due to its urban image, there likely being a majority around where we live in taking a pro-Kremlin stance favoring Putin's incursions into the Ukraine, and how Bill DiBlasio is becoming known as the horse cart mayor of New York City.  On audio (click on the first play button after the banner ad): http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Mentor (center, copper) and Heir (right, gold).

OK, so the Heir didn't hear from our preferred web space company within a 24 hour limit using their admin address.  So he had to crawl back to one of the fad services he had criticized and sign up with them again.  In spite of our cultural misgivings about the service, we got something worked out pretty well there technically, even though it's currently paltry and skeletal.  Seems as though we do have some leeway as to presentation, and hopefully it'll be like this in the foreseeable future when we're ready to use that leeway.  Heir's concerned about that leeway vanishing before then, though, and still unhappy about not being able to properly upload files from a tablet.  He still wants to retain an account at the old school company, because he believes that a stream from therein is the best way to syndicate to a willing shortwave broadcaster if and when we decide to do that.  And now, in our next announcement or so, we'll call out our ready episode we've got on audio.

So more on the adventures the Heir is having getting an audio site set up.  Currently he's pinned his hopes on a generic web site host, old school.  He's hoping that we can retain the audio there while using a front page wiki style service for the web site proper.  The Heir did try a couple of "social media" fad service style audio clouds.  One of them does not allow uploading through a tablet which is what the Heir signed up for in the first place, and he was maneuvered into signing up without being able to easily find out that he essentially can't use the service.  Another service does allow for uploading, but he wasn't able to tap on any of the buttons to make an upload from his tablet or even delete his account.  He had to retreat to his W laptop against his discretion from which he deleted his account because he's sure the site believed that he has no such discretion.  This is why the Heir believes we need to go back to the good ole days of simple web functioning pre-web 2.0, pre-fad.  Because back then the only thing you needed to worry about is getting your site to work on Internet Explorer and a normal browser.  Didn't have to worry about mobile sites or apps or puerile rectangles onscreen or anything.  So again, stay tuned.  Because the Heir hasn't given up!

Well, we tried to get one service to host the audio portion, and it didn't work.  The Heir tried to get all the audio files to work with each other on the service's space, but that service insists on jumbling the web references of the audio files, making it all but impossible to stream them correctly.  Within one hour the Heir created and deleted a new account.  The service wasn't intended as a free web host, so we go back to our list again accordingly.  We've already got content on audio ready to go, so it's just a matter of finding the right host for it.  But the Heir wants to make sure it's a flexible enough host with an actual useful service.  The Heir's afraid that that set of pre-web 2.0 values are going out the window in favor of online bastardization, and is making sure we avoid those, keeping in line with the old school.

Heir switched off this game as well, in the 6th, when Main Team One trailed 3-1, and did nothing to answer Baltimore's relentless hitting.  Main Team One.  Worst team ever.  They let it get away from them just before the all star break and they probably also called it an official game because of rain right when Main Team One might have gotten their mojo back.  Worst team ever.  How can they possibly make postseason at all whatsoever if this is the note they go out on just before the all star break.  And NL will certainly win the all star game like they've done the past five years or so.  There is a serious question as to whether the brand of Main Team One is permanently damaged as a result, and that they'd have to disband.  That question comes solely from the Heir, who has no sports writing or analysis chops whatsoever.

A little update on our upcoming new home online.  We still don't know where that will be, but I the Mentor and the Heir have been doing some thinking about which bits of content would reside in which types of service.  Our biggest priority is audio, so we believe that's the first change that'll happen.  So once we get a new episode ready on audio, it'll be on that audio service TBD.  We're also thinking about how to look at what we do on the present site conceptually, and we've separated the immersive aspect of the site from the lists of links.  And what we expect will happen is that The Bachelor Presence online will reside on multiple services rather than just one or two.  We intend for The Bachelor Content on the different services to all work together as best as possible.  Again, stay tuned.

Main Team One has got to be the worst team ever, said the Heir as he switches off the tabletop radio to the back of the Swank Lounge.  He's still waiting for the team to start hitting, here in mid July.  If they start hitting in late August, they may have a chance at a 20 game winning streak to put them just one game behind Baltimore by mid September.  But that's still too little too late.  If you're only starting to hit in August and September, it means you should have started doing so opening day back in April.  As cold as it sounds, injuries and climate change affecting team performance is no excuse.  It's time to start counting out Main Team One, and for the Heir to look forward to Lionel Holland's hopeful coaching chops for Brooklyn starting in late October.  Local teams making it in baseball is a lost cause.  Time to look forward post baseball, preferably with Brooklyn but possibly with the Giants to way outperform their last season of less than half.

So we're starting our search for a new home online, and also thinking about things we do that we want to change to make it easier for us while we're at it.  We still dream about getting our stream to play on a generous shortwave station, but we've been doing our updates in a nerdy low level way when there are easier ways of doing it.  We haven't made any decisions, but you'll know once we do.  I the Mentor am encouraging the Heir not to stop helping build the episodes just because we currently can't update the current site.

We seem to be going through a transition where our main web site is concerned that we reference every time we have a new episode.  We don't know what's going to happen there, but keep it tuned here accordingly as to what we eventually decide to do about it.

The Things The Heir Is Nostalgic About From The Nineties. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

Unfortunately, the Heir noticed that the door closing sound effect didn't make it in the new episode.  He's hoping we'll get a chance to correct that in time.

The game's not over yet, but David Robertson has already lost it. The Heir heard a Chevy spot come on, so it seems to him that Robertson should have stuck to selling Chevys.

Nets face elimination tomorrow evening in Miami.  Chris and Tim seem to believe that elimination is all but inevitable.  Well, then, the Heir said last night, it was nice knowing Jason Kidd as a coach, because the Heir doubts that Prokorov will keep him on.  Look what happened to P.J. Carlissimo after the first round of playoffs last year.  Yes, the Heir did rip on Jason Kidd last December, when the Nets sucked.  He didn't think that the Jason Kidd experiment worked, but that was before an incredible January and March, and a fairly decent February and April.  But it appears as though that won't be good enough.  Prokorov will probably bellow at Jason Kidd in a private meeting, saying, "Look I don't care how well the team did in January and March.  What matters is how they sucked in the playoffs.  And we don't care that they defeated Toronto.  They didn't defeat Miami.  And that's the only thing that matters."  He'll give him this kind of talk-down-to lecture before pulling a Donald Trump.

Turns out the Heir was right to be concerned about Odessa, with that tragedy with the fire that occurred a few days ago.  The Heir plans to take on Putin's online trolls, though that won't go on audio until after a couple of months or so, by which time a counter-troll trend is sure to result anyway.  But suffice it to say that if also by that time Odessa and the rest of the Ukrainian coast on the Black Sea falls to the Kremlin, the Heir will swear off all things Russian, and regret the fact that he has to then engage in discrimination.  Of course that's what Putin wants, so that he can make the case as to how fickle and two-faced and immoral and stupid Americans are.  But what choice does the Heir have since just about everyone of Russian heritage seems to have circled the wagons around Putin, and repeated his talking point memos about American hypocrisy overseas?  The Heir will have been cornered.  It's a shame, people.

The Way In Which Lubescocity Brain Teasers Lean Toward The Vanilla Cultural Belief System. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

We haven't done a whole lot of announcements here, because we seem to be putting episodes out faster, so the announcements tend to come out there.  That is, with the exception of announcements about new episodes of course.

After what amounted to a Brooklyn rout tonight, the Heir doesn't believe the Nets can win the next two games, and that elimination is a foregone conclusion.  The Heir believes the Nets were in a position to win, and he was looking for that fourth quarter run in the last 2-3 minutes, and that never happened.  The Nets wasted a rally call from Michael Kay Johnson, and he isn't going to be there in Toronto this coming Wednesday to give the Nets the arrogant sense of confidence they failed to make use of tonight.

The Sex Is Causing The Tide To Turn Against Unquestioned Adoration Of Tech In This Year Of Nominality. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

Heir's happy that this morning that Foot In Mouth From Delaware had responded to Putin's accusations of Western hypocrisy.  However, Foot In Mouth stopped short of a detailed line-by-line debunking of what Putin said, and Heir's disappointed by that.  All the more reason that the Bachelor plans to do that detailed response accordingly.  That won't be in the next episode, but the next one after that.  Though it's possible by then Putin will have kissed and made up, and everyone's one big happy family like before the crisis.  It's the Short News Cycles Blues.

The Bachelor will weigh in on Crimea on audio at some point (though not the next episode, maybe the one after).  But seeing how that referendum is scheduled for tomorrow, and that Crimea will almost certainly vote to leave the Ukraine, the Ukraine needs to make it easier for those leaving Crimea in response, to continue to recognize their Ukrainian citizenship should they retreat towards the surrounding oblasts.  The Heir is not confident that the present government in Kiev is smart enough to come up with that idea, let alone make that announcement today ahead of the vote.  They're taking the approach of, everything depends on this vote going our way, even though we know it won't.  It's like that kind of passive aggressive rival-agreed symbiosis that the Heir continues not to understand in vanilla politics, whether in the U.S. or the Black Sea rim.

Heir found a lot of muscular imagery on the beach bulletin board.  It reminded him of a radio spot for a survivor type show that rhetorically asks what is more important: brawn, brains or beauty?  His response was, how about principle?  Because principle matters more than all three combined, times 50.  Humility helps too!

The Unfinished Business Resolution Act. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

We're shooting for tomorrow for getting a new episode up.  We'll keep you posted if anything changes in our plans.

We're not going to have a new episode in time for tomorrow, Valentine's, so when that episode makes a reference to the pro-sex holiday, it's also because the Bachelor considers the pro-sex holiday as extending through the beginning of daylight savings time in March, and maybe even after if necessary.

The Heir's pretty sure Ed Snowden's going to be at the Sochi Olympics in the audience stands, in the club chair premium seats no less, and as Vladimir Putin's personal guest even no less less. Heir doesn't want anything bad to happen to the guy. But if a terror incident were to happen, Ed Snowden will witness it, and maybe get injured. It's ironic. Being a victim of a terror incident enabled by information the terrorists gained through his own dilvulgences as a side effect for pursuing his ideals rather than common sense. It's ironic.

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There's nobody in the human race now who's getting anywhere near enough sex.

Heir says he thinks that this Superbowl was probably the most unremarkable Superbowl ever.  Hindsight being 20/20, there was no doubt Seattle was going to win, no matter how much of a game Denver was going to put up.  Sure, Seattle earned this win, but the Heir cautions the Bachelor listeners to pretty much disregard what spin Sports Illustrated, or the Daily News, or the talk shows tonight and in the early morning on The Fan immediately after the ceremony have to make about how superior Seattle is as a city for the next seven months.  Because, let's face it: Superbowl 48 will hardly be remembered once 50 and 100 come around, because it wasn't a game that mattered that much.  They didn't even have a Nipplegate moment, so what was that all about!?  So Superbowl 48 goes down as a mere footnote in the Heir's football diary.  By contrast, look at 44.  Not only did that game see a come from behind win, but it was also New Orleans, a city recovering from Katrina, and desperate for something to feel good about.  That victory made New Orleans the Heir's alt team, with the Giants as the primary.  Heir believes it will take years or even decades, before there's another Superbowl that ordinary people, not the dweebs in the sports rags, will talk about the entire year, even well into the next season of that year, and for years to come.

We finally got Naomi's pic ready for the next time we update the Bachelor site, when we update with a new episode on audio.  Also we got it now so that the ladies' pics change in the navbars on a daily basis.  And thirdly, a sketch of the Heir's audio player will be present in the music section.  At some point he wants to get a list of his one hit wonder tracks from the Seventies on the music section as well.

Okay, people, we usually don't pull a Flaileef getting you to do stuff with the activist lifestyle, but when the Heir and I along with Naomi and Yumeka went to Bland Barns tonight as well as Comida Del Sol, the Heir was thinking about all our fellow Americans most affected by the double whammy of being terminated from unemployment and cut back on food stamps, and he took a $5 slip for the food bank at both shops.  He wants to also make a mail in donation as well, but he wants everyone else reading this to do the same.  Google the name of your state and the words "food bank," to find the web site or equivalent of your state's food bank, and either make an online donation or send in by mail, anything you can do to help your fellow Americans this cold winter.

The Heir's shortwave phase has been put on hold.  Now that he has established being able to get his information on AM/FM and the weather bands first thing in the morning, shortwave is comparatively a redundancy.  He wants the medium to survive, because he believes it still has vitality and relevance for international broadcasting, like for less obscure albeit emerging broadcasters to North America who don't have the luxury of syndicating themselves on public radio like the CIS.  Also, the Heir has been enjoying listening to basketball during the winter, so it's that along with general Third Pillar and the vhf bands that fills up his evenings Monday through Thursday, dance and house music Friday and Saturday, and various classic soul and acoustic stuff Sunday.  We need to update the Third Pillar section on our site to reflect how we've expanded that pillar.  James Brown is still second to none, but there's more where that came from.  So the Heir will keep a shortwave radio on hand in case the entire internet goes down, and shortwave is the only emergency medium to get the information.  Also what if he goes abroad and WiFi support isn't reliable?

Hey there people.  We wish you all a happy new year and a good start to your pro-sex holiday.  The Heir had just switched from the vanilla holiday lights multicolored, to the red pro-sex lights.  We got a trains' reminiscent set of panels for our radio dock.  At some point we ought to show what we got in the way of dock panel sets, as well as incense holder- lounge sceptres, on our site.  So all the best for a good pro-sex holiday, in this Year Of Nominality.