A reader of the blog recently sent me a link to Artificial Girl 2, a Japanese 3-D erotic simulation game starring a "fully customizable" young Asian girl accompanying the player on a virtual island. The game's goal is to help her finish her math homework before Monday's class.
Just kidding!
Too bad it doesn't come in a multiplayer edition :)
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
A reader discovered the other day that my site, RefinedBeauty.com, is now the third result on Google when you search for "Lara" and Google happens to serve the following ad as a sponsored link on the search page:
Thanks R for sending me this ! :)
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
I finally started recovering from my second Burning Man trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert. I particularly enjoyed the "Barbie Death Camp", a concentration camp for Barbie Dolls, and participated in the Barbie genocide. More pics to come. Enjoy!
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
You start seeing "Aircraft Odor Eliminator" spray bottles in business class lavatories. I recently took this picture on a transatlantic flight using my Treo.
It's a pity the label came out blurry. You would have enjoyed reading the explicit description of the types of odors that can be "eliminated", including urine, vomit and feces in the "cabin, lavatories and cargo".
I wonder what this says about the current quality of business class meals...
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
If you live in the US you've seen their ads. I'm talking about the ones plastered all over the place in a pointless effort to rebrand to a lower case logo for what must be one of the most wasteful marketing campaigns in corporate history. I mean how many times can they change their name (Pacific Bell, SBC, AT&T) before realizing that maybe they should focus on changing their business philosophy instead?
Wiretapping for the NSA? (they deliver that too!) Lobbying against network neutrality? Yes, I think making fun of them is fair game. They earned it.
Want to contribute your own "delivered" parody? Email lara at jetsetblog and maybe I'll post the best ones here :)
Jet Set Lara, delivering the Science of Pleasure ;)
Continuing on the recent theme of funny and odd pictures, I wanted to share a flyer I was given several months ago in Mykonos in front of Space, a South Beach-style, all white night club attracting scantily dressed young women, brown eyed wannabe playboys and drunk Italian tourists.
Maybe I should use the dollar bill at the corner store to see if anyone notices... But then again, that could get me in trouble in this day and age!
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
Jet Set Blog is a member of the travel blog network at Blogads, a group of the best independent travel blogs on the web. Check out some of this week’s headlines from other travel blogs in the network:
The views from Brooklyn's tallest building (NewYorkology)
Giving Alms to the Monks in Luang Prabang, Laos (Travel Blogs)
Travel Tales: Berlin in the 1980s (Shortcut)
Episode 41 - Marrakesh, Morocco (Amateur Traveler Podcast)
The Brazilian girl I met in São Paulo (and almost fell in love with, but that's another story!) was a light smoker. Brazilian cigarettes come with colourful warnings like the one below:
"Smoking causes sexual impotence"
I can only imagine what the reaction of Thank You for Smoking character Nick Naylor would be...
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
Attached is a short video clip from one of my favourite movies of '05, The Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan as an aging, burned out hitman.
Click once on the above picture and patiently wait for the video to download...
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
Enjoy! I'll be back with a long overdue picture update tomorrow.
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
It's that time of year again. Christmas. The holidays lead people closer together, sometimes in unexpected ways :)
"Luke, I am your girlfriend."
"No! No! It's not true! That's impossible!"
"Search your presents. You know it to be true."
(unknown source)
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
What's the Christmas effect on your relationships? :)
A reader of the blog forwarded me an interesting -- to say the least :) picture of a New Zealand hotel bathroom from Queenstown Sofitel.
It looks like the décor made the news last month but I somehow missed it (the link will launch a video from a local news channel) Hmmm, maybe I've watched a bit too much Lord of the Rings, but it sounds like something I would have expected to see in a Reykjavik nightclub rather than a New Zealand hotel :)
Jet Set Lara, exploring the Science of Pleasure ;)
This blog is rarely political, but anyone with half a brain would admit the recent US response to the Katrina disaster had a third world quality to it. To say the least.
Was it because Bush was vacationing..?
Once in a while I find myself in unusual or strange situations… Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
I was staying at a (supposedly) trendy NYC hotel the other day, sharing the bed with Emily, a friend from Scandinavia who works as a model in London.
There is a romantic component to our relationship but we only get to see each other about once a month. As you can imagine, our encounters are quite passionate and we tend to stay naked in the room…
The hotel’s CD selection was awful, elevator music meets soft porn soundtrack. I wanted to use my iPod but lacked a base station or appropriate cable to connect to the room’s Bose entertainment system.
My partner suggested I call the front desk. To my surprise, the hotel had Bose iPod stations for use by the hotel’s guests.
Within five minutes someone knocked on our door. I joked I was going to open the door naked. My partner went “Yeah, right!”
Well, I was in a playful mood that evening and much to my own surprise I did exactly what I said I was going to do...
The following is the conversation that ensued between the hotel employee (let’s call him Max), Emily and me, as best as I can recollect it.
A reader of the blog shared a funny story with me the other night after reading the "Playing with roses" post. Turns out he had a female friend in college whose obsessed boyfriend kept on sending her a dozen roses a day... Until she began making rose jam out of them and serving them to his friends :)
You are on business travel. You had a long day full of meetings with angry clients. You have a couple of drinks at the bar and head to relax in the privacy of your hotel room. You turn on the TV and within seconds you gravitate towards the adult entertainment channel. You enjoyed the preview, you've seen that blonde before, and decide to order the movie using the hotel's digital system supplied by a large entertainment conglomerate...
Well, a very reliable source shared something hilarious with me: in today's digital world the length of time you watch porn is measured, anonymized, and becomes part of a statistical distribution. Ever wondered what the average time watching hotel porn is?
You guessed right, it's about 7 minutes :)
I always knew men were easy to please. But I never imagined it was that easy!
Being on the eve of the US elections, I thought I'd share with you a short and to the point flash animation based on the recent quote of George W. about the war in Iraq:
I think you'll appreciate it independently of your political views. In any case, I am really looking forward for this election to be over and done with! I feel we've been bombarded with messages to the point of saturation and I don't even watch TV... My worst fear is there is going to be no winner Wednesday morning and we'll experience the whole 2000 agony once again!
We outsourced manufacturing, engineering, some R&D functions, even sex, can't we just outsource politicians?
Bush wasn't wired. He was wireless :)
By the way, has anyone read the novel "Interface" mentioned by some Wall St Journal folks the other day?
"This delicious story reminds us of "Interface," an entertaining and increasingly prophetic 1994 novel by Stephen Bury (actually Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George) in which a presidential candidate's brain is wired to a computerized polling system that lets him get real-time feedback on how his speeches are being received."
Welcome to the future of politics.
A reader of the blog sent me a humorous email on what could become the next generation speed dating phenomenon... Please be aware that it contains language that some people might find offensive. I am not quite sure where the original post came from, but I made a few edits and I am presenting it here.
Enjoy!
You've heard of Speed Dating many times. Where you meet and greet people of the opposite sex to see if there's a connection. More frequently than not, it's just a one time date.
Well, we're a little different. We got our own innovative idea called Speed Fucking. Yes, that's right! We realized that most people in the Speed Dating scene are really looking for a Speedy Fuck. I mean, why waste your time getting to know a person, take her or him out to dinner and not be able to have sex afterwards?
This is how Speed Fucking works:
1. We have equal amounts of women and men
2. All you have to do is introduce yourself and indicate if you find each other attractive. You two will then head to the back room for a quickie. Yes, that's right! You two go inside the room and do your thing
3. You only get 20 minutes inside the room, others are waiting
4. After the two of you are done, you can then exchange phone numbers if you like
Wow! It gives a whole new meaning to the word "efficiency".
Imported comments from my old livejournal blog:
From: ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
sigmundfuller
Date: October 23rd, 2004 - 09:01 am
Step three
20 minutes isn't enough! If I take too long, can I just go through the line of female partners until I'm done? :)
From: Jet Set Lara;
Date: October 25th, 2004 - 10:49 pm
Re: Step three
I think what you just described is the shareware version:)
Was the mysterious bulge on Bush's back a receiver used to coach him
during the debate? According to the organizers of the debate, the
candidates were not
wired (and no wireless mics were used), hence the bulge remains
unexplained. Furthermore, the Bush camp had made the unusual request
that no cameras be placed behind the candidates (a request the Fox
network obviously ignored)
Internet rumor or ugly secret? We might never find out, but it makes for a great story though!
Of course if it was Clinton, and the moderator was a little sexier and more voluptuous than Jim Lehrer, there might have been a not-so-mysterious bulge inside his pants:)
I rarely go anywhere without it.
It's a small, flip phone able to roam anywhere in the world (except Japan and Korea unfortunately) and it might as well be permanently attached to my purse. I recently jokingly referred to it as the "billion dollar cell phone" since the handful of individuals who have access to it have a high combined net worth.
Obviously, nobody is on speed dial for privacy reasons, but imagine for a second a "Forbes" list for cell phone personal contacts. How much would your cell phone be worth? And no, I do not mean your BlackBerry with the 3,000 corporate contacts:)
I wonder to whom the top ranked cell phones would belong... A private banker? Fortune 100 board member? Trust fund baby with her substantial party circle? Workaholic financial services executive? Corrupt politician? The baby sitter at Woodside or Beverly Hills? Post modern courtesan?
Imagine the possibilities...
I am about to board a plane to NYC after a rather hedonistic weekend
here in Athens. There is a side to the Olympics you won't see on NBC,
and that's the courting and flirting games between athletes,
volunteers, IOC staff, network employees and diplomats/visiting
executives.
Imagine over 10,000 healthy young athletes with great bodies all residing together at the Olympic Village. Most of them are in their early to mid-twenties, and over 55% of them are male with an "Olympic" sex drive.
So I got to experience some of the classic Olympic pick-up lines:
Athletes: "I am on the US/German/etc swimming team and I am exploring Athens nightlife to celebrate my medal, would you like to come dancing with us at XYZ venue tonight?"
Network staff: "I am covering the Olympics for Italian/French/whatever TV, would you like to come to a reception tomorrow honoring our medalists at XYZ hotel?"
IOC staff: "Would you like tickets to the closing ceremony? We'll also have an afterparty on the rooftop of xyz building"
Diplomats: "Would you like an invite to our embassy's reception this Tuesday?"
Visiting Business Executives: "There is a yacht party on the Saronico gulf this weekend, and I have a few invites from Citicorp/Coca Cola/whatever, would you like to join us?"
Now that I know the secret Olympic handshakes maybe I should go solo to the Torino winter games. Or join a couple of girlfriends. What do you think? :)
I was always in love with NYC but it is slowly starting to feel like a second home.
Anyway, I was walking on a beautiful summer day in Central Park and made it near the fountain. I noticed something swimming in there and it didn't look like a toy... I walked closer and realized that somebody brought his 7 foot pet snake for a bath! Naturally, within a few minutes an entire crowd started gathering around the fountain, and the snake seemed to truly enjoy the attention!
Who knows, maybe somebody next week will bring their hippopotamus...
I was in NYC the other day visiting a friend from Europe at the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
The location is exceptional and overlooks Central Park. The staff was
friendly and responsive and Jean-Georges downstairs is excellent. JG
must be doing pretty well since he recently opened yet another
restaurant (in Shanghai). You can even get a chef to prepare a meal in
your suite.
But nothing could beat the Donald Trump branded bottled water... Yes, you heard that right, Trump Water (called Trump Ice to be exact). Naturally, I thought my friend was playing a practical joke on me when he showed me the bottle (he does these kinds of things) until I did a google search on it... It's not a joke! Bottled in exotic Pennsylvania and delivered right to your suite. And I thought I had seen it all!
Imported comments from my old livejournal blog:
From: (Anonymous)
Date: July 27th, 2004 - 12:33 am
Yuck!
Now that makes me sick. No way I'm drinking this stuff. Is there no end to this guys narcissism?
I perfer the bottled water from my favorite toy store: http://www.experiencethefantasy.com
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I recently received an email from Agent Provocateur, the british lingerie company known for its saucy displays (it also happens to be a personal favorite of mine).
The email contained a link to a banned video starring Hollywood's burlesque temptress Dita Von Teese, George Dubya and Tony Blair. It is an adaptation of Joy Division's 'She's lost control'.
Maybe Kerry should use it for his campaign:)
Imported comments from my old livejournal blog:
From: (Anonymous) Date: July 18th, 2004 - 08:04 pm
Wonderful!
Very nice work on their part. I would have enjoyed it more if it were the real "W" and Tony and it were a bit more explicit. It's good that the Internet does not suffer the control that Johnny "Reaction Formation" Ashcroft has slammed on the T.V. networks.
Victoria's Secret announced this week there would be no show this year. Amoung the reasons: CBS did not want to run the show fearing they would run afoul of Johnny "Still In the Closet" Ashcroft and Michael "I only look black" Powell's 'indecency' campaign. So much for free speech, and so much for "swearing to uphold the Constitution" as all government employees must do. Let's impeach them for perjury.
November can't come soon enough!
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