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Yes, I know. It is quite taboo to talk about conception on a sex blog. Most people see childbirth as a dire consequence of something awesome. Maybe I should be writing for a maternity magazine? No, I shouldn’t, this is all things sex. I write what I want! And with that being said, after a bizarre hook-up on a beautiful island, I do think I’ve found the manor in which I would like to conceive my children.

Picture this: You are on a secluded beach in a developing country. Night falls. You had a wonderful dinner, drank your favorite cocktail, which coincidentally is an aphrodisiac, and the generator is about to go off.  No power means pitch black, and there isn’t another soul on the beach. You and your love walk back in the water, and as you kick the rolling tide, you realize the ocean is filled with bioluminescence. You instantly strip off  your clothes and start swimming in the buff.

With so much plankton, it looks as if you and your love are swimming in the night sky. Each individual light looks like a star, and although you swim individually at first, taking in the scene, you see one another’s starlight swim in the same direction. Before you know it, the two opposing light sources become one, and as your lips lock, the baby-making has begun. There is nobody within 10K of you, so the beach, the bioluminescence, the night sky (which seems mundane toward the magic in the sea) is yours.

Though your child will hopefully never know the story, the fertility gods must give some sort of prize, in the form of an amazing child, for that type of baby-making. Now the hard part of finding a spouse and the answer to the question of whether or not I want children, though, is still at hand. 

Let’s face it. Sometimes the greatest mountain sports of all time can get a bit pricey. Though most locals in Colorado plan their yearly budget around buying a season pass, not everyone is lucky enough to live in the mountains. For those visiting Colorado this winter, there are some ways to make sure your ski vacation is affordable.

Though the most reliable tip is to buy your lift ticket at grocery stores that sells budget lift tickets (most do), one great website to visit before coming to Colorado is Liftopia. Liftopia is a website that offers all things mountains, and in Colorado’s place, offers some of the best deals on budget lift tickets.

You can search for lift tickets in bulk or single, and each day the website shows the best deals of the day. Discounts are shown in both percentage off and dollars saved, and lift tickets for all mountains in Colorado can be searched. The front page also offers links, which are updated daily, to different ski resort websites offering deals.

Along with looking for lift tickets, Liftopia also offers discounts on all things mountain sports. This can range from skimobiles to post snow dining and lodging. The search engine to the right will allow you to cater your search for date, area, and activity, and with a click of a button, you’ve found yourself the best deal on whatever activity you heart desires.

This winter, don’t let that mountain getaway turn into a daydream while sitting in your office. Head to Liftopia, and enjoy the fresh pow while shredding in your favorite Colorado mountain destination. 

While I've taken the time to rant about several gamer traits that go a long way to kill the spirit of gaming, such as the munchkin, or taught about the up side of the life breather, there is one form that stands out heavily right now and that is the technical-obsessed.

There is no faster way to grind a role-playing experience to a halt and create animosity and bickering than the need to constantly have to over-analyze and be hyper critical of every tiny detail. I get it. There are times when you have to be mindful not to cross into utterly retarded levels of insanity. I can understand that.

However when every single facet needs to be sourced, counter-sourced, math done (some of it insanely complicated levels calculating astronomical distances speeds that are purely theoretical and such), it seriously progresses nowhere and can suck any and all urges to get involved away. Fun means sometimes crossing into grey areas, letting go and honestly aiming to have fun and tell a story.

Who cares if a class three hyper-drive is only capable of x light years a second so? Making it from Coruscant to Tython in anything under six hours is absurd; really? Just enjoy the bloody story. Yet don't go the other way and come up with asinine schemes (munchkin) to be untouchable! I understand that people are more analytical than they are imaginative and rely on facts rather than reaching out and problem solving. Just give it a try for once: let a detail go and just enjoy the moment.

By now anyone paying attention to Mars-related news has heard that Curiosity has discovered “something interesting” while taking samples of the Martian dirt. It has said to be such things as “one for the record books” and “earth shattering.”

Sure the “earth shattering” thing was downplayed slightly later by sighting what a scientist sees as earth shattering is something that may differ from what most would consider as such. It was later added that we would have to wait for confirmation on their results before they would publicly share their findings. The interesting thing comes from the fact they felt it was something that warranted more testing and analyzing. This would suggest, at the very least, that it's something notable.

I also noticed in another interview that a researcher said “Martian sand.” Granted, sand comes in two forms, one being comprised of minerals and quarts fragments, yet this is not really often referred to as sand. Sand is typically reserved for “beach sand.” That however, is largely comprised of remains of life such as shell fragments or bits of coral. Your average extremophile would not be able to leave AS much around to create a beach.

It's only one of hundreds of possibilities, but one I'm still eagerly looking forward to it, big or small. I actually appreciate constant knowledge, no matter where it comes from. I will laugh so much if they ended up actually scooping up some sort of dune beetle and cooked it by accident.

Then I would feel horrible that we cooked a Mars beetle. I can't even say “nature is cruel and teaches us nothing” because in reality, that would teach us a great deal. Or not so much teach as confirm what people with common sense would already suspect about the multi-universe.