(e:metalpeters) comment on (e:jenks,39076) reminded me of something I had thought up a few years back.
Pop psychologist Dr. John Gray wrote a book called "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus". I've found a more fitting analogy.
Women all tell you they want to date Luke Skywalker, when in fact the person they really want to hook up with Han Solo, though they usually end up dating Darth Vader.
And there you have it, 99% of all modern romance explained by Star Wars.
In other words, there's what women say and there's what women do/mean, and what women and what they do/mean are actually two very different kinds of beasts. I think that my life would have been so much easier if at the beginning of high school someone had told me that despite what all the girls were saying, being Luke Skywalker was an absolutely terrible idea.
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04/28/2007 22:08 #39081
Mars, Venus, and TatooineCategory: love
04/27/2007 13:38 #39062
RandomCategory: haiku
My first date site flirt.
Though it goes unrequited,
I'm proud I sent it.
Though it goes unrequited,
I'm proud I sent it.
carolinian - 04/28/07 00:37
But nothing says stalker like Nostradamus prophecy
The skull placed on a table with eyes hollow and black
regretting the king's unrequited love.
Zeus has risen from the eastern sky to slay Leta his untold lover
The India Gate at noon Saturday beckons those who reply flirtatious
And it would be just my luck if there was some really weird chick who'd actually find that kinda hot.
(And no, I didn't flirt with a Haiku. I just hit a random generic flirt button which sent out a random, generic flirt icon).
But nothing says stalker like Nostradamus prophecy
The skull placed on a table with eyes hollow and black
regretting the king's unrequited love.
Zeus has risen from the eastern sky to slay Leta his untold lover
The India Gate at noon Saturday beckons those who reply flirtatious
And it would be just my luck if there was some really weird chick who'd actually find that kinda hot.
(And no, I didn't flirt with a Haiku. I just hit a random generic flirt button which sent out a random, generic flirt icon).
zobar - 04/28/07 00:07
Trust me: nothing says
"I'm not a crazy stalker"
like a villanelle. :::link:::
- Z
Trust me: nothing says
"I'm not a crazy stalker"
like a villanelle. :::link:::
- Z
james - 04/27/07 15:05
try flirting with a pantoum. Now that takes a certain, otherwise useless skill
try flirting with a pantoum. Now that takes a certain, otherwise useless skill
jason - 04/27/07 14:55
No Sonnets! They backfire, and you look way too dorky, trust me on that one!
No Sonnets! They backfire, and you look way too dorky, trust me on that one!
chico - 04/27/07 14:47
Was your online flirtation in haiku as well?
Sonnets, I believe, are more traditional.
In any case, good for you, man. Keep working and I'm sure things will start panning out.
Was your online flirtation in haiku as well?
Sonnets, I believe, are more traditional.
In any case, good for you, man. Keep working and I'm sure things will start panning out.
04/21/2007 05:48 #38986
Goals unmet and metCategory: goals
Weekly goals unmet:
Getting to sleep earlier during weeknights. I paid for it yesterday, as I had wanted to go to Diablo for 80's night but had to pass as I was on the verge of coming down with something and needed to opt for sleep instead, passing out on my couch ~ 9:45PM. Last weekend when I had attend to lots of non-fun chores, I told myself that I'd make it up to myself this weekend. Well, I blew it during this week and as most fun things in Buffalo seem to happen on fridays, I've shot myself in the foot. I'll try to turn this negative into a positive, and take it as an example of why I need to save up my good health on the weekdays to spend on the weekends.
So next week, when it's 11:30 at night and I'm currently in the process of teaching myself Ruby on Rails while simulataneously using wikipedia to figure out the correlation between the ages of major impact craters and mass extinctions while simultaneously seeing if I have any new Myspace messages while simultaneously trying to figure out whether the cute girl from Colden on the internet dating site would really be interested in me, I will be able to use what I learned this weekend to put everything down and turn in early.
Weekly goals met:
I managed to go a whole week eating a healthy lunch at work instead of going for fast food on my break. For five consecutive days, I ate a peanut butter sandwich with natural (i.e. less sugar) peanut butter on whole wheat bread and had a crisp braeburn apple for dessert. This whole thing started both as me trying to get better about regularizing my life as well as my doctor's insistance that triglycerides (aka "The Family Curse" aka "Cholesterol Death by Jolly Rancher" ) needed to go way down. I actually followed this same basic lunch pattern in high school and reaped all of the health benefits from it then, but I fell out of the habit in college via freshman 15. My haiku yesterday was about my biggest challenge yet: having to sit in my cubicle and stay good while I had to smell my coworkers indulging in their take-out. I prevailed, so yay me!
Getting to sleep earlier during weeknights. I paid for it yesterday, as I had wanted to go to Diablo for 80's night but had to pass as I was on the verge of coming down with something and needed to opt for sleep instead, passing out on my couch ~ 9:45PM. Last weekend when I had attend to lots of non-fun chores, I told myself that I'd make it up to myself this weekend. Well, I blew it during this week and as most fun things in Buffalo seem to happen on fridays, I've shot myself in the foot. I'll try to turn this negative into a positive, and take it as an example of why I need to save up my good health on the weekdays to spend on the weekends.
So next week, when it's 11:30 at night and I'm currently in the process of teaching myself Ruby on Rails while simulataneously using wikipedia to figure out the correlation between the ages of major impact craters and mass extinctions while simultaneously seeing if I have any new Myspace messages while simultaneously trying to figure out whether the cute girl from Colden on the internet dating site would really be interested in me, I will be able to use what I learned this weekend to put everything down and turn in early.
Weekly goals met:
I managed to go a whole week eating a healthy lunch at work instead of going for fast food on my break. For five consecutive days, I ate a peanut butter sandwich with natural (i.e. less sugar) peanut butter on whole wheat bread and had a crisp braeburn apple for dessert. This whole thing started both as me trying to get better about regularizing my life as well as my doctor's insistance that triglycerides (aka "The Family Curse" aka "Cholesterol Death by Jolly Rancher" ) needed to go way down. I actually followed this same basic lunch pattern in high school and reaped all of the health benefits from it then, but I fell out of the habit in college via freshman 15. My haiku yesterday was about my biggest challenge yet: having to sit in my cubicle and stay good while I had to smell my coworkers indulging in their take-out. I prevailed, so yay me!
lizabeth - 04/24/07 22:50
Hahah... I love seeing you say "yay me!" :) Yay, you!
I totally hear you on the natural pb. I've started eating that here, since Publix has a natural one on their house brand. The label says:
Ingredients: peanuts and salt
Contains Peanut Ingredients
I think it wins the title of Most Redundantly Labeled Product in Our Pantry.
Hahah... I love seeing you say "yay me!" :) Yay, you!
I totally hear you on the natural pb. I've started eating that here, since Publix has a natural one on their house brand. The label says:
Ingredients: peanuts and salt
Contains Peanut Ingredients
I think it wins the title of Most Redundantly Labeled Product in Our Pantry.
vincent - 04/21/07 13:15
I hear you on the diet thing. For this month I've given up on my traditional breakfast: bacon, eggs, homefries, sausage ect. I've went back to the basics when I was in school and started my day with 2 scoops of Raisin Bran.
The only downside is that where I work, breakfasat is the best meal that they serve. The garbage they they serve for lunch and dinner is just scary. That is why I never tell anyone to eat at the buffet @ the Casino, since the food comes from the same kitchen.
I hear you on the diet thing. For this month I've given up on my traditional breakfast: bacon, eggs, homefries, sausage ect. I've went back to the basics when I was in school and started my day with 2 scoops of Raisin Bran.
The only downside is that where I work, breakfasat is the best meal that they serve. The garbage they they serve for lunch and dinner is just scary. That is why I never tell anyone to eat at the buffet @ the Casino, since the food comes from the same kitchen.
mk - 04/21/07 10:52
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
04/20/2007 10:42 #38970
Standing my groundCategory: random
They order chinese.
Though Moo goo gai pan's tasty
I'll hold like a wall.
Though Moo goo gai pan's tasty
I'll hold like a wall.
museumchick - 04/21/07 15:38
It would be tough to avoid that- it sounds really good. That's really awesome that you stuck to your diet.
It would be tough to avoid that- it sounds really good. That's really awesome that you stuck to your diet.
museumchick - 04/20/07 16:03
hmm...what's in moo goo gai pan?
hmm...what's in moo goo gai pan?
04/14/2007 18:43 #38887
Debugging updateCategory: programming
When I finish my long "stop estrip from crashing on Safari" journey, I'll probably write a long post about it with all the stupid details. But for the time being, I'll probably use this journal to keep track of how far long I am.
Step 1 Summary
Yesterday, I fired up my powerbook in a fresh reboot and ran only Safari with e-strip loaded on it without having visited any prior sites. I left the machine to sit there idly the entire day I was at work. When I came home and turned on the monitor, I see a crash dialog.
From this experiment, I can most likely conclude that there's nothing special I have to do, such as being in the middle of a post or writing a comment, for Safari to crash on (e:strip). And this is great, which means that there's a lot less slightly different iterations of things I'm going to have to test to get the crashes to happen.
Step 2 will being fashioning a simple, estrip only web browser with webkit, the underpinnings of Safari, and that browser to estrip and leaving it and seeing if it crashes. If it doesn't crash, then that likely means there's some problem with the Safari executable itself and the webkit libraries it uses are okay, although I think that is pretty unlikely.
Step 1 Summary
Yesterday, I fired up my powerbook in a fresh reboot and ran only Safari with e-strip loaded on it without having visited any prior sites. I left the machine to sit there idly the entire day I was at work. When I came home and turned on the monitor, I see a crash dialog.
From this experiment, I can most likely conclude that there's nothing special I have to do, such as being in the middle of a post or writing a comment, for Safari to crash on (e:strip). And this is great, which means that there's a lot less slightly different iterations of things I'm going to have to test to get the crashes to happen.
Step 2 will being fashioning a simple, estrip only web browser with webkit, the underpinnings of Safari, and that browser to estrip and leaving it and seeing if it crashes. If it doesn't crash, then that likely means there's some problem with the Safari executable itself and the webkit libraries it uses are okay, although I think that is pretty unlikely.
carolinian - 04/14/07 21:31
I believe I've narrowed it down to the area of code responsible for deleting user pics from the "peeps online" selection. I suspect that if you have a crash and then you immediately go back to estrip, you will see fewer userpics (or different ones) than you would have seen right before the crash.
But I'll need to do more testing before I can say for sure that this is it.
I believe I've narrowed it down to the area of code responsible for deleting user pics from the "peeps online" selection. I suspect that if you have a crash and then you immediately go back to estrip, you will see fewer userpics (or different ones) than you would have seen right before the crash.
But I'll need to do more testing before I can say for sure that this is it.
james - 04/14/07 21:16
I have had safari crash on this site twice. Both times while I was writing something.
But this is weird.
I have had safari crash on this site twice. Both times while I was writing something.
But this is weird.
Which one of those was Harrison Ford? Yeah, shows how much I know about StarWars, but I definately see what you mean. It wouldn't have made your life any easier growing up- i dont think because the sweetheart always wins in the end. DragonLady is right Girl AND Guys need to really know what they need instead of wanting what looks pretty.
You're so right, but don't forget that it turns both ways.
Guys say they want a fun girl, but they always pursue a hot flashy girl, when really, what they need is a nice girl with a decent sense of humor.
It's not that anyone's lying, but that they just really don't understand themselves, or see others clearly.
All that aside, your analogy is hilarious.
Vader is so much cooler then luke. But in the end he finaly becomes nice as he choses to die and gets rid of the emporer. Of course up to that point is so powefull and evil. But I do think that You make a good point that what someone says they want and what they really want are often are two differant things. Or maybe you are saying that what they go after isn't the same thing that they want. I'm not just attacking the girls here some of us guys goes after the wrong thing to. Not that I go clubing but the Thonged out Laguna Beach kinda girls on Chip. Strip are a great example of that. I'm not saying that they don't have substance but when going to the meat market that has no barring. Or maybe I just don't know what the fuck I'm talking about also.
it is never too late to turn to the darkside.