Bona Fide Creep

Min Jung: “I can barely contain the explosion of epithets and scars, apologies and sorrow in my head and heart. We first met in Sept/October of last year. We started dating in October. In November or so I learned that he was still dating someone. By February, as learned today, he still hadn't officially broken things off with her. It came around then, the official breakup with the other girl. She had been lied to about me. I had been lied to about her.”

Equality In the Domain of Boys

danah: “For years, i wanted to prove my equality in the domain of boys. I shaved my head. I wore baggy masculine clothes, no makeup. I wanted to prove that i was valuable, not as a girl, but as a researcher. At some point, i realized that dressing like a boy didn't make me a boy and i was going to always be seen as a girl in a male-dominated space.

Not Statistically Significant

Daniel Drezner on whether Bush's cronies were getting contracts to help build Iraq as a result of campaign contributions: “Running the numbers, the good news for the Center for Public Integrity is that there is indeed a positive correlation between contributions and contracts. The bad news is, the correlation coefficient turns out to be 0.192 and not statistically significant.”

God?

idlyadam: [page-slap]
sillygwailo: thank god, something to blog about.
idlyadam: you're welcome. :)
sillygwailo: God?
idlyadam: Yes my son?
sillygwailo: oh good, FINALLY. I've been on hold forever.

Gore Lost. Period.

Among other great quotes in this essay by Photodude is this one:

It’s the first thought I have when I hear someone who is still decrying how Bush “stole” Florida to win the election, as the Democrats had the power to make Florida totally irrelevant. Gore lost his home state. Gore lost his boss’ home state. Gore lost every state in the South, when winning just one would have made him the undisputed President.

Gore lost. Period.

Hopelessly Burdened With Issues

In a rambling explanation of why he's giving up the NotDating™ lifestyle, TheYetitalks about risk and commitment. He said that it still applies well to the following groups: those who have “just recently broken up, young and not looking for commitment, looking to learn more about yourself or the other gender, or hopelessly burdened with issues.” It should be perfectly obvious to anybody reading this weblog which group best applies to me.

Online Dating as Bar Scene

Most of this advice to men who enter online dating is of the "well duh" variety. (Most of it is also of the "do as I say" variety.) There's this though, which reminds me of why online dating still sucks: “you have competition (ratio is definitely still in the ladies' favour, at least for now)”. That means that there are more men than women participating, or at least participating actively.

...Since the Music I Listen To Is Awesome

Adam and I nerd out on #joiito, while I get quasi-props from the chatroom's namesake. It's important to note that I don't actually have an iPod nor do I plan on ever having one. (They sure do look pretty though...) And if you take my idea (you vultures), I ask, nay, demand a 10% cut.

P.S. the non-germane conversation, at least in the /privatemsg window, was about girls. Duh.

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