I was listening to a podcast a couple of weeks ago, and they were talking about the phenomenon of social structure that a hundred years ago, most of the self-help books of the day were about building character, while today, many of them are about being an influencer. They said this is evidence of a shift in our culture from agricultural (where ( Read more... )

How would you describe me to someone you wanted to introduce to me (particularly for romantic purposes)?
Maybe that's too broad, but if not, go ahead and comment. If it's too broad a question, maybe start with this:
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I thought it might be time to set up a Web site for myself. I recently had someone ask for a sample of my Web design work, and I had to tell him that I no longer had a Web site, because my ISP stopped offering hosting. I think it would be good to be able to tell people, "Just type in myname.com", so I went looking around and picked out a couple of ( Read more... )

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So, the last week or two, I've been around a lot of people who've touted the benefits of FB for keeping in touch with people ( Read more... )

So, I've "discovered" Redbox (I already knew about it, but have only recently rented any movies through them), and saw a couple of movies tonight ( Read more... )

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So, the free dating site OKCupid has started an experiment called MyBestFace to help singles figure out which photo to make the primary on their profile and which ones to leave off ( Read more... )

Yeah, if you're easily offended, you should skip this entry.
( Rant in progress. Proceed at own risk )

So, yeah, I'm thinking about leaving tBoF. It seems like a waste of time. I spend half the little time I spend there clicking "Ignore Application" when people send me a request to take part in yet another time sink. And I don't see any real benefit to being on there. There's so much garbage in the posts that I can't stand to be on there long enough ( Read more... )