Is it just me or are there a perponderance of "scientific" studies about mating and physical symmetry?  NPR has been churning out interviews like fanatics these past few years.  Now Wikipedia has an article dedicated to it.

Physical attraction isn't everything, obviously, but it usually matters ... for initial attraction -- and hookups.  S fell ( Read more... )

The thing I find most fascinating about people is that they come in waves, and one either rides the wave or flounders in the trough.  People call around the same time, people message all around the same time, people [fill_in_the_blank] around the same time; and if one isn't "in sync" with this kind of societal clock, you simply miss out.  I tend to ( Read more... )

so evidently i work with one of Mick Rooney's 7 ex-wives. now too many people say they know someone who knows someone but, being a good skeptic, i've never believed these anecdotal acquaintances -- until today. another coworker told me about it, then i was shown Rooney's autobiography where he talks about her as his wife, ... and then the photo of ( Read more... )

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so i'm going to try my hands at a "real" diary by spewing out gobs of emotions and streams of consciousness -- even all lowercase words ( Read more... )

"The point of all this data is not merely its immediate value to us -- because we do not have enough time (or space) to evaluate everything at anytime --; no, the purpose of today's apparent flood of information is our analysis of its changes, in a general way, during our time." ~me  (See the Next Great Work for clarification).

First edition.


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Things seem to be moving faster ... but not fast enough.  I'm averaging ~7hrs of sleep ever since being rejected by App and switching to job hunting yet I still run out of time.  There's a mighty long ToDo list on my laptop and things are backlogging, so its time to reflect.

• BuyMyLibrary: upload spreadsheet to Amazon
• buy, Buy! BUY!!
• JobHunt
• submitted ( Read more... )

Facebook?  Last.fm?  I bumped into a candid and brief view of online social norms from the perspective of a gay geek.  Absolutely fabulous Da'hling.  I 'luv people who describe what others are doing because the former won't tell us -- the geeks and such -- what is normal.  This is where psychology and sociology rock: slice and dice 'em.  (... ( Read more... )

We know they’re wrong. Yet how do we avoid that cliche idiom, “I respectfully disagree.” The quotes speak for themselves.

1. ... we need a meta-decision system for resolution of disagreement. ( Read more... )

Introversion - n.  A state of being where a person avoids or preempts normal or expected socialization; the avoidance or preemption of socializing that is related to i) exhausted social revenue, ii) indifference towards others (see Narcissism and Solipsism), iii) or an inability to understand or react to social norms (see Social Development).

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