How to be adorable, according to mangas/animes: Maintain a bright and clever/oblivious demeanour, but when things go wrong, be serious and reliable.

Boom, life lessoned!

Bonus points for:
- having a sad backstory
- being good-looking
- having some skillz

The Definitive Guide to Online Stalking before a First Date:
http://jezebel.com/ding-ding-ding-and-yes-unless-you-want-a-cyber-partne-1597189683
El numero 5-oh: LiveJournal

Pros: If you're lucky enough to happen upon someones old LiveJournal, CONGRATULATIONS: you've found a secret tunnel into their past self. Did they like to listen to Dashboard ( Read more... )

Susan Sontag's 10 Rules on how to raise a child:

1. Be consistent.
2. Don’t speak about him to others (e.g., tell funny things) in his presence. (Don’t make him self-conscious.)
3. Don’t praise him for something I wouldn’t always accept as good.
4. Don’t reprimand him harshly for something he’s been allowed to do.
5. Daily routine: eating, homework, bath, teeth ( Read more... )

Was at a birthday party at Bier Markt last night, for a newly minted ex-coworker (nothing against our company, she just found a better job than doing copy jobs and mail runs!). A bunch of her friends attended who, I assumed, are close to her age (2 years younger than me). While talking to various people, I noticed there seems to be a new taboo ( Read more... )

The Internet: through it, we have all the information of the world at our fingertips. For the first time, the global human population has the potential to be a community.

So why do I feel, more than ever, the exclusivity of cliques?

"Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements." <- YES!! This is exactly why I love symphonic or melodic metal! Pythagoras nails it again! *digs him up and high-fives his dusty bits* :D

"Pacifiic Rim": another on a long list of movies that blames everything on dimensional rifts. Poor dimensional rifts, getting a bad rap for being the universal anus which poops out baddies that terrorize human beings. Why don't they shower us in flowers and chicken nuggets just once? :( Or connect us to Happy Fun Fairy Land, so that humans ( Read more... )

There are certain circumstances in which the more you try, the worse it gets.

For the girls:


For the boys:

- I find delicious sustenance from garbage cans! ( I eat everything in the game, even if I need it or not. If this were Fables, I'd be SO fat ( Read more... )