A standard night at Karaoke

Going strictly by percentages, this is disturbing news...

In a Yale University and Indiana University study of 280 heterosexual, university-aged men and women, subjects were asked to arrange 280 photos of fully clothed women into four categories: friendly, sexually interested, sad or rejecting.

Men who viewed images of friendly women mistakenly labelled 12 per cent of those images as sexually interested. Women got it wrong 8.7 per cent of the time.

But both men and women fared even worse at realizing when women were sexually interested. Men mistakenly interpreted 37.8 per cent of the "sexually interested" images as "friendly," while women mislabeled about 32 per cent of those images.

It has already been proven (Don will confirm) that if I talk to 10 women in an evening, 1 will be married and 2 will be too old (their words). Now, subtract the 4-5 female friends that are dating someone or have said they have no interest in dating friends. That leaves 1/3 of the women that I talk to that may be potentially available. Yet 1/3 of the "friendly" conversations that I have are actually from "sexually interested" women.

Thus, anyone I talk to that is not already a friend is sexually interested. Hmmmm...this changes my entire life outlook...

See the article here

If anyone has access to the actual journal article, please send it my way.

In other news, I have a tax refund coming my way...Hello new Bike!!!

Best reason to ride for 24 hours.

I'm surprised this wasn't designed by Spikey Hair Will, but the 24 hours of Great Glen is LOLCATZed out. Plus it's on my birthday...Will Charlie kill me if I do this 2 weeks before Allamuchy?

Jesus walks into an inn...

he gives the innkeeper 3 dollars and 3 nails and says, "Can you put me up for the night?" The best crucifixion joke until now...though nontechnically not a joke, Filipino's love being crucified.

Awesome video games

After trying my hand at Not Pron a few years ago, I thought I had discovered a great (though impossible) game. However, my mind has been blown away by Crayon Physics Deluxe. Now all I need to do is find where it's available.



Read the article at Slate.

It's been a month...better write a post.

Too sleepy for an actual post, so this will suffice...

Insurance

Well, after 15 days of playing with power tools without insurance, I can now cut my fingers off and get them reattached (for the mere price of 1500 (my deductible). I don't want to get into a huge mess about healthcare at the moment; Suffice to say that I am happy to have it. Also, I have huge plans in the works to change the system. More on that later.

Why it should (almost) snow every day.

Everyday, we hear about the world and the US economy. Recently, the news has been rather grim. Murder in Pakistan, Riots in Kenya, US Headed for Recession; not a good time to be alive. But, as Bart Simpson told us, "Snow covers all". He was wrong (remember the melted Christmas tree under the snow), but he was close. It's not the actual snow that covers all, it's the thought of snow. I watched the news last night and two important things happened. First, the Giants beat the Cowboys. Second, the tri-state area was bracing for the Storm of the Century. From watching the news I learned that state employees were called back from vacation and not permitted to take sick days so that the snow (read: rain) could be cleared away. However, no one was shot, no one was raped, nothing happened in Iraq, and nothing happened anywhere else in the world. That's right snow covered all.

A few days ago, Hillary Clinton started shouting about an economic stimulus package (strangely similar to the exact same thing that John Edwards proposed over a month ago without waiting to hear the Fed Chairman speak about threats of a recession. Hmmmm). What Hillary should have shouted was "Oh my God. It's gonna snow!!" Why? Because that is how you stimulate the economy. Have you ever been to the food store on a day when snow is predicted? It's as if people are planning to be locked inside for a month. The other shoppers remind me of the Y2K freaks stocking up their bunkers. It's gonna snow 6 inches, you don't need to buy 10 gallons of water. You also don't need 8 loaves of bread. People buy in quantities that you don't even see at Costco. One person on the news was buying a 30 pack of popcorn "just in case they needed a snack". I can understand hitting up the liquor store like there's no tomorrow because, hey, snow days are like Homecoming...You can start drinking at breakfast.

On choosing a candidate.

While I have often scoffed at the prospect of choosing a candidate based merely on electability and not issues, I do see a bit of reason. In the Republican primaries, we are seeing lots of voting based on electability. This makes sense, since the candidates are pretty crappy. Huckabee is horrible for America and is only doing well because of the "I'd like to have a beer with that fella" crowd that also loved George Bush. His "Fair tax" consumption tax plan doesn't consider the huge growth of a black market if his consumption tax takes effect. McCain, if elected, will die in office. Romney can't get enough evangelical voters to the polls to win a national election. Giuliani won't make it to a national election because the moral, values voters don't want a pro-choice married 3 times president.

On the Democrat side of the fence, the top 3 are all electable. All of them stand the same on most issues with slight deviation. This deviation is meaningless, however, since any plan will still have to go through congress to be approved. So if Clinton wants to spend 1 billion more than Edwards or Obama to combat global warming, it doesn't matter. They are all willing to throw money at the right issues, but the final amount of money and the minute details of the law would be decided in Congress anyway. So. if you are voting for a democrat, vote for who will get other countries to like us most. I am now officially apathetic about the democratic primary.