Monthly Archives: May 2005

Gary’s Guide to On-Line Dating

When placing a personal ad on-line be sure to list the following things to get the most responses.

  • Make sure your photos include pictures of all your pets (either alone or with you).
  • Speling and grammer aint very imprtant.
  • If you could “meet anyone / have lunch with” be sure to list Brad Pitt and/or Tom Cruise (because we can all meet those expectations).
  • Be sure to not use any punctuation.
  • Be sure to have at least one picture with your ex cut/photoshopped out of the image.
  • Use ALL CAPS when possible.
  • Be sure to mention your ex at least four or five times.
  • Don’t smile in any of your photos.
  • List as much of your baggage as possible in your profile (oh, wait! That’s what blogs are for!).

The scary thing is, most of the above comments are from the profiles that I liked…

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Enterprise – The Series Final Episode

So I really enjoyed the final hour (it was really two one-hour episodes) and I really wasn’t expecting that after the first hour. I just watched it (I just love TiVo) and I have spoilers so don’t read on if you haven’t watched it yet (I’m assuming real Star Trek geeks already watched it).

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Blah…

I contributed nothing of any value at all to the world (local or global) today. What a waste of 24 hours…

Friday the 13th, 2029

Science at nasaScience@NASA has a great story about two Friday the 13ths (click to listen). There’s also a text version but Tony does a good read of it so you should listen to him (although the web page does have a few diagrams).

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Not yet

1) What haven’t you done yet in your life that you’d really like to do someday? Why? Will you do any of those things in the near future? Are you making progress toward them?
I’d really like to get married and have kids. It’s just something I feel I should do. I’d make a great Dad, everyone says so. I’ll probably adopt if I don’t ever get married.
2) If you could completely start your life over from scratch, what would you do differently the second time around (if anything)? Why?
What would I do differently..? I might have not let a few of the good girlfriends “get away”. I didn’t date much when I was younger so I didn’t really know what I was doing once I met some great women. Also, I’d definitely do a few different things when the Internet came around again; I totally missed the chance to be an Internet millionaire.

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Full disclosure

Just so you know. Some (but not all) of my links that lead to items, products or services give me a (very) tiny commission if you buy/subscribe/etc., that’s if you purchase (or add to your cart) while you are there. If it’s something I’m writing about and give it a thumbs up, it’s really something I’m genuinely recommending (and it doesn’t cost more for you to buy it from Amazon or iTunes or whoever from my link then to go there directly so why not get it this way?!?).

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The biggest problem with incompetent people…

“The biggest problem with incompetent people is that they don’t know that they are incompetent.” I don’t know if Sarah got that from somewhere, made it up or she paraphrased it, but it’s so true. I had to deal with several customer service people today (me being the customer) and I just wasn’t getting anywhere.

I just wanted them to listen. And if you can’t listen, at least wait until I finish the question before you jump in with an answer that clearly indicates that you didn’t listen.

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Existentialism

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Man is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist 
 88%
Romanticist 
 88%
Postmodernist 
 81%
Idealist 
 81%
Modernist 
 81%
Cultural Creative 
 75%
Materialist 
 69%
Fundamentalist 
 63%

What is Your World View? (created with QuizFarm.com)