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Love Is The Only Proof That The Ugly Could Be Beautiful

March 1, 2009 Friends / Games / Internet / Pictures / Romance
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Guys love to rate girls on attractiveness.

We’ve got every­thing from the basic 10-​point scale to some pretty com­plex coör­di­nate sys­tems:
2D Attractiveness Scale

And we’re con­stantly cre­at­ing and dis­sem­i­nat­ing new ones because we’re afraid the “code” has been bro­ken. (If only we had hotty windtalk­ers.) I’m reminded of a quote from a TV show I saw a long time ago when two guys are rat­ing a par­tic­u­larly hot co-​worker. They agreed she was an 11. A third guy comes over and says he would rate her 8.5. The first two turn to him incred­u­lously and he explains, “I use the Richter scale.”

Of course, some scales (like the above graph) were cre­ated because guys felt the need for more infor­ma­tion that just appear­ances. Don’t hold your breath though, ladies, this added infor­ma­tion is usu­ally still pretty shal­low. Con­sider the Hot/​Crazy Scale or the Attractiveness/​Accessibility Scale. A while back, Jeremy J told me about the “Area Code” sys­tem, too.

We also try to make games of it. Will N intro­duced me to “Color/​Time/​Number”, where you name the color of the shirt, the clock direc­tion, and the attrac­tive­ness of a given target.

So now that you know all this, I wanted to ask… do girls have a rat­ing sys­tem? I’ve seen when two (or more) girls will spot a cute guy, share a know­ing glance with each other, gig­gle, and lean in to whis­per. What is it that you whis­per about? And is it in Gib­ber­ish?

Better Daze

February 23, 2009 Food / Work
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Man, work­ing at Gray & Prouty is los­ing some of its new car smell. Today just seemed to drag on and on.

Good news, though! I got my first pay­check from them today. Too bad it all goes to pay­ing off my credit card. Gas and food racks up fast when I com­mute between Sac and the Bay. In the last two weeks, I’ve put over a thou­sand miles on my car, and I need an oil change again now.

Oh, and eat­ing out all the time when I’m down in the Bay doesn’t help. I need to get my sched­ule together enough to plan ahead and cook for myself. Get­ting more set­tled in the Bay is my top pri­or­ity right now. I’m thank­ful to Jeremy J and his par­ents for offer­ing to let me stay at their place, but I think I need to find some­thing closer to San Jose. I found out that my com­mute to Mill­brae is shorter from San Jose than it is from San Ramon, and I spend all my time out­side of work hang­ing down there any­way, so it would just be easier.

Hacker Diet Update - Week 7

February 20, 2009 Family / Food / Friends / Health
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Time for another update.

Keep going! 25.4 lbs to go!
Hacker's Diet Week 7
Weekly loss: 2.5 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1269 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-​05-​01. (245 days early!)

As you can see, I’m miss­ing today’s entry. There’s no scale at Jeremy J’s place and I don’t know if I will get to one today. (I used the one at Andrew P’s place for yesterday’s mea­sure­ment.) I didn’t do any­thing extra­or­di­nary yes­ter­day, though, so there shouldn’t be much of a problem.

So far, I’ve lost 18.8 lbs of mea­sured weight (1.6 lbs in the last week) and 14.7 lbs of “real weight” (2.2 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had lost 12 lbs at this point, and was at the begin­ning of a backslide.

I had a spike in my mea­sure­ments over the week­end once again this week. I think it’s because my fam­ily is home and eat­ing every meal, so it’s harder for me to skip meals. Do you know how hard it is to ignore your stom­ach when you wake up to the smell of bacon? Besides he actual food temp­ta­tions, though, meals are a time when my fam­ily gets together and talks, so I don’t want to miss out on that. I just need to be pre­pared with a big glass of water to help con­trol my baser instincts.

Despite that, though, progress is decent. Aaron L men­tioned it to me at karaōke, and I was a bit sur­prised since I haven’t really seen a dif­fer­ence in myself yet. I mean, I see the num­bers going down, but when I look at myself in a mir­ror, I don’t really see a change. I am still going strong and should have no prob­lem hit­ting my goal of being under 175 by the end of the month.

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