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You Permeate My Screen

March 18, 2009 Education / Friends / Internet / Twitter
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Do you com­part­men­tal­ize your social networking?

Some peo­ple will, for instance, add any­one they have ever met on Face­book, only peo­ple they have actu­ally worked with on LinkedIn, and any cool ran­dom peo­ple they find on Twit­ter.

I gen­er­ally add any­one I know to any ser­vice I sign up for. I try not to send out auto­mated “please join” let­ters, though, and only add peo­ple that are already using it.

How­ever, because Twit­ter fol­lows me on my phone, I tried to keep it to peo­ple I would actu­ally talk with, and not ran­dom cool strangers. Recently, though, I was talk­ing about law school and got added by some law-​related people.

One of them was a ser­vice that com­pares your under­grad GPA and grad test scores with those of oth­ers who applied to var­i­ous grad school pro­grams, so you can get an idea of your chances of get­ting into the pro­grams based on how oth­ers fared. (After check­ing out that site and hear­ing about Youchen W and Jimmy P get­ting into law school, I real­ized that I might have sold myself short, and I should have just tried apply­ing to schools anyway.)

But any­way… this is prob­a­bly more of an excep­tion than a change in my social net­work­ing ways. How do you guys behave across the var­i­ous net­work­ing sites and why?

(It's Not Me) Talking

March 4, 2008 Life, the Universe, and Everything / Money
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So I got an inter­est­ing let­ter in the mail the other day. I had actu­ally set up my mail to be for­warded to my Min­nesota address the day after I came over here, but Jimmy P says that I still got some at Mon­ster House.

Any­way, a cou­ple of peo­ple asked for my snail mail address, so I was kinda sorta expect­ing some­thing, but what I got was def­i­nitely a sur­prise. It was a let­ter from Wells Fargo, for­warded from Mon­ster House, inform­ing me that the address on my bank account had been changed to 3829 Polton Place Way, San Jose, CA 95121 – 1934. The funny thing is, I have no idea where that is. It’s cer­tainly not my address, or any of my pre­vi­ous addresses.

I hopped online to check things out, but looks like all my money is still there. I changed my account to my Min­nesota address and also called Joe M and asked him to look into things for me. Today, when I signed onto my account online, I had to answer some secu­rity ques­tions. Which is really, really bad secu­rity. Instead of hav­ing one good pass­word (every­one has a strong pass­word with non-​alphanumeric char­ac­ters, right?), you get three easy-​to-​crack pass­words that are guar­an­teed to be nor­mal words. Some of the “secu­rity ques­tion” answers are actu­ally a mat­ter of pub­lic record and can be looked up online.

So yeah… every­one be care­ful with your iden­ti­ties, or some­one else could soon be talk­ing with your voice. And credit card.

Oh, and Merry C… that’s why I haven’t trans­ferred rent to you yet… I was a lit­tle scared to use my account.

EDIT: I found out this was Les­ley M’s address, and the let­ter was to inform me that ADK’s account had been changed to her address. I for­got that when I trans­fered the account to Aaron L, he didn’t change the address on it. But still, since I didn’t have my name on the account any­more, you’d think it the let­ter would have been addressed to Aaron L.

Jacob Never Saw This Coming

December 10, 2007 Education / Family / Friends / Internet / Romance / Work
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WARNING: You may be extremely dis­turbed by the con­tents of this post! Open the Spoiler sec­tion at your own risk.

So lately I’ve been dis­cussing the Lad­der The­ory with a lot of peo­ple lately. I don’t remem­ber how it comes up, but it did in CoHo ran­domly one day. And then with Mo and some other peo­ple. And then at a kick-​back I was at. And just today, Jimmy P, Haley K, and Helen Z were hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion and Jimmy P made an allu­sion to it, Helen Z tried to say some­thing, and I jumped in to defend the Ladder.

For those of you who don’t know what the Lad­der The­ory is and don’t care to click on the con­ve­nient link I’ve put at the begin­ning of this post, it is a “sci­en­tific” social the­ory about dating.

See, all guys have a sin­gle lad­der onto which they place all women. (For the inter­ests of sim­plic­ity, I’m going to be speak­ing in het­ero­sex­ual terms, but the same thing should apply for homo­sex­u­als.) Let’s start at the top of the lad­der and work our way down:

  • Dream Girl — Out of your league, you don’t bother pur­su­ing these girls.
  • Hot Girl — You’d actively pur­sue the chance to fuck one of these girls.
  • OK Girl — You wouldn’t actively pur­sue one of these, but you wouldn’t say no if they offered.
  • Drunk Girl — You’d have to be drunk before you’d fuck one of these girls.
  • Denial Girl — You’d only fuck one of these girls if you were very drunk, and you wouldn’t admit it afterwards.

Every guy has a slightly dif­fer­ent weight­ing sys­tem, and so the dif­fer­ent “rungs” of the lad­der may be of dif­fer­ent sizes for dif­fer­ent guys. Some rungs have sub­sec­tions, but the basic premise still holds. And how girls get placed onto the rungs can be weighted dif­fer­ently between looks, per­son­al­ity, etc. for dif­fer­ent guys.

If every­one in the world was like this, we’d be a lot more pop­u­lated, and sex wouldn’t be taboo. But unfor­tu­nately, girls aren’t like this. Girls have two lad­ders — the Fuck Lad­der and the Friend Lad­der. A girls’ Fuck Lad­der is sim­i­lar to the top of the guy’s lad­der. The Friend Lad­der also has “rungs” which rep­re­sent dif­fer­ent lev­els of friend­ship. How­ever, the impor­tant thing to note is that every guy a girl meets is instantly placed onto one of her two lad­ders. He can move up and down that lad­der, but can never move from one to the other. Guys who do try to leap from one lad­der to the other fall into the abyss, and are usu­ally removed from the girl’s life.

Now, I’m a pretty big pro­po­nent of the Lad­der The­ory, and I think I’ve had some suc­cess­ful con­ver­sions to it. How­ever, a lot of peo­ple still try to poke holes in the the­ory. The most com­monly asked ques­tion is, “What about the female fam­ily mem­bers of guys?” Well, it’s sim­ple… they are just extremely low on the lad­der. If you put stock in the soci­etal norms that incest is bad, then they will be at the very bot­tom of your lad­der… some­where along the lines of, “Only if you were so drunk, you blacked out, had no idea who it was any­more, and wouldn’t remem­ber it when you sobered up again.”

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So if you have any other ques­tions about the Lad­der The­ory, feel free to shoot me a line. Obvi­ously I’m open on the sub­ject. :shock: Now I’m going to yak and gouge my eyes out for think­ing such things. Not nec­es­sar­ily in that order.

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