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The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

May 11, 2009 – chainsawsuit

Fast Food Restaurants: Stop With The “Free” Promotions Already [Fake Offers]

Episode 255: Fashion Sense

How to Live with a Disturbing Memory

May 11, 2009

That lady be crazy, daddy.

Dan Baum’s tour of journalism’s sausage factory

this comic was made for the comics festival book for free comic book day 2009! it was an all-ages book so t-rex’s “heck no” line was altered from “FRIG, WHAT DO YOU FRIGGIN’ THINK??”

I AM AWESOME

Khalid Sheik Mohammed: “I Gave A Lot Of False Information” To Make Torture Stop

Did you know that in California, if you ask … [Taxes]

Comic: May 7, 2009

Buttercup Festival by David Troupes

White House Can’t Conceal Glee Over Cheney

Of Green Lanterns, Flashes and Batgirls

Host Monster Turns On Customer, Shuts Down Blog Without Warning Or Sensical Explanation [Web Hosting]

Comic: May 11, 2009

Brakes

@thupac @Terraforever Hahaha. I just went to see it with Will.

Dinh Will and I are heading to Star Fleet Academy.

Will and I are heading to Star Fleet Academy.

Dinh Last night, I saw a black 4th-gen Mustang with the vanity plate “GT NINJA.”

Last night, I saw a black 4th-gen Mustang with the vanity plate “GT NINJA.”

@thupac Sounds good.

@LulababeFFM2009 Thanks for the follow!

@collegekid7 Thanks for the follow!

@thupac I can be. What did you have in mind?

@cksmiles Is that a movie?

@thupac I’m back on.

Dinh Thanks everyone for coming to the party and/or your good wishes. Good night!

Thanks everyone for coming to the party and/or your good wishes. Good night!

@justshootmy Where are you getting these?

Dinh Trevor Pierce is no Trevor Hale. I want to see where this is going, though.

Trevor Pierce is no Trevor Hale. I want to see where this is going, though.

@Jonathanwqnwqn Thanks for the follow!

@quachified You should just make that account for her and set up her phone and her computer’s browser.

@thupac It was. You should go!

@mbaby101 Thanks for the follow!

Dinh At home. (Elk Grove).

At home. (Elk Grove)

@tranquillityhub Thanks for the follow!

Dinh New blog post: Family Bucket List http://bit.ly/P7Whl.

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?

I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day!

Once again, I was single, but I didn’t let that stop me from having fun with some friends. I’ve actually been forming this post in my head all week now, and I was going to post it on Valentine’s Day, but I didn’t have access to a computer, and didn’t want to write a long post on my phone.

Difficult break-ups are immortalized in “the majority of white person art” with a special focus on first loves. (Yes, I know Hikki’s not white, but she grew up in New York City, so she was exposed to white culture.)

When I read The Game, one of the things Style mentions is that the pick-up community developed for nerds who for one reason or another lacked natural social skills, and the training gave them those tools. He also mentions that because of this lack of natural skills, a lot of pick-up artists were unsuccessful with their first loves. They then “put the pussy on a pedestal” and that fixation leads them to the pick-up community.

It reminds me a movie I saw a long time ago. I don’t even remember the title, actors, or majority of the plot line anymore, but it involved a group of friends doing a road trip across the country. The girl in the group had a childhood romance with a neighborhood boy, but it was broken up before anything really happened because her family moved away. She idealizes this old flame and all her relationships since then have been measured against this ideal and failed. Well, since they are doing a road trip, they decide to stop by her old hometown and see if her first love still feels anything for her. Turns out, he’s married with kids, and a bit of a jerk to boot. But the kicker is that she meets her first love’s little brother, who was always into her and kept the keepsake she exchanged with the older brother as she was moving. He also reveals that the older brother was only trying to hit it all those years ago anyways. (By the way, if you can tell me what movie I’m talking about, I would really appreciate it… it’s been bugging me since I first started thinking about this post.)

There seems to be a bit of truth to the idea. I don’t consciously make comparisons between love interests, but I can understand how your first experiences can influence your attitudes towards love. So tell me, how did your first love turn out? Are you a Marshall, who is still with your first love and everyone else is jealous of what you have, or a Barney, whose first love was a disaster and you have difficulty with relationships now, or something in between, which I guess Ted is?