Heh, score one for scu’s gaydar

I walk into the library and immediately notice a hot guy sitting at a computer (out of like 100 people sitting at similar stations). As I walk past behind him, I see that he has a sean cody video playing. Score. Maybe I’ll drop my contact info on the way out. =)

[ETA: Note dropped. Also, today I’m wearing a purple shirt. How… appropriate? =)]

Simple demographics from my friends list

This is from the mutual friends category

Have seen in person several or many times 75
Met in person once or twice 39
My sisters 2
My big brothers in my fraternity 2
took to jr prom 1
lab/project partner 2
ex boyfriend 1
lived with (non related) 14
woman I’ve fooled around with (also lived with) 1
Only know from the net 61

There were a couple of other categories I thought of halfway through, that I felt it wasn’t worth going back through and sorting out: put me up in their place, fraternity brothers, and met via lj, also know from SCA.

from the “other subscribers” we have:

Have seen in person several or many times 5
Met in person once or twice 8
Straight Guy I’ve kissed (no tongue) 1
Met only via the net 32
Uncertain whether I’ve met 2

There is a straight guy on lj whom I’ve kissed with tongue, but we don’t subscribe to one another’s journals. =)

So, if I seem strangely familiar with my audience, like, perhaps, I’ve met with most of them, well, there’s a reason for that. for those with prurient interests…

A thought on dating

So, I’ve long advocated the “friends first” method of dating. Under this philosophy, you need to get to know the person as they really are, and somehow sex gets in the way of this. And I’m wondering just how realistic this is. I mean, clearly, not paying attention to personality in one’s romances has some serious problems. But hoping that attraction will take care of itself seems to have gone poorly for me as well. And how many relationships that last have started off as casual friends without dating intent? I don’t really know. But I do know that most among my hetero friends have had alot more dates than I have with alot fewer people. So, I wonder, those among you who’ve had more longevity in your love lives than I, what input do you have to offer?

Standing in the rain

A few minutes ago, while chicago was still in the midst of downpour, I went out to stand in our concrete backyard in nothing but some old athletic shorts (hand-me-downs from Ro, I think) turning my face up to the sky. Just to enjoy the rain. I tried to do that a time or two in berkeley, but the bay area doesn’t have cooling summer rains, only chilling winter rains. So I stopped trying it there. But it did remind me of a time, a decade ago, when I was out on the porch in front of AEPi indulging in a similar romp in a cool summer rain, with and some bemused onlookers. Nostalgia is a funny thing.

More news of the week

  • Article. Solar is getting big. Good news there. Should lead to advances in the field and reduction in cost. Yay! I did find it amusing, given ‘s commentary on the climate there, that Germany is ranked so highly among PV consumers. =)
  • Article. More braindead assurance that if you kill someone the bomb won’t go off. Deadman switches have been used in suicide bombings before according to the wikipedia article. It’s also shown up in movies. Why do people not consider this? Now, granted, killing someone before they reach their targeted destination (see also the plane that crashed south of pittsburgh on 9/11/01) has benefits, even if they do go boom. But terrorism is rare. Potentially disastrous, but rare. False identification with shoot to kill policies may well be more frequent than accurate identification. Is the tradeoff worth it?
  • Opinion article by Friedman. The energy bill gives big handouts to big oil and not much to research on alternatives. Fucking up the free market, in precisely the wrong direction. How incredibly myopic.
  • Market Segmentation for airfare. The high spenders, though, will probably find a way to save money.
  • Tierney on the drug war. Hmm, excessive zeal in pursuing drug use, including cops fucking up the lives of the innocent. How … novel? Not really.

UK’s perspective on culture clashes with violent sects of Islam in the wake of the London bombings.

  • Article. It raises the interesting question of an appropriate response in a civilized society to a miniscule subsubculture that is difficult to identify out of the larger subculture. Not too disimilar in nature to the problem in the Netherlands, several years back. I wonder what they’ve done about that.
  • Another article. Similar theme.