An Actually Useful Weekend!

That's right, I so far spent, and plan to spend the rest of my weekend studying for finals. So that means not much posting for me, including GAFC, who now have their own domain at http://www.gamesareforchildren.com. Check it out for youself!

The Incident with the Bathtub

Just when I thought the day couldn't get weirder. Somebody floods my apartment. I go upstairs ready to explode, just to find two absolutely hot girls (I'd say around 21) trying to master the art of plumbing by themselves. A brief confrontation and I go back downstairs.

10 minutes later:

A knock on my door. Probably the maintenance guy or the neighbor from downstairs. Nope. It's one of them, a redhead, now dressed in a skimpy outfit of a miniskirt and flip-flops. She offers to help me clean up the mess. Just think about it - crawling around with this girl on the floor, trying to soak up water. Her shirt inevitably gets wet. We both have a good laugh and proceed to make out.

Oh wait a second, that last bit didn't happen! I told her "no, thanks" and closed the door. Why? My mother just happened to be over today. And so was my sister. Excellent.

Sad but true, folks. Sad but true.

I feel sorry for the ladies ...

... because you are not dating me! :) Especially now with my new big-time promotion which effectively triples my salary come June. Let's see what you're missing out on:

• A guy with a great new job
• I can do 35 push ups
• You already know my awesome personality

So there! There is practically no reason NOT to date me, lol.

I'm gonna hate myself in the morning

Here I am again, staying up late, doing absolutelly nothing useful. When I could get an extra hour of sleep and feel better in the morning instead of being tired, sleepy, angry, depressed, etc. Yet, here I am. I just don't understand myself.

South Park-style LD

Found this on Karen's and Isaac's blogs, so I decided to go for it as well:


South Park-style LD

(In a different life I would have probably ended up being a goth. LOL)

The Weekend Report

Yet another exciting weekend. Here is what I did (in no particular order): sleep, eat, go online, work out, listen to music. Like some sort of a robot .. this is so 2003. I never considered myself a social person, yet I feel like I am incomplete without my female counterpart, so to say. LOL

The good thing is I will finally be finishing up my degree in a few weeks so that I could begin the mysterious life after college.

Finally I have been looking at one of my dumbells, and it occured to me - "that's almost how much some of those girls weight. If I could pick them up with one hand, why am I so afraid of them and allow them to control me?" Some food for thought I guess.

If you can't beat them, quit the game?

Things really heated up on GAFC today as now apparently there is some sort of a conspiracy among women to "recycle" a certain group of men while totally ignoring the rest. Frankly, I don't buy it. I think it's just simply overanalyzing the situation. When you start using mathematical models and psychology to explain why you are still single, I think there is a serious problem and it's time to take a step back.

So what am I going to do? Step 1: relax. There is more to life than just relationships. Thinking about it 99% of the time is simly not going to help. Step 2: try and forget my previous relationship. This is very hard to do. It is stuck in my head like some stupid catchy song you would hear on TV. Sometimes I have to really force myself not to think about it. The past few weeks have seen improvement - at the very least, I didn't have any more "breakdown" incidents. Step 3: stick with what works. I should try and focus on my job. Maybe start another independent project. Try for better grades in school. Work out. Things like that will not only aid me in the long run, but also make me a more attractive person. I know a year from now if I look back at myself and the things I did I'm going to think it was stupid and pathetic. It has to end here.

So while I'm not going to entirely quit the game, I am going to start playing smarter. Once I restore my self-control, I know the next relationship will be just around the corner.

Sex Panther

If you have seen the movie Anchorman, you probably remember the great scene with the Sex Panther cologne. Anyway today I decided to "make a move" (for the lack of a better term) on Ms. Dress-Up from my class just to be struck down by what is certainly a version of Sex Panther for ladies.

But first allow me to brag about my great planning and prediction skills. Knowing that she always comes to class late, I knew she would have no choice but to sit in the back row. The back row has only 6 sits. Also, it is generally considered impolite to sit right next to someone else. I proceed to take seat #3, which means she would be forced to either take seat #1, #5 or #6. It also means nobody would be sitting between us. My prediction was she would take seat #1 as it is the closest to the entrance, or #6 since that is the furthest she can get away from me. However somebody else comes in, and takes #1. Then finally she comes in and takes seat #5. This is a suprise, she had the option of taking #6, yet she chose to seat closer to me. Unfortunatelly, this is where common sense ends and weirdness begins.

First I am overwhelmed by the putrid smell of the Sex Pather (yet I also found it strangely arousing). Then she proceeds to start spreading her legs (she is wearing jeans thankfully) so much that her left knee is almost beyond the middle of seat #4. Then she proceeds to ask a silly question about something that was put on the board. At this point I had enough and decided to go for it and talk to her after class. Basically I went as far as asking her name.

What can I say, she is unbelievably attractive physically, but also the most obnoxious person I've ever met. Fortunatelly, afterwards I had the pleasure of talking to my old friend from high school whom I ran into, which made the whole experience this morning seem insignificant.

Juno!

Ah, the weekend once again. Today I went back to WP to work on a few things, here and there. The most fascinating was a blurb about "The Missile Project" in the Juno Reactor article. The information was really none-existant in any particular place - I had to really piece it together by gathering a number of sources, even having to translate certain websites and picking out facts from interviews. That's just the type of work I love doing - create information where there is none.

In case you are wondering Juno Reactor is responsible for a lot of music on the Matrix movies, including the chase scene in Reloaded and have just come out with their new excellent album, Labyrinth.


Juno Reactor - Labyrinth

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Interesting locations on Google Maps - Part 2

Now it gets interesting:

Nuclear test site
The White Snake of Baja
Niagra falls
Aircarft carriers
Mount St. Helens
Hollywood sign
White House (whats wrong with this picture?)
Alcatraz
Pueblo Bonito
Burning Man
Hoover Dam
Mount Rushmore
B-1 Bomber

Planes in the air:

1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,7 (scroll right to see it taking off) ,7 (biggest one!) ,8 (2 planes!) ,10 ,11 ,12 ,13 ,14

Google = Gold!

I love Google, I admit it. Why? A simple vanity search on a girl I talked to in class reveals the following information:

[Her Name] ‘06

A NATIVE OF [country of birth], she came to the United States at the age of [age] ... blah blah blah ... With [type of school] school in her sights, she hopes to become a [profession 1] or [profession 2].

Gold! That's at least 6 useful pieces of information - I have to admit this is my biggest success with a vanity search yet.

Being a psychology buff ...

... I came across a "depression survey" today and couldn't help but take it. Sure enough I scored high in all areas except suicidal feelings. I'm not really worried about this because I know it's trasitional and a direct result of recent of recent events. I've been here before and I know what the cure is. What got me thinking is, however, if I did have suicidal feelings (which I don't, I'm actually quite afraid of dying) it would work out very well because I also have a fear of flying. Therefore, I could go happilly on all kinds of trips because I would always assume the plane would crush.

Weird how that makes sense, isn't it? :)

What do CD-R's, robots, and bathrooms at work have in common?

All 3 annoy me like hell:

CD-R's - as if I didn't have enough fun burning hundereds of CD-R's at work, every weekend my mother asks me to create these "mixes" for her as if she was a DJ or something. Do people realize how much effort actually goes into creating one of those things? Especially if it means taking tracks from 5 other disks?

Customer support robots - this is the 21st century and I of all people should know that it's time we start talking to robots. This would be great if the robots were not actually FREAKIN STUPID! You know what I'm talking about, many companies such as Sony use them nowadays. Now if I say "billing", right after the robot said "say 'billing' for billing", could it be that I mean "billing"? You begin notice a tone of impatience in the robot's voice as each successive attempt to pronounce the word properly fails. Why can't I just press 5 for billing? Whatever was wrong with that? One day the robots will take over the world and exterminate everyone who can't pronounce words perfectly.

Work bathrooms - you would think bathrooms at work would be the most civilized public bathrooms of the all. WRONG. Why can't people just use the bathroom the way it was meant to be used? As in, do your thing and get out, you know what I mean. No, people choose to make the bathroom their own social club. Let's see:

• Talking to coworkers for 10 minutes at a time. You are discussing your family vacation in a public bathroom! Way to go! Bonus points if it's done while you're in a stall rather than in front of the mirror. The bathroom is just like a pub, isn't it? Except there is 0% chance a woman will come in.
• Shaving with an electric shaver. Thats a winner.
• Brushing teeth. You are the dental GOD! You brush your teeth after every meal! Doesn't matter how clean the bathroom is, you need to brush your teeth and you will brush them whether people like it or not.
• Talking on the cellphone. Your clients are so important you gotta be on call 24/7. Even in the bathroom. I'm sure your clients also appreciate hearing those "bathroom sounds" and wonder what exactly is going on. I made a habit of flushing the toilet as soon as I hear somebody pick up their cellphone.

X-Dream, Wikipedia, funny flash movies - the (very) exciting weekend of a single guy

So I decided to once again polish my entry on my favorite band X-Dream today. Too bad I missed the party in NYC two weeks ago, the new album kicks ass, IMO. Anyway, I added some images and such and while I was searching Google for "a billion different universes" (which happens to be also the name of this blog) I came across this. A guy named Carl Rofe writes:

"Behind the high-security fences of Max's quantum lab, consciousness creates reality, quantum logic is spoken exclusively, and for the trip home you have your choice of a billion different universes."

So does mean X-Dream took the lyrics from this internet forum? :) It sure seems like it. Who knows maybe someday something I post on the internet will end up being used as a sample in a song and in turn will be made into a name for a blog. LOL.

And, lastly, here are some stupid music videos:

1. Zlad - Electronik - Supersonik (best music video ever)
2. Redefined - Nintendo
3. Hitachi song - Get Perpendicular (somebody make it stop, please)

Interesting locations on Google Maps

Now that Google has finally implemented sattelite images into their excellent map service, here are some interesting locations to look at (whic I shamelessly stole from Slashdot posts):

Area 51 (of course)

Gigantic compass rose

Boneyard in AZ (I've never seen so many planes in my life)

Half-frozen lake? (interesting side effect of the fact that images were taken during different times).

I still got it!

I just got on the floor and did 30 pushups. I guess I'm still in a pretty good shape after one year of inactivity. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, ladies. :)

Lets not underestimate sex

There is a tendency among some guys (especially nice guys) to claim that sex is not all that important. Steve asks "Am I the only guy in the entire world who actually thinks about things other than sex?" I used to be of the same opinion and in theory it does make sense.

Unfortunatelly it doesn't work that way in practice. In fact my previous relationship was at its highest points only after sexual encounters. After the first time it happened she actually called me in the middle of the night to talk for no reason whatsoever. After one other time she even became concerned that I might be attracted to other women. I think sex and physical contact in general really does form an additional bond that you would not normally have.

So my conclusion is that it is advisable to seek sex whenever possible, if not for enjoyment than at least for practical reasons. And it is enjoyable, I might add.

I hate blogs

Or at least I used to. That is until Steve asked me to be a guest editor on his blog Games are for Children (where I'm known as LD). It is an interesting relationship and dating advice blog edited by single people. Surely I will continue posting there, however I realized there is a lot of stuff I want to talk about that doesn't really belong in his blog.

Anyway, a bit about me. I tend to get carried away with things (this blog could very well be one of them) and then forget about them. Some of the things did stick around for longer than expected are my participation in Wikipedia (where I'm known as Ld), and the HalfLife2.net forums (where I'm known as LoneDeranger). Besides that I like to come up with bizzare business schemes, usually once every year. Only once did it actually work and earned me around $3000, while I was still a senior in high school. Now I simply work at my stable job, but I know that another crazy business idea is just around the corner.

My personal life is just as weird. I had one long-term relationship with a girl for almost a year, which became a stunning example of failure after everything unraveled. I'm probably going to talk a lot about it later. And that's it. There were definatelly "unusual situations with women", but I never actually dated anyone else. Being 21, I think that is very unusual.