A Billion Different Universes

Hi

2005-07-08T19:27:00.000-04:00

A most amazing thing happened today. I girl I didn't know said "Hi" to me. Smiled and said "Hi" to me. Totally unsolicited. When you're single little things like that can really make your day. Of course, I was too much in a daze after getting off the bus and the weather was quite disgusting so I didn't end up saying much to her other than "Hi".

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

2005-06-21T22:53:00.000-04:00

Well, just when I thought it's impossible to be single AND busy at the same time, things got really busy. Rest assured, however, I am still single. I will be leaving on a long trip again this Thursday, so don't expect any updates for a week or two.

I did have an interesting run-in with the "Kinkos girl" today, however. She is short, skinny, blonde, no rings, broken nail polish .. and she helped me with my printing and copying needs. For the lack of a better word, she is "cute". I even made her laugh which is definatelly unusual for a girl I don't even know. The question is how (if it all) to take this further; this is definatelly something for me to ponder on my upcomming flight. I noticed during flights I'm "on the edge", for example last year I came up with a comprehensive and daring plan on how to ask a girl from my class out. More importantly I was syked enough to actually follow through with it. Can I do it again? We shall see.

Post-Collegenism: Chapter 3 - My Life, My Bus

2005-06-03T20:36:00.000-04:00

I have taken the same bus for 4 years. I've taken it too school, to work, to dates, to graduations, to formals and social events. I've been in 2 accidents while on the bus. I've traveled the route in as fast as 23 minutes and as long as 3 hours (on a particularly bad day of traffic). I know where to seat so that I won't feel guilty about not giving up my seat to a woman. I came up with a "bus rules" set of rules that make bus riding more effecient (my now-ex is the only one who saw it; she thought I was nuts. I will publish it here some day). I know everything and anything about the bus. I AM THE BUS.

So an obvious question is: what is the value of the bus in finding a date? To an outsider the answer is clear - the passenger community is 70% women. However things are not so simple. Here is why:

1) The first rule of the bus is that you do not talk on the bus. It's not posted anywhere, but the bus ride is entirely silent except for the occasional cellphone call. Sometimes two passengers who know each other ralk, but talking to a stranger is unacceptable. A lot of people sleep, read, or listen to music (like me), further adding to the silence.

2) You don't want to become a bad customer. There are a few folks who do talk to stangers on the bus. Once is a mentally insane women. The other is a happy-go-lucky 70 year old grandma. Than there is the guy who tries to hit on women "across the isle". Nobody like these folks and does everything in their power to seat as far away from them as possible.

3) The odds are good but the goods are odd. Unfortunatelly I'm afraid most women on the bus may be 25 or older. OK, I'll be honest, some of them do look 21. Let me do a quick life of whom I ran into recently:

a) Strabery girl - she got on somewhere in the middle-end of the station sequence and sat next to me. There was a sit in front next to a nice grandma with definatelly more room than next to me, yet she shose to sit here. Throughout the ride she kept playing with her hair and putting on lip gloss that smelled like a strawbery. It was quite a turn on, actually.

b) Blondie - a lot of messed up blonde hair, a stupid blue sweater, dirty sneakers and a white skirt. I found that quite hot! She was reading some sort of a fantasy book, fell asleep on the bus, her hair got even more messed up. There is something that attracts me to people like that, I'm not sure what.

c) No-name girl from my stop - as the name implies she gets on at my stop. She is good looking, and also kind of tall. One thing she has going for her is that I get on at the same time as her every day. 2 days ago the bus was almost empty, yet she took the sit diretly behind me. Today I repeated the favor. We'll see where this goes. This is the type of communication that goes on on the bus. Nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, and one last thing, what all these girls have in common is - you guessed it - no rings!

God is a prankster ... And he owes me $80.

2005-06-02T19:25:00.000-04:00

If you are wondering how we dorks end up being so .. dorky, here is a nice example. Actually it's quite easy, we don't look for trouble, trouble finds us.

Today I had an important meeting. So important, in fact, that I decided to skip lunch for the fear of accidentally making a stain on my shirt. I get my Outlook reminder 15 minutes prior, pack up and go. It's a nice sunny day, nothing to worry about.

And then it happens. It's one of those things that happens so fast you only have time to think to yourself "OH SHIT". I was walking about 4 feet behind another guy, and as I looked down I saw a ketchup packet (the kind you get at McDonals). The next thing I saw was him stepping on the packet in just the right way, completely unaware of the impending disaster. And then the thing explodes in my face spraying me from head to toe with gooey red chunks of ketchup. The crotch area took the brunt of the ejecta; additionally there were at least 50 small (1/8") stains on my pants and about 10 stains on my shirt, including a nice blob on my right sleeve. All this happened in less than a second.

At first I wanted to scream "FUCK!!!" but instead I just burst out laughing. I ran back to work, cancelled the meeting, and went to the bathroom to wash off. Fortunatelly I didn't run into any coworkers and didn't have to explain what the heck happened. After some unsuccessful attempts to clean the stuff off I went to The Gap and bought a new set of panths and a shirt.

Could this have happened to anyone else but me? Absolutely not. Obviously I have become too serious and this was somebody's way of telling me to chill out, relax, and never, ever skip eating lunch because of work.

My Idea of Fun

2005-05-30T22:14:00.000-04:00

It has recently occured to me that my idea of fun is nowhere similar to what most people consider fun. For example, I absolutely hate big parties, clubs, and bars. I hate meeting new people, especially in those types of situations. I don't like extreme sports (except perhaps rock climbing). I would never try something like skydiving and rollercoasters make me puke (both literally and figurativelly speaking). I like to travel but I'm not especially keen on it. I don't like most of the stuff on TV, in fact I probably watch less than 2 hours of TV every week.

I DO like small parties with 3 or 4 close friends. I like spending time with a girlfriend somewhere quiet and romantic. I don't view driving a car as a chore, I see it as an adventure. I like to watch unusual and non-mainstream movies. I prefer thinking over talking. Deep inside I don't like people whose idea of fun doesn't match my own, and if there is nothing to loose (i.e. I'm not going out with them), I most certainly will get into an argument.

I think this pretty much explains why I don't get along with people. I definatelly inherited the cynical and hostile attitude towards people from my dad. Of course, I don't plan to change. All I need is to find someone who has a similar outlook on life. Unfortunatelly, it has so far proven more difficult than I expected.

Post-Collegenism: Chapter 2 - Beer, Pizza, Wrestling

2005-05-29T23:57:00.000-04:00

Ever wonder what makes men tick? There you go: Beer, Pizza, Wrestling. That is the foundation for all the important decisions men make. And many important decisions are on horizon:

1) To rent or not to rent: seriously faced with the prospect of paying as much as $2000 a month for a 1-bedroom apartment, I have began to question my priorities. While I could easily afford this, I still don't want to be throwing so much money away. Heck, if I were to live in a place like PA I could get SIX appartments for the same money. There are only a few options left:

a) Get a roommate. While the obvious choice, it does little to solve the "throwing money away" issue.

b) Buy an apartment/house. A better idea, but I would have to live with parents for a few months to save up enough money for a down payment.

c) Get a rich girlfriend. Not realistic and purely imaginary. But I can't help but to think what would happen if I and Ally were to start going out. Afterall, her family is very well-off.

2) Graduate school: I have looked at catalogs for MBA programs and found one that I really like. I also know my employer would pay 100% of the tuition. Here is the thing - the average age of students in the program is 27. Not only will I be "the little kid" there, I can most certainly forget about finding a girlfriend while I'm at it. How pathetic: I evaluate an educational program based on my chances of finding a girlfriend there.

3) The Ally Situation: I just don't get her. I could-have, perhaps, maybe, would-have considered asking her out if she would just stop acting weird. After knowing her for 4 months I still can't predict what she will do or say. So far I can describe her as: not open minded, an air head, slightly delusional, independent and indifferent, totally lacks any understanding of relationships. On the other hand, sometimes she shows a more caring and softer side, but again that is rare and unpredictable. She says she is a "hopeless romantic", but I think she is just as much a "hopeless romantic" as I am a German fighter pilot.

I don't think there are any options left but to wait for the next weekend and perhaps more beer and pizza to sort all this out.

The Profiles Series: Zee

2005-05-23T18:03:00.000-04:00

I have decided to document some of the more interesting women I met in my life. Zee didn't really do all that much, but I consider her very important. Zee was my last big crush and also the first girl I officially asked out. She was also by far the most mysteroious girl I met.

Why I liked her: Well, first of all, she was just beautiful. No, not in the supermodel kind of way. Her simplicity was beautiful. She would wear flip flops, an old jacket, jeans, her short hair in a pony tail. I don't think she put on any make up. She had red/blondish hair, green/gray eyes, about 5'6. But really thats nothing compared to her personality. The way she behaved was just asking somebody to fall in love with her. For example, it was a cold fall evening, we were sitting on a bench in a park. She just was staring into the distance, and then she turns to me and asks something like "have you ever had a best friend?". So far I have not run into any woman that was as nearly as romantic as her.

Why I didn't like her: She said "no" :)

Why she was important: Zee started it all. I was so depressed by her rejection, I knew I had to turn my life around. I started working out and lost about 40 lb. A few months later I even asked my future ex out (hmm future ex .. that doesn't sound quite right). Of course more about her in the next post.

By popular demand: photos of nature and cuddly animals

2005-05-17T21:49:00.001-04:00

Somewhere on Long Island

2005-05-17T21:49:00.000-04:00

Nintendo World Store grand opening

Post-Collegenism: Chapter 1 - The Ally Situation

2005-05-16T22:28:00.000-04:00

"Thank you, thank you, it was all my fault."

It all started a few weeks after my breakup. Just looking around people's blogs I came accross hers and instantly became attracted to this girl from my school. Yet, there was only a tiny picture of her face and a whole lot of writing. A picture may say a 1000 words, but seeing a person in real life says a billion words. So when I saw her I didn't actually find her all that attractive. I mean I have definatelly seen worse, but I've also seen (and dated) better. So, the initial dillema was: I'm not exactly the hotest guy myself, why am I being so picky? But that's hardly a reason to date someone. So I decided to steer things into "friends mode" quickly and hope to just keep it that way.

Not so fast. The first side effect of slowing things down was that she became even more interested in me. She would call me up practically every day saying she wanted to see me. I agreed and on a few occasions did meet with her when it was convinient for me to do so (compare that with my girlfriend who I would meet at any time, in any situation, rain, snow, or whatever).

Then there is the fact that when I talk to women I sometimes end up inadvertantly falling into "boyfriend mode". That means saying little things that make them feel good. I can't help it. And "not calling often". Not calling is sooooo easy when you really don't feel like calling (surprise, surprise). But in the end, instead of pushing her away, this only made her more attracted to me.

So now the new dillema is maybe it's a good idea to go for somebody not-that-attractive who is really interested in me, rather than somebody attractive who isn't. I decided to invite her to an event on Wednesday, because it would be better than to go alone. But really she borders on the line between being girlfriend material and not being attractive enough. I just don't know what to do.

Kryptonite

2005-05-14T20:28:00.000-04:00

Now that I graduated from college I have decided to clean up my table a bit and throw out most of the old garbage. I also went on a book-selling spree and made over $100 so far. Anyway, back to the garbage. I knew there existed a certain item somewhere in the general table area that would hurt me if I were to touch, look, or even think about it (did I mention I am a very sentimental person?). So think like kryptonite for Superman. At the same time I have been having trouble sleeping recently knowing it's only a few feet away from me. So I finally decided to make a surgical strike, locate the item and destroy it violently.

I began by removing a heavy dictionary, followed by a bunch of old PC magazines, computer parts, cables and weird boxes. Yet it was nowhere to be found. I proceeded to look on the bottom of the shelf where there were a bunch of playbills and a Canadian coin I muse have misplaced after my last trip there. And then there it was - stuck inside one of the playbills - the first love letter from my ex-girlfriend. It was the only item hidden from the world well enough that it escaped the initial massacre or exile of ex-related items in the first few days. I proceeded to rip it into multiple pieces and shove them into a garbage bag. Whew.

A sad day in dining history

2005-05-11T20:23:00.000-04:00

An approximate reconstruction of the scene at the restaurant after I ate the jalapeño.

Starving artist, eh?

2005-05-11T20:01:00.000-04:00

Found a link to this on Karen's blog ....

Starving Artist
You are 42% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant.

You are the Starving Artist! You are more intuitive than logical, and
are primarily guided by your heart and emotions. You are also very
introverted and gentle. Of course, this does not mean that you do not
have an ego. In fact, you are surprisingly arrogant for someone so
emotional and gentle. This is why you are best described as a starving
artist. You are very introspective and quite sure of yourself, as any
accomplished artist is, yet your views are impractical, emotional, and
overly gentle. You probably find math, logic, and similar intellectual
pursuits offensive to your artistic sensibilities, and you prefer the
open-endedness of artistry because then you know you can never truly
have a wrong answer. So really you have no reason to be arrogant, you
big doofus, because the skills you value (emotion, spirit, art, etc.)
in yourself are valuable only on a subjective level, meaning your
arrogance is purely masturbatory. In short, your personality is
defective because you are arrogant, introverted, introspective, gentle,
and thoroughly irrational...posessing most of the traits needed to be a
starving--and useless--artist. So get out there, write a few short
stories that are allegories for the spirit, and starve!

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Capitalist Pig.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Haughty Intellectual, the Televangelist, and the Emo Kid.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you
could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42%
Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is
close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well.
Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can
determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored
near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 23% on Rationality
You scored higher than 12% on Extroversion
You scored higher than 47% on Brutality
You scored higher than 82% on Arrogance

Crunpson! I am probably a robot

2005-05-08T10:59:00.000-04:00

Because I can't make out what that freaking image says! As much as I love the idea of captchas, these things are getting a bit ridiculous.

crunpson

Oh, I almost forgot to whine about my weekend

2005-05-07T22:06:00.000-04:00

Could it be true? I had a first busy weekend since January? Naaaah. I just got lazy.

So my illness has been getting better, although I still feel sick at random times. Hmm. I watched a few movies in preparation for my summer lifestyle. Let's see:

Alien vs. Predator: 6/10 (hey, it's way better than Alien Resurrection or Alien 3).
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 8/10 (this movie would be even scary without the chainsaw. If Texas is anything like that, I'm never going there, lol)

But the big news is that the girl (Ally) really has a crash on me. If you need more info on the subject, read my GAFC post here. So is it time to bring out the champagne and cigars for LD? No, sorry. I really don't like her that much. I DO like her friend Elizabeth, but she could care less about me. It's always like that. And the girls from upstairs. I just love how they make so much noise and blast their music sometimes. Just think about it, one of them could be sleeping on top of me! I mean 10 feet on top of me .. and separated by the concrete ceiling.

Here I should write something about how life is unfair, but that would make my blog too cliché.

Women's Holiday Escalation

2005-05-06T21:58:00.000-04:00

OK, first let me say that I'm not some misogynist bigot and I love women, especially those from my family. However, due to my unique cultural position, I am forced to celebrate not one, not two, but three so-called "women's holidays". Those are: Valentines Day, The International Women's Day (March 8th), and Mother's Day. And while I don't mind buying flowers on all 3, I think it might be one too many. Two would be OK. One would be perfect.

Moshzilla!

2005-05-04T23:45:00.000-04:00

Came across this today. It was simply too funny not to post here.

Moshzilla!

Most bizzare song-in-a-movie recognition

2005-05-04T22:41:00.000-04:00

They laughed when I told them I had 40 GB of songs in my iPod. Well, today I was watching Da Ali G Show, and there is a point at which borat gets out of a black BMW at night prior to going to "Striptease Mon Amour". The song that is playing on the car stereo (for only 2 seconds while the door is open), is Greece 2000 - Three Drives. It's found on Man With No Name's Teleportation album.

I'm glad I have a blog, otherwise how would I let people know about this stuff?

Tuesday Night Fever

2005-05-03T21:10:00.000-04:00

Yeah, in addition to everything else, I also got myself sick. When you have a fever everything feels weird and disconnected. Maybe it's stress or alergies, or something else. Who knows.

I'm Getting Anthropic on Myself

2005-05-02T18:19:00.000-04:00

Why do I do the things I do? Because if I didn't I would not be here thinking and writing about them.

Really. That's the only way I find to rationalize my actions. Today I ran into a girl from one of my classes from a year ago. She smiled at me and said Hi. What a sweet person. She was one of the people I considered asking out before I asked out my now-ex. So we talked about a few things and then said bye to each other. Then I run into her again, what a coincidence! Again we talk, this time for much longer. It's great. And then it's time for me to go so I just say bye and go. Woohoo, we got a winner! Not.

Reasons why I didn't even ask her for her phone number:

Does she even remember/know my name? I remember her's.
It would be just totally out of context. I only talked to her for 10 minutes, now I'm asking her for her phone number?
I don't really know her.
I kind of like "that other" girl already (worst excuse ever, I know).
The usual doubts about asking somebody out
She's not my type a.k.a. I'm Just Not That Into Her
More doubts as a side-effect of the recent breakup
Why am I romantically interested in every women I meet? I should just relax and stop being so desperate.
I'm not her type
Am I nuts??? I am here to get a bunch of papers signed, not find a date!

So there, in case you are wondering why men aren't asking you out, here are just some reasons.

As far as why I should have asked her out:

THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE LAST TIME I SEE HER EVER, SINCE WE ARE BOTH GRADUATING.

The good thing is these sort of events are getting more frequent. It's good because sometimes I just loose it and "go for it". Didn't happen today, but stay tuned.

An Actually Useful Weekend!

2005-04-30T20:41:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-28T22:39:00.000-04:00

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 ...

2005-04-28T20:41:00.000-04:00

... 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

2005-04-28T00:44:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-26T00:48:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-23T20:38:00.000-04:00

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?

2005-04-23T00:20:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-19T20:13:00.000-04:00

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!

2005-04-16T21:40:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-16T00:05:00.000-04:00

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Interesting locations on Google Maps - Part 2

2005-04-15T19:59:00.000-04:00

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!

2005-04-14T20:51:00.000-04:00

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 ...

2005-04-13T19:02:00.000-04:00

... 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?

2005-04-10T12:30:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-09T15:26:00.000-04:00

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:

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

Interesting locations on Google Maps

2005-04-06T18:56:00.000-04:00

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!

2005-04-03T19:54:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-03T19:13:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-02T22:08:00.000-05:00

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.