Friday, January 21, 2011

TIL

One theory about what humans find attractive in the opposite sex is as follows. Attraction has everything to do with evolution and the desire to successfully reproduce. Women want men who are physically able. The stronger, faster, more agile, the better. That's men whose muscles are bulging, who run the fastest, who win competitions are the most attractive.
We find women who have big boobs, skinny waists, and curves attractive. Bigger boobs equal better nourishment for our behbehs. Skinny waists and obvious ab muscles show that they are in shape(or at least are not out of shape). Curves, specifically wider hips, are attractive because the wider the hips, the more room for a behbeh to maneuver around in the womb.

Okay, okay, I learned this a while back and I probably got it wrong somewhere along the way. But I think it's pretty interesting

Saturday, January 15, 2011

acid anger
A ci danger

Monday, January 10, 2011

sasuga

call me ryan the rookie or that guy rye rye

Friday, January 7, 2011

You Can't Hide



More often than not, listening to Lauryn Hill/neo-soul makes me bow my head and wave my hand in the air like I'm in a Baptist church in the south

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Culture Group



I'm taking an extended hiatus out on a sailboat.

Tuesday Morning Quarterback

An interesting take on gift-giving

Gift Strategy for the Holidays 2011: On Christmas Eve, The Wall Street Journal advised readers to give chocolates or wine for the holidays because they will be consumed and "won't contribute to your recipient's household clutter. Laura Leist, president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, says dealing with extraneous gifts is one of her clients' biggest organizing challenges. People often don't have the space to store gift items but feel too guilty to give them away."

Half as many would be twice as good!
This statement threw me for a loop on several levels. The minor level is economic. Economists maintain that cash is the ideal gift because it causes no waste, of resources or of money value. If I spend $50 to give you a battery-powered nose massager, and to you that gift merely becomes clutter in the back of the closet, $50 has been wasted. If I give you $50 cash, you will spend it on something you value as worth $50.

What hit me over the head, though, was that in a nation where one person in eight lives in poverty -- in a world where 900 million people live on $1.25 or less a day -- "dealing with extraneous gifts" is such a problem for many Americans that a trade association exists to help them cope with this dreadful burden. While many suffer, others complain of receiving gifts they lack room to store. This is deeply messed up.

Practically everyone believes Christmas has become excessively materialistic -- too much focus on piles of junk recipients don't even want, much less need, coupled with (for Christians) hardly any mention of the original spiritual significance of the day and (for those who celebrate secular Christmas) hardly any mention of the less fortunate.

Cash gifts solve the economic objection, but flunk on sentimental value. If family gift giving consisted of everyone exchanging boxes containing $50, economic efficiency would rise but the gift ritual would seem a waste of time.

So here is TMQ's suggestion for the 2011 holidays -- give the gift of receipts for charitable donations. Give money in your recipient's name to any charity, school or arts organization. Wrap the receipt in pretty foil paper. You're not wasting dollars on some hunk of junk your aunt doesn't even want; you are doing something good for the world. You can feel good, and the gift recipient can feel good.

This from a column that I regularly follow during football season.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

We Can Do It All

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

I feel a tad bit irrelevant

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Goooo-uh-whoa Slow

Joe Budden's Tips For Living With Your Mate

Love this article. Interestingly enough, all of these tips can be applied to friendships imo.

Clip Our Wings Before We Fly Away

There are soooo many things I've never experienced before. I hope to look back on 2011 and say that I narrowed that list down by a lot.

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