That's brotherly love!

To admit to the world (whether true or not) that the box of porn that arrived in Singapore was actually yours and not your brothers is truly courageous.

This is hilarious! News is cracking me up today!

What's a mini skirt if it's only an few cm above the knee.

People on Exhibit

I'm all for animal rights, but seriously I don't consider myself an equal with my dogs or any other animal for that matter.

Mood Ring

This article outlines a new product that was studied at MIT that allows your cell phone to take cues from the conversations. Then it processes that information based on scientific studies about voice patterns and tones. It can tell you if the person you are talking to is attracted to you, bored, or have true empathy for your issue. There is even a feature that monitors your phone behavior and if you sound angry or depressed it will SMS someone you talk to a lot and tell them to call you. They also did some other studies with movement and tracking which I found pretty interesting as well.

I think this could be a great thing for some things and a relationship killer in other ways. I can tell you that if someone calls me while Lost is on and expect to get anything out of me it's probably not going to happen. It doesn't mean I don't care just that I'm preoccupied at that time. It also seems a bit deceitful to have a cell phone that can tell you based on tone and speech patterns whether or not someone is interested in you. It's almost like having a lie detector on your phone. Anyway would I do it if I had the technology....I'm not sure but it would be tempting.

Just What Every Workaholic Needs

Someone may have developed a pill that will increase awareness and productivity despite a person's sleep deprivation. This is great news! Now a person can work 16 hours a day take a pill after a couple hours of sleep, do it all over again and still produce an adequate amount for a life-sucking company that expects too much of their employees. What is wrong with society that we are so focused on what we can do without sleep instead of focusing on why we aren't getting the sleep that we need? On a positive note I bet this pill would be great after a long night of drinking! Maybe they should test it's function for that as well.

Conn. Challenges No Child Left Behind

Ok so there are two links associated with this blog the first one is for the article on Yahoo News and the second a slightly different version from MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9042496/. I bring this up because it's interesting how much personal opinion you can see in the two articles. I personally enjoyed reading the Yahoo one a little more.

Anyway I think it's great that Conn. is fighting No Child Left Behind. So maybe they are estimating an outrageous amount for the costs of implementing this program, but even if you cut their estimated funds in half they still do not come close to where they need to be to implement the additional testing. "The federal government is providing Connecticut with $5.8 million this fiscal year to pay for the testing, Sternberg said. She estimates federal funds will fall $41.6 million short of paying for staffing, program development, standardized tests and other costs associated with implementing the law through 2008 (Yahoo News)."

Every time I think of the Presidents pathetic excuse for trying to improve our schools it makes me outraged to think that not only did he take power away from the states, where it should be, but he also handicapped our schools by putting in place a law that accomplishes nothing. Well I guess it was successful if you think it's good to have a government program that automatically sets children up to fail. Oh and this is obviously going to cost taxpayers money. I wonder where inner city schools who barely have enough money to keep their schools open are going to get money to implement these programs. Hmmm...I don't think that this program will help those schools any will it?

One last note I think Utah deserves a kudos as well for their law that puts their states standards priority of NCLB.

A Rambling about Single Life

I've been in the single life again for basically the last five months and I have to say I just don't think I'm a girl that will ever get used to being hit on. For starters this is somewhat new territory for me it's only been recently that it is a regular occurrence. Seriously I almost feel bad for any man who tries to pick me up. It's not that I'm mean or evil-just that his chances of making an impression that will make me willing to even have a five minute conversation are seriously slim.

I was thinking about this last night as I dropped my last friend off with her Taco Bell (it was my turn to DD) and I realized that most men have all of about 2 minutes before I decide whether or not there is even a remote possibility that I would give them my phone number-let alone go on a date with them. They don't necessarily have to say something impressive or witty, to hold my attention it's just that I have a tendency to make very quick first impressions. So the question I have been pondering is if it's enough time to write someone off, or is it less about personality and more about attraction and instinct.

I have to tell you men out there it's amazing the things that can go through a woman's mind within the first few minutes of meeting someone new. Does his belt match his shoes, what is he drinking, did he really just ask me what my "sign" was?, where is my quickest out?, please tell me he didn't just ask me to smile (seriously I hate that more than I hate anything in the world), how straight are his teeth, what color are his eyes, what hand is his ring on anyway. Anyway, I think it's fair to say that sometimes we don't always put our best foot forward in times of pressure. It's not that I think that I'm beyond this type of ridicule myself. I know I don't typically make a good first impression. It takes a while to get to know me before you can see what I'm really all about. I've also noticed that my first impression tends to differ based on the social situation involved. I am much better off in small groups with a couple people that I'm comfortable with. It is that realization that put me into this whole quandary and I understand that in many situations it's probably not real fair, but I'm not sure that it's something that I will change.

I guess what I'm getting at is that as much as I'd like to change this part of myself I fear I will always be quick to form first impressions and go with my gut feeling about a person. I considered making some sort of effort to change this part of my personality, but I'm not sure that it's something I am really willing to work on right now. Seriously I have enough dating issues to add another thing to work on in the mix may send me running to the pharmacy. What is unfortunate is that unlike in a work or social environment where you tend to run into a person more than once or twice and may be forced into painful small-talk, at a bar you probably won't get that second chance to show me your not the arrogant putz I thought you were when you stumbled towards me on the dance floor. Maybe it simply boils down to women's intuition I know my first impressions have been wrong many times, but my gut instinct has only failed me once or twice. For now I'm going to stick with my subtle cues of please go away which seemed to work for the guys that came up to me last night, and hope that my friends dedication to setting me up continues to go well because at least I'm having fun. Hey who knows me better than my girls anyway?