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11 Signs they do NOT want a relationship with you

July 13, 2011 in Fun with 1 Comment

  1.  Texting Instead of Calling
    Does he text more often than he calls? When a guy likes a girl, he wants to hear her voice. “Texting is not an easy way to communicate — it’s an easy way to avoid communication,”
  2. Never on Time
    He finds reasons to blow you off or be late more times than not. Maybe he’s just flaky or disorganized, you say? Don’t make excuses. If a guy likes you and wants to continue hanging out with you, he’ll find a way to do so. Adds Mike: “I’ll come in to work one hour early if I want to get off in time to pick up cooking ingredients for a dinner date with someone I like.”
  3. Their Ex Is Still In the Picture
    He talks to his ex-girlfriends. Nothing makes a guy forget his ex like a girl he wants to be with. If he continues talking with an ex, that’s the first sign that he’s either not over a prior girlfriend or he’s just not that in to you.
  4. Doesn’t Introduce You to His Friends
    They should be proud of you, want to show you off and want to include you in his life.
  5.  Complete Absence of PDA
    He avoids even minor instances of intimacy in public. “Listen, not all guys are comfortable with PDA. Not everyone likes to make out for the whole world to see. But when I really like someone, no matter what I’m generally comfortable doing, I’ll at least put my arm around her and give her a kiss on the cheek.”
  6. No Mentions of Future Plans Together
    He doesn’t use the pronoun “we” or use it in the future tense. If he talks about a great new restaurant he discovered, but doesn’t add, “We should go there sometime” — and maybe he just says “I go there a lot” — then he’s not interested in sharing things with you. Plus: “Guys who are into girls want to explore with them — not sit on the couch on every date,” says Mike.

  1. Lack of Kindness
    He doesn’t do something sweet for you at least once a week. That doesn’t mean he’s buying you a dozen roses but he should have said or done something that made you go “Aw!” in the last seven days.
  2. Shows No Interest In People You Love
    He doesn’t ask questions about your family and friends.
  3. He Doesn’t Suggest or Plan Dates
    What if he doesn’t initiate at least 80% of the things you do together? “I call this the 80/20 rule,” explains Mike. “When I don’t like a girl, the 80% drops significantly. I’m not even aware of it. I’ll get off the phone and never close the conversation with a set of plans.” Note that it doesn’t have to be exact plans, but it should at least be, “Let’s hang out later this week and we’ll do dinner. I’ll call you tomorrow.
  4. Important Dates Don’t Resonate for Him
    He doesn’t remember your one month anniversary
  5. Radio Silence on His Facebook Page
    Has he posted a picture of you together on Facebook within two months of the first date? Guys who are excited about you will post and tag your beautiful face!
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Unusual but fun date ideas

April 26, 2011 in Fun with 1 Comment

  1. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence.
  2. Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books.
  3. Have her dressed up as a ghost and you dress up as Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever anyone sees you two, pretend to be embarrassed, and run off screaming “wocka wock wocka”.
  4. Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn’t really happen.
  5. Dress up as superheroes and stop at least one petty crime “ie. jaywalking, littering…”
  6. Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airlines.
  7. Try and visit as many people as you can in one night, and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as you can, without them noticing.
  8. Go to the airport, get the cheapest, soonest departing flight to anywhere when you show, and stay there for a weekend.
  9. Write a piece of fiction together. Outside at a cafe. Ask strangers when you get stuck.
  10. Dress to the nines, pretend to be married, and test drive very expensive vehicles at an auto dealership.
  11. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever. Have an unabashed good time!
  12. In the middle of the night, drive to the beach, so you arrive just as the sun is rising. have a breakfast picnic, then fall asleep together. Bring a sun umbrella.
  13. Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you’ve never been to. With fake names.
  14. Go to a minor league baseball game under the stars. Tell each other stories about how bad you are at athletics. Randomly cheer for both teams. Eat lots of Cracker Jacks.
  15. Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things.
  16. Walk around  a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras.
  17. With a camera and pair of boots, make photo-log of a day in the life of the invisible man.
  18. Walk around the city all night and find a place to eat breakfast at dawn.
  19. Go to a restaurant and convince the cook to create something completely new for you.
  20. Rent a movie you’ve never seen before. Set on mute and improvise the dialogue.

 

 

Crazy Times

September 5, 2010 in Fun with 3 Comments

Business First

These last few months have been a roller-coaster. After leaving Sandstorm Design in June, I have only one word to describe how I have been and that would be BUSY!
I worked several short projects at a few different interactive agencies, a trading firm, and starting after labor day I will be full-time at Sears Holdings Corporation.

Simple Life Lesson

March 25, 2010 in Fun with 2 Comments

At age 25, Jim makes $100,000 a year. He’s constantly traveling for business. He has a large home in which he often doesn’t visit some rooms for months at a time. He eats out every single night. He drives a leased Lexus, which he updates every few years at the end of the lease. He buys a whole new wardrobe every six months, taking the leftovers to Goodwill. He spends everything he brings in.

At age 25, Bill makes $35,000 a year. He lives in a smaller home and doesn’t travel much. He makes most of his own meals at home. He drives a Toyota Corolla, which he owns free and clear. He wears clothes until they’re worn, then shops at Goodwill for replacements, often picking up Jim’s barely-worn clothes. At the end of the year, he usually has about $5,000 of his income left over, which he sticks into his stock investments which earn 8% a year.

In ten years, Jim’s net worth hasn’t grown a cent. In those same ten years, Bill has $72,000 in the bank.

At the twenty year mark, Jim’s net worth still hasn’t grown a cent. In those same twenty years, Bill has built up $228,098 in the bank.

At the thirty year mark, Jim’s still breaking even. Bill, on the other hand, has $566,416 in the bank.

At age sixty five, Jim hasn’t accumulated a cent and will be working for the man for the rest of his life. At the same age, Bill has $1.3 million in the bank and can do whatever he wants for the rest of his life – and probably already started doing that a few years earlier.

It doesn’t matter how much you earn. It matters how much you save.

When I was twenty five, my net worth was negative and heading south rapidly. I spent more than I earned and I didn’t really worry about the consequences of it. I figured if I had the money – or the credit – I certainly ought to spend it in whatever way made my life more enjoyable right now.

I’m now thirty one. My net worth is still negative (although it would be positive if I counted the value of my home towards it, which I do not), but it grows every month in a positive direction and will soon become positive even without the house value.

One might immediately think that I must have made my life less enjoyable to make that change. Actually, my life is more enjoyable now.

I have a better grasp on the things that actually make me happy and I don’t waste my money on things that don’t.

I’m not chained to a desk and a career, fearing the pink slip – I set my own career rules and goals.

I’m not afraid of getting the mail any more and I don’t wake up at night worried about how I’m possibly going to make ends meet or pay all of this off in the future.

Perhaps best of all, my financial position is improving every single month and I no longer see the long-term future as some kind of musty cloud that will “work itself out.” I know it’s getting better and I know that, if I continue on this path, I’ll be able to easily have some of the big things I actually want in life, like a beautiful house in the country with some wooded land in the back.

My life now is something I’ll happily trade having a shiny new Lexus and an iPhone and a set of high-end golf clubs and eating out every night for. In exchange, I’m not worried about the future and I have career and personal freedom I would never otherwise have.

Wealth has little to do with how much you earn. It’s how you spend – or save – it.

How NOT to be an enormous douche when you are getting to know a woman.

November 27, 2009 in Fun with 3 Comments

I came across this blog entry from a friend of mine, named Zach Schneider in Michigan.  When I read this entry I found it to be very true and I wanted to spread the word to all guys out there so that they can treat women the way women should be treated.

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1.) SINCERITY If you can’t act or speak with sincerity then just don’t. Nothing is more unattractive. If you don’t mean it, don’t say it. Don’t try and make yourself up to be something you are not. She will know, and she will laugh her ass off at you later.

2.) STFU Don’t talk about yourself too much, if you must expound upon your latest and greatest exploit don’t be a braggart. Make the story entertaining, short, and the ending should lead into a question you would like them to answer about themselves. You are trying to get to know them. Rattling your bonebox about yourself all night shows women one thing: your complete and utter lack of interest for anyone but yourself.

3.) BE A GENTLEMAN Your actions speak louder than your words. You are being examined most likely under a hell of a lot more scrutiny than your feeble mind could manage in her direction. She is paying attention to how you are moving, your facial expressions, and especially how you treat and speak of other people. You are a man act like one. Be respectful to those you come into contact with. Stand up when she approaches the table if you are sitting. Take her jacket. Open doors (car doors too lazy ass). Pay for her drinks. Should she decide to thank you, her company and continued tolerance of your dumb ass should be thanks enough. Nothing is more disgusting than expectation of compensation monetary or otherwise.

4.) OTHER WOMEN Don’t talk in any amount of detail about other women. Ever. The only exception: how much you love your mother (don’t take that too far either lest she confuse it for an Oedipus complex). Contrary to what you might think she doesn’t want to hear about how well you treated the last woman that dumped your dumb ass. She also doesn’t care how many other women think you are great. All that matters is her attention, and you won’t be getting it talking that way because again it only enhances the appearance of your own self interest. Seriously this is a great way to move a girl from love interest to permanent friend status real quick. You will know this has happened when they start telling you about their exes.

5.) MANNERISMS Show your interest by maintaining eye contact. Yes eye contact. You may let your eyes stray across her features on occasion, but nothing will class you as a pig faster than you staring at her body. Move with confidence and intent. If you are going to do something do it with aplomb. If you fear a fiery crash you will create one. Don’t. Women can read facial cues much better than you. Nothing is more disgusting or sad than a man who looks at a woman with needy desire written all over his face. I saw it sitting there, that means she saw it 10 fold. You can get away with a lot of facial expressions, but needy/unsure is not one of them.

6.) TOUCH Don’t grab women. Ever. If she wants you to touch her she will invite you to. When you decide to take this invitation touch should be light, fleeting, and it should be directed toward a respectful part of her person. Her arm, shoulder, hands, neck, and for the bold her face. Again if you can’t do this with confidence just don’t. Confident movement and sincere intent is the difference between desirable contact and disgusting groping. Gentleman don’t grope women.

Anyway if you are an ENORMOUS DOUCHE and have read this note, hopefully you can get over yourself and realize that sincere intent trumps posturing bravado and can lead to an actual relationship as opposed to… well whatever the hell else you might manage on your own. In so doing perhaps you can shed your previous title and become a real man. Good luck!

Nine Words Women Use

October 20, 2009 in Fun, Life, Linux with 3 Comments

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6) That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you’re welcome. (I want to add in a clause here – This is true, unless she says ‘Thanks a lot’ – that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say ‘you’re welcome’ . That will bring on a ‘whatever’).

(8) Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying GO TO HELL

(9) Don’t worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For the woman’s response refer to #3.

Born Brave!

December 22, 2008 in Fun with 0 Comments

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