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Happy Valentine's Day!
As is tradition, it's the annual ValDay update full ranting, raving, and general nonsense. See the 2002, 2003, and 2004 versions for even more fun!
If you're like me and do not have that more-important-than-most person to share today with, it's not your fault. It has now been mathematically proved why I'm single every year. Stastically I would have to meet a new girl every week for 67 years until I found a girl that I liked and liked me back. Or perhaps my single status has more to do with the fact that I'm writing about dating in terms of mathematical probabilities and being somewhat serious about it. Nah, I like the math theory better.
If that's not enough math for you, Salon interviewed the author of a book about Mathematics and Sex. According to the book, statistically, you should date 12 people seriously and then pick the next best person that comes along (be it #13 or #40) in order to have the best chance at happiness.
But wait, there's more! Googling for the Romeo and Juliet equation,, which is the idea that people like people who aren't interested in them, there are whole webpages explaining the differential equations of love (now isn't THAT a romantic slogan? "Differential equations of love". It's catchy). From homework problems to power point presentations, someone spent WAY too much time on this.
And if that all wasn't nerdy enough for you, how about this amazing love poem that you can get on a tshirt:
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
This has also been the first year where my friends have started getting engaged. And it seems to be snowballing, as now it seems like a fair amount of people I know are either engaged or heavily planning on marriage. I suppose it's about that age when it starts happening (my parents were married around my age) but it just doesn't seem that long ago that marriage seemed so far away. It's just another one of those "Geez I'm getting old" things. I'm nowhere close to the marriage club, but I figure it'll happen for me eventually. Or by the age of 25 (Note: Recently was pushed down to 24), which is the age when I've been told by several girls I'd have to marry them if neither of us had married by then. Also at ages 27, 28, and 30. You know you are. :)
And I believe in marriage for all people. More love in the world is never a bad thing.
I couldn't possibly let a Valentine's update go by without at least mentioning the most emo-riffic website out there, "I just want to be friends". Which is the likely response should you take the advice of a college columnist writing an impassioned essay to tell that special person how you feel. I only say it's unlikely to work out as if you spend that much time with a person and can't tell if they like you, then as a general rule they don't. But then sometimes it does have a happy ending, in which case the Internet can come through once again and tell you how to ask someone out. And you can find that person over the Internet as well, though as a famous quote goes about online dating, "The odds are good... but the goods are odd"
Also there's the annual article about why nice guys are kickin rad and yet still don't get women. Which isn't because women hate nice guys, quite the opposite, it's just non-nice guys have other things going for them that overcome the non-niceness, while the "nice guys" just have that going for them and nothing else. What women really want is guys with skills... like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills... or perhaps just cookie making from scratch skills. Those are for an organization to help raise some money and help make Valentine's Day a little tastier for people who don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend to buy them things.
I also spent WAY too much time writing this Gaim script for AIM that keeps track of people who want to be my Valentine or not. Incredibly cheesy... yes. But it's sorta cool, and people so far have gotten a kick out of it. It takes a "Yes!" or "No!" answer and displays the aliased name with a message. Pretty neat no?
And that's the end of this years super long update. I myself have a hot date tonight with my Number Theory textbook since I have a huge test in there tomorrow. I am going to see Breakfast at Tiffany's though on campus with some friends, since I like the movie and Audrey Hepburn is awesome.
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