The January-December Romance

Match Preferences from okcupid.com

The Case For An Older Woman

Even if, like me, you’re not single, you should be reading this fantastic series of posts about user behavior on okcupid. Here’s a telling bit:

The median 30 year-old man spends as much time messaging teenage girls as he does women his own age.

Wow. That’s not creepy at all. And…

Statistically speaking, a woman’s desirability peaks at 21.

Sheely, you have any sociology you want to throw at this?

3 weeks ago | Tags: dating okcupid statistics sociology

Why Piracy Works

Why Piracy Works

3 weeks ago |

By now, I guess I should be less shocked that in the arts, you often find yourself in the midst of a cabal whose bond is an agreement to ignore one another’s bullshit.

1 month ago |

slaughterhouse90210:

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”  — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

slaughterhouse90210:

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Reblogged from slaughterhouse90210 1 month ago |

merlin:

After lunch, Ben took a few moments to explain some of the finer points of how  the VM image he’s setting  up for me will make it easy to safely push changes to the production server while ensuring everything’s properly  checked in to git as well as backed up off-site.
He explained it really well — still, some of the python stuff confused me.

Is that a choad at the bottom of this technical drawing?

merlin:

After lunch, Ben took a few moments to explain some of the finer points of how the VM image he’s setting up for me will make it easy to safely push changes to the production server while ensuring everything’s properly checked in to git as well as backed up off-site.

He explained it really well — still, some of the python stuff confused me.

Is that a choad at the bottom of this technical drawing?

Reblogged from merlin 1 month ago |

American Psycho Poster (via The Live Feed | THR)

American Psycho Poster (via The Live Feed | THR)

2 months ago |

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

sheelysheelysheely:

As I was going through my parents’ audio cassette collection, I discovered an old favorite- “Merry Christmas from The Beach Boys”.  However, once I started listening to it, bad/good things started to happen, depending on your optimal ratio of Beach Boys to beach noise.

Reblogged from sheelysheelysheely 2 months ago |

Politely ignoring the gap between an increasingly sophisticated economy and the capabilities and knowledge of the typical consumer will not make the problem go away.

Maybe the Problem is Us | Bad Money Advice

2 months ago |

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