God damnit, what is up with all these youngsters these days saying "I have short term memory *giggle*" as if that means you can only remember things for a short time?
Newsflash: It means the exact opposite! You have short term memory that allows you to remember (I think) 7 pieces of info at a time, until they are passed on to your long term memory.
Of course you have short term memory, you bungholes, or you'd be suffering from amnesia!
On the topic of short term memory.. it's pretty scary how little "RAM" the brain actually has (yes, I know a neural net !== sequencial computer). Try to read and recall a random sequence of one or two digit numbers. 6-8 numbers shouldn't be too hard, but as soon as you push more numbers onto the stack, the first ones start falling off the other end! Feels retty weird..
Couldn't agree more! Not being an "old fart" myself (although the "get off my lawn"-mentality is creeping up on me at age 23) I still listen to proper music. By "proper", of course, I mean music that takes the creativity and hard work of several talented people to produce. If I am coding I need my brain to function and my creativity to be on. Listening to nothing at all, or (even worse) techno/trance/woman-moaning-to-base-beat-produced-by-guy-in-moms-basement utterly kills any ability I might have at solving problems and coming up with snassy stuff.
However, I still think there are some basic rules that apply no matter what kind of woman you are trying to attract. First off, looking healthy. Statistically, we like symmetry. Statistically, symmetry equals good genes. Ergo, somewhere deep down in every healthy human brain there is the link that (looking good == beeing healty == good mate).
By "looking healthy" I mean just general stuff. Having a closet full of fetish stuff to impress goth chicks ain't gonna do much good if you're >20kg overweight. In fact, it'd do you as much good as showing up at a beach party, pasty-pale potbelly flapping about and trying to hit on hot, tan beach girls.
I'm just saying.. someone actually posting a question like this probably needs to start with the basics instead of getting way ahead of himself with leather pants, latex, surfboards and whatnot. =P
Yes, even the "careful, socially conscious woman" wants a man she actually finds attractive. Funny how that works! *cough* In 99% of human population, the base attributes of attraction are whatever would make one a good mate/parent: athletic/healthy-looking, intelligent, charismatic and self confident. No matter how nice a woman is, she doesn't really get turned on by fat, hairy, sleazy-looking guys with unclean skin. Weird, uh?
If you take care of your body, eat healthy, get some sun now and then, go to the hairdresser, throw away those 10 years old college t-shirts and at least have the self confidence to socialize and talk to people, style becomes a rather moot point. Won't matter if you prefer rock, country, goth, scene, punk, "beach boy", "disgusting, slick guy living of daddys cash"... Just go with whatever style you feel most comfortable with. Some people will always give you shit. If they give you shit about being yourself, at least you know they aren't worth the 2 seconds it takes you to tell them to go fuck themselfs.
So.. you're saying his only choices are:
A. someone *erm* "special"
B. someone from the local animal shelter
C. hobo/homeless drug addict/alcoholic
Not sure I agree with your advice there, slick! While it might very well be that someone you pick up at the "special" olympics makes more sense than your average woman most of the time, a dog or a cat might be easier to understand and a drug addict/alcoholic might be more coherent, I still think he owes it to himself and to the gene pool do at least try to have kids who might inherit both his geeky brain and their mothers good looks!
I have no clue what you look like, but here's a couple of tips for ya:
1. Go to the gym. Lift weights 4 times a week, eat fat and proteins (gorge yourself on fish, eggs, meat, etc.) and befriend someone who knows something about steroids. No, steroids are not evil. No, looking like Ronnie Coleman is not attractive, nor is it anything you could ever achieve. Getting a little muscle definition and V-shape will go a loooong way towards both giving a good first impression and making you feel good about yourself (synergizing with the fact that you look good to give an even better first impression).
2. Dye your hear. Cut it, style it. Get some new clothes. Buy red/white/sharingan/whatever contacts. Whatever, just mix it up a bit! I assume you are below 30, so spiky anime'ish hair is perfectly acceptable. Get some sun (makes you look healthier, which makes you more attractive).
3. Don't think about "getting the girl" or "what if I blow it?". Never. Just don't!
4. Just go to parties, go to the beach, hang out! Keep in mind that women are people too, try to completely ignore the fact that the chick you are talking to is totally turning you on (at least until you kinda know her) and just.. talk.. Be yourself. A drink or two helps a lot with breaking the shyness barrier, though word of advice: do NOT drink too much! You will be annoying as hell, do stuff you regret, say utter dumbtarded stuff.. Just don't.
5. Observe some standards of normal behavior. Shower after you work out (4 times a week, like we just discussed). Put on anti-perspirant deodorant. Sterilan works wonders for me. Being a geek, normal deos like Hugo Boss smell great for 3-4 hours, then I need another shower and reapplication of deo. Get something that doesn't smell much but helps keep you from smelling like a dead horse.
Finally, good luck! The most important part is working on yourself. If you don't look good (healthy and somewhat well groomed) most chicks will instantly disregard you as a potential mate. Physical attraction is a pretty huge part of any relationship, no matter how evolved and intellectual you want to pretend to be. Also, looking ok and knowing you work to stay healthy and fit will, like the motorbike someone posted about above, make you extrude an aura of confidence. It doesn't matter much if you look like Ewan McGregor or Johnny Depp if you don't feel good about yourself. No one else is going to feel good about you if you don't even like you!
This might seem like a harsh question, but how "handicapable" are you? Are you able to do basic electronics and such?
If so, read up on sensory substitution/augmentation, it's truly amazing stuff! I have no idea why modern prostethics that cost in the order of $4000 do not use ss/a to provide feedback, when the parts needed cost roughly $3! I mean, try picking up an egg with your robotic hand with only visual feedback (no pressure, movement, etc.)!
I don't know what part of you is missing, but you should probably be able to make a silicone mold or something that sticks pretty well.
1. Lube up your stump (shave as needed)
2. Open valve to let air out of device
3. Slide stump inside
4. Close valve
I saw a tv show about this stuff once, and it seems like a pretty trivial thing to make. Problems arise when/if you try to do heavy lifting but for typing, it should be more than secure enough.
Add a "pen" with a force sensor or three to the tip, each coupled to a button vibrator placed on the skin of your arm.
The electronics cost $28 per sensor/feedback pair, plus a few bucks for silicone, fiberglass and the "pen". Yeah, it's a hazzle to build it yourself instead of whining on/. but if you want something done right.. you get the point. =P
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God damnit, what is up with all these youngsters these days saying "I have short term memory *giggle*" as if that means you can only remember things for a short time?
Newsflash: It means the exact opposite! You have short term memory that allows you to remember (I think) 7 pieces of info at a time, until they are passed on to your long term memory.
Of course you have short term memory, you bungholes, or you'd be suffering from amnesia!
On the topic of short term memory.. it's pretty scary how little "RAM" the brain actually has (yes, I know a neural net !== sequencial computer). Try to read and recall a random sequence of one or two digit numbers. 6-8 numbers shouldn't be too hard, but as soon as you push more numbers onto the stack, the first ones start falling off the other end! Feels retty weird..
Couldn't agree more! Not being an "old fart" myself (although the "get off my lawn"-mentality is creeping up on me at age 23) I still listen to proper music. By "proper", of course, I mean music that takes the creativity and hard work of several talented people to produce. If I am coding I need my brain to function and my creativity to be on. Listening to nothing at all, or (even worse) techno/trance/woman-moaning-to-base-beat-produced-by-guy-in-moms-basement utterly kills any ability I might have at solving problems and coming up with snassy stuff.
Well, obviously! "Right tools for the job" etc.
However, I still think there are some basic rules that apply no matter what kind of woman you are trying to attract. First off, looking healthy. Statistically, we like symmetry. Statistically, symmetry equals good genes. Ergo, somewhere deep down in every healthy human brain there is the link that (looking good == beeing healty == good mate).
By "looking healthy" I mean just general stuff. Having a closet full of fetish stuff to impress goth chicks ain't gonna do much good if you're >20kg overweight. In fact, it'd do you as much good as showing up at a beach party, pasty-pale potbelly flapping about and trying to hit on hot, tan beach girls.
I'm just saying.. someone actually posting a question like this probably needs to start with the basics instead of getting way ahead of himself with leather pants, latex, surfboards and whatnot. =P
Yes, even the "careful, socially conscious woman" wants a man she actually finds attractive. Funny how that works! *cough* In 99% of human population, the base attributes of attraction are whatever would make one a good mate/parent: athletic/healthy-looking, intelligent, charismatic and self confident. No matter how nice a woman is, she doesn't really get turned on by fat, hairy, sleazy-looking guys with unclean skin. Weird, uh?
If you take care of your body, eat healthy, get some sun now and then, go to the hairdresser, throw away those 10 years old college t-shirts and at least have the self confidence to socialize and talk to people, style becomes a rather moot point. Won't matter if you prefer rock, country, goth, scene, punk, "beach boy", "disgusting, slick guy living of daddys cash"... Just go with whatever style you feel most comfortable with. Some people will always give you shit. If they give you shit about being yourself, at least you know they aren't worth the 2 seconds it takes you to tell them to go fuck themselfs.
So.. you're saying his only choices are:
A. someone *erm* "special"
B. someone from the local animal shelter
C. hobo/homeless drug addict/alcoholic
Not sure I agree with your advice there, slick! While it might very well be that someone you pick up at the "special" olympics makes more sense than your average woman most of the time, a dog or a cat might be easier to understand and a drug addict/alcoholic might be more coherent, I still think he owes it to himself and to the gene pool do at least try to have kids who might inherit both his geeky brain and their mothers good looks!
I have no clue what you look like, but here's a couple of tips for ya:
1. Go to the gym. Lift weights 4 times a week, eat fat and proteins (gorge yourself on fish, eggs, meat, etc.) and befriend someone who knows something about steroids. No, steroids are not evil. No, looking like Ronnie Coleman is not attractive, nor is it anything you could ever achieve. Getting a little muscle definition and V-shape will go a loooong way towards both giving a good first impression and making you feel good about yourself (synergizing with the fact that you look good to give an even better first impression).
2. Dye your hear. Cut it, style it. Get some new clothes. Buy red/white/sharingan/whatever contacts. Whatever, just mix it up a bit! I assume you are below 30, so spiky anime'ish hair is perfectly acceptable. Get some sun (makes you look healthier, which makes you more attractive).
3. Don't think about "getting the girl" or "what if I blow it?". Never. Just don't!
4. Just go to parties, go to the beach, hang out! Keep in mind that women are people too, try to completely ignore the fact that the chick you are talking to is totally turning you on (at least until you kinda know her) and just.. talk.. Be yourself. A drink or two helps a lot with breaking the shyness barrier, though word of advice: do NOT drink too much! You will be annoying as hell, do stuff you regret, say utter dumbtarded stuff.. Just don't.
5. Observe some standards of normal behavior. Shower after you work out (4 times a week, like we just discussed). Put on anti-perspirant deodorant. Sterilan works wonders for me. Being a geek, normal deos like Hugo Boss smell great for 3-4 hours, then I need another shower and reapplication of deo. Get something that doesn't smell much but helps keep you from smelling like a dead horse.
Finally, good luck! The most important part is working on yourself. If you don't look good (healthy and somewhat well groomed) most chicks will instantly disregard you as a potential mate. Physical attraction is a pretty huge part of any relationship, no matter how evolved and intellectual you want to pretend to be. Also, looking ok and knowing you work to stay healthy and fit will, like the motorbike someone posted about above, make you extrude an aura of confidence. It doesn't matter much if you look like Ewan McGregor or Johnny Depp if you don't feel good about yourself. No one else is going to feel good about you if you don't even like you!
This might seem like a harsh question, but how "handicapable" are you? Are you able to do basic electronics and such?
/. but if you want something done right.. you get the point. =P
If so, read up on sensory substitution/augmentation, it's truly amazing stuff! I have no idea why modern prostethics that cost in the order of $4000 do not use ss/a to provide feedback, when the parts needed cost roughly $3! I mean, try picking up an egg with your robotic hand with only visual feedback (no pressure, movement, etc.)!
I don't know what part of you is missing, but you should probably be able to make a silicone mold or something that sticks pretty well.
1. Lube up your stump (shave as needed)
2. Open valve to let air out of device
3. Slide stump inside
4. Close valve
I saw a tv show about this stuff once, and it seems like a pretty trivial thing to make. Problems arise when/if you try to do heavy lifting but for typing, it should be more than secure enough.
Add a "pen" with a force sensor or three to the tip, each coupled to a button vibrator placed on the skin of your arm.
The electronics cost $28 per sensor/feedback pair, plus a few bucks for silicone, fiberglass and the "pen". Yeah, it's a hazzle to build it yourself instead of whining on