{"id":676,"date":"2005-11-19T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T07:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/archives\/676"},"modified":"2005-11-19T23:59:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T07:59:44","slug":"ok-thanks-for-the-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"OK, thanks for the encouragement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I really think I should give up. Find women who share my interests, huh? You should see the women who are into computers and ham radio (and I apologize to those of you who meet those criteria, but you have a lot more guys available than you know what to do with so don&#8217;t read the next bit): they&#8217;re hideous. OK, so I&#8217;m exaggerating, but if they&#8217;re ever so slightly non-hideous, they have hundreds of geeks talking to them every single day. At MIT, for example, the women who you&#8217;d vote most likely to end up living in a house with 40 cats are treated like queens with all the adoration and gifts and paying tributes and whatever else queens get. (And I&#8217;m not talking about the queens who listen to the music in my iPod, either.) It&#8217;s all about the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could take up other hobbies but nobody suggest swing or salsa dancing. I find them both to be rather obnoxious. I guess I could learn to waltz or something. I&#8217;d probably meet nice little old ladies waltzing.<\/p>\n<p>So I can&#8217;t keep doing what I like to do and expect to do much other than live in a crumbling house full of crap with small paths from the sleeping area to the computer area to the filthy kitchen to the filthy bathroom. Oh, and maybe a path to the TV room stacked with empty pizza boxes and take-out cartons.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think of it, a lot of the women I&#8217;m starting to notice at the gym seem to share my interests. And by, &#8220;share my interests,&#8221; I mean, &#8220;they want to go out with women, too.&#8221; The number of available women gets even smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, I had a fine day of laundry and filling my dad&#8217;s pill minder. Oh, and minor yard work. I also went out to a Japanese restaurant with my dad and it reminded me why I put up with smoky bars when I get hungry: bars don&#8217;t allow children and so you don&#8217;t have to watch two-year-olds having temper tantrums all around you. I&#8217;m reminded of my friend Shawn and how she told me that her niece and nephew were the best birth control ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I really think I should give up. Find women who share my interests, huh? You should see the women who are into computers and ham radio (and I apologize to those of you who meet those criteria, but you have a lot more guys available than you know what to do with so don&#8217;t read the next bit): they&#8217;re hideous. OK, so I&#8217;m exaggerating, but if they&#8217;re ever so slightly non-hideous, they have hundreds of geeks talking to them every single day. At MIT, for example, the women who you&#8217;d vote most likely to end up living in a house with 40 cats are treated like queens with all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK, thanks for the encouragement.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}