This is interesting. I was talking to someone about my high-rep workout recently. I was explaining to him exactly what I was trying to accomplish. He has a different body type than me so I didn't go so far as to recommend the workout to him. He has different goals and a different body type. This went without incident because it isn't significant to say that someone with different goals and body types should do a different workout. I am never the guy who claim that what is good for one person is good for everyone.
I think that it makes some people uncomfortable if you point out the fact that there is some difference between you and them that makes something different up your alley as opposed to theirs. It seems to make people unconfortable if you don't point it out but you just live life in such a manner. There are differences between people, though. I think its worthwhile to be rational about it sometimes.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
10/25/2010
I meet a lot more people who are fighting a fight against diminishing returns lately. The fact that some people are far beyond or exceeding what actually translates into anything extra to show for it seems to bother them a lot. The fact that this guy's 8 pack gets them the same girl as that guy who has a four pack stomach seems to eat them alive inside. The fact that they live in a comparable mansion to someone with lesser status really seems to bother them. The fact that their upscale venue barely rivals some hole in the wall in club in Hollywood that anyone with the right "look" ca nget into seems to bother them. Thats an interesting mindset.
I was watching cartoons at some point in the recent past. I don't watch much tv so I don't know how to act when I have a remote control. Cartoons today are so much different than they were were i was that age. GI Joe and Transformers might still be on television in some way shape or form but they are not much like the originial. I guess that that refelects upon the writers. Whoever wrote for cartoons when i was that age is probably in their 60s by now. Its interesting to think that that would translate into cartoond being a lot edgier back then.
I was listening to some rap songs that were released recently. It dawned on me that most of the hits that were released between the late 80s and up till recently were mostly released by people in the same age racket. They are all close to 40 now right? maybe a little bit older or a little bit younger. People who were younger than that were like honorary members of that generation for the purposes of that genre of music. What happens at this point? Does that quality of the genre diminish as they move on to things?
I was thinkingabout that hitchcock episode "The Case of Mr Pelham." This is not to be confused with that Travolta/ Washingtom movie that was released recently. It made me think about indentity theft generally. If there was ever a serious indentity theft situation, people probably want the person who they know or the person who they like to most to win that case. That doesn't really prove anything though. Certainly people being able to speak to who they have been dealing with claiming to be said person matters but hard evidence doesn't cease to matter because of it (I am talking about the sitation wjhere there is a genuine dispute). It is probably difficult to regain your identity in a situation where someone of status steals your identity also... I have never encountered anyone who was enough like me to plausibly be mistaken for me after any lengthy interaction...
Someone posted a comment asking me if I ever felt lonely: thats an interesting question. It is certainly the case that not everyone can cause me to feel other than lonely...this leads to loneliness when I am too far away from ideal situations. Thats the best answer that I can give. Its always good for people to take my word for when I am in an ideal sitation though...A person is beside him/herself to attempt to exceed my stance on that. It is an issue of degree, though. The last time that I Very didnt feel alone was probably 2005...
I was watching cartoons at some point in the recent past. I don't watch much tv so I don't know how to act when I have a remote control. Cartoons today are so much different than they were were i was that age. GI Joe and Transformers might still be on television in some way shape or form but they are not much like the originial. I guess that that refelects upon the writers. Whoever wrote for cartoons when i was that age is probably in their 60s by now. Its interesting to think that that would translate into cartoond being a lot edgier back then.
I was listening to some rap songs that were released recently. It dawned on me that most of the hits that were released between the late 80s and up till recently were mostly released by people in the same age racket. They are all close to 40 now right? maybe a little bit older or a little bit younger. People who were younger than that were like honorary members of that generation for the purposes of that genre of music. What happens at this point? Does that quality of the genre diminish as they move on to things?
I was thinkingabout that hitchcock episode "The Case of Mr Pelham." This is not to be confused with that Travolta/ Washingtom movie that was released recently. It made me think about indentity theft generally. If there was ever a serious indentity theft situation, people probably want the person who they know or the person who they like to most to win that case. That doesn't really prove anything though. Certainly people being able to speak to who they have been dealing with claiming to be said person matters but hard evidence doesn't cease to matter because of it (I am talking about the sitation wjhere there is a genuine dispute). It is probably difficult to regain your identity in a situation where someone of status steals your identity also... I have never encountered anyone who was enough like me to plausibly be mistaken for me after any lengthy interaction...
Someone posted a comment asking me if I ever felt lonely: thats an interesting question. It is certainly the case that not everyone can cause me to feel other than lonely...this leads to loneliness when I am too far away from ideal situations. Thats the best answer that I can give. Its always good for people to take my word for when I am in an ideal sitation though...A person is beside him/herself to attempt to exceed my stance on that. It is an issue of degree, though. The last time that I Very didnt feel alone was probably 2005...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
10/19/2010
Someone asked me what scares me...Once I was headed to a bar/club with a friend of mine. He said: "You hang out at Hollywood Billiards!" I had never told him that I hung out at Hollywood Billiards and wouldn't tell me how he knew that I hung out there. That sort of thing bothers me... That place probably doesn't exist anymore...
It makes sense to me that there would be technological advances beyond what the general public knows about in eixstence. I wonder how many unsolvable situations would be solvable if people could account for the fact that there is technology out there that they probably don't know about/ is beyond what they have access to. I can imagine a handful of things that would change everything if they existed and these things are not that much of a stretch.
I was looking at a bunch of definitions recently. This dictionary had a bunch of definitions that I had never heard of. I was sitting there trying to figure out if these defintions are to be taken as synonymous with the other definitions that I found elsewhere or if they were different defintions. Thats not always obvious...
It makes sense to me that there would be technological advances beyond what the general public knows about in eixstence. I wonder how many unsolvable situations would be solvable if people could account for the fact that there is technology out there that they probably don't know about/ is beyond what they have access to. I can imagine a handful of things that would change everything if they existed and these things are not that much of a stretch.
I was looking at a bunch of definitions recently. This dictionary had a bunch of definitions that I had never heard of. I was sitting there trying to figure out if these defintions are to be taken as synonymous with the other definitions that I found elsewhere or if they were different defintions. Thats not always obvious...
Monday, October 18, 2010
10/18/2010
This is a link that I think is worth checking out. Recently I wrote a blog about how I think that the college dunk contest tends to be more entertaining than the NBA dunk contest. This is what I am talking about...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Pepperdine-guard-Keion-Bell-dunks-over-seven-peo?urn=ncaab-277687
I know that a lot of people have played the video game grand theft auto 4. If you have played that game you have probably reached the point where a random guy on the street gives Nico a hundred dollar bill and the only reason was because he is rich. I thought: thats interesting... No one would do that in real life but its a video game so whatever. Something similar to that happened to me in real life. I was sitting at a bus stop when this guy walks over to me. He was dressed in shabby swaet pants and an Old t-shirt. He walks up to me and shows me a a wad of hundred dollar bills and says that he would give me one of them if I could finish the lyrics of the song that he was singing. I didn't know the lyrics to the song so I didn't get anything. I am not sure if he was trying to make some sort of point about not judging a book by its cover by dressing shabbily then showing me thousands of dollars etc but I don't "have" that sort of behavior. I started to say, "Are you stupid or something??!"
I really am not the guy who polices whether people "get their own" or not. Certain people are going to have to stop bothering me though. Its like that whole "you don't have to go home but you have to get out of here" thing. I do have people start conversations with me and its a positive thing sometimes but...people who don't fit into that category wont get much responsiveness from me. Apparently people fill in all of the gaps about me with stereotypes. Since they don't know much about me I get a lot of that sort of thing sent in my direction: Apparently they don't know that thats frowned on...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Pepperdine-guard-Keion-Bell-dunks-over-seven-peo?urn=ncaab-277687
I know that a lot of people have played the video game grand theft auto 4. If you have played that game you have probably reached the point where a random guy on the street gives Nico a hundred dollar bill and the only reason was because he is rich. I thought: thats interesting... No one would do that in real life but its a video game so whatever. Something similar to that happened to me in real life. I was sitting at a bus stop when this guy walks over to me. He was dressed in shabby swaet pants and an Old t-shirt. He walks up to me and shows me a a wad of hundred dollar bills and says that he would give me one of them if I could finish the lyrics of the song that he was singing. I didn't know the lyrics to the song so I didn't get anything. I am not sure if he was trying to make some sort of point about not judging a book by its cover by dressing shabbily then showing me thousands of dollars etc but I don't "have" that sort of behavior. I started to say, "Are you stupid or something??!"
I really am not the guy who polices whether people "get their own" or not. Certain people are going to have to stop bothering me though. Its like that whole "you don't have to go home but you have to get out of here" thing. I do have people start conversations with me and its a positive thing sometimes but...people who don't fit into that category wont get much responsiveness from me. Apparently people fill in all of the gaps about me with stereotypes. Since they don't know much about me I get a lot of that sort of thing sent in my direction: Apparently they don't know that thats frowned on...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Hmm
The funniest thing is that people people will say battereis in the back ground for an extended period of time. If it just happened once you probably wouldnot notice. After it goes on for an extended period of time it starts to get to you. If they say "Im Gay" or "I'm Insane" in the background a few times they say that they said something that rhymes with it when they are approached or something like that. There's that guy whose screaming "Get some counseling" or "cuckold" into the phone while he's talking about it. Or better yet when someone says something especially ergregious and obvious in the background then people start saying "hallucinate" in the background.
That sort of thing is always interesting to me because I am not the sort of person who bothers people or crosses them without any sort of provocation whatsoever. I guess that it is a stage that you reach in your thinking where you understand that that sort of thing is a terrible idea. I guess that you have to get some backlash for doing something like that to understand the cost-benefit of it and not bother people. Its just not worth it.
I have also come to realize that crazy people are not at the bottom of the food chain by any stretch of the imagination. People should do what they can to be North of that...
That sort of thing is always interesting to me because I am not the sort of person who bothers people or crosses them without any sort of provocation whatsoever. I guess that it is a stage that you reach in your thinking where you understand that that sort of thing is a terrible idea. I guess that you have to get some backlash for doing something like that to understand the cost-benefit of it and not bother people. Its just not worth it.
I have also come to realize that crazy people are not at the bottom of the food chain by any stretch of the imagination. People should do what they can to be North of that...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
10/6/2010
Can you be rejected by someone who you didn't express any interested in? If someone breaks into your house and locates you in your den then rejects you, is that still a rejection?
It has been raining constantly for nearly a week. This is an outrageous amount of rain for Southern California. It was 110 degrees one day last week before this constant downpour...
What if people were tall enough that wild cats (like Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc) were the same size that a domestic cat is relative to regular people. If a person walked past a Leopard they were walking past an animal the size of a regular cat from their vantage point. I bet that jungle cats wouldn't make a sound when people walked past them...
Moments definitely matter but I think of things other than a moment when I describe person generally. If someone doesn't have a dime in their pocket right now and gets splashed by a car driving over a muddy puddle, I don't describe them as some Filthy person who doesn't have a dime to their name until they get over to the atm and take a shower ten minutes later. I think that a lot of people are about the moment..
I still have a "respect of person" when it comes to whose opinion matters to me. Anyone can make a valid point and I would respect it but otherwise I am not inclined to put a ton of weight upon every person's opinion on a given topic. I encounter a fair amount of people who I don't identify with but they won't drop the issue and let me go about my business if we cannot agree. What a person should do when someone is not respecting where they are coming from and refuses to drop the issue and stop bothering them about it is domething that I am trying to resolve. Somethin has to give in that situation. When people are disrespectfull its never fun...
It has been raining constantly for nearly a week. This is an outrageous amount of rain for Southern California. It was 110 degrees one day last week before this constant downpour...
What if people were tall enough that wild cats (like Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc) were the same size that a domestic cat is relative to regular people. If a person walked past a Leopard they were walking past an animal the size of a regular cat from their vantage point. I bet that jungle cats wouldn't make a sound when people walked past them...
Moments definitely matter but I think of things other than a moment when I describe person generally. If someone doesn't have a dime in their pocket right now and gets splashed by a car driving over a muddy puddle, I don't describe them as some Filthy person who doesn't have a dime to their name until they get over to the atm and take a shower ten minutes later. I think that a lot of people are about the moment..
I still have a "respect of person" when it comes to whose opinion matters to me. Anyone can make a valid point and I would respect it but otherwise I am not inclined to put a ton of weight upon every person's opinion on a given topic. I encounter a fair amount of people who I don't identify with but they won't drop the issue and let me go about my business if we cannot agree. What a person should do when someone is not respecting where they are coming from and refuses to drop the issue and stop bothering them about it is domething that I am trying to resolve. Somethin has to give in that situation. When people are disrespectfull its never fun...
Monday, October 4, 2010
10/4/2010
Recently someone made the comment that a rumor ruined their life. I actually believe that that could be true in my current universe. This doesn't seem to be the situation where a person could get in trouble for spreading baseless accusations/rumors...
I hear a lot of people talking about selfishness latey in different contexts. People rarely elaborate on what they did or what someone else did that is selfish, though. That might be appropriate but sometimes I wonder what is considered to be a selfish act. Most people sacrifice for some people/ some cause to some degree at some point. Are people spending on something that they dont want at all when that money could save someone's life? Is it the far other end of the spectrum and someone thinks that people should be walking restaurants and exist for the soul purpose of letting people eat off of them? What is a selfish act?
I really get sick of hearing verbal batteries. Someone needs to check those people when they are very blatant...
I hear a lot of people talking about selfishness latey in different contexts. People rarely elaborate on what they did or what someone else did that is selfish, though. That might be appropriate but sometimes I wonder what is considered to be a selfish act. Most people sacrifice for some people/ some cause to some degree at some point. Are people spending on something that they dont want at all when that money could save someone's life? Is it the far other end of the spectrum and someone thinks that people should be walking restaurants and exist for the soul purpose of letting people eat off of them? What is a selfish act?
I really get sick of hearing verbal batteries. Someone needs to check those people when they are very blatant...
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