Finding Mr. Right: Dating in the News
Dating project results in book—and marriage—for RC grad. Roanoke College News
Johnson’s book, “31 Dates in 31 Days,” details the month-long dating project that led her straight into the arms of Mr. Right. After countless breakups and years of painfully bad dates, Johnson decided that it was time to take matters into her own …
Are you dating prayerfully? Catholic News Agency
How often have you witnessed in dating others (or within yourself) inconsistency with what is professed as belief and the words and behavior? Christians who are dating each other are confused and get damaged or discouraged because the expectation of …
National Pet Peeve Week: Dating Annoyances. San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
To coincide with this loving occasion, the San Francisco-based online dating site, Zoosk, has asked 1500 of its members to reveal the most despised pet peeves that occur while dating. So to those single folks out there, take notes on what men and women …
Fit to flirt. Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
A new dating approach that offers a bit of chatting and flirting as part of your fitness regime. From bars to grocery stores to internet dating, a reported man drought means we males are now armed with a plethora of ways to meet eligible women in …
DateMyRide.com: Clunker Owners Take Heed — Trade Up or Leave. MarketWatch (press release) ORLANDO, FL, Oct 12, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX)
The recently launched and ever so popular free dating site for car enthusiasts, Datemyride.com, is asking its thousands of registered, online users to: ‘Trade Up their Clunker Cars or Leave the Site! …
Where Are You? Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Do you know where you are now and where you’re headed towards?
I’ve offered you the “Failure to prepare” quote before and I try to only repeat myself on special occasions. This isn’t one of them.
On this day I hope you’ve succeeded in your ability to plan your day and to handle your responsibilities as only you know how they need to maintained for you to succeed.
Life can be good and I am certain that since you’ve come this far that you are aware of how much farther you need to go to reach your own goals and be cable to help with the goals for those of your family and friends that you take responsibility of.
Here is a short exercise to help define your life by distance.
Step 1: Go to Google Maps and pick as the first destination your work address (if it’s the same as your home address skip the next step). Save each of the destinations asked for in this and the following steps. On a list right down the last date (if more than one) of each map marker.
Step 2: Enter your home address. (Save it.)
Step 3: Enter the address you went on your last date, an approximation is fine if the date has been so long ago the address is a foggy memory. (Save it.)
Step 4: Enter the address of the last family member (of your own family) you went to visit. (Save it.)
Step 5: Continuing doing this until the last 6 months of your life have been marked by place markers on the map, with the dates as accurate as possible, there won’t be a test after this one so don’t worry too much about a week here or there.
Step 6: Print out the map with detail enough to see the markers you’ve placed on the map.
This map is the “History of the world (insert your name here) style”.
You have been and went, come and gone. Some places more often than others and some places not enough. And I will leave this with two final tasks.
Task 1: Tape your newly printed map and printed list together on your fridge, on your bedroom wall or somewhere easily seen but not overly noticeable that every person will ask you what it is for, how it is to be used.
Task 2: On return to each marked by a place marker draw a circle around it.
Over the next six months pay attention to how the circles grow on the map. They are telling you a secret. That secret will be revealed to you on request.
For your profile ad headline today I suggest this:
“I have my life under control except for one more surprise - you!”
Have a great day!
Friday’s Conversation Topics
I work hard (well not any recent time in memory) but when I did work I searched high and low for the best news stories of the past week that would provide for you great conversational topics and openers. I’m almost completely back to work, just a while longer to heal (it’s a long story) and i should be good to get to it.None the less, I offer you these top news stories to read and allow you to be prepared for a conversation with a new friend that will go beyond the usual exchange of a few niceties and then awkward silence. Let’s begin shall we:
- Mom Sells Baby for $15K Disney Trip: Cops - A new mom is in hot water after selling her newborn son for $15,000 so she could take her other two sons on a trip to Disney World, according to court documents. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal… Well, this would usually be classified as “weird news” but…
- ‘I’ve become so good at the dating game I’m addicted to it’: Meet the matchmaking expert who cannot hold down a boyfriend. Hayley Quinn, who has helped teach 100,000 men how to seduce women cannot find a boyfriend for a reason that would have scandalised high society Georgians: she is addicted to casual flings…
- Self-reported drunk driving is down. (AP) The decline may be due to the down economy: Other research suggests people are still drinking as heavily as in years past, so some may just be finding cheaper ways of imbibing than by going to bars, night clubs and restaurants…
- Hacker Group Anonymous Threatens to Attack Stock Exchange. The FBI is investigating threats purportedly from the hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous to bring down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday by hacking into its computer system. Members of the notorious hacker group appear to be threatening to bring the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to a dangerous new level, sounding a call to “declare war on the New York Stock Exchange” on Monday by “erasing” it from the Internet…
- Slutwalking into History. There seems to be a lot of slutwalking going on these days. According to news reports like this one, the protests that began in Toronto last month have gone global. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, the slutwalk protests aim both to reclaim the word “slut” from those who use it to try to shame women for being openly sexual creatures and to redirect that shame to where it belongs: aimed squarely at men who feel justified in sexually abusing women. The message is something like, “Fine, I’m a slut. Now, buzz off!” Fair enough, I’d say.
The Friday night conversation is alive and well, as long as you’re prepared. Have a great weekend!
Hump Day’s Motivational Picture
Hey guys, I just missed the deadline yesterday but I didn’t forget about you. Meet Peggy, an art model from Met Art (NSFW). She likes walks on the beach, playing with puppies and parties for two. Hump Day should be very afraid when you share the energy that Peggy has to get through the most dreadful day of the week! Go now and have a live chat with Peggy and her friends (NSFW).
Hump Day’s Motivational Picture
Vamisia, art model, Hump Day Pic
Welcome to Hump Day my most favorite day of the week!
Hopefully you have a job to and then you will hate this day as much as I do; but to be totally honest I hated this day even when I wasn’t working because it was on this day that all of my working friends were goofing off and getting paid to not be at work and dragging me along as a possible alibi for their bosses. But at least they bought me beer.
Vimasia, this week’s Hump Day model, might just be waiting for you with a pair of cold beers waiting to hear all about your day.
Of course, I could be wrong but only time will tell.
Hump Day’s Motivational Picture
It’s that time of the week again, I feel so sorry for all of us. But there is a bright side to Hump Day and it’s called Adry A., a photography model and soon to be actress that loves what she does. And she shares too.
Adry A.
See more of Adry’s photo gallery at Met Art.
Friday’s Conversation Topics
Another week, another few days of wackiness and newsworthy stories. It’s all about what I have and what you want this week. You’re going to want to talk about these news stories. Really! Read on.
- “I know the law”… and now this Spanish lady owns the sun. It’s amazing what the power of a notary public is and I have to wonder what Angeles Duran is going to charge us for using the sun. This is a great entrepreneurial job, don’t you think? Hmmm…
- It’s a good probability that your computer is already fingerprinted (that is, cataloged by each device’s unique combination of hardware, software and installed fonts) and you’re being tracked more intricately that ever before. David Norris’s company BlueCava has already fingerprinted 200 million internet devices and expects to have more than 1 billion devices fingerprinted and trackable for online advertisers by the end of 2011. It’s going to be very hard to use any internet-enabled device and not be followed online soon, if not already.
- Yes, I said he has a camera in the back of his head. Hey, everyone wants to be known as “the first” and academia being what it is these days, if you can’t impress one way, go farther than anyone else and make your mark with a camera in the back of your head. yes, this article includes a video to sate your curiosity and give you even more to talk about. “The thumb-sized camera is mounted on a titanium plate inserted inside the back of his head” Professor Wafaa Bilal said. Once the camera is broadcasting via a computer Professor Bilal carries with him you’ll be able to view the pictures at www.3rdi.me.
- In these hard times there’s always a story of a guy, somewhere, augmenting his income in a less-than-lawful way. Mr. Gumbs, while working at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, managed to order a few extra toner cartidges and (possibly but this has yet to be proven in court) sold them on some ink-black-market. Well, maybe a little more than a few, maybe more like $3.4 million dollars of excess (and still missing) toner purchased since 2004 that never made it into the hospital’s supply system. Of course, a lot of the ink didn’t even fit any of the printers that are in use at Sloan-Kettering. I guess this was a “great job” for a while…
Have a great week!
The Photographer: Hump Day’s Motivational Picture
We are here, which is not only the middle of the week but for many people the end of the week too, those lucky ones that are soon to be feasting on turkey and all the trimmings.
The photographer getting a close-up
Have a great Hump Day!!
Voting booths by zip code
Here is a link to a google map to help you find your nearest voting booth.
It can be hard to find where to go to vote so I hope this link helps you. Click here to go to the map.
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Voting results links
- Voting results map
- California prop 19 results
Facebook will block photos of your ex
In a move none too soon, Facebook will begin a roll-out to all users to start NOT showing pictures of your ex (the one that used to be your main squeeze) tied to your account.
No more, hopefully, will Facebook continue to torture you with pictures of your ex with their new beau.
Quote from InsideFacebook.com:
… Facebook’s project manager in charge of photos, Sam Odio, commented on the post saying, “Hi All – I’d like to let you know that we’re listening to your feedback. The photo memories product no longer shows tagged photos of your friends if you were previously in a relationship with them.” While users may still see Photo Memories of their former romantic partners if they didn’t declare the relationship on Facebook, as well of their current partner with that person’s former partners, the change should help heal the heartache for many users.
End quote
I think Sam Odio is onto something great here.
Hump Day’s Motivational Picture
The Burnt Foot Picture
You can be certain that no matter what your day is like today this guy’s is going to get much worse than it. Fast. And soon.
Ouch!
