June 16th, 2000
Daily Diary
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Friday June 16th, 2000
Wow, I can't believe it's Friday already. My summer is passing by fast. Before I know it, I'll be back at school! Fun Fun! Today I actually made a schedule and kept it. I did some housework (I cleaned my room and cleaned the family room). It looks so much better. My house is such a pig sty that hill billies could live here! My basement is the worst! I'm doing something about it!!! Also, I'm so excited and can't wait to finish painting part of the basement for my new room with new furniture that the shelves don't fall out and break! I also began a serious study on physics. I'm having a little trouble with vectors but I figure that after reading the chapter again and doing the practice problems in the book, I will be all good! I'm hoping to get the first 10-20 chapters read before school starts. Wish me luck. I also went on a small trip to the store. I bought two cases of pop, diet mountain dew and diet coke. I also got some milk, cookies, cream of chicken soup, mocha mix, etc. I need to some more work on websites to earn more $$$ - I'm going to be making some business cards! Wish me luck. Bye Bye.
Daily Peeves & Shout-Outs
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Friday June 16th, 2000
When things irritate me, I get angry at the things that irritate me, this also goes for people
I still wish that I had that little time remote! I could slow doen the world and catch up with it!
I love my doggie, she's so so cute! Kisses!
My house needs cleaning! Katie to the rescue!
Bicennential Man was an awesome movie, it's one of my favorites now, which means I have to go out and buy myself a copy!
Harison Ford is my favorite actor!
A Shout Out to Ben Alouette in France!
I have over 10 Sailor Moon videos, isn't that cool?
I found that out while cleaning
Ah caffeine......
I paid my $120 credit card bill yesterday!
That's why I need to make some more $$$$
Picture of the Day
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Men Who Use Computers Are The New Sex Symbols Of The 90s
by Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Windows Magazine, May 1995
I get about 100 e-mail messages a day from readers of my comic strip"Dilbert." Most are from disgruntled office workers, psychopaths, talkers,comic-strip fans -- that sort of person. But a growing number are from women who write to say they think Dilbert is sexy. Some say they've already married a Dilbert and couldn't be happier.
If you're not familiar with Dilbert, he's an electrical engineer who spendsmost of his time with his computer. He's a nice guy but not exactly Kevin Costner. Okay, Dilbert is polite, honest, employed and educated. And he stays home.
These are good traits, but they don't exactly explain the incredible sex appeal. So what's the attraction?
I think it's a Darwinian thing. We're attracted to the people who have thebest ability to survive and thrive. In the old days it was important to beable to run down an antelope and kill it with a single blow to the forehead.
But that skill is becoming less important every year.
Now all that matters is if you can install your own Ethernet card withouthaving to call tech support and confess your inadequacies to a strangerwhose best career option is to work in tech support.
It's obvious that the world has three distinct classes of people, each withits own evolutionary destiny:
Knowledgeable computer users who will evolve into godlike non- corporealbeings who rule the universe (except for those who work in tech support).
Computer owners who try to pass as knowledgeable but secretly use handcalculators to add totals to their Excel spreadsheets. This group willgravitate toward jobs as high school principals and operators of petcrematoriums. Eventually they will become extinct.
Non-computer users who will grow tails, sit in zoos and fling dung at tourists.
Obviously, if you're a woman and you're trying to decide which evolutionary track you want your offspring to take, you don't want to put them on the luge ride to the dung-flinging Olympics. You want a real man. You want a knowledgeable computer user with evolution potential.
And women prefer men who listen. Computer users are excellent listeners because they can look at you for long periods of time without saying anything. Granted, early in a relationship it's better if the guy actually talks. But men use up all the stories they'll ever have after six months. If a woman marries a guy who's in, let's say, retail sales, she'll get repeat stories starting in the seventh month and lasting forever. Marry an engineer and she gets a great listener for the next 70 years.
Plus, with the ozone layer evaporating, it's a good strategy to mate with somebody who has an indoor hobby. Outdoorsy men are applying suntan lotion with SPF 10,000 and yet by the age of 30 they still look like dried chili peppers in pants. Compare that with the healthy glow of a man who spends 12hours a day in front of a video screen.
It's also well established that computer users are better lovers. I knowbecause I heard an actual anecdote from someone who knew a woman who married a computer user and they reportedly had sex many times. I realize this isn'tstatistically valid, but you have to admit it's the most persuasive thing I've written so far.
If you still doubt the sexiness of male PC users, consider their hair. They tend to have either: (1) male pattern baldness -- a sign of elevated testosterone -- or (2) unkempt jungle hair -- the kind you see only on people who just finished a frenzied bout of lovemaking. If this were a trialI think we could reach a verdict on the strong circumstantial evidence alone.
I realize there are a lot of skeptics out there. They'll delight in pointing out the number of computer users who wear wrist braces and suggest it isn't the repetitive use of the keyboard that causes the problem. That's okay.Someday those skeptics will be flinging dung at tourists. Then who'll be laughing? (Answer to rhetorical question: everybody but the tourists.)
Henry Kissinger said power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. And Bill Clinton said that knowledge is power. Therefore, logically, according to the U.S government, knowledge of computers is the ultimate aphrodisiac. You could argue with me -- I'm just a cartoonist -- but it's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms,so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.
You might think this was enough to convince anyone that men who usecomputers are sexy. But look at it from my point of view: I'm getting paid by the word for this article. I'm not done yet.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hotcar. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Technology has replaced hot cars as the new symbol of robust manhood. Menknow that unless they get a digital line to the Internet no woman is going to look at them twice.It's getting worse.
Soon anyone who's not on the World Wide Web will qualifyfor a government subsidy for the home-pageless. And nobody likes a man who takes money from the government, except maybe Marilyn Monroe, which is why the CIA killed her. And if you think that's stupid, I've got 100 words to go.
Finally, there's the issue of mood lighting. Nothing looks sexier than a manin boxer shorts illuminated only by a 15-inch SVGA monitor. If we agree thatthis is every woman's dream scenario, then I think we can also agree thatit's best if the guy knows how to use the computer. Otherwise, he'll justlook like a loser sitting in front of a PC in his underwear.
In summary, it's not that I think non-PC users are less attractive. It'sjust that I'm sure they won't read this article.
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