Tip from my cousin D about working on your voice... hold your nose while you practice singing or talking to learn to remove the nasal quality from it. Excellent.
And now a little thing about psychology... "Are you okay?" "No." If there's one thing I've learned in life... it's that the more sure you are that you've fixed yourself... the less likely you are to have suceeded. I realized this when I recieved a psychological profile from e-harmony... "Wow... that is so me... cool." But as I read I realized something... it's not just who I am... it's who I want to be. That's... probably the awesomest realization to have... ever.
With the exception of a bit of depression I'm who I want to be. And I choose to feel that depression... because it's better to feel pain than nothing at all. Letting yourself go numb on the inside never solved anything... well... this is some guy nobody ever reads, signing off.
P.S. Religion is an important part in mental health.
Hmm... I think I took that wrong... I think she was talking about her cough... har... oh well... it's an important point for someone out there anyway. Merry christmas all.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Carp read with lysdexia.
For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge.
Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them. From here!
Frigging hilarious! Starve men so they like bigger girls.
The study, published in the British Journal of Psychology, demonstrates that "caloric dissatisfaction" can influence preference for female body weight. Researchers showed pictures of women's bodies to 30 hungry men and 31 sated men and asked them to rate the photos for attractiveness.
http://www.metafilter.com/53570/More-Beautiful-Women-Than-Handsome-Men
Beautiful women
As women were given choice in the matter much more recently (at least in Western culture) there is much less common consensus on a male standard of beauty than on a female one.
"Standards of beauty are both innate and culturally universal, and everybody agrees on who is beautiful and who is ugly just like they agree on who is tall and who is short," he said. The top factor is facial features, he said.
(Damn... I'm normal... I tend to be attracted to facial features...)
He said computer programs can precisely measure someone's physical attractiveness. (Look up the golden ratio face, it's wrong... but it's true).
56% of beautiful parents had girls.
41% of non-beautiful parents had girls.
This means that 44% of the beautiful parents had boys. This means 44% of the beautiful people are men and 56% are women, leaving a full 12% unaccounted for.
Personally though, it'd be nice to have a 36% greater chance to have a daughter. But, I get the feeling I'll end up with two sons. (Don't ask me why... it has nothing to do with the above data.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivers_-willard_hypothesis And according to this one I need to find a submissive woman. No... I really like the mean controlling ones.
So statistically (and I'm factoring in a lot of other studies from other statistics), I should become more agressive (to increase my chances), more dominant, less 'nice guy' and go after submissive females... I should. I'm... just going to ignore this study for now. I'm not ready yet anyway.
I should also go for pale women because it's easier to tell if they are healthy.
Or I could just fall in love with her... cuz love is all you need.
To all the women out there... no... to everyone out there. You've been burned... and you're afraid to be burned again. You claim to be looking for someone with no strings so that you won't be emotionally invested. You think if you're not invested you can't be hurt... wrong... so... very... wrong. Or maybe it's not you. Either way, good luck.
Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them. From here!
Frigging hilarious! Starve men so they like bigger girls.
The study, published in the British Journal of Psychology, demonstrates that "caloric dissatisfaction" can influence preference for female body weight. Researchers showed pictures of women's bodies to 30 hungry men and 31 sated men and asked them to rate the photos for attractiveness.
http://www.metafilter.com/53570/More-Beautiful-Women-Than-Handsome-Men
Beautiful women
As women were given choice in the matter much more recently (at least in Western culture) there is much less common consensus on a male standard of beauty than on a female one.
"Standards of beauty are both innate and culturally universal, and everybody agrees on who is beautiful and who is ugly just like they agree on who is tall and who is short," he said. The top factor is facial features, he said.
(Damn... I'm normal... I tend to be attracted to facial features...)
He said computer programs can precisely measure someone's physical attractiveness. (Look up the golden ratio face, it's wrong... but it's true).
56% of beautiful parents had girls.
41% of non-beautiful parents had girls.
This means that 44% of the beautiful parents had boys. This means 44% of the beautiful people are men and 56% are women, leaving a full 12% unaccounted for.
Personally though, it'd be nice to have a 36% greater chance to have a daughter. But, I get the feeling I'll end up with two sons. (Don't ask me why... it has nothing to do with the above data.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivers_-willard_hypothesis And according to this one I need to find a submissive woman. No... I really like the mean controlling ones.
So statistically (and I'm factoring in a lot of other studies from other statistics), I should become more agressive (to increase my chances), more dominant, less 'nice guy' and go after submissive females... I should. I'm... just going to ignore this study for now. I'm not ready yet anyway.
I should also go for pale women because it's easier to tell if they are healthy.
Or I could just fall in love with her... cuz love is all you need.
To all the women out there... no... to everyone out there. You've been burned... and you're afraid to be burned again. You claim to be looking for someone with no strings so that you won't be emotionally invested. You think if you're not invested you can't be hurt... wrong... so... very... wrong. Or maybe it's not you. Either way, good luck.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Lip reading.
Remember, I am not a professional, I take no responsibility for anything, period.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/25198/hearing_loss_options_teach_yourself.html
To get better at lip reading start by watching a newscast and turning the volume down low. Newscasts are a perfect start because the newscaster is trained to speak clearly and distinctively. This will make it much easier for you to grasp what he or she is saying without much sound. Pay attention to the way the newscaster forms certain words. Gradually turn the volume down more and more.
Make sure there is silence throughout the rest of the room or house, as you're learning. Noises throughout the house, such as other tv's or children playing, will make it much more difficult to get in good practice.
As with learning any new trick, you'll have to put in many hours of practice to master it. Practice everyday, using television personalities as your guides. Eventually get to where you mute the tv and attempt to read lips on other shows. You'll grasp some words and some you won't. That's okay. Continue practicing any way.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/25198/hearing_loss_options_teach_yourself.html
To get better at lip reading start by watching a newscast and turning the volume down low. Newscasts are a perfect start because the newscaster is trained to speak clearly and distinctively. This will make it much easier for you to grasp what he or she is saying without much sound. Pay attention to the way the newscaster forms certain words. Gradually turn the volume down more and more.
Make sure there is silence throughout the rest of the room or house, as you're learning. Noises throughout the house, such as other tv's or children playing, will make it much more difficult to get in good practice.
As with learning any new trick, you'll have to put in many hours of practice to master it. Practice everyday, using television personalities as your guides. Eventually get to where you mute the tv and attempt to read lips on other shows. You'll grasp some words and some you won't. That's okay. Continue practicing any way.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
A new post from of all places.
A new post from (of all places) GNU.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
But Kenneth McGraw, associate professor of psychology at the University of Mississippi, cautions that this does not mean behaviorism itself has been invalidated. “The basic principles of reinforcement and rewards certainly work, but in a restricted context” — restricted, that is, to tasks that are not especially interesting.
Start at the top... skip to there when bored... resume. It's very nifty.
Finally... if we could all be so selfless.
http://waxy.org/archive/2004/07/09/jaleco_b.shtml
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
But Kenneth McGraw, associate professor of psychology at the University of Mississippi, cautions that this does not mean behaviorism itself has been invalidated. “The basic principles of reinforcement and rewards certainly work, but in a restricted context” — restricted, that is, to tasks that are not especially interesting.
Start at the top... skip to there when bored... resume. It's very nifty.
Finally... if we could all be so selfless.
http://waxy.org/archive/2004/07/09/jaleco_b.shtml
Sunday, September 23, 2007
http://www.livescience.com/health/070802_micro_expressions.html
http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=attentiontraining
Attention training games.
I'll be delving into ADHD and looking
I wonder how games like HALO that force a child to split their attention with a HUD or Radar affect the child?
Maybe I should do Developmental Game Programming for a living.
http://psych.wisc.edu/childemotion/pubs.html
Experimental influences on multimodal perception of emotion.
"This study suggests that women are picking up on facial cues that are perhaps related to paternal qualities,'' said James Roney, a University of California at Santa Barbara psychologist and lead author of the study. "The more they perceived the men as liking kids, the more likely they could see having a longer-term relationship."
http://www.livescience.com/health/070802_micro_expressions.html
"Our results show that an unconsciously perceived signal of threat, such as a brief facial expression of fear, can still bubble up and unwittingly influence social judgments and how we act," said Paller's colleague Wen Li, also at Northwestern.
"Experts said evolution has apparently programmed women to recognize men who might be interested in propagating the species by raising a family."
We're all programmed... that's why women seem so interested in 'financially stable' men and find them more interesting.
The study wasn't all bad news for men not interested in settling down. It found that women can look at men's faces and figure out which of them have the highest testosterone levels. Those men -- rated the most masculine by the women -- turn out to be just the kind of guys they would want for a fling.
Itcosts 285 dollars for a test of testosterone levels... hmm... I wonder if there are any companies doing tests for statistics... maybe I could find a study. I'm always interested in learing more about myself.
Though I guess my testosterone levels are normal or higher, my facial hair grows fast... and I think about women too often.
http://www.livescience.com/health/060510_male_mortality.html
Competing for a mate can wear a guy out or get him killed.
To impress women, men remain prone to risky behavior.
http://www.livescience.com/health/060213_attraction_rules.html
Really interesing. I forgot about pheremones for a while.
"Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. "It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive."
Attention training games.
I'll be delving into ADHD and looking
I wonder how games like HALO that force a child to split their attention with a HUD or Radar affect the child?
Maybe I should do Developmental Game Programming for a living.
http://psych.wisc.edu/childemotion/pubs.html
Experimental influences on multimodal perception of emotion.
"This study suggests that women are picking up on facial cues that are perhaps related to paternal qualities,'' said James Roney, a University of California at Santa Barbara psychologist and lead author of the study. "The more they perceived the men as liking kids, the more likely they could see having a longer-term relationship."
http://www.livescience.com/health/070802_micro_expressions.html
"Our results show that an unconsciously perceived signal of threat, such as a brief facial expression of fear, can still bubble up and unwittingly influence social judgments and how we act," said Paller's colleague Wen Li, also at Northwestern.
"Experts said evolution has apparently programmed women to recognize men who might be interested in propagating the species by raising a family."
We're all programmed... that's why women seem so interested in 'financially stable' men and find them more interesting.
The study wasn't all bad news for men not interested in settling down. It found that women can look at men's faces and figure out which of them have the highest testosterone levels. Those men -- rated the most masculine by the women -- turn out to be just the kind of guys they would want for a fling.
Itcosts 285 dollars for a test of testosterone levels... hmm... I wonder if there are any companies doing tests for statistics... maybe I could find a study. I'm always interested in learing more about myself.
Though I guess my testosterone levels are normal or higher, my facial hair grows fast... and I think about women too often.
http://www.livescience.com/health/060510_male_mortality.html
Competing for a mate can wear a guy out or get him killed.
To impress women, men remain prone to risky behavior.
http://www.livescience.com/health/060213_attraction_rules.html
Really interesing. I forgot about pheremones for a while.
"Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. "It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive."
Subliminal messages.
http://www.livescience.com/health/070802_micro_expressions.html
Funny, so if everyone smiled, everyone would be nicer! Maybe the japanese tradition of 'wearing masks' when unhappy (if you ever see a japanese person smiling at a funeral, understand that they do it to hide the pain) could make the world a better place. Remember, though, you need to let things out. If you bottle everything up, it'll eat away at you from the inside... and extreme events like the death of a loved one definately needs to be let out. (though, denial is really common).
http://www.mispbo.com/subblaster.htm
Here's some free subliminal software, I wonder if it can do mathematical formulae.
http://www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/spring_01/adv391k/hjy/adv382j/1st/application.html
According to Key, despite the fact the embedded words are not consciously perceived, they are unconsciously perceived and can elicit sexual arousal which in turn makes the products more attractive to consumers <13>.
Funny, so if everyone smiled, everyone would be nicer! Maybe the japanese tradition of 'wearing masks' when unhappy (if you ever see a japanese person smiling at a funeral, understand that they do it to hide the pain) could make the world a better place. Remember, though, you need to let things out. If you bottle everything up, it'll eat away at you from the inside... and extreme events like the death of a loved one definately needs to be let out. (though, denial is really common).
http://www.mispbo.com/subblaster.htm
Here's some free subliminal software, I wonder if it can do mathematical formulae.
http://www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/spring_01/adv391k/hjy/adv382j/1st/application.html
According to Key, despite the fact the embedded words are not consciously perceived, they are unconsciously perceived and can elicit sexual arousal which in turn makes the products more attractive to consumers <13>.
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