Archive for August, 2005

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Speed Dating Cheat Sheet

The simplest definition of speed dating is dating intensified. Instead of three hours, you have three minutes; instead of one date, you are dating fifteen people. It is up to you to up your game. But in the next few minutes I will tell you how.
I do not need to tell you how nerve-wrecking a [...]

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Online dating feeling less attractive

Online dating sites are facing some loneliness amid an industry wide slowdown.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Initially considered the last resort for the socially stunted, online dating has shrugged off its social stigma and emerged as a mainstream means for singles to find that special someone.
Time for the industry to celebrate, right? Wrong. Just when you’d [...]

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I used my eBucks to buy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind DVD which is my favourite Jim Carrey movie next to Truman Show. I loved it when it was in cinema’s last year and I’ve been dying to complete my collection of Jim’s movies. This is an amazingly funny movie and Kate Winslet is [...]

Monday, August 8th, 2005

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people “keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites,” thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics.
- Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, N.H.
Called the [...]

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Online dating? Be honest

Sites offer way to track phonies He sounded like a prince.
”He said he was smart, witty, tall and handsome,” recalls the woman known as j29blonde on match.com. She asked that her real name not be used to protect the ego of the ”prince” she met. She thought she clicked with the gentleman when they chatted [...]

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Rebel, Out-Rageous, Radical, Ripped, Red, and Real…..

An Expose’ on Carrot Top, the kid who did for comedy what Kiss did for Rock and Roll!
Redheads are odd. Being born a redhead myself I have absolutely no qualms about making such a statement. Only one person out of fifteen is a natural redhead. And what about our quirky personalities? Some of the myths [...]

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Speed Dating Talk

by Camilla Lloyd
Have you ever been played the dating game where the other person answers only in one word answers? It is not that much fun.
“So, how are you?” you ask, a little nervously, because the beginning of a date is always the most awkward.
“Fine.”
“Great…So, what do you do?”
“Accountant.”
By the end of the evening, you [...]