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Marry Smart

I was reading up on Nikon/Canon reviews and one thing led to another and found this little gem of advice for us males with regards to marriage:

Marry Smart

This isn’t about marrying someone rich; that’s marrying well.

Marrying smart means to marry someone as cheap as you are.

Your woman is always in charge. If she’s as silly with her money as most people, after you’re married, you can forget about having any money ever again.

A woman’s job is to spend your money. If she hasn’t shown that she can spend her own money well, she certainly won’t spend yours any better.

I got lucky with my wife. She’s even cheaper than I am, but she’s rare.

Want to know how cheap she is? She hates flowers because she can’t bear knowing that they die in a week and then the money is gone. She’d rather just have the money. I sometimes leave a $20 on the counter. When she asks “what’s this?” I respond “flowers.” She then gets all smiley.

Marriage is weird.

Though, as wierd as it is, it’s quite appealing to someone like me. I’m pretty cheap as well (contrary to popular belief) I just think some investments are more valuable than others; I’d sooner get my GF a boxed set of a series of books she likes than flowers simply because they last.

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Album Cover Meme

Got this from Gian

You basically follow the steps below to create your own personal Album cover.

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
  2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
  3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover
  4. You then take the pic and add your band name and the album title to it, then post your pic.

Here’s mine:

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How’s your password?

I promised myself that I’d write a post on this topic since God knows when, just never got to do it.

But there was a recent incident in the messageboard where we think a couple of users’ passwords were compromised. Of course we won’t discount the possibilty of a security exploit, but since the accounts were isolated, I’m inclined to think the former. So no better time than now to make good on that promise.

There’s a lot one can say about what you should NOT use as a password (e.g. common words, birth-dates, personal identification information, etc.), but instead of restating the obvious, I thought I’d talk about what you could do with your current weak (but memorable) password and beef it up.

Ultimately, it is accepted that randomness is the key to password strength. So the natural goal is to make one’s password as random as possible.

Unfortunately, not everyone has perfect memory, hence it’s a sad reality that people will choose passwords that they can remember; and that usually means choosing really simple ones at that.

But there is a way to create [somewhat] secure passwords which are also memorable.

Don’t believe me? Read on.

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What girl[friend]s need to know about their geek boyfriend(s)

Looks like this video hit home for a lot of people. I was surprised that even friends of mine who knew nothing of technology, would even know about this videocast; sure enough, it was because of their geek “partners.”

I really have nothing else to say about this aside from the fact that whether women (or men) like it or not, the geeks will inherit the future. Technology will only progress, and will, little by little (or by leaps and bounds) integrate more and more into society… those who “control” technology will be on top, that’s inevitable.

I’m really glad that my GF and I don’t have this sort of problem. I’m a geek and she’s a nerd, so I guess we already realized way before that there are some “wierd” things about each other that we’ll never understand and will just have to accept 😉