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Thoughts regarding blogging

I have a bunch of bloggable entries, but most of them too short – which makes them more likely candidates for some shallow twitter-esque entries than actual meaningful posts you can share with people. That’s not to say that my most of posts are of any valuable significance; but in order to explain why I personally think it isn’t enough to post one-liners, I thought I’d share how I’ve always seen the culture of blogging in context of the world wide web.

I’ve always appreciated how majority of readers take the time to visit one’s site (or clicks on one’s pane in an RSS reader) and read – as one discusses the many minutiae surrounding one’s life.

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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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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 😉

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Lies Cosmo Tells Women

Here’s a nice “article” taken from Double Viking (linked through from Digg) That exemplifies the rubbish magazines like Cosmopolitan spits out. The author says it best:

Cosmopolitan Magazine has become a bible for the martini swilling, fashion conscious, and orgasm starved female. While this magazine has been helpful to women by aiding them in achieving the perfect bikini wax, it has regularly clouded their minds about men. In fact, I would say that Cosmopolitan has done more damage to men than Barry Bonds has done to baseball.

I Wholeheartedly agree with this, as does my GF. She even pointed out that the regular features like Understanding His Baffling Behavior say the same goddamn thing differently over and over again, and makes it seem like they have some new juicy information on the male psyche when in fact it’s the same old garbage recycled.

I’ve repasted verbatim the contents of the Double Viking article to save you the jump and included some of my input where applicable.

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