Social Robots

Having read The Game and read in between the lines the following conversation, between a college friend of mine and I, greatly amuses me.

(9:42:05 PM) DW: what ya up to?
(9:53:50 PM) Me: nm
(9:54:03 PM) DW: ive been talking to a girl on aim for 4hrs
(9:54:16 PM) Me: About what?
(9:54:33 PM) DW: i used Mysery’s false repore multi-threading technique
(9:54:39 PM) DW: and then it fell away about an hour ago
(9:54:46 PM) DW: and we just got into the convo
(9:55:27 PM) DW: well girls like a lot of mystical stuff I think.  You notice that?  So I talk about my yoga practice
(10:00:47 PM) Me: That’s actually a good idea
(10:03:47 PM) DW: ??
(10:04:04 PM) DW: i thnk i no this, but tell me more
(10:04:52 PM) DW: ive been using multi-threading DHV with story injection coupled with intrigue mechanisms
(10:22:40 PM) Me: and uh
(10:22:44 PM) Me: Yeah,
(10:22:46 PM) DW: ??
(10:22:53 PM) DW: what did yousay?
(10:23:10 PM) DW: or what did i say
(10:26:21 PM) Me: gimme a second
(10:26:34 PM) DW: well i just virtually tucked her into bed, so i think it went well
(10:26:57 PM) DW: she just told me she was falling asleep listening to music and i wished her sweet dreams and she wished back
(10:27:20 PM) DW: but shes not my oneitis, so its nice but it doesnt have a deep satisfaction to me
(10:39:11 PM) Me: Now wouldn’t it be funny, if she would have liked you anyway?
(10:39:37 PM) DW: ???

He’s bordering on becoming a social robot.  He’s starting to get the hang of confidence, but it still needs work.
The “aha!” moment for me came, when I realized I don’t give a shit and I just started doing whatever I wanted and understood to be right. 

I love how scientific the words sound. No wonder computer programmers and geeky types just gobble it.  Rather than talking about their multi-threaded routines they wrote to run on their quad-core rigs, they get to talk about the multi-threaded routines they wrote to run on women. 

Why cannot I achieve the detachment necessary to really level up my “game”?  After much self-analysis I reached the concluision that it was a side-effect of taking Minds and Machines and watching the Matrix movies.  Are you like the guy that betrayed the humans to the agents? I wonder how the “higher value” girls, would react if you described the routines and the effects they were supposed to have? Would they still be content to play along with the program?  At what point does it cross the line between giving them a good time and into manipulation? 

How many of those girls would take the blue pill?

The hard part?  Asking enough girls that question, to get a good idea, without alienating every single female friend I have.

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici!

Wall Street

Why didn’t I take the job at GS or LB?

BECAUSE I AM AN IDEALISTIC IDIOT THAT WILL BE PAYING THE PRICE FOR MY STUPIDITY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Kids, when your family, friends, & teachers tell you to do what you want, tell them to f*ck off.  When you’re getting the 1 million dollar bonus and banging a different girl every night of the week (maybe even different ones on the same night) and have more disposable income in a year then most people see in a lifetime and can hide it offshore bank accounts…  that’s when you’ll be laughing.

The hardest hit will be the salespeople dealing with mortgage-backed securities, according to Options Group director Eric Moskowitz. Their average bonus will be about $1 million compared with $2 million last year

Awwh, shucks only a million dollars this year…

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling.

This confession has meant nothing.

A Finite Simple Group of Order Two

This song is being performed at my wedding (assuming I get married).  No questions asked, even if I have to hunt down all the members of the Klein Four Group.

 Why not three? CLASSIC!

Rules

Follow the rules and keep sight of your goals.

Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-wan has taught you well.

(12:05:01 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: i tried me own opener tonight anditburned
(12:05:03 AM) Me: Tell me how would you open a girl
(12:05:12 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: i wante dto move away from standard material
(12:05:17 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: thats listed in the book and show
(12:05:22 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: in the show they use
(12:05:31 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: ‘what do you think of tattoos’
(12:05:32 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: ect..
(12:05:37 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: i used
(12:05:44 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: ‘what do you think of piercings’
(12:05:49 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: but i didnt follow with a story
(12:05:56 AM) Me: lol
(12:05:56 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: which ffucked me up
(12:06:08 AM) Me: You messed up at what do you think of piercings
(12:06:09 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: and 4 people laughed atme
(12:06:13 AM) Me: and that’s a terrible opener, especially without a followup
(12:06:18 AM) Me: I’m not surpriseed
(12:06:29 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: you think they knew?
(12:06:37 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: that i was using organized methods?
(12:06:42 AM) Me: no
(12:06:46 AM) Me: They laughed at you
(12:06:54 AM) Me: because you asked a random question, with no explanation
(12:07:09 AM) Me: some random white dude with no piercings walks up to them
(12:07:11 AM) Me: and goes
(12:07:16 AM) Me: “What do you think of piercings?”
(12:07:22 AM) Me: Without any explanation, what so ever? It’s like the most absurd/awkward thing in the world
(12:07:29 AM) Me: They probably laughed at the awkwardness/your awkwardness and then you gave up when they laughed
(12:07:30 AM) DarkTemplarSS: oh really
(12:07:34 AM) Me: You should have said
(12:07:35 AM) DarkTemplarSS: i left the bar after that
(12:07:45 AM) DarkTemplarSS: so you are really into this arent you
(12:07:47 AM) Me: “No seriously, my friends have all been telling me to get piercings for bling”
(12:07:52 AM) DarkTemplar: we should talkon the phone sometime
(12:07:55 AM) DarkTemplar: itsalot after
(12:07:56 AM) Me: “and so I decided to seek outside unbiased opinion”
(12:08:07 AM) Me: “So what do you guys think, honestly? Earring, maybe a nose-ring?”
(12:08:07 AM) DarkTemplarSSJ: good followup

I can now react to social situations quickly and the force is with me, but I am not a Jedi yet.

Of Mice and Men

So I was finally getting ahold of this whole find, meet, attract, close deal. Actually, fairly successful as well.

Of course, I killed a cow in my previous life and ate it.  So just as everything is looking up… I end up with a girl, I actually like.  6′0, blonde hair, blue eyes, graduated from college at 20.  WTF! Likes math, puzzles, and jaeger bombs.  She actually wanted to and is going to participate in the Microsoft puzzle hunt with me.  WTF! Seriously, there must be something wrong with this girl…

No one warned me about how it would be to make out when you’re sober.

So how do I achieve an emotional disconnect now?  My skills are not yet refined enough to keep this girl  for any period of time.  Thus, no matter what I do this is a lose-lose situation.  The only good thing that can come of this is I get laid again.

Routines, contact closing, escalation, and K-town

Tonight was a good night.  It was definitely worth the 60+ dollars I burned.

So far in bars, I’ve had a 100% success rate. I only do two, maybe three approaches, when I go out. Maybe, it’s just the Seattle area, but I’m having issues with girls escalating on me too fast. My social intelligence has also gone up 1000%, since I read The Game and Bang. I’ve even developed two original routines (age specific unfortunately) that seem to work pretty well.  I will share one. If any of you remember your elementary school days, there was this amazing game called Oregon Trail.  For some reason, girls respond very positively to this game.  I don’t know what it is about Oregon Trail, but I’ve yet to meet anyone that has negative memories of it.  Luckily, in Washington State talking about Walla Walla leads in perfectly (you can choose to go through Walla Walla instead of going down the Columbia river I believe). 

Tonight, I only opened two sets. It was a two set of one really hot tall girl and one really hot short girl.  I’d say the short girl was an 8 and the tall girl was a 10.  Tall girls are the only girls that can reach 10 in my book, because I have a strong bias towards girls 5′ 10″ or taller.  I chatted them up. I wasn’t getting much from them, because (a) the music was too loud and (b) they sat down during the conversation.  I used my parking lot line and somehow they opened up.  I don’t remember all the details, but I managed to get her number shortly thereafter.  I remember talking about snowboarding, Miami, skydiving, and dancing.  She said she had to go look for her friend (who had gone to the bathroom and had been there forever).  

At this point I moved onto another set. I was looking for a challenge, so I went for a 6 set with 2 girls and 4 guys.  I opened up one of the guys, by just going with a “hi, my name is ___. I’m new to the area.”  Perfect excuse to randomnly talk to people   Anyway, I used the standard “so how do you all know each other?” One of the girls was their with a boyfriend and the other girl was with her friend.  I ignored the girls for a bit and really took control of the conversation with the guys.  Eventually, the girlfriend started interrogating me, “where are you from?”, “why’d you move here?”, etc. I focused pretty much all my attention on her, until I delivered my Rugby routine, directed at all the guys.  The guy who was “friends” with the other girl was being completely silent and avoiding eye-contact with everybody.  He was exuding a lack of self-confidence so strongly it wasn’t even funny.  I used the “is he always like that neg” on him.  I don’t know why, but at the time I thought it was a good idea.  Of course he reacted by qualifying himself about being tired and it being late (it was only midnight).  The girl jumped in don’t worry about him, he’s not very social.  Then she started chatting me about something, which I can’t even recall.  Eventually I got her phone number.  Shortly, after that the short girl from the original two set comes by and recognizes me and starts talking to m.  About 30 seconds later, her friend comes over.  I’m really not interested in the short girl even though she’s pretty, so I introduce her to the guy who I used to open the second set.  I don’t if he realizes him I’m using him as a wing, but he doesn an excellent job keeping the girl’s attention. While I work on her friend, who escalates into some serious kino rather quickly.  I was actually completely caught off guard, by this sudden change. I think she may have seen me talking to other attractive girls, which raised my value in her head. 

I’m tired of typign out this story so I’ll just skip to the end.  She invited me to go skydiving with her and she agreed to come to my friend’s birthday party the next day.  I also had to deal with some random guy from Spain. He asked for permission to call her the next day. Shortly, thereafter she whispered in my ear “help me.” 

All in all, I’m starting to enjoy going out a little bit too much.  

Also, I got to explore some venues in downtown K-town.  Timed Out turned to out to be the bar where all the skanky and fat girls go to get hit on by a predominantly ethnic and jock crowd.  Central Club is where people go to get drunk for cheap. It’s a good place for a venue change, because it’s much less packed and has a more relaxed atmosphere and pool tables. Joe’s Tiki wetbar is where all the hot girls go.  There’s also an incredible amount of tall people in Kirkland.  I’m 6′ 2″ and I would say I was only in the 60th percentile.  It was strange.

Tall girl has high relationship potential.  I just have to make sure I don’t foo-bar it.  Must sleep now.

Derailleur failure

My Durace derailleur hangar just snapped this morning on the way to work.  I was moving briskly at 25 MPH when it happened. The end result? It took out my brand new mavic rear wheel, melted my $60 Vittoria’s Open Korsa’s from the skid, obliterated my cabling, and almost through me into traffic during rush hour.

Expected cost of repairs:

$250 derailleur
$150 cheap rear wheel.
$60 Vittoria Open Korsa KS
$7 LunarLight innertube
Labor

The good news?  I finally convinced myself to buy this baby:

That is one damn sexy bike. If only equally attractive females where available for 6500 MSRP. This is the Nicole Kidman of bikes regal, elegant, beautiful, and angular.

What else can $6500 get you?

This is the Jessica Alba/Jennifer Connelly of bikes. Gorgeous, slim, but curvy in all the right places.

Loser

My Work Bio:

I originally got interested in computers when I was 7 and one of my dad’s friend gave me a VB book, with a cryptography example, and said learn. Sophomore year in high school, I placed at the Intel Int’l Science and Engineering Fair for Mathematics, for my project on public key cryptography.   I then attended Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, NY for a BS in Mathematics & Computer Science.  My primary academic interests are currently include bioinformatics, data mining, cryptography, PKI, number theory, algorithm analysis, information theory, and relational database management systems.  I’m also currently participating in the Netflix Prize competition. 

In my free time I play the Viola, participate in Triathlons, try to keep in shape with CrossFit, enjoy hiking/backpacking, play Chess & Go, dancing & dance lessons, listen to music, discuss politics, philosophy, and mathematics.

Right after I e-mailed this top my boss, it suddenly sunk in what a loser I am.