People especially women have referred to me as being Emotionally Distant. I must admit that I am not a bundle of emotion (they knew what they were getting into) though I do smile often uncontrollably like a small child after being breast fed. It is not so much a weakness as it is an annoying reflex action that happens when something runs through my head. Good or evil. You get what you pay for. Maybe I habitually avoid from giving compliments and saying words like "I like", "head gone", "I think it is best if", "lovely", "Dido Armstrong is my current favorite artist after Madonna and Sade", "sweet", "I have play quite a few video games ever since I was ten", "she is cute", "I am so obsessed with etc", "I think Alicia Keys has weird eyes", "I have watched every episode of...", "I prefer chicken but would rather have beef", "that looks nice", "I could love you if you weren't such and annoying bitch", "shag now or shag later", "chacca chacca", "ring a ring a rosy pocket full" etc. I am literally handicapped. Too much computer time - too little talk time. Small talk simply is not in my skill set. Anti-social? There was a company team building thing about six months ago. I know that was a long time ago. We had meeting where everybody had to talk about everybody else. Eventually one person refered to me as weird and for lack of a better word everybody else started using the same word and it became this big joke all day. Thanks guys, no christmas presents for you.
Stu commented: Get and envelope and design a fake logo on your PC from the local VD Clinic and then design a big "URGENT - POSITIVE RESULTS" in bolf red letters on the outside and then address it to him at work and then mail it to him. ... read 6 more
I am currently doing a speech for my Business Communication class. I am not very good or even a little good at public speaking ( even in a controlled situation like a class room). I have been refered to as emotionally distant - just last week. In light of this fact I am choosing a simple structured topic. Hopefully, the class will not hate me for the simplistic nature, short textual content, lack of wit/humor/sex of the speech. They saw my last speech and it was not pretty much the opposite of "total victory". A good speech requires time, practice, research and lots of words. Pulling off a killer speech does not seem possible at this stage. I am never the same guy twice. Anybody good a calculus 2? I have a worksheet due by wednesday. If I don't get it finish the teacher is going to know that I suck at calculus. I need to get up to scratch like yesterday.
AngryDog commented: Yow, Owen, the key to public speaking is to pretend that the people dem naked...i.e. vulnerable. However, in your case, you might see a few sexy girls naked and lose your concentration even more. With respect to Calc 2, yes I can integrate as well as differentiate, but I gave up the art many years ago, so good luck wid dat!
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For the past couple weeks I've been staying inside, talking to people on msn and doing illegal street racing in London, San Francisco and Tokyo. Don't worry I got my Audi TT at a very cheap cost, since it's all in a video game called Metropolis Street Racer on my recently acquired Sega Dreamcast. I know it is old but I appreciate quality. So far I have driven 7800 km. This modern day video gaming life style of fast cars, blood and violence all got me thinking. What are we doing to the current generation of children and young adults? As video games become more and more realistic both in appearance and it story. Are we create a generation of trained killers and terrorists? I remember back in the day when the most popular video game on the planet involve running a maze eating bits of crack cocaine, while being chased by ghosted. Now, in the video games of today you can raise a family, fight aliens, pick up a prostitute on your way to work, kill her and then steal all her hard earned money before lunch time on a sunday. All this can be achieved for a mere 50 US$.
AngryDog commented: Damn good post sir, very insightful. You're right though, contemporary video games are definately introducing a scary element to the lives of our children. How bad is it when you actually have to have ratings for video games...which is most of the time ignored by parents purchasing the games for their kids anyhow!
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Ever since the instant message blocking incident and calculus I have been re-evaluating my relations with people, women and relatives I have not talked to in a year or 3. What's in a name? People will often notice that I never ask them their name. Usually I'll ask a girl's age because that is valuable information. A name on the other hand is as significant as random number between 10 and 30 f(x). Plus I usually cannot remember it because I probably know 3 or 4 other people with the same name. Even if I think she is hot like a mid summer day's noon. I don't want to blurt out a wrong name at the wrong time. Inability to remember names doesn't affect my daily living much because most people hang around you all the time and all you have to do tap them on the shoulder. Few notice that I never refer to them by name or the way I stare at them when I want their attention. In most cases I will invent a nickname, which usually puts everything back into perspective. Some people take their name very seriously and become very upset when they realise that you have not remembered their name. Nicknames are chosen carefully requiring the least amount of thought for maximum effect. Names never really mattered much to me. I do not want to sound cliche or anything but it's what inside that counts - really and I am not making this up so I can get my self out of trouble either. So if you reading this then you know I know your name so do not try and test me out the next time you see me because I will know you read it here.
AngryDog commented: Owen, Owen, Owen. Don't you know that remembering names is the most important aspect of interacting with people? A name is not a random string of characters based on some opaque grammar rules. It is an identity...in order to get people to take you as a genunie individual, you must be able to remember there names son! If you can invent a nickname for the person, why not relate the nickname to the person's actually name--or is that to complex for your internal association rule learner?
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So today I open my instant messager as usual but today was different. A girl blocked me on msn today. which is odd because I've never been blocked before - at least I think nobody has blocked but anyway I found it quiet unusual. What did I do? I don't know she wanted to talk. I told her I was busy and I would talk to her later. She asked why did I added her if I wasn't going to talk to her. I told her I was busy and I am not at my best when I am distracted. It is msn most times I just add people to the list so that I would chat with them at some point in the future. So then I proceeded to try to feel her up/out a bit in the digital-internet-instant-message kinda sense. In order to see what kind a person she was and how I could structure future conversations, wording, lingo, icon usage, colors, font and so forth. I was busy and I told her that but being the good guy that I am I tried to start a conversation with her instead of ignoring her as I did the previous day. I said something, then she something, I said something and then she went offline. Then when she came back online I asked her if she was angry and she said "no, why would you think that I'm angry you can't see my emotions". I said "well based on what you want you said before I assumed". Then she said "I am going to block you because your talking pure poo". Then I said "k". Then she went offline again. The internet is a funny thing.
