Attractiveness

For some reason today I got to thinking about attractiveness. It started out as a quick fb status, but then when it reached about paragraph length I decided that might not be the best idea and decided to expand my thoughts a bit.

I was thinking about what makes someone attractive to another person? I'm talking about physical attraction only here. Is attractiveness relative? Relative as in, are people considered beautiful because there is a standard of ugliness to be based on? Or in other words, is Kate Beckinsale really pretty because there is someone like Drew Barrymore to compare her too?

Babe.

Or is attractiveness scientific? Is there a formula or genetic makeup that can determines ones level of physical attractiveness?

Science agrees: not a babe.

I think it's probably a combination of the two. I mean obviously there's relativity in attractiveness, girls that I find attractive maybe are not to some other guys. But usually you find that two attractive people making a baby usually means an attractive offspring. And vice versa. Which I find kind of depressing. Poor ugly babies had no chance.

But then I got to thinking what if it was purely scientific? What if there was a concrete number system to gauge attractiveness? What if we were like pokemon and there was a way to rate our looks? That would blow my mind. Things I would want to see if this were true:
1. My rating. Of course. and so would you.
2. To see the top and the bottom of the list of people I know.
3. What the baby of the highest rated person and lowest rated person would look like.

Okay thats enough random thoughts for the day. To be honest this all started because I wanted to tell people how ridiculously hot I thought Kate Beckinsale was and how ugly I thought Drew Barrymore was. Until next time.

I could watch this show over and over forever

I'm just going to throw some random words or phrases out there and I swear to you these are off the top of my head without watching or looking at anything...

The Stair Car, Hop-ons, "there's always money in the banana stand", Afternoon delight, "who?", "her?", Mayon-egg, Loose-seal, Vertigo, The Claw, "I've made a huge mistake", The hook, "Come on!", The $5000 suit, Illusions, Barry Zuckercorn - he's very good, Wayne Jarvis the Professional, "I shall duck behind this couch", The Blue Man Group, Blue Paint, "hey those are blue too!", "Say Goodbye..TO THESE", Glasses on or off, Hair up or down, "Did somebody say Wonder?", "I should be in that Poof!", The Chicken Dance, The Magicians Alliance, The Aztec Tomb, "Marry me", Hair Plugs, TBA, Ice - Bounty Hunter/Caterer, Carl Weathers, "baby you got a stew", Imoscar.com, The Warden, White Power Bill, "Steve Holt!", Girls with low self esteem, The Man Inside Me, Bob Lahblah's Law Blog, Motherboy, Alapecia, Dress Eyebrows, "I have pop-pop in the attic", Armageddon 2: Armageddon, The Ocean Walker, Tiny Town, The Mole, The Jet Pack, Mr. F, Justice is blind, The fat suit, Tobias is Queen Mary, The Hot cops, A series of escalating dares, Gobias Industries, Mommy what will I look like?, George Michael: Star Wars Kid, Light Treason, "Solid...as a rock", "You dance like a homosexual", "that hair...", "you can always tell a milford man", "I will be neither seen nor heard", Analrapist, Mrs. Featherbottom, Frightened Inmate #2, Confidence Man #2, a nevernude, cutoffs, the surrogate, "i'm tom jane", Sally Stickwell, roofies, Tmocil, Freedom, the cornballer, Cherith Cutestory, "he's going to be all right", "we've lost him", "pop-pop gets a treat?", "well obviously the blue on this map means land", Mock Trial with J. Reinhold, "my name is judge", J. Walter Weatherman, "and thats why you leave a note", Andy Richter + 4, fronts piece, Boy fights ft. Baby Buster.


And I'm sure I'm leaving behind so many things. If any of this did not make any sense to you, it's because you have been severely missing out. They are all from the greatest television comedy series of all time.

Arrested Development. Of course. If you haven't seen it, watch it. Then watch it again, and then again. It is the smartest and funniest writing/acting you will ever see. And if you do not agree...then you have no sense of humor and our ability to be friends will be called into question.

2010

When the clock hit 12am on January 1st, I was taking a piss at CQ. Somewhere in there is a metaphor for the year and decade that just passed. Ten years ago I woke up as a 12 year old relieved that the world passed safely through Y2k and that I could continue playing starcraft, this morning I awoke as a 22 year old relieved that I somehow made it to my bed without vomiting somewhere.

It's been an...interesting decade to say the least. Personally speaking of course. I think people can agree that historically the 00's were pretty crappy. What with 9/11, the senseless wars, Katrina, the snuggie and the Steelers winning 2 super bowls. I guess if I had to summarize my decade into one short sentence it would be...It could have been better, but the peaks were worth the valleys. Which is an absolutely terrible way to summarize ten years of life but I can't think of anything better. I would make a list of highlights and lowlights, but I don't have the energy to think that hard. I guess that says something in itself. Anyway these past ten years haven't been without their share of regrets, but unless you're the google guys or Tiger Woods up until about a month ago who can't say that. I'm beyond thankful for the good memories this decade has brought and more importantly with the people I made them with.

Looking ahead into 2010 and beyond is pretty daunting. There is still a very long road ahead of me to where I want to be in life. I pray that I stay on it though and watch out for any distractions. I know new years resolutions are silly in nature and I just have one this year. Learn from, and do not repeat, past mistakes. If I can do that I think I'll be okay.

I hope everyone has the year they are hoping for and to the people that matter I hope to see you numerous times through it.

ranking the members of snsd

I've been watching SNSD videos all day. It's pretty bad. It took me awhile but I think I can finally tell each individual apart. Lol. Sometimes they're just a blur of legs. Also they're asian and so automatically look alike right? I couldn't sleep so I decided to make a ranking of them solely based on an arbitrary ranking system in my head, which mostly means how much in love with them I am. Don't get it twisted, I love all of them lol. Anyway this is was a lot harder than I thought it would be. but only for the top half. The bottom 4 were easy to pick. They were:

9. Seo Hyun - Somebody had to be last. But she is the least attractive
8. Soo Young - Funniest in the group.
7. Sunny - I think she's the most adorable.
6. Tiffany - Would rank higher but I'm just kinda hatin on her.


With the exception of #1, this is where I had the biggest trouble differentiating who I liked the most.

5. Yuri - It's absolutely insane that she's my 5th favorite.
4. Yoona - What a cutie. I can't get enough of her.
3. Hyo Yeon - I'm surprised how much she's grown on me. I think it's because her resemblence to another favorite of mine, song hye gyo. Or it's her dancing.
2. Jessica - Second in everything. Looks, singing, humor. So sad. she would be number one if not for..

1. TAEYEON. Of course. It could only be her.

emo thought of the night

"I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction" - Calvin, from "Calvin and Hobbes"

While there's definitely some truth in that, as there always is in Calvin and Hobbes, I think nighttime is perfect for letting all sorts of thoughts and emotions enter your head with less distraction, not just fears. I have a theory it's the darkness osmoting into your brain. Even though I'm fairly certain 'osmoting' isn't a word. But it is an undeniable fact the later the night gets the more emo-like I become. And no, I don't mean more like my mom's sister.....wait for it...anyway regardless if you got that joke or not, here is my emo thought of the night:

I feel like I've been living my life stranded at an airport. All sorts of people coming and going, some I care about, most I don't. In any case, the people are excited, ready to take off to destinations that I can only dream of going to. Because I can't go. I don't have a ticket. All I can do is watch and wave goodbye as they fly off into the sky, getting smaller and smaller until they eventually vanish. And the worst of it is when the realization hits you. They are not coming back.