Finally

a good news related to the economic crisis: the recession is likely to influence - in the old, good, classical sense, the artistic standards.

Welcome to...

...the Pleo world.

I couldn't resist to reproduce a testimony of one of the customers:

My reason for buying Pleo was because I am allergic to all animals. When I saw Pleo I was delighted that at last I could have some sort of pet where I could receive affection instead of feeling sad everytime people talked about their pets.

Bad luck with sports

I've read lately various blogs and posts of men about the grotesque and unpleasant experiences encountered with women on JDate. For the sake of objectivity, I can confess I went through similar (bad, and mostly bad taste) episodes.

I started this on-line dating adventure with no prior thoughts. A nickname and vague references about yourself are offering a minimum safety of getting in trouble in the real world and I hoped that, it was a chance to identify from a huge database of opportunities my very small and special target-group. But, all I got after one year of serious approach and daily exercise was the conclusion that the high IQ single men must hide somewhere else. I don't know yet where.

One of the first contacts with this unusual universe was a guy, whose profile indicated he's high educated, socially active and with an impressive career. He started to send me an IM asking me directly "Do you like sports?" I was a bit surprised, because I am this old-type kind of person used to start a conversation, with known and unknown people with at least the classical "hi". but, anyway, maybe the guy was at gym and was planning some special sports gathering. Still, I was challenged by this plain question. To tell him or not the truth? The only sports I'm practicing are jogging, city biking and sometimes some gym, but rather at the very practical level, not something I really liked. And, because for me keeping the record of lies is quite neurons-consuming, I answered candidly: "No". For him to reply back, instantly: "No?"

How challenging! In two minutes we are just trying to get further a conversation started dead. And, I was about to fail this - it seems - important, very important test. So, I wrote back on a self-ironic tone how my relationship with sports was never a good one and blablabla. After another minute or two, he answered on a very professional and distant tone: "I'm very sorry for you (what I'm gonna do now, I missed the chance of my life), but I'm interested ONLY in women who like sports". And closed the window, as to run as far away as possible of such a looser. And I logged out. It was enough for one day.

To be continued.

My problems

I have a couple of small (new) problems these days:

- It is impossible to avoid the big fillers with Viagra pills advertising. Everywhere, including on websites for children.

- The pathetic features about the economic crisis. The last on the list is a Washington Times report about a lady who had the "misfortune" of being freed from prison in the "worse times ever".

- The story of the 14 children single unemployed mother (33), all conceived through in vitro fertilization.

But, in a way I am quite lucky, because I don't watch TV and I am out of JDate, so I could enjoy much more my private silence.

Why you don't want to marry?

Today I've been addressed this question, on a rude and aggressive voice, by a lady with whom I hardly exchanged more then a couple of polite words. While, for a couple of seconds, still keeping an empty smile, I was trying to figure out what's the best choice between an official, cold answer like - "who knows?", or "what an interesting question, are you interested by the answer" etc.etc.- and a similar aggressive and rude tone, I noticed she started to enumerate a couple of words, without a logical sense - mentioning religious duty, or human beings' eternal aims -, for sure her desperate explanation for such a big move. I took the decision to slowly leave the place and let her talking. Probably, she's still having the best of her speech. I don't care.

Worse than the worse

I found today this quote from Oscar Wilde: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about".

Atheism 2.0.

It is about the good side of the 2.0, in societies where freedom of thought should be a secret well kept.