just sayin'.

India has strict relationship rules, generally speaking. And people there don't "date" in high school like we do in the west. So there's often very little in the way of understanding feedback and signals from someone they're interested in.

On top of that there's this romantic notion, supported by Bollywood, where pining longingly for a woman is the way to go.

So _hopefully_ this guy isn't stalker creepy material. Hopefully he's just on his way learning the relationship skills that the rest of us got as teenagers.

I can't wait to read this.

StaY aAWy fRom pretZ3ls.

meetup dot com is taking off like gangbusters in cities. if you're a person that seems to not be able to find 'your people' there'll be a group on meetup doing something you like.

like the dweebs that would buy one.

simple

a trivia question.

I'll give up 'comiseration' humor anyday.

Colbert & Stewart will be able to rip on Fox tv's coverage of an Obama presidency, I'm not too worried about them. They're funny enough to survive.

heck, the guy wants to run the free world... doesn't that include the RNC?

If he can't run his campaign with integrity behind his name branding, how could he be a decent president?

it's all so weird.

I was also rendered extremely uncomforable by Tom Bergeron dropping Klum in the 'drama/comedy' bit.

Also, fan of Craig Ferguson that I am, his bit with Brooke Shields was really creepy - in a non-funny way.

I'd like also to mention, that since Tina Fey left as SNL's head writer SNL's jumped on the what-10-year-old-boys-think-is-funny train too. SNL's sucktastic lately, 'cept for the political skits in the first 5 minutes.

Tina Fey, Colbert, & Stewart saved this Emmy's. Colbert's eating prunes bit was hilarious.

Cynthia Woods of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (community orchestra outside of Boston)

she's my first woman conductor outside of grade school music teachers, and she really gets the music, & she's wonderful at getting us to play correctly without hurt feelings. (musicians are sensitive)

there's a big wide world out there where people dress different from us. Obama was visiting it, isn't that from Kenya where his father was from?

what's the big deal? please explain

(I ask expecting intelligent discourse)

[heh heh, she said 'discourse']

unless, of course, McCain/Palin get elected.

have a look at the photo montage for Sarah Palin at the huffington post.

v funny. (again, funny - if they're not in office)

Julia's awesome.

no question. tell her.

these types of guys are too common, and they've snowed too many kind hearted women.

she'll get over it quick enough.

the US has too many cultures all mixed together to have a successful marriage market.

there's definitely problems with our dating system. online dating sux for the most part, the bar scene sux, the inequality in awareness of biological clocks sux as well. women are forced into sperm banks to have kids while the guys sit in front of their HD tvs.

meetup dot com is the way to go. you find your type of people by what you like to do, and the people are actually _doing_ the stuff, and not just bleating about it in their ads. It worked for me, and I've seen it work for others.

forget religious reasons, let's keep long hair contained in kitchens, even McDonald's kitchens.

The poor thing grew up w/ Jehovah's Witness's as parents, so she's going to be a little tweaked. She's finding her way through a new religious experience, all while being a voice on a popular national television show.

Whoopi Goldberg & Barbara Walters seem to be mentoring her through the gaffes, so she's in good hands.

that a stupid person would have similar troubles but not know there was anything wrong. So go easy on yourself.

I like Cary's advice on designing your like software. That's clever.

Also, socially, check out 'Nerd Fun' at the meetupalliance dot com. It's for people that thrive on intellectual stimilation.

it happens to lots of singles in their 30s. the priority becomes expanding the social network (new blood) with the hopeful side benefit of finding a significant other.

you're her friend, I'm sure she still cares about you. but if you're hooked up already then you're second on her priority list. She wants to see you, know you're well, but if she's afraid she's going to miss 'the one' when she's hanging with you then she's going to be late showing up.

I've seen this a LOT with both men and women... taking a probability approach to dating... meeting more people betters the odds, all while maximizing your time.

And then it ends up going the other way when she finally hooks up with her guy and your 1st priority becomes your kids.

so when men decide to take on parental obligations society cheers them on like we were cheering at the Special Olympics.

if unempathetic moronic nitwits didn't have this guy to focus on where would they have to go to get their opinions?

working in high tech my office is 95% men, speaking with the other women uninterrupted in the ladies room has been very helpful. We can exchange information without some nerd breaking in and bleating & boasting about something important to him but off topic.

The only way I've found to keep the sanctity of our women's communications outside of the ladies room is to speak loudly about the ob-gyn when a dweeb comes by to break up the conversation; & once they're repelled we can go back to talking about management changes and such.

(?!?!) hello?

seems fair.

oh wait... that's right, racism is a terrible thing, but misogyny's cool.

... which is the computer expert and which is the serial killer

google up "killer computer quiz" ... it's at malevole dot com

I work in high tech, and _we_ only get it about 50% right. kinda scary.