When you're fighting for your very survival, then you can't be too worried about who you inconvenience.  People who do nothing, for fear of looking less than friendly, are people who don't truly value their lives.

  They are the kids in high school who would do anything just to be liked by the popular kids.

  This is a portion of my version of Hansel and Gretel:

  As they returned to the Gingerbread house, to bring home another load of sweets, Hansel and Gretel were dismayed to find that the birds had eaten their trail of witch chunks.

  I've been at OKCupid.com creating my own compatibility quiz.  I've been working on it for a number of days.  I'm finished writing it up, I just have to input it and assign values to answers.  It's 130 questions long.

  The test measures 3 different variables, one of which is how close the taker comes to qualifying as a "perfect" mate for me.

  Anyway, moments ago, I was reminded of when I'd heard people say that they would not want someone with whom they got alone well all the time.  It's been said that a little conflict is healthy, or they would get bored.  They want someone they can learn from, and stuff like that.

  The way I see it, I can get that from anyone.  I can get that from people I don't like much at all.

  How many people are there in the world with whom you are so compatible that there is no conflict between you?  How many people are there who know and understand and appreciate you so well and deeply that negativity does not arise between you?

  I say that such a person is truly special, and that to have such a relationship is the rarest treasure.

  A challenge is one thing, but when actual negativity is what you're seeking, I have to question how well you know yourself, or at the very least, your self-esteem.

  I think those people can't handle the idea of being alone.  I think they're desperate to some degree.  They pretend the bad is good to feel better about themselves, perhaps for not having higher standards, or not having the will, or maybe wisdom, to have them.

  Ate at my favorite Chinese buffet a little while ago.  There was a group of four guys at our regular table.  No big deal.  We sat one down, at our second favorite table.

  Some of the food selections were empty, waiting to be refilled, and one of the guys was giving my favorite waitress a hard time about it, but all in good fun.  No worries.

  Well, they were a bit loud during their meal, but okay, nothing to bad, though one of them belched out loud, which annoyed me slightly.

  When possibly the same guy (I was not looking directly at them) went to pay, he was less than pleased by the price in relation to the available selection.

  She knows enough English to do her job, but she did not understand what he was talking about.  She said to him, "I don't understand", and then he said, "I don't want you to understand".  It had no longer became worth his trouble, so he paid and left displeased.  After he was out the door, one of the other guys apologized.

  Shortly after they had left, she went into the kitchen and had some seemingly less than happy things to say to the cook (her brother), but that's only my impression.  She was speaking Chinese, and sometimes normal Chinese speech can sound angry.

  I don't know if the incident was the cause, but she said my Pepsi was free.  My suspicion is that it was for the lack of food out, though more food was put out during the course of my meal.

  If it was not that, or at least not JUST that, then perhaps it was simply because the guy's attitude had not made for a pleasant dining experience.  There was one other party dining there, and she may have gave them a "discount" as well.

  On a separate issue, she wore a black t-shirt for the first time (that I'm aware of).  It was a faded, black, Barbie shirt.  I didn't exactly stare at it, but I think the design was either worn, or simply done only in white, so, even though it was Barbie, it was not so obvious.

  Anyway, I was pleased that she had worn a black shirt.  Not so much that it was Barbie, but I've noticed that a few of her shirts have been, what would you call it?  Pop culture?  She wore a yellow Cheerios shirt a little while back.  I forget what the other one was.

  I remember some cereal brand selling a selection of 80's pop culture shirts on the back of their box.  At least I think it was a cereal.  It's not that important.  Point is, I'm wondering if that may have been a source, or if she got them at some thrift or vintage store.

  So, I'm done eating, I leave, and I'm outside sitting in the truck and I see her through the window, cleaning the table, and I take brief moment to admire her appearance with less distraction.  I very nearly got a mental hard-on.  (Aw, Humanimal!!  Why'd you have to go and turn it dirty?!)

  I'm speaking in relation to a mental orgasm, which might more accurately be called a joygasm, to borrow from Jim Carrey's, The Riddler, though using the word "joy" seems to limit it, in my opinion.  Maybe I'm wrong.

  Upon leaving, train of thought further developed the concept.  I came up with Brain Spooge and Psycho-spooge.  I would like the latter if it could not so easily be interpreted as the... DNA donation of a psychopath.

  From a strictly spelling point of view, I like Pshychorgasm, but it doesn't exactly have a graceful pronunciation.  And Psychogasm (no R) just goes back to psychopath.

  Anyway, one last observation and point is about people who don't bother to alter their common choices of words to use when speaking to people who don't speak the language well.  More generally, people who seem to have no consideration for what a person can actually understand in that situation.

  That rude guy didn't, and sometimes my dad doesn't.  With my dad, however, it's more typically when he's trying to be amusing with the waitress.  No one's gonna get the "joke" when they don't have any idea what words you're using.

  And then there's when people don't bother to enunciate or separate their words as would be proper for speaking English to begin with.  Please, people; speak calmly, in a normal tone, at a reasonably slower pace, and separate and enunciate your words.

  I've been busy for the passed two or so weeks.  I've been creating my own compatibility quiz for OKCupid.com.  I'm fairly satisfied with how the test turned out.  I'm less satisfied with how the Category pages (the final page which gives you your score) turned out.  I used my own art, and I'm not sure how that would be received by takers.

  Here's my profile there, btw:

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=humanimal369

  I think what I'm bothered by the most, however, is that I don't have as many categories as I think would make the test as interesting.  I think I have about 9 categories (I don't know the exact number), but most people would fall into one of only two, which makes thinks less interesting, even for me.  Still, more categories would have meant a lot more work.

  Anyway, I think the test looks better than most of them.  I'd like it if anyone reading thins would take the quiz and give me your input.  What did you like and dislike about it, keeping in mind that what you dislike is much more useful to me.

  Here's the link:

Would Humanimal Mate You?

  In somewhat related news, I created an account for myself at Photobucket.com.  That sure is a handy site.  OKCupid.com

  Nuts to that.  I just HTMLed my pictures in from Photobucket.  I even put a video in.  The other good thing is that I was able to fix my blog entry about some of my favorite pictures.  If you don't want to hunt it down, you can view a copy on my website.

  Even it was messed up, because I was relying on origin links for the images, and some were no longer available.  I had some images uploaded to Tripod, but not all, and the ones that were, could not be used beyond my domain, or at least not beyond Tripod].

  I've solved that little problem.  I wonder if I can successfully embed that video in this blog.  I was never able to do it right, but Photobucket give tags, and it worked for the quiz.  I tried using a YouTube tag in a blog entry, and it did not work.

  If it works, give it a watch.  It's the music video for "Storm", by Vanessa-Mae.  Excellent piece.  Pretty cool video.  I would have preferred to use the live version, because it's much more impressive, in all respects, but the video was longer than Photobucket allows.

  I almost forgot.  I finally took some new pictures of myself.  I used them at OKCupid.com, but I'm uploading them here, too.

  With most of congress selling out American soldiers and the safety of America and Iraq, and Bush selling America out to Mexico, political correctness still maintaining a strangle-hold on free speech, and that President Imaneedajob looking like some kind of saint for releasing hostages, I do find something good happening.

  It's so reassuring to finally see the gradual demise of this "global warming" bullshit.  Rev. Al Gore is finally being recognized as a charlatan, and with the U.N.'s claim that eating meat is by far the worst contributor to "global warming", due to cow farts, a number of advocates are now being told to basically put up or shut up if they don't go VEGAN.  That, of course, is a mixed blessing.

  I find it exceedingly amusing that Rev. Al Gore's house, or should I say, just one of his, what was it, four houses, produces 20 times the "greenhouse gases" of the average American's house, while Bush lives in a "green" house, and I am talking about the one on his ranch.  His house produces fewer than average, "greenhouse gases".

  It's nice when something reminds you that stupidity is eventually brought into check.  Just gotta wait for all the other stuff, now.

  I don't think I've ever so eagerly looked forward to a Presidential election.  If we can manage to get a Conservative, then maybe some shit can get fixed, but if we get a Liberal, then at least we can work on finally hitting rock bottom and then start to recover all the wiser, assuming Iran doesn't let missiles fly.