just hot. It's been stupid hot lately. 100 and something degrees outside the past week. That's basically all i think about. I do apologize for my lack of updates but I don't do anything interesting, I barely check my facebook/myspace, and xanga is basically dead. I'm also not the guy who is gonna try to bring it back. I'll leave it to some other poor sucker.
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I did run into this article on CNN.com.
In one word: DUH!!!!!!
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
 In the dating game, men know what they want. And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
"Just because people say they're looking for a particular set of
characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn't mean that
is what they'll end up choosing," Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive
science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone
interview. Researchers led by Todd report in Tuesday's edition
of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study
found humans were similar to most other mammals, "following Darwin's
principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say
something different." Their study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
Participants ranged in age from 26 to their early 40s and took part in
"speed dating," short meetings of three to seven minutes in which
people chat, then move on to meet another dater. Afterward,
participants check off the people they'd like to meet again, and dates
can be arranged between pairs who select one another. Speed dating let researchers look at a lot of mate choices in a short time, Todd said.
In the study, participants were asked before the session to fill out a
questionnaire about what they were looking for in a mate, listing such
categories as wealth and status, family commitment, physical
appearance, healthiness and attractiveness. After the session,
the researchers compared what the participants said they were looking
for with the people they actually chose to ask for another date.
Men's choices did not reflect their stated preferences, the researchers
concluded. Instead, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on the
women's physical attractiveness. The men also appeared to be
much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a
certain minimum attractiveness threshold, Todd said. Women's
actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences,
but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found.
The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own
attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the
more desirable guys. "Women made offers to men who had overall
qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated
attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness,"
Todd said, "because part of the goal for women is to choose men who
would stay with them." But, he added, "they didn't go lower. They knew what they could get and aimed for that level." So, it turns out, the women's attractiveness influenced the choices of the men and the women.
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(Side note: I would not ask back that chick and probably not that guy)
(Also out of all the links I could of click on I only read this. I do not know what to make of this.)
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