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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Although I didn’t fully understand it at the time, the reason I was so clumsy at the hookup scene, is because I was always thinking more long-term. As it turned out, I was much more comfortable in relationships, of doing fun stuff like reverse dates: have sex with my partner, then go out to dinner and/or drinks with her.

    Then we realized a funny thing: when we are both relaxed, we notice nearly everyone else around us was tense about the same thing, hunting and preening, and there we were, smiling knowingly at each other, having just fucked each other’s brains out, enjoying a drink with zero stress in the mind and body.

    People on the hookup scene have it the wrong way around.
    If they only knew the pleasure of going out having already done the deed. Daily intimacy has this and many other perks.




  • Remember that 80s magazine OMNI?
    Science, tech, sci-fi, Mensa-caliber games… by the very same Bob Guccione who published Penthouse!

    Every issue had an in-depth interview with a prominent and interesting scientist, figures like Alan Guth or Luc Montagnier or Morris Berman.
    One issue was a little more off-beat, the interview was with an anthropologist, whose student life and career went like this:

    Attending the University Of Montana in Missoula, this student loved drinking every day, so he asked the question - “What’s a relatively easy major with little math, that will interfere the least with my drinking?” - and landed on Anthropology.

    After graduation, the next question became - “What will I do my thesis about?” - a friend gave him the vague advice to do it on something he knew or was passionate about, and like a “eureka” moment, it hit him: “I’m gonna research drinking culture, bars!”

    And so, he became one of the rarefied few for whom drinking on the job was basically a requirement!