{"id":380,"date":"2007-07-11T01:44:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T05:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-07-11T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T05:45:33","slug":"on-fishing-and-catching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"On fishing and catching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just had an awesome conversation with this girl I met on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plentyoffish.com\/\">POF<\/a>. Smart, cute, geeky, isn&#8217;t into tall and muscular guys, likes to cook, likes to fish, and&#8230;single, and seems actually interested in me :-P How is this possible? From Equation 1*, we know that someone such as this does not actually exist: at least, there has to be some serious catch. But what is it? My first guess (by mad statisticry) would be some kind of serious, weapons-grade emotional baggage, but there are many other possibilities, such as:<\/p>\n<p>Terminal Medical Condition (only a couple years to live)<br \/>\nAn uncurable Venerial Disease<br \/>\nHas a Weenie<br \/>\nHears Voices<br \/>\nCloset Lesbian<br \/>\nAdult Diapers<br \/>\nSevere Allergy to Everything, Including Me<br \/>\nPrehensile Tail<br \/>\nPsycho Stalker Ex (hey, what&#8217;s rustling under my bed?)<br \/>\nVery Severe OCD<br \/>\nPsychopathic and Good with Power Tools<br \/>\n&#8230;and Knows a Good Place to Bury the Body<br \/>\n&#8230;that she Engineered Herself for this Very Purpose<br \/>\n&#8230;and it&#8217;s Nearing Capacity<br \/>\nLikes the Taste of Human Blood<br \/>\nSevere Genetic Anomaly resulting in the Growth of Extra Limbs from Various Places, Random Fingernails Everywhere, Scales, Feathers, Etc.<br \/>\nAsymptomatic Ebola Carrier<\/p>\n<p>Not that some of these haven&#8217;t stopped me before, but I don&#8217;t want to go in with any sort of unrealistic expectations ;-) <\/p>\n<p>What do YOU think it is? The betting pool is now open!<\/p>\n<p>* Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just had an awesome conversation with this girl I met on POF. Smart, cute, geeky, isn&#8217;t into tall and muscular guys, likes to cook, likes to fish, and&#8230;single, and seems actually interested in me :-P How is this possible? From Equation 1*, we know that someone such as this does not actually exist: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}