Asia y América, béisbol, mujeres y hombres, hijos e hijas, esposas, novias y un mundo por completo de los extranjeros, or(en línea el fechar continuado)
他人、続くオンラインで日付を記入することの十分のアジアおよびアメリカ、野球、女性および人、息子および娘、妻、ガールフレンドおよび世界
All of which comes back to us as: "Others, the Asia and America of the sufficient of the thing which enters date the online which continues, the baseball, the woman and the person, the son and the daughter, the wife, the girl friend and the world."
Wow. No matter we all have trouble understanding each other. As everyone who's read Deborah_Tannen knows, women and men speak different languages. Yet as hard as I've tried, again and again I've fallen victim to the gender differences in how we communicate our feelings. I can only imagine how men (or women) fare who remain blissfully unaware of how deep the chasm between the sexes actually is.
Then there are the anthropologists who study (for example) how men and women interact in a bar. The synchronicity of their movements if they are attracted to each other is a true tip-off, much as batters and base-stealers benefit from noting when a pitcher drops down as he pitches a curveball, or whatever, in my favorite sport, baseball.
For baseball fans, the race to the playoffs this year is a wonderful, late-season treat. The Detroit Tigers, of all teams, enjoy one of the best records in the major leagues. The Giants have young Matt Cain, who may eventually throw as many no-hitters as Nolan Ryan; and the Phillies have young Ryan Howard, who may eventually hit as many homeruns as Willie Mays.
The Giants also have Omar Vizquel, who is the greatest shortstop in the game, and lots of other veterans near the end of their careers. Including the big guy. Don't look now, but they are within striking distance of winning the NL Wild Card in the next three weeks. Stay tuned.
Today was bookmarked by time with my oldest son, Peter. I haven't been able to spend so much time with him since he was a little boy. We had breakfast at the Atlas Cafe, a neighborhood haunt -- lattes and chocolate croissants.
When I got home from work, he had the pork ribs boiling on the stove, giving our place a cozy smell as I came in from the wet, windy cold fog that has descended over our city. We ate and watched the Giants (and Cain) beat the Padres, 4-0, in the living room. (Since the little ones weren't here, we could break the rule of No Eating in the Living Room. Or, El ningún comer en la sala de estar . Or, 反響室で食べること, which, of course, comes back as "Eat in the Echo Chamber."
Hmmm. I like that. "Eat in the Echo Chamber." What the hell is an echo chamber? Maybe a blog like this one of mine, that probably nobody ever much reads. Oh, I know from the StatCounter tally, that thousands of page views have been recorded, but as an Internet denizen, I also know that many people may hit the page by mistake, back away quickly, fooling StatCounter perhaps, but certainly not me.
The average blog has five readers, like the fingers on your hand, the toes on your foot, or the cards in your poker hand.
StatCounter believes the visitors who have stopped by this modest corner of the blogosphere number as follows by country:
Num Perc. Country
1888 83.95% United States
68 3.02% Canada
66 2.93% Chile
51 2.27% Japan
30 1.33% United Kingdom
10 0.44% Unknown -
10 0.44% Singapore
9 0.40% Spain
7 0.31% Hong Kong
7 0.31% Philippines
6 0.27% India
6 0.27% Argentina
5 0.22% Netherlands
5 0.22% Indonesia
5 0.22% Germany
5 0.22% Qatar
4 0.18% Turkey
4 0.18% Australia
4 0.18% Mexico
4 0.18% Ireland
4 0.18% Dominican Republic
3 0.13% Myanmar
3 0.13% Portugal
3 0.13% France
3 0.13% Venezuela
3 0.13% Colombia
3 0.13% China
3 0.13% Belgium
2 0.09% Estonia
2 0.09% Taiwan
2 0.09% Syrian Arab Republic
2 0.09% Denmark
2 0.09% Peru
2 0.09% Italy
2 0.09% Uruguay
2 0.09% South Africa
2 0.09% Ecuador
1 0.04% Romania
1 0.04% Andorra
1 0.04% Poland
1 0.04% Sweden
1 0.04% New Zealand
1 0.04% Slovakia
1 0.04% Thailand
1 0.04% Oman
1 0.04% Norway
1 0.04% Malaysia
1 0.04% Kuwait
1 0.04% Finland
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What does any of this have to do with online dating? My informant tells me that my previous reference to 30% of those who meet online actually meet in person, and the majority of those become intimate, was a study of married people only.
Hmmm.
Not to my taste. I don't wish to fool around with a married person, or with anyone who's still emotionally involved with someone else.
First, I don't want to hurt anyone else.
Second, and more importantly, I'm greedy. I want her to only be into me.
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