Mai, Oh My!

I went for kickboxing class at TNT today. Saturday classes feel more laid back but at the same time they are more intense and personal. I cancelled my gym membership the other day too. I told them I was moving out of the country for 6 months (absolute lie!) Well it’s 175 less to worry about each month! If it wasn’t raining so damn much right now and if there weren’t so many damn kids swimming in the pool at my condo all the time, I’d probably frequent swimming more. But who am I kidding? There have been so many times I’ve looked out at the pool and there was no one swimming and no sign of rain. Maybe I should get a housemate. There are a few advantages to it:

1. Rent money
2. Someone to look after my cats when I travel
3. I’ll have more of reason to leave my house (translation: I’m a freak about personal space and need to get away from them – whether it be a driving distance away or a short walk to the pool for a swim)
4. Someone other than my cats to talk to

I’m also not very big on committment so maybe a short term rent time of about 6 months.

So here’s an interesting article I came across the other day http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/27/books-and-music-that-make-you-dumb – basically it’s Facebook data that this guy Virgil Griffith used and took to do some kind of charting/scanning about the favorite bands and books among students of various colleges (presumably in the US) and plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools. I can’t seem to access the guys actual website but I did manage to save the image of the chart for “Music that makes you dumb”

I’m sure these results will somehow reflect how everyone will enter their ‘favourite music’ data in effort to appear smarter. My theory on this is not about how smart a person is academically but rather how easily influenced they are by the media. Media is non-physical torturous way of BRAINWASHING. With the right marketing and PR – you can make any asshole popular. I admit – I was academically challenged during my school days and my SAT score is too embarrassing to share. Musically however, I would be on the higher spectrum of that chart. Also, I know a handful of folks of whom scored high on their SATs but would fall on the lower spectrum. Of course, if you were super smart, you would probably have no time for Facebook cause you’re out trying to find a cure for cancer.

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