Flirting and hotlisting are worthless when they are free
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Posted:Sep 18, 2011 10:25 am
Last Updated:Sep 25, 2011 3:35 pm
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When anyone who creates a free woman's account on this site can create flirts and hotlist alerts, they become totally worthless. I'd like to see how many men on this site can confirm what I've seen this past year or so. The Ghana romance scammers (look it up in Wikipedia) completely flood the "People who Flirted with you in the last 30 days" and "People who Hotlisted you in the last 30 days" lists on the "Who's Viewed Me?" page.
Here are my statistics:
Alt:
31 hotlists, 31 profiles turned off or inactive
5 flirts, 5 profiles turned off or inactive
VisionPersonals.com:
15 hotlists, 15 profiles turned off or inactive
5 flirts, 5 profiles turned off or inactive
For those of you who don't know, you can get a "preview" of a person's profile on your "Who's Viewed Me? list by hovering the mouse pointer over the person's picture (or the image indicating that there is no picture). The person or people generating these fake profiles are starting to get lazy. Twice this month, I've seen two hotlistings right next to each other with the same text for the summary and the start of the profile. I also think that the generators of fake profiles never bother to try to join groups, but I'm not prepared to count on that. The other clue is that about 90% of the fake profiles get removed within 72 hours. There are a few that will last a week, so that isn't entirely reliable, either.
If there's a moral to this story, I think it would be that, if you are a woman trying to contact others on this site, you're better off sending mail messages, participating in chat, or joining groups. Oh, and if you're a man, or a couple, or even a woman (eventually the scammers will try to pass themselves off as lesbian or bisexual), be very wary of people who contact you here and try immediately to get you to another chat system. If they can't contact you here a week later with the same account, it's because their account has been shut down because they're a scammer.
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My 9/11 wish
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Posted:Sep 11, 2011 12:05 pm
Last Updated:Sep 11, 2011 12:06 pm
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Before football today, I caught the tail end of CBS's "Face the Nation". Someone (sorry, I don't know his name) was saying that he remembers the unity that everyone felt shortly afterwards. That kind of unity scares me. I think that calling for the appearance of unity for the reasons of nationalism and patriotism are missing the point.
Rather than wishing for a feeling of unity, I wish that everyone would expend more effort to understand the reasoning of others who disagree with one's beliefs. I would like to see calm discourse and the respectful expression not only of ideas, but of reasoning.
Funny, as I was writing this, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, announcing the Steelers/Ravens game, mentioned the statements that Rashard Mendenhall made concerning Osama Bin Laden. Mendenhall, of course, was ridiculed for making them. I think they were, at best, ill-advised. However, rather than "tweeting" a few malformed sentences and having them ridiculed, couldn't we come up with a better format that would allow Mendenhall to express his beliefs and his reasoning, and to allow those who disagree to do the same?
Arguing, no matter how organized, respectful, and rational, appears to be disharmonious. However, pretending to be in agreement creates more actual disharmony.
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Was sick; feeling better
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Posted:Sep 2, 2011 1:53 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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I caught a cold and worked (more or less) from home the past two days. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure this ruins my plans to visit family during the extended weekend. Guess I'll just be stuck at home alone. Again.
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I'm still not a crossdresser
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Posted:Aug 28, 2011 6:36 pm
Last Updated:Aug 28, 2011 8:54 pm
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Apparently, I have to make a few things blatantly clear. It's a white tank top and white sweat shorts. Yes, I have long hair. Some men do. It doesn't make me a cross-dresser. I'm not wearing a bra. I'm not wearing panties. I'm also not a woman, in case that wasn't entirely clear.
Don't make me add "not a TS/TG/CD" to my summary line!
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My body shape is disturbingly pear-like
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Posted:Aug 28, 2011 1:11 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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One of the reasons that I've been slower with blog entries in the past year (as opposed to, say, 2009), is that I'm not happy with my body shape. It's a boring story, but I'll relate it anyway....
I have a sedentary career and sedentary hobbies. Despite the fact that I like to walk as a means of transportation, I don't burn many calories unless I'm trying. I also like to eat. As you can imagine, those two facts combine to form a substantial amount of weight on my body.
From when I started college to about December of 2007, I slowly but steadily gained weight until I was over 230 pounds. At that point, my current wardrobe didn't fit and I realized I had to make a decision: lose weight or get bigger clothes. I chose the former.
It was actually around April of 2008, however, that I really started into it. I had already obtained a home within walking distance of work and I had acquired a used, unused exercise cycle from my family. So, I stopped driving to work and did my video-game-playing and NFL-watching from the seat of that bike.
I don't have the details anymore, but I'm fairly certain that a year later I was under 200 pounds and that by early 2010 I had spent at least a month under 180. The lowest weight I recorded was 176.5 pounds.
Then life started happening. I changed jobs and my new job was outside of walking distance. That meant fewer calories expended per day. Four months after that, I was laid off and spent three months unemployed. One would think that, with more time and less money on my hands, I would eat less and exercise more. However, I had prepared a reserve fund, so I wasn't pinching pennies yet, and it was hard to motivate myself to exercise. So, I was eating more and exercising less. The last month of unemployment had me take two interviewing trips, complete with per-diem and a gratuitous lunch during the day-long interview, plus one house-hunting trip also with per-diem. I, of course, chowed down on the free food.
Once I started work in Seattle, I had issues getting a place to live. I spent 45 days in corporate housing and about four months in a hotel room. The corporate housing had a reasonably-equipped kitchen; the hotel room did not. In both cases, I tended to purchase prepared food in large quantities. I also didn't have access to personal exercise equipment. I was walking to and from work, at least, but my weight climbed into the 220-225 pound range.
And that's where I've been since. I have my pedal exerciser, I walk to and from work, I'm going to be using my condominium's common exercise room on Monday nights (during the game), and I'm taking long walks on weekends to the thrift stores (although that may stop when it's raining sideways). If I can keep that up and ratchet down my eating, I should be able to get back to a presentable body shape.
It's the eating-less part that I'm having trouble with....
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Thrift shopping success
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Posted:Aug 27, 2011 11:15 am
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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This is the fourth weekend in a row where I have spent about 90 minutes walking to and from some (relatively-)nearby thrift stores. The first two weeks, I was rewarded with a sizable number of new old video games. Last week, there was no value so I bought nothing. I made up for it this week with 11 games for about $33. This puts my collection over 1600. If I can keep this rate up, I'll go over 1700 before the end of the year.
Hey, we all have our own unique fetishes....
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Too much ... radiation ....
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Posted:Aug 14, 2011 4:03 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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I got sunburned at the company picnic today. Unfortunately, such picnics really aren't my style, as I am both an introvert and nervous in crowds. Most of the activities were geared for , so I couldn't partake in those, either. The food was good, but I overate and my stomach complained for a little bit. I went alone and didn't talk to anyone there (not that I knew anyone; the company is BIG).
The worst part was the trip back. Rather than drive myself, I took the shuttle offered by the company. Unfortunately, on the way back, I had a chatty couple behind me. Not a married couple, who would chat about normal, interesting things. A date couple, whose conversation was undoubtedly interesting to the participants but inane for someone like myself sitting two feet away. Furthermore, the woman had to try a cell-phone conversation during the trip as well. Inane conversation is abrasive enough when one can hear both sides. Even worse than that was that the bus driver was playing the oldies station and this couple decided every once in a while to sing along.
Mostly, though, I'm just a curmudgeon ("a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person") who would rather stay home on a nice weekend and recharge.
Actually, I do have to admit that it was nice to smell grass in the background, instead of having to inhale this nasty city air. I wish I could do that more often.
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Suggestion from a friend
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Posted:Aug 13, 2011 3:30 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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Someone I chat with a lot suggested I make these changes to my profile:
"If you're interested in sex, which I am, I'll answer you if you've been female from birth til now and have the bondage kit"
Requirements: 1. Natural, not man made vagina. 2. Decent amount of kink in spirit and life. 3. Must like sex. 4.Likes to cook, but would rather have sex.
I do need to do some form of update to my profile soon....
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Am I ready for some football?
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Posted:Aug 11, 2011 5:14 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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Yes, yes I am. However, I had forgotten that the preseason begins today. Thus, I missed the beginning of this game. But, I'm rolling now! And I have the second TV, just in case I want to play video games at the same time. Maybe something Madden?
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Random game selection
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Posted:Aug 7, 2011 10:20 am
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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About two months ago, I decided to start writing down on a calendar the games I start and stop playing. The idea was that, once I stop playing a particular game, I won't go back to it for a full year. A few days ago, I decided to randomly select which game to play next, rather than relying on my own misguided sense of what I'd like to play next. I have a list of my games in a spreadsheet. I generate a random number between 1 and the total number of rows on that spreadsheet. I index the spreadsheet with that random number and that tells me which game to attempt next.
Naturally, I'm going to roll up more croppers than good games. Then again, if it's a bad game, I'm certain I can wait a year before playing it again. At any rate, between the random selection and they one-year hiatus, I should be able to give more of the games in my collection a chance to impress me.
Next up on my list is "Missile Command" for the Atari 5200. This might be short, because I'm having difficulties with all of my 5200 controllers. Even the trackball. At least it's forcing me to try to coax my 5200 to work. Maybe I'll spend half an hour on it before moving to the next game on the list, "Wii Sports". I generated five games in a row, so I know that the next two are "Frogs 'n Flies" (Atari 2600) and "F-Zero" (Super NES). For those of you doing the math at home, the first one was "Congo Bongo" on the Atari 2600. It wasn't very good.
P.S. Apparently, the spellchecker in this blog knows the word "Atari".
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Supply and demand
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Posted:Aug 3, 2011 5:02 pm
Last Updated:Aug 3, 2011 6:16 pm
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Something is wrong with Alt's instant messenger. As a result, few people are apparently able to bring up a camera. I was able to do so by using the stand-alone . VisionPersonals.com's is unaffected.
On my Alt home page, under the "Chat with Women" section (the title on yours may vary), it says: "Live Webcams 6 Broadcasting Now!" My camera is shown under that title, despite the fact that I am very obviously not a woman. (Although I do get mistaken as a crossdresser, due to the hair.) Thus, because I'm one of six operational cameras, I'm getting a lot of attempted viewers. Man, there are a bunch of 50-75-year-olds on this site! Only one page so far, a 72-year-old guy. I certainly hope that improves during the evening.
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Go hang yourself
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Posted:Jul 31, 2011 4:22 pm
Last Updated:Aug 3, 2011 4:14 pm
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I've mentioned before that the scammers seem to be able to send flirts. I can see part of their profile by hovering on the picture in my "Who's Viewed Me?" list. Scammers are pretty easy to pick out, mostly because the English is just a little off. This one, though, was hilariously bad:
"Am looking toward meeting a Nice, caring, understanding and respectable Man that I can hang myself with...."
That's some pretty weird bondage going on right there! Seriously, though, the lack of a subject on the first sentence ("am" instead of "I am") is a dead giveaway. I've studied Spanish, so I am familiar with the concept of an implicit subject. Then again, a language like Spanish has a different word for each verb tense, so first- and second-person subjects can be easily inferred. It is similar to the command tense in English. We don't say, "You go to the store." We say, "Go to the store," because commands are always directed to the second person. However, most of our verbs use the same word for multiple subject perspectives. ("I have a computer. You have a computer. They have a computer.) Thus, in English, dropping the subject of the sentence is often awkward (excepting commands and perhaps a few other cases).
Maybe there are some bad translation programs out there, because I just tried Google Translate and it translated "I am happy" to "estoy feliz" and "estoy feliz" to "I'm happy" (notice the appropriate use of a contraction). So, whoever is dumb enough to set up these fake accounts is dumb enough to use a poor translation system.
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It's been a while since...
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Posted:Jul 30, 2011 7:40 pm
Last Updated:May 4, 2024 11:11 am
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...since I dropped almost $100 on video games in one day. The official damage is $92.72. One of the results is that I increased the number of Atari Lynx games I own by a factor of 10. Well, yeah, "Todd's Adventure in Slime World" was sitting there alone until today. But, still, finding nine Lynx games is pretty impressive in the circles I travel. I also picked up a couple of Playstation games, a handful of Gameboy Color games, a few Game Gear games, and (oddly enough) six Commodore 64 games. I also picked up a redundant copy of the original Gameboy's "Tetris", which I shall put in one of my redundant Gameboys and keep in my cubicle at work.
You may be wondering why I mention my video games in this blog on a sex site so much. Naturally, it's because there is a correlation between the number of video games I own and the amount of sex I'm not getting.
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