SVM, half Terran: tall, slim and relatively attractive, seeks adventurous human female for mutually enjoyable assignations. I enjoy observing the dynamic properties of condensed matter systems, travel, and combining statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and information theory to examine the complementary roles of information and uncertainty in control processes. I'm told I should also mention that I know how to work a tool. I suppose that is slang for "I'm handy at fixing things", which I am. I am also professionally employed, musically inclined, and am conversant in 127 languages and fluent in 43 (after which I stopped learning them. People only use words to misunderstand one another, it seems). Curious? I invite you to examine me for yourself, with the understanding that I shall claim for myself congruent liberties.
Email: callmeMrSpock@excite.com
From: James Kirk (NotDeadJim@excite.com) Re: Classifieds for Trek folk?
In ASCEML@egroups.com, Traci wrote:
> >Dina wrote: > > >Anyhow, what would you believe your Trek character would put in > > >a classifed, if they actually would do such a thing?
>I'd add to Neelix's "must love spots, tufts, and loud clothing & be over three years old."
"I'd add to Spock's "Must have pulse". LOL I mean, look at it...the guy doesn't even mention anything about the woman he's looking for! An "adventurous" armless, legless old woman could roll up and, if you believe his ad, she'd do! She wouldn't even have to be literate...somebody could have read the ad to her! ROFL.
Dina, even the best sort of people suck at writing personal ads. I wouldn't even try. I don't believe in them.
It's weird meeting someone knowing I'm meeting them to meet them! It feels false, and can't help but be awkward. I do a lot of official going-to-meet-people-to-meet-them as part of my regular duties, and having someone's picture to look at and their resume before you and all that beforehand doesn't make the shock of encountering them any easier. It makes it more difficult to be just plain folks with them, because now you are not just two people connecting you are two monoliths of human history crashing hugely into each other like two continent-sized icebergs jockeying for elbow room in some Arctic channel. There are times when that's necessary, but when you are looking for affection? Phooey!
Put your two resumes in bed and leave 'em alone! See what that gets you!
I can't count how many times I made a friend or found a lover that turned out to be some big celebrity or whatever, but we found each other as people first, and that's what really mattered. In bed that's ALL that matters.
The Vulcans are right about one thing: when it's time to make love, that's no time to be logical. The brain is a very useful organ but it is quite over-rated in that arena. We are not minds alone: we are living creatures with eons of bestial, lustful behavior for our legacy. People have changed since the stone age, but not that much. The way to choose a lover is still In The Flesh. The flesh has a wisdom of its own that people ought to respect more than they do.
Not that ads never work. I've heard lots of stories about ads that
worked. The kind of person who's most successful at getting action usually goes out to meet people, instead of sitting around writing and reading ads, that's all. Until fairly recently folks through the ages had to hitch up the buggy or take the ferry across the river or join a caravan or something if they wanted to hook up with some likely prospects, but they didn't mind because they knew it was a procedure that worked pretty well.
Modern people live longer than our ancestors did, but for some reason we think we haven't got time to dress up and go out. Wrong. We can't afford not to!
Many of our ancestors didn't even read and write, and they did all
right. What makes us think that readin', writin', and 'rith-ma-tic has
anything to do with antler-banging mating dances? Readin' and
writin' ability is one of nature's more recent innovations, and has yet
to prove itself truly helpful. All we know for sure is that it can get
us into new kinds of trouble, and that includes all that bad poetry we don't need more of.
Most of our ancestors were not the ad kind of people, and neither are you, Spock. It's a big mistake for you to go that route. No ad could ever capture your unique qualities and do you proper justice, not even one written by someone as brilliant as you. You come with me next time I go ashore, and I'll show you some things. We'll get you fixed up!
Jimbo"
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