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1. Establish which qualities are most important to you in a mate (e.g. intellectual compatibility, domestic compatibility, child rearing, sexual compatibility, mutual hobbies, etc.).
2. Assign these qualities a score between 1 and 5, indicating level of importance relative to each other. If you are uncertain of the importance of a quality for whatever reason – possibly uncertain if it will come into play, such as “child rearing” – assign that quality an arbitrary variable.
3. Score the individual on how well they satisfy each quality. I used a 1-5 interval again, but you can increase your interval for greater precision.
4. Multiply the individual’s score for each quality by the relative importance of that quality and add the individual quality scores together for one overall score.
5. (optional step) You can translate this raw score into a percent satisfaction grade by dividing the raw score by the maximum satisfaction (relative importance by max possible grade, add all scores).
Please note that you need to isolate variables, if you use them, as they will alter grades when/if they come into play.
(This is how the world appears to an INTJ.)
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This from the Pro-Test blog:
“No more threats, no more fear, animal research is finally here!
The Oxford Biomedical Facility is finally complete after five bumpy years. Despite violence, arson, threats, intimidation and harassment, Oxford University has pulled through with its new animal research facility. This lab is setting a new “Gold Standard” in animal welfare, one that will meet and exceed the standards set by the Home Office regulations. The past five years have also witnessed increased understanding of the need for well regulated animal research, and we are honoured to have played our part in enabling the students and residents of Oxford to show their support for the new biomedical facility
The life-saving research that can now go ahead in the lab will include work on cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, HIV, muscular dystrophy, motor neurone disease, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The lab will be using state of the art equipment to help further the 3Rs – Refinement, Replacement and Reduction. . .”
Go, Oxford! You rule.
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PERIODIC VIDEOS!!! ADDICTIVE!
Consider yourself warned.
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Cats and nerds.
Chuck suggested we watch the first episode of Fringe, J.J. Abrams’ new project on Fox tonight. For a number of reasons (not least of which was the inclusion of Pacy in the casting), I was skeptical. But, hey, Cloverfield was really fucking good! And before it turned X-Files and started meandering along on the whimsical flights of the writers, Lost was fun.
However, J.J. is (in some capacity) responsible for the following: Forever Young, Felicity, Alias, and Armageddon.
And now… FRINGE. Fuckin’ awful.
I’m kicking myself for criticizing a show about the occult — oops, I mean “fringe science” — as being completely implausible, but here I am. The show is absolutely absurd. Agent Ladycakes McToughy Loverstein is all but impatient to jump into a vat of brackish water, with a probe in her spinal column, doped up on a cocktail of Ketamine, LSD, and a seizure medication (which I am certain was included because of its very “sciencey” name — Neurontin — hey, I’m on that!) to save her contrived lover from a melty fate. Where’s Taco Bell when you need it, anyway?
Sure, the melty people looked awesome, but it isn’t enough to overcome the horrendous acting on the parts of Agent Ladycakes McToughy Loverstein and Pacy. Pacy. As a 190 IQ genius. No. Never ever. The day that Joshua Jackson is smarter than I, is the day I slit my wrists and poor my life blood down the garbage disposal.
Melty people versus Pacy, bad acting, piss poor dialogue/writing, and the notion that Harvard would hand lab space over to a scientist accused of performing experiments on humans and committed for the past decade.
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“Dear Ashley,
Your “viraginity.net” domain name has been successfully renewed!
The new expiration date for this domain is now 8/14/2011.”
I feel fluffy all over.
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Courtesy of [Dr. McAweosme/boyfriend], I have fallen in love with Neutral Milk Hotel.
Listen! DDL commands you! (It’ll help tune out the Regs in teh office.)
