tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39842090559726481952024-03-12T18:19:07.691-07:00The Regular Joe@theregjoeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-81568150419498115892012-12-08T07:52:00.002-08:002012-12-08T07:52:52.566-08:00You Go Cam!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-52949331203818591962012-11-20T11:27:00.000-08:002012-11-20T11:27:28.361-08:00Why The “IKEA Effect” is Making Us Miserable? <br />
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In his book “The Upside
of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic”, Dan Ariely tells
about the “IKEA Effect” as “the increase in valuation of self-made products. Participants
saw their amateurish creations – of both utilitarian and hedonic products – as
similar in value to the creations of experts, and expected others to share
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It is the last part of the
definition I’d like to talk about. “and expect others to share their opinions”.
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We all love what <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/11/just-another-friday-or-jeans-ipad.html">we make</a> and find
ourselves baffled by our surroundings lack of interest or in other words WHY
DOESN’T EVERYBODY SEE I'M THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD!!!!?????</div>
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You know the feeling when you post
a picture of the omelet you made on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JoeRegular?sk=wall">Facebook</a>, a tree in autumn on <a href="http://instagram.com/jonrudas">Instagram</a>,
had the cleverest insight on <a href="https://twitter.com/theregjoe">Twitter</a> or wrote the best blog post ever, you
press “send” and wait… and wait… and then your mom really <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/03/web-20-terminology-do-i-like-it.html">“likes”</a> it. How come
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If you read some of my posts you
noticed I too sin<a href="https://twitter.com/theregjoe"> in the DIY</a> here and there and more than once I found myself
posting something I thought was genius but didn’t get the traction I expected. Or
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Is the problem with me or the rest
of the world? Of course the rest of the world suck and wouldn’t know the next
Da-Vinci if he drops on his head but I must realize there is a slim chance I'm not
the hot potato I imagine myself to be. And that goes to the rest of you. </div>
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Well.. this post is not about
getting too much into details. For that you’ll have to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits/dp/0061995045">the book</a>. All I'm saying is you must recognize at some
point no one attaches the same value you do to your “Paris-London” FB album
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The sooner you’ll realize that the
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FYI, people who spend their lives
thinking they are good as they think and expect everybody around them to feel the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-55322864411801619782012-10-10T14:51:00.002-07:002012-10-10T14:51:46.503-07:00Mega Vintage 16-Bit<br />
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When I was 10 or so I’ve worked the whole summer as a
delivery boy for the local shop. I wanted to save 150$ so I can buy the brand
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I had it all. The Atari, the first MegaDrive, the first
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By the time the X-box and PlayStation were introduced I have
long abandoned my passion for gaming. It just got so complicated and
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So imagine my happiness when I found these games FOR SALE at
my local store. I can’t really put my finger to which console they match but it
is good to know some things last.</div>
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BTW I still have a working 16-bit MegaDrive ready for use
although my mom wants to throw it out.</div>
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I just have nowhere to plug it to. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-14721410866677128802012-09-04T15:46:00.000-07:002012-09-04T15:46:17.056-07:00The Price of Milking It<br />
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I’ll always remember the month I spent travelling the
Australian Gold Coast as one of the greatest in my life. Some friends and I
rented a place in Byron Bay, <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2012/01/life-is-suffering-or-is-it.html">surfed every day</a> surrounded by easy going people
and always had the fridge stacked with bacon and fruits. </div>
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<u>Winner Winner Chicken Dinner</u></h2>
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One of the major concerns on the average backpacker’s mind
is food. Especially if you’re a big guy who’s used eating around six meals per
day. The local supermarket (HomeBrand I think it was called) had this great
thing where after 21:00pm they would sell grilled chicken for half price. No
need to tell you I was starting to look like a grilled something by the time I
left. </div>
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This was in the beginning of 2004 when I was just a stupid
kid (later became a stupid adult) without any professional education or real
understanding of the market forces. But this grilled chicken thing will follow
me every time I’ll walk into any grocery store.</div>
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<u>Stop Playing With Your Food</u></h2>
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<a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/11/just-another-friday-or-jeans-ipad.html">I hate waste</a>, especially <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2012/03/everyday-dilemma-why-cant-i-eat-that.html">when it comes to food</a>. My father in
his endless wisdom always said food was for eating and was appalled by the
concept of “food fight” or any other use of food other but eating it.</div>
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The first thing my Economics professor taught me was how
prices are determined by supply and demand. In other words, people will present
a certain demand for a product at any given price. Since then I can’t help to
think about that Aussie grilled chicken every time I go out to buy some milk.<br />
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How come a box of milk with an expiration date due in a week
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Basically they are
not the same product. The value each milk box brings me is different. One has
double the value of the other. The demand for week old milk is far lower than
the demand for fresh milk but still they both cost the same. Does that sound
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<b>My suggestion is simple;</b> once a dairy, meat, Vegetable or
any expire-able product is close to the end of its shelf life, just cut the
prices accordingly and trust me – it will be sold. </div>
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Once the price drops -> demand goes up. Especially for such
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I just fixed the food retail world with my awesomeness. How
about that?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-23376694067975801512012-08-27T11:34:00.000-07:002012-08-27T11:34:25.919-07:00The Threesome Golden Ratio<br />
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<b>Warning: </b>the following text is written in the mind of a dumb
college kid so if you’re looking for smart, mature and interesting articles go
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">here</a>. <br />
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Yes, guys rate girls. We do it all the time almost like
breathing. There are many different scales and it varies between cultures,
countries, schools, generations and so on. But all will agree the most classic
and universal rating system is the 1-10 scale. </div>
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Guys know girls rate us but unlike girls, every guy knows
more or less where he stands on the scale. Mainly by experience of the girls he
dates or “hook up” with along the way. </div>
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If a guy constantly goes out with 7-8 girls he knows that’s
where he is and he will usually leave the 5’s and 10’s for others. </div>
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Another (unsurprising) fact about guys is we all espier to share our bed
with two women at once during the course of our lifetime at least once. Not an
easy task if you found yourself on the outside of the hardcore porn industry.</div>
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Most will say it’s a childish mission and they are right. But
still we all think about it. Most of us never accomplish it and when we grow up
it just adds to the list of stupid things we wanted to do together with driving
at 250 km/h on the freeway and a “Mother” tattoo.</div>
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If you still feel like you can’t let go of the dream and you
won’t give up, the next formula should at least help you wrap your head around it.</div>
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This formula should not be taken seriously and is not to be
viewed as sex guideline. </div>
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If you’re one of those guys who can’t let go of this goal
you will probably have to make some adjustments to your rating system. </div>
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Let’s say you’re an 8’s guy. All your life you had great
success with 8’s and from time to time you find yourself with a 9 or a 7. Can
you really imagine you will succeed getting nasty with two 8’s?! That’s like
16!! But of course you won’t like to hook up with two 5’s as it’s too obvious. </div>
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<b>Introducing the Threesome Golden Ratio:
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If Z = your rating (1,10)</div>
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1.5*Z ≤ X+Y</div>
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<b>Example:</b> If you are an 8, the sum of the two girl’s ratings
should be 8*1.5=12 or higher. It can be two 6’s or a 7 and a 5. You got the
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Good luck dudes. </div>
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For my final words I’ll just mention that although it seems
cool and all, wasting your energy on this kind of shit is stupid. You should be
grateful if even one girl chooses to spend any time with you.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-1429982050705834312012-05-29T08:16:00.001-07:002012-05-29T08:16:27.852-07:00NYC Researches Find New Species of Humans<br />
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“We never imagined such species exist. It really gives hope
to many Jewish guys out there”</div>
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Ever since I accidently ate bad whip cream as a child, I smell
everything before I eat it. The experience was so awful and scarring I keep
working and improving my sense of smell if only to never eat expired dairy
again. Plus I got a fairly large yet strong nose so it helps. </div>
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When I found myself <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/06/losing-time-or-losing-war-on-time.html">killing time</a> in the duty free shops
in between <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/06/losing-time-or-losing-war-on-time.html">flights</a> I was amazed how
much of my life is flashing before my eyes when I walk across the perfume
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Anything can trigger it basically. It may attack you walking
into a room, opening the car window, bumping into someone on the street,
walking into a market, a restaurant, an elevator, the train or whatever. These small
flashbacks catch us unprepared and paralyze us for a few seconds.</div>
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Each person, place and memory has a unique smell that is
filed in our archives. For me at least it is very hard to remember a smell by
memory but the opposite happens all the time. With a single whiff I can vividly
feel the moment I last or first smelled a memory. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I remember.. I remember!!!</td></tr>
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<u></u><br />
<h2>
<u>The Nose Knows</u></h2>
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The perfume shelf is basically a direct access point to
these archived memories as they are filed by scent.</div>
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</div>
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The smell of my first love which I haven’t thought of for a
while, the smell my cousin wore at this wedding she danced with me and I wanted
to puke, the perfume my grandmother sent me 15 years ago which I’ve never used,
my grandfather’s after shave which meant I won’t itch after he gives me a
thousand kisses, CK One just reminds me of everything happened between 91’-95’, the girl who left in the morning leaving only a hint, the one
still sitting on the shelf in my late friend’s room, the old spice from my teen
years, the one I used when I stayed the night and the one smell who seems to
make my eyes work as well..</div>
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And then the airport’s McDonald’s smell.<br />
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Try it the next time around.</div>
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If you are anosmic I’m very sorry for this post. </div>
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As a native to a non-subway city when I came to New-York I couldn’t
get enough of it. Well… I couldn’t get enough of it at first until
I had enough.</div>
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<br></div>
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But every ride was very educating. I think in any given time
the subway represents the exact distribution of mankind. It’s like a small UN. </div>
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More than any social network, the public transportation
system’s main goal is to connect people the best way it can. Of course there’s
much to improve still but I always had some insight while cramming myself
between a sea of sweaty people trying to fit in a shoe box.</div>
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What I realized is that every person is going to a different
place for a different purpose but we still meet here sitting across from each
other. It sounds a bit mundane but I love it. </div>
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To thank the MTA for all those nice moments, I introduce to
you here my campaign for the NYC public transportation system. </div>
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Everybody is going somewhere</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take me to the money</td></tr>
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<u></u><br>
<h2>
<u>Utopia Disrupted</u></h2>
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Wish it was that simple. I could just write whatever is on
my mind, what bothers me or makes me happy and you would just read, share it
with others, comment or contact me or just think about it for a little while.</div>
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<br></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M5XakIVe7D4/T30Nhkzzn9I/AAAAAAAAAo8/a1HR6nDdmRo/s1600/60seconds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M5XakIVe7D4/T30Nhkzzn9I/AAAAAAAAAo8/a1HR6nDdmRo/s400/60seconds.jpg" width="400"></a>But I’m just one person, a regular Joe if you will, among many others. So
if I want someone else beside me and this woman from Texas to read it, I need
to come up with an out-of-this-world title, wicked design, write like the
bastard child of L. Cohen and Jerry Seinfeld and spread it <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/03/web-20-terminology-do-i-like-it.html">like a virus</a> so
maybe someone would choose me over all the rest out there. </div>
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<br></div>
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And there’s a lot to choose from. Every second of the day I
face a 10 choice questionnaire of what to read, watch, and hear. It’s a bloody
war and porn is winning.</div>
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</div><a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2012/04/free-money-or-siri-do-i-have-your.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-6872383118423408682012-03-25T18:13:00.002-07:002012-03-25T18:13:59.765-07:00Shave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-76126642794126733062012-03-23T11:55:00.001-07:002012-04-04T20:22:26.510-07:00Might Just Be the Manliest Product EverJack Daniel's<br />
Horseradish<br />
Mustard<br />
Yeah<br />
<br />
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You know the story. It’s happened to all of us at least
once. You go to a bar or a restaurant and while waiting for your food you
notice the table next to you left an untouched plate of fries, half a sushi
roll, half a sandwich or even some wine. <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You gonna eat that bro?</td></tr>
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You want this half of sandwich. You can’t take your mind off
of it and you know the waiter is coming any second to take it and probably just
throw it away. What is holding you from taking it? Do you worry about what people think? If you were alone would you take it? what is the big deal really? Is there suddenly <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2010/10/hungry-planet.html">too much food in the world</a> that we just throw
food away now? We know for a fact it is becoming <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/11/7000000000-and-counting-back.html">harder for us to feed ourselves</a> and that a big portion of the world lives in relative hunger so why
is it so socially frowned upon to take food left by other people?</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I was always into astronomy and astrophysics. If I was a bit
smarter I might have pursued a career in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You don't need to
be a scientist to enjoy this short film. It is telling, most likely, about the most astounding</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This feeling you
have burning inside your body was actually born in the burning inside of a
star. That is astounding</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Plus, if you master this pitch you can totally get girls with it. </span></div>
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I’ve being thinking about this post for a long time but my
belief in the urgency of the matter made me wait for I think this should
be discussed at a higher level or by a much more influential media than myself.
I thought someone would pick up the torch and I could follow him. But it
didn’t happen. Everybody just go around like there is nothing missing. So again
it is up to the Regular Joe to deal with what really matters to us.</div>
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Although I’m not a native English speaker (as some of you
saw fit to point out to me), English is still a language used by many. Any
time a German, a French and a Zulu will sit down for lunch most likely they will
talk in English. I love English and the decision to write in English was not
just for popularity reasons. I find it easier sometimes to express myself in
English thanks to its rich vocabulary (171,460 words more or less). </div>
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Also you can say the American culture, although some might
say absent, has a great influence on all of us like it or not.</div>
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So how does a rich culture with such a beautiful language
lack one important thing?</div>
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I’ll use an example: recently I had the pleasure to spend a
few months in NYC. During that short time I went out to countless dinners
sucking the city of its food supply. Every time I encountered with the problem
of greeting my company before we start with all the eating. <br>
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There’s a phenomena I encountered
as a young man when me and my friends became 16 in the mid 90’s. It was later
given the name “Babeiation”.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Basically it means
this; when a group of man hang out together, and it can be at home, a bar, a plane,
a sinking boat, a hostage situation or basically any other forum, they are
acting in a certain way. It varies by
culture, group, connections and types but let’s just call it “behavior Y”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once a female presents
herself to the group, behavior Y <span lang="EN-GB">ceases </span>to exist and is replaced by what we call
“behavior YX”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no way a male group will keep up with
the same behavior with or without a female present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></u><br />
<h2>
<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I
always eat pizza with a knife and fork”</span></u></h2>
<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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You can see it at home
when some guys are watching football and act in a loose, free, no thought, and
no filter manner until a girl walks in. <br />
even if unnoticeable, each one of the group will change his behavior in that instant. Some more than
others but that is not the point. Even if each guy changes his behavior just by
slight the ripples go long. The group is not the same. Even if it’s a girl they
know forever and is married to their best friend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnkjn4GJg40/TzBhMEbS3BI/AAAAAAAAAl4/5IatItEblm4/s1600/obama-checking-out-girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="341" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnkjn4GJg40/TzBhMEbS3BI/AAAAAAAAAl4/5IatItEblm4/s400/obama-checking-out-girl.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah, Ruling the world is soooooo hard!! <br />
think she heard me?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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Babeiation has different levels off course.
The last example showed the mildest situation known. Think about the last time
you went to the beach or a club with your friends and were surrounded by women.
Did everyone act regularly? Didn’t you change even a bit the way you normally
walk, talk or eat? Were you not more aware of yourself and the surroundings?</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The level of Babeiation
is determent by 4 factors:</div>
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</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Volume</b> – how many women are around you in a 10m radius?</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Intimacy</b> – how close are you with the women? In the same table? Same
plane? Waiting room? Club?</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Looks & attraction</b> – how you find these women? Attractive? Good
looking? In theory, when a group/male find his surrounding to be unattractive
the Babeiation will be eliminated completely. Such a case never been measured
yet.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Coolness</b> – How cool are you? Are your friends cool enough to hide the
effect Babeiation has on them?</span></li>
</ul>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></u><br />
<h2>
<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cause
& Effect</span></u></h2>
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Why is this important
to understand? <o:p></o:p></div>
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For guys it is
important for personal and social reasons; personal reason of being aware to
Babeiation can help you catch yourself on time and minimize its effect. Social reason to help you figure out why your
friends are starting to act like total morons all of a sudden.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Girls need to know
about it for successfully assessing their effect on a guy or a group of guys.
Does everyone around you walk straight, in slow motion and eating without using
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So if you see your
usually idiot, XBOX freak best friend sitting beneath a tree reading a book, you
better stand up straight and tuck in your belly – there’s a babe around.<br />
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I love reading science and tech papers. People are doing amazing things all over the world; Reaching the speed of light, making fuel of droppings and bananas ,educating the developing world and much more. Just when I think we are making some kind of progress as a species I get to fly.</div>
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I won't bother you again with <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/05/flight-nightmare.html">my thoughts about airlines</a> and the <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2010/12/alternative-top-10-list-10-things-that.html">changes the industry made in the past decade</a>.</div>
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I did encountered a new phenomena in this trip though. </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OkZUBHj44XY/TyiP68inOZI/AAAAAAAAAlI/9fTNxysx4kE/s1600/bag-stuffed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OkZUBHj44XY/TyiP68inOZI/AAAAAAAAAlI/9fTNxysx4kE/s1600/bag-stuffed.jpg" /></a>After the tempetures continued to drop at NYC I decided to move myself to warmer grounds. I packed most of my worldly belongings in one suitcase so I knew it was heavy and was prepared to pay the overweight with a sense of understanding.</div>
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But when the ground crew lady calmly told me I need to pay 400$ for my overweight I was sure it's a joke. The flight ticket cost less then that.</div>
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Now get this, there was option B. the ground crew suggested I'll buy another bag, move some weight around and then just pay 40$ for a second bag..</div>
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That's how I felt..</div>
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Dazzled..</div>
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Confused.. 1+1=40 and 2=400 ?</div>
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I fight with weight all my life and from summer to summer but I was never more aware of my overweight like in that moment.</div>
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I just need an answer. Some reason that brings some sense to this crazy parallel universe called airlines.</div>
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Please, I beg of you, if you know anyone in the airline business, a pilot, a flight attendant, someone.. Pass this post to them.</div>
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One last thought. Don't buy an apartment, don't go to college, don't get vaccines. Just save for a privet jet. My new must have item for the free man.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my<a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2010/08/hey-hey-hey.html"> intro post</a> I mentioned I hate
and love celebrities without knowing them. This sentence summarizes everything
we feel about the whole celebrity phenomena. We have such strong feelings
regarding these people we don’t even know and they don’t know us and usually we
are just a bunch of idiots reading stuff other idiots told these idiots to say
so some stupid paper can print it along with shocking headlines.</span></div>
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love with no reason other than the editor picked their best shots to some movie
and some celebrities I just hate with no good reason but I just do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">They always take everything so s</span>eriously.. you're only making movies! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">What I love the most is reading
stupid things celebrities say. Who really believes this crap? Who’s buying it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example something like: “I just
want to act. I hate the fame and the lack of privacy. I wish I was just a
regular person”. How many times have you heard some young actor saying that
accompanied by a shirtless picture of his new abs? Don’t like the fame? Go act
on off off off Broadway one man shows! I promise you no one will ever hear your
name again. Wanna be a regular person? Come fill in for me flipping burgers
while I’ll go sex your supermodel girlfriend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as clients always told me “never get involved with a celebrity for they have no
grey area. It’s either up or down”. A plumber can’t afford to be like that. He has
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Y</o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">ou see!!! I just wanted to write a
stupid, funny post about stupid things celebrities say and you got me rambling for
an hour. That’s what they do to us!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Right after the Golden Globe and
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"No one would hit on me" </span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">– usually said by young actresses or bikini models<u><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I was an ugly kid"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> - usually said by an actor moments after he was named a sex
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I really relate to the role"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – how exactly do you relate to a platoon leader in Vietnam?
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I only look for a Guy who makes me
laugh"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – you mean he has enough money to
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I eat only cakes and ice cream"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – that’s how you got these abs? So you throw up only ice
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I'm in a place in my life where I'm
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– when I first saw your yacht I just thought “this is a yacht of someone who is
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I don't care what people think. I'm
doing my own thing"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – you mean your stylist and manager
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"That's how my hair looks when I wake
up"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – do you fall asleep at your hairdresser?
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I hate paparazzi" </span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">– so go to Africa. Only National Geographic there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Being a sex symbol is a burden"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – I can help you carry the load.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"My clothing line is young and fresh"</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – you mean the people who make your clothing are young and
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updating in the coming months. If you have some of your own insights feel free
to comment, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/theregjoe">Tweet</a> (#StupidThingsCelebritiesSay) or go to my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JoeRegular?sk=wall">FB page</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984209055972648195.post-49431680917682385212011-12-27T12:01:00.001-08:002012-02-25T11:09:35.574-08:00Beware of Pessimism or F#@king DecemberSo it's December again. Last year I published a <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2010/12/alternative-top-10-list-10-things-that.html" target="_blank">top 10 list of things that will not change in 2011</a> and boy was I right. Nothing changed 10,000 news cycles later. I’m rarely happy about being right. I would much rather watching everything I predicted being disproved one by one. <br />
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December is always another proof we are nothing but animals following our primal instincts but instead of migrating to the warmer south looking for food and breading grounds our thoughts go inside looking for comfort and a brighter future (and let’s face it, breading grounds always). For the Regular Joe it's never an easy time but this year in particular. And not because of the stupid TV commercials.<br />
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In a sentence, <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/02/30.html" target="_blank">I'm 30</a> and still waiting for my great thing to happen. That pretty much sums it up. Every year it’s the same repeating sentence. But 2011 brought something new; I'm starting to realize <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/08/life-disrupt.html" target="_blank">it may never happen</a>. <br />
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It could be. Many very talented people wait their whole life for this something to come with no relief. And I am talented. I'm a grade A awesome at almost anything I do. It's just a bunch of wrong turns that brought me to this place I'm having trouble sleeping every night. Yeah… f#@king December. <br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Q1 Crisis</span></u></h2>
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A while back I wrote about how <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/06/entrepreneurship-entrepreneurshit.html" target="_blank">our life is the most important project</a> we will ever do. According to my life Q1 (0-30 years) report I am not achieving any of the goals I previously projected.<br />
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I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. I try to make a new resolution every morning as I think <a href="http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/06/losing-time-or-losing-war-on-time.html" target="_blank">every day is important</a> and anything can happen. <br />
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If you look at the report you’ll notice I was doing great until somewhere around 2005 when I somehow spiralled out of orbit. Since then I’ve been shooting through space looking for something with enough gravity to pull me back into orbit. <br />
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Don’t get me wrong, I regret nothing and I learned from everything I did. I have accumulated more wisdom, knowledge and experience than anyone orbiting the same thing all his life.<br />
But this haunting underachieving feeling is the worst.<br />
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All I can say is you are not the only one looking for an orbit and it’s time to create your own gravity force because space is big but not big enough for everyone.<br />
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Have a great 2012 and yeah… December… <br />
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