Kitten Mittens.

So, what’s been going on as of late? Nothing much really. I had work this past morning (Saturday), and I should have known from how my day started that it was going to be a bad day. I got woken up at four in the morning or so by PJ and Julie asking me to leave the room so that Julie could lay down and go to sleep. So I say whatever and drag myself out of the room. I go into Will’s room and they tell me I’d better get my stuff out of the room. Turns out I got ran out of where I was sleeping because they wanted to have sex.

But then I was already awake so I couldn’t go back to sleep. A few cups of coffee later I get ready to go for work. I already knew I was going to need gas in the car, so I head off to the gas station before work. Lo and behold I run out of gas halfway to the station and wind up having to push the car a quarter of a mile. Walking to the gas station with the gas can, walking back, and then driving to the gas station would have made me incredibly late for work and was therefore not an option. Luckily I was only about five minutes late for work.

Having a house full of kitten is getting quite…painful. We have Lestat (our cat we’ve had for a few years now) as well as Jackson, Icarus, and Damien. Those three are completely insane. And once they get wound up…they love to us me as a means of escaping each other/a mountain to play king of the hill on. Only problem is they get so wound up they climb me using their claws, so I’m covered in scratches. Especially considering two out of the three are solid black and I tend to keep the rooms very dark so I can’t see them coming at me–between that and the fact that I’m usually wearing my DJ headphones and so definitely can’t hear them until they’ve firmly latched onto my back and/or thigh.

They’re always plotting something though, they’re always together…like a school of sharks. We ordered pizza one day and we were sitting around eating it when two of the kittens started running around and being all super cute so we were paying attention to them while Jackson snuck up, opened a box of pizza, and dragged a slice of pizza out of the box. Then, the other two walk off and the three of them start munching on the slice. They got about a quarter of the way through it before we realized what they were doing. Damien managed to shut down my laptop the other morning. So I think he’s named appropriately.

I really sat down to analyze the mathematics behind the OKCupid site and it still impresses me. I tried graphing it out and explaining it to a few people. Half of them got it, one in particular said that she didn’t understand what half the questions had to do with finding a potential match. I tried explaining that that was the beauty of it, to some people those questions would matter, and to some it wouldn’t. Therefore you could only have those questions make an impact on your match percentage if you feel they should. And since it’s a non-linear progression…

She tried saying that relationships were more than just matching personality traits and similar interests that plenty of people with dissimilar interests and beliefs have successful and healthy relationships. Which I completely agree with. The fact that on this site you don’t try to find someone with your interests/traits unless that is what you’re looking for. For instance, I want someone who is quite in opposition to me in several areas of belief so that I have someone to argue and share ideas with who isn’t going to agree with me because you don’t learn anything from someone who agrees with you on everything.

Meanwhile certain traits should be within a minimal/nominal difference; mainly in the field of communication, sexual/physical desire, and emotional desire. Values and wants out of life should generally be shared to a certain extent.

Again, it depends on what you are looking for. Some people want someone like them, others want someone not like them and yet others want someone who tempers/compliments them. (I fall in this last category, I’m looking for the yin to my yang.) However, your compatibility is a two way street matching with what the other person is looking for as well. Person A to B might be a 90% match while from B to A is only a 70% match. (Generally and usually if it matches one way it has a strong tendency to match the other, but not ALWAYS). And the OKCupid system only works if both parties have a strong sense of self and a strong sense of what they’re looking for in a partner and are completely honest in both regards. Furthermore complicated by the sense that to get a strong two way feel for match percentage both parties must answer as many questions as they can, especially ones they feel strongly about and to get an accurate reading both parties should have approximately the same number of questions answered (though this tends to taper off at the extreme high end values due to the non-linear nature of the scoring methods). Lower matching percentages do not necessarily mean incompatibility as one might suggest, but are instead a general indicator of the amount of compromise that a given relationship would take with the compatibility/incompatibility seeming to be more generally measured by the enemy percentage rather than match percentage (considering most people are less willing to compromise on things they don’t agree with as opposed to things that they do).

Again, she disagreed, which I’m fine with (and I actually know EXACTLY why she disagrees with me…). Anyway, so what am I up to now? Nothing much, might be going to Manhattan soon, for a meeting with an old High School Classmate (for a so called dinner/games party). Only about a week until GB comes out. I’m starved and I could eat a bear. Possibly whole. I passed out when I got out of work today, so now I’m wired for sound with only five hours before work.

If it wasn’t so starchy I’d go downstairs and make a potato.  Any how, I do think I’m going to make a pot of coffee.

–RK