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https://logological.org/girlfriend https://logological.org/girlfriend Some guy from 1998 explains why he will never have girlfriend

jonplackett 3y ago
Anyone fancy sleuthing to find an update?
- netsharc 3y ago
  His homepage has a link to his mastodon, and it's mostly about work, but there's a picture of a broken egg on a kitchen floor, and 2 ferrets around it. The text says "Our little kitchen assistants are always happy to help clean up after accidents.". So... maybe yes? In theory he could also be living in a flatshare. https://mastodon.social/@Logological/107988795967786131 https://mastodon.social/@Logological/107988795967786131
26fingies 3y ago
Weirdly "Writing articles about why I don't have a girlfriend" doesn't appear in the math
yawnxyz 3y ago
That page / design looks oddly modern and relevant, despite it being 20+ years old...
- data-ottawa 3y ago
  I think the design has been updated, the LaTeX equations aren’t transparent gifs like the days of old.
  - axpy906 3y ago
    Yes, if you look at the bottom it’s got updated citations from the 2010’s.
    - hutzlibu 3y ago
      2019 "This essay is discussed in Chapter 7 of Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.'s book Hacking Life (MIT Press, 2019)."
syntaxing 3y ago
Now I’m curious if this person ever found a significant other. This blog has been updated fairly recently.
- hutzlibu 3y ago
  He has also a Twitter presence. All in all it seems, he was determened to stick with his self fullfilling prophecy. The only update on this site on this is: "Update (2000-04-01): My sarcastic pleas for some e-mail have finally been answered. Take a look at this letter from a hysterical female reader, which I think perfectly demonstrates the point of this entire essay. " All in all quite sad I think.
Herodotus38 3y ago
That’s interesting, I got roped into this man’s website which is similar. I felt very sad about him and tried to find out if he ever found love. He was very conflicted about it and on his website he states he was 50 when it was written. https://www.gregdonner.org/about.html https://www.gregdonner.org/about.html
hammeringnails 3y ago
His personal criteria for attractiveness is pretty funny (emphasis mine): "Without going into the specifics of precisely which traits I admire, I will say that for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall *at least two* standard deviations above the norm".

jonplackett 3y ago

Anyone fancy sleuthing to find an update?

netsharc 3y ago
His homepage has a link to his mastodon, and it's mostly about work, but there's a picture of a broken egg on a kitchen floor, and 2 ferrets around it. The text says "Our little kitchen assistants are always happy to help clean up after accidents.". So... maybe yes? In theory he could also be living in a flatshare. https://mastodon.social/@Logological/107988795967786131 https://mastodon.social/@Logological/107988795967786131

26fingies 3y ago

Weirdly "Writing articles about why I don't have a girlfriend" doesn't appear in the math

yawnxyz 3y ago

That page / design looks oddly modern and relevant, despite it being 20+ years old...

data-ottawa 3y ago
I think the design has been updated, the LaTeX equations aren’t transparent gifs like the days of old.
- axpy906 3y ago
  Yes, if you look at the bottom it’s got updated citations from the 2010’s.
  - hutzlibu 3y ago
    2019 "This essay is discussed in Chapter 7 of Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.'s book Hacking Life (MIT Press, 2019)."

syntaxing 3y ago

Now I’m curious if this person ever found a significant other. This blog has been updated fairly recently.

hutzlibu 3y ago
He has also a Twitter presence. All in all it seems, he was determened to stick with his self fullfilling prophecy. The only update on this site on this is: "Update (2000-04-01): My sarcastic pleas for some e-mail have finally been answered. Take a look at this letter from a hysterical female reader, which I think perfectly demonstrates the point of this entire essay. " All in all quite sad I think.

Herodotus38 3y ago

That’s interesting, I got roped into this man’s website which is similar. I felt very sad about him and tried to find out if he ever found love. He was very conflicted about it and on his website he states he was 50 when it was written. https://www.gregdonner.org/about.html https://www.gregdonner.org/about.html

hammeringnails 3y ago

His personal criteria for attractiveness is pretty funny (emphasis mine): "Without going into the specifics of precisely which traits I admire, I will say that for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall *at least two* standard deviations above the norm".