Thursday, December 23, 2004

Financial Assistance Corporation

FAC bonds are trading under ticker FIASCO. Must be a marketing gimmick.

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Appartment Number 50

Appartment Number 50

If you think the last name is a coincidence... Think again.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Flocking

There's an interesting thing I've noticed quite a few times. I call it "flocking". It is a phenomenon that involves a hot woman and her male friends. And when I say friends, I actually mean a purely platonic relationship, no quotation marks or connotations. I've known a few very good looking women that had different good looking men escorting them to different events. And guys would always be introduced as the woman's friends. My first thought was, of course, that they were just saying that but after observing for a while, I concluded that those guys were really nothing more than friends. Whether they wanted to stay that way, is a different question which I can't answer.

Not to bring up the whole When Harry Met Sally theme, but it got me thinking why men do this. Do they line up hoping they'd get some or is it sincere friendship on their part with no ulterior motives in play? Are they too shy to express their real feelings thus having no other option but to become a friend just to be near the adored object or are they greedy predators trying to conquer their victim from within? And if they want to be more than friends, then why, seeing that she has a lot of men just like them around her, do they stick to the same strategy?

When I was in college, I remember being a confidant to a lot of female friends of mine. Later, when I was dating this one girl, I found out that quite a few of my female friends had thought that I was gay before they saw me in the street with her. That would explain why our friendships had been so comfortable and never too awkward. But in the case of a clearly heterosexual woman, what makes a dozen of men so eager to be friends and no more with her when they can have other relationships, possibly more fulfilling and less platonic. It's unlikely all of them are gay, although some may be... So for straight guys, what's in it?

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Chase

I am just chasing my brother around. I have some ideas though so this may end up being a fruitful undertaking.