UrbanTraditional

I had to create a profile on this site to search for a friend's profile. To be honest I didn't give too much thought to what answers I chose, as they ask you silly things, like Pick Your Dominant Trait. So I just chose the basics that describe me. Didn't even put a picture up.
Some guy from Canada(!) an Icebreaker (of which there are precocious few options-"I like your profile", "I like your picture", "I'd like to see your picture", "Interesting personal descriptions") saying that he liked my profile. So I check out his. Cute picture, I'll admit, but then in the Polls section of his profile he answered "no" to the question "Would you message someone without a picture?".

I don't have a picture up on this site.

Hooking Up

I just watched part 5 of the ABC News Special Hooking Up about finding Mr. or Ms. Right online. Is it ironic or soemthing that the Executive Producer's name is Terrance Wrong?

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

35% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

(via crystalline)

A Silly Poem

I've had 2 interesting messages sent to me in the past week from my profile on Nerve.com.

One is a guy who sounds pretty cool and even lives in a nearby metro area. I'm exploring that without much serious intent, but you never know what makes friendship blossom. I wouldn't have met some of my good friends if not for JDate.

The other is someone in his 40's. He sent me a weird poem.


You're on the onion, I'm on the onion.
You're sarcastic... Well, you get the idea.
What do you do in TV, or is your career in watching TV? [Good attempt at being funny]
I'm attracted to the concept of you! [Sweet, but impersonal somehow....]

I have no idea what he means by that "onion" reference. My roommate says that sometimes I am too hard on men who are trying to get to know me or something, but the "onion" thing is really odd. Plus he's in his 40's. If you're old enough to be my dad, please don't bother. I don't have a Daddy complex. Try Craigslist.

On a related note, a friend of mine has had a few good dates with someone she met on UrbanTraditional.com Since the JDate phenom seems to have jumped the shark I wonder what will be the new JDate...?...Or if online dating is over in general....?

VJ Day

Tomorrow is a state holiday- VJ Day- the day that state and municipal employees of Rhode Island (and no other state in this country) take the day off from work celebrate, well, nuking Japan. They've tried to change the name of the holiday, or at least it's emphasis (bonus points to the state government for trying).

Newport Rocks!...Acoustically.

The Newport Folk Fest yesterday was awesome! Some pictures that I took can be found here.

It was a hot day and despite some dehydration it was lots of fun. The Del McCoury Band, a guilty pleasure of mine from sometimes watching CMT late at night, played their rollicking bluegrass early on in the day getting the energy level up. I also really enjoyed the music of several people I'd heard (or heard of) before- Ray LaMontagne, Richard Thompson, and the Foghorn String Band. Bela Fleck-my main reason for wanting to attend the festival- was amazing! And The Pixies were a great way to top off a great day. I'd never heard that much of their stuff before and was pleasantly surprised by how different they sounded acousitacallly than what I'd checked out of theirs on iTunes.

Matisyahu + Trey

I went to see them in Boston on Thursday. I (sadly) missed Matisyahu because I arrived a bit late. But Trey was fantastic! He sounded great and a good time was had by all(...unless you had the misfortune of standing next to a crazy dancing tripping Phishhead, which I managed to avoid).
Then afte the show my friend S picked me up and we went to this awesome bar at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge. it was really semi-fancy but lacked the attitude one tends to find at places that make such great drinks. S and I chatted with some interesting people at the bar who were very drunk and entertaining, but in a non-annoying way. One was really cute but I got a gay vibe from him, as did S.

That's all for now since it's 3 AM and I'm up early to head off to the Newport Folk Fest.
G'night!

Crown Heights

I'm loving this new blog I've found.

Natalee: Aruba media commits act of sensibility

An intersting take of the Natalee Holloway case in the media.
(via Lost Remote)

Tennis anyone?

Yesterday I played tennis for the first time in over 10 years....and I wasn't too rusty. I was using my roommate's old racquet which had a crumbling grip that shed all over my hands and made control kind of tough. However, my lapse of 12+ years of playing still left me better than the roommate.
When I was around 5 my dad and stepmom got really into tennis. Not sure why...popular yuppie sport in the 80's I guess. He used to take me out in the driveway and hit balls to me. We'd do this for hours. For a five year old I had some pretty decent power. I used to hit them into the neighbors' yards all the time (neighbors were very lovely to put up with this). My dad seemed to have this whole concept that if he taught me when I was little the muscle memory would preserve or something. I also took 'real' lessons in middle school. I was not so good then because it turned out that I needed glasses and no one knew. My first tennis lesson post-contact lenses was a real eye opener- no pun intended- I was finally able to see the ball, whereas before it was just a large fuzzy yellow thing coming at me.